Morning Quack Fix: 2.25.09

by PaulSF on Feb 25, 2009 11:04 AM PST in Morning Quack Fix

Sorry for the delay, Ducks fans. Technical difficulties last night (namely Comcast) kept me from getting this post up on time. Better late than never, right? Here's your "Morning" Quack Fix:

First, a little news hot off the presses: The Wichita Eagle's Jeffery Martin reports Oregon's QB-turned-WR Chris Harper might be having second thoughts. According to Harper's brother Ladale, younger brother Chris intends to finish his freshman year at Oregon and then mull his options. I can't say I'm surprised, as his chances of playing QB for the Ducks in the near future are not strong.
It looks like former Oregon back-up point guard Ben Voogd, who transferred to the Ducks from LSU two seasons ago, will play for Northwest Christian University next season. The Florence native who redshirted for the Ducks last year left the team earlier this season citing a lack of playing time.
Our former CEQ (Chief Executive of Quack) Addicted to Quack makes an intriguing argument in his piece yesterday asking why Oregon's women's basketball head coach Bev Smith isn't being held to the same standard as men's head coach Ernie Kent. Smith's teams are a combined 123-117 in her eight years at the helm of the program, including their 9-17 mark so far this season.
As jtlight pointed out yesterday, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Ted Miller, who covers the Pac-10 for ESPN as well, has a write-up on the Pac-10's impending quarterback controversies heading into spring practice. Although I, like everyone else, believe Jeremiah Masoli is the man heading into the spring, with so much depth at quarterback, I was surprised Miller glossed over Oregon.

As always, if you see anything else out there, make sure you post it in the comments.

And, as always, GO DUCKS!

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I love the Wichita Eagle headline

“Oregon’s Harper Will Finish Year”. Right up there with “Tuesday Will Occur After Monday”.

by grimc on Feb 25, 2009 11:34 AM PST reply actions 3 recs

Water is wet.

It's spelled "S-H-U-G-S-A-R-E-F-O-R-T-H-U-G-S""

by JShufelt on Feb 25, 2009 12:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

Don’t bring your crazy scientific theories into this.

by grimc on Feb 25, 2009 12:29 PM PST up reply actions

When a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it…it DOES, in fact, make a sound.

You cannot hide from our weapons of Masoli destruction.

by JConant on Feb 25, 2009 12:53 PM PST up reply actions

It's spelled "S-H-U-G-S-A-R-E-F-O-R-T-H-U-G-S""

by JShufelt on Feb 25, 2009 1:16 PM PST up reply actions

Hey J-crew

We’re doing a sign ideas thread for this Sat when ESPN GameDay will be at Cal for the UCLA game. You guys have any ideas you can contribute?

http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2009/2/25/770267/espn-gameday-sign-idea-thr?login=1235591861

by danzig on Feb 25, 2009 1:46 PM PST up reply actions

Hmmm, I might have some ideas. But I’m not sure they’re pro UCLA or Cal…

Hi, I'm Paul Thompson, and I'm a quack-aholic.

by PaulSF on Feb 25, 2009 2:17 PM PST up reply actions

Same boat. I can’t say anything nice about UCLA. And the only thing that comes to mind as an OSU fan regarding Cal is, “Just Like Football (CLAP, CLAP, CLAP-CLAP-CLAP)”…

by ArbyOSU on Feb 25, 2009 2:41 PM PST up reply actions

Not entirely my ideas: Credit goes to CGB.

But I thought I’d share the posters here too, because they make ME laugh.

It's spelled "S-H-U-G-S-A-R-E-F-O-R-T-H-U-G-S""

by JShufelt on Feb 26, 2009 9:29 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

The Monopoly one is my fav, nice work.

It's spelled "M-A-R-C-H-I-N-G-B-A-N-D."

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.

by Takimoto on Feb 26, 2009 10:58 AM PST up reply actions

Mine too!!

OMG we’re samers!

--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog

by jtlight on Feb 26, 2009 11:18 AM PST up reply actions

Could've changed the bottom right of the Sanchez'd picture from UCLA football.

Addicted To Quack [dot] com; "In other news, Ropert was mauled by a velociraptor yesterday and sustained a life-threatening ACL injury and a pulled hamstring."

by qrsouther on Feb 27, 2009 5:48 PM PST up reply actions

Someone needs to go back to humor studies 101.

It's spelled "S-H-U-G-S-A-R-E-F-O-R-T-H-U-G-S""

by JShufelt on Feb 27, 2009 6:17 PM PST up reply actions

Or Honours' CGB Irony.

Addicted To Quack [dot] com; "In other news, Ropert was mauled by a velociraptor yesterday and sustained a life-threatening ACL injury and a pulled hamstring."

by qrsouther on Feb 27, 2009 7:20 PM PST up reply actions

Hmmm...

Yeah, does seem to not even cover Oregon, but I’d agree there are bigger QB issues elsewhere in the Pac-10. And that’s a great thing for Oregon. :-)

By the way, Miller hasn’t worked for the Seattle P-I for about a year. It was last February that he dropped is freelance gig with ESPN and became an actual employee.