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Dan Lanning's recruiting angle: Multi sport athletes! 14 of those 20 signed are multi sport athletes. That's no coincidence. It's VALUE! You can get a multi sport athlete that is a 3 star or lower like say Justin Herbert or Bryce Boecher, with a really high ceiling. Most dual sport athletes are underdeveloped by virtue of not focusing on their football skills year round, so their stats and skills lag those that have the year round focus that are 4 and 5 stars close to their ceiling. So these lower rated athletes are like wow an Oregon offer! They aren't necessarily getting offers from other big time programs which improves our success rate in getting them to sign. Multisport athletes probably have a different mindset that they play sports to enjoy them moreso than the one track mind of I have to compromise everything else to make it in this one sport and be the absolute best. I think that those people are probably more appreciative, better teammates, and build better relationships which is part of Dan Lanning's culture. It's a very shrewd angle to approach recruiting, or if you want to grab life by the dodgeballs: "It's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off.".

And now a Jett as well. I'm surprised so many signed without finality of the coordinator replacements. I would have expected more commits simply holding off until they get more clarity.

I agree. Dan Lanning can call any OC in the country and they will at least answer the phone and very, very few would turn down an offer of the position. We don't need continuity, we need excellence and an open mind to continually adapt the offense to our players' strengths. Drew has been Stein's eyes in the box, which is something I've been critical of. Maybe Stein is overruling him and he is too much of a yes man, or he isn't recognizing what is actually going on.

That's like a dog returning to his vomit for Penn State. We interviewed him before we interviewed Dan Lanning, and said not interested, his ceiling wasn't high enough as a recruiter and team culture builder. He would literally be Franklin 2.0.

I missed Kenny Dillingham more than I'll miss Stein. Like Justin Herbert, Kenny saved us from falling to the depths of mediocrity at a critical time. Could you imagine if we ran an offense for the guys we wished we had, like our defense did? We would have been lucky to be .500 Dan's first year. Once that high efficiency offensive blueprint was set, Stein just had to maintain it for two years. Then this year we've seen how long it took him to adapt to the players we have now that have dramatically different strengths and weaknesses than the first two years. I'm not looking for continuity with our next OC I'm looking for open minded flexibility and past production that wasn't dependent on an outlier gifted QB making them look better than they are. Coach Lanning should generate standard program terminology, naming and signals for our Offense and Defense, and require the incoming OC and DC to learn them, rather than forcing everyone else on the team to adapt to the new OC/DC's preferred terminology, naming and signals. The turnover is likely going to be higher for coordinators than even players, so minimize the impacts of those transitions.

It literally has not changed. Per Josh Pate, the BCS computer formulas are still being heavily relied on by the committee (who have much more important day jobs), with the main difference this year being that the committee is doing a bad job of justifying the results the computer is spitting out. The committee with finally spend some time of their own these next two weeks, puting their heads together to make changes to what the computers tell them to do, so be prepared for real chaos with this week and the final rankings/seeding next Sunday.

I think people aren't talking about Texas's getting in at all which is a mistake. They are clearly playing better ball right now than TAMU they beat that was just ranked 3rd. How does the committee leave them out? They are a massive draw and are playing as good as anyone in the SEC. It actually scares me a little that there is a possibility we play Texas in Autzen for our 1st playoff game. That's a worst case scenario as a #5 seed if we are being honest.

NO. Give us a home game against a team from the east or southeast as a warm up for the next week against a team that is cold. Yes, it exposes you to injuries and possibility of a loss, but odds are still better to win the quarterfinals that way, and it gives our fans some more fun and Autzen more publicity.

Give me Georgia. Give me any SEC team for that matter, they all have flaws. The other 3 are complete teams like Oregon.

Sumrall to UF is done. Auburn also made their pick. It's going to be a busy Sunday on the carousel.

11-1, and a playoff game at home against a much lower ranked team, and no pointless CCG. It's as good as any of us could have hoped for.

The more I watch the SEC the less impressed I get. Alabama is a team with no running game and their QB's passing percentage is 67%...and then there is Georgia who's O-Line is not good. Seeing A&M get beat solidify by Texas, I'm beginning to think 3 loss Texas may be the best team in the SEC with Manning finally figuring it out.

I'm a little slow. It just dawned on me SEC teams only have to win 2 conference games to make a bowl game if they win their FOUR cupcake games. Auburn is 1 and 5 in conference and fighting Bama for a bowl game...

It certainly feels like we are having similar levels of success. Playoffs, here we come.

I dunno. Outside McClellan and Benson we don't have any other WRs Moore wants to throw to. We need Stewart and Moore back if we want to beat the best. I think we saw the limits of what you can do with Sadiq as a WR today. Seam and drag routes and zone reads are good, but curls, back shoulder, and any other possession type grabs that require millisecond, minute adjustments are a little hard for a guy thicker than Sequoia tree.