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That's true. I'm not talking about a championship game winner getting in with three losses. I mean could a three loss team have one of the twelve best resumes and get in this year? I don't think there are enough zero or one loss teams to fill up the spots right now half way through the season.

It's possible... A three loss tram made the playoffs once already with Clemson sneaking in as the ACC champ in 2024.

I am in no way saying the UO still has a chance to make the playoffs simply because I don't see them winning out from here. But what if they did and finished 9-3? Are we sure that this year a three loss team wouldn't get in? Right now, with around half the season in the books, there are only two SEC teams with under two losses. In the BIG that number is four. With so many games left with head to head match ups and some upsets thrown in, the list of two loss teams will shrink each week. Does a two loss ACC team with a weak schedule slide by an SEC or BIG team that went 3-3 against ranked opponents? Parody seems to have over taken college football this year and I think that's a great thing. This year, I think a three loss team may get in. Maybe even more than one.

Instant Takeaways: Oregon blows out Stanford in final exhibition game before regular season startsThe Oregon men's basketball program found success with a dominating win over visiting Stanford. Here are our instant takeaways from the win. https://247sports.com/college/oregon/article/oregon-blows-out-stanford-in-final-exhibition-game-before-regular-season-starts-291793487/

2 college head coaches and 1 NFL head coach who could be Oregon’s next offensive coordinator3 head coaches who could become Dan Lanning's next offensive coordinatorMike Norvell - Florida StateMike Locksley - MarylandShane Steichen - Indianapolis ColtsAutzen Zoo2 college head coaches and 1 NFL head coach who could be...The Oregon Ducks have started the season with a disappointing 4-3 record, and with the team failing to meet expectations, it was only a matter of time before aFive Realistic Candidates to Replace Drew Mehringer as Oregon Offensive CoordinatorThe Oregon Ducks have now opened up one of the more intriguing coaching positions within the coach Dan Lanning staff. Two of the names that peaked my attention:Joe Sloan, Kentucky Offensive CoordinatorMitch Dahlen, Oregon State Offensive CoordinatorChip Kelly is always an intriguing candidate. But we also want someone who can recruit well which is not his strong card.Oregon Ducks On SIFive Realistic Candidates to Replace Drew Mehringer as Or...Coach Dan Lanning verbally painted the picture changes needed to be made for the Oregon Ducks. Especially after scoring only 10 points in the letdown loss to Il

Northeastern doesn’t have a football team.

Get some O. Hire Luke Getsy! 🤪 I think he's the OC at Northeastern? 😁

I am not sure about where I acted like I was a better coach than anyone. Not sure why I have to put my money where my mouth is.

Norvell is gone after this year. Makes a ton of sense for all of the above reasons.

Check out George Wrighster on the "Unafraid Show." He makes a lot of good points.

Good take. But "he's bought a little bit of time". Hmmmm? Has any Oregon coach had a better record in his first four seasons than DL, now 2-2 in the two seasons of a 12-team PO? Kirby Smart is 0-2. Disappointing? Heck yes. But Dan is 4-3 playing a schedule that, by every metric, is ranked in the 20 most difficult in 2026. Playing with a backup QB instead of a preseason top-5 QB at the wheel. I don't care who is calling the plays; Oregon wins on Saturday with a healthy Dante Moore. Oregon is 1-2 vs. the top-25 and should be 2-2. 6-2 SC lost on the road to a team now ranked No. 25 and dropped from 16 to 31. Ridiculous. What coach would be better than DL? He screwed up. He lost the offseason. Fortunately, in today's portal-picking world, and after encouraging dead weight to transfer out, Dan has the resources and recruiting skills to get Oregon back in the PO hunt next season. Miami, which has played a lightweight schedule, is No. 1. 2021 was the last time Miami was on top of CFB. It's a disappointing season. It happens to every program.

