The conference hasn't been worse than it is right now in 40 years, and maybe even more, but I wasn't around, yet Mario still makes winning here look like an absolutely massive struggle. Nothing comes easy for his teams. The defense, while statistically decent, is the anti-clutch, they just can't get off the field. It's the time honored "bend but don't break" which is really just code for "sucks". The song remains the same and it starts and ends with the head coach.
The offense is a disaster. I dgaf about the stats. When Herbert broke his collarbone vs CAL in 2017, Oregon proceeded to run for 250 yards a game against UW, Stanford, UCLA, and Utah, the 4 best rush defenses in the conference, WITH BRAXTON BURMEISTER AT QB. But Willy Taggart was a bad coach. Seriously, stop and think about that. Now we run for 162 yards a game at 4.3 ypc and talk about how physical we are. Announcers talk about how committed to the run Oregon is, and how nice that is to see in this day and age. 10 years ago Nick Saban was running 12 personnel or a fullback half the time, and now they throw for 400 yards a game, because get this: big plays win games. Oregon is pedestrian as fuck on offense, for no other reason than our head coach is too fucking stuck in his tuffguy ways to allow anything else. Go fucking coach at Iowa, they'll eat that shit up. You actually have a roster at Oregon littered with high end skill position talent.
The INSTANT Cristobal took over this team he destroyed the culture of what had been nationally one of the most successful, nifty, prolific offenses of the modern CFB era. There is zero creativity, zero passion, he destroyed everything about what made Oregon great, all in the name of lunch pail tuffness, as if LMJ and co weren't tuff. As if Snoop and Droughs and MoMo weren't tuff, etc, etc, etc. So now we hang our hat on 8 minute 4th quarter drives in 1 score games against teams we should be blowing the fuck out. "what a great drive to seal the game!" That's what he's reduced us to. Shut the fuck up, it was CAL.
Why the FUCK would you come to OREGON and change the OFFENSE!? You stupid fucking idiot asshole. CMC is the perfect "just want to go 6-6 every year in the SEC" coach for Arkansas or Mississippi St.
The team will perpetually be worse than the sum of its parts for no reason other than the coach being a stupid fucking meathead. The only thing Oregon is committed to with Cristobal at head coach, is sucking ass. Sooner or later recruits are going to figure it out as well.
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