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The One Decision At Oregon That Could Totally Change The 2026 College Football Season · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Tuesday, January twentieth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: on today's show, you're gonna get to hear a little
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  Speaker 1: bit from Garrett on the Daily Huddle podcast. He's taking
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  Speaker 1: a look at a story out west in Eugene, Oregon
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  Speaker 1: organ Ducks quarterback Dante Moore decided to stay for the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty sixth season, and Garrett thinks that is going
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  Speaker 1: to have some far reaching repercussions that I'll reach across
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten and beyond. So here's Garrett talking about
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  Speaker 1: the impact of the decision of Oregon quarterback Dante Moore
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  Speaker 1: to stay for the twenty twenty sixth season.
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  Speaker 2: You ever see something on social media that you have
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  Speaker 2: like triple check to make sure that it wasn't fake,
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  Speaker 2: that you're not duped or that it wasn't some parody
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  Speaker 2: account hoping that you retweet it so they can go, hah, idiot.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the Dante more news coming back to Oregon
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  Speaker 2: was for me on Wednesday. You had to like, wait
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  Speaker 2: a second. Adam Schefter is tweeting that Dante Moore, the
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  Speaker 2: Oregon quarterback, is coming back to school when he's almost
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  Speaker 2: assuredly going to be the number one pick in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL draft.
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  Speaker 3: Am I being duped? Is something like, what is happening here?
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  Speaker 2: Because there's no way that's true, and yet it is
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  Speaker 2: true because it comes on the heels of the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Oregon had signed Dylan Reyola out of the transfer portal,
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  Speaker 2: that he had committed to the Ducks, and you would
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  Speaker 2: think that came with maybe some assurances, just from the
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  Speaker 2: way Dylan Royola and his family and those close to
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  Speaker 2: him have operated over the course of his high school
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  Speaker 2: and college careers, that it came with some assurances that
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  Speaker 2: he was going to be, if not named the starter
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  Speaker 2: when he signed, at least have an inside track to
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  Speaker 2: that job.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the prospective.
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  Speaker 2: Number one overall pick in the NFL Draft coming back
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  Speaker 2: to school would certainly throw a wrench in that plan.
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  Speaker 3: Right. There is a long list.
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  Speaker 2: Of things that this decision affects that I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that you think about immediately. On the surface, obviously, the
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  Speaker 2: NFL Draft now becomes a wide open like, holy hell,
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  Speaker 2: did Dante Moore just conscript Fernando Mendoza into a life
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  Speaker 2: of quarterback hell by.
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  Speaker 3: His decision to go back to Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: You could probably make that determination, and this might be
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  Speaker 2: a day that you look back on in twenty thirty
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  Speaker 2: one when Franana Mendoza's fifth year option isn't picked up
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  Speaker 2: because he got put in a really crappy NFL situation,
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, if Dante Moore had came out that day,
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  Speaker 2: that this all stems back to this one decision.
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  Speaker 3: But obviously affects the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Draft because I think there were there was a decent
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  Speaker 2: subsection of draft gurus and draft talent evaluators and NFL
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  Speaker 2: people who are really interested in looking at Dante more
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  Speaker 2: with a magnifying glass, getting into what makes him the
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  Speaker 2: prospect that he is. And they're obviously still going to
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  Speaker 2: do that, but not for the twenty twenty six NFL Draft.
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  Speaker 2: But furthermore, it affects the decision we just spoke about
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  Speaker 2: with Dylan Rayola. Does he remain committed to Oregon knowing that, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: big guy, unless barring something you don't want to have happen,
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  Speaker 2: or at least normal people, probably not, Dilan real we
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  Speaker 2: don't want to barring an injury to Dante Moore, Dilan
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  Speaker 2: reil is not going.
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  Speaker 3: To see the field in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: That certainly has to change his thought process and opinion
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  Speaker 2: and commitment status, does it not. Doesn't it make logical
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  Speaker 2: sense that he would say, well, hell, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to Oregon now. Didn't I didn't serve as a two
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  Speaker 2: year starter in the Big Ten at Nebraska to go
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  Speaker 2: ride the pine somewhere else? That doesn't make sense. So
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  Speaker 2: there's no way Dylan Royola goes to Oregon now right. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: it probably puts a really big change in the who's
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  Speaker 2: the favorite to win the Big Ten next year because
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  Speaker 2: while it's almost always going to be Ohio State in
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  Speaker 2: the preseason, I think it's probably a little early, especially
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  Speaker 2: considering that we haven't played the National Championship Game yet,
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  Speaker 2: to determine who is and isn't the favorite, especially because
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  Speaker 2: there's so much influx with the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 3: When there's ten thousand guys in the transfer portal, it's.
