I can't believe I'm going to defend the Ducks here. Vomit. History does not in any way dictate how the Ducks are going to finish the season. This is only Kelly's 2nd season as HC. His first season he took the team to the Rose Bowl. This years team is much better, IMO. And he's a great coach. And don't forget, if it wasn't for Dixon's injury a couple years back, the Ducks could have easily played for a National Championship. That "collapse" had to do with a major injury to the focal point of their offense. Not a mental collapse or the team believing their own hype. Will it be difficult for the Ducks to run the table? Hell yes. The PAC 10 is rough. But I try to figure out who will beat them, and I draw a blank. The Ducks will have to beat themselves or sustain another major injury to not run the table. Should be interesting. I'm afraid that the closer they get to running the table, the more I will have to root for them. The PAC 10 needs it.
As a longtime Duck, Blazer.... hell, ANY Oregon sports team fan, I heartly embrace my snakebitten attitude and will hold back from REALLY REALLY believing a team from this state in a major league sport (sorry, college baseball or women's college soccer) can put aside the propensity to choke or have karma get in the way of the promised land. The last time I did that was after Rasheed Wallace's screaming dunk in Shaq's face at about 1 minute into the 4th quarter of the 2000 WCF Game 7, and we all know how that turned out.
No offense to you, I know you were just referencing the term "cupcake" in a high quality program like BSU that has proved it is a top-25 school year after year. But dovetailing on this whole "Boise State beat Oregon in the last two years" thing, is that not the most assinine argument ever? I'm surprised BSU fan can't at least come up with some type of legitimate response to being a good program other than comparing individual results from completely different rosters in the past. I mean someone implying that BSU having beat Oregon in the past two years means anything to this year is like someone saying Utah has beaten Alabama every time they played in the last two years and thus should be considered better than Alabama. How stupid does it sound to compare completely different rosters and one past result that could have been a product of any multitude of factors that led to the final score. OK. I'm done. I just can't stand people that think it's time to move up from the kids table to the big people's table, then spout off crap about prior years teams.
Actually, what happened last season may well have been a case of the team believing their own hype. The Duck team that beat USC would have won the Rose Bowl.
They lost to Stanford after the SC game, right? You may be right. I just don't see this particular team doing that. I half hope I'm very, very wrong. I do know the Ducks will score 120 pts on my Huskies, and they'll score 100 pts on SC.
Injured quarterbacks will turn any teams season around. You act like going undefeated in a season is a piece of cake. lol You want to make a little wager that Oregon covers the 35 point spread?
