A couple things ...
-- Jake Trotter of ESPN.com is out with a provocative piece on the Oregon Ducks.
Trotter notes Oregon once was cutting-edge cool. But the rest of the college football world has caught up, and he wonders whether the Ducks can recapture the magic.
He has done his homework. It's a very good piece.
One thing that can't be forgotten: the confluence of events that led to Oregon reaching the upper echelon of college football included USC laboring under NCAA sanctions and Washington bumbling through inept leadership and poor coaching decisions.