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Rooting for USC to fail is rooting for Oregon to succeed

Why has Oregon risen?

3. Nike $$$ for facilities
2. They have hired good coaches
1. By far the biggest reason: USC, UCLA and Washington have hired a series of bad coaches (Fingers crossed Sark breaks that trend) and have underperformed vs their historic levels. Kids who should be playing in LA or Seattle are going to Eugene.

If the big three get their act together Oregon (and Stanford) will slide back to mediocrity.

C'mon Haden, pull the trigger and hire a real football coach.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    How about just worrying about how to make Washington better? USC being great again only makes your problems worse. Or are you one of those fans that accepts mediocrity from your own program as long as your rivals suck more?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,495 Founders Club
    Had Pete Carroll stayed at USC he would have lost to chip a time or two.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    BSU game assured me that we are a threat to Oregon.

    Call it what you want, but UW definitely opened eyes last week. They're also raised concerns in Eugene.

    Bottom line, whatever Oregon can do, many other schools can do better, including UW. Why? More and better resources. Oregon has Phil Knight and Nike. What more can Oregon do that others aren't catching up to, and even surpassing?

    Oregon is still in Eugene, it's nowhere near the quality school as many in the Pac-12, and very aware of what's going on up North.

    Should be an interesting game this year. Duck fans will be more nervous this year than in quite some time. Youll be able to tell the amount of anxiety with the amount of trash talk by the fans. Expect a lot of that from Eugene this year
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,388 Standard Supporter
    edited September 2013
    Oregon was already on it's way when Carroll was still at USC. They beat USC two out of Carroll's last three years, plunger raping USC in 2009.

    Look at all the guys Oregon recruits. A lot of them are national recruits. Why should those players be playing in Seattle or LA?

    Your post is filled with inaccuracies. USC will be fine once they fire Kiffin. The big 3? It's not 1990 you fucking imbecile. Oregon isn't going anywhere.
  • Auburndawg
    Auburndawg Member Posts: 362
    Recruiting is a zero sum game. If UW, USC and UCLA are all strong Oregon will stop getting kids like DAT and Mariotta.

  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Hi there.

    Chip Kelly helped the Ducks gain national attention in 2009 after an upset of the then #5 USC Trojans on October 31. Kelly became the first Pac-10 coach to win an outright conference championship in his first season, sending the Ducks to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1995. Oregon also became the first Pac-10 team to win a conference title by two games since Washington accomplished the feat in 1991. On December 7, 2009 Kelly was named Pac-10 Coach of the year. He was the second Ducks coach to earn the honor, the other being Rich Brooks (two times). (LOL!)

    That USC team was coached by crappy Pete Carroll.

    Your narrative is a graa, just don't try and pass it off as anything but fiction.
  • Auburndawg
    Auburndawg Member Posts: 362
    I said all three need to be strong. Oregon rose as UW and UCLA fell. USC declining will just make things worse.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    edited September 2013

    I said all three need to be strong. Oregon rose as UW and UCLA fell. USC declining will just make things worse.

    When in history have all three USC, UCLA and UW been simultaneously strong?

    Not often.

    Yet Oregon still sucked.

    Then Oregon got their shit together.

    Hope that helps.