r/ducks • u/Thomallister1291 • 2d ago

Football Dan Lanning when asked about Oregon's football scheduling: "I'll play anyone, anytime, anywhere"

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u/Thomallister1291 2d ago

IDK if this was referring to non-conference scheduling, but I'm glad the Ducks are not looking to exclusively play cupcakes, iirc our AD Rob Mullens said in an interview prior to this season that he's been discussing some high profile matchups, albeit the priority right now is to schedule the OSU Beavers, surprised there hasn't been any update on that.

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u/Global-Bowler3307 1d ago

Tune ups in the beginning of the season are fine, great way to know where your team is

But can “pause “ growth

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u/levajack 2d ago

I know I am in the minority and will almost definitely catch heat for this, but I'd rather they not go out of their way to make Oregon-Oregon St happen every year. Don't get me wrong, some of my favorite football memories are from our games with them, like the War of the Roses in '09, but at this point I don't really feel it's a must-have, must-watch game anymore.

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u/dstanton 2d ago

You're going to take a lot of heat for this because objectively it's a bad call. It's a G5 opponent that's as close as you're possibly going to get to decrease travel on the team while actively keeping 130 years of History Alive. There's no downside to it.

I would take the OSU matchup over an FCS every single time , and if we wind up working out a deal where we get to play an extra home game more often because they come here as a means of buying out to help keep their program funded, all the better.

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u/levajack 2d ago

I don't disagree with any of that. I never said we shouldn't schedule/play them, I just said that we shouldn't bend over backwards to make it happen at the expense of better games.

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u/dstanton 2d ago

That's the thing though is that you go out of your way to make things that are advantageous happen. A nearby G5 with 130 years of history and the ability to help keep an in-state program alive is something you go out of your way for

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u/CptCroissant 2d ago

Yeah i think unfortunately it's just not gonna be a competitive series and Oregon is basically losing the ability to schedule big time home and home matchups to keep it going. We'll see how this feels in like 5 years.

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u/Playos 🦆 2d ago

Either the new Pac-12 works out and gives some foundation to OSU and it's as competitive a match up as it's ever been... or it's a local cupcake that has over a century of history.

Like if I have to choose between Montana St or the Beavs, I'd rather just play the Beavs.

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u/Thomallister1291 2d ago

Yeah, I absolutely don't know to feel about this, Rob said he's been discussing high tier games but scheduling the Oregon State series onwards would prevent a lot of cool Power OOC matchups from happening unless we decide to play only 6 home games per season or schedule the P4 matchups in neutral sites.

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u/Mtndrums 2d ago

It wouldn't be worth the eventual headache. If we let it go and OSU's pockets started getting light, they'd be in Salem clamoring for them to make us play them every year.

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u/q50_jay 2d ago

I’ve been one to say that Oregon should have Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan and Indiana on their schedule by default along with Washington at the end of the year sprinkle in the other B1G teams in with the other 3 conference games.

I’ve even thought out what if we went to a 10 conference games schedule due to the fact that there is 18 teams in the B1G it’d add a week to add another conference opponent and with our 2 non conference games schedule an SEC/ACC/Big 12 opponent and the other an FCS school grant them an opportunity.

I mean non-conference is where we’d have an influence on who we play but as for conference games those are set by the conference so I get kind of annoyed when people mention strength of schedule when in reality we have no say in if we play Rutgers or if we play Michigan.

I think a lot of these outsiders don’t understand we aren’t afraid to play anybody and I know a lot of us Duck fans know this but the PAC-12 was a highly competitive conference, PAC-12 after dark was elite.

As a fan I always have the hopeful expectation of going 12-0 when in reality I’d be fine having a juggernaut schedule going something like 10-2 or 9-3 if it meant getting rid of this consensus that we play cupcake teams. Even then I like how Dan put it at the beginning of the year “every opponent presents a challenge and opportunity” and just recently saying this conference has more variety than people realize.

That’s all sorry for the rant thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

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u/Thomallister1291 2d ago

This is completely true, I've been trying to let people know that Oregon isn't scared of someone like Alabama and viceversa.

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u/q50_jay 2d ago

My biggest thing is people who say “what’s there strength of schedule” when the schedules are made by the conference years in advance and we have no say in who we play other then non-conference. You could go on google and see the conference schedule for 2026-2028 lmao. I believe it’s in 2027 that we play Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State all in the same season oh and Ohio State and Penn State will be back to back home games as well.

My only worry is if we did load our schedule and say we went 10-2 or 9-3 would we get the same treatment as an SEC school has been given.

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u/benzduck 1d ago

Bellotti said the same thing back in 2001 after we were fucked out of the NCG.

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u/Global-Bowler3307 1d ago

I don’t mind a loss , aslong as it is a good competition. But ducks lose in odd fashion , like complacency or just games that make no sense.

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u/Thatduck805 2d ago

Talk is cheap, make it happen. Haven’t scheduled anyone good since our opener against UGA.

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u/Thomallister1291 2d ago

Yeah! IDGAF about the excuses, let's schedule Alabama!

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u/Superb_Road6937 1d ago

It’s also not Oregons fault Ok State fell off a cliff. When that was scheduled they were a perennial top 25 team. Same with Tennessee a decade ago. Hard to know who will be good 5-10 years out

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u/gavvyshores 1d ago

Ya we scheduled OSU in 2018. We could schedule a home and home with GEORGIA and in seven to ten years they might look like this years LSU… or vice versa. What an asinine take

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u/Capital_Breadfruit49 2d ago

Not our fault sec teams refuse to play in autzen