Quack Fix: Masoli pleads not guilty and may get another chance, still no word on Utah
by PaulSF on Jun 16, 2010 12:20 PM PDT
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PrintBetter late than never, here's your Wednesday Morning Afternoon Quack Fix:
- In case you missed it Monday, Oregon got another quarterback commitment from 4-star Floridian Jerrard Randall, an ESPN150 recruit who appears to fit the dual-threat model head coach Chip Kelly loves in his signal callers. Randall is the second QB in Oregon's 2011 class after Hawaiian Marcus Mariota committed last month.
- Speaking of quarterbacks, former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli is lingering in the news after pleading not guilty to the charges that ultimately led to his dismissal from the Oregon football team. Despite the black cloud over Masoli's head, rumor has it Utah State is interested in giving him yet another chance.
- Former Oregon assistant men's basketball coach Mike Dunlap has accepted a position on new St. John's head coach Steve Lavin's staff.
- In other news, 28 Ducks received All-American honors after last weekend's performance at the 2010 NCAA Track & Field Championships in Eugene. Additionally, the Duck women were named the national program of the year.
- It seems like everyone is trying to sort out what led to the Pac-16's demise and the Big 12's resurgence. Money was no doubt the biggest factor, but it wasn't the only factor. Politics certainly played a role. But, in actuality, the straw that broke the camel's proverbial back was Kansas. Rock Chalk, motherf*ckers. All kidding aside, I think it's safe to say there were a lot of factors. Of course, despite coming out on top, Beebe still managed to take a jab at Pac-10 fans. Meanwhile Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott took the high road.
- If you're looking for a retrospective explanation of what exactly happened to save the Big 12, the world's favorite new blogger Chip Brown of Orangebloods.com breaks it all down. If you're looking for a more lighthearted approach, read Dr. Saturday's rendition.
- So what's next for Pac-10 expansion? We heard Utah gave the Mountain West notice yesterday of its intentions to leave the conference, but apparently they still don't have an offer from the Pac-10...yet. ESPN.com's Ted Miller breaks it all down.
Sorry again for the delay. Too much going on this week. As always, leave any relevant links or comments below.
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I don't care what Chip Brown said
And it’s been picked up by other places too, but floating that Larry Scott broke the deal by looking to switch Kansas for OSU is bullshit. Pure and utter bullshit. It doesn’t even deserve to be getting play. OSU wasn’t about to get screwed. Kansas was a possible replacement if A&M bolted.
Chip Brown is a self-service mouthpiece for Texas. Take what he says with that background and it makes more sense.
Agreed.
My sarcastic tone doesn’t really translate in the post. Chip Brown is an assclown and a shill for the Longhorns. There is really only one major factor only that killed this deal, and that’s money. Or more accurately, the promise of money. Who knows if Beebe can actually deliver it.
Liked your post on Monday, by the way.
Addicted To Quack. If you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
I know yours was sarcastic, but there are actually MSM people running with it. I wanted to throw up after reading Chip Brown’s post last night. It was all him patting himself on the back while continuing to spin things the Texas way.
by Brian Floyd on Jun 16, 2010 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Here's the most damning thing
Brown was tweeting everything play-by-play. Yet, unless I missed it, he never said a single thing about Kansas. It’d be one of the most significant events to this story, but somehow he was completely oblivious about it until now? Shyeah.
I will now call him Skip Town
I want Canzano to stand there in that [expletive] white uniform, and with his Harvard mouth, extend Chip some [expletive] courtesy! Addicted to Quack
Nice
Someone needs to do a Tale of the Tape between Kelly and Brown.
Defending maligned chants since 2009
EDSBS
did Schad vs Brown a couple days ago.
by HoodRiverDuck on Jun 16, 2010 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
The author of that article isn't much better than Chip
A ton of spin and a lot of hate towards the pac-10
Really? I don’t see a lot of Pac-10 hate in that article. Certainly less than I generally see in fans of one conference talking about another.
by AllSaintsDay on Jun 16, 2010 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoops, I must have skimmed over that. I still think it’s not all that much.
by AllSaintsDay on Jun 16, 2010 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I caught that too
But that kind of thing is normal, I just like that somebody is pointing out that something stinks about the “facts” as Chip Brown reports them.
Say what you mean, and say it mean. - Clint Ruin
It's subtle, but it's there
Well, the part about the Pac 10 being irrelevant on the East Coast wasn’t so subtle, but there was definitely an undertone. The author refers to the Pac 16 as being Texas’ demise.
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Has to be done
Also, this doesn’t seem to change Scott’s earlier denial.
Here’s a press release (headline only?) from the PAC-10 website, Scott’s denial be damned.
