Lanning
Hopefully Lanning will be secretly meeting with Alabama officials the week of the Washington game.
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@SFGbob True ?!
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DeBoer has made that even less likely now that the world can see that Saban was Alabama and he was right that NIL was going to kill his ultimate advantage, hence the timing of retirement.
The state of Alabama has 1 billionaire. One. He's an Auburn alum. Not an ideal place for NIL. In fact, the whole SEC has about 1/10th of the billionaires in the B1G. The balance of power has shifted heavily towards the B1G.
DeBoer has a talented roster but it's a carbon copy of a dozen other programs. Unless the rules change, Bama isn't the job it once was.
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Talent is not their problem but you're right the sec is not the advantage it once was that that cheating is legal. The top sec teams used to overpower the big and acc teams, it was automatic. In one season fsu made their defense look like an upper tier sec unit.
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It just doesn't make any sense, Boner's a great coach. It seems perhaps the issue is defense and his inability to get someone on that side of the ball to get it right. That seems like an easy fix, Ohio St lost Knowles and then brought in a veteran NFL guy. Dudes should be banging down his door for the DC role. His QB sucks, that also seems like an easy fix, it's still Alabama. They couldn't outbid Oklahoma for Mateer?(I know he followed the OC from WSU).
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Nothing last forever. I'm old enough to remember the Shula and Francione years. Lots of 4-7. Hope it happens again.
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To put it simply Alabama cannot afford to fire DeBoer much less hire Lanning.
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Lanning already said no
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DeBoer just needs to get his 26yo guys in there….
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Gundy goes full cuck in latest rant.
"Oregon is paying a lot, a lot of money for their team," Gundy said. "From a nonconference standpoint, there's coaches saying they should [play teams with similar budgets]."
Oregon is -28. Take the points. Bet the over.
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I honestly don't know the collective sentiment here. Do people want Lanning to go to Bama (or somewhere) or not?
I thought the narrative was keep him at Oregon because ….
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Keep him at Oregon was when UW kept DeBoer
If I am a Bama fan and I am, I am storming the gates if they replace DeBoer with someone who couldn't beat him
One of the big complaints about DeBoer now is that he is a soft west coast coach who doesn't get it. He is actually a tuff northern plains guy but still. Lanning would be seen as west coast as well and Oregon as a no natty glamour queen
I don't care if he stays or goes. Oregon obviously wants to keep him and did so unlike another school I follow. Danny is 37-6. Oregon learned that not just anyone can do it there after suffering through Helfrich and The Snake Killer. Mario was not as good as Lanning even with a couple conference titles.
UW hoping for this or that to stop Oregon is so fucking tired. Hire the right guy and fucking stop them yourself
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I was all on board for landing staying but since his rehab it now seems he has his shit together…..so he can LEAVE
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I hate to say this, but as much as I think Deboner had some magic in himself while he was with Washington I also think you have to say Penix and the WRs were a big part of it. It's not like he kicked Oregon's asses … he had a unique QB with weapons who have that thing the makes them clutch in the clutch. UW might not see that combo again in our lifetimes (well, maybe yours)
He also was coaching a team that was good at the "us against the world" bit and was coming in as the underdog in these big games with a chip on his /their shoulder, real or imagined.
Fast forward to where he is now, he's a front runner and doesn't get to sneak up or underdog anybody and he doesn't have the tools he had in the passing game. He's just not the same guy there.
Most interesting to me is to wonder what happens if he stays at Washington. I think he comes back down to earth a little w/o Penix and the Jets. Better than Jedd? Probably. Maybe. IDK.
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The narratives on Boner are going to change game to game which will subsequently change how we view the 2023 Huskies.
If Penix & Rome ball out this year then Boner sucks. If they're average and Boner loses 3 or more, Boner probably sucks. Currently trending strongly against Boner.
The question which I probably used to know and have forgotten is whether Boner wanted to bring Haener here more than he wanted to bring Penix here.
Having 5 NFL WRs (top 3 round picks assuming Bernard and Boston go top 3 rounds), an NFL roster TE, NFL level tackles and other linemen, plus Giles Jackson does make me wonder how we didn't score more points that year.
I think Boner does end up at UW, but this time its Wisconsin.
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Oregon couldn't beat Penix, Odunze, that OL, etc.
But I like this narrative.
If Dan leaves, we'll replace him. Failing forward once again.
You can't win here.
