Yeah, this B1G stuff will take some getting used to, but we're in the best possible place given the demise of the PAC. I'm looking forward to the new teams we'll play, tho, and I think we match up well against them all. tOSU is loaded again this year; here's hoping being in Autzen brings us the W...

Orygun303 wrote:

Nice take on things post B1G media day.
Yes, Lanning seems to have respect from fellow coaches and the media. The energy and flow with the Oregon 'progrum' right now feels very tangible. Although I didn't like Kirby Smart's sarcastic remarks about the Nike connection.
Which speaks to my other observation, that beneath the Oregon football traction going on right now lay the undercurrents of jealousy, hate and misinformation toward The UofO program.
I look at virtually all of the podcasts on YT pertaining to the B1G and Oregon.
The haters and trolls are already frothing at the mouth at the threat Oregon poses to their teams and their reality construct. In their juvenile way of thinking only the blue blood teams from the SEC and B1G should have any viability.
The comment sections all have these kind of trolls spouting the same talking points and that Nike Is cheating for the Ducks themes.
There's one particular troll infecting these podcasts that reminds me of Luther. And I believe it's actually him from the old Oregon Live. He goes by the name of Feisty Bunny and his m.o. is exactly the way it used to be with his various sock puppet tactics. He just keeps hammering away at Dan Lanning. He also did that with Cristobal from the very beginning. Other posters tell him DL has only had 2 seasons as a young coach and it's premature to jump to conclusions on that. He keeps hitting upon his 3 losses to UW too.
Believe it or not, I commented to him recently, "Luther, is that you?" No response from him. Which he never did on OL either.
Anyways, we here know That he is a "nut job" as Old Retired guy once said.
And even if Oregon wins it all next season, those nut jobs will continue their temper tantrums and psychotic comments.
While we continue to enjoy our teams journey the last 20 years or so.

Hi Orygun303! 

Yeah, you know the SEC best is  getting scared when they start taking shots at the Ducks. I remember when Saban started whining about Chip and how unfair it was that they play fast and all.  

There always seems to be some unhealthy and unexplainable nut cases trolling the Ducks. I guess it's part of the internet, but I certainly can't relate. I imagine Luther will keep it up for all long as he's still ticking. I'm sure the peanut gallery will expect a perfect record from DL this year. 

as the late Ms. Didion once wrote, 'we tell ourselves stories in order to live.' when Dan Lanning turned down the offer to become the head football coach at the University of Alabama--the high-water mark of UO's forty-year climb to national prominence--it savagely broke the narratives by which so many people were living.

SC fanboys and chatboard-sters have been obsessed w UO for more than a decade, ever since De'Anthony Thomas chose to come to Eugene (and busted two long TDs in the Rose Bowl before all the home-slices). their grief has reached a fever-pitch these last two years, with the thumping in Autzen last year and Lanning's recruiting wins. thought they were rid of Oregon when they jumped to the B1G.

Huckleberry Oram at The O and others among the local-yokel media have fed the notion that the University of Oregon is somehow responsible for the eventual demotion of Oregon State to the Mountain West. never paused to ask themselves why no other conf wanted the beavs. fifty years of welfare checks for being the Washington Generals, gone. the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money--UO's money, SC's money, Zona's b-ball money.

we love Uncle Phil and Aunt Penny, but reducing Oregon's success to "Phil Knight" is deeply disrespectful of all the work Rich Brooks, Mike Bellotti, Nick Aliotti, Rob Mullens, (and yes, Mario Cristobal) put in over the years. and of the players, like DAT, Marcus, and Penei, who chose to come to Eugene.


I'm not ready for football yet. still almost two months of summer here in the great Pacific Northwest. real games don't start until almost-October anyway.

GO DUCKS!