Quack Fix: Ducks hand out season awards, look forward to tOSU, Volleyball falls in NCAA 2nd round
by jtlight on Dec 7, 2009 7:21 AM PST
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PrintThe end of the regular season of college football is always bittersweet, with that magical time coming to an end. But we have something pretty great to look forward to: The Rose Bowl!
- Oregon handed out their team awards at a banquet yesterday. Jeremiah Masoli and LaMichael James shared the award for Mose Outstanding Player, while Will Tukuafu and Walter Thurmond III shared the award for most inspirational. There were a number of other awards handed out and Moseley has some more stories from the event. I'm hoping to see some video of Coach Frost razzing Jeff Maehl.
- Yet the celebration will not last long. The Ducks are already looking forward to the matchup with the Ohio State Buckeyes. Kelly has already been watching films of the Big 10 champs, who have the best defense the Ducks have seen this season. However, Kelly does not seem too worried. The Ducks have the versatility on offense to create mismatches all over the field, and have been incredibly successful isolating those all season long.
- Meanwhile, Jim Tressel is looking at the Ducks as well, and the focal point defensively will be Jeremiah Masoli, whom Tressel described as "scary." He also stated the the Buckeyes will need to "get in shape" after seeing the quick pace of Oregon's offense. I think the Buckeyes will have problems keeping pace with Oregon over 4 quarters, just as almost every other team has this season.
- Lastly, though this is old, for those of you that may have forgotten about when OSU played USC: This is why I am not worried about the OSU offense. I'm very much excited for the Chip Kelly/Jim Tressel coaching matchup.
- In other sports news, while we had let some time pass without mentioning Oregon volleyball, they made it to the NCAA tournament, and won a match versus Clemson before falling to the 13th ranked Kentucky Wildcats. It was a great season for the Ducks, who were ranked in the top 25 for nearly the entire season.
After the jump, we have another edition of Inside the Pac, breaking down the Civil War. As always, leave any other Duck news below. GO DUCKS!
Inside the Pac - Civil War Edition
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Hmmm,
If Pete Carroll could stay a step ahead of Tressel when they played….And Coach Kelly was at least two steps ahead of Carroll when they played…
By my count, Kelly is already a minimum of three steps ahead of the tOSU coaches.
I cannot wait for this coaching matchup; I do feel that Coach Kelly will be able to exploit the tOSU defense faster than Tressel can adjust them.
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
Pryor
I wonder if Pryor regrets having chosen the Buckeyes over the Ducks. If he doesn’t yet, he will soon. Tressel doesn’t know how to use a talent like that. Turns out we didn’t need Pryor, but at least he wouldn’t have been completely wasted in an offense that refuses to adjust to his skills.
let me preface this by saying i am an ohio state fan, but i'm not a troll...
i would slightly disagree with you, IslanderDuck. pryor was asked that question — whether he regretted coming to ohio state, and he said no, he thinks he made the right choice. tressel does know how to use his talent, his abilities, and ohio state has been doing that the last five games.
in the middle of the season, pryor was a turnover machine. tressel, seeing that, established a more ‘running-based’ attack for pryor, and he has succeeded in this system (which, in a nutshell, was our coaching staff adjusting to his abilities). you can’t say he’s been ‘completely wasted’ in our offense.
if you compare masoli to pryor, masoli only has 190 more total yards (rushing and passing) than pryor this season. masoli only has a slight edge on pryor in total touchdowns as well, pryor has 23, masoli has 27.
basically, i disagree with everything you said, lol, but that’s just my opinion. pryor is only a sophpmore — he’s only going to get better.
by davereg412 on Dec 7, 2009 8:42 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Rec. Good post
--Dominic, Addicted to Quack
Autzen Stadium is where great teams go to die." - J. Brady McCullough, The Michigan Daily.
Here’s the big difference between the Oregon offense and the OSU offense: Passing Downs.
Oregon ranks 19th in the country with an S&P+ of 132.3 (32% better than the national average)
OSU ranked 72nd in the country with an S&P+ of 98.3 (1.7% worse than the national average)
What you’ve just said basically backs this point: Terrelle Pryor has not been good when the game is put on his shoulders. I’m fairly certain the Ducks defense will have the gameplan, and physical ability, to force him into that situation.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
that's exactly what iowa and penn state tried to do...
but it’s hard to force the game on pryor’s shoulders when the coaching staff has created a playbook that takes the game off of his shoulders.
i’m not saying that we’re gonna beat you guys the way we did them, we will have to play our absolute best to come out with a W, but our coaching staff isn’t moronic. they’ve seen pryor’s struggles, so they’ve gone with a gameplan of solid defense and a solid running game to produce W’s.
