Quack Fix: Oregon hire Rob Mullens as new Athletic Director, Masoli to Hawaii?
by jtlight on Jul 16, 2010 8:03 AM PDT
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PrintThe Ducks filled their open AD position yesterday, and by all accounts, it's a great hire. Let's get to it:
- Oregon took another step away from its offseason of turmoil, hiring Rob Mullens as the Oregon's new Athletic Director. Mullens was previously the deputy director of athletics at the University of Kentucky, and handled their day-to-day operations. Mullens has a background in accounting and auditing, and after handling Kentucky's $79 million budget, should be well-suited to keep Oregon fiscally sound.
- The Register Guard has some more info on Mullens, who drew the praise of former Oregon coach Rich Brooks, who worked with Mullen when both were at Kentucky (Mullens was also on the team that hired Brooks). While Mullens is known for his ability to handle the financial aspects of a program, Brooks noted that Mullens has a strong presence and works will with coaches. Mullens is also highly regarded by Kentucky AD Mich Barnhart and Arizona AD Greg Byrne. It's clear that Mullens, though only 40, has made a strong impact on those he's worked with.
- Chip Kelly, who was part of the search committee, talked a bit about the new hire. While Mullens has the intelligence to be success as an AD, Kelly said what set Mullens apart is how everyone who had worked with Mullens, including Brooks and Calipari, "jumped on a table" for him.
- The Oregonian has even more praise from Kentucky, with on just what Mullens did at Kentucky. Mullens was key in the growth of the Kentucky budget over the past 8 years, helping to grow resources, and also get results, especially for the Kentucky football program, which was mired in probation when Mullens arrived.
- The Jeremiah Masoli (as opposed to Jeremy Mazoni) saga continues, this time with a rumor that he could be headed to Hawaii for his final year of eligibility.
- More Pac-12 talk from Jon Wilner (via Coug Center). It sounds like the nine-game schedule will be around for some time. Also, the zipper split is gaining traction, as the California schools push to play each other every year, and a "Pacific NW schools" (read: Washington) fights to have a SoCal team in their division.
- A bit of schadenfredue on everyone's favorite Pac-10 coach: Lane Kiffin is losing favor at USC. A few months into the job, he's already had to release the top recruit in the nation from his LOI, and pushed recruiting allegations against other football teams, including Oregon. My favorite line: "People within the program are beginning to see how much different Kiffin is from his predecessor, Pete Carroll. While each coach has loads of confidence, Carroll is much more personable than Lane."
- Lastly, Chris from Smart Football was on the Solid Verbal podcast, and they discuss Oregon and Florida's new pass-oriented QBs this season (starting about the 7:30 mark).
Did I miss anything? Leave it in the comments. GO DUCKS!
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This may have been mentioned earlier, but Greg Biggins is reporting that Brett Hundley is down to UW and UCLA as his final two schools.
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I sure hope that he goes to UCLA.
Sarkesian might actually be able to develop a decent QB, unlike CRN.
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I haven’t listened to it yet, but it’s available here.
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It wasn’t all that interesting. They talked about the AD, and things related to that for the most part.
Canzano giggled a lot. My guess? Nervous laughter.
it’s spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-A-L-I-T-T-L-E-H-O-S-T-I-L-E"
Apparently he was awarded a "Baldy"
For best interview of the year. Apparently he doesn’t know that the year is only half over.
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Hahaha, Classic.
I am looking for a new cover for that game, but I am afraid of putting a player currently on the team as my custom cover. The Kenjon Barner cover that TQA8 linked to was awesome. But I kind of put WT3 as my cover last year, and I cant help but feel responsible for what happened.
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Wait, you had WT3 as your cover, Blount and Masoli as your screen images, and you’re planning on being in Eugene next year? We’re doomed. CaDuck, please stay away from the football team.
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In all seriousness, you need to put a Masoli one in. Maybe irony can reverse this jinx of yours
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If you find one let me know, I’d love to make my PS3 cover Masoli
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Hopefully your PS3 Cover won’t steal your PS3.
it’s spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-A-L-I-T-T-L-E-H-O-S-T-I-L-E"
I have a job for you. Make me a PS3 cover of Masoli, running down the field carrying my PS3. That would be worthy of my NCAA 11 Cover.
