Sorry for posting another NCAA 09 post. The old one was closed and this cracked me up.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but seriously EA choose J Will to demonstrate the new bobbling animations, still the vid looks pretty cool, but I think they made 08 into a bit of a straw man - the presnap and sideline animations are better than what they showed.

http://www.easports.com/ncaa09/media.jsp?contentID=yoy_features

For those who care about who EA thinks our best players are, here is a screen shot of Oregon's top 7 according to a preliminary roster.

http://www.operationsports.com/mediaview.php?id=417&page=5

EA seams to respect our D and O-line. Unger, Tupo, Boyd, Chung, J-Will all are about 90.

I'm surprised Chung isn't a little higher and Boyd isn't a little lower. I disagree with how high Will's overall is, but am not surprised given his tangibles - I'm very curious how his catch ratings will look.

The second to last guy is Thurmond which seams about right, but I'm not sure who DT#56 is - Gibbs? Or am I forgetting someone obvious

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3354845

For his sake I hope it's not too bad, but the irresponsible Duck fan in me hopes he's out for the opening game. Yes I'm a bad person.

According to ESPN's Pac-10 Primer (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3266832) Oregon has a QB battle between Roper and Kempt. Apparently he wrote this just before the Sun Bowl without doing any research, because he makes no mention of Costa and Thomas. Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I thought Kempt was being converted to Safety.

Oh well, maybe UW will read this and nothing else - and they'll end up preparing for a slow game managing QB instead of Costa or Thomas.

Random comment: When does Dave decide to take down the 2007 schedule and put up the 2008 schedule?

In case you missed it, there is a video on how Stewart is preparing for the draft.
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3252468&categoryId=2564308

So my buddy told me that we control our own destiny - this was my response - I figured I might as well post it.

Look at the teams ranked 3-5 they are big-12 teams heading into a mini tourney with the winner of KU vs Missouri taking on Oak - which even team comes out that will have better computer ranking and just played (in the eyes of the voters) some really big games. Conversely we play three teams that aren't bowl eligible yet one of which loss to UCLA - I think they are good teams that are all capable of keeping it close against any team right now, but I don't think voters think that. Furthermore, the way the votes turn to the points that the BCS uses in calculations is important - the difference between a 1st and 2nd place vote is greater than the difference between a 2nd and 3rd place vote this means that if a team is taking up the lion's share of the 1st place votes the distance between the next two will be relatively small (see LSU's small lead on us last weak) - LSU is taking up 35 of 60. In the coaches poll we have 13 1st place votes but KU and Missouri have combined 11 place votes (there is no doubt in my mind that the big12 champ will get at least those 11 votes at the end of the season and likely will steal more from us) - The Harris poll follows this pattern (we have 22 1st and the big12 has 15). This means we will have a tiny poll lead at best and probably a deficit and we'll also probably be behind in the computers to the Big12 champs schedule. Not Good.

I think for us to go to New Orleans we need to win out and one or more of the follow must happen (ordered in most to least likely (my opinion):

1. LSU stumbles - probably against Georgia in the championship game, but maybe Arkansas will pull a UI and play like it's their national championship game
2. The winner of Big12 stumbles then wins - most likely way of happening if Oak St. beats OU then OU beats the winner of the big12 North - I don't see UK loosing to Texas Tech or Missouri loosing to Kansas St.
3. Aliens abduct the pollsters and force them to recognize that we are one of the top 2 teams in the nation.

http://espnradio.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/index

Go here and click on the herd mentality its all about the Duck game, and the Cal vs UO rivalry - also on ESPNU NCF Insider they talk about how we might be hurt by having our classes starting now. Anyone have insight on if this can hurt us?

My two cents just to fill the 300 character limit: Classes is code for beginning of the semester parties

I just moved and was wihtout internet at home for a fews days so I was communicating with a buddy of mine about football (the Ducks mostly) and a bit about video games.  Two nights ago we were exchanging text messages about wheather or not Stewert has been a dissapointment, especially considering his injury problems. Later that night I got a text message just as I was about to go to sleep - it just said "F@ck you stewert just lost #28 for the season I'm going to bed". Needless to say this freeked me out, and becasue I couldn't get any information on it until the next day at work I did not sleep well. Turns out my bastard "friend" had switched topics to his NCAA football 2008 dynasty.