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The Offseason: All Weather Fans - Oregon Ducks Football
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Trent Henderson joins the boys to talk the the history of Oregon football, East Coast vs West Coast-style football, and how he thinks Oregon will perform in the Big 10 this year.
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Introduction & Special Episode Announcement
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�� What is up? Welcome to the next car podcast. This is your offseason podcast for the week. We have a special episode for you today. We have an interview in our interview series that we are bringing back with. It's been a little bit. We've kind of had some busy couple of weeks, but we are back with our all weather fans interview. Trent Henderson is on to talk about Oregon football, and so that is coming up right now. I will say a couple of plugs before we get to that.
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We did an episode last week, our mega draft. I think it's one of my favorite episodes we've done of all time. So please go listen if you haven't. If you missed that one, we had our friends Josh and Kyle on to draft our favorite sports moments of all time. And it was an awesome episode. So go listen to it on Apple, Spotify. It's also on YouTube. So go there if you want to watch the video. It's a really fun to watch because all of us are on there messing around talking about our favorite sports moments. So it's an awesome video. ah And be with us on all socials. we We're pretty active on there. Our TikTok is really getting ramped up. We have a lot of content going there with the fat too fast series. I'm still training to my half marathon. So if you want some updates on that, i'm I'm making videos every Saturday and putting them there as well as some content we're pulling from our from our podcast. so
00:01:33
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ah We are trying to ramp up our social media game. So be with us there, engage with us. We love to hear from you if you are out there listening. And with that, we are going to jump straight into our our interview today, which is awesome.
Interview with Trent Henderson
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I said my good friend Trent is a big Oregon fan. He has a lot of insight. too He has been a fan for a long time, went to a lot of games. It's really interesting listening to him talk about some stuff on the West Coast and how it may be different than life in the South and SEC. He still follows Oregon football. And he has a lot of interesting things to say about some of the some of the differences between the two. So listen to this interview. It's awesome. And we hope you have a great week.
00:02:17
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All right, we are here with a new edition of our segment for the offseason called all weather fans. We are talking to fans of teams who have been fans for a long time and our diehards. And we're trying to get we're trying to get a little bit of everything. ah So we've talked to a Tennessee football fan. We've talked to a Atlanta Braves fan. Shout out to Josh. And today we have one of my good friends and he's here to talk about a team that we don't think about a lot here in this part of the nation. ah the Oregon Ducks football team. And so here I have Trent with me. What up? Yeah.
00:02:53
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I know this guy for like 43 seconds and I already have a really good feeling about this interview. Just have a great feeling about it. Wow. The honor, man. Don't mean to hype it up too much, but it's already been hyped. The bar's been set high. That's right.
Trent's Dual Fandom: Oregon and Tennessee
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Trent is here with me yeah at my house and we're recording together. um Trent, why don't you let let's just why don't you introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about ah your background, where you come from, and maybe a little bit about who you are. Yeah. So, um, thanks for the intro. Yeah. Like you said, my name's Trent. Uh, I grew up in Oregon, thus kind of the, um, title and why I'm an Oregon ducks fan. I didn't just come to it because, uh, but I grew up, uh, in the mid Willamette Valley, uh, Oregon, the, uh, the university of Oregon is like 45 minutes away from where I lived. Um, dad was a, uh,
00:03:50
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youth pastor for a really long time, um and my mom was a hairstylist. ah We ended up moving out of Tennessee when I was in high school to middle Tennessee, Spring Hill, Nashville area, ah because my dad picked up a a youth pastoral job out at a church out there. So that brought me out to Tennessee, where I then two years later began my journey at the University of Tennessee. So I've got a bit of a duality to my um a bit of a duality to my my fandom, yeah if you will. So ah yeah, that's kind of how I got over to Tennessee from Oregon. um But I'm also still at the University of Tennessee just by having graduated in 2022. I do my ah graduate program in aerospace engineering at UT. So
00:04:41
Speaker
I often get asked, didn't that ah quarterback play, or that played for Tennessee, like get an aerospace engineering degree? And that's like the only question I ever get for most people about aerospace. you know Shout out Josh Jobs, but. So if you had to say percentages of Oregon fan, you're 100% a football fan, what would be, and he Zach's gonna ask the questions, but this just popped in my head. What would be UT? Percentage and what would be Oregon because obviously you grew up there spend a majority of your life But you have to be somewhat of a percentage of UT right like fan there. So no, yeah, it's a
00:05:20
Speaker