Well, based on how the Duck defense is set up, I have plenty of faith that OSU will get in many situations where Pryor will have to make plays. I think that the defense of the Ducks will surprise a lot of people.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
davereg412 thanks for posting, look forward to a lot of good conversation with OhSt fans...
but I think you are off a little. IslanderDuck may have used too many extreme statements like “completely” or “doesn’t know how” but I think his sentiment is correct.
Tressel’s offense was not and is not built to amplify Pryor’s skills and abilities, but to limit his mistakes. How can you have an exceptional athlete at QB with that much talent and you have to rebuild the entire game plan to limit them?
Of course I don’t think Pryor is going to say, “yes, I regret coming here”… that would be foolish. But when you look at how Kelly already uses his QB’s and how Tressel to date has used his, I think we can intellectually come to the conclusion that he would have been much better off statistically coming to Oregon.
Anyway, thanks again for the post.
I LaLove my Ducks. Best way to start a new decade imaginable... Oregon in the Rose Bowl January 1st!!!!!
but here's where we'll disagree...
pryor wanted to go to a school where he’d learn to be a better passer. he wants to be a composed and compitent quarterback who has the threat of running, not a quarterback who operates a spread system. that’s why he chose ohio state.
if you look at the offensive sets that oh state ran the first half of the season — they were running plays where he’d have to go through his reads and deliver the ball. he apperently wasn’t ready for this yet — at the first sign of trouble, he would lob the ball up to his ‘deep’ receiver option, and most of the time, he was picked off.
his footwork and throwing mechanics have improved slightly, it’s just his mental game that needs some work. terrelle pryor wants to be a quicker, stronger, taller version of heisman winner troy smith. whether he becomes that, or whether tressel can get him there, remains to be seen. but that’s what he wanted, and he has two years to get there…
They were running plays where he’d have to go through his reads and deliver the ball
To me, this is a sign of poor coaching. Pryor has no been a starter for almost two years. He should be able to make those decisions. If you look at his ability to pass the ball and make those decisions, there is simply no comparison between him and Jeremiah Masoli. What makes Oregon’s offense really go is his ability to pass the ball and make the correct decisions. Pryor has simply not developed that yet.
I live in Chicago, so I see a lot of Big 10 football, and I am simply not impressed with Pryor. He has shown very little development as a passer. The fact that he’s a near two year starter and still can’t make basic reads should be very disconcerting to OSU fans.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
i think it's frustrating, but it's not the end of the world...
i think because the expectations for pryor were so humungous coming in, everyone expected great things from him early. when you have guys like tebow and bradford winning heismans during their soph seasons, it’s easy to get into that ‘well why isn’t he producing crazy awesome numbers yet’ attitude? but honestly, most quarterbacks don’t fully adjust until their senior seasons. if you put vince young’s career next to pryor’s — up ’til this point, they are literally step for step.
also, you have to consider that ohio states offense was replacing it’s top two receivers from last year, one of the best running backs we’ve had in the jim tressel era in beanie, as well as 3/5 of our offensive line — gone. it’s not just him, the whole offense has to grow. next year is make or break, but at this point, i’m happy with the way the team as a whole has progressed.
I like your attitude. Pryor definitely deserves another year.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
I think Pryor has benefited from having a great D that keeps them in ball games. I am really excited to see Oh St D take on Kelly’s O.
To me its probably the match up (outside of Bama or Florida) I wanted to see most. Thanks for keeping Iowa off our plate!
I LaLove my Ducks. Best way to start a new decade imaginable... Oregon in the Rose Bowl January 1st!!!!!
Holy smokes ...
… post a comment, go work for a few hours, and see that you’ve launched a major debate (despite only rarely commenting on this site before). I think Matt Daddy and jtight captured it better than I did, in that I think Pryor has a lot of talent that is not fully appreciated in the OSU system, which is personified by Mr. Sweatervest. And I think Pryor is becoming a bit of a mental case because of it (I think you suggested somewhere in here that a lot of his issues are mental at this point). Maybe he gets better next year or the year after, but I think he would have been better served by the flexibility of the Oregon system and the coaching. And no, I would not expect him to admit any second thoughts. Maybe he doesn’t have any. But if he had redshirted a year and was our starter in 2011, I think he would have been better off in the long term than being thrust into the situation he is in with the Buckeyes.
Anwyay, game on davereg. Can’t wait for Jan. 1.
by IslanderDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
haha - it was like tossing a ciggarette and starting a forest fire!
but i get the vibe of what you’re saying. i look forward to a great game. 25 days…
i can't decide if 25 days seems long or short
it depends on which second I am thinking about it. Come on Roses.