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  Speaker 2: A little hard to be like, yes, this is the team,
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  Speaker 2: and this team and this team are the favorites to
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  Speaker 2: win the conference. Like I think it's probably a little
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  Speaker 2: early for that, but it absolutely positions Oregon to I've
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  Speaker 2: be in that conversation or lead the conversation of who
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  Speaker 2: are the favorites to win the Big Ten next year?
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  Speaker 2: They absolutely would have Probably they absolutely would have not
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  Speaker 2: been in that top discussion. I don't think because anytime
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  Speaker 2: you're in a spot where you are replacing your starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: especially you're replacing your starting quarterback who played as well
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  Speaker 2: as Dante Moore did this season. Furthermore, you're replacing your
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  Speaker 2: quarterback who was probably going to be the number one
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  Speaker 2: pick in the NFL draft. I think it's really hard
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  Speaker 2: to replicate that and project that like, oh, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be fine. It just generally doesn't work that way. The
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  Speaker 2: question marks at the most important position at the sport
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  Speaker 2: if they are persistent, and I think when you are
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  Speaker 2: replacing your starting quarterback who is the potential number one
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  Speaker 2: pick in the NFL draft, they're gonna be persistent.
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  Speaker 3: Question marks. Oregon now doesn't have that.
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  Speaker 2: They now have a ton of experience at the most
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  Speaker 2: important position in the sport, with someone who's widely regarding
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  Speaker 2: it as now the top overall pick in the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven NFL draft. I can't tell you how big
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  Speaker 2: of a win that is for the Ducks. So it
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  Speaker 2: alters the Big Ten Championship at least projections going forward,
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  Speaker 2: because where Oregon might not have been the favorite or
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  Speaker 2: one of the major players that you would predict to
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  Speaker 2: win the conference, they absolutely have to be.
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  Speaker 3: Now there are all sorts of layers.
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  Speaker 2: To this that one simple decision can have and make
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  Speaker 2: that all these dominoes fall, all these butterfly effects just
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  Speaker 2: because Dante More said, you know, I I think.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go back school.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure there will be some discussion over the
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  Speaker 2: course of the next couple of days or so about
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  Speaker 2: what this means for certain NFL franchise is that perhaps
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  Speaker 2: maybe somebody didn't want to play for you or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's as much a statement on how
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  Speaker 2: much NIL levels the playing field, because if you can
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  Speaker 2: be the best of both worlds, if there is some
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  Speaker 2: reporting down the line over the course of the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of days or the next week or so, that
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  Speaker 2: maybe he didn't want to play for a particular franchise
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  Speaker 2: and he's still able to make insert nil figure here,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm here to tell you that if ty Simpson
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  Speaker 2: is being offered six million dollars reportedly to go to
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  Speaker 2: Miami and he's not especially good at football, and Dante
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  Speaker 2: Moore is and is the perspective number one pick in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL draft were he to leave, what figure does
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  Speaker 2: he command in nil? So if it's you didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to go play for a particular franchise.
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  Speaker 3: Back in the day, it was like, ah, that.
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  Speaker 2: Sucks, But as we'll go play for them and see
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  Speaker 2: if I can't turn them around and get the hell
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  Speaker 2: out of.
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  Speaker 3: There as fast as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Where now that you have the option to say, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna stay in school, I'm gonna get more experience.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna make bank.
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  Speaker 2: If the going rate for transferportal quarterbacks is in the
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  Speaker 2: several million dollars, and you are significantly better than the
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  Speaker 2: guys that are in the transfer portal, as evidenced by
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  Speaker 2: Oregon was looking at Dylan Rayola as a We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to figure out something might as well have somebody
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  Speaker 2: here that's got a little starting quarterback experience.
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  Speaker 3: Because Dante's not coming back, and.
