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  1. On 11/24/2022 at 3:49 PM, OregonDucks said:

     

    Under Coach Bellotti, Oregon lost an OC every couple of years to take head coaching positions.  At one point, it seemed as though half of the Pac-10 coaches were former Oregon OCs.

    It's one of the consequences of a successful program and is better than the alternative. 

    Yes, definitely true, though I was thinking more of assistants such as Zoomer, Campbell, etc. who were here for so many years. I do remember Borges leaving after one year in a parallel move to OC at UCLA and I seem to remember that Belloti was ticked about that.

  2. On 11/24/2022 at 10:53 AM, Drex Heikes said:

    I thought the name change was unnecessary (for the reasons many of your have noted). But I turned on a dime when Dennis Dixon and other former Ducks said the name always bothered them. ...

     

    This. Players and former players play the game, and they are the ones who asked for the name change.

  3. On 11/24/2022 at 2:13 PM, Kurt Rambis said:

    ...  Successful programs are always going to lose assistants who want to become coordinators, and coordinators who want to become head coaches.

    While this is quite true, I think of the years that so many long-ago Duck assistants stayed, perhaps because they weren't getting big offers to leave, but I think liking being position coaches, liking living in Eugene was part of it too.

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  4. On 11/15/2022 at 10:23 PM, Nevada Dawg said:

    As an interested fan I'd like to know: Has Lanning given any injury/player availability updates for Saturday's game as yet? Can Bo play and, if so, how limited is he expected to be?

    This is from a couple of days ago. Not sure if there have been or will be any updates before the game.

     

    DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM

    Lanning was asked about the health of QB Bo Nix. He gave a guarded answer, but hinted at some positive news that was...

     

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  5. When Lanning first got here he said something along the lines of the bamboo plant, and how over time you'll water that plant every single day, and at times you don't see the growth. It hasn't come out of the ground. But at some point that plant breaks ground and it grows exponentially. And I think 5 years was mentioned as the time it would break the ground and grow.

     

    Take away the GA game, and the Ducks started off exceeding that kind of expectation. I'm certainly hoping we'll still see good Duck football and more victories this year, but, really, I think the hope/expectation that the Ducks would make the playoffs Lanning's first year was always a bit over-optimistic.

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  6. Despite the loss, I still think that was an exciting game to watch. The lead changed hands several times and I don't think anyone left the stadium early. Oh, there was the usual must-get-to-my-car-before-everyone else crew, but they all stopped on the stairs and the landing to watch the last several plays (and blocking the view of and irritating most of the people who sat across the aisle from me). It really wasn't until the very end that fans left the stadium, and how often does that happen?

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