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25 days
For Chip Kelly to work his genius. The last 2 times he geared that offense up for bowl games, it was incredible. Including 2007 without Dixon after a major regular-season letdown.
by IslanderDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
i just picture his masterpiece he created w/ Roper at the Sun Bowl…this will be fun…
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
Exactly
Roper was suddenly turned into Superman sometime in December, never to be really heard from again.
by IslanderDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:48 AM PST up reply actions
do you think Chip could script the entire game?
I mean sure any coach can script the first drive or 20 plays. But I am pretty sure Chip can just get all of the play calling out of the way this month and focus on being awesome during the game.
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In Pryor's defense
I think this is exactly why he would not have started for Oregon yet, (a la Darren Thomas), Pryor is still a developing talent, who has been thrown to the wolves so to speak. If he redshirts last year and is able to develop behind somebody like Masoli or Dennis Dixon, who knows what would happen.
he also felt he could play right away and wanted to.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
by NEP on Dec 7, 2009 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
Sure. He probably wanted to play at Oregon because it’s a fun offense for people. The ball gets tossed around, and defenses have a hard time keeping up.
But during his recruitment, he wasn’t even likely to be the starter. People were clamoring for Costa, and he was going to be the starter regardless. Pryor wasn’t likely going to make an immediate impact. Between that, the distance, and the spread offense/NFL bit… Oregon was probably last on his top 4 schools. We weren’t going to get him.
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I know one person who's happy Terrelle Pryor chose tOSU:
Me. I wouldn’t trade Masoli for anyone.
But I wouldn’t rake Pryor or Tressel over the coals too much. At the time he made his choice, if he’s thinking NFL, I think he actually did make the right decision. And Tressel’s had an awful lot of success, a measurable amount more than Bellotti and Kelly have during his tOSU tenure. Maybe he is antiquated, maybe his sweater vest is lolworthy. and maybe tOSU has stumbled in BCS bowls the last few years.
Personally, I don’t think that means he needs to revamp his entire offensive schemes to accommodate his quarterback’s skill set.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
thats why i was excited to see Dixon play well the other night. the whole “Oregon’s offense cant get you to the NFL”. well J Stew and Dixon are collecting checks. Unger is starting. J Byrd and Chung are playing very well. um…thats our best players…
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
2011
BUT what would Pryor look like after a redshirt year and two years to season, and starting his junior year after Masoli graduates. That’s something I would have liked to have seen.
by IslanderDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
If we'd had Pryor
Masoli probably wouldn’t have even been recruited, let alone saw the field. have I mentioned this is a really good thing for us?
I also don’t think he was ever really considering the U of O at all, anyway, so it’s mostly just a fun topic of hypothetical discussion.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah who knows
And if we had Masoli, maybe he never would have seen the light of day last year if we had Pryor. Fun to think about, though.
by IslanderDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah. If we got Pryor, I’m sure we don’t get Masoli. We already had Thomas and Harper committed. A 4 QB class is ridiculous.
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he’ll see us up close next year right? so much about all the transfers…and the various other distractions everyone but Rob Moseley likes to bring up…
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
2011 and 2012. But I was talking to some KState fans, and they were saying we shouldn’t be too shocked if they buy their way out of the game. They do it a lot with non conference games against tough opponents.
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where would of Harper even had played? 3rd string RB at best. 3rd string QB. 3/4 WR maybe? no wonder he transferred. no hard feelings.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
I think we would have seen him at RB and slot this year. It would have been fun. Especially post-Blount.
Harper is an athlete that you want to have on the field and the ball in his hands. With a couple years at one position (Receiver, Running Back, Tight End), he would have been on the two deep for sure. I think he’s more physically gifted than most of our offensive skill positions. Him and Barner on kickoff returns would have been sick to see.
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agree about post-blount. he prob stays if he’s psychic. wonder if he ends up being a QB down the road.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
That’s what he was told when he transferred. Our defense will have to play against QB Harper.
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i wish i could pick Oregon’s D for my fantasy football team that week.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
by NEP on Dec 7, 2009 1:04 PM PST up reply actions
I liked him as a HUGE slot reciever...
He would have been fun to watch. A 6’2 235 slot guy? AWESOME
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
pryor wanted to go to a school where he’d learn to be a better passer.
not a quarterback who operates a spread system. that’s why he chose ohio state.
These statements are not mutually exclusive. Look at McCoy or Bradford, both run a spread type of offense and both will have Heisman/ NFL attached to their names. I think Pryor’s decision was wrong, because he didn’t take into account a school that can enhance his abilities, not break him down to a style of QB he isn’t and struggles to be.
Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trade Masoli for Pryor any day! but realize that D coordinators love a QB who struggles in certain areas, they can take that weakness and exploit it causing the offense to have to limit or change their gameplan. As long as Pryor continues to struggle going thru progressions and make the right read, continue to see D coordinators force him to make those decisions.
I LaLove my Ducks. Best way to start a new decade imaginable... Oregon in the Rose Bowl January 1st!!!!!
Didn't it have to do with his father
And his desire to be close to home too? If so, I can certainly understand that.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
sorry, i was talking more along the lines of michigan than oregon
pryor didn’t want to run the zone-read all day and be limited in an offense who’s idea of a passing game is 15 bubble screens a game.
Which if anyone has watched us play Zona
Knows we can defend pretty well.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
no I get it. I think Pryor deserves another year or two to become the QB he will. I think the original context of this discourse was whether or not he should have chosen Or over Oh St.
Let’s put it this way, hindsight, we’re glad we have Masoli, you’re glad you have Pryor… we’ll see Jan 1st what that all means… good luck!
I LaLove my Ducks. Best way to start a new decade imaginable... Oregon in the Rose Bowl January 1st!!!!!
i was trying to figure out who on the team i’m the happiest for this season. i narrowed it down to Masoli (and his journey thru high school till now) and Nate Costa (no explanation necessary).
they tie for my award no one else cares about. its an annual trophy. it entitles them to a free beverage of their choice if i ever run into them. very coveted.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
My List:
WT3/Glasper (Tie)
Ward
Masoli
Costa
I LaLove my Ducks. Best way to start a new decade imaginable... Oregon in the Rose Bowl January 1st!!!!!
pryor wanted to go to a school where he’d learn to be a better passer. he wants to be a composed and compitent quarterback who has the threat of running, not a quarterback who operates a spread system. that’s why he chose ohio state.
The thing that he was sold on was the fallacy that a spread QB can’t succeed in the NFL in addition to being a good passer.
I understand that he needed to work on his throwing mechanics and passing abilities. They were his weakest point in high school. But does Tressel and his coaches have the history of taking a QB and improving his mechanics? Rich Rod made something happen with Pat White’s passing. Joe Paterno has a long history of about everything.
I don’t blame him for his choice, and I think he could still turn things around for him, but personally I think he would have been better suited at a Penn State or Michigan for utilizing his abilities. Not Oregon or tOSU. But, really all those calls are still too early to make. He’s young, and still an underclassman. Hopefully he’ll be able to cram down some academics and thrive his last two years.
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troy smith > pat white
as far as complete QB’s go…
Oh, without a doubt.
But Troy Smith had sound mechanics and a strong arm. There wasn’t a lot to improve in that area. Pat White, as a senior in high school passed for 500 yards and 2 TDs for the year. I wouldn’t doubt if that was just a regular game for Troy Smith in high school.
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troy smith was a receiver in high school
he was very raw, coming to OSU.
But when he chose tOSU
was during Dixon’s senior season…in other words, before, or at least during, the time when he became superior to Jesus Christ in all respects of football, and life. It was before we really all even knew the name Chip Kelly
What, you mean I was the only one thinking the Jesus thing at the time?
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
And now the majority of the readers in the south hate you.
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and Utah
I LaLove my Ducks. Best way to start a new decade imaginable... Oregon in the Rose Bowl January 1st!!!!!
Hey they already hate us
And they’ll hate us even more after we crush Tennessee next year.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
Any reason to antagonize SEC fans
is a good one.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:44 AM PST up reply actions
ha ha ha -- i like that.
when oregon beat michigan dixon’s senior season, i absolutely fell in love with your team — and i really liked dixon. up until you were our rose bowl opponent — oregon was my second favorite team (if that’s even possible. maybe i should say, i liked watching oregon football over any other team). now, i’m bound by my fanhood to cheer for your demise. hopefully it’s a good game!
we’re plenty of fans 2nd favorite team. we’ll take it. come along for the ride. always root against SC and UW.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
Yeah, that aggressive marketing stuff works!
My brother lives in Maryland, one of his neighbors and his son flew to Autzen for the USC game having no ties to the U of O whatsoever. They just liked the way they play football and heard Autzen was cool.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
Remember the Joey Billboard?
That worked too.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
We deserved to be ridiculed for this
but I can’t tell you Joey would even have gotten a sniff of Heisman cred without the U of O putting him out there.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 12:01 PM PST up reply actions
If Pryor ends up making it to the NFL as a QB, he will not regret it. Who would of thought Dixon would make it to the league before his senior season? Pryor is still young. Inefficient passers can’t take advantage of the Ducks weaknesses. Ducks D (and offense actually) thrives on a player thinking and hesitating as opposed to just playing.