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  Speaker 2: Now magically he is. How much what is that figure
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  Speaker 2: for him? Is it seven million dollars? Eight million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Plus?
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  Speaker 2: There's the old kind of adage of like if you
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  Speaker 2: started twenty four games or more. Essentially, the more college
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  Speaker 2: starts you have, the more likely you are to have
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  Speaker 2: success in the NFL. Like it's a tried and true
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  Speaker 2: track record of these two things correlate. Now there's different
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  Speaker 2: causation and correlation, but there's a correlation between how many
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  Speaker 2: games you started in college and how good.
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  Speaker 3: You are in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: If all it does is behoove you to come back
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  Speaker 2: to college, you get more experience, which allows which obviously
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  Speaker 2: can always be a boost or a detriment. Towent evaluators
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  Speaker 2: could watch his twenty twenty six tape and go, ah,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I saw some flaws now that maybe
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  Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't like because I'm here to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Coming into the twenty twenty five season, Drew Aller at
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  Speaker 2: Penn State was the all everything, everything you can want
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  Speaker 2: in a quarterback prospect.
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  Speaker 3: This guy has and now, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think anybody's sitting around going like man, I wish
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  Speaker 2: I could get my hands on him from the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: So there's obviously some like diminishating returns. But the more
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  Speaker 2: chances you get to start, the more starts you have,
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  Speaker 2: the better your NFL career generally pans out.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's only.
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  Speaker 2: A benefit to him of I get to avoid a
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  Speaker 2: team that I might not have wanted to go. That's
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  Speaker 2: just a factory of piecing out quarterbacks that have not
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  Speaker 2: had success, coupled with I get a boatload of nil money,
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  Speaker 2: and I improve my resume and improve my draft stock.
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  Speaker 2: And if you are already viewed as the probable number
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  Speaker 2: one pick in the NFL draft, improving your draft stock
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  Speaker 2: is only a good thing. I just was flabbergasted that
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  Speaker 2: he made the decision, because all you hear now about
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  Speaker 2: college football players is all they're just in it for
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  Speaker 2: the money. They just want the quick payday, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously the fast track to making a lot of cash,
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  Speaker 2: because right now he's already making a lot of cash,
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  Speaker 2: but going to the NFL make it a lot of cash.
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  Speaker 2: The fast track to do that is not stick around
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  Speaker 2: for a year, and if he comes out and says
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  Speaker 2: all the right things that he's motivated by wanting to
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  Speaker 2: come back to Oregon because they've never won a national championship,
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  Speaker 2: and by God, I want to be the person to
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  Speaker 2: lead the Ducks to the promised land.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see the pictures of me, And even
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  Speaker 2: if this comes off as egotistical and moniacal, I want
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  Speaker 2: the pictures of me in an Oregon Duck uniform holding
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  Speaker 2: that gold trophy to live in infamy. I want it
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  Speaker 2: to be in every newspaper in America. I want it
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  Speaker 2: to be imprinted in every high school player's memory. I
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  Speaker 2: want it to be on the walls of the football
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  Speaker 2: facility that I was the one who brought a championship
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  Speaker 2: to Oregon. Even as egotistical and narcissistic as that can sound,
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  Speaker 2: it's still, in some aspects.
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  Speaker 3: Super honorable and noble.
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  Speaker 2: Because it was expected that he would say pink coming back.
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  Speaker 3: Why in the world would I could have been a
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  Speaker 3: one pick in the NFL draft. So even if he
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  Speaker 3: comes out and says I want to win the Heisman Trophy,
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  Speaker 3: I want to win the national Championship. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to move on from this aspect of my life. Just yet,
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  Speaker 3: I still think he wins.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody thought that there was a possibility
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  Speaker 2: that this was an option for him, and instead certainly
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  Speaker 2: sounds as if Dante Moore's coming back to lead the
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  Speaker 2: Ducks in twenty twenty six. There's a whole lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that hinge on that decision, and I'm insured to
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  Speaker 2: see how it all plays out over the course of
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  Speaker 2: the coming days, weeks, months, and years. I want to
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  Speaker 2: know your thoughts. Is Dante Moore making the right decision?
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  Speaker 2: Should he have gone to the NFL Draft or staying
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  Speaker 2: in college for one more year the right play for him?
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
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