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[srs questn] Best Oregon team during their run (Chip hired as OC through Helfrich 2015)?

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    2010 - Fluke play natty loss
    2010 natty was the only time I ever rooted for Oregon.

    Fuck.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    2010 - Fluke play natty loss

    I have to admit, I smiled when I saw that knee go in three directions.

    @Duxfan!!! True???
  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    edited May 2018
    2014 - Mariota is god until Urban says "lol"
    2012 team was good but blew their chance at an easy Natty against ND.

    2014 was supposed to be "the year," and might have had better results with Chimp Smelly. Don't think we would have beaten Ohio State even with el Chimpo dough.

    2010 was never supposed to be a contender. Played Allbarn better than we should have.

    2013 could have beaten Free Shoes if Chimp had stuck around and we only had one stupid loss instead of two I guess

    We snakebit.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    edited May 2018

    Also, because I'm a contrarian, I'll take the Dennis Dixon knee year.

    You have four guys who went on to be NFL Pro Bowlers (Stewart, Unger, Byrd, Ward) plus a couple more who hung around the NFL as starters to some extent for awhile (Chung, Schwartz, Dickson). What that says, I'm not really sure. But I've heard having NFL talent matters. As an added bonus, they punched Leavitt in the mouth in their bowl game.

    Nail.Head.Smash

    Dixon was the perfect weapon for Chip's early offense at Oregon. He became a much better passer under Chip, but his speed and elusiveness were his biggest threat. I was at the SC game and the talent disparity was evident when SC's players came out of the tunnel...roided up Matthews, Cushing, and Crazy Malauga. Several 3rd downs SC had all options covered only to watch Dixon elude the D and run out of bounds just beyond the stick. Back to back wins vs top 10 SC and ASU ramped up the Heisman and BCS talk....all for naught on that shitatstic Thursday in Tucson. I was there with a nice pregame glow from Dirtbags, sitting in the Zona donor section talking shit as Dixon faked the handoff to Snoop on 4th and short and ran 39 yds for the TD when all the Zona fans thought Snoop was stuffed. After the knee popped that was it so we skulked back to Dirtbags to drown our sorrows.
    My issue is that Dixon hurt that knee the week before late in the 4th quarter against ASU with the game already decided. Dixon and the coaching staff knew he had a partially torn ACL but Dixon wanted to give it a go, he then proceeded to fully tear it against Arizona.