Was in Vegas for CW, most of the guys at the sports books said the line should be Ducks -7 and won’t go down cuz even if tOSU fans bet it down, the rest of the nation will bet it right back up…
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
Here’s another article on new Duck commit Derrick Malone.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
3. Ohio State is going to beat Oregon. I don’t know that it will be close. I am sure that LawBuck will have quite a bit more to say about this in the weeks ahead, but I think Oregon is in for a rude surprise. Ohio State will have the ball for more than 36 minutes, and will wear down the Ducks in the fourth quarter.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
I hope they have the ball for 36 minutes
24 minutes of time of possession is all we need to hang about 40 on them.
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by skywaker9 on Dec 7, 2009 9:01 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
That was my first thought. “Wow, 24 minutes of offense? We should score 50!”
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We NEVER WIN if we lose the T.O.P. battle! Might as well concede to tOSU now
Oh wait, we ALWAYS WIN if we lose the T.O.P battle.
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
rec'd
how many times have we heard about the plans to keep the ball away from Oregon this year? How often has it worked?
Yeah, but they scored a touchdown pretty much every time they had the ball. They kept the ball away from us effectively, and we scored 42 points. I feel really good about our defense’s ability to not give up 43 or more.
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I support inroywetrust in his support of The VD Special in his support of me supporting Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
I feel really good about our defense’s ability to not give up 43 or more.
Sorry, just wanted to take it out of context.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 6:47 PM PST up reply actions
Don't know that it will be close?
I don’t think a lot of these guys have seen ANY Duck games.
Life is hilarious.
anyone catch Lou Holtz saying that it’s a good match up for OhSt cuz they’re 7-0 all time against us and they beat SC in the Rose Bowl a couple years ago…
gotta love analysis that has no clue what/where Oregon football is these days…
if we couldnt play Florida, OhSt is the next big team i’d like to play…
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
i wish that line of thinking actually mattered...
the whole, ohio state can’t beat an SEC team in a bowl game is irritating, but it’s true, we’re 0-9 against them.
yeah, it’s great that were 7-0 against you guys, but that has absolutely no effect on this game. lou holtz is just a senile old man who only occasionally knows what he’s talking about.
I agree on both counts. Who cares what happened in previous years? It makes no impact on this years game.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
its funny that i cant tell if he’s serious or not.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
lol, i'm serious..
i do wish it mattered. i wish that for some reason, our 7-0 record against you guys would effect the game, but it’s completely ludicrious to think it would.
Considering they haven't played us in 22 years
That is beyond nuts for Holtz to say.
We’re such a different program now.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
I dont think you understand
It is clearly impossible for Oregon to beat tOSU, its science. We are 0 and 7, fact! Think about this fact, the last time Oregon was in the Rose Bowl we lost to Penn St, Oregon clearly can not beat Big 10 teams in the Rose Bowl. But wait you say, go back further. OK, Oregon vs tOSU in the 50’s: Oregon looses, impossible for us to beat them. The sooner your can get your head around this type of analysis, the sooner you can work for ESPN.
Man do I love Lou Holtz
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by trumpetduck on Dec 7, 2009 11:19 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
and Notre Dame is still good.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
"and will wear down the Ducks in the fourth quarter"
This guarantees they haven’t watched a single Ducks game this year. It is the exact opposite of this football season’s reality.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
I'm glad we're playing Ohio State
I really am. I have lots of family members who have gone to Michigan and so hating the Buckeyes is already second nature (not that I had any problem rooting for us when we played Michigan of course).
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
I agree. I went to school not too far outside of Ann Arbor, and hating the Buckeyes comes incredibly easy.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
One of my roommates is from Cleveland
And she is a annoying uneducated fan. I am giving her hell this month and it is awesome.
I Don't Yell O I SCREAM!
Seriously
Ohio State fans make USC fans look like they aren’t at all cocky.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
my favorite quote of hers
Ohio State always gets screwed by the polls, they just hate us for some reason.
hahahahahahaha
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You’re bringing back so many memories….
In 2005, when Oregon didn’t get the Holiday Bowl, and it was tOSU/ND, it was the hatingest matchup ever. I went into that game thinking I was rooting for tOSU. And then the game started, and I was rooting for ND. Yes, my hate for tOSU is so great, it caused me to root for ND.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
or 07 when they went the the NC with the easiest schedule of all time
Oh, sorry BSU, the second easiest schedule of all time. Yeah I hate tOS, this is going to be fun.
