Quack Fix: Practice Notes, Jackson Rice, Pac-12 Championship Game and Academic Progress

They probably need more than just the TV money to make it happen. Besides, since the TV money goes to everyone, it doesn’t give them an advantage over any other school.

I think he’s slightly better at selling the option (i.e. waiting until the last minute to pull the ball) than DT, but DT is superior in nearly every other category.

Then it will all be “Put it Mariota!”

Agree with all of this. Well said.

There is a very authentic Chinese restaurant in the valley the serves a deep fried pork chop with lots of fat around the edges. My wife calls in bacon on a bone which is an excellent description. In order of awesomeness bacon—>pork belly—→bacon on a bone.

horse sashimi is surprisingly delicious (popular in Japan)

[World with more Bacon] = [World with more coronary artery disease] = $$$

I am not in favor of increasing the world’s bacon supply by redefining what constitutes “bacon”.

Horse Bacon is no more bacon than “veggie bacon” is bacon.

Hell, Horse Bacon is, arguably, no more bacon than Kevin Bacon. Or Frances Bacon.

At the time South Eugene was a power house. their soccer team was really good as well. My sophomore year was the first time I watched a game at Autzen, as our football team lost the state championship against Sheldon.

Willamette High School’s 1976 football team had roughly 30 players when two-a-days started and by season’s end was down to about 20.

Points scored during the season: 6. (In a game against Churchill (I think), there was a fumble in their end zone that one of the Wil-hi players fell on, probably accidentally, for a TD. Naturally, they missed the extra point.)

This made for three winless seasons in four years. (3-6 my senior year, beat North — with Danny Ainge at QB! — for the first time in 15 years.)

They got better, eventually; the population expanded and the school almost doubled in size. Even made the state semi-finals once around 1990. But for almost two decades WHS was the poster child for “really being in the wrong division but not QUITE small enough to drop down to Junction City’s level.”

So I feel your 0-69 pain.

I’m trying to balance my love of winning with my love of good football games with my desire to see Oregon get back to the NCG. I love winning, but I hate seeing us beat up on teams that don’t have a chance. I want to get back to the NCG, but how do we create a tough schedule to show we deserve it while not sticking ourselves with a loss?

It’s not an easy balance to create. But you’re right, the Pac 12 improving in quality would go a long way toward taking care of the schedule strength issues.

Eff a bunch of cupcakes and eff the mythical NC. Sure, I want to win it anyway, but let’s play real teams.

I am with you on the “getting tired of watching our awesome athletes play against JV teams” part. Regardless of non-conference opponents, the PAC-12 is such a top and bottom heavy league that the Ducks are practically guaranteed to play at least 5 blowout games. That should be enough 50-point, 500+ yard performances against bad teams to satisfy everyone.

The 50-point, 500+ yard performances against GOOD teams are the fun ones anyway.

By not playing tough teams, you are more likely to lose to them in bowl games.

The reason, in my opinion, that we couldn’t pull out wins v Ohio State, Auburn, and LSU is because we don’t get to play teams like that enough.

There’s always that moment of shell-shock that they have to recover from, and by then it’s a bit too late.

The Pac-12 just doesn’t offer the kind of dominant defenses that you need to play against to be prepared come bowl season.

I would rather play a top team like LSU and get beat and then either fight for the Rose Bowl or hope for a break to get into the NCG than play all cupcakes.

I can respect that. I’m not a NCG-or-bust guy as evidenced by my belonging to this blog back when that was unthinkable. I’m sick of watching the other conferences get multiple BCS births because they get 2 extra wins every year (1 because of the cupcakes, and 2 because they get an EXTRA cupcake because they only play 8 conference games).

I’m not even really talking about the NCG this year. If we lose to Stanford, here’s what is most likely going to happen (based on common sense and a couple of articles I’ve read): because we finish 10-2, we’ll get frozen out of one of the other BCS games and the Pac 12 will only get 1 BCS bid like it always does. It’s not just bad for the Ducks to only have one BCS participant every year, but it’s also bad for whole league.

I respect you taking this morale stance, but I’d rather see the Ducks play 3 mediocre teams and get to watch them play in, say, the Orange Bowl like Stanford did last year than get to watch one early-season game against a top-10 team and have to watch us play in the Alamo or Holiday Bowl. I’m willing to trade one early-season tough match-up for a bigger and better game (and payout) at the end of the season.

As we all know, they can never win the big game.

I can hear someone saying “OH GOD PULL OUT NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE”

Well, it was there in 1879, but you had to caulk your wagon and float to get to it, and benz had already lost a wagon axle, 45 pounds of pemmican, a bottle of laudanum, and Sally. Just not worth it.

I’m asian and I prefer MG over China Blue… I actually found a staple in my food over there so I guess I’m biased lol.

It’s still there, in all of it’s run-down glory.

Usually when I walk past it, it looks fairly crowded, I still have to make a point to go there sometime soon.

And it’s still awesome.

I might have to go there for late night food after the racketball tournament

/whatmiderms?

it is a thread about great Chinese food. But I waited tables for about a year at Louie’s Village during college. Cheap food, cheap Tsing Taos, and I ate so much bad chinese that I didn’t eat it again for about a year after I quit. What’s really amazing considering how bad the food was, I made serious BANK in tips. Very lucrative gig because of the heavy turn over in tables. And if I’m not mistaken, they are still in business, still plugging away on Franklin.

in addition to their amazing subs (any one with avocado on it was to die for), they had an awesome Friday afternoon happy hour – $2 pitchers or something ridiculous like that.