The question is: which of Dan's "buddies" does he hire? He definitely has a tendency to lean on people he knows, trusts, or has some history with, and for the most part his track record doing it has been pretty damn good. So rather than just throwing out the usual list of hot coordinator names, I started going backward through Dan's career and looking at offensive coaches he has actually worked with who could fit the job. Some are realistic, some could become realistic depending on what happens over the next month, and some are obviously long shots. Mike Norvell: Probably the most interesting name on the entire list. Dan worked with Norvell at Pitt in 2011, again at Arizona State, and then Norvell was the guy who hired Dan at Memphis. Norvell is still the head coach at Florida State, but FSU is sitting at 3 and 4 and 1 and 3 in the ACC, so I don't think you can simply cross his name off because he's currently a head coach. His future at FSU is very much worth watching. If they make a change, you'd suddenly have a proven offensive coach and former Power Four head coach with a very strong personal connection to Dan sitting on the market. Chip Long: Worked with Dan at Arizona State and again at Memphis in 2016, where Long was Norvell's OC. He's also been the OC at Notre Dame, Tulane, Georgia Tech and Southern Miss. I can't find him on a current 2026 FBS coaching staff, so unlike a lot of these guys, availability wouldn't appear to be a major obstacle. His stock isn't what it was during the Notre Dame years, but he has a ton of actual play calling experience and a long history with Dan. Aaron Pflugrad: Worked with Dan at Arizona State. Pflugrad has coordinator experience from Northern Arizona, spent 2025 as Michigan State's passing game coordinator and is now the quarterbacks coach at James Madison. JMU is 7 and 1 this season. He's younger, coaches quarterbacks, has experience designing a passing game and has a direct relationship with Dan. This feels like exactly the kind of under the radar name Dan could hire and everyone would immediately understand once they looked at the connection. Chris Thomsen: Worked with Dan at Arizona State in 2013. He's currently Florida State's deputy head coach and tight ends coach and has both head coaching and offensive coordinator experience. He's spent more of his career with offensive lines and tight ends than as a pure play caller, so I wouldn't put him among my favorites. If Florida State makes wholesale staff changes, though, he could become available very quickly. Phil Longo: Was Dan's offensive coordinator at Sam Houston State in 2014. Longo later ran offenses at Ole Miss, North Carolina and Wisconsin and is now the head coach at Sam Houston. The interesting part is that Sam Houston went 2 and 10 last year and is 1 and 6 right now. So while he's technically a head coach today, I would not automatically assume he'll still be one when the coaching carousel really starts. If he becomes available, there is a direct Dan connection and an enormous amount of offensive coordinator experience. Lane Kiffin: Dan spent the 2015 season at Alabama while Kiffin was running the offense. Kiffin is now the head coach at LSU, so this one is obviously in the fantasy category unless something completely bizarre happens. Still, if we're actually going through Dan's coaching history and looking at offensive coaches he worked alongside, Kiffin belongs on the list. Billy Napier: Also worked with Dan on Alabama's 2015 staff, where Napier coached receivers. Napier has been an offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and head coach and is now the head coach at James Madison. JMU is 7 and 1 in his first season. That makes him extremely unlikely to leave for a coordinator job, but the connection and offensive background are both there. Kenny Dillingham: Worked with Dan at Memphis in 2016 and 2017, and Dan then hired him as his first offensive coordinator at Oregon. He's now the head coach at Arizona State, so I don't see a reunion happening. But Dillingham is probably the single best piece of evidence for the entire premise here. When Dan needed his first OC, he went directly to someone he'd already worked with and trusted. Darrell Dickey: Worked with Dan at Memphis. Dickey was assistant head coach and running backs coach in 2016 and became the OC in 2017. He's been an offensive coordinator at multiple schools and was the head coach at North Texas. He doesn't appear to be on a current coaching staff and has recently been doing football analysis around Texas A&M. He's probably not the young, splashy hire