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[wizenheimer]

“If Florida State, Clemson, Virginia, North Carolina and Miami were to become available, that’s a real and major domino to fall in conference realignment. As one Big Ten source put it, “Those schools are where the real value is.”

That person was particularly interested in Virginia and North Carolina as new states and/or markets for the Big Ten to extend down the East Coast. This Big Ten source believes expansion out East makes far more sense than expanding into the Pacific Northwest, which has not had nearly enough support internally or among the league’s media partners since the idea was first broached. University of Illinois chancellor Robert J. Jones told The Athletic last month that “there was no sense of urgency” for the league to expand beyond USC and UCLA.”

https://theathletic.com/4521787/2023/05/15/acc-realignment-grant-of-rights/

I told y'all Oregon is not as high on the list as UNC in July…

the ACC media GOR lasts till 2037 and will be nearly impossible to breach

and if anything is clear over the last several months is that NONE of these media members, bloggers, and pontifcators know a damn thing about what is happening. They are all full of shit

 

[tykendo]

Instead of worrying about the Blazers ownership, i wish Phil & fellow powerhouse Pacific dudes would figure a way to keep the Pac 12 alive, with a new network. Maybe they are. Being a part of a Stupor Conference, the Big 16 , or whatever they call the damn thing, just sucks.

 

[wizenheimer]

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/c...ng-into-breaking-from-media-rights-agreement/

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Five-star quarterback Michael Van Buren, a top-20 prospect in 2024, committed to Oregon on Saturday.

Van Buren, from St. Frances Academy (Maryland), is ranked 18th overall in the 2024 class and is the second-best-rated pocket passer in the class behind Georgia commit Dylan Raiola (No. 1 overall).
"He would be the highest-ranked quarterback to sign with the Ducks since ESPN began ranking players in 2006 and would be the program's highest-ranked overall recruit to commit to Oregon since linebacker Justin Flowe (No. 10 overall) in 2020."
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-lands-commitment-5-star-qb-michael-van-buren

 

[STOMP]

Five-star quarterback Michael Van Buren, a top-20 prospect in 2024, committed to Oregon on Saturday.

Van Buren, from St. Frances Academy (Maryland), is ranked 18th overall in the 2024 class and is the second-best-rated pocket passer in the class behind Georgia commit Dylan Raiola (No. 1 overall).
"He would be the highest-ranked quarterback to sign with the Ducks since ESPN began ranking players in 2006 and would be the program's highest-ranked overall recruit to commit to Oregon since linebacker Justin Flowe (No. 10 overall) in 2020."
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-lands-commitment-5-star-qb-michael-van-buren

That was one of two big Saturday commitments for the Ducks. The other was from Oklahoma DT Xadavien Sims. Good size at 6'4 280 and a top recruit on all the sites. Lanning is putting together a tremendous class



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[Predator]

the ACC media GOR lasts till 2037 and will be nearly impossible to breach

and if anything is clear over the last several months is that NONE of these media members, bloggers, and pontifcators know a damn thing about what is happening. They are all full of shit

The regulations doesn't change how bad they want certain teams

Doesnt mean its likely to happen

but say there was a “big board”

certain teams and regions are higher than others

interesting how i was talking about UNC and Virginia in July (when no one else was) and this article comes out nearly 10 months later

 

[Pinwheel1]

The regulations doesn't change how bad they want certain teams

Doesnt mean its likely to happen

but say there was a “big board”

certain teams and regions are higher than others

interesting how i was talking about UNC and Virginia in July (when no one else was) and this article comes out nearly 10 months later

True, teams and regions are important. Which is why they are looking west to fill more late-night time slots.

 

[wizenheimer]

Pac-12 composite recruiting rankings are kind of crazy right now:

 

[Predator]

Pac-12 composite recruiting rankings are kind of crazy right now:

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Love what Lanning has going on in Eugene.

 

[Predator]

True, teams and regions are important. Which is why they are looking west to fill more late-night time slots.

Lol, the B1G is against late-night games as a conference. So looking “west” doesnt mean jack shit unless they can convince the premiere schools (Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and maybe a couple others) to start playing late night games when theyre all very opposed to it. Good luck.

And Notre Dame, as far as I know, isnt on the west coast and they are far and away #1.

 

[Predator]

Also, not saying going West may not happen. Im saying, as i said a year ago, its not the first choice.

 

[wizenheimer]

apparently the previous Big-10 commissioner left some booby-traps and unfinished business in those much hyped media deals and the Big-10 is on the hook for the mistakes. So, until they can get all that sorted out, and further expansion is probably off the table. And a couple of reports suggest straightening this all out might be a real challenge and could sink to some litigation

 

[Pinwheel1]

Lol, the B1G is against late-night games as a conference. So looking “west” doesnt mean jack shit unless they can convince the premiere schools (Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and maybe a couple others) to start playing late night games when theyre all very opposed to it. Good luck.

No one likes late-night games, except the networks who pay the bills. With more games out west the teams in the midwest might not need to play late at night in November. Not at home anyways

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...missioner-television-deal-coaches-uncertainty

 

[wizenheimer]

 

[wizenheimer]

Oregon Ducks beat Arizona 5-4 tonight to win the Pac-12 baseball tournament championship!!

Go Ducks!!

 

[Driew]

NIL Nike money doing work.

 

[TBpup]

NIL Nike money doing work.

