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How much Longer do I have to stay here?

This makes sense-

UGH- Mario just never ceases to amaze. He just does not know when to stop. He is making his ineptness look even worse by doing this. "Hey, CFP committee, I really screwed up in a couple of games and cost my team wins but can you please overlook that and reward us anyway. We did not beat any Top Ten teams but, please pay no attention to that, okay??? Please????" He is prepping the Miami fan base to go all in and blame the committee.

This ^ and he wants to go to a place where the coach actually knows how to coach and manage games.

He will just after the half at the start of the 3rd quarter.

Hmmm- this reeks of Joe Salavea. How could we forget all the recruits he lost????

100% correct. He shut it down right after he had a chance to.observe things from a team culture perspective shortly after he arrived and it was seriously lacking. Even though our old friend Mario talked a big game about culture and family neither existed according to people with direct knowledge . His comment was during that time out they are trying to coach guys up and IF the Ducks are winning then they can have fun with Shout.

Was physicality mentioned?????

In a tweet posted today James Crepea labeled Chip as a coach the game passed by 10 years ago.

Fan base seems to think Vrabel is the guy.

I appreciate this guy's honesty but aren't some things better kept in house?? Can't imagine Ryan was too happy with this 'honesty'.

The flip side of this is certainly some of OBDs will hit the portal too.

Kim never ceases to amaze. Good thing Ruthie retired before the DeBoer leaving debacle.

As I mentioned in another thread, I don't think we have enough data points to know if Dante is the guy or not. Would seem if they go after a QB in the portal then there are possibly questions. Just my opinion

All this only reinforces why our brethren to the north (Corvallis) are in the mess they are in. If only they had thought about cultivating their brand when Smith was leading the resurgence instead of constantly mocking Oregon. The reality though (and they will never admit it publicly) is they are/were envious of Oregon because Oregon had smart people who decided to build the brand many years ago. I know the common orange and black rejoinder to all this is 'well, you'd be nothing without Phil Knight'. There is credence to that for sure BUT there are more smaller fish in the pond than big fish and Oregon has done a really good job of cultivating that segment of the fan base. Not my intention to hijack this thread in anyway.

Hmmm- that is interesting but I wonder if it speaks to a bigger cultural issue in the program. No definitive data points, just wondering.

Totally expected this. Not all surprising IMO

I am not sure we have enough data points on Dante at the moment. We've only seen glimpses of Novosad and nothing I recall of Moga so this certainly leads to questions for sure. We know they are doing everything to preserve Dante's redshirt so not sure how much real game time experience he gets and the fact they are preserving the red shirt MAY mean something. Maybe one of the aforementioned hits the portal. I have no insights at all but I would be surprised if Dante were to hit the portal again. Lots of grist for the mill since the portal opens in a few weeks.

I would not be surprised to see Whittingham walk away this year. I think he is at that point . Just my casual observation.

And let’s face it- they’d give up body parts to be Oregon right now. In the mean time they can relish their win over UCLA.

So I assume the assessment of ‘underperforming’ was determined based on their experience from last year? They were ‘underperforming’ last year when they were 11-0? Got it. Makes complete sense now.

I lost count after the 275,000th time they showed Steve Belichick on the sidelines in the first quarter. Hopefully they were able to continue throughout the rest of the game. Had to switch over to the Christmas movie on Hallmark channel.

If Dan is ‘douchy’ then how would they categorize LR??? You know , the guy who berated a reporter for asking a simple question.

I'll take boredom any day and as Dan would say 'who cares'.

I saw a wild internet post yesterday (we all know EVERYTHING on the internet is true) and someone posited that Jerry was interested in Dan and would pay whatever it took to get him.