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mine's of the maehlman catching the civil war TD pass.
with a background of him making the diving AZ overtime catch.
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Wouldn't that be somethin' if Masoli played for Hawaii and beat USC again?
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We've been discussing that story on Kiffn over at Conquest Chronicles
Basically, we all think it’s B.S. A lot of holes in the story.
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Actually, the most interesting part for me was
Lane is the one who pushed for the [recruiting violation] accusations to be publicized.
Same crap he pulled at Tennessee. Kiffin and Neuheisel are made for each other.
Not sure if that's accurate either
Brown is bringing up a lot of points that have not been raised by any of the more prominent ‘SC sites, WeAreSC.com and USCFootball.com. Just odd that some guy from the Sporting News claims to have all these “sources” within Heritage Hall. At least, that’s what he told us.
Oh, and Neuheisel vs. Kiffin is definitely going to be fun. Both can be dicks at times, but hey, Kiffin’s our dick so it’s cool.
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by Joey Kaufman on Jul 16, 2010 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Exactly. That would be my thinking if I had Kiffin as our coach. I’ve never understood the hate Kiffin gets—I dig his swagger, no homo.
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Swagger can be good. Chip Kelly has a good confident swagger. So does Pete Carroll.
But recruiting violations and college football programs run into the ground is where “swagger” becomes problematic.
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The Raiders were far, far below ground by the time he took over.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Jul 17, 2010 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
If only their owner had gotten there first.
Maybe he would have had some success.
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Very true.
I guess I have the feeling that his teams have underperformed relative to his coaching, rather than the other way around. Of course, I’m no expert and the conventional wisdom seems to be pretty much the opposite so I’m probably wrong in my armchair analysis haha
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This is a great quote:
One of the smart things Colin Cowherd once said was
If rival schools hate your coach, you have a good coach. (see: UCLA’s hate of Carroll)
If rival schools like your coach, you have a bad coach. (see: our love for Dorrell)
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by Joey Kaufman on Jul 15, 2010 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I know UW hates Kelly, but I’m not sure how I feel about Sark. I know I used to LOVE Ty. And I’m pretty indifferent to Riley.
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On a side note
Just when USC seemed safe from Masoli, he now could be playing for Hawaii against the Trojans on Sept. 2. Dear God. I still have nightmares.
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The townspeople of Eugene still have nightmares about Masoli too.
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Correct me if I'm wrong
Wouldn’t Masoli be ineligible for a season if he transferred to another division 1 school? I didn’t think he’d be able to play until ’11. Maybe there are circumstances that would allow him to play?
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As long as he passed some classes,
I cant see a reason why he wouldn’t be eligible in 2011.
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Masoli is going to be a Senior this coming year, and he'll be transferring to another D-I school. Can he play in two years?
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Yes, he has a redshirt year available. His year of ineligibility would double as his redshirt year.
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I thought he had redshirted at CCSF.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I was wondering why he would even care to transfer somewhere if all he was doing there was hanging his helmet for a year.
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No problem
That was the main source of questioning regarding his suspension. So he would be out for a season, but would he come back in ‘11 and be UO’s QB again, even if Thomas won the job this year? Now that’s someone else’s problem.
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Not sure
Scott Wolf noted that Masoli may be eligible this year should he transfer. But then, it’s Scott Wolf so who knows.
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by Joey Kaufman on Jul 16, 2010 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I would love to see the NCAA's reaction if Masoli applied for a waiver.
Although I think there is some rule about seniors transferring “against their will” and not having to sit out a year.
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I found a source! I did it I did it!
The most commonly used exception is known as the “one-time transfer exception.” As the name
suggests, this exception allows a student-athlete to transfer from one NCAA institution to
another on one occasion and be immediately eligible for competition. Certain conditions must
be met to use this exception, including: (1) the student-athlete must have been in good academic
standing and academically eligible for competition at the previous institution; (2) the previous
institution must grant the student-athlete written permission to use of the exception; and (3) the
student-athlete cannot have transferred previously from a four-year institution.
