It’s a week of positivity here at the blog where, for one week, we’re suspending any legitimate concern and refusing to recognize the catastrophe that was Boise. Today’s cause for hope: LaMichael James While the constant turnover of college football players can be frustrating, it’s also part of the excitement. Each year brings a wave [...]
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Pressure's On For Boise State
Boise State has made the goal clear; it’s BCS or bust. And who can blame them? They have a marquee game at home on national TV to sell voters on the legitimacy of their BCS campaign. After Thursday, they get to disappear for the next 3 months and rack up wins against the likes of [...]
Things That Are Annoying Me
I’m ornery and for good reason. Call me a curmudgeon. I don’t care. These things are annoying me. The idea of Andy Ludwig positively effecting the Cal Bears offense? Annoying. I hold him personally responsible for the 2002-04 era that was so wretched. I expect Cal to score maybe 4 points when they come to [...]
ESPN Surveys the Nation
ESPN polled 85 FBS players from around the country for a feature in the next ESPN the Magazine. It can also be found online, but you’ll need a subscription to view it. There were a few interesting items in the article relating to the Pac-10 and Oregon. The most overrated team in the nation according [...]
Obligatory Conference Predictions
When you go into hiding for the better part of a year, you should have something really poignant for your first post. Well, I don’t. Instead, I’m going with the tried and true prediction entry that I mostly loathe. Might as well get it out of the way and move on to better things. Besides, [...]
Washington Huskies: a historical perspective
As Oregon prepares for its first game of the season against Washington, I think it’s necessary that we put the Huskies plight into historical perspective. They enter 2008 seeking (yeah, I said seeking) their 5th consecutive losing season and sixth consecutive non-winning season. Even Stanford is saying, “at least we’re not the Huskies.” How bad [...]
Pre-Season Predictions – Useless, but Everyone's Doing It
You can’t have a blog, run a website, post in forums or basically breathe oxygen without at some point sitting down and doing your pre-season predictions. As such, I might as well do mine. But before I get to that, I’d like to remind you that I did get 1 out of 10 exactly right [...]
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