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Agree. I think the star system fails more in basketball than it does in football. Primarily because you can have five 5 stars who can shoot the lights out, but you've only got one ball. Plus, someone needs to play defense. When it comes to football, players tend to have more specific rolls to...

The star system is nice if it translates to the team when they are on the field. Also, do not under estimate 3 stars, Marcus Mariota was a 3 star QB and he won the Heisman.

Yea, I'll agree with you on Cooley. And as you say a dominate line makes a huge difference. Plus, I do like Oregon's RB room.

Just one game, the Fiesta Bowl, where Oregon actually averaged more yards per carry than Liberty. Also, this was suppose to be about best RB room, Liberty's #2 rusher was the QB with over a 1000 yards. He's not in the RB room. Correct

Do you think they would have led the nation if they had played in the SEC or Big 10? I'd say no and it's not even close.

Anyone who puts Liberty in the top 50 is not paying attention. Total lost of credibility

Oregon isn't short on QBs, behind Gabriel, Oregon has Dante Moore (former UCLA 4 star) and Austin Novosad. I thought Novosad would push Nix for the starting spot last year. He's got a Justin Herbert type of arm and he was 9-11 in the Fiesta Bowl last year. Granted he was playing against a...

Physically worn out... Lots of banged up players trying to play through injuries. That's what I mean. Plus, the mental of probably being on a three game losing streak.

They already are picking up the Calif talent, USC, UCLA, Wash and Oregon all probably have between 30-50 athletes from Calif... :)

How dare you put my Ducks down with U$C... ;)

I personally think Michigan is going to slide this year and USC is going to surprise people. And obviously (assuming both are undefeated at game time) I'm very much looking forward to the buckeyes in Autzen this fall

Just my gut feeling, I'll take the gophers in this one. They play LSU on the road, Oregon at home, then travel to Penn St. the three weeks before hosting the gophers, I suspect they will be pretty beaten up by the time Minnesota comes to town.

This article should take population into account. Minnesota has about 1.5 million more people than Oregon

Maybe this is just a problem for universities located in metro areas with significant competing sports teams. I don't see problems in Eugene, Lincoln, Champaign Urbana, etc.

I personally don't mind Friday games, especially in Eastern time zones, however, playing Michigan State at Autzen (assuming a night game) on Friday just kills the national audience. We also, got a Friday with Purdue at Purdue, two Friday's for my Ducks, so it's interesting and we'll see how it...

To much talk about Oregon vs Ohio St. It's just too early, I'll get wound up about Oct 6th if the Ducks are undefeated at that time. It's the old take them one game at a time attitude. We've got old Oregon St (in cornvalley) and new Oregon State (MSU) to deal with before Ohio St. Plus who knows...

Ok, I'm pretty new here, just trying to learn more about the B1G ten conference that my Ducks will be part of in the future. Here are a couple takes on what I've observed so far (based on visiting a few big 10 boards), lots of emphasis is put on retaining in state athletes, lots of fans have...

If you are talking basketball you might want to check out where Gonzaga is located.

This is really difficult to understand..... Eastern Washington is not WSU. Spokane, WA is just 30 miles from WSU. Spokane metro population is probably a bit over 500,000. Also, referring to "nearby college rivals" is interesting, what qualifies as "nearby"? The perception of distance is much...

I disagree a bit with the comment about Oregon, they've had an incredibly high number of injuries the last couple years. It's not about doing less with more, it's about doing what you can with limited numbers. I think Oregon was playing with 8 scholarship players for a chunk of this past season...