I find myself, like it's one of those things where, you know, if you, if you find yourself kind of sitting between a couple of, um, a couple of teams, you tend to notice one wrenches your stomach a little bit more when they lose, uh, that tends to be, uh, and has tended to be still Oregon because I grew up going to football games there. Um, that was kind of my childhood team. However, uh, I think a lot of that has come down to in recent, the, the recent years. Oregon has also had a much better chance at some of the higher level games than Tennessee has, but bless, they're getting there now. ah it's one of those It's also one of those things, I think there was more at stake for a while for Oregon than there was for Tennessee when I first started becoming a fan of them. so I think the beauty of the Tennessee-Oregon relationship is that about 98% of the time you can kind of root for both and they don't overlap very much. Maybe now that the college football playoff has expanded that
00:06:16
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there's a much higher chance that they meet. We almost in played last season. They almost played. There's one game short and then somebody lost. I don't remember who it was. But to answer your question directly, I'm probably at this rate. I'm probably like a 60 40 split, probably 60 Oregon 40 Tennessee. I've been around Tennessee long enough now and they're actually have some some possibility of making some very good games in the future. yeah And I think that that brings my attention even more so but yeah so this is this is not actually on my on my list of questions i was going to ask you so this is off the dome for you um well also i was going to say mason you know something a little bit about uh having your your allegiances split between two teams right i don't know it i don't know what you're talking about
00:07:05
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You have also gone to Jacksonville Jaguar games with me. I don't know why you're... It's a joke. Okay. I know. So...
Football Culture: Northwest vs. South
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Do you know? tin Tins is a big Jags fan for anyone out there. He's been trying to try to recruit Mason for a long time. ah So top with the tides have been pretty bad. So, you know, sometimes it's a little tempting for Mason. He's come to the it's like going to the dark side. It's like Anakin for long you'll be killing the younglings. Okay, so ah wowing on The younglings it's it's joke Mason. Okay, so
00:07:48
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Okay, so I did have one question about you, you played football in Oregon, like, ah like when you're younger, right? Yep. Yeah. And so the question, I guess, was, I'm always interested in the culture between, ah like the South and other regions of the United States and how they treat football. um So what do you think was the culture between Northwest and South when it came to like youth football and football in general? Yeah. So first of all, it's kind of like a ah slight sidetracked So the state of Oregon, definitely they're kind of major sport that you'll find. And I think it trickles down from the University of Oregon is track and field. Um, that's a really big deal. Hayward field, you'll kind of hear is like the big, the big thing out at the University of Oregon. It's kind of where Nike got its start and claim to fame with their, their shoes that Phil Knight was making with waffle irons over there, you know, all that. Uh, but in terms of.
00:08:44
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ah football itself at a high school level outside of the big cities with the really big schools, you're not going to find quite the extent of the culture that is football being ingrained in everybody all the time. I remember I have kind of a slight bit of a a kind of a lame high school football example in in Oregon, not the disc Jefferson high school or anything, but we had about, we had about 356 people at our school total. And so my football team was 26 people my sophomore year, and I played basically every way. It was barely 11 men football anyway. So ah yeah, I remember distinctly, this is a funny comment and I think it was a great place to say it. There was this dude on my team and I'm forgetting his name to save my life.
00:09:31
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He was older than me, but man, he was a character and he was like, I told him I was moving to Tennessee and I was going to be playing football down there. And he's like, man, that's going to be awesome. They like serve creatine up to you in like so down there in the cell. I'm like, yeah, thereations right that's how we're so, that's how we're so into it in the cell. No, uh, in terms of like, In terms of at least in the state of Oregon and somewhat Washington, it's not as big in high school yeah and leading up in youth. But once you get into college, and this is something um I'm sure we'll touch on a little bit, the one what was once the Pac-12 RIP, now it's the two. But ah they in peace they were
00:10:19
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The football out there was kind of nuts and it was different from everybody else's football. And it was really entertaining to watch as something that a lot of times the Eastern side of the United States didn't get to see because they would kick off so late. Um, or just the broadcasting, the broadcasting networks or near the sec, ACC, big 10, that kind of thing. So they, uh, pack 12 didn't really get as much attention, which ended up resulting in some of their like, yeah, they're just the pack 12, but you know, It is interesting that you say that because I think a lot of the nation became pretty invested into the Washington team
Challenges of East Coast Viewing
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this year. Obviously, they were a national contender and ended up making in the national championship. And um I wanted to watch some games because, you know we know, Michael Pinnix was put on a show and things like that. And the like eight or eight thirty p.m. start time for like a ra game is on the East Coast is like, what are we? This is horrible. Even later than that, I felt like totally understand why they're doing it like I get it.
