12-06-2020, 10:11 AM
(12-05-2020, 08:23 PM)lex24 Wrote: I guess the Ducks aren’t quite what they were quacked up to be.
I could bearly take the result.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
Oregon is flat
12-06-2020, 10:57 AM
Hey Lex, a post worthy of the best of the original Thunderdome, not the one taken over by agents of the Inquisition.
12-06-2020, 11:16 AM
All I'm going to add here is that damn, that Oregon game yesterday was hard to watch. As was last week's game. Here in Eugene we duck fans were pretty much bought in to some sort of destiny, 7-0 for the season and then feeling robbed with the playoff choices. That bubble sure popped. The local paper this morning treats yesterday's game as if it had no deep existential meaning at all.
The thread started right, with "Oregon is flat." A team is only as talented as the plays it makes. Yesterday's game was the second in a row in which the ducks, talented or not, seemed repeatedly unable to win the important third downs on either side of the ball. Their opponents moved up and down the field, and they didn't. The good teams can splutter most of the game and find a way to win right at the end. In both of these games, the ducks could have been one of those good teams that comes through in the final three minutes. But they weren't.
For the fan base, they were always about to emerge again as the power they are supposed to be; but, over and over, they didn't. The ducks are going to have to regroup, deal with what they weren't able to do for two weeks in a row, and limp into Washington next Saturday with a still-alive path to the Pac-12 championship game (it's as simple as beating the huskies).
Mario Cristobal (that's the correct spelling) excels at recruiting and leading young men, even if maybe not so much on game-day and in-game adjustments. He delegates to his coordinators. I'll take him over Brian Kelly any day. If I were in charge, I'd give Cristobal a vote of confidence, chalk it up to a very unusual season, and stay the course.
And here's an interesting thought. Apparently there are multiple ways to determine and rank youth in college football, and this method is just one. But still, a consolation (from https://fishduck.com/2020/11/oregon-foot...n-america/):
However, a quick web search reveals that several other teams make the same claim. FSU and UAB come up more than UofO.
The thread started right, with "Oregon is flat." A team is only as talented as the plays it makes. Yesterday's game was the second in a row in which the ducks, talented or not, seemed repeatedly unable to win the important third downs on either side of the ball. Their opponents moved up and down the field, and they didn't. The good teams can splutter most of the game and find a way to win right at the end. In both of these games, the ducks could have been one of those good teams that comes through in the final three minutes. But they weren't.
For the fan base, they were always about to emerge again as the power they are supposed to be; but, over and over, they didn't. The ducks are going to have to regroup, deal with what they weren't able to do for two weeks in a row, and limp into Washington next Saturday with a still-alive path to the Pac-12 championship game (it's as simple as beating the huskies).
Mario Cristobal (that's the correct spelling) excels at recruiting and leading young men, even if maybe not so much on game-day and in-game adjustments. He delegates to his coordinators. I'll take him over Brian Kelly any day. If I were in charge, I'd give Cristobal a vote of confidence, chalk it up to a very unusual season, and stay the course.
And here's an interesting thought. Apparently there are multiple ways to determine and rank youth in college football, and this method is just one. But still, a consolation (from https://fishduck.com/2020/11/oregon-foot...n-america/):
Quote:According to the University of Oregon, the Ducks’ 110-man roster consists of 81 underclassmen (freshmen, redshirt freshmen and sophomores), making up approximately 74% of the team — the highest percentage in the FBS. Oregon is the youngest team in America!
However, a quick web search reveals that several other teams make the same claim. FSU and UAB come up more than UofO.
Full disclosure: I root for Stanford, Oregon, and Notre Dame. I have degrees from all three. When they play each other I root for 1.) whichever has a chance for playoffs; or 2.) whichever is losing
All I'm going to add here is that damn, that Oregon game yesterday was hard to watch. As was last week's game. Here in Eugene we duck fans were pretty much bought in to some sort of destiny, 7-0 for the season and then feeling robbed with the playoff choices. That bubble sure popped. The local paper this morning treats yesterday's game as if it had no deep existential meaning at all.
The thread started right, with "Oregon is flat." A team is only as talented as the plays it makes. Yesterday's game was the second in a row in which the ducks, talented or not, seemed repeatedly unable to win the important third downs on either side of the ball. Their opponents moved up and down the field, and they didn't. The good teams can splutter most of the game and find a way to win right at the end. In both of these games, the ducks could have been one of those good teams that comes through in the final three minutes. But they weren't.
For the fan base, they were always about to emerge again as the power they are supposed to be; but, over and over, they didn't. The ducks are going to have to regroup, deal with what they weren't able to do for two weeks in a row, and limp into Washington next Saturday with a still-alive path to the Pac-12 championship game (it's as simple as beating the huskies).
Mario Cristobal (that's the correct spelling) excels at recruiting and leading young men, even if maybe not so much on game-day and in-game adjustments. He delegates to his coordinators. I'll take him over Brian Kelly any day. If I were in charge, I'd give Cristobal a vote of confidence, chalk it up to a very unusual season, and stay the course.
And here's an interesting thought. Apparently there are multiple ways to determine and rank youth in college football, and this method is just one. But still, a consolation (from https://fishduck.com/2020/11/oregon-foot...n-america/):
However, a quick web search reveals that several other teams make the same claim. FSU and UAB come up more than UofO.
The thread started right, with "Oregon is flat." A team is only as talented as the plays it makes. Yesterday's game was the second in a row in which the ducks, talented or not, seemed repeatedly unable to win the important third downs on either side of the ball. Their opponents moved up and down the field, and they didn't. The good teams can splutter most of the game and find a way to win right at the end. In both of these games, the ducks could have been one of those good teams that comes through in the final three minutes. But they weren't.
For the fan base, they were always about to emerge again as the power they are supposed to be; but, over and over, they didn't. The ducks are going to have to regroup, deal with what they weren't able to do for two weeks in a row, and limp into Washington next Saturday with a still-alive path to the Pac-12 championship game (it's as simple as beating the huskies).
Mario Cristobal (that's the correct spelling) excels at recruiting and leading young men, even if maybe not so much on game-day and in-game adjustments. He delegates to his coordinators. I'll take him over Brian Kelly any day. If I were in charge, I'd give Cristobal a vote of confidence, chalk it up to a very unusual season, and stay the course.
And here's an interesting thought. Apparently there are multiple ways to determine and rank youth in college football, and this method is just one. But still, a consolation (from https://fishduck.com/2020/11/oregon-foot...n-america/):
Quote:According to the University of Oregon, the Ducks’ 110-man roster consists of 81 underclassmen (freshmen, redshirt freshmen and sophomores), making up approximately 74% of the team — the highest percentage in the FBS. Oregon is the youngest team in America!
However, a quick web search reveals that several other teams make the same claim. FSU and UAB come up more than UofO.
Full disclosure: I root for Stanford, Oregon, and Notre Dame. I have degrees from all three. When they play each other I root for 1.) whichever has a chance for playoffs; or 2.) whichever is losing
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