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Great ponder point, and it has definitely had me pondering as I showered, left for work, and even as I was working through my early morning appointments. My thinking is the drive many Oregon fans have for an explosive offense and a pedal to the metal attitude comes back to one of, if not the most iconic figure in Oregon sports and the team which followed. If you watched Steve Prefontaine run it is an attitude and method to how you do things which becomes part of you as an Oregon fan. You attack and leave everything you have on the track, field, playground, or workplace. When we watch, or interact with a situation this mentality permeates everything we do, it is at the cellular level. I know it is for me at least. This attitude was then cemented by anyone of that era by the Kamikaze Kids. This play, again, taught one to be relentless, and see no boundaries, just opportunities. The play of that Duck team showed how Oregon sports should be played. A team should go after every situation with passion, effort and savvy, and never hold back. One can now see how many of us older Duck fans had such an adverse reaction to what Mario brought to Oregon. A great FishDuck article from the archives on The Kamikaze Kids The Rise and Fall of the Kamikaze Kids | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM Following Oregon's disastrous 1971-72 season, Dick Harter was finally able to land his first outstanding recruiting class that included guard Ronnie Lee, guard/ So basically we may want 80 plays a game, but really we just want all out play, it is just part of who we are as a Fanbase, and what we should always be as athletic programs at the University of Oregon, always!

There is intent and then there is ability. Mario may have intended to have an exciting offense, but he wasn't able to on any level. Just an analysis of his timeouts shows a critical flaw in his ability to play speed chess. I don't think he can even play chess, more like checkers, or maybe bumper cars is more up his alley of mindset and mental acuity. I don't mean to be attacking Mario, this is just the way it is. We now have another coach professing to want to play speed chess. Both Lanning and Dillingham seem to be up to the task. Lanning as a DC understands the advantages of playing fast. Dillingham seems willing to take the chances needed to play fast. It will then take follow through. Can you play a Stanford at a fast pace? I think there will be games that look like a track meet. There will also be games we can't play at the pace and scheme they may want to. Did Ali want to play rope a dope against Foreman, no. It was the smartest move, and this is what I want to see from L&D on offense. We may not see speed ball every game, but hopefully we will see the shrewdest game plan for the situation we are in. What I don't want to see is just speed ball. I don't want to see a character flaw rear it's ugly head every game, which is actually easiest to defend. I want to see guys on the sideline one or more step ahead of the game in front of them. If that is a temp game great, but if they need to adjust I am ok with that, just win baby with innovation. Innovation is Oregon's calling card. I want to see innovation in situations once again!

He really knows how to echo what a fanbase wants to hear. Best of luck with that one, you don't even have a stadium! Miami football: Mario Cristobal vows Hurricanes will 'jump ahead and create our own gap' in program investment 247SPORTS.COM ...

I would add, as Lanning has, to become the best they can be, and the best teammates. I think Mario got people here who wanted to be here, but not always to become the best they could be. Hopefully this is the final step in creating the National Title Program. This is a critical point, as recruiting was a priority with Mario. He had coaches who made it a priority to recruit at a high level. I just don't think they were as invested in developing talent and a team as the new staff.

I do have respect for Mario wanting to get back to where his mom was living. Also grateful for the time he spent away from her helping build Oregon back to where we are now. It would seem Oregon is back to being the program destined for greatness! It seems to have worked out for everyone, except the fans and players last season. May we, never again, lose 3 of our last 4 games! That is something he has in common with Coach Helfrich. Helfrich was fired for that statistic, along with some others, amazingly Mario was going to get a raise. If Mario had signed that contract it may have been right up there with Helfrich's extension as the worst contracts in Oregon AD history.

Interesting to look at our depth chart. The scholarship players who seems buried deepest is Jonathan Flowe. It seems the first visible move by the staff is to move a kid deep into the depth chart, then the student athlete transfers. It would seem all the qb's have decided to stay for now, who is next?

My kids always say our house has never seen a food delivery. We can cook and clean, and when we go out it is for a very nice meal. The kids always comment on how their friends are always ordering out and getting delivery, just not how we roll. My neighbor always wonders why we have so little garbage, we also don't waste a lot. To each his own, but the whole delivery thing is astounding to me. We usually walk to restaurants too. I am just a different kind of bird!

Agree, but DJ Johnson can do anything so I think we have 3.