00:11:18
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But it's so hard to try and watch some of those West Coast games all the way on the East Coast. Yeah, it is. And like we didn't, I mean, we didn't get it until we moved out here and like realizing that, man, the 7 p.m. like normal evening kickoffs that you're used to on the West Coast are now 10 p.m. and you're getting ready for bed. Like it's it's kind of lame. yeah And like you get those Arizona schools where it's so hot in the desert early in the year, they're doing games at like 10 p.m. Pacific time or 10 p.m. like. So it's already like one in the morning when they kick off. It's like, yeah, that is happening. That is bad for business, in my opinion. I mean, it's it's hard to engage an audience whenever ah so much of the college football audience is in three time zones.
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ah Right. Yeah. What are you going to do? Have them start like there in Washington or an Oregon start their games when everybody's still at work at like four o'clock. Yeah, you can. Well, on Saturdays, no one's at work. Well, and that's true. But at the same time, like it's prime time. I mean, you want to be proud. You'll be if they kick off. If Oregon kicked off at what? noon on the Pacific time. You get the 3 p.m. games out here and that's like starting primetime games on the east coast. So there's like all these conflicts. I mean you do. 1 p.m. kickoffs here is like 10 a.m. kickoffs. Yeah. Which is pretty wild on a Saturday morning. like Like college game day was weird for me on the west coast because you'd wake up in the morning and like college game day happening in Georgia, it'd be six in the morning.
00:12:51
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ah And or like if you notice like when they would go to to Oregon to Eugene it's pitch black when they start Yeah, because it's five in the morning when they have to start recording for 8 a.m. On the East Coast That is wild the difference um
00:13:09
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Time change is crazy, man. Maybe it's just the promised time change. Everybody's on the same time. If it's night, it's day, you know. Just for football reasons, nothing else. We could possibly go wrong. Yeah, we could just change everything. So we could all watch football at the same time. Okay, so let's get some of our survey questions here.
Favorite Oregon Ducks Memories
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We've already done this a little bit. Obviously, you are a fan of of Tennessee a little bit. Oregon still some, and we talked about some of that dynamic a little bit. Did you have anything else to add on that dynamic? Yeah, I mean, well, I think you had touched on it earlier, too. It is nice to have ah
00:13:53
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two teams that you're rooting for that have like next to zero if not zero overlap most of the time because there is almost never the case where you're like, oh, yeah, I don't know who to root for because at the end of the day, if one of them If one of them loses, you have somebody to save your mood, right? ah I always tell people, I always tell people, yeah, you should really invest in a second team that's like on the other end of the country that doesn't associate with the team that you primarily associate with because worst case, if they suck, then your other team might be good. ah Or they both suck. Or they both suck and then everything's a sad party, but it's fine. ah Okay, so.
00:14:36
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Our first kind of real survey question here, what is your favorite season, your favorite team that you remember watching, rooting for and or in your time as an Oregon Ducks fan? Yeah. So that one's hard because I probably started going to Oregon games when I was five, my dad had a season tickets and we had the same seats for until we moved. Basically, that was like the every, every football season. And so I got to see kind of the progression of, of Oregon as they went from the coach that kind of got them going was Mike Balotti. That was like earlier in the 2000s, his offensive coordinator was this guy named chip Kelly. Some people might know.
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um and then And then began the chain of events where as one would retire, the offensive coordinator would take over as head coach. um And so Chip Kelly enters the game as a ladder offensive coordinator for Mike Bellotti. Mike Bellotti's kind of already started setting up a winning program um that hadn't been winning for a long time. And then in rolls Chip Kelly with this new offense that nobody's ever seen before and starts rolling over people putting up 72 points a game with like, there was a game I i know, I don't remember what season it was. They played like New Mexico, it's some one of the little preseason games. 72 to nothing was the final score is some stupid, stupid scores. But
00:16:04
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In terms of like favorite season, I would have to go with, I think this was a, this may have been a Mark Hilfrich season. So this was shortly after, um, maybe the year after chip Kelly left or something. So they still had a lot of the good recruits in, um, the team hadn't hit its downhill dip yet. And they were, uh, it was one of the college football playoff seasons with It may have been Marcus Mariotis. yeah thirteen Was that his Heisman year?
