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Dan Euhus's avatar

Donnie, there is absolutely free speech. However, there is no such thing as consequenceless speech. Our speech is free, but it still has consequences. You said something foolish and received the consequences through people trolling back at you for your trolling. Welcome to civil discourse. When you are less than civil, you are likely to find others will be also. AND, your comments about the "BIG" boys shows a significant lack of perspective on the current state of college athletics where the ACC is falling apart and the BIG12 has a lot of teams but little football strength compared to the BIG 10 and SEC. Lastly, until the Ducks have 300k people show up to tailgate and only 100,000 actually going into the game, they will still not be the equivalent of an SEC school. . .

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Donnie Roberts's avatar

Opinions are like ----; your comments show you have no clue about BIG BOY Football. The old pac-12 was going nowhere in football, and never would have been able to compete on the field, with the SEC, for at least five years. Now, the Oregon Ducks have a real shot at making the final four , and also winning the Big 10. There is a reason why OSU and WSU were left behind. It is called big money; the rich get richer and the smaller schools with small stadiums, and no real big fan base, are left in the dust. So sick of all you cry babies bashing Phil Knight. He and his wife have given money to all pac-12 schools, and not just for athletics. The total value of ESPN in billions of dollars is a huge number. Take the same total value of all pro teams in all sports, combined, and it is much lower than tv giant ESPN. Fact check me. I know football well, and I wager REAL MONEY on the NFL at Spirit Mountain and Chinook Winds casinos here in Oregon. I study the game. I do not usually bet the point spreads; I bet the odds. Am sure you do not understand real sports wagering. My maiden year in the NFL, 1984, I had my best year ever. I took the SF 49ers and Joe Montana every week for the first 13 weeks. At 2,200 dollars per game, I was up $26,000, and thought I could walk on water. I cleared $45,000 that year, winning $10,000 on the niners in the super bowl. I paid taxes on the winnings bets, and was able to write off expenses of going to Nevada weekly. I am picking the KC chiefs to go and win the super bowl again, just like three of the last four years.

The Acc is not falling apart at all; Clemson and others like Miami and Florida State are back. Your whole comment to my column gives you away as a wanna be football fan, who knows little about the SEC and the Big 10. Sure Autzen only holds, 60,000 or so. The Beavers play in a much smaller stadium; same for the WSU cougars. TV money rules all sports, and without it sports as we know them, would have much less of an impact. UCLA, USC, Washington, and Oregon were very wise to seize the opportunity to increase their revenue by leaving the Titanic2, also known as the PAC2. You are not wise to bash my take on the current state of college football . The live gate (your absurd comparison holds no real relevance ) has little to do with total athletic department money. TV money is where all the BIG BOY SCHOOLS like Alabama and Georgia fund most all their sports, both men and women. It also pays for professors, and people who work for the universities. Big money rules the world, and it also rules college athletics. Now, the players, through the NIL, are finally able to make money. You show a total lack of perspective Dan Euhus, by bashing my opinions. ESPN rules all sports on tv. If you want to win some of my money, take dony trump in the upcoming Presidential election. I am taking Ms. Harris, and I am a very liberal Christian democrat. I have never voted for a republican for President, and never will. All you trumpateers can eat ----- with a rusty spoon. Dump Trump 2024. If you do not like what I write, keep your opinion to yourself please. Money talks and ----walks. The all-new jv league of the PAC2 is going nowhere fast. I have supported my Oregon Ducks for just 61 years. I sat in the rain and watched them go 2-9 under Rich Brooks many years. I remember all the losses, better than I remember the huge wins. Mike Belotti won 70% of his games at Oregon. He brought in Chip Kelly. Now, we have a real coach in Dan Lanning, whose buyout of only $20 million, is one reason he will not leave Oregon anytime soon. He and his family love Eugene. He coached the defense at Georgia when they won a national championship. My dream of seeing my Ducks compete with anyone, anywhere, in football are here! The Ducks have been on college gameday as many times as Georgia, or Alabama. We will expand Autzen soon. Lanning could have gone to Alabama when Nick Sabin retired. So glad he chose to stay in Eugene. The best coaches in college are now at around 7 million per year, same as Lanning. People like Lincoln Riley (USC) Dabo Sweeney (Clemson) Chip Kelly (Ohio State) and many others, now make around 7 million anually. The journey of 1000 miles starts with one tiny step. All the schools that left the Pac-12 were smart to start somewhere, rather than go backwards like the PAC 2. To think I almost became a Beaver in 1963 still makes me shudder. I chose the Ducks, and have never looked back. My dad, at my first college football game, in Portland, Or. told me it best to pick either the Beavers or the Ducks. I am a proud native Oregonian, born in Portland, and I love my state and my country. The Oregon Ducks are a nationwide brand now, thanks to large donors and Nike. All the little babies at WSU and the Benton county baby beavers are crying so loud, I can still hear them here in Portland. Now that the college football playoffs has expanded to 12 teams, with some games played at the actual school, college football will be better than ever. You can lose one game, maybe two, and still become national champions. The BIG 10 and the SEC, may have more than one or two teams in the final 12. The top rated teams now can earn a first round bye, and play at home in their next game. College football is on the rise, both in fan support, and total revenue. GO DUCKS