All this guessing drives me nuts. Let's stick to the facts. Lincoln Riley has lost 10 games as a head coach, our coach is undefeated. Yes, I said it, he has never lost as a head coach. I'll take the undefeated guy every time! Our coach also beat Riley head to head for the top recruit Conerly. Until the facts start adding up for Riley, sc is just who they have always been, a place where head coaches, most of the time, go to die. Oregon is and always has been the place where coaches thrive, and our guy is doing just that.

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Context is also needed, CK coached one season against Pete and then Kiffin, while the dawgs had Cutty Sark. Mario coached against Helton at SC and then finished against the mistake on the Lake at the w. CK was gifted the perfect set up with coaches and inertia, but Mario coached against a dumpster fire of a Pac-12. Lanning now competes against Riley, and DeBoer, both very capable coaches. He also faces a very strong Utah, and what seems to be some other programs on the rise. We need to have patience with Lanning, and understand the context of his record going forward. Agree 77% while pounding on a dumpster fire isn't as good as it sounds at first sight. CK also inherited a nice set up. Lanning doesn't have a huge head wind, but he is building a lot on his own. Pistol stench, prevent offense, all in the review mirror, thankfully! Forgot Lanning inherits a schedule where he plays two top ten teams in the first three weeks to start his career. Now that is a head wind he will have to get through. I suppose he is thrown into a dumpster fire while MC just competed against one.

I might add a 40 plus yard pass that is intercepted is just a very good punt. I have no problem with a few long ball mistakes, as long as there are also some memorable explosion plays. Maybe the qb's need to be trained to make the long balls more of a jump ball on third and long. With our tall receivers, and the potential for a big play this isn't a bad strategy. Certainly better than the 3 attempt at running up the gut! After a long interception a quick 3 and out by the defense can then be chalked up as a massive gain by the team. I suppose it all comes down to how you look at the risk reward. I look at the risk as an opportunity to turn it into a big gain, either way, something to think about! Explosions on offense and havoc on defense, bring it on!

When you swing for the fence, the defense has to move back, creating a larger field of play, thus more open spaces. When the defense knows it only has to defend the line of scrimmage, and usually a couple gaps the game is pretty simple. I look forward to a more wide open offense and even the occasional explosive mistake. I think our defense will revel in the challenge. I have a feeling Autzen is going to be rocking with the players, fans and coaches dancing more that just at the end of the third quarter, once again. A bunch of high fiving and thriving will be arriving once this show gets into production. Once again The Oregon Football Program is going to be must watch football. From the Noah Way Defense to the Multi Threat Offense September can't get here soon enough. Release the hounds and lets get this party started.

Best of luck to Mr. Williams!

Agree completely with this quote, Recruiting is about stacking advantages, about finding as many cards as you can because one is eventually going to be the trump card for someone. Lanning and his team of coaches see the advantages Oregon has and they all bring advantages. As has been noted, probably the biggest advantage is this team of coaches have is knowing how to develop players. Developing players into a team of individuals focused on team goals and individual development. We may never out recruit Texas A$M, but we can out develop them and out scheme them, and win it all. The card game is all set with these guys ready to pull of the card trick of the century. That trump card just might be our staff!

I didn't realize Troy had a brother.

It just shows that you better dominate in the Pac-12 if you want to play in the NFL. Guys who think they are pretty good in the Pac-12 don't understand the competition in the SEC or at the elite level. I also think we had too many guys who were ok with being pretty good in the Pac-12 and thought that might translate to the NFL, and it didn't. Hopefully Lanning can get guys to realize pretty good isn't good enough. I remember Keith Lewis as an Oregon Duck and a new coach describing the injustice that was done to him by previous coaches. He had so much talent which wasn't challenged while at Oregon. One year under new coaching got him drafted, and he ended up holding on to a 5 year NFL career, but he had so much more talent to develop. I hope we don't see guys leaving our program without realizing their full potential as much as they have in the recent past. A growth mindset and wanting to improve in all areas will help. Looking forward to some hungry student athletes developing to greatness again.

I don't see any Oregon coaches seated in that courtroom. Oregon Duck Football Players, but slick might as well have his name taken out of Oregon history as far as I am concerned, along with his strength coach. He certainly can't be considered an Oregon coach. I would give him the name of defendant in a lawsuit. It’s hard to see former Oregon Ducks football players and defendants seated in a courtroom. there, fixed it.