00:16:40
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ah He's a front-runner for the Heisman, it says, yeah. Okay. So that season, they went to the Rose Bowl um as the playoff game, and i we got to go to it. It was against Florida State with James Winston, and that was, I mean, worth the price of admission in and of itself, and even more so to see all the Florida State fans go from being as cocky as all get-out to couldn't be saying a single word, which is awesome. um But that whole season, I think, was really cool because I was old enough to remember all the ins and outs of that season, get to watch or only Oregon's only Heisman Trophy winner that year, um and then get to see that Rose Bowl get won in person, which was really, really cool, ah really special season to be a part of. The unfortunate thing was, as it often happened with
00:17:34
Speaker
ah with Oregon was that they lost to Ohio State in the national championship. but you know break the next I think it was the next season. To a couple seasons later ah We ended up going when we moved out here They played at Ohio State so as a one of the season openers and we went to the game because we lived out here in Tennessee and Ended up they ended up winning. They beat them at home, which was awesome. They just kind of shocked I stayed it on their own turf, which is pretty cool. Love that so 2013 season it sounds like was the it was the one it may actually 2014 2014 one of those two sink and
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I have a follow
NFL Connections & West Coast Offenses
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-up question. Well, I have a statement and a follow-up question statement. Mike Bellotti sounds like a mobster, like a name. like might have been yeah I thought he should start like a Pilates class, like Bellottis Pilates. That would have been a great move. That's pretty good, actually. And then second thing, since we're talking about Mariota, I hope I don't snipe Zach here, but ah did you moving out to Tennessee transfer you into Titans fan because of Marcus Mariota? Mary Goda. Mary Goda. That didn't work out. It's fine. I blame i blame that on Vrable. It was ironic for sure because the talk had already been like, we're moving and then Mariota went out and we're like, well, now it's just Destin, right? Yeah. ah
00:18:57
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ah But kind of in a way I I often still struggle to follow NFL until like postseason play Yeah, because I tend to be I'm very attracted to the hype of college football. I've always felt like there's I know there's a lot at stake to be like the world champion of football, but at the same time, I feel and this, I mean, this another conversation, right? Like the whole change with how ah players are now being paid and everything. It felt like there was, there was and somewhat still is kind of like this major like trying to make it in the in the football
00:19:35
Speaker
World a little bit more and and the fandom hype I think has always got me a little bit more so yes and no I didn't really Directly fall into it, but I appreciate um I appreciated it. I'm just trying to recruit more, you know, even though I didn't I didn't really I didn't truly have an NFL team going into Tennessee because Oregon doesn't have one your Seahawks Yeah, you were you were actually no I was a Denver guy The only, ah yeah, the only, um you were either in Oregon, you were either a Seattle fan or a 49ers fan. yeah yeah and That was kind of the weird like sandwiched rivalry. Makes sense. we um We have another buddy who was on last week who is currently living in Washington.
00:20:24
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and like the Puget Sound area. So he was talking about how ah he they mostly had Seattle Seahawks fans. where he Oh, and fun fact ah about the University of Washington talking about West Coast teams and Tennessee. They're the only two teams that have the water entry stadiums. So the University of Washington also has their kind of Vol Navy version as well. That's pretty neat. so Interesting. Okay, another quick side note, but you you mentioned the the the famous West Coast offense that has been moving towards the East ah pretty quickly now. I mean, obviously, Hypel has a version of his spread offense and then ah DeBoer coming to Alabama, you have to assume, is going to continue that movement ah where it's almost
00:21:15
Speaker
You have a team like Georgia who's a very traditional SEC team still, like hard-nosed, very like offensive and defensive line-based teams. ah Now you have some teams that have started this more West Coast style offense. What do you think of the two? do you think that ah Do you think the West Coast style is going to take over the SEC eventually? or Um, ah depend I think it's fully dependent on, uh, the coach that's in play, right? Like Kirby smart's got something good going and and he's going to continue to, I think it works well for him, but the thing I always have to remind people is like, I mean,
00:21:55
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Football, like any sport, is a dynamic thing. Like over the years, it changes. And as people's new ways of playing the game occur, you get players that match those that kind of like playing style. For instance, like in the NFL, you see a lot of these ah college athletes coming out of these s spread spread and fast-paced offenses that didn't mesh with the old pro style offenses. And so a lot of those old pro style offenses have gone the way of the dodo because they don't have any players to feed that system anymore. yeah And so you start to wonder too, I think that's what would kill the, that kind of like hard-nosed SEC style, old SEC style offense. First would actually be the lack of um talent from the high school level playing that type of offense anymore, which I don't know that that necessarily is going to happen. ah I also think ah one other misconception that happens a lot of times is that like,
00:22:55
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The spread won't work against some like bigger hard nose kind of team, which yes, if you play them lean. So there's a lot of like a lot of the Pac-12 teams, the offensive lines were like averaged under 300 pounds. So they were like super lightweight, super mobile offensive lines so that everything could move. Like everybody was moving all the time. Um, but when it came to playing somebody like a Georgia defensive line, that wasn't going to work out well. Most of the time they would beat him up after a half and that would be it. Yeah. But, uh, you end up, uh, with like, if you look back at the chip Kelly original spread offense, he had a pretty hefty offensive line and 60 plus percent of his plays were runs. They weren't passes.
