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I think it would be shrewd to bring in Bellotti a few times a month. There are so many thing about the program, conference, and just being a head coach that shouldn't be learned the hard way. At least have a consultant type person come in and answer questions in a nonthreatening way. Having an ex-head coach directly under a new head coach may split a staff, team. It is something coaches need to be aware of. A leaders instincts are very strong. Some of us can remember the Secretary of State, whose background as supreme commander of the allied forces and 4* star general came into play when Reagan was shot. Haigs, "I am in control" will always be remembered as a leader stepping over the line. I don't mean to denigrate a good man, Haig was a very good leader, and public servant!

Wouldn't that be a transfer! He was the lead on Kellee heading east to Georgia. I loved when Lanning said he has a notebook on coaches he would hire. I am sure he is aware of the student athletes he will contact who hit the transfer portal. The guy has a plan, and is putting it in place at the Oregon Football Program.

What Alabama did when they hired Saban was wait for an elite experienced college coach to finish his failure at the NFL level. This is also where sc had success with Pete. The only change I would have made was waiting for Matt Rhule to finish out at the Carolina Panthers. What has been proven to be a success is hiring NFL coaches who have proven themselves at the college level. Maybe Rhule wasn't interested in the Oregon job, but that is where I would have gone, and I bet the PK group reached out to check interest. Rhule is a proven high level college coach who will be poached to an elite program sooner than later. This may be the way programs use to do it, and it is no longer the way to do it. Now it is all the rage to hire the next great young coach at the college and pro level. I am extremely happy with the Lanning hire, and think he will get all the support needed to succeed greatly. That is the only thing I would add to your great take, other than questioning continuing the Canzano line that Wilcox was offered and declined the job. Until I hear or see evidence of the t-shirts, or first hand evidence, it is just another story by Canzano with nothing behind it other than an attempt to sell his product. Call me a skeptic, guilty as charged!

Lives less than an hour from the dawgs, has to hurt! They can keep trying to polish what they have up there, but it is still a ........... and starting to smell up the Pac-12.

As Annie pointed out, still not a coach at sc who can control the talent. Oklahoma was way up there in penalty yardage. They could use more discipline and the same talent level and go a long way. I like the thought of sc self imploding, again, against the disciplined Oregon Program under Lanning. I think Lanning understands it is the 11 guys on the field working together in a disciplined fashion which makes the best team, with the rest ready to go. The Compton elite position team hasn't understood that since Pete, and even then it was hard for him to control. I look forward to when we can look past the recruiting numbers, and look at what really matters. QB development is #1, an elite program has a top arm, and decision maker behind center. The other item is player development and putting them in position to succeed. We know we can recruit, we need player development and scheme to make it all work, more importantly.

At this point, show me. I want to see what Lanning's team does, and in a weird way what Mario's team does. I will be watching both, reading the stat line for Mario, thankfully don't have to watch.

The first time he made the t-shirt story was bad, this one is just pathetic.

I think there are two things which could sour Lanning's stay at Oregon. If his wife is miserable, he is miserable. I don't know if there is a welcome party, or someway to get her connected to the community, but EZ hit this one on the head. The other is if he is a failure. We hope every program, NFL team in the world is after him. That means the program is growing developing and Lanning is a success. If he is a failure, then he won't be here too long, just the way it goes. Even that success and an unhappy wife won't cut it. I have a feeling that may have been part of what led to Mario leaving. A wife who grew up in the South may not get the ways and weather of Oregon. Mario said they loved Eugene at first sight, I didn't see it in his wife.

I would qualify Canzano does his job, and does it well at times. I think the whole Mario leaving, Lanning hiring he did very poorly, from start to finish. As far as Wilcox, he is a bigger part of Oregon's football history than most any of the fans on this site. We don't know what happened in the interviewing process, and that doesn't change his status as a Duck Football Alumni. He deserves our respect and admiration for what he has done for the University. He isn't obligated to do anything more. The alumni who wrote the letter obviously care greatly for the program. It was probably the worst part of the journalistic job Canzano did publishing the letter like he did. These guys bleed green and yellow. In the end the letter showed how much the Duck Nation cares about the program. Lanning is only seeing the tip of the iceberg of the care and support he will receive. Time to put this story to bed and move forward!

I reflect on the last game Mario coached and Noah's reaction. He was broken, and I doubt we will see that ever again. I will say the players on the other side will be broken once Noah is under Dan Lanning's defense. I was actually worried he might transfer after that game. When you look at the effort Noah put into the team and the outcome, it will be an upgrade. My bet Noah thought about transferring to the guy who recruited him at Georgia, and is ecstatic about the new hire, enough said about our programs direction.

Listening is the only way to effectively communicate, brilliant. Reading a crowd is also a skill, but we don't need anymore of that. Listen communicate and tell it like it is, good enough! I don't know how many people I have spoken to and told you don't know how to communicate. Their response, what do you mean I was talking the whole time, 'exactly that is not communication!'

I imagine an OC who can develop and evaluate qb talent will be able to tell us more in a couple days than was known over the season. 30 has a great point, AB was Mario's guy, he brought him onboard, and AB played the prevent offense extremely well. Time to move onward, and forward!

All I care about is T Thompson isn't in the transfer portal, and is showing leadership on the team right now. I also don't want a coach bringing somebody who may be perceived as having an advantage. The culture Ty is part of is important. We need somebody who will continue the build, not knock it all down and start over.

