Oregon = Dumpster Fire
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Yep. Phil Knight stopped caring about football and started trying to cure cancer. Kilkenny made it very clear that Phil wouldn't be involved and whatever they were planning needed to be within the athletic budget.
So the accountant strung the search along until they were the only Power 5 without a coach and got Slingblade 2.0 on the cheap.
Oregon football is officially dead. Like with all great things, death comes from within. -
Whoever posted the "Lucy holding the football" picture in another thread hit it out of the park. The delusional, new money Duck fans all expected Chip to jump at the chance to come back and lead them back to glory. And in the rare chance that Chip couldn't make it, the line of elite coaches banging at the door would reach around Autzen. They are in complete shock and entering depression with the Taggart hire.
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"The Oregon football program is imploding before our very eyes"
-Race Bannon, one week into the Chip Kelly era (Sept 2009) -
.500 record I get Swaye, but keep in mind, he took the reigns on two very bad programs and within four years turned each of them around.
There's a difference when you go 2-10, 7-5, 7-5 at one school and then 2-10, 4-8, 8-5, 10-2 at another vs the Sark 7-6 paradigm.
He may not be great, but Taggart at least has shown the ability to improve programs. Maybe he doesn't take us to Chip's level, but he might stop the downward fall, and put us back to one great hire away from winning conference championships again.
The way I look at it, is that Taggart looks to be a pretty solid upgrade from Helfrich. -
maybe?greenblood said:Maybe he doesn't take us to Chip's level
you're really trying to talk yourself into this hire. -
I always knew I would be right I just had no idea it would happen so soonDerekJohnson said:"The Oregon football program is imploding before our very eyes"
-Race Bannon, one week into the Chip Kelly era (Sept 2009) -
Yeah you might be right, and he could turn into Don James/Chip Kelly. My bigger point was Oregon is taking a huge gamble, because it is just as likely he flames out as is successful, and that is the coach hiring model UW used quite unsuccessfully for 20 years after James until they lucked into Peterman - a proven winner. I am surprised they ate such a huge buyout on an unproven guy. This is straight up UW AD Sark shit. Throw shit at a wall and see if it sticks. Oregon was just playing for a NC two years ago, and now they are reduced to going after a guy nobody has ever heard of? Seems odd the AD would can Slingblade without a sure fire winner on deck. Basically, Oregon just did what loser programs do, and that surprised me a bit because I thought they finally decided to be winners.greenblood said:.500 record I get Swaye, but keep in mind, he took the reigns on two very bad programs and within four years turned each of them around.
There's a difference when you go 2-10, 7-5, 7-5 at one school and then 2-10, 4-8, 8-5, 10-2 at another vs the Sark 7-6 paradigm.
He may not be great, but Taggart at least has shown the ability to improve programs. Maybe he doesn't take us to Chip's level, but he might stop the downward fall, and put us back to one great hire away from winning conference championships again.
The way I look at it, is that Taggart looks to be a pretty solid upgrade from Helfrich. -
were they downtrodden?greenblood said:.500 record I get Swaye, but keep in mind, he took the reigns on two very bad programs and within four years turned each of them around. .
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Don't waste time looking at duck boards. In summary, fan reactions are abysmal. 'Boo', 'nightmare', 'bitterly disappointed', 'WTF', etc.
