30Duck

2-4 Washington At 0-6 Arizona

Yes, I think we've arrived at the state of the Pac-12. How many coaching openings in the Pac-12 would be considered lateral to a currently employed head P5 head coach, let alone a step up?

I always go with 30 24 23 21 20 8

LeGarrette Blount also has 3, and is one of 6 players to win consecutive Super Bowls with different teams, New England in SB LI and Philadelphia LII

30, when was the last time a Pac-12 team hired a successful, employed, P5 HC to take over the program? The closest I can think of is Rich Rod, after he was let go at Michigan, being hired at Arizona.

This is WSU, but the candidates for the job are assistant coaches, what SEC job would be filled with an assistant coach?

I think this is a big part of the "problem". I don't think AB is confident that he can lead a team on drives incorporating downfield passes. He certainly isn't going to, "lead them open" or throw to the back shoulder, a pass farther than to a RB in the flat is out of his comfort zone.

Joe Moorhead, "I know a lot of people want a touchdown every drive, and that's just not feasible."

Yes. Recently we saw that Oregon is now Clemson, actually, this year Clemson regressed, and is actually even lower than Oregon. Clemson won the ACC and got to the Playoffs, the ACC isn't nearly as tough as the Pac-12, and even a 12-0 Pac-12 would be a little nervous about making the Final 4.

It feels funny to agree with Finebaum, but if you measure success by getting to the Playoffs and then winning, it is LSU all the way. Chip & Pete are the closest the Pac-12 has come to matching the SEC. LSU has two W's in recent memory, and as Finebaum said, Miles and Ed O aren't candidates for the Mt. Rushmore of coaches. Coaching in the SEC , LSU, Auburn, Texas A & M, Ole Miss, I don't think Kiffin is interested in going back to USC, gets you a lot closer to the CFP than any school in the Pac-12 does. Recruiting? A lot of the top talent in SC's backyard is going to Oregon...but a lot of the talent is going to SEC country, where the most talent is already. Whoever ends up at USC wasn't wanted at LSU.

UCLA's two losses this season have been at home, Fresno State & ASU.

Both of these Bluebloods are going to have new coaches next season. LSU won the championship a couple of seasons ago with one of the best teams ever assembled, but have fallen into disarray. When USC hired Pete Carroll nobody expected the run the Trojans went on before Carroll said, "Cut" and hightailed it to Seattle. Since then, USC has been "Living On A Dream". According to Paul Finebaum, ESPN SEC Talking Head, the answer is obvious, "When you have a program when Les Miles and Ed Orgeron can win national championships at your program, anybody can,because I don't think either of them are great football coaches" So, LSU is coach proof? Miles, Orgeron won the 'ship, but Helton never got close. Besides Carroll's USC teams, Oregon, in 2007, and twice under Chip have come the closest. What, or who is it going to take for the Pac-12 to win it all again?

Not hardly, and especially not better than this!

Love this! And yeah, Oregon's D didn't stop Ohio States O, save for the TO"s, that one, "Could have gone either way". Clemson is a great case, their offense is Sllllloooowww. Dabo is sticking with Uiagalelei,.

The other grouping here is the good ole, "Glass half full or half empty" In your two groups I don't know if the former group can even confidently see regular trips to the "Granddaddy of Them All" on a regular basis with this version of Cristobal. Since he's been at Oregon, Cristobal has been the most successful Coach in the conference. If I had the ability to switch him out for any of the other 11, I wouldn't. But that doesn't mean that I can't hope that Mario see's that he doesn't have coaching down after 70 games and that changing things up can be a positive move.

The game against UCLA comes in the middle of the season, and it could decide the direction the season takes.

According To ESPN Analyst, David Pollack, "UCLA is Anti-Oregon"

Disappointed is the perfect adjective. I'll never get the image of the Tweet in the Oregon Football Account of the "Gutsy" win against Cal. No way should a Top 10 4-1 team need a "gutsy" effort to pull out a win over 1-4 Cal, at home. To be underwhelmed by this season's team takes nothing away from Mario's earlier seasons, in fact, it's those seasons I'm thinking about. The Ducks should be getting better, and this season isn't. 5-1 is a great record, but all 5-1's aren't the same. The Ducks struggled, really, in every game, except the one at Ohio State. It seems like Cristobal has a plan, but I don't know how he's going about putting it together. "He says he wants his teams to be tough. "I'm thinking he's wanting them to be like his teams at The "U". They aren't.

Great Ducks all. Haloti Ngata is the first player I thought of, drafted in the 1st round in 2006 by Baltimore, 5 Pro Bowls, and a Super Bowl win. Ahmad Rashad, (Bobby Moore). Drafted in 1972 by the St. Louis Cardinals, , named to 4 Pro Bowls later as a Minnesota Viking.

I'll go with the former. You mentioned 2016 as hitting the bottom. We thought that Mario had brought life back into the program, and in many ways he has. But, I know there's frustration here, and I believe that Moorhead revealed some of his own, Do the Ducks need to hit rock bottom again?

The""U" also played with a swagger, but didn't get an inordinate amount of personal fouls, they were intimidating through their confidence, the other teams just took a gulp before the game started.

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