Interesting takes out there in the media-twitter land....

 

 Absolutely, Oregon proved that when you hit rock bottom, (Taggart) , you can only go up, (Cristobal).

3 hours ago, 30Duck said:

Absolutely, Oregon proved that when you hit rock bottom, (Taggart) , you can only go up, (Cristobal).

Taggart was on the upswing... Though that was still a very underwhelming season all the same... Herbert getting injured and watching a freshman flail around on the field as qb was not a good time. 

OSU in 2016 had to be rock bottom.

Painful to say but Taggart did go 6-1 with Herbert with one 2 point road loss (ASU).

Went 1-4 with Burmeister, but sort of hard to put all that all on Taggart. I guess he recruited Burmeister, but other than JH, there wasn't a lot else in the QB room, and a true frosh playing meaningful snap probably wasn't in the thrown together plan.

When Burmeister was in HS, he was the all time CIF San Diego Section career passing leader (11,512 yards and 127 TD passes). Who really knew he wouldn't be ready to complete a downfield D1 pass for about 4 years when signed? Oregon needed somebody to sign in the 2017 class.

With Herbert healthy, Oregon maybe goes 9-3. 8-4 reasonably likely. Win the bowl? 10-3 or 9-4.

JH's first 2 games back that year after injury, Oregon put up 117 points. If Herbert gets hurt (again) in 2018 or 2019, and misses some significant time, it is possible the whole Cristobal narrative looks a bit different right now.

No real shocker AA goes to Boise State, and no real shocker Taggart goes to FSU for $5 million a year. How he handled it? Poorly. How would it have gone after 2017? Probably badly - but who knows.

10-3/9-4 looks pretty fair compared to 4-3 and an embarrassing bowl loss and performance.

 

Edited January 15, 20214 yr by AnotherOD

41 minutes ago, AnotherOD said:

Painful to say but Taggart did go 6-1 with Herbert with one 2 point road loss (ASU).

True about the record, and credit to you for recognizing it.

1 hour ago, AnotherOD said:

JH's first 2 games back that year after injury, Oregon put up 117 points. If Herbert gets hurt (again) in 2018 or 2019, and misses some significant time, it is possible the whole Cristobal narrative looks a bit different right now.

And that is precisely why they didn't let Herbert run the ball because Herbert broke his collar bone because of a run. Now the coaches said they always gave Herbert permission to run... But we all know that wasn't the case.