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Rooting for USC to fail is rooting for Oregon to succeed
Auburndawg
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Why has Oregon risen?
3. Nike $$$ for facilities
2. They have hired good coaches
1. By far the biggest reason: USC, UCLA and Washington have hired a series of bad coaches (Fingers crossed Sark breaks that trend) and have underperformed vs their historic levels. Kids who should be playing in LA or Seattle are going to Eugene.
If the big three get their act together Oregon (and Stanford) will slide back to mediocrity.
C'mon Haden, pull the trigger and hire a real football coach.
3. Nike $$$ 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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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
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.
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.
Not often.
Yet Oregon still sucked.
Then Oregon got their shit together.
Hope that helps.
We don't call him AuburndoogFuckingStupid for nothing.
2. Duh. Whatever any school can do, another can do better ... given the right circumstances. Nobody cares that Oregon is in Eugene, any more than they do that Florida is in Gainsville and Oklahoma is in Norman and Nebraska in Lincoln and Penn State in Happy Valley and ... and .... Doesn't matter. Never has. Academics? Is that why we used to get everyone to come here? Back when we were ranked #76 in the US News and WR? Are you serious? How does Arizona and ASU recruit then? Texas A&M? Any school in the SEC not named Vanderbilt? This is such a loser line of reasoning.
3. Trash talk - so, by logical extension, does that mean you're nervous too?
Oregon got good. Phil isn't going anywhere, and as long as he's there, they won't tolerate a coach who isn't getting it done. THAT is why they are good. It's a priority. If it becomes a priority here again, and it seems to be, then we will be good ... again. But that won't make them bad by itself.
I do love the "return to the mean" theory. Of course UW will be good again. But this idea that there is some rightful trilogy in the conference is laughable.
Not necessarily. Each can only have 85. If this theory held true, then UW should not have landed Shaq ... but it did, even after 7-6.
Don't tell me - he's a brilliant aspiring computer science student and came here to study.
Oregon got DAT when USC still looked like a viable place to play. It must've been the cheating.