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AZDuck
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I may be citrus-bombing this place soon and go out in a blaze of old-man-gay-sex glory(hole).
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1. Frustration with the hire, then
2. Blind dooging/quooking to justify the emotion and hope you poured in (watch the trajectory at equook and other places start getting way more positive as the season nears), then
3. Slight recruiting uptick that happens with almost every new coach, then
4. Permanent negadawg/negaquook once the losses mount.
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Taggart strikes me as a guy who probably has an 8-4 or 9-3 ceiling at the best ...
If I'm going to hire a coach from a non-P5 level, then the first criteria that I'm going to have for that hire is that that coach has won his conference before ... bare minimum that he's won his division. Taggart in 7 years of coaching can only claim that he's tied for his division championship once.
People have said that Taggart has some West Coast ties ... but those ties are for 3 years under Harbaugh at Stanford ... and let's be honest, Stanford is recruiting a vastly different kind of player than Oregon is.
From a UW perspective, it's very difficult for me to view this hire as a peer hire to compete with Petersen. And that makes me feel very good going forward. I'm probably more worried about what Anderson is going to do at Oregon State to be honest.
If all goes according to play, Taggart is your Slick Rick hire ...
You still have the Gilby, Tyrone, and Sark hires to go before you pull another good coach to the table if there is anything right in this world.
Welcome to hell @AZDuck
Taking over a couple floormats for a few years and demanding the highest success is pretty unrealistic.
Look, I have nothing against Taggart ...
I do think that it's somewhat important somewhere along the line for a coach to prove that he can stay at a job long enough to win with his own players ...
If you don't agree with that, I give you Oklahoma State in the mid-80's. Jimmy Johnson left after 1983 to go to Miami and turned the job over to Pat Jones ... Jones had a really good 1984 season (with the players Jimmy got) and that led to another strong class that ended with the whole Mike Gundy, Barry Sanders, and Hart Lee Dykes teams of the late 80's. Once those guys left Pat Jones fell on his face and it took Okie Lite another 4-5 years after they probably should have realized he wasn't the guy before they fired him and replaced him with ... Bob Simmons (that's another great hire).
Taggart has proven that he can turn around a program. I expect Oregon to be better than not in the next 2-3 years. That being said, Taggart has yet to prove that he can sustain a program ... and that's probably the hardest thing to do year to year. Look at Mark Dantonio this year and his 3-9 record ... he's a fantastic coach ... but it's easy to have a slip year or two. The good to great coaches when this happens can rebound and right the ship. Can Taggart?
If the rumors of his 5 year/$3.25 million contract is true then it really does show that Phil is done with the program and they actually had to stay in budget. Oregon breaks even on a razor thin budget, so a team hiring a coach for $600k a year that has played for two NC's in the past six years tells you they are broke or aren't serious.
I will be in the land of cotton well before this guy lands his first recruit. So, Roll Tide.
That is serious?