00:23:41
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he had like two or three big or he had like two big running backs and a small really fast running back and then some good wide receivers and everything was based off of like being mobile enough to get to the outside but they still had a larger offensive line and Oregon's doing that now too. um They have um Dan Lanning who comes from Georgia and he's building the much heavier like team but they still have that kind of speed to them. Interesting. interesting
00:24:11
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That is interesting. That is a pretty fascinating thing to see some of those. I think those the different offenses have been so spread out that you rarely saw them head to head unless it's like in postseason play almost. Yeah, and now we're starting to see them integrate more where you're starting to see, especially with teams like some of those West Coast teams joining the Big 10 too. We're going to see a clash of like the like Ohio State's, like you said, versus some of those West Coast teams like Washington, Oregon. So I think it's going to be a pretty exciting year where we get to see a lot more of those clashes of styles, I think. Yeah, sure. It's pretty exciting. Yeah. OK, moving on.
Oregon's Memorable Wins and Losses
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Speaker
You already kind of mentioned maybe a few of these, so you might have already talked about this some, but what was your favorite moment as a fan? It could be in the stadium, out of the stadium. It could be whatever you think. What do you think of as your favorite moment?
00:25:08
Speaker
oh Oh, goodness. There's um just definitely plenty of them. I was looking like ah in terms of probably one of the most memorable games that I often talk about. In 2011, there was a game on Halloween night. It was a blackout Oregon game against ah USC on the West Coast. That's Southern California, not South Carolina. I think of USC as Southern California. Okay. So like I came out here and everybody's like, USC, I'm like Southern California. They're like, no, South Carolina. ever And I'm like, what? usu um
00:25:41
Speaker
Anyway, so it was a blackout night. USC was pretty good at the time. They didn't suck like they do now. um and they And it was called Fight Night, and it was a really good game. But also, I think probably a bigger one ah was in 2009. It was still the Pac-10. It became the Pac-12 in 2011. Oregon versus Oregon State, Civil War is that but is that game. ah they they were both top ranked teams. And at the time ah before the when it was still the BCS um crystal ball era, they had the Rose Bowl would take generally the winner from the Pac-12 and the or the but winner from the Pac-10 and the winner of the Big 10 national title game. And then they would play each other in the Rose Bowl. Now, the Big 10 had, I think, a championship game. The Pac-10 did not.
00:26:39
Speaker
But it maybe at that time, or i can't remember they didn't have enough teams. So ah they they they would end up, um this civil war was called the the war for the roses because they basically whoever won that game ah had an automatic birth into the Rose Bowl. And so it was like, it was at Autzen. And it was like super loud. A ton of Oregon State fans. Corvallis, where Oregon State is, is like 30 minutes away from Eugene. So they're like right next to each other. And so you get all kinds of these, ah these cool civil war games.
00:27:17
Speaker
um But that was that was probably a big one because the stakes were so high, but we still didn't have a championship game yet until the next year. And so it was just like your season ends here ah to a lame bull game or you get to go to the Rose Bowl. so And Oregon ended up winning that one and go to the Rose Bowl after that. so Him explaining all that, it feels like that was like forever ago with how different college football is now, but it realistically wasn't that long ago. But now right we're literally talking about next year having a 12 team playoff. And he was just explaining like the different bowls and the different, and now it's just crazy. Like when there was the new year six and every one of them was their own thing. Yeah. yeah Those were the days. Not anymore. Yeah, it's true. It's true.
