Morning Oatmeal: 74 Days Until Football

Nice post Dave. Wrestlers don’t need the fancy facilities, when I was in high school back in the late eighties I attended Ron Finley’s wresting camp. This was before anybody had nice facilities at UO the Wrestling room was in the basement at Mac Court it had plumbing running through it and the ceilings were only 7 or 8 feet high. The place was a sweat box with little to no air circulation, and nobody bitched about it, in fact I think they kind of liked it that way. As Dave says and I said in my earlier post wrestlers don’t need anything fancyjust some mats to wrestle on and some stairs to run (I wonder where you could find alot of stairs at UO)... Autzen maybe? the point is, the facilities do exist and it wouldn’t even require much imagination to put something together for the guys to wrestle. One more thing, to all you haters out there asking why won’t they just give up? You don’t understand that the word “quit” doesn’t exist in our vocabulary, the point structure of the sport dictates that, in that there are differing degrees of victory, so if you are getting your butt kicked you can still help your team by not getting pinned (giving the other team the maximum amount of points (6)) or keeping it close enough for a minor decision 3 pts major decision 4 pts, and a technical fall will yeild 5 pts. so in losing you can still help your team by not giving up. In most sports by comparison a loss is a loss, and if you are getting trounced you just put in your 2nd and 3rd stringers, and start thinking about your next game. Go Ducks.

man i know the uniforms are now a key part of the duck football program – but i still think those unis from that era (the harrington era?) are my all time favorites.. and it may or may not be because that was during my time at U of O, but who knows… i wish they’d do a throwback jersey or something, mix that into the jersey combos (maybe a homecoming game?)

I acdientally posted this over another story. I need to go back to sleep.

From Black Shoe Diaries....

It sounds like the BTN will now be on Comcast. Those of us in the Midwest will get this on our basic cable, and outside, it will most likely be put on tiered access. Currently, in Chicago on Comcast, the sports package ($6/month extra) gets you CBS College Sports Network, 3 regional Fox College Sports channels, NFL, NBA, etc. Adding an ACC, Big 12 channel etc. would be very good for college football in the long run, and would allow enthusiasts to watch even more football!

Honestly, I think having these networks available nationally will be great, and many of these will be available locally as part of basic cable.

The Pac-10 needs to get with the program, and actually TELEVISE their games, and not have them be forced onto OSN, etc. I want to see Pac-10 sports from all over the country, and that’s not happening now as it should. Thank goodness Hansen is gone.

On the video, I love when Jackson goes…

“Here comes Howry!”

Chase Budinger is coming back for another year, this should make Arizona pretty tough
http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/8251750/Budinger-will-return-to-Arizona-next-season

HOOORAAAY, HOORAAAY- after several seasons of consistantly making blatantly bad decisions as GM, Bill Bavasi is gone and I couldn’t be happier. The only downside to this is that it should have happened 2 or 3 years ago.

not buck showalter though