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Something, ANYTHING positive that these young men can grasp onto is needed right about now. To review:

- Regular season Utah stomping last year. Now, true or not, it's trickling out that the team knew during game week that Mario's reps were in talks with Miami.

- The (formerly known as the CW) win is a rivalry game, Mario's last at Autzen, Senior Day, etc. so throw that win out the window

- P12 'Ship - Team knows (allegedly) Mario is now leaving - the coach who recruited you and HAS A DOMINEERING PERSONALITY that preaches sticking together, brotherhood, resiliency, mental toughness & has one of his core values as loyalty bolts to go home even though the goal of a P12 championship and revenge is still right in front of you.

- Alamo Bowl - another stomping, coaches aren't that invested and are all leaving why should the players be? Unless it's a CFPB game, bowls are glorified exhibitions and it probably doesn't take a lot for a player to check out of at the first hint of adversity.

- Spencer Webb passing: one of the team connectors, a leader and great kid who is adored by everyone dies in a tragic accident just before the season starts.

- Geez's Chosen Chik'n Kickoff Classic - you are learning a new system, an entirely new coaching staff with no head coaching experience for a game you've circled, worked extremely hard for and looked forward to for 9 months...and it starts going absolutely sideways 1/2 way through the 1st Quarter, steamrolling into an embarrassing a$$-whooping with the entire college football world watching.

Sports are a lot like life. They both can be fickle. Sometime they are both about momentum. Think about rough patches of your own life. Sometimes things can just steamroll and slide backwards out of nowhere in a hurry. It seems like bad news and negative things are coming at you and coming at you from every angle no matter what you do. Nothing is going right no matter how bad you work to fix it. Katt Willams made a great joke in 2008 about "(In life you're) trying $h!t and tryin' $h!t, won't work. Tryin' s***, trying $h!t, won't work. Switch it up...(won't work)"

In that case sometimes, just one little tiny victory is enough to stop the slide and get you on the right track.

I don't know what it is going to be or where it is going to come from, but this team needs something positive to happen that they can internalize.

This is also usually where team leadership needs to emerge. Whether it's quietly lead by example or lead by being vocal it needs to happen.

bdkipe wrote:Something, ANYTHING positive that these young men can grasp onto is needed right about now. To review:

- Regular season Utah stomping last year. Now, true or not, it's trickling out that the team knew during game week that Mario's reps were in talks with Miami.

- The (formerly known as the CW) win is a rivalry game, Mario's last at Autzen, Senior Day, etc. so throw that win out the window

- P12 'Ship - Team knows (allegedly) Mario is now leaving - the coach who recruited you and HAS A DOMINEERING PERSONALITY that preaches sticking together, brotherhood, resiliency, mental toughness & has one of his core values as loyalty bolts to go home even though the goal of a P12 championship and revenge is still right in front of you.

- Alamo Bowl - another stomping, coaches aren't that invested and are all leaving why should the players be? Unless it's a CFPB game, bowls are glorified exhibitions and it probably doesn't take a lot for a player to check out of at the first hint of adversity.

- Spencer Webb passing: one of the team connectors, a leader and great kid who is adored by everyone dies in a tragic accident just before the season starts.

- Geez's Chosen Chik'n Kickoff Classic - you are learning a new system, an entirely new coaching staff with no head coaching experience for a game you've circled, worked extremely hard for and looked forward to for 9 months...and it starts going absolutely sideways 1/2 way through the 1st Quarter, steamrolling into an embarrassing a$$-whooping with the entire college football world watching.

Sports are a lot like life. They both can be fickle. Sometime they are both about momentum. Think about rough patches of your own life. Sometimes things can just steamroll and slide backwards out of nowhere in a hurry. It seems like bad news and negative things are coming at you and coming at you from every angle no matter what you do. Nothing is going right no matter how bad you work to fix it. Katt Willams made a great joke in 2008 about "(In life you're) trying $h!t and tryin' $h!t, won't work. Tryin' s***, trying $h!t, won't work. Switch it up...(won't work)"

In that case sometimes, just one little tiny victory is enough to stop the slide and get you on the right track.

