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When Ty wins the starting job, he should start, and not until then. When you give, people take, when someone earns something they keep earning it.

No doubt Smith won the Coach of the Year. The beav coach took a program that never should have a ten win season, and may just pull it off with a bowl win. Also all you have to do is as a dawg fan. Their coaches merely meet expectations, or are a complete failure. The dawg program should always win 10 games. DeBoer only did what was expected. I do think Whittingham should be in the discussion. He won the Pac-12 again, and lost some good players last year. He is the best coach in the Pac-12 right now. As far as the best leader on the field, no doubt it is Rising. I would take Rising over Williams all day long. If you watched the two injured qb's play, one was a leader and one was a whiner. Rising gets his head knocked off, and jumped up and led his team. Williams got sacked and looked like he was going to quit. I do wish Nix had been able to stayed healthy. He may have won the award with a win against all three top qb's. Unfortunately it is could have, should have, and would have, and that all means he didn't. He did do all he could for our program and for that I am grateful.

There is connecting the dots, putting two and two together, understanding the situation, but this is just plain seeing the big picture. Lanning may be a gambler, but he know a winning hand when he sees it.

He definitely had all the exits scouted out. He will be able to help the Buffs find the exit quickly after their loss. I do hope the guy saves a lot of the money he has been paid up to this point. He is getting $290k per month from FSU for the next couple years. That windfall will come to an end, and the Oregon job creating opportunity is gone for that guy. Dilly is the latest winner of that lottery.

Agree about the MariØ players, but the ones who fit the culture and ability to play Lanning's type of football will stay, and the others, for the most part are leaving. Lanning did his best to keep the team together as he didn't know who he had. Seven is the perfect example. Last year Seven entered the portal and Lanning talked him off the cliff. This year the portal entrants don't seem to be getting any attempt to keep them. Some may even be getting consulted it might be best to leave. I do think this will be Lanning and the teams sophomore season, not the senior type season we all want. This season was a freshman type season and I came away quite impressed.

I think we can agree on, Deion, will get everyone, from Leon, to the Peon, interested in Colorado football. The question will be can they get their game on, before too long, or will it just be a speech that goes on, until he moves on.

Pennsylvania Duck continually keeps me, and I am sure most, updated on headline news, often ahead of the news. A big thank you for all the work you do!

This was MariØ's team, with Lanning coaching. Next season we will see Lanning's team. Again, he was hired as the recruiting season was coming to an end. He did his best to keep the team together. After a season of trying to put another guys players to work, it is time to see what Lanning can do with his guys. Some of his guys are already on the team, but some just didn't fit his definition of positional players, and or wrong culture guys. Deion is trying the other method, get rid of everyone the first season, late. It will be interesting how he is able to do. Of course, he starts with a much depleted team, but he has a Herculean task ahead of himself.

A lot of hope, but nope. Best of luck in your next stop!

Young, 33, and brilliant, 9th ranked offense, checks all the boxes for Lanning. QB coach too, so that box checked too. I do like that he got his masters degree while beginning his coaching career. Interesting choice, if he is the guy.

Pointing to his son as a starter, then saying he will earn it, would send me out the door even as a starter. You never show bias, or it will always be questioned. Telling players to leave, and then naming a starter, strike two.

Love it, REDEMPTION!

Interesting, coaches now have to recruit, evaluate high school kids, and evaluate potential portal entrants. The programs which are ready, will win. The job of a college coach, assistant is never done. I imagine this is also where support staff are critical. These coaches need to have staff they can trust. I wonder if it will ever get to, or has it, where support staff are sent to a Texas A$M practice during the season to watch players practice, investigate players on campus during the season. This is happening for the high school players, and I imagine it will shift to the portal players as well.

We must also remember Lanning was hired December 10th and was still coaching at Georgia. I agree with KK, Lanning is now ready to bring in his guys, knows what he is looking for, and it will be more evident on the field. While I agree T A$M is full of talent I imagine he will be selective. There is a body of work with many of these guys, at the college level, not just high school. A coach can now evaluate how these guys compete, and deal with college football. I trust Lanning has a more complete plan for what he wants to see on the field. This leads me to what I think will change next year. Instead of a laissez faire attitude with how the OC and DC run their groups Lanning is going to be more actively involved. The coach we saw on the sideline with the defense at the end of the season firing them up is the one we will see next season. I think we will also see Lanning more involved with the offense. I think this will be the biggest difference in coaching next season. No longer will Lanning just let coordinators run the show. He had to coach with MariØ's players and he won't have to as much this next season. I think he also realizes it is going to take a more active head coach on game day. We won't have the controlling coach again, but we will see Lanning's footprint on each part of the Oregon Program next season.

I trust Klemm, but do wonder about the back story on Walden and Thornton. Are the coaches ok with these transfers, it did seem like Lanning was able to turn Seven around last year. I know Georgia ran off some pretty talented kids and came out pretty well on the other side. The creation of the culture building Lanning wants has begun in earnest.

I think it is safe to say it is a fact,,,,,, rumors will continue until the facts are out. Until then, we can dream can't we! We might think of the rumors as My Ding A Ling, and hold on to our Ding A Ling, rumors until the facts come along. Come up with your favorite and hold on until we know.

If so this will be the response of the rest of the Pac-12, and college football.

I think that was the deposit on the sky box, hopefully refundable, or at least transferable, resellable.

We have been down that road, and hopefully aren't on that one again. How long will Dion last at Colorado? Mel Tucker lasted 15 months, anyone care to guess if Dion last less or more? I think there needs to be a term for coaches like this, maybe a temporizer? They are certainly opportunists, but I like the term temporizer, as we all know they will only be there temporarily. Might be what Colorado needs to get over the hump, as Oregon did fairly well with a couple temporizers.

I think we have begun to see Oregon rebuilt as the Duck Program I have grown to love. Not just a place where we recruit well, and build a coaches resume. If we embrace this new coach, I am excited about the possibilities for the Oregon Football Program. It won't be easy, but we have a formula I can get behind. I hope others can too. The rest of the fans can get aboard, when it is more obvious, or we win that specific Saturday, there will be plenty of room aboard the Lanning train, or sleigh, to stay in season.

Yes, well almost blew it. Next week will be his first birthday as a head coach. He can blow out the candle then. You know what they say the best thing about freshman is, they become sophomores. Next season Coach Lanning will be a sophomore, 2nd year as a coach. I look forward to the amazing growth that a second year head coach makes.

Appreciate what he did while here, but I am starting to look forward to the game in Tempe next year. I don't know about Coach Lanning, but maybe he had a little of this reaction, at least initially.

His history as an OC in the Pac-12 isn't impressive. The job he will have, the OC in the Pac-12, Pac-10. His offense was ranked 11th, 12th and then 12th out of the 12 teams in the Pac-12. Famous last words heard too many times, 'this time will be different.' If Lanning had made this hire I would question it, but he has had success at EWU. Could be like Brady Hoke, he is a good coach when he is in the right spot.

I would grade Lanning higher, and Dickert too. A first time head coach has to be looked upon like a first time starting qb. You have to give them a little grace as they are going to make mistakes, and Lanning did. Riley deserves an A, while MariØ is going to have to go summer school to try and catch up to the first year coaches. The problem, MariØ still thinks he should be teaching the class. With an $80 million contract why shouldn't he think that way, all the way up to the buyout.

Agree, raises the question, where did most fans expect Oregon's defense to end up this season, #75? Miami ended up #67, ouch!