The Kamikaze Kid

Luckily our MMB cornflakes we’re already whizzed on a few games back!

A sad day for the University of Prowess.

Aged like fine whine.

I like the contrast between the stories about Lanning's team building through connecting and bonding and the USC coach's $17,000,000 bling palace. It tells me the kind of players each program will go after and where each program will wind up in a few years. The me vs we couldn't be made more clearer.

It's time to think about the world we're going to leave behind for Keith Richards....... and Tom Brady.

Wow. Lanning really takes his 1% better each day philosophy seriously. That concept was behind nearly every quote in the article. It also made me think that he wasn't just the be st D coordinator in the country last year but that he was also one of the best at what he was in charge of last year. This year, he's in charge of the entire team! Man I can't wait till September!

For every Cam Newton that’s all about the $$$, there will be a Casey Mathews waiting to knock him into oblivion.

Yes. Now the mask wearers will get to be the rebels!

It sounds like he’s continuing the same philosophy he had at UGA. In interviews I saw of him there, he mentioned getting 1% better each day so that you’re at championship level by the end of the season. Judging by his results, I’d say he knows how to get it done.

What if all teams dropped one scheduled game off the schedule and then teams that don’t make the playoffs add a bonus game at the end? This keeps everyone playing the same amount of games while adding a playoff round for 12 teams.

I can see some sort of pitch on the theme of help build the track to a championship here or ride someone else’s train there.

Man I'll take Lanning's honest enthusiastic answers over Mario's leather helmet coach speak any day. Great stuff!

Saw this on Twitter but haven’t read it yet.

I think we should take a look at the big picture view of the overall under achievement of the Mario era instead of just the underachievement of individual players. These guys were sold on bringing back the big time splash of Duck football but were given a conservative play not to lose game plan on both sides of the ball. They all saw a potential Heisman winner Herbert reduced to a game manager. They saw many 4 1/2-5 star players sit on the sidelines in favor of vanilla upper class men. KT called out Mario as a fraud and Pitman had a similar take in his parting rant. Both the former DC and OC couldn’t get out of here fast enough. There’s probably much more dissatisfaction we’ll never know about. With all that as a backdrop, along with the disturbing amount of season ending injuries last year, it’s not surprising that players may have dialed back their out put. Hopefully Lanning is the real deal and the team enjoys running through the wall for him next year. Don’t be surprised if KT ends up looking like everything we hoped he’d be here in the NFL.

This team was built to be led by Dante and Richardson and it wasn’t. It just is what it is. Or in this case, it just isn’t what it isn’t.

I see no signs of life but with Dr. Altman still performing surgery, we may be writing the Ducks obituary a little too soon.

Whatever you think about the ref’s call, you don’t put your fate in their hands. The alpha dog on the team with four fouls late in the game just needs to contest the shot, live with the results and live to compete for the victory. Easy to say from the armchair I know but that’s what it takes to win the tough ones. Good luck in the tournament ladies.

Whatever I feel about Mario as a coach is small potatoes to the important things in life. Losing mom is a dagger to the soul. My condolences coach.

If Mr. Thibs thought Mario was a fraud (which most here agree), then maybe dialing it back to avoid injury was the smart move. I don’t thing he signed up to be nearly last in the country in third down stops. Pretty sure the other NFL caliber players didn’t either.

Most of his “completions” were tosses to Dye in the backfield who was by far their leading “receiver “.

Nearly every team that routinely completed 3rd and 12 on a he Ducks all season long didn’t have any receivers at the combine.

Wow. Just switched over from the ladies to the men impersonating a befuddled team of 5th graders.

Nice finish ladies. Still have a chance to host the first two rounds.

At least three shot clock buzzer beater threes for UCLA. Just one of those games.

First, a 27.7% chance vs a 27.2% chance is just hysterical. Second, I think Ducks vs UGA Compared to The U vs AnM most likely will tilt a lot of recruiting battles. Third, it will be interesting to finally see the Lannng recruiting machine in full swing.