apples and rotten oranges. Oregon doesn't talk about injuries period... nor do most programs. But clinging to this nonsense about them fudging player weights after I detailed how NFL Combine measurements (which was your suggested reality test) were virtually identical to players measurements at Oregon... flat earth advocates post Columbus point and laugh. You offer absolutely nothing to back this opinion up but a "trust me I'm a football know it all" which has become a running laughathon. Fresh proclamations from your ass to the boards with nothing to back it up but your usual trust me, I read Bleachers... priceless Our D under Aliotti was consistently among the very best in the conference according to many key statistical measures like yards allowed per play and points per possession. Such production made him both one of the longest tenured coaches and highest paid Assistant Coaches. Of course his teams won and won, and then Coach Kelly arrived. How do you know your crybaby hero wasn't just butthurt because Oregon pulled their offer to him? There was plenty of talk about that post USC decommit. How he'd come crawling back to Oregon but they'd said sorry, but no thanks! you lack the sort of character we're looking for. Plenty of chatter on boards about how whether that was wise or not, and then he went with Notre Dame... then UCLA. I'd suggest you ignored that talk because with all those misspent hours you spent sharing your fantasies about him here, you share the butthurt Oh and I read a real nice article on Balducci going into this season where he spoke at length about improving at tying up multiple OLineman... that thats something he and AA & DeForest have to excel at for the schemes to work. Austin Maloata is a Nose Tackle silly. Tui Talia, Jalen Jelks & Henry Mondeaux are all project to play inside with their hands down... whatever sort of convoluted crap point are think you are making is all fail. Also Ricky Heimuli, Wade Keliekipi & Taylor Hart are all on NFL rosters today. None of them have the god given athleticism of EV, but apparently they learned how to play as I've repeatedly said, we're all rooting for him. I'm just being realistic that given the history of Freshman at Oregon and the two studs ahead of him, he's probably a backup this year. You feel he's Jim Brown. If he doesn't start by UCLA I'm predicting that given history you'll be lashing out at the coaches. STOMP
good grief dude!!! I didn't mention Arik. I said Alex Balducci. No research and constantly confused, nice tag team except it didn't take 3 years. His official playing weight his Freshman year was 265 and 286 his Sophomore. Again, huge weight gains for guys going from HS>College is pretty normal. And we have little idea of the "quality" of the weight added by Austin or any player really Since Oregon has a policy of not allowing true Freshman to be interviewed, yes I did miss this interview that you apparently imagined. Regardless, Austin did have a huge weight gain... thats more of a statement of fact then what your tact of absolute denial that it's possible. Was it 40 or 50 pounds Jake Pisarcik put on his Senior year of HS? irony so thick it can't be cut it with a chainsaw. Remind me of the last time you answered my questions? Are we still on red alert if Austin gains 2 pounds? DAT played offense. Cliff (who had about a half a season of starts in his Oregon career... and those were because multiple players ahead of him were injured) played D. Maybe if Cliff hadn't F'd up he'd have held onto the return role, maybe not. DAT is pretty awesome at that role and would have had the Slash role on offense regardless. Btw... passed Cliff in the stands at the Rose Bowl just prior to De'Anthony's 90+ yard run yes master Sorry but this is a chat site and participants get to respond if something catches their eye. Your stuff does for me because it's so completely unhinged. Passion without basis. If you tire from having your rants derailed with facts, stats & general reality, perhaps you'll take my suggestions of researching and proof reading prior to posting... that would be a great start! STOMP
For what it's worth, I see a lot of value in what both STOMP and Quack U have to say but the exchange has crossed over the line where it's gotten personal and ugly.
