Nevada Dawg

Bo Jackson left Auburn largely because the new head coach created a dumpster fire there and the program no longer seemed to have a sense of direction.

One more point about Lanning and defense. At Georgia, competition was stressed in all position groups and I am told that practices were extremely physical. But so too was the TEAM ethic. Kirby and Lanning got the defense to always pull together and move to the ball in systematic ways. In fact a good friend, who is a big Alabama fan, paid Georgia's 2021 defense an immense compliment by saying that that unit played like a well-coordinated organism. Lanning was not the only brain child here. Kirby's defenses at Alabama played like that, and Georgia also had the good fortune to have Will Muschamp, a stellar defensive coordinator everywhere he ever was, as a planner and defensive analyst. So commentary in this article suggests to me that Lanning and Lupoi are working to install exactly that kind of climate in Eugene. He is a players coach and, if the if team leaders like Sewell and hopefully the alpha players on offense buy in, the rest will take care of itself.

I agree and will simply add that Bo was a proven QB in the SEC who can make all the throws, run the rock a little when necessary, and he loves to compete. I don't know what the QB room looks like in Eugene but whoever is the incumbent should have a battle on his hands. sec

Yeah Noah was coveted by Georgia and I think we would have landed him had it not been for the existing family connection in Eugene. I have watched a fair amount of Duck football over the past two years and followed along with Noah when the Ducks defense was out there. He is great when the play unfolds in front of him but a bit sluggish many times going side to side. Lanning will get him over that in a hurry, I suspect, and make him the pro prospect that he hopes to be (although he will never go as high as his brother).

My dawgs beat Bo and Auburn all three times they faced him. BUT it wasn't easy and Bo is a player who earned my respect. Tough guy. Oh and thanks for the helmet Mr. FishDuck.

Second reply (don't know where the first went) I am good friends with a big Ducks fan and we support each other's team. After the first Utah debacle this season past, I tried to bolster his sagging spirits by noting that ...if Mario is worth his salt as a coach, the staff will analyze this game, make adjustments, and the rematch in the Championship game should be better. Sad to say I was wrong and the rematch looked like a replay of the first. It looked to me as if the coaches' heads were elsewhere and that they had quit on their team. I am glad that my team's coaches did not do that in its rematch with Alabama. My Dawgs were in a defense they hadn't used much all year and got hammered in the SEC Championship game. It is a bit of an oversimplification, but they adjusted by going back to the attacking defense that they had used so successfully all year and pretty much handled the Crimson Tide. The good news here for the Ducks is that Dan Lanning had a lot to do with this adjustment, convincing other coaches to revert to what his guys do best.