Jon Joseph

So, steal DeBoer from UW? Kidding.

A Miami guy, Paul Dee, took a firehouse to put out a campfire at SC when his own house was burning down.

I'm sorry but what has he exactly done to deserve a 2nd chance? He bolted from Oregon for the NFL as soon as he could. He left a group of recruits hanging. His record since leaving Oregon is simply bad. He is unwilling to recruit. And the assistant coaches he would bring to Oregon are no where near the quality he inherited. And he put Oregon on probation. Chip is a last gasp save face choice. An absurd reach back to the past. But looking at the conference today except for the primo SC gig why would any top coach want to link up with the Pac-12?

Coach. if you 'get this' I wish you had not stopped coaching. We are all good at something. That's the nature of the beast. To reward mediocrity so ESPN can make bank? I don't get it. Then again, I'm an old guy who once watched CFB when you had to be good, at least, to make a bowl game.

The Rose, Sugar, Cotton and Orange Bowls. That was it before the Gator Bowl showed up. Now, guy's who coached 6-6 teams are getting a bonus?

SIGH. The Rose Bowl when it is not a semifinal playoff site is the best of the exhibition bowl games. Top drawer recruits want to join a team that can reach the Playoff. Even in a 12 team PO Oregon would not have qualified this season. I am old school but the Rose Bowl to most of these youngsters is nothing if it is not a part of the Natty. I guess I am swimming against the Tide but winning a Rose Bowl over a 3L B1G team by 1 point is not a big deal. Not showing up for the Fiesta Bowl is a sorry but inexcusable effort. It's PO or bust. And with only 6 Pac-12 bowl eligible teams there was no reason for this Oregon team if correctly coached, should not be playing Bama in the Cotton Bowl instead of Cincinnati. The unprecedented win for Oregon at Ohio State was wasted. If you are happy with runner-up bowls by all means do not go after a Kiffin or an Aranda or even the Iowa State coach or Bill O'Brien. If you don't aim for the stars you will never get there. Chip was a perfect storm of a revolutionary O aided and abetted by a group of amazing assistant coaches that he inherited. Nick A was the perfect DC for Chip's then style of play. As I have noted previously, the new UW coach defeated Chip this season in LA. And he bringing a QB who beat UCLA on one leg and took Oregon into the 4th Q along with him. What does Chip when it comes to recruiting and style of play today bring with him but for memories. His DC has been out of it for years in the NFL and in college.

Who Knows? Off the wall but if the guy worked for Saban and Smart he has to be able to recruit.

Thanks my friend. Just wanted to chime in with something not coach-hire related. But the new HC is obviously #1 on the Hit List.

Love your optimism. If it's Chip, so be it. But if he cannot recruit LA and he can't? Please check his record since departing Oregon. It is far from pretty. The scheme has been figured out and he will never be blessed with a group of assistant coaches the quality of those he had at Oregon. Chip would be a last gasp hire. Chip has done nothing at UCLA to earn a big pay raise.