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lol -- we were ranked 7th in the nation after our last game in 07...
it’s not our fault that 6 TEAMS IN FRONT OF US CHOKED THEIR WAY OUT OF THE NATIONAL CHAMPTIONSHIP GAME THE FOLLOWING TWO WEEKS! come on trumpetduck, that argument is awful.
sorry -- i missed lunch and i had a light breakfast...
i have apperently become hangry. i’m gonna go get a snickers bar from the vending machine to calm myself.
its all good, we were just having a bitch fest about a team we hate and you love
nothing good can come out of us discussing this at all
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There is nothing greater than my hate for ND
the entirety of college football is worse off for the existence of Notre Dame. They are totalitarianism to my free markets. Oil to my water. Evil to my Good. Evil Empire to my Rebellion. Sauron to my Gandalf. Wrong to my Right…
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absolutely!
notre dame, oh how i hate thee…
Washington?
There is a special place it spectrum of hate reserved for UW. Now I hate hate hate ND, but to hate them more than washinton, I just can’t get behind that.
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Duck fans
know a thing or two about being negatively stereotyped.
:)
ATQ tends to keep it pretty civil, for the most part.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
I've said it before and I'll say it again
If winning nearly all the time at home means we’re stereotyped as a-hole fans, Im cool with that.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
Still hoping
that come next year, people remember the Zona Zoo has stolen our Asshole Fans crown.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
I was trying to compare this to 1994 and 2001
And I really feel quite similar to what I felt in 1994 (even though I was a shell of the crazy Ducks fan I am now). This season is a a success, no matter if we win, although unlike against Penn State where we basically had no shot I think we will.
2001 on the other hand, was almost a letdown after the BCS screwed us. I would not have considered that season successful if we had lost the Fiesta and of course we did not.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
BSU fans are imploding! Comment of the year.
But if I were here, I wouldn’t watch [the Fiesta Bowl]…. This is MY form of protest. It’s the same as Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to a white person. It’s the same as those long-ago patriots dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
somebody call the whambulence
now I understand that they might not be excited about having to play another non-BCS school in the BCS, but really what did you expect. The BCS is a crap system in the first place and wasn’t about to have another Utah-Bama situation like last year.
If it wasn’t for a replayed clock situation in the Big 12 conf champ, you wouldn’t be going to the Fiesta at all.
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P.S. if this is the kind of posts they do when they actually go to the BCS, what do you think they would have been like had they gotten screwed out of going at all?
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Oh it would have been real bad
For sure, especially since they couldn’t complain about us going since we did win an automatic bid.
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that wouldn't have stopped them
especially since they couldn’t complain about us going
in fact our blog would be crazy right now with a bunch or “you don’t deserve it, we do” posts and comments… thank juju for that replay
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That would be funny actually
Schadenfreude on BSU.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
would they really want to play Iowa or GTech? TCU is better than both and they Fiesta Bowl is a million times more watchable…
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
BSU/Iowa could be a fun game actually.
I was hoping for BCU/Iowa and TCU/Florida myself.
I understand where he is coming from. It really is, “You two will play well together. Now go play over there while the adults talk.”
But at the same time…
Rosa Parks? Tea Party?
That stuff is just flat out funny.
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i agree on TCU/Florida. i’m trying to remember how i felt when Nebraska got picked to play Miami and i honestly don’t think i said anything like that…
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
I was just sad
Although I have to say, compared to 2005, I wasn’t angry as I was then. And yes it was because a two-loss ND school jumped us because of their stupid ND rule.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
When will BSU realize their schedule is so weak?
Maybe if they started scheduling against more than one good opponent a year. If you beat at least 2 in the top 20, later in the season, you have an argument.
Life is hilarious.
its not necessarily their non-conf that gets them (since no one will play them), its their league. Fresno isnt good anymore, Nevada faded after big expectation, Hawaii is only good every once in a while, La Tech plays well but loses close games to big schools. You think a good team from anywhere besided the Pac 10 will ever travel to Boise? nope.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
Although did you hear about Fresno's game ending play last weekend?
Bouncing to the O-Lineman on the 2-pointer. About describes Illinois’s season for ya.
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man i wish Pat Hill ended up at Or St back a couple yrs ago. i’d actually have a reason to hate the Beavs. Mike Riley, his hoodies and his “aw…schucks-ness” makes that impossible…
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And he's a local kid too
Hard to hate the local kid.
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It really is the WAC (which I called the Weak Ass Conference)
Boise State and Idaho are the only teams in that league to have a winning record outside the conference. By contrast, everyone except the Washingtons did in the Pac-10 and TCU, BYU, Utah and lowly Colorado State did in the Mountain West.
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What's amazing
Is that the Fiesta Bowl actively picked these two and thinks people will watch it. They won’t.