most Oregon fans would picture, but he's experienced, appears available and knows Dan personally. Ryan Silverfield: Worked with Dan at Memphis as the offensive line coach and run game coordinator. He's now in his first season as the head coach at Arkansas. I don't see him leaving a new SEC head coaching job to become Oregon's OC, but he's another significant offensive connection from Dan's Memphis years. James Coley: Worked alongside Dan at Georgia in 2018 and 2019. Coley was co OC and quarterbacks coach in 2018 and became Georgia's OC in 2019. He's now back at Georgia coaching wide receivers. He's also coordinated offenses at Miami and has a long recruiting résumé. His one season as Georgia's primary OC is going to be the obvious concern, but he's currently in a position Oregon could realistically hire him away from and he has a substantial history with Dan. Buster Faulkner: Worked with Dan at Georgia in 2020 and 2021 while Faulkner was on the offensive staff and Dan was running the defense. Faulkner spent the next three seasons as Georgia Tech's OC, was named the 2025 FootballScoop Offensive Coordinator of the Year and is now Florida's OC. Florida is currently 5 and 2. He's an experienced quarterback coach and play caller, his résumé is trending up rather than down, and he already knows Dan. To me, he's one of the strongest realistic names on the entire list. Todd Monken: Worked alongside Dan at Georgia in 2020 and 2021, with Monken running the offense and Dan running the defense. They won a national championship together. Monken became the Cleveland Browns head coach in January, so this one is basically impossible. But from the standpoint of offensive coaches Dan knows and respects, he's obviously part of the tree. Cortez Hankton: Worked with Dan throughout Dan's four years at Georgia. Hankton coached receivers there, then went to LSU, where he became passing game coordinator and eventually co OC. He's now Ohio State's wide receivers coach. That makes this one especially interesting because Oregon could potentially offer him a genuine step up, full offensive coordinator responsibility and possibly the opportunity to call plays. He has the Dan relationship, SEC and Big Ten experience, high end recruiting chops and experience helping coordinate elite passing offenses. This one makes a lot of sense. Jim Chaney: Was Georgia's offensive coordinator during Dan's first season there in 2018. Chaney has also coordinated offenses at Purdue, Tennessee, Arkansas and Pitt and is currently the offensive coordinator at Georgia State. He has about as much play calling experience as anyone on this list and would presumably be obtainable. The question would be whether Dan wants that kind of veteran coordinator or somebody younger with more upside. Junior Adams: Spent three seasons on Dan's Oregon staff as wide receivers coach and co OC before leaving for the NFL. He's now in his second season coaching receivers for the Dallas Cowboys. He already knows the program, players, recruiting footprint and Dan's expectations. Convincing him to leave the NFL might be difficult, but becoming Oregon's full offensive coordinator would be a substantially different job than the one he left. Ra'Shaad Samples: Already on Dan's staff as assistant head coach and running backs coach. He previously coached in the NFL with the Rams and was Arizona State's passing game coordinator before coming to Oregon. He's young, considered an excellent recruiter and is obviously someone Dan thinks highly of. The question is experience. Giving him full control of the offense and play calling duties would be a major promotion. Ross Douglas: Currently Oregon's wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator. He previously held the same role at Syracuse and coached receivers for the New England Patriots. He's another young coach Dan clearly values and he's already involved in Oregon's passing game. Like Samples, though, promoting him to full OC and primary play caller would be a pretty significant leap. So who knows which direction Dan actually goes, but I think the larger point is that the list of legitimate possibilities gets a lot more interesting once you stop looking only at the obvious national names and start looking at the people he already knows. His history says familiarity and trust matter to him, especially with coordinators. I would not be surprised at all if the eventual hire is somebody most people barely mention at first, then five minutes after the announcement everyone looks at the connection and says, "Yeah, that actually makes perfect sense."

