As many of my family and friends know, I am not the resolution kind of person. Generally speaking, January 1 is an arbitrary day in a year that we celebrate as if there is some special meaning to this day. Most of my ‘resolutions’ in the past have been a response to my date of birth which has far greater importance in my own personal history. Despite that, however, there is some retrospective val

Interestingly, this move comes with its own level of uncertainty. At times the move feels like it was a failure on my part to better embrace my time in the south; and at times it feels like a cop-out; a method to not admit to myself or anyone around me that there is the possibility that the original move was a mistake.The difficult part of the path I have created is that it is one rooted in being...

I am rarely surprised; last night and this morning were no different. The responses were as expected, but I want to take a moment to clear one thing up.Contrary to the opinion of some, the article was not about an individual. It was about an industry.In the last 12 months I have personally seen:- At least seven (7) commitment moments ruined by a writer or mod of a site at multiple schools in multi

Covering recruiting is a tricky business. It is also a business ripe for dismantling if we are not careful.When I first started covering recruiting for Duck Sports Authority, the contacts I had made were through a lifetime in the city, several media contacts and some fortune in people having reached out to me thanks mostly to my coverage of a recruiting scandal.After all of that died down, the mu...

Once upon a time I fancied myself a writer. Shortly thereafter, I started tapping away. Word by word; paragraph by paragraph; I pieced together a whole shit ton of sentences. I even called it a book.Then there were two books. Then there were three. But a funny thing happened on the way to super-stardom; no one read my work. Sure, there were some family members who bought my book from a sense o

So, it is not often I go outside of Oregon football and recruiting for a Flock Talk piece, but I was very impressed by the staff at The Opening Finals and their decision to have Brenda Tracy speak to the entire group and share her story that I felt compelled to share my thoughts along with the topic in general.I know our role. We are sports writers; more specifically, we cover college football

First Some recruiting tidbits. Much of what I do is behind a paywall so I don't get to share much of the inside information very often. What I share now are some recruiting notes I passed on to members of Duck Sports Authority over the last week.A week ago, there were some important notes regarding some Oregon targets and I shared them in our premium recruiting message board, The Casanova Center.D