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by axemen23 on Jul 16, 2010 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Interesting
So would this exception be automatically granted if he met those three criteria? Or would the NCAA still have authority to deny the request? I have no doubt, though, that Kelly would allow him to use the exception. Kelly doesn’t seem like the type who would deny that kind of thing.
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Whenever a request for permission to contact or permission to use the one-
time transfer exception is denied, the institution denying the request must notify the student-
athlete in writing of the right to request a hearing to contest the denial. The committee
conducting such hearings must be comprised entirely of individuals who work outside of the
athletics department.
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I'm not sure what sort of "legal stipulations" come with this transfer rule.
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Hmmm,
It seems possible that Masoli could qualify for this. It is interesting that this rule rarely seems to be brought up, I had never previously heard of it.
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hmmm, Warriors apparently don't want Masoli anyway...
Two former standout Pac-10 players — quarterback Jeremiah Masoli and linebacker David Pa‘aluhi — will not be joining the Warriors this year, according to people with close knowledge of the situation.
Both had contacted UH. But it was mutually decided Masoli would not join the Warriors, according to sources. Pa‘aluhi, who was set to sign enrollment papers at UH, instead reaffirmed a previous commitment to enlist in the military with the intent of joining Special Forces.
Masoli, who was raised on the Mainland, attended Saint Louis School as a high school senior. He played one year at City College of San Francisco, where Nick Rolovich was the quarterbacks coach. At the end of that season, Rolovich was hired as UH’s quarterbacks coach. As a qualifier out of high school, Masoli was eligible to transfer to a Division I-A after after one year at a JC. Out of respect for CCSF coach George Rush — a close friend to UH head coach Greg McMackin and Rolovich — the Warriors opted not to recruit Masoli at that time, which would have allowed him to return to CCSF for his sophomore season.
Instead, Masoli made himself available to be recruited. He signed with Oregon. After opening the season as the No. 3 quarterback, Masoli earned the starting job. In 2009, he helped Oregon win the Pac-10 championship.
But he was suspended for the entire 2010 season after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor burglary charge. Last month, he was dismissed from the Oregon team after receiving a citation for marijuana possession.
No surprise there.
I cant exactly imagine that many schools are lining up for a chance at his services.
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For one year though
If you’re Hawaii or Louisiana Tech, I think you seriously look at it. He can play, and it wouldn’t be a long-term investment.
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by Joey Kaufman on Jul 16, 2010 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Its been a tough off-season for Lane...
I'LL BITCH SLAP YOU WITH ROBERT SWIFT!!!
by My Name is Bryce on Jul 16, 2010 11:29 AM PDT reply actions
This is definitely the most violent gif ever seen on ATQ.
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Although it’s still not as disturbing as the Stoops double-hop.
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I still think thats funny.
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It is still so strange to me how well choreographed that hop really was.
We always knew the Stoops family was weird to say the least, but damn.
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Gee, they are watching the same game
They must have gone to a small town school and learned body English from the same teacher.
So sort of OT
But I have been in Denver for 3 days now and have yet to see one person sporting ANY Colorado Buffaloes shirts, bumper stickers, hats etc. I have seen people sporting BYU, Nebraska, New Mexico, Mountain West, and of course Broncos, Rockies, Nuggets, Avalanche stuff. I had seen it posted elsewhere that the Denver market as #18 is meaningless because nobody cares about college athletics there. I am kind of inclined to believe them at this point.
Tomorrow I will be driving to Boulder then on to Rocky Mountain National Park, maybe we’ll see a little school pride out there.
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They havent' been good in either major sport for a while
Or even decent, that may be why.
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It’s a pro sports town, in a similar vain of New York and Boston.
When I lived there, I remember a lot of Colorado, Colorado State, and Air Force fans… but they pimped major sports waaaay more. Mr. Colorado Buffalo that went there undergrad and graduate school would usually be wearing some Denver Bronco hat or a Rockies’ jersey.