Not yet anyway. He has earned a lot more leeway then one bad half season. What makes this worse is the attitude that anything short of a Natty is a bust. I get that it's what we all want, but I still love seeing us play each Sat. So here's hoping whoever calls plays for the balance of the season does a great job. We can still play spoiler for the NW and tOSU, not to mention destroying the purple dawgs! Is Dante coming back soon? Like today! 🤞

I'd be shocked if Dan were fired. He is recruiting too well and has made the playoff twice in the last two years. And like you said he is addressing the biggest problems of this roster. I think if he makes the right hires and uses the portal effectively (which he usually does) then the Ducks are right back on track.

Not sure about Slade Nagle. Not a ton of significant OC experience, his resume kind of resembles Mehringer's where there's a bunch of positional experience at a bunch of stops with a bit of OC at a couple spots. The only difference being that he's shown some success at Houston so far as the OC last season and this season. But those results are so short that it's difficult to say if he really has the ability to elevate a top 5 team's offense or he's simply a high floor/lower ceiling guy.

Nothing to play for... really only applies to us fans. Players want to play. This is their whole life right now. What they have to play for is to win games. That is enough. But if the offensive side of the ball still continues to be a non-factor, then the team could give up and feel that it has all become useless. This is why they need to make changes now. This should have been done after the Ok ST game. What is getting under my skin now is that mediocre teams are celebrating beating the Ducks. They did not come up to our level, we went down to there's.

The Duck haters are out in droves…anyone who thinks Lanning is on the hot seat is full of crap, period, end of story. The Ducks will be fine. This is just a bump, albeit a big one in the road. Much work to be done but the Lanning haters are going to eat their words. The Ducks will be in the mix next year. We have sucked and lost three games by 21 points. We have played horribly and we have still been in all the games. The biggest issue is being tended to. Patience is required.

In the post game presser Coach Stubbs said he had been cleared Friday by the NCAA. There's been solid improvement each game. Like Stubbs said "baby steps". The bench looks really deep, and if they can remember it's a team game and share the ball, I think they could have a decent season. Cool to see "The Little Bluejay" helping out. (Shout out to "The Big Redhead"!)

I went through a concussion a few years ago from being rear ended by another car when I stopped for deer in the road. I felt OK at first, then 15 minutes later, it hit me. As I was recovering the next few weeks, it got worse and my head was a mess and sleep was hard to get. I was in a fog for a long time, but I eventually got back to normal. Dante was down on the ground after his hit. That is a sign that it is real bad. A lot of concussions creep up on you. His was right away. He didn't even sit up. He just layed on the ground. That is a lot of head trauma to the brain. Not just the hit, but also the rebound of the helmet going back and hitting the ground. I think equal chance he comes back before regular season ends or doesn't. He can't be out there before ready or D linemen will break him in half. Then if Ducks keep losing and O line play is suspect, there may not be a reason to bring him back. Let DR play and see if he looks like he could start next year.

That would be a solid get as long as he fits the culture, can work with Dan, wants to move to Oregon, wants to be an OC and is being hired because he's the right guy for the team not just the only guy available at the time. I'm just dreading the promote from within for an intern OC for the rest of the year route. I don't follow football close enough to know who's not under contract this time of year but if there's no one qualified that wants the job right now bringing in a stop gap guy for the rest of the year would be better than a RB or WR coach, that's already been tried. Calming the locker room and making sure there's not a ton of guys running to the portal is the number one priority. Team discipline is at an all-time low and Dan needs help fast.

I doubt Helf is on the interim list...

What type of offense is Stein running at UK this year? I believe I have seen perimeter screens as run game extensions and RPO's but am not sure how different the system might be to our offensive offense?

The team played very well today against Stanford and won by 25. Payne looked like a different player. Ewin played, so maybe he is eligible now?? That would be huge, because he was excellent on the glass today. This team needs him badly.

I believe nothing to play for is an interesting statement. You play to win football games. And there are still 5 on the schedule. This will definitely show the culture Dan has built. It's easy to buy in and be a tam player when you win 80+% of your games. Now we see what happens when that is not the case. Do players leave for greener pastures when things are sideways. Or stay and be part of the solution. Time will tell.