OK, losing by 51 at home to Seattle University — that is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard, even for a team that’s already lost at home to Big Sky tail-ender Sacramento State.

All my friends who follow college basketball tell me this Craig Robinson guy can coach. But honestly, I don’t get it. You simply can’t be a Pac-10 team and play that poorly at home, can you?

What on earth is going on down there?

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Arizona over Oregon Saturday night. It’s just the way the Pac-10 goes. Arizona looked awful last week at California. You’d think the Wildcats couldn’t beat anybody.

But just watch this week. Arizona, at home, will look like a million bucks. Just like the Ducks getting hammered at Stanford after beating USC — it’s a wacky, impossible-to-figure conference.

And yes, I said it. Oregon’s going to screw this whole thing up by losing at Arizona. It’s just the way things work in that league. Oh, that and the laws of the universe expressly forbid a Rose Bowl berth coming down to a game between Oregon and Oregon State.

It just can’t happen.

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According to this story, it’s still in the coach’s hands:

Oregon coach Chip Kelly said that he hasn’t decided whether he will recommend that running back LeGarrette Blount be reinstated for the Ducks’ game at Stanford on Saturday.

“There’s been no decision made at all,” Kelly said on the weekly Pac-10 teleconference.

Kelly said that once he makes his decision, it will be forwarded up a “chain of command”: athletic director Mike Bellotti, to Oregon’s president Richard Lariviere and then to the Pac-10 office, which will make the final call.

This doesn’t necessarily mean Blount has done anything wrong. Kelly said Monday that Blount “has accepted his role. He’s done a great job.”

Perhaps waiting to make sure all his classes are in order, or for him to complete a classroom assignment or take a test? Your guess is as good as mine.

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Let’s have a little moratorium on how disrespected the Pac-10 is nationally, OK?

The whole country was watching last night as the Ducks looked totally inept against a WAC team. The best thing Oregon can do for its conference now is go about 3-6 so nobody thinks it’s the cream of the crop. My goodness, that game has the potential to infect every team that comes in contact with the Ducks.

Seriously, you lose to them now — how do you look?

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A while back I wrote about cause and effect and what it has to do with Oregon’s quarterback situation. But still, I’d always thought the Ducks did a decent job of getting their signal callers ready to play.

Until Saturday afternoon. Wow — did the coaching staff really think Oregon was so much better than Boise State that it could slide through the game by just lining up and shoving the ball down the Broncos’ throats? Forget about injuries to the quarterback, what in the world was Oregon’s game plan? If you really want to play smash-mouth football, get out of that spread offense, put a couple of tight ends on the field and hand it to a fullback 30 times. Otherwise, use the spread to get your receivers isolated in space and throw the ball up the field! Don’t bring a baseball bat to a tennis match.

That was an expensive mistake for the Ducks, who couldn’t afford a nonconference home loss. But neither starter Jeremiah Masoli nor backup Chris Harper seemed capable of making anything but the most elemental of throws and while they were in the game, the capable Oregon receiving corps was totally wasted. Sure the fourth-quarter comeback behind Darron Thomas (finally, a quarterback who can throw!) was nice but for most of the day, that was a very ugly Duck effort.

And speaking of ugly efforts, my goodness — wasn’t Portland State-Washington State one of the worst games ever played? I realize the Vikings need every penny but $225,000 wasn’t enough to justify that whipping against the worst team in one of the worst major conferences in the country. Honestly, I think there are Big Sky teams that could give the Cougars a go — but not PSU. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Mouse Davis quarterbacks look so inept.

By the way, this just in — the Pac-10 stinks. And after a full season of playing in the Pac-10, USC will be hard-pressed to keep its edge for the BCS playoff to come.

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