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A true what if take with DeBoner probably isn't ready for at least another year or two. It's a good point that almost losing every damn game in 2023 and the inability to put teams away is a reflective red flag. I hadn't watched the Sugar Bowl in a long time and forgot how much control we had in that game but couldn't pull away.
I've gotten a kick out of the complaints from Bama anonymous internet insiders about the lack of discipline and chaos around the team at the team hotel. Even when we were winning it always seemed like a shit show.
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Why is no one talking about Will Rogers being DeBoer's successor to Penix?
That's the coach who was to have a statue at Husky Stadium?
Coleman and Williams are Fisch recruits. The cupboard was bare. DeBoer got out because he knew a huge drop off was coming.
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Come on Flatass I've at least said many times I questioned DeBoner's recruiting and portal recruiting prowess and that the best he could bring in for 2024 was Rogers was shameful and his best defense is he was already out the door.
I think he would have probably went 8-4 last year, maybe 9-3, but no idea after that. The guys he signed at UW have not been particularly impressive.
Seems like he was on track to be a music artist who had an all-time debut album but then just disappointed after that forever.
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penix being an incredible qb doesn’t explain DeBoer winning at two other spots before UW, though. One of which he turned haener into an nfl qb
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I agree. His overall record shows he's a good coach. No doubt about it.
And it's almost an Iron Law @Auburndawg that it's rare for a P5 coach to do it at an elite level at more than one P5 stop. Most fall on their faces when they move on. It's what makes Urbs legendary.
So him failing at Alabama doesn't mean he wasn't good at Washington. But still … he had that QB.
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He excels at lower levels. Clearly in over his head at Bama.
I'm hearing some on this board would take him back, though.
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I haven't heard that. I think he's dead to everyone around here now.
Still, can't blame anyone for being disappointed in losing him and replacing him with Fischsticks.
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You post a lot, Woolley. I can't keep track of them all.
I definitely remember @RaceBannon losing his shit over recruiting during his first season. That all went away once he beat Oregon.
I guess I'm wondering why Rogers isn't more regularly called out as a huge red flag now that we all can see that Penix et al were DeBoer.
As you said, 2023 was a shitshow of improbable close calls. It was a great team, but it was because of the coaches on the field.
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25-3
UW fucked up. These rationalizations are amusing though
Until Judd goes 5-7
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Overall, I think Deboer is a good coach and I'm surprised he's struggling so much at Alabama. I thought quick success at Bama was a harder task than it might have seemed though. It didn't look like to the level of proven NFL talent and depth they had during Saban's years and he didn't have a QB for his system.
Deboer's Fresno success wasn't overly remarkable. Tedford was better before and after he was there. I was mostly excited about Deboer when he came because of his offense after nearly a decade of Pete and Jimmy's drek and bringing Haener with him.
Would consider Deboer back depending on what the options are but wasn't optimistic about the way he was doing things for success in college football in this wonderful day and age at the time he left.
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Bellotti was 23-3 with Joey Harrington starting his last 2 seasons.
And, no, Harrington was no Penix. Bellotti was no Chip, either.
I see 2023 UW as a mini-me version of 2019 LSU. Burrow, Jefferson et al. DeBoer = Orgeron.
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You memory of me is as bad as your takes on Husky Football
0-3 against DeBoer. You'd think that a great coach could figure it out. ASU did. Hell even WSU shut down the Husky O in 2023 as did Harbaugh
All we heard from duck fans was fan duel has us as favorites and we out recruit you and have more talent
How did that work out for you? No doubt you love our latest patsy and 49-21. Everyone does. He's a great recruiter!!!!!!
I've seen a slew of NFL quarterbacks at UW that didn't win shit. I've seen a slew of coaches that sucked.
I hadn't seen 4-8 to 25-3.
I don't give a shit about recruiting. There is a whole thread where I said I don't care how players got here jut how they performed when they did
Losers talk about recruiting. A fucking Iron Law as old as the site
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That's a lot of text about my singular word of the word recruiting. You're correct, my memory isn't great these days but the site keeps receipts so I don't have to.
Regardless, DeBoer did great things with a special group of players that were already here outside of Penix.
What are thoughts on Mike Norvell? He was 2-10 last year and clown-stomped your living hero (RIP Don James) on Saturday. You mentioned 4-8 to 25-3 so it's relevant.
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Dead Internet University needs everybody to stop and think that Montana State was good last year at the FCS level and this year is on par with a Mountain West school that spends more than WSU and OSU on football, up until 2 seasons ago had a better stadium, etc.