It's the landscape now. NIL money is all over the place for the upper level teams. Ducks have been beaten out because they didn't have enough money at some points. Slowly, it is being modified where it isn't all so much up front like it was at the beginning. WIP all the way around.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Instead of worrying about the Blazers ownership, i wish Phil & fellow powerhouse Pacific dudes would figure a way to keep the Pac 12 alive, with a new network. Maybe they are. Being a part of a Stupor Conference, the Big 16 , or whatever they call the damn thing, just sucks.

B1G still works with 16!

 

[wizenheimer]

NIL Nike money doing work.

you sound like a beevur

that counter above started in 2014 (playoffs started in 2014). So, for 8 seasons now, and NIL has only been around for 2 seasons. If you take the 2 NIL years out of the equation:

Oregon 15
USC 14
Stanford 13
Washington 12
Oregon State 2

and of course, NIL is part of the equation now. It's going to give the schools in big markets with big, wealthy, donor bases, significant advantages. Oregon has neither of those. For schools like Oregon (and OSU), their NIL will have to be highly efficient and expertly targeted. Still, the reality is going be kind of like some schools will be operating with a hard salary cap half the size of other schools. And as the gap of these conference media disbursements grows wider and wider, the have will just have a whole lot more than the have nots

NCAA sports operated for decades in a fool's paradise. It was inevitable that the athletes would finally get a slice of the pie. But that, added to the rather vulgar influence of billions & billions of media money has opened a pandora's box of inequity. The overall direction of college football and basketball is not encouraging

 

[wizenheimer]

must be NIL Nike money

 

[Driew]

you sound like a beevur

that counter above started in 2014 (playoffs started in 2014). So, for 8 seasons now, and NIL has only been around for 2 seasons. If you take the 2 NIL years out of the equation:

Oregon 15
USC 14
Stanford 13
Washington 12
Oregon State 2

and of course, NIL is part of the equation now. It's going to give the schools in big markets with big, wealthy, donor bases, significant advantages. Oregon has neither of those. For schools like Oregon (and OSU), their NIL will have to be highly efficient and expertly targeted. Still, the reality is going be kind of like some schools will be operating with a hard salary cap half the size of other schools. And as the gap of these conference media disbursements grows wider and wider, the have will just have a whole lot more than the have nots

NCAA sports operated for decades in a fool's paradise. It was inevitable that the athletes would finally get a slice of the pie. But that, added to the rather vulgar influence of billions & billions of media money has opened a pandora's box of inequity. The overall direction of college football and basketball is not encouraging

No I'm a duck fan went to U of O during the awesome Chip seasons. I was just saying you can see the influence of the Nike money with these NIL nowadays.

 

[Tince]

No I'm a duck fan went to U of O during the awesome Chip seasons. I was just saying you can see the influence of the Nike money with these NIL nowadays.

As a Duck fan, you realize Nike's influence has been a huge part of the program for 25+ years now.

No doubt NIL is playing a role in the talent coming in, but Oregon has had a massive shift in the type of recruiters their head coaches are since they got Mario. Many people who cover recruiting often point out the amount of work/attention the program is giving recruits in comparison to other programs.

 

[Driew]

As a Duck fan, you realize Nike's influence has been a huge part of the program for 25+ years now.

No doubt NIL is playing a role in the talent coming in, but Oregon has had a massive shift in the type of recruiters their head coaches are since they got Mario. Many people who cover recruiting often point out the amount of work/attention the program is giving recruits in comparison to other programs.

Yes of course I wasn't saying it as a diss lol.

 

[wizenheimer]

No I'm a duck fan went to U of O during the awesome Chip seasons. I was just saying you can see the influence of the Nike money with these NIL nowadays.

geeezuzzz....sorry man...didn't mean to stain you with the beeevur label...

actually, other than uniforms, Nike hasn't invested substantially in Oregon. They do have a symbiotic relationship in terms of branding but it doesn't extend much further than that. It has been mostly Phil Knight. He's a billionaire and an alum. But a lot of schools like USC , Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, LSU have many many more wealthy alums than Oregon. Their graduating classes have been double and triple the size for decades as well

 

[Tince]

Yes of course I wasn't saying it as a diss lol.

I didn't take it as a diss... just an overly-simplistic way of attributing the cause of Oregon's recent recruiting success.

 

[Pinwheel1]

As a Duck fan, you realize Nike's influence has been a huge part of the program for 25+ years now.

No doubt NIL is playing a role in the talent coming in, but Oregon has had a massive shift in the type of recruiters their head coaches are since they got Mario. Many people who cover recruiting often point out the amount of work/attention the program is giving recruits in comparison to other programs.

That and the fact that NIL money was only approved in June of 2021 and the stats above were from 2104. And you are dead on about the coaches.
Most schools have NIL money now, but the difference in recruiting still comes down to coaches. Helf' became HC when the program had a lot of momentum but his recruiting did not sustain it.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Ducks with 10 runs on 5 hits........10-1 through 6 innings.

 

[wizenheimer]

Ducks with 10 runs on 5 hits........10-1 through 6 innings.

sometimes, all that matters is getting hot at the right time. Ducks have won 8 in a row, including 4-0 in the Pac-12 tournament

or like Miami outscoring Denver 29-10 in the first 7 minutes of the 4th Q

 

[Pinwheel1]

Ducks hosting a super regional. Who would have thought that 2 weeks ago?

Oregon and Oral Roberts will meet at PK Park starting June 9th/10th.

Edit: Looks like the home game is not official yet.

 

[wizenheimer]

Ducks hosting a super regional. Who would have thought that 2 weeks ago?

Oregon and Oral Roberts will meet at PK Park starting June 9th/10th.

Edit: Looks like the home game is not official yet.

might be a scheduling conflict with the Eugene Emeralds?