David Marsh

It has become abundantly clear now to anyone that I think Helfrich gets a bad rap by a lot of Ducks fans. Was he perfect? Of course not. Was he given time to truly address some of the problems that emerged? Nope. Would he have worked out in the end... probably not to the goal of a National Championship in honest truth without some major changes along the way. But I also have no sympathies for anyone crying about Oregon needs coaches to be loyal to the program and are lifers when Helfrich was going to be a lifer in the mold of Bellotti and the fan base was calling for his head after one really really bad bowl game and a bad season. Fans want loyalty from their coaches but show their coaches no loyalty when things get tough, within reason.

In fairness that was what was said about Mariota ... And to a slightly lesser extent Herbert. But they also played at a much much higher level so they got away with it.

The standard is way to high these daya to win. Cryst had a 72% win rate. Though... As ducks fans we tossed Helfrich out on his butt after one really bad season. He had a 70% win rate. The win now culture is brutal.

I don't know if he progressed enough to regress at this point.

Knew this was coming sooner or later. I think that is 2 for 2 on coaches on the hot seat. I think all the other coaches in the PAC are actually safe at this point. Shaw is staying at Stanford, there are way too many factors going on there that have led to Stanford's problems. Zona has to be happy with Fisch as he has the program pointed in the right direction. Then Kelly and Wilcox both got extensions last year and those were perhaps the only other two who might have been on a hot seat this year and their teams don't look anywhere near bad enough for that.

It needed a yellow helmet to go with it and it would have looked better.

Refs can always throw flags at both teams. There is a heirarchy of penalties that can get applied. The refs could very easily thrown a flag or two at Stanford for unsportsmanlike conduct. And they choose not to. I don't think a flag was ever headed to Stanford for that incident.

I think it is important for backups to get reps in garbage time. What really concerns me about TT was how lost he looked out there. He didn't seem to know where he wanted to go with the ball. A few of his passes seemed more to a part of the field than actually to a player.

The refs also ignored a whole lot of holding calls against USCs online against Oregon state that had Beaver fans salty. It seems to be a trend where California schools are getting ref's protection. The lack of holding calls against USC definitely played a major role in USCs win... Granted... 4 interceptions from OSU didn't help.

There will be times when the coaches and players need to focus for the fourth quarter so I see why Lanning is trying to reel this in. Oregon was on the door knocking on another touchdown and let's face it the red zone hasn't been good to them.

I look at a bunch of non-calla by the officials when Stanford not only played through the whistle, which is fine and what is coached, but we'll behind the whistle. Seven shouldn't have done what he did but he was driven back long after the whistle was over and then slammed to the ground. Then the Stanford players still thought live ball and that led to Nix torpedoing them... Which was all apart of the side line problem. Then towards the end of the gma Stanford figured out that they werent going to get flagged for playing extra rough so they did. Then there was that Whittington slam Stanford did where yet again they played through the whistle but after the whistle they kept going and picked Whittington up and threw him in the ground for... No flag? The refs really let Stanford beat up the ducks. I had a good laugh when the refs threw a flag at Gonzo for unnecessary roughness when all he did was tackle the Stanford players to the ground through the whistle... Thankfully the refs picked that flag up but it really did feel like they were just trying to punish Oregon.

Thompson looks lost out there. He isn't even hitting his recievers terribly well. Some of those passes feel like they were more to an area of the field than an actual recievers.

Donte Moore will surpass him if that's the case.

Stanford knows they can get away with beating up in the ducks a bit and they are playing pretty rough now. Refs are happy to look the other way for the most part.

There's the reffing problem again... No flag for that? The whistle was blown and they picked up wittington and threw hint it he ground? I'm sorry that's a flag for unnecessary roughness.

Dorrell by a long shot. Stanford's problems are beyond what Shaw can actually fix. Stanford loses to the transfer portal and due to their academic enrollment policy they do. It gain from it. Stanford players used to be able to enroll in a frad program by just staying now they have to apply and get in along with anyone and everyone else. So they just transfer out..

He has one more year.

It is when the refs need to help Stanford get back in the game.

So the shoulder and arm count as horse collar tackle now?

Those refs had to pick up that flag for gonzo being too physical after not flagging Stanford blasting Seven like they did earlier..

There is another series of downs where Dillingham went away from the run and it was a mistake.

That and they are going to try and get Stanford back in the game.

The biggest loser of Cristobal leaving for Miami (arguably more so than Miami)... Stanford.

Not for a Pac-12 school at an 8pm pst kick off time.

I'm starting to think Nix has a vendetta against Stanford's best corner... First sneaks a pass into Franklin for a touchdown and now ran on him for one.