Helfrich's old house, actually brand new, sold for 2.4 in 2018. It was only 7k sf, but 10 acres. My bet we don't see anything too crazy on Lanning's part, at least not Riley or Cristobal crazy. The lifestyle of Eugene of doesn't seem to go with the castles seen in a big city, thankfully.

Almost 9k sf. and 8 bathrooms, his wife is going to be busy just managing the cleaning lady's. Why people want a massive house is beyond me. I suppose it is much like having a black car, very appealing until you have one. With the work the cane program is going to take to bring it back to the glory expected, he might want to just put up a townhouse next to the football stadium. Oh that's right, Miami doesn't have a football stadium, whoops.

Classic Clownzano, talks to one, unnamed 'inside source' and another supposed agent and creates an article. He also then cherry picks a couple student athletes off the National Title team and makes what looks like a slam dunk argument. What he doesn't note is there is also the College Advisory Committee which advises players on entering the draft. This isn't a sales pitch like an agent would give the players. Most student athletes should know the difference between what an agent, who wants to make money off of them, and an advisory groups opinion. While I agree too many players go into the draft with rose colored glasses, it is their job to evaluate the data which is valid in their decision making process. This will undoubtedly be just one of those tough decisions they will have to learn from. Welcome to the real world, or the beginning of the real world where you are taken advantage of at just about every turn, and it is buyer beware. You can also look at Metchie from Alabama and draw a completely different conclusion about staying in college. He was a first round lock if he came out last year, dropped after tearing his ACL, and didn't win the natty this year. Bottomline, getting a free education at an elite football program is going to be a lot of these guys highlight of their lives. They may not realize it now, but they have it pretty darn good at the University of Oregon's Football Program.

That is a lot of competition for one ball. It does seem our RB coach takes under appreciated guys, and turns them into NFL talent. Student athletes seem to be buying into what he is selling, I like it. Now we need to see the production, onward!

As they say, the toothpaste is out of the tube, and it's not going back in. The positive, and the same for the Pac-12, is there is new leadership on its way. Now this leadership won't be able to pull back the mess it inherits, but strong leadership with foresight can better guide both forward. Fortunately our ship is in order, Oregon is well run, from top to bottom. We have an amazing coach, an AD who seems to be up to the task, and an alumni base that is both strong and effective. This leads me to my story which is the strength I have gained from just worrying about what I can control and my little world. I don't worry about the big picture stuff. I can't effect change at that level and it is wasted energy. The same can be said for all this NIL and Transfer portal stuff. While I ponder, at times the big stuff, I focus on my tube of toothpaste. Right now it is full and nobody is messing with it. The NCAA and the Pac-12 have a mess to clean up. I feel fortunate, as a Duck, we live in a world where not just 9-10 dentists recommend Crest, but 10-10 Duck fans recommend the Ducks and aren't going for any other brand!

I feel sorry for our program. We lost 3 of our last 4 games and these guys were a part of that failure. They had an opportunity to be coach by Lanning and they didn't take it. I feel sorry for the student athletes who don't have opportunities not those who make choices which seem to not work out. Failure is just the stepping stones to success, unless you stand on that failure too long, then the stepping stones sink! I wish each of these guys the best with the choice they made, but no sorrow coming from me. They made a choice, it is now time to make the best of it. They may want to get use to this process, as life if full of it.

No team in the CFP schedules last years national champs as an away game for their first game. So starting out with a win to make the playoffs shouldn't be on our must do list, or anywhere close to that high of expectation. Don't get me wrong I want the Ducks fighting to win every game, the Georgia game included. If Lanning has the Ducks doing that then we will do just fine in recruiting. The playbook for the CFP teams is to schedule a name and drill them for their first game. Alabama has done that, last year against Miami, and also USC in the past, but never as an away game. I suppose they are usually neutral sites, but the teams usually fold and the site isn't too neutral like Atlanta isn't. What I want to see is Oregon to play them tough. I want to see a team that stays hungry, and doesn't get full of themselves. One item I think we need to keep in mind is the growth mindset is also the resilient mindset. It is a mindset which fails often and keeps fighting on. This failure doesn't always include losing, but there is a lot of so what, now what. That is what I want to see after the Georgia game, after a hard fought game with lots to improve upon. If fans are trying to be realistic about this team and the new coaching staff what do others see as the likely outcome of the season, and tough first game? I'm just wanting to see improvement and resilience. I think a hard fought loss is the most likely road to that outcome.