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Dan Euhus's avatar

See, you just can't help yourself but be a troll. Besides being an OSU alumni, I am also an alumni of a prestigious ACC school and I have lived in the land of the Big 12 and SEC for over 20 years. I probably have been tomore "BIG BOY" college football games in the last twenty years than you have even if you attended every Duck home game and traveled for every Bowl game (which I doubt). So, why don't you TRY to quit being a jerk and a troll and quit trying to insult people all the time. And with that. Good luck to you. Given all your comments about football (and somehow about Trump which seems completely irrelevant since no one else brought it up) I might suggest a good therapist also. But, I suspect your goal is to be impolite to people. So, I suspect this is just who you are as a person. . .

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Donnie Roberts's avatar

Your opinion are just like your ------ You got one and so do I. I have been in many large stadiums like the rose bowl with 100,000 people. I have been to two (2) super bowls. I have seen the Blazers, in person, lose to the Detroit Pistons, in 1990 and in 1992 to Michael Jordan. I have seen an all-star baseball game at Candlestick Park in 1984. I saw Bo Jackson, at the old kingdome in about 1990, throw from deep center field a bullet to home plate that won the game, with the runner called out, for the Kansas City Royals. I am a sports fanatic, and have written for three different newspapers, and got paid. My father was managing editor for the Hillsboro (Or) Argus for 30 years, and this is one paper I wrote for. I got my love of sports from him. You need to look in the mirror. Get a therapist. Do not be like a reader on here, a Beaver of course, who accused me of taking a prescription drug I have never heard of. I can get you a good counselor, but you might not be eligible. Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself. The beaver dam is already leaking. Those sheep farmers of Benton County are just plain inferior in everything educational except for engineering. The titanic2 is leaving Seattle soon and traveling south. It will stop in Corvallis in summer of 2026. This is when the Pac2 officially deports the beavs and wsu from football. Quit being so impolite, I am sure is because you are a sore beaver loser. Money talks and you beavers should quit crying and extend Wayne Tinkle's contract. My bashing started when I got sick of beavers doing same to me about five years ago. I bring up trump because he is a sore loser, just like the beavers. Who I am a person has nothing to do with your sick comments; you will never know me, and I thank God each morning when I wake up. BEFORE YOU ACCUSE ME TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF YOU MORON. oooossssuuuuu P YOU. Even your once good baseball program has fallen by the roadside. Gill Coliseum will be shut down as a fire hazard. Ralph Miller will be back soon. The Ducks have the best football facilities in the united states, inclufding the NFL. The new 200 million dollar Hayward field is now one of the best facilities in the whole world. Ever heard of the Law School at the U of O? The library, the new two schools on Franklin Blvd, the Casey Eye Institute, the new graduate degree school at Stanford, are all because of Phil and Penny Knight. He has saved the once proud baseball coach at OSU, Pat Casey, from going to Notre Dame, after having won two national championships. Read Shoe Dog, written in the first person by Phil Knight. It has been on the New York Times best selling list for over 10 years. It tells of how Nike was formed. The waffle iron and liquid rubber are not myths, they are how the shoes were first built. Who are you a person besides a crying beaver mr. Dan??? Keep your childish views to yourself please, people like you are why I write what I write. Beavers football boo hoo, same for the mens basketball and Mr. Tinkle. Look up what a red headed step child is. If you cannot say something nice, go look for a shrink in Albany. Poor little dam beavers, losers and growing old fast with sobbing............................. "We like the boys in green, because we know they are mean, we like the Ducks!" Maybe your football team can move up and join the Big Sky with Portland State. Probably they could hold their own against Weber State...................... LETS GO DUCKS See you in Reser for the civil war, we owe you one, and revenge is sweet. The Montlake Monsters come to Autzen in November. We owe them three, and Dan Lanning has not beaten them yet. I love sweet revenge, and this will be a huge year for the football Ducks! See ya later beavs; build a track around reser and hold the olympic trials in track before 2090.

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Dan Euhus's avatar

I am sorry for your Trump dillusions. I personally don't like the guy, but I'm also even keeled enough to not feel like I need to bring him up as an insult in arguments. It is sort of like having to "win" an argument by calling the other person a Nazi or Hitler.

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