The U of O: Where idle hands are the devil's workshop.
by ProbablyMonty on Jun 16, 2010 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Prehmmr had this link on twitter, Boulder Paper report
CU reported promised a spot in the Southern Division.
…sources said when Bohn informed his coaches and other athletic department staffers last Thursday that CU was switching leagues, he said CU had been promised it will compete in the south division if the conference expanded to only 12 teams.
Now repping the Ducks in Koreatown, Los Angeles CA, and repping them hard.
So im assuming
the Divisions will be:
North:
Washington
Washington State
Oregon
Oregon State
Stanford
Cal
South:
USC
UCLA
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
Utah
I think North is tougher. All the teams are competitive with the exception of Wazzu. South only has 2 maybe 3 good teams
Stackin' wins like legos; toastin' Pac-10 like de eggos
It’s all cyclical, and there are definite advantages to not being in the same division as USC.
I think the whole conference (if WSU can ever get their crap together) will be incredibly competitive, just like it always has been. Colorado (when they fire Hawkins, who will likely never see Pac-10 play) and Utah will only add to that.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
I think the Pac-10 championship game
should go back in forth. Say the first year its in the South so the championship looks like this:
Oregon @ USC
Then the next year it’s in the North so..
Utah @ Stanford or whatever.
I just think it would be great to have a home team for that especially at Autzen
Stackin' wins like legos; toastin' Pac-10 like de eggos
It will be in Glendale at the Cardinals stadium or in LA
Until the new Niners stadium opens.
Now repping the Ducks in Koreatown, Los Angeles CA, and repping them hard.
thats somewhat disappointing
Although I can see the benefits if a team like Washington State somehow won the North.
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It will never be held in a home stadium
The Pac would loose too much money that way, even in the bigger venues.
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Seems like they could move it around
To the big NFL stadiums (stadia?) LA, SF, Seattle, Denver, Arizona. Who would want to see CU vs. WSU in LA for example? I don’t know. I think the distances involved make it problematic.
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It has to rotate (just as the Pac-10 bball tourney must rotate).
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do you strenuously object?
I object! Over-ruled. No, I strenuously object! Well then, let me think about it.
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There aren't too many options.
Needs to be in a population center. (ruling out Yakima, Medford and Redding)
Can’t be in a home stadium.
Has to be in a state with a Pac10 team. (so long, Vegas)
Thus, here are the options…
- Qwest Field or whatever they’re calling the Seahawks stadium these days Oakland Coliseum or Candlestick Park
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- Anaheim Stadium Glendale (unless the University of Phoenix joins the Pac-10)
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I don’t know of any other stadia that are (a) large enough, (b) properly situated and © potentially available for foobaw.
Personally, I’d like to see a championship game rotated between Seattle and the bay area, because I’m selfish.
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I don’t know why those two lines were struck out. Qwest and Anaheim are valid options IMHO.
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SBNation has lots of “simple” formatting like automatically numbering any line starting with a # sign. Another one is apparently striking out anything between two hyphens.
by AllSaintsDay on Jun 17, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Yakima it is, then.
Thank you track, baseball, softball, and golf for ending my summer hibernation.
by Bill Musgrave on Jun 17, 2010 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Ted Miller has an interesting idea
Hold the championship game in Vegas. Although room prices for Vegas in winter are obscene.
I had thought this as well,
But Vegas does not have a quality football arena. The one at UNLV is about the size of a shoebox.
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All the teams are competitive with the exception of Wazzu.
Have you seen a Colorado game lately? Seriously, Colorado State ran them out of their own stadium. Nepotism is a terrible attribute to have as a coach.
Colorado is going to get railed in sports for awhile
They aren’t that good at anything
Stackin' wins like legos; toastin' Pac-10 like de eggos
They’re showing progress in basketball, and will be rid of Hawkins soon. They are in a position to make significant improvements. Unlike Wazzu, they have a lot going for them.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
How sure are we it's a North and South division?
I honestly haven’t heard much, but doesn’t it makes sense to split up the LA schools into two separate divisions? I don’t buy the geographical approach. Imagine this:
Division 1
USC
Oregon
Washington State
Arizona
Utah
Stanford
Division 2
UCLA
Oregon State
Washington
Arizona State
Colorado
Cal
Not sure that’s how it would look, but doesn’t that split the conference up evenly across the top 6 markets?
Addicted To Quack. If you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
cu muckety muck said that pac10 promised them they would be in the ‘south’ division in a 12-team conference. alhtough he didn’t say who would be in what conference.
This would be the “zipper” approach. It does take care of some aspects of the rivalry/gotta-have-a-trip-to-SoCal situation. But I don’t think it makes sense on a pure rivalry basis to not have the “pure” rivals in the same divisions. Once you start micromanaging it the scheduling becomes a nightmare (OK, we play all the teams in division 1, and 3 teams per year from division 2, but one of those 3 has to be OSU, and so you only see 2 of the other 5 every year, and next thing you know you’re playing games in Pullman 5 years out of 6).
