David Marsh

This Heisman brought to you by the USC HYPE train!

If you look at Stanford over the past five-ish years they were already running spread elements in their offense. Not sure on that whole slow mesh thing as that seemed just straight bad most of the time. Stanford's biggest problem is recruiting. They can't use the transfer portal, they aren't competitive enough in NIL alone, they have academic restrictions that make recruiting highly selective to begin with and they can't hold onto players as many will leave via the portal. What made Stanford so deadly for so many years was that they could recruit the solid athletes and develop them and create a pipeline of players who would see reserve play as underclassmen and then they move seamlessly into starting roles as upperclassmen. That doesn't happen for Stanford anymore because players don't want to stick around for 2-3 years and be developed to then get their starting roles... They want to play NOW. Best of luck to Taylor may he always lose to the Ducks.

And he hired Willie! But in truth I give him one or two years at Colorado until he moves on for another job back east. Colorado gets him in the power five and is a stepping stone to the next location.

As long as the pistol remains a sometimes formation we'll be ok. Well that and as long as it isn't used like Cristobal where he really saw the pistol as the spread offenses version of an i-formation, which it isn't. The pistol under MC was super predictable... Always... Always went right into the A-gap. So if the pistol isn't a full time formation and is used more creatively. I'm ok with that.

Minus two losses and an injury and Nix is in New York. But that's not the way it is... I just hope Williams loses.

Speaking of Mack Brown... In 2013 Oregon played and defeated his Texas team in his last game at Texas.

I feel.like we need a burner... Someone in the DAT mold I don't know if Limar is that but depth at runningback is a good thing.

Hutson seemed to get his attitude in check as the year went on. He is passionate and his temper can flare and get him in trouble. I do think it is a testiment to his relationship with Lanning that he seems to be sticking with the team.

I'd agree with this for this year. I do think how bad the defense was is something that Lanning is taking personally. It really looks like that he is working on cleaning the roster by pushing players into the portal so he'll have the room he needs to get the player he needs for defense.

His brother entered the transfer portal today and is supposedly going to Utah too. Not much Oregon could really do there.

Fans need the win. So go with Nix. Thompson is NOT the heir apparent to the quarterback throne next year. If Nix stays it will be him. If Nix leaves it will be a battle between Thompson, Moore and possibly a transfer QB. Lanning needs to get his 10th win more right now and after two years of abysmal bowl performances the fans need a bowl win. Even if they aren't worth as much as they used to be.

Probably too big of a price from an NIL perspective.

Probably... I do think another transfer QB is on the table now... then let that transfer QB, Thompson and Moore fight it out in practice. Really want 3 scholarship QBs on the roster. Anymore than that is unreasonable in this day and age.

This number is players who were playing this last year and are NOW in the portal to leave Oregon. Nix is probably around 50% of total snaps played. Didn't have too many snaps with backups this year.

Interesting stat I came across today... Portal players right now only make up 4.2% of total snaps played. Get some transfers and some recruits in and some of those who have been backups but are likely to start and I don't think Oregon is in any danger.

What secrets? First off, none of the coaches that Taggart hired are even at Oregon anymore... Second off, Taggart wasn't at Oregon long enough to know or remember anything. I doubt he could find the bathroom at Autzen anymore.

Lanning himself was a questionable hire for Georgia that needed a DC when they wanted to make the playoffs. Some of these young coaches are tomorrow's super stars they just need the opportunity to prove it. Chip Kelly was also a nobody until Bellotti gave him a chance.

I believe they need to finish their current term and then they can transfer just like any student. So expect most of them in January.

Taggart needs to rehab his reputation. But the real question is does he move his family to Corado or keep them in Florida? I think his oldest son is in college now but still. He never wanted to come out west for Oregon and they always kept one foot in Florida.

The stats don't tell the whole story... Sewell didn't have any bad penalties and Sewell was better with his assignments. I do think Sewell is probably a little too big for what Lanning is looking for in the ideal linebacker for his defense. He wants someone who can stop the run and cover. Sewell may not fit the mold for Lanning entirely but Flowe hasn't been great about assignments. He has been wild and dangerous in both ways.

We still have Bassa who did unseat Flowe from a starting spot completely... not really saying that Flowe had that spot locked in as his own but it was kinda assumed he was going to take control of it but that never happened. Sewell and Bassa kept Flowe as a back-up.

Oregon linebacker Justin Flowe enters transfer portal - On3 WWW.ON3.COM Oregon redshirt freshman Justin Flowe, a former 5-star recruit and the No. 1 linebacker in the class of 202, has entered the transfer... I feel this one should hurt more than it does. Flowe is a tremendous athlete but he never really seemed to understand the scheme this year. He was always out of position or hitting someone too late. I wish him the best and I also wish he was more impactful in his time at Oregon.

Watch the transfer portal for the defensive side of things. The vast majority of defensive players leaving are making way for players that Lanning needs in his scheme to make his defense work. He's not kicking them off the team but he is telling certain players that they aren't meeting the standard to see the field and players are opting to leave.

More than two years I would hope... we really need to hold onto a coordinator for like 3 years it feels like at this point. I know the age of most coaches being institutions at their schools are long gone... but longer than 2 years would be nice.

With Thornton leaving we could use another tall wide receiver I feel...