Comments on: QB competition alive and well in Oregon spring game http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/28/qb-competition-alive-and-well-in-oregon-spring-game/ CollegeFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Mon, 20 May 2013 03:23:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: webfootking http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/28/qb-competition-alive-and-well-in-oregon-spring-game/#comment-86929 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:50:48 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145468#comment-86929 JerseyDOuche,
There are not many UO fans who are gonna brag about our history of 20 plus years ago. I appreciate your exaggeration (did you just start watching college ball when you enrolled at USC in 2010?) but we also have not been winning for only the past 3 years. The incline of success was not built overnight. This has built up over the past 20 years.

But since you bring up the past 23 years, here is a history lesson. USC and UO have nearly split the series (9-8). Congrats on your 1 game edge in that span. Oregon has posted 3 losing seasons to USC’s 2. Again congrats. And has posted 7 double digit win seasons. USC has posted 9 (albeit 2 were vacated).

Are we better than USC over that span? I don’t think you will find anyone who would argue this point but are we good? For sure. We compete. We put talent on the field. Get over your conceit.

Oh BTW. Darron Thomas made his own decision. The program tried to persuade him otherwise. No one thought he would be drafted. He will find a home though. Not everyone is fit for the NFL.

]]> By: uscatjerseyshore http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/28/qb-competition-alive-and-well-in-oregon-spring-game/#comment-86902 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:22:50 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145468#comment-86902 I agree with papabush and by the same token I hope all the PAC-12 teams improve. SEC’s reputation for invincibility is largely built on the rep of 3 teams, Arkansas, LSU and Alabama with the next there being strong and everyone else also-rans. That could be the case with PAC-12 and moving in that direction requires Oregon to stay strong.

The problem is that many of Oregon’s fans seem to believe they’ve been good for twenty-three years rather than three and they’re starting to buy into their own press. That Darron Thomas declared for the draft this year is an example of this thinking and seeing how the NFL passed on Thomas in the draft should be a wake up call to the Oregon program that they’re not quite as good as they think they are. They run a gimmicky offense built on speed and a team with stong defense will negate that advantage.

]]> By: papabush88 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/28/qb-competition-alive-and-well-in-oregon-spring-game/#comment-86893 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:52:12 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145468#comment-86893 As a USC fan, I’m not wishing for Oregon to go back to being mediocre again, and I don’t think they will anytime soon….BUT you don’t lose James, Thomas, Paulson, Pleasant, and others and improve from last season. Oregon will be good in 2012…make no mistake about it, but I think 2013 is their year. USC will lose Barkley and maybe Woods and some O-linemen. Then, they’ll be back in 2014.

Wish the Ducks luck (except in their visits to the Coliseum)

]]> By: uscatjerseyshore http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/28/qb-competition-alive-and-well-in-oregon-spring-game/#comment-86873 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:42:26 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=145468#comment-86873 Darron Thomas declaring early for the draft worked out well for him and Oregon… NOT. Supposedly Oregon has a great deal riding on this year slate of selectees. Oh well…..

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