00:28:02
Speaker
Okay. Uh, so on the other flip side of that, uh, we're talking about most heartbreaking moment or game. Uh, you mentioned losing the national and championship. Yep. Twice. to Yeah, rough. Um, couldn't be Tennessee. Yeah. So the, um, there's been a, there's been a ton Oregon has had a ton of like, Kind of like Tennessee did, the what was it two seasons ago now where they lost to South Carolina the last second? 2022, yep. They've had a number of those where they're like top seven team and they're just knocking on the door for being ah a title contender and they miss a field goal or something stupid happens. There's been a ton of those. So I feel for Tennessee every time it's happened because I understand. But they, ah
00:28:55
Speaker
the probably the worst one was not the Ohio State National Championship, l because it was probably a two or three score difference. um But in 2011, which followed um the first meet matchup between Tennessee and Oregon season in 2010, When Tennessee, where Oregon came to Tennessee, there was a giant lightning delay. I remember watching Neelan on TV for the first time during that from Oregon, not knowing where I would be soon. um That was during the Dooley era. so I remember that not going well. They were up high and then they died as soon as the lightning delay ended. um
00:29:36
Speaker
But that following that season, it was Auburn and Oregon in the national championship game. And it was Auburn in the Cam Newton era. um And they were, ah it was like a one score game, like, I think within, let me see, I have the, the field, was it, uh,
00:30:01
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. So it was 22 to 19. So it was a one field goal. I remember it being a good game. And Oregon was, uh, Oregon had one stop. It was third down and long in the middle of the field. They had one stop to stop. Uh, Auburn's running back to punt the ball to get back down the field with plenty of time to tie it up and go to overtime and this run he was like blades of grass from getting down and he didn't actually go down and it was first down and he made an additional like 20 yards and that killed it and it was like a three-point game and it was the most sad thing ever because like the first national championship I think Oregon had ever played for and they were within three points it was terrible yeah that was pretty bad
00:30:46
Speaker
Yeah, there is something to just your team getting there and being in the mix, but then to lose. It's like almost as bad as not even being in the mix because then it's just you're so close to to to glory to to fall short there. It becomes a ah pretty big bummer.
00:31:05
Speaker
Okay, we're gonna kind of rapid fire through these last couple and then we're gonna wrap up
Unique Traditions of Oregon Ducks
00:31:08
Speaker
here. um If there was one like, so we are not super familiar with the Oregon program. You mentioned the Vol Navy that Tennessee has. There's a couple other pretty unique things. um Is there ah is there like a cool thing about being an Oregon fan or is something unique? Maybe someone who doesn't follow Oregon wouldn't know about. Yeah, ah well, for one, I'm sure everybody knows about like, they've got Nike's numbers. So all of the facilities and stuff they have is and the number of uniforms that they go through is kind of ridiculous. ah But in terms of kind of traditions and stuff ah that they do,
00:31:46
Speaker
so there So like Tennessee has the running through the T is like their entrance. For those who haven't seen Oregon's entrance, it is but i don't I don't even remember how it started, but there's a the they exit the tunnel with the duck riding on the back of a Harley Davidson out onto that's like got a like an Oregon lightning wrap like all over it. It's the most bizarre thing ever but he leads him out and then the whole team like comes out sprinting behind him. It's ridiculous ah but it's a lot of fun. Also that stadium despite holding a maximum capacity I think without additional seating it's 59,000 people. Yeah.
00:32:32
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But it's got a reflector hood and it's built into a hill. So they like built it into a mound. There was that Fright Night game that I was talking about earlier with USC. It reached 114 decibels with 64,000 people in the stadium. And the I think the lot of stuff I've heard in England is just over that. ah The Alabama game a few years ago, which I was fortunate enough to be a part of. So electric. It was electric. I have another statement and question. yeah So the question is, you're talking about the uniforms. Do you have a favorite uniform that you talked about and them having hundreds of them, but is there a favorite one? Great question, Mason. It is solid. Thank you. And thanks to ah to the new EA game, we've got a jillion of them also. yeah I think my favorite regularly that they go with is like, they have like this apple green color that they'll do, like this bright green out. If you watch any of the Civil War games,
00:33:31
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um Oregon will treat it they've the last I don't know how many years They won't wear an away color anymore because the team colors are so starkly different. They'll wear this giant bright apple green and neon yellow and then ah Oregon State will wear this like fluorescent orange and black and they're like it's like color rush in the NFL It's like two very highlighter games. there Yeah, there's a couple of other of other rivals who do the same thing I forget which There's a one in the SEC that does it and they just, I think there's actually, I know in the SEC there's a penalty for neither team wearing home colors. Oh, both wearing away? If they're both wearing, because I think it's like against league policy, but they just are willing to pay it every year because they like to wear them. That's got to be an LSU rivalry game, right? Because LSU is the only one who wears white most of the time.
00:34:22
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No, they're there. Ah, man, I'll look it up. I know it's a thing. i I remember reading about it. Interesting. Yeah. And I would say I was going to say the other one. that ah They always wear this like these chrome helmets. Like, I don't know. I was going to say, I don't even know how they're legal because it was like me yourself. Yeah. Yeah. I have no idea. I feel like if you really want to, you just like lean down and get the reflection of the sun and like blind the quarterback. yeah like My statement was ah the organ ducks did make my top three when I used to play NCAA for the mascot games. The ducks was oh yeah. ah Number three, the Syracuse oranges was number two and then the Stanford trees was my number one.
