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Jim Lambright : Don James :: Slingblade : Skip Belly
BennyBeaver
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Don James left UW after the 1992 season unhappy over NCAA sanctions.
When James left, Lambright was promoted from coordinator to HC and thus began the slow decline of UW football that now 17 years later is still striving for similar levels of Don James era success after hitting the absolute rock bottom under Tye Willingham, the always precious and memorable 0-12 season.
When kelly left oregon, also under the NCAA violations, oregon followed the same thinking UW used when Lambright was named head coach. What better way to keep the train rolling and maintain continuity in the program than to hire from within. Who better to keep the same system in place then someone who's already intimate with it. Sounds logical. Well sure if you can ignore the impact the head chef had on the success to begin with. To assume someone else can cook up the same ingredients in the same special way simply because they worked in the same kitchen is fatally flawed. UW painfully found that out and almost two decades later are still a shell of what they were under James.
Thankfully the UO didn't learn from UW's mistake, either out of their own stubborn hubris or they were caught off guard and reacted too quickly without studying history. Many oregon fans are starting to realize fortunes can change just that quickly and nobody is immune. Make one bad step when you're on top of the mountain and it can lead to a mighty fall.
When James left, Lambright was promoted from coordinator to HC and thus began the slow decline of UW football that now 17 years later is still striving for similar levels of Don James era success after hitting the absolute rock bottom under Tye Willingham, the always precious and memorable 0-12 season.
When kelly left oregon, also under the NCAA violations, oregon followed the same thinking UW used when Lambright was named head coach. What better way to keep the train rolling and maintain continuity in the program than to hire from within. Who better to keep the same system in place then someone who's already intimate with it. Sounds logical. Well sure if you can ignore the impact the head chef had on the success to begin with. To assume someone else can cook up the same ingredients in the same special way simply because they worked in the same kitchen is fatally flawed. UW painfully found that out and almost two decades later are still a shell of what they were under James.
Thankfully the UO didn't learn from UW's mistake, either out of their own stubborn hubris or they were caught off guard and reacted too quickly without studying history. Many oregon fans are starting to realize fortunes can change just that quickly and nobody is immune. Make one bad step when you're on top of the mountain and it can lead to a mighty fall.
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Oregon State went back to being nothing which has been their sad lot in life since 1964
RNDJsanctions did!maybe take some time off to get some perspective, race.
thanks.
Riley wasn't an assistant for Erickson.