I believe the following games will be of interest to Ducks Fans? Unless otherwise noted all games broadcast on ESPN. All times Eastern. All Playoff Committee ranked teams respective bowl game is listed. 12/18 - No. 13 BYU -7 vs UAB - 3:30 PM - ABC - The Cougars are coming to Autzen next season. No team should benefit more from joining the B12 than BYU. It's 'in limbo' status gets BYU a bowl game vs 4L UAB. At 5-0 against the Pac-12 with a W over Utah these Cougs have a case to make for the Rose Bowl, no? I LIKE BYU -7 WITH SOMETHING TO PROVE. OREGON STATE -7.5 vs UTAH STATE - 7:30 PM - Hats off to the bowl-returning Beavs who draw Mountain West champ Utah State. This is a tough draw. Utah State mauled San Diego State in the Mountain West champ game. 12/28 - No. 20 HOUSTON +3 vs AUBURN - Noon - Like BYU, these Cougars are also off to the B12. Like BYU today, these Cougars are also ranked in the AP College Basketball top 25. What might have been? No. 18 NORTH CAROLINA STATE -1.5 vs UCLA - 8 PM - FOX - Looks like an audition for one of The Alliance conference cross over games? Will Chipper still be the Bruins coach? I certainly hope so. 12/29 - No. 19 CLEMSON +1.5 vs IOWA STATE - 5:45 PM - What a whirl wind for Dabo. No ACC title. No playoff appearance. His AD headed to Miami. His DC headed to Oklahoma. His OC rumored to be the front runner for the UVA job. WOW! Dabo goes against Matt Campbell and a Iowa State team that was given great preseason hopes of making the Final 4. Instead the Cyclones finished 7-5. I LIKE CLEMSON +1.5. No. 14 OREGON +4.5 vs. No. 16 OKLAHOMA - 9:15 PM - Bob Stoops is back on the sideline for the Sooners in the battle of The Headless Coachmen. Pac-12's number 2 team draws the B12's number 3 team. Which team wants it more? Which team will show up? Can Oregon, with Mr. T understandably sitting this one out, possibly be able to track down and keep up with Sooners QB Caleb Williams? Will one of the young Ducks QBs finally see the field of play? At some point, will Stoops try an onside kick? I WOULD NOT TOUCH THIS GAME WITH A TEN CENT BET. 12/30 - No. 10 MICHIGAN STATE -1 vs PITT - 7PM - Pitt's QB Pickett? A great season throwing the ball. Sparty's pass D? The worst in the B1G. I LIKE PITT +1.5. 12/31 - No. 17 WAKE FOREST +7 vs No. 25 TEXAS A+M - 11 AM - A+M with the win of the year over No.1 ALABAMA. But another year where the Aggies went 4-4 in the SEC? Heck of a year for the Demon Deacons. But WAKE plays allowance defense. Everybody scores. I LIKE A+M -7. WASHINGTON STATE +2.5 vs MIAMI - Noon CBS - Any Ducks fan not rooting for the Cougs, please go to your room! ARIZONA STATE +7 vs WISCONSIN - 10:30PM - This game kicks off the first of 5 games that has the Pac-12 playing the B1G or SEC in the Las Vegas Bowl. JANUARY 1, 2022 - No. 21 ARKANSAS +2.5 vs PENN ST - NOON ESPN2 - The Hogs IMO is the better team. I LIKE WOO PIG SOOEY and the points. No. 15 IOWA +2.5 vs N0. 22 KENTUCKY - 1PM ABC - Mark Stoops is staying with Kentucky and this is a statement game for the football Wildcats. I LIKE STOOPS THE YOUNGEST -2.5. No. 5. NOTRE DAME -2.5 vs 9 OKLAHOMA STATE - 1PM - Would any team other than the Irish with a 0-1 record versus the top 25, and with the loss coming at home, be ranked this high? I'd bet Iowa State if I was certain the Pokes best RB was playing in this game. No. 11 UTAH +6.5 vs No. 6 OHIO STATE 5 PM - This season ending Utah team plays like the Michigan team that just thumped Ohio State. How interested in this game will be the Buckeyes? The Utes will be fired up. I LIKE UTAH TO HAND tOSU IT'S 2nd PAC-12 LOSS OF THE SEASON. No. 7 BAYLOR -1.5 vs No. 8 OLE MISS 8:45 PM - I would be most happy if either coach in this game was sitting it out due to a Pacific Northwest change of address? Only reason I am not taking the Rebels and the points. PLAYOFF GAMES - Being played on New Year's Eve because NYD is on a Saturday and the Rose Bowl has broadcast bragging rights. No. 1 ALABAMA -13.5 vs No.4 CINCINNATI - 3:30 PM - Sorry Cincy, but it's going to be difficult walking home in those shattered glass slippers. With Metchie healthy I would have bet the Tide. No. 2 MICHIGAN +7.5 vs. No. 3 GEORGIA 7:30 PM - I would love it if the Wolverines could find a way to win this game. But Michigan does not have Bama's passing game prowess and I think Smart will be smart enough to play Daniels at QB? Unfortunately, I think the Dawgs prevail and the Natty will be a rematch of the SEC champ game? Coach or no, Ducks friends, the games will go on.

Huh? Oregon in 2020 lost the Fiesta Bowl to Iowa State. Mario at Oregon won the Rose Bowl on 1 occasion.

Are you referring to the win over 8-4 UCLA that Oregon almost threw away in the 4th quarter? I agree that was a good but a to be expected, win. With the roster Mario had, to not win a conference that is sending 6 teams bowling, is a failure. The SEC is sending 13 out of 14 team to bowl games. The B12 and the B1G are also sending the vast majority of their teams to bowl games. No reason the Ducks should not have won this conference in 2021. No reason the team should have retrogressed after the Ohio State game. Injuries? Every team in CFB suffers injuries, including Stanford and Utah.