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i’m def watching. west coast fans will watch. texas will watch. thats a pretty good chunk.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
I'm actually in Mexico on vacation during the New Year
I’ll watch the Rose but will probably go out to dinner after that since it should end at about 8 PM local (2 hours ahead of the west coast).
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
Was watching Chip's show on Comcast last night
and during the press conference after the CW a reporter asked him, “saw LMJ hurting a bit on the sidelines, is that why Blount and Barner were used so much near the end?”
Chip’s response (classic), “he [LMJ] was cramping up a bit out there, he’s day to day if anyone cares…”
I about died laughing. Chip has some of the best one liners.
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He tiold Jerry Allen just after winning
“I think I’ll celebrate this win, for about two hours.”
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
yes he had a few but that “he’s day to day if anyone cares…” was his best all year. i like that he can make fun of himself.
i’m guessing there’s no way WT3 or Glasper is back for Rose Bowl?
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
I think that is why players connect with him so well. Sure he is authoritarian and demands respect and focus, but he also has this dry wit, and isn’t afraid to laugh at himself either.
I LaLove my Ducks. Best way to start a new decade imaginable... Oregon in the Rose Bowl January 1st!!!!!
the fact that Blount hasnt said one bad thing about him and thanks him for the opportunity is all i need to know about that locker room. he’s proven to be a great game coach (which was obviously after Boise). if you can motivate college kids to play together, believe and run thru a wall for each other, you’ll succeed. ask charlie weis.
i wouldn’t take another HC in the country right now. i love the fact he doesnt think for a second what the media thinks of him – only his team.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
i think the entire quote or maybe another one was, “i do what my players want and we took a vote in the locker room after the game – we’ll go…”
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
by NEP on Dec 7, 2009 9:24 PM PST up reply actions
I’m working at home today and College Football Live is on ESPN. They are doing a plays of the week segment. They first showed 2 different angles of Blount just TRUCKING Kristic. How perfect was it that at the beginning of the game they were doing that quick little profile on Kristic and talking about how “he likes to think of himself as the hardest hitter in the Pac 10”? They also showed LaMichael’s long TD run. I’d argue Masoli’s 4th down conversion was the biggest play of the game, but I can’t argue with either of these plays either I suppose.
He can run, he can pass, he is sicker than e-coli. Jeremiah always keeps things rolling.
by MarineCorpsDuck on Dec 7, 2009 12:31 PM PST reply actions
I have to admit
Watching Masoli truck Mitchell gets me aroused.
My wife’s a little bit worried.
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I think Masoli has problems with DB’s who wear Orange and Black and go to schools named OSU.
Think we can get Nike to send Orange and Black jerseys to Pasadena to wear Jan 1st?
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Or trick Masoli into thinking red=orange?
He can run, he can pass, he is sicker than e-coli. Jeremiah always keeps things rolling.
by MarineCorpsDuck on Dec 7, 2009 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
Chip: “It’s like orange, only angrier. It’s like orange is looking at you and saying, ’you’re a QB, you can’t run ME over.’ I know you can truck someone in orange, but red is probably just too much for you…”
He can run, he can pass, he is sicker than e-coli. Jeremiah always keeps things rolling.
by MarineCorpsDuck on Dec 7, 2009 12:38 PM PST up reply actions
Orange means caution, you know like hey, maybe you sorta kinda shouldn't come over here.
Red means stop, like, shut it down right now boy, don’t you dare come over here.
It’s like they’re telling you you’re not allowed to run Jmas, you gonna take that?
(Insert Hulk sounds and images, here).
Whether he be met by rain, sleet, or DB's, the Maehlman always delivers.
by Bill Musgrave on Dec 7, 2009 3:40 PM PST up reply actions
They showed a few player interview comments during the game. One was Lance Mitchell saying something like, “I want this even more because I’m from Pasadena so I want it that much more so I can play at home.” NOT an exact quote, but it was Lance Mitchell. How fitting is it that he and Kristic, the 2 guys they showed, were the ones that just got poster-ized?
He can run, he can pass, he is sicker than e-coli. Jeremiah always keeps things rolling.
by MarineCorpsDuck on Dec 7, 2009 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
dont forget the run in i think the 3rd qtr where mitchell ended up on an island and had to tackle LMJ. didnt get with 2 feet of him and ended up falling over on like and 8 yd gain to the outside. on the ESPN replay, i think it was Jesse Palmer who yelled out “Ankles!”.
Kristic was jokingly saying he was the biggest hitter. Came of funny to me.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
Wait
Blaspheming, not OK. Homoeroticism, OK?
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
I’m not even taking that bait.
