MrBug708 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 1 hour ago, glduck said: It offends me that they’re calling this the Rose Bowl. Rose Bowl is still getting paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 About to add a new game the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 My two cents on the Fiesta Bowl: Shough hasn’t been good lately. Iowa St has a top 10 run D so he’ll need to be a lot better if we want to win. That’s it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 28-17 Iowa St, half. Cyclones are methodical as fuck and we couldn’t stop it. Dye fumbled inside our 20 and special teams didn’t know a pooch kick was a live ball apparently, setting ISU up with primo field possession for two scores. Shough was 3/3 and looked fine on the opening drive, Dye fumbled away our second, Brown came in for the 2nd quarter and led a 98 yard touchdown drive, and then a field goal drive right before half. Shough didn’t actually do anything to lose the job today, but I think he just lost the job? Unless Cristobal is going to pull a Bellotti and alternate QBs by quarter like a madman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 Gonna lose our DC to Boise and our special teams coordinator when we don’t let him on the plane back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mano Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 The Ducks are fortunate to only be down 14. Their special teams have been turrrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoastFan Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Should the Fiesta Bowl be close? When you look at the two teams' recruiting, it make you wonder about their coaching. Composite recruiting rank below: 2015: ISU 64th, OU 16th 2016: ISU 55th, OU 27th 2017: ISU 52nd, OU 19th 2018: ISU 55th, OU 13th 2019: ISU 46th, OU 7th 2020: ISU 46th, OU 11th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 Well, Matt Campbell is an excellent coach, so it’s fair to bring coaching into it. He’s worked those recruiting classes into a top 10 team, so kudos to him. Oregon is the youngest team in FBS. They won the conference in a rebuilding year. Some mistakes have been made along the way, young teams do dumb things sometimes 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scscsc89 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 50 minutes ago, glduck said: Gonna lose our DC to Boise and our special teams coordinator when we don’t let him on the plane back home. It's been a while since we had a good Tarmacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 Kudos to ISU, they played like that was the biggest game in their (modern, at least) history. Good for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoastFan Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Time of possession (which usually is misleading, but not today) ISU 42:28, Oregon 17:12. Turnovers, ISU 0, Oregon 4. Two inter-conference games: Big XII 89, Pac-12 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBug708 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 4 hours ago, EastCoastFan said: Should the Fiesta Bowl be close? When you look at the two teams' recruiting, it make you wonder about their coaching. Composite recruiting rank below: 2015: ISU 64th, OU 16th 2016: ISU 55th, OU 27th 2017: ISU 52nd, OU 19th 2018: ISU 55th, OU 13th 2019: ISU 46th, OU 7th 2020: ISU 46th, OU 11th Mora-esque, just in a shittier PAC-12 *UO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 y’all play too much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckfandan Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 How embarrassing for all of us that Oregon won the conference. Ouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoastFan Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 1 hour ago, duckfandan said: How embarrassing for all of us that Oregon won the conference. Ouch. We're embarrassed, but Oregon only deserves 1/12th of that embarrassment. Perhaps more embarrassing is that eleven Pac-12 teams couldn't outdo a team that is Iowa State's pool boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 It’s a covid year, it really doesn’t matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoastFan Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 6 minutes ago, glduck said: It’s a covid year, it really doesn’t matter. The national perception matters. It does. We can fool ourselves, but the trajectory of a failing Pac-12 is reinforced by this year's sad performance, capped off by the Fiesta Bowl. It will have a serious impact on upcoming media contract negotiations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 National perception does matter, but nothing that happened this year was going to move the needle one way or the other. Had USC beaten us in the CG, they would have been undefeated... and outside the top 10, behind several 2-loss teams. That’s national perception coded into voters before our season even started. A win over Iowa State wasn’t going to change anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoastFan Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 4 minutes ago, glduck said: . A win over Iowa State wasn’t going to change anything. Agree. A win over Iowa State doesn't change anything. But, unfortunately, a loss does, particularly an ugly loss. All eyes were on that game nationally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 But what changed? We were the weakest P5 conference pre-covid, we’ll be the weakest P5 conference post-covid. It was generally believed a 1-loss Oregon would have made the CFP last year. An undefeated Pac-12 team will get into the CFP in 2021, and a 1-loss team will absolutely be in contention. Same as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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