00:35:06
Speaker
Those things, um wait, what year was this game that you were playing? Probably like 2009. Okay, so it was the old... When was NCAA? Yeah. Do what? It was the old creepy trees that looked like... Yeah, the old creepy trees. Real trees, but yeah. Early 2000s. Smokey was also in there. He's probably like top four, so. cool Yeah, there's my there's my ah Statement so we could go back to the questions even though Zach's like doing his research over there But it looks like it might well, it looks like USC and UCLA both also wear them. Yes, they do. Yeah Which is just a binocular tradition. So I must be a West Coast thing Was like to go against the grain a little bit. Yeah um Which is pretty cool. It's a cool thing
00:35:49
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Okay, so I have two pretty short questions.
Rivalries and Upcoming Season Preview
00:35:53
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This one may be a super easy one. Considering how you've talked about them tonight, I'm gonna guess I know the answer. um Which team do you consider to be the your biggest rival? Biggest like most team whenever you beat them you feel best about your like or vice versa best about being or if feel like terrible about losing to so I would say like Washington by far is the worst. Oh really? um They're like Tennessee's equivalent, to Florida Yeah, Tennessee's a little bit ah tossed up depending on who you talk to some people say for it like it like the old-school like Florida Tennessee that whole yeah that
00:36:29
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there has been a a number of like, I mean, of course, I only hear this from Oregon fan perspective. So I'm sure Washington fans have a similar perspective. But ah There's been plenty of stories of like Oregon fans going to Seattle and sitting in their games getting crap dumped on them and like yeah dinner and stuff. It's like it's just ah it's more of the like nasty one where nobody gets along well at all. um and everybody just like like If you could have one team just to like open up and the whole world swallows it, that would be the one. ah Oregon State is definitely a rival, but it's almost like
00:37:11
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you and your brother's rivalry at any game you play with each other. You have a bunch of friends because the schools are 30 minutes apart. yeah Everybody in that area is a fan of one and they mess they just trash talk each other all the time, but it's all like more good, fun trash talk. Washington, they legitimately mean it, generally speaking. So why the Washington Huskies can So it's not Oregon State though. The civil war that Civil War would be the second. like You still want to win that game, but like if you had to choose to lose one...
00:37:46
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I would choose to lose to Oregon State over Washington any day. Well, so the Florida, the Florida rivalry really came to be because my and my dad talked about it in ours. Um, and his interview was whenever back then that game basically determined who was going to win SEC East every year. Like that game was the determining factor of who was going to go to SEC championship. Like every single year, it was like that game was the only thing that mattered. So I think that happened with Oregon. It sounds like Oregon, Washington are pretty much vying for the top of the Pac-12 regularly. Like, well, once it became a really meaningful game, once it became the Pac-12, the, uh, the North often was between them. Although for a number of years, the North was between Oregon and Stanford. Oddly enough. Yeah, Stanford, um, the tall enough. Yeah. Uh, there, but.
00:38:35
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I don't know exactly how the origin was back in the day um when it was the Pac-8 and the Pac-10, but I do know ah that like the big, it's called the pick, is their big highlight that they always show up like pregame. A guy named Kenny Wheaton, you can find the thing anywhere, but it was basically a it was a three loss Oregon and they were at home and The game was gonna end like it looked like they were watching was marching right back down the field and looked like they were gonna throw a touchdown right at the end seal it and it would kick them out of like bulk intention ah and they
00:39:15
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this guy named Kenny Wheaton picked it off on like the goal line basically and ran it all the way back ah for a pick six and it like put them back in it basically gave them a Roseville birth that you're like automatically because of that play and so it gets played all the time and the history was if I get it right that the announcer who is yelling in the background of that video he's screaming like Kenny Wheaton's gonna score whatever his he like was so hyped up that he had bit his tongue and he was like bleeding all over the broadcast he yeah commitment.
00:39:48
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It's awesome.
00:39:51
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That is pretty cool. OK, so last question, and then we we are out of here. um If you could give us, it doesn't have to be super in-depth. If you want to give us a quick preview of this year's Oregon ah season, obviously Bo Nix is out. um Contrary to what a lot of people thought, Dan Lanning is back and not in the SEC, which is big for Oregon. um How do you foresee this season going? Yeah, first of all, I'm so thankful that Dan Lening didn't go anywhere, but he made it pretty evidently clear that he was planning to stay by the amount of somewhat petty posts that he was making, but he also used it as the biggest recruiting plug out of the transfer portal he could possibly do. Like we're going to the Big Ten and anybody who wants to join our roster can. yeah They basically pulled the entire backup bench of Alabama
00:40:42
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They pulled the top DB from Washington after DeBoer left that just got done beating them twice. He pulled, I don't know, they have a five-star, one or two five-star recruit quarterbacks coming in following, um what's the Oklahoma quarterback's name that went over there for his senior year? Over to where? To Oregon. Did you not know this? Oh no. What was his name?