Why have divisions at all? Is there some law that says a championship game has to be between the winners of divisions? How about just having the top two teams in a 12-team league play a championship game? There’s always a chance the two teams will have already met during the regular season, anyway. Just a thought.
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Naming the CU/Utah rivalry game
It’s got to have one. I’m giving 2-1 odds that it’ll be “The Rumble in the Rockies”. Not because I like it, but because it’s so damn obvious.
Can we just call it New Kids on the Block for a few years first?
Do UCLA/USC and ASU/UofA have names for their rivalry games?
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Interesting side note
Does this mean the Pac 10 will unveil its new logo before next year. Then a year later have to make the Pac 12 logo? What a waste of a new logo.
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Phew...
Without a dose of Quack, I was starting to get the Bleeps, Sweeps, and Creeps.
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1st person to get both the person and the song gets a magical brownie point
Half the wheels, twice the alibi.
He's the kid that is permanently in detention.
Onto victory urge the heroes, of our mighty Oregon!
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Jun 16, 2010 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
can I just get a magical brownie?
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I'm not sure if this has been linked to yet,
Texas, the biggest cowards in football. But it really does make me realize how weak the schedule of Texas is. In their old conference, it was not pathetic, but not strong. Now they will only play one top 25 team every season, Oklahoma.
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Sad thing is,
They will be able to walk right into the National Championship game every year without even having to flinch in the regular season.
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Well, maybe. But they've still got to out-sleeze the SEC for OCC eclairs
"If you can't copy 'em, don't imitate ''em."
YOGI BERRA
NC game until the next realignment is SEC champ vs Red River Champ. Every Year.
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Not necessarily.
The new deproved Big 12 is going to a round-robin format. This means only 3 OOC games — and at most only one of those games will be against a team worth playing.
Texas will not get points for their scheduling.
My guess is that they’ll be on the outside looking in more often than not.. going to the Orange Bowl with a 12-0 or 11-1 record and whinging about how unfair the whole thing is because those other mean old conferences have championship games. I for one look forward to this.
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I think the only problem is,
Texas is a traditional power, so they will always get tons of undeserved love in the coaches poll. Lets hope that the computers can see through the BS like they were designed to do and keep Texas out.
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Good article. It’s sad to see how bad that conference will be, making Texas easy winners in most games.
Onto victory urge the heroes, of our mighty Oregon!
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Jun 16, 2010 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Giada just came on TV…AND YES SHE IS BEAUTIFUL.
Onto victory urge the heroes, of our mighty Oregon!
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Jun 16, 2010 5:55 PM PDT reply actions
Onto victory urge the heroes, of our mighty Oregon!
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Jun 16, 2010 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hot Damn!
Look at the price tag of that dress!
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She would be hard to date.
It would be very awkward to ask her for a little head before dinner.
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by benzduck on Jun 16, 2010 8:08 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
She would be hard to date.
It would be very awkward to ask her for a little head before dinner.
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by benzduck on Jun 16, 2010 8:08 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
You already got a little head, whachu want another for?
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YOGI BERRA
Utah bonus
Went to the Freedom Bowl in ’94 with Arizona playing Utah. Best thing about the game was no beer lines / restroom lines for the Ute side of the stadium. You need to see it to believe it.
Larry Scott is STILL a GOD to me...
“If you want to say we’ve swung for the fences, we’re thrilled,” Scott said. “This is the second inning at best. You’ll start seeing this summer some of our other plans and innovations start to be unveiled.”
From this link.
Yep,
Scott has done more in a few months than Hanson would have even thought about accomplishing in a few dozen lifetimes. It really looks like hiring someone from outside the world of college football has given the Pac-10 the cojones and the innovative thought needed to shake things up.
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I just joined Bruins Nation.
Should I be scared to post there?
Onto victory urge the heroes, of our mighty Oregon!
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Jun 16, 2010 8:54 PM PDT reply actions
you'll probably be banned in a couple hours
no worries
--Dave
Addicted to Quack, SBN's Oregon Ducks blog
Why?
Onto victory urge the heroes, of our mighty Oregon!
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Jun 17, 2010 7:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Because you're a tool, numbnuts.
Kidding, pretty uptight over there.
Thank you track, baseball, softball, and golf for ending my summer hibernation.
by Bill Musgrave on Jun 17, 2010 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Geez.
I mean, I can see an axemen ban in 2 hours…
Onto victory urge the heroes, of our mighty Oregon!
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Jun 17, 2010 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy crap.
I just looked at the dialog box where you click to sign up for BN, it looks very menacing and scary. It is at least twice as long as any other that I have seen on any SB Nation blog.
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