Pac 12... 11... 10... 9... 8... 7...6...5...4... POOF!

Lebanon?

 

Country Club dues.......for a life ring

 

Capitalism ftw.

 

Public universities should not be operating off capitalism.

 

A problem but not thee problem. The issue is the requirement to have a degree for so many jobs. Taxpayers should not be splitting the bill for everyone to go to college when the majority of jobs don't really need one. And the majority of students don't belong there in the first place after fucking off in high school for 4 years. Cut out one year of HS and add a 2-year vocational school where people actually learn a skill

 

The main issue is that my generation and beyond has been brainwashed that you can only be successful if you go to college. Not once during k-12 do I remember them ever saying, "hey, some of you should really consider the trades." People can make a TON of money right now as a plumber, electrician, HVAC tech, etc. There's so much opportunity in the trades. I know tons of people who make six figures and are in high demand.... meanwhile we have a ton of people who graduated with a degree in communications, sociology or some other liberal arts degree, a ton of debt, and now they're making 40-50k.

 

13 miles east

 

Unfortunately we've cut funding to public universities and research because of "capitalism".

And now those universities are used as another tool to extract opportunity from the middle class and the poor.

 

Tired of nonstop realignment? UCLA’s Chip Kelly may have the common-sense solution

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-08-04/chip-kelly-college-football-realignment

Chip Kelly has a solution for all the crazy cross-country travel, not to mention the century’s worth of rivalries and tradition torn asunder by ceaseless realignment in college football.

Are you ready for a dose of common sense?

One conference. Every team. Divisions are aligned by geography.

"Do it like the NFL, where there’s NFC West, NFC North, NFC South where it’s the same thing and then we all get together,” Kelly, who coached for four seasons in the NFL before coming to UCLA, said Friday morning. “But I think there should be one conference in all of college football and just break it up like they do in the professional ranks. … That makes the most sense. There’s your travel question, there’s all those other questions.”

Traditionalists can only daydream about such simplicity, especially after Oregon and Washington were cleared to join UCLA and USC in the Big Ten Conference in 2024.

The departure of the Ducks and Huskies could spell the end of the Pac-12 since further defections are almost assured. Meanwhile, Florida State officials have publicly stated they’re looking to bolt the Atlantic Coast Conference in hopes of a more lucrative future, even reportedly engaging private equity firms as potential investment partners.

 

Yeah I don't think this whole "realignment" issue is over yet by a long shot. Next ten years everything will be much different.

 

Nice. Love that area. Very picturesque (photography being a hobby)

 

Grew up in Shedd.

 

Saw another article this morning about the ACC throwing another lifeline out to the remaining PAC teams. Doubt anything happens.

 

"Now, the Ducks will be playing against the best teams in the nation on NBC, CBS, and FOX once they officially make the move next year. It comes as no surprise that the school is trying hard to push that fact with recruits, and making it be known that they will be in one of the most elite conferences in the nation a year from now."
https://duckswire.usatoday.com/list...ing-push-with-help-of-conference-realignment/

 

I assumed by reading your posts you grew up on some sort of farm, but in a damn SHED! So interesting, dirt floors like Sling Blade?

 

I would be very happy if they mix in some Big West, WAC, Big Mountain schools and just run it back. Beavs would crush those schools for a few years and it would be great to see. Make the best out of this situation.

 

about an equal distance between the busy Highway 99 burgs of Tangent & Halsey. Was there even a stop light in Shedd?

my dad was a hot-head diesel mechanic who would get pissed off, say fuck it, and quit his job all the time. Then we'd move. But it was from small town to small town

IIRC, it was Sweet Home-->Lebanon-->Valsetz (logging town that doesn't doesn't exist anymore)-->Blackrock (logging camp that doesn't doesn't exist anymore)-->Falls City (1st grade)-->Sweet Home (2nd-5th grades)-->Monmouth (6th grade)-->Amboy, Washington (7th & 8th grades)-->Sweet Home, but actually outside Foster (high School)

my folks had bought 3 acres up on a hill overlooking the Santiam River ($500/acre in about 1960). They built a house there and that's from whence I commuted to high school and had my heart broke by Sandy Taylor. I think it was my sophomore year when the Army Corps of Engineers began filling Foster Reservoir so we weren't looking down on a river valley anymore but a lake

it was at a table overlooking that lake that I compared the percentages of 34% of OSU being female to 59% of UofO. Didn't have to be good at math to notice that kind of difference and become a Duck

yeah, some good photographic options around there, especially in the river canyons

 

That’s pretty obvious though. Great selling point! Gonna be very favorable to continue getting these 5Stars that they were ALREADY getting in hoops and football.

 

Honest question, wasn’t that tough man? Continuing to start over?