And no, that was not a metaphor.
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Oh man....
If not for the last part of your comment, it would have been hilarious to think of the possibilities
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
*response possibilities.
What I said what not a metaphor.
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
0-1-2 or 3 wins for ND next year (no matter who they bring in to coach)
I LaLove my Ducks. Best way to start a new decade imaginable... Oregon in the Rose Bowl January 1st!!!!!
I have no idea who you’re talking about. Who is this ND you speak of. Whoever, they’re not nationally relevant.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
I think that's the team that likes to "punt", whatever that is.
Whether he be met by rain, sleet, or DB's, the Maehlman always delivers.
by Bill Musgrave on Dec 7, 2009 3:42 PM PST up reply actions
Dont forget about the king of punt...
None other than Nebraska. Notre Dame is merely the prince of punt
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
Husky fans are so fucking hilarious
Listening to Softy at home: “We want Locker to come back and lead us to a Rose Bowl or even something bigger next year”
“or even something bigger?” Fucking douchebags we’re 0-12 last year and they’re thinking NC with a straight face?
--Dave
Addicted to Quack, SBN's Oregon Ducks blog
No no no, not NC
If you stay at home and don’t go to a bowl game you get to watch ALL the bowl games. All Oregon gets to do this years is play in the Rose bowl. What about all those other New Years day games they are going to miss. Locker gets to lead the charge of Husky fans watching them all. Orange bowl, check, sugar bowl, check, crappy bowls nobody cares about, check. Damn you Locker, you have bested us again.
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by trumpetduck on Dec 7, 2009 12:48 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
We want Locker to come back and lead us to a Rose Bowl or even something bigger next year
thanks Dave, I just spit water out my nose when I read that.
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Does Locker play a bunch of defense too?
And O-line?
Oh WAIT A TICK, Football is a TEAM sport.
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
lol, now that's delusion.
they can’t be serious. maybe all that rain is killing their grasp on reality.
but we won a NC in 1991! we are relevant! look at how many more Rose Bowls we’ve been to than Oregon! they haven’t been since…uh…well…nevermind. they always collapse at the end of the year…what?…they dont do that anymore?! oh no…
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now they're talking themselves into reasons why Locker will stay
“he’s not in it for the money” blah, blah, blah……………….
He may stay or he may not stay. I don’t really care. But listening to Washington fans beg is just gold.
--Dave
Addicted to Quack, SBN's Oregon Ducks blog
so i’m confused. he will stay to help lead them back to prestige and an appearance in the Vegas Bowl for the pride of the state of Washington?
Sark is a good QB coach (i suppose) but he’s not better than the coaching he’ll get in the NFL. If you are a 1st round pick, you leave. Period. Especially as a QB, they pay you to practice and learn. he’ll be a top 20 pick prob and that’s what 10 mi guaranteed? Ask Sam Bradford.
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by NEP on Dec 7, 2009 1:03 PM PST up reply actions
He will admirably lead them to the...
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
I am entertained in that your website link is link hub to charities and non-profit organizations.
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-V-I-O-L-A-T-E-D"
Hahaha! It is an actual link!
Our collective lack of productivity has clearly paid off in the grandest of fashion. We are going to Pasadena. Yes, let that sink in. WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. To be honest, this has not yet hit me-WE ARE GOING TO PASADENA. Wow.
Juju, We applaud your devotion and pure decency throughout the season.
Just on ESPNEWS scroll...
Jim Harbaugh scheduled to meet w/ Notre Dame about HC position. maybe an early christmas present.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. - Bill Walton
Is he taking Andrew Luck with him?
It's spelled "T-a-k-i-D-O-N-A-L-D-3-0-0-0"
I support inroywetrust in his support of The VD Special in his support of me supporting Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
Cue the graphics comparing Jim Harbaugh's Stanford record to Ty Willingham's.
But apart from those superstitious aspects, that hire would make perfect sense for both parties.
by HoodRiverDuck on Dec 7, 2009 2:00 PM PST up reply actions
as long as he takes his ability to get Top 20 recruiting classes to Stanford, i’m good. Stanford usually has a good QB – Trent Edwards, etc but the rest of the team isnt good enough.
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by NEP on Dec 7, 2009 2:27 PM PST up reply actions
no andrew luck has a messed up finger and is doubtful to go anywhere
btw there are no good jokes relating injuries and transfers. At least I could not think of one in the last 15 secs.
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Saw a tweet from Moseley
That said Ethan Grant decommitted and is now committed to TCU. Sorry, I don’t have a link, just wanted to get that out there. Maybe someone can help me out with a link (unless this is old news and I’m just now catching up, which is totally possible).
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