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I don't have any idea if this guy can actually coach, but after reading the following, I'm already half in love with this guy: Locksley speaking: "I said, 'Jim (the AD), I understand, and if you have to do what you need to do, I care more about Maryland and these kids than my ego,'" Locksley said. "But what I won't do is resign. But we can talk and figure out how to let the pressure off of everybody because I care more about Maryland."

"The Three Stoges" Lol, exactly what I saw as receivers were tripping over themselves while the defenders just stood and watched. What a nightmare.

I would imagine it would be like any open job, some can get hired and start immediately.

Chip Kelly is coming to town this weekend. Oh wait, that's for a game and not an interview!

Moneyball Scott Hatteberg: [Responding to being asked to play first base] I've only ever played catcher. Billy Beane: It's not that hard, Scott. Tell him, Wash. Ron Washington: It's incredibly hard. "It's incredibly hard." When 'someone' came up with the idea of hiring a TE coach to be our QB coach (with no prior specialized QB coaching experience), I feel like there should have been a conversation at Oregon that ended with: "It's incredibly hard... and Coach, this idea sucks." And I don't care that he played QB in college. Coaching the game, and playing the game, are often worlds apart, requiring different talents and gifts.

Does anybody know the rules for bringing in anybody short term in mid season? Seems like a Helfrich type guy could come in and at least steady the ship till the end of the season.

Yeah, that one will go down as a historically bad decision. Kudos to DL for having the cajones to pull the trigger now rather than later.

So.....who is assuming the OC role?

DL really didn’t have any choice. I understand the loyalty and promoting from within but Mehringer seriously didn’t have any kind of resume to deserve being OC. Not for a top 5 fbs program anyway.

Yep. And here it is from Go Ducks: https://goducks.com/news/2026/10/25/football-oregon-relieves-offensive-coordinator-mehringer-of-duties

Locksley was already fired. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50250293/mike-locksley-says-peace-firing-maryland

Here ya go: You can read it right here.

If Akili Smith Sr steps in to mentor the QB room and guides his son to victory at Ohio St, that would be a story to follow!

Hard to ague with that logic. My point is what could a Joey Harrington or Jonathan Smith as a QB coach teach about staying poised and disciplined during a chaotic play vs a back up tight end as your coach.

To the contrary....we are an incredible story to follow, and all publicity is good--even if negative....right?

I agree Lanning is NOT capable of bringing us to the promised land. Seems like a great speaker until you realize that he really didn't say anything. Never really cared for Cristobal but he is a better head coach than Lanning.

No joke. I can chalk up the Ok St defeat to you win some you lose some but everything since then has been gross neglagence.

I am an old time DUCK fan. As a student, my first Head Coach was Len Casanova. I played JC basketball in California and tried to walk on the Oregon BB team and lasted all of one hour. I have watched all of this for 60+ years and have finally reached some level of exhaustion. I think our Head Coach Dan Lanning has lost control of this team. Where is the leadership? All the comments about the OC and DC and position coaches are the result of the HC hiring these coordinators and position coaches and not being willing to make changes. Last night Oregon did not look like a team. Illinois looked like a team with a HC in charge. RaShaad Samples gets a DUI this summer and there was no visible punishment. No surprise to me to see Evan Stewart get a DUI plus no drivers license. I lost a family member to a drunk driver so I have no mercy here. I started my own business 50 years ago and retired last year. I hired people and I fired people. I understood that ultimately the success of my business was me making good decisions and sometimes tough decisions. Our President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that said "The Buck Stops Here". I think it is time for Rob Mullens to get actively involved.

I've read that the last three games are the worst three game offensive stretch since the glorious Bermeister era. I predict that distinction will be surpassed in the next three games (Northwestern, Ohio St, Michigan).

Geoff Schwartz's thoughts:

I'd take Monty calling plays at this point.

Dan Lanning's is going to need every bit of his sports psychologist's abilities to keep this team engaged and motivated now that we have nothing to play for other than a bowl game. No more "We still have all of our goals in front of us" to remind the team to get back on the horse. Every person on this roster that stuck around an extra year to win a Natty is going to have to dig deep realizing that at the very least they are still playing to save their draft stock. Perhaps the silver lining will be checking sports media seeing that nobody is covering us anymore now that we are irrelevant. No more rat poison at least.

"Either he has assembled an offensive unit of fake 4/5 star players or he has assembled a fake offensive coaching staff." Exactly. There's only Door #1, or Door #2. There is no Monty Hall (just to show my age there) offering a Door #3.

As Ducks, I'm afraid that the closest Phil, and likely even me, will ever get to the National Football Championship, is when we lost to Auburn in heartbreaking fashion in 2011. That one still stings.