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On a side note
I love the O’Dell Brewing company products 90 schilling ale and 5 barrel pale ale.
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before anyone pulls their hair out
the EA servers are down due to a crash this morning. no timetable on when they’ll be back online.
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any of these computer accessories would be great AtQ prizes
I believe one of the mouses was a prize for a contest here awhile back; but I forget.
The website actually says the following
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They have been...at least one of them
One of my prizes for winning the bracket challenge was an Autzen mouse.
yeah I think you got the autzen mouse in that deal.
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if you want a kickass uni combo in NCAA 11
go with: Carbon helmet, green throwback jersey, black pants, black socks, black/school color shoes.
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groan
lets pay an unproven rookie more than anyone else in the league
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I have a feeling that he will end the season on IR.
In his (Sam Bradford) one season starting behind a below average O-line at OU, he got promptly killed (in the first game against BYU, right?). St Louis will probably start him early on behind their crappy O-line.
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I hate one thing about NCAA 11
when your winning, someone can quit and you wont get the win. I’m 2-7 just because whenever i beat someone, they usually quit midway through the 4th.
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That seems like a pretty big oversight
Why wouldn’t it automatically give you a loss if you quit an online game?
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it does
but i dont get the win.
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Ah, that doesn’t make any sense either. So now you’ve got a bunch of guys with losses that don’t have corresponding wins? EA fails at math.
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EA divided by 0
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All would be forgiven if EA would just make their damn NHL game for the Wii! I’ve been waiting three and a half years, EA!
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yes they did.
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Appearantly NCAA 11 things Nate Costa has butterfingers. After an hour trying the game out today I had about fifty fumbles and TN blew me out because every single drive resulted in a 70+ yard fumble recover for a TD. Ugh, I’m gonna go play fucking solitare. Fuck the Xbox.
Its like that with a lot of QB's. They will fix it in an update
Q: How come Oregon State players haven't gotten in trouble for stealing anything from a frat house?
A: Who wants to steal a lunchbox?
by QuackQuackAttack on Jul 16, 2010 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm still irritated with the apparent goal to prevent any interceptions whatsoever in NCAA 11.
Halfway through my season, I have thrown none and picked two off.
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Overcompensation.
I couldn’t tell you how many times I went 13-14 with 1 INT during NCAA ’09 and ’10.
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I shouldn't have too in the first place!
But I will probably end up doing so.
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Or you could learn to be good at the game, and switch to the DB when the ball is in the air and pick it off yourself. I do that and I get the INT about 1/4 of the time that I get my hands on the ball.
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ummmmm
apparently Chad Ochocinco likes to gamble in his boxers.
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Chip Kelly has lost control of Notre Dame Athletes
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8 football players,
This will be a huge score for ND in the Fulmer Cup standings.
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Apparently he’s considering giving them a bonus because they’re Notre Dame, and Notre Dame always gets a bonus.
by AllSaintsDay on Jul 17, 2010 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I laughed my ass off reading that
First Tennessee, now ND.
by Brian Floyd on Jul 17, 2010 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Those fuckers always beat the system.
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i wonder if Joe Montana's kid will score like 2X or something.
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OT but ha i think tiger's found a new hobby (zoom in to discover the hidden secret).
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What??
Q: How come Oregon State players haven't gotten in trouble for stealing anything from a frat house?
A: Who wants to steal a lunchbox?
by QuackQuackAttack on Jul 18, 2010 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions
That would have made sense, if it said 4:20.
I shouldn’t have to do math to get a joke.
Q: How come Oregon State players haven't gotten in trouble for stealing anything from a frat house?
A: Who wants to steal a lunchbox?
by QuackQuackAttack on Jul 18, 2010 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I just assumed that Tiger shot "69" or something...
HA HA HA /sarcasm/
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that one was old awhile ago.
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This may be the worst joke you’ve ever tried to make on this blog.
They call him Rags. Where he goes, no-hitters follow.
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Fixed!
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by JonathanPDX on Jul 18, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Axemen23:-what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Jul 18, 2010 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
AW, C'mon. Give the guy a couple a points. Be big.
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