The kid's a gamer with no NFL upside. Perfect game management at Ohio State. Close wins over inferior opponents. Terrible at Stanford and terrible twice vs Utah. I believe it was a mistake to start AB at all this season? But Mario is totally risk-adverse and perhaps, was playing this season more for Mario than for the Ducks? Who knows when a 'representative' of Miami first reached out to Mario? After the opening game beat down by Bama would not surprise me. If Brown gets the start its out of sympathy and the Ducks, playing against Caleb Williams and Bob Stoops, could easily be blown out. Does this Oregon team have the heart and the will to show up for this game?

PLEASE STOP! Kellen is an NFL guy through and through who will soon be a HC in the NFL.

Thanks Steven. Reading this, why does Mullens still have a job? A 5 year extension for Helfrich? Followed by hiring 2 G5 coaches with losing records in the G5. Mario won a consolation bowl game. Big whoop. He missed 2 playoffs with a ridiculous loss at ASU and with the best roster in the conference, barfing on The Farm and being blown out by a Utah team that had never won a conference title. My take, like Hayward notes above, Mullens is just covering his sorry ass.

I did not and do not advocate OR hiring DeBoer. But is is a fact that DeBoer defeated Kelly this season and came damn close to defeating Oregon.

If UO hires Kelly than UW hired a guy, DeBoer, who defeated Kelly in LA this season and took the Ducks into the 4th Q at Autzen. If Mullens hires Kelly it means he could not bring in a top drawer candidate. What is Kelly's record in the pros and at UCLA? BAD! Kelly inherited a tremendous group of assistant coaches at UO and ran a system that was once revolutionary. Since? He has stunk it up. All of a sudden Kelly is going to get fired up about recruiting? Colorado State just hired Jay Norvell from Nevada. IMO, Norvell would be a better hire than Kelly. IMO, this hire, if it happens, will be an Epic Fail on the part of Mullens. 2 of the 3 main challengers to Oregon in the conference will have made better coaching hires.

This just in! You cannot win a Playoff unless you play well enough to get into the field. Like beat Powerhouses Stanford and Utah.

If not, why not? Do you you really want the guy to start his first game in Atlanta vs Georgia? Brown has done NOTHING to 'earn' the start. Brown is not playing in the NFL. Sitting Brown will not hurt his draft chances. If I'm TT and I don't start, I am seriously considering heading for the portal and taking teammates with me. Of course, if TT has no more upside than AB it doesn't matter and the coaches screwed up signing TT and not coaching him up. On Mario if this is the case. Like so much other frustration with the team and for the fans.

EXACTLY. If you do not have a plan for recruiting the portal you best get one ASAP.

This hire has become its own gossip column. People! Other people make money speculating on things. Names will be thrown at the wall. Maybe one will stick? But sooner rather or later 'the truth' will out and we will have someone to in reality discuss. Meanwhile, I thought I saw Bill Belichick in Eugene yesterday!

How about Knute Rockne?

He is an NFL guy waiting for an NFL HC offer which should be coming reasonably soon. Until someone is hired names are going to thrown out realistic or not and attributed to anonymous sources.

Thanks David. Today's students are well aware of the number of players in the portal vs the # of scholarships available. So IMO, caveat emptor. The portal as predicted, is being used to give some top players players good enough to play at their former school, some golden chances. SEE: To'o To'o and Wilson at Alabama. And the chance for some schools to turn it around. Michigan State brought in 40 players from the portal before the 2021 season. Went from winning 3 games to playing in the Peach Bowl. There is a lot of 'roster tampering' going on today, off the record, with players being encouraged to portal to another school. Many of these 'offers' come with a guaranty of NIL money. HS QB recruiting today as reported in The Athletic, is taking 2nd place to finding a QB in the portal who has playing experience. Why take a chance on 'newbie' when you can bring in Spencer Rattler. The NCAA today is gutless and powerless so there will be no new rules and regs. forthcoming for the portal or for NIL. This is as close to pro football as you can get with a number of CFB coaches making more per annum than all but a handful of NFL coaches. The Portal is a guidepost on the way to the CFB Super League. Not to denigrate student-athletes, but the inmates have taken over the asylum. Note, in 2022 a team is allowed an extra 7 scholarship athletes on the roster.

But what if 'god' is Phil Knight?