I don't know what it is going to be or where it is going to come from, but this team needs something positive to happen that they can internalize.

This is also usually where team leadership needs to emerge. Whether it's quietly lead by example or lead by being vocal it needs to happen.

The biggest problem is EWU and BYU aren't teams that are known for giving away confidence to teams. Even if Oregon would have somehow beat Georgia that BYU game would have been a problem. Also, time Oregon played EWU Oregon had their starting qb and still only won by a touchdown. Although Cooper Kupp absolutely destroyed Oregon but as a Rams fan, I did remember that game when they drafted him, so it wasn't all bad.

Good post, I can say in life I hit a really rough spot back in 2015, won’t go into details, and my wife also had major tragedies in her life. However we pushed through, and these players and coaching staff will have to do the same. Everything you said is valid, feels like they need a break, but sometimes you need to make your own break. We’re gonna find out what this team is made of the next two Saturdays, and I have confidence this team won’t fold under adversity but we’ll see a renewed fight and spirit from this team the next two weeks.

bdkipe wrote:Something, ANYTHING positive that these young men can grasp onto is needed right about now. To review:

- Regular season Utah stomping last year. Now, true or not, it's trickling out that the team knew during game week that Mario's reps were in talks with Miami.

- The (formerly known as the CW) win is a rivalry game, Mario's last at Autzen, Senior Day, etc. so throw that win out the window

- P12 'Ship - Team knows (allegedly) Mario is now leaving - the coach who recruited you and HAS A DOMINEERING PERSONALITY that preaches sticking together, brotherhood, resiliency, mental toughness & has one of his core values as loyalty bolts to go home even though the goal of a P12 championship and revenge is still right in front of you.

- Alamo Bowl - another stomping, coaches aren't that invested and are all leaving why should the players be? Unless it's a CFPB game, bowls are glorified exhibitions and it probably doesn't take a lot for a player to check out of at the first hint of adversity.

- Spencer Webb passing: one of the team connectors, a leader and great kid who is adored by everyone dies in a tragic accident just before the season starts.

- Geez's Chosen Chik'n Kickoff Classic - you are learning a new system, an entirely new coaching staff with no head coaching experience for a game you've circled, worked extremely hard for and looked forward to for 9 months...and it starts going absolutely sideways 1/2 way through the 1st Quarter, steamrolling into an embarrassing a$$-whooping with the entire college football world watching.

Sports are a lot like life. They both can be fickle. Sometime they are both about momentum. Think about rough patches of your own life. Sometimes things can just steamroll and slide backwards out of nowhere in a hurry. It seems like bad news and negative things are coming at you and coming at you from every angle no matter what you do. Nothing is going right no matter how bad you work to fix it. Katt Willams made a great joke in 2008 about "(In life you're) trying $h!t and tryin' $h!t, won't work. Tryin' s***, trying $h!t, won't work. Switch it up...(won't work)"

In that case sometimes, just one little tiny victory is enough to stop the slide and get you on the right track.

I don't know what it is going to be or where it is going to come from, but this team needs something positive to happen that they can internalize.

This is also usually where team leadership needs to emerge. Whether it's quietly lead by example or lead by being vocal it needs to happen.

Thank you for this, these young men have worked extremely hard to get to where they are. Hopefully they take it as a way to focus on getting to that level instead of seeing it as a rejection of their ability.

When does basketball season start?

73duck wrote:When does basketball season start?

Sabrina's season just ended. She had her first playoff win and I'm more excited about the Liberty's future than anything any of the Duck teams are doing right now. Lanning has let me down one game so far although it is his only game. Graves actually has more to prove right now because he is struggling motivating the team like Sabrina used to. Altman is one of the greatest coaches ever, but he always seems to have a misfit cast of characters that he makes into a sweet 16 team. As much as I like Altman, I don't really get too excited about his teams until March Madness when he has them at their best.