It will be refreshing to do well in recruiting, but not hear about that being the end all. It is known a coach can recruit to Oregon, get it done and move on to football! I want to hear the coaches talk about how they talked about Patrick Chungs back in the day, the potential, not the stars. I then want to see that potential met with scheme and effort. If I never hear about our recruiting rankings again I will be a happy fan! I get it, we can recruit to Oregon, now get it done in the gym, on the practice field and on Saturdays.

Great comment and Georgia ranked 10th on the fewest penalty yardage. Oregon ranked 113th, and it was distressing to see so much undisciplined play. One can talk about wanting discipline, but that is a tough one to pull off when you are concerned too much about relationships. Hearing Lanning say he is willing to be honest, even when it hurts is awesome. I don't mean going off on a player on the sideline. The discipline starts in practice and then is followed through with expectations from the players, something which seemed lacking, and the stats back that up. With sc at #125 on the list it will be interesting to see which coach can move up to closer to where Georgia is. Oklahoma was at 70, still not good. If I was hiring at sc this is a stat which I would want the coach to excel at, evidently still not important at sc. I would like to see us in the top 20 of fewest penalty yardage next season. Can this young coach build discipline into the program, a good test to watch.

I do think there has to be a big headwind. Mario sold himself, I think, more than even the program. That will be a tough one to beat, but it will be Lannings first test. Not one I am going to grade too hard. The transfer portal will be critical to a guy with SEC connections. He knows more talent than we do out west. He saw, as Mario said, guys get hit in the face, and saw how they reacted at Georgia. He will, in my opinion, go after some good talent in the transfer portal to help out any holes he sees.

In relationships there is often things said on one side to make themselves feel better about themselves. I think this is what happened and Canzano bought it hook line and sinker. It doesn't mean we have to buy it. I done buying what people say, or write, show me!

While I agree Mario was a master at relationships, PR I think his hollowness began to show as this season played on. It wasn't just our transfer who was upset with what the relationship was built on and then left without any structure. The displeasure was beginning to echo through the program and we saw it on the field. My concern started with allowing players to come back on the team after the suspension so quickly. The justice system is fine, but the players needed to answer to Mario. That didn't happen, and even if it was ceremonial, the players, parents and fans needed to see it. While the players loved Mario, I don't think that set up the respect needed for a coach, and that lack of respect started to show through. The structure of discipline began to show on penalties and just being able to finish and start a game. We need a coach, not a best friend. On the spectrum of coach to friend, I think Mario was too close to the friend end. What I loved hearing from Dan was he was going to give the players honesty, even when it hurts. This is the edge I don't think Mario had. I think players and fans still love Mario, he was that good at making you like him, but the honesty when it hurts isn't in his DNA. I think we have a high character guy, who is going to be willing to be brutally honest, no coach speak. I won't grade the other areas, because we have no data for Coach Lanning at Oregon. I look forward to his own honest straight answer on these items! I think that is the biggest difference, other than the obvious training on different sides of the ball.

The world, down in Compton, still revolves around themselves. Riley was response to their lack of having a coach, and the series of terrible coaching hires and fires. Chess is a series of moves, the first move is never the end. Our was in response to our coach leaving and the opportunity to step it up, what we do, and will continue to do.

Welcome, we feel like the luckiest program in the country! You are already speaking our language, air it out!

Sources? My bet is Lanning was the real choice, and a good choice.

Canzano finally got a primary document on the subject and publishes it. I wonder if he tried to call any of the authors, or just wanted to look like he knew something, anything? Quite the reach, if you ask me. I will say I hope Lanning reaches out to Bellotti, maybe hires a Duck alumni, I have suggested some candidates in the past. What the players wrote is correct. The program reached out to those who weren't really of the Oregon type. I think Lanning will speak to a lot of the Duck alumni and is a very respectful person. Basically Canzano is back to his clown act. He should get back to his investigative reporting. Maybe the Pac-12 commish is doing something, or something wrong, stay in that lane. He did a nice job with that report, otherwise, questionable at best.

My source says Lanning is now pissed, didn't get the t-shirts Wilcox was offered. The whole Lanning is our next coach is on ice! What a joke! I give Canzano credit for the work on Lavish Larry and the problems with him running the Pac-12, but this whole series of stories was pathetic.

Like I said on another thread, I hope Lanning and others seek out Bellotti. These guys don't know the Pac-12, let alone the ins and outs of Oregon's Program. I doubt Mullens is a great resource, and they will need to get up to speed on so many things it would make one dizzy. A weekly meeting would be a shrewd move. Just knowing about the stadiums they will play in, any connections Bellotti still has would be invaluable. That is one move I would love to know they are doing because the learning curve on some of this stuff is steep, and can be painful. Even setting up a few calls with Moorhead and the new OC. I worry about these young coaches trying to go it alone, there is wisdom in the years these guys have put in. I love the youth, but I hope it is wise beyond their years.

I don't feel sorry for any of these guys. I didn't feel sorry for Helfrich either. When you live you dream it can become a nightmare. At least you don't wake up in the middle of the night with the real nightmare of never have tried! I do think they may be well served to have Bellotti on the speed dial, if that is such a thing anymore. I suppose it would be on the favorites on my phone. Maybe have a weekly meeting and a walkthrough with the coach. There is wisdom in experience, and beauty in a youthful outlook, why not combine them!