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Mosster, come on man...
That Alamo was embarrassing on many levels. It was the only time in 25 years of following this team, I laughed when they lost. I actually started to root for TCU late in the 3rd quarter when they showed a shot of Pellum on the sideline. I realized then, a loss like that would send him packing. By mid 4th quarter though, I realized after the 47th ground ball snapped by our backup center, that if this coaching staff can't even get our 2nd string center to shot gun snap the ball or go under center, then how can I expect them to actually hire a decent coordinator. I realized, it was over.
I opened up the scotch cabinet, poured a 12 year Glendronach, and watched in cynical laughter, as the final 8 minutes and overtime confirmed my observations.
Oregon football was diagnosed with terminal cancer on January 16th, 2013. It officially died on January 2nd, 2016.
That Alamo was embarrassing on many levels. It was the only time in 25 years of following this team, I laughed when they lost. I actually started to root for TCU late in the 3rd quarter when they showed a shot of Pellum on the sideline. I realized then, a loss like that would send him packing. By mid 4th quarter though, I realized after the 47th ground ball snapped by our backup center, that if this coaching staff can't even get our 2nd string center to shot gun snap the ball or go under center, then how can I expect them to actually hire a decent coordinator. I realized, it was over.
I opened up the scotch cabinet, poured a 12 year Glendronach, and watched in cynical laughter, as the final 8 minutes and overtime confirmed my observations.
Oregon football was diagnosed with terminal cancer on January 16th, 2013. It officially died on January 2nd, 2016.
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Frost was a leftover from Chip. Speaking of Chip being gay, how about this scenario: Oregon needs a WR coach. So, Chip hires a guy who played defense in the NFL, has only coached defense, and was the D-coordinator at a small college. Oh, and he's one of the best looking coaches in history (no homo). The two of them also went a long trip to Spain together with no one else on the coaching staff during the summer. Yeah, not gay at all.
Slingblade hired Don Pellum over Dave Aranda and Todd Orlando. So, he passed up two of the best young DC's in the business for arguably the worst DC in major college football over the last five years. Obviously I'm not confident in his hiring of Hoke. It seems like an attempt at a poor man's Ed O.
Lubick did a tremendous job improving the inept passing game schematically Frost had put together. Promoting Lubick to be a first time coordinator and hiring Yost who is one of the best OC's of the 2000's seems odd, especially since Yost is the QB Coach. You can probably count on one finger the number of Power 5 OC's that aren't QB coaches.
I thought Slingblade was a terrible hire initially but I got why they hired him. I knew he was a terrible coach after the ass raping in Tucson. This Alamo Bowl meltdown was historically shitty. Yes, Pellum got moved but Slingblade hired him to begin with.
Oregon is a middle tier program with its free agent QB's and sieve defense until proven otherwise. By the end of year two there weren't two guys in the program that could snap the ball to the QB or throw a five yard slant? Pretty fucking pathetic.
Someone else beat Oregon, nothing else matters. Again.
So yeah but still.
Yeah, it's safe to say I find nine wins unacceptable when you're the only program west of the Rockies that seems to care about football.
Other than Campbell those guys that have been there forever are replaceable. Greatwood was the D-Line coach until Zoumer retired. Then the next day he was the O-line coach.
People think that no upward trajectory forever means progress. Pellum showed why no one else ever wanted him.
Slingblade has at most two more years to win the conference and the powers that be will can everyone and start fresh.
Their D was a sieve last year. Yes. But they were playing well for quite a while in that game, and even a good defense, which again they weren't, will give eventually if they're on the field too long. And that's what happened. Period. End of story.
The center fiasco was not lethal as long as Vaj was in the game. As he showed in several games, including the nail biter at ASU, he was athletic enough to pick the ball up off the ground and still make something happen. Lockie simply wasn't. That little fucking problem on 98% of the snaps exceeded the margin of error you had with Lockie. It was too much for him ... it would be too much for even an average QB, and Lockie is well below that for D1a. I'm not sure how Browning would handle having to pick the ball up off the ground on every fucking snap.
Sure, that's all on the coach to have people who can do what needs to be done. But it also tells me, if they can fix that, the program is not in the death spiral that everyone imagines.
Frankly, it would be better if they were in a death spiral. That's when the boosters who give a shit come out and apply pressure. I don't think Knight is going to move to get Helfire fired if he continues to bring in 9 and 10 win seasons, even though he'll never get them to the pinnacle.
I've been to cfb games in Columbus, Miami, Tally, Alabama, Norman, Seattle, Dallas, Eugene, Philly (don't ask), Boston and Knoxville. Obnoxiousness quotient winner, without competition, is Columbus. It's still like 1988 there. Eugene wasn't great either, but I've experienced worse. And two places I experienced worse were Corvallis, and Montlake when we? you? they? were playing the beavs. Mind you, this was when OSU was a perennial 1 win team, which makes it all the more spectacular. I have actually run into THAT guy. Closest I've come to getting into an actual scrap since junior high school, which frankly is stunning to me, was when THAT guy came into my fucking tailgate in the Montlake parking lot being THAT guy.
Fucking frat boys. Just a bundle of obnoxious.