00:41:10
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You're looking at me? That's a great question. ah ah Yeah, you'll have to find this. We'll figure it out. consider yeah i'm so bad with I'm so bad with rosters. Anyway, ah but he's he's currently in the starting position and then UCLA's quarterback, that was really, really good, left UCLA and he's backed up to him. So we have two, like a senior from Oklahoma, Dylan Gabriel. Dylan Gabriel. ah So he's what my tongue he' starting and then you have a guy from UCLA behind him and then like one or two five-star recruits under them in quarterback position. So they're stacked. They've pulled they pulled the number one
00:41:50
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defensive end out of the Big 10 in Michigan State and put them on and put them on their team. They have both returning ah inside linebackers. they They literally do not have, and they've never had as deep of a team as they, they're kind of looking like an Alabama roster because of the transfer portal. Well, the problem is, is that their their schedule is maybe the toughest in Oregon history as well. Well, because you know, I mean, the Big 10 knew that Oregon of the teams they acquired was by far the best. And they were like, we're going to just entertain everybody this year. They put
00:42:25
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They it's Michigan. No, it's Ohio State at Oregon and then Michigan Oregon at Michigan the following week They play both teams back to back. So that's going to be a I think Oklahoma is having a similar Schedule situation where yeah, well, i kind of I feel bad for them because they lost their quarterback and they don't have anybody else This year in college football is going to be the first time in a long time where we it's going to be a very interesting science experiment ah just to see what happens when we start introducing these different programs in a different leagues, where for so long you'd have the argument of like, oh, if this team played in SEC, they would never make it. Yeah, that argument ain't working anymore. Because now all the best teams are playing each other, which ah you just have Big 10 versus SEC and all reality. I mean, it's the most meaningful games.
00:43:15
Speaker
Uh, this is it's going to be a very interesting football season. Yeah, for sure. I'm I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. I had one last question. Yeah. The win total is 10 and a half. Mm. Over under 10 and a half. Does that include bowl game or just regular season? Uh, I believe. It's just regular season, right? Regular season. Yeah, they can't because they don't obviously know the postseason setup. 10 and a half. That's hefty. Yeah. it's Well, I mean, if you think about it, though, the Big Ten likes to talk a lot. But I'm sorry. What teams in the Big Ten, other than Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan, hold or pull any weight? Do you play in Washington as well? Yes, we play Washington regular every year. But Washington now has zero team.
00:44:01
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And and we they did maintain our civil war rivalry. They just moved it to the third game of the season instead of the last game of the season. So 10 and a half means you are an 11 win team. So it means you have a one loss. So it means you're beating either Michigan or Ohio State. Yep. That's probably what they're hedging their bets on. Which would you think you'll beat? I was going to say you probably have a better...
00:44:26
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I'm going to, I'm going to go, I'm going to go contrary to home field advantage. and I'm going to say we beat Michigan because they no longer have a head coach. I think Michigan will be definitely softer this year. So Oregon is also in the top four, four odds of winning the championship at plus eight 50.
Conclusion & Future Episodes
00:44:43
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I don't know if you know what betting odds are, but they're pretty high. Not great at them, but this man's explained them. Georgia's number one, Ohio state, Texas, and then Oregon. So there you go. Yeah. The sports books are. high on you guys as well throw up i yo house they always make good luck beating michigan i actually hate ohio state more than i do alabama because of all the pain they've given me in life uh okay well uh tran thanks for being on uh thanks for giving us some insight it's very interesting we haven't had um
00:45:16
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this kind of really pretty far removed from our Realm team yet. So it was really interesting to get to hear perspective. We're always very heavy. UT, SEC or Jacksonville Jaguars. very southern yeah little yeah I'm glad I could break up the monotony for you. It was great. Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, it was great. ah So Trent, thanks. And we will ah throw it back to ourselves. Maybe? question you bar
00:45:47
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It's a way to end it regardless. All right. Thanks again to Trent for that interview. ah Really awesome. Be back with us again on Monday. We have a messing around episode coming at you. Make sure to check us out on socials and we will see you on Monday.