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I don't know about that. There will be a lot of high level teams looking for an OC at the end of the year. The sooner we can find someone the better. Someone like Locksley the HC for Maryland that was a Natty OC at Bama was just fired. A situation like that could be advantageous for us looking. I think Douglas will be interim OC.

Well in that case it ain't rat poison either, but it's unpredictable how players will handle it. Some will resent being on this team and be on the way out of they aren't NFL bound next year. Some will take advantage of the opportunity to make name for themselves with the upheaval, but they will probably use that to jump ship here. I'm struggling to be positive here, but this damage is like an ACL tear. We are out for the season and hoping to make full recovery by next year.

With all due respect, I was wrong, Lanning has the 6th rated blue-chip talent composite three years ago. If Lanning doesn't have a top five group of players that's squarely on him and his staff's development of those players. Lanning has lacked for nothing when it comes to facilities, support, NIL or his own paycheck. When I look at these roster blue-chip charts below it is shocking how Lanning's teams have gotten so dismantled by OSU and Indiana in the last two playoffs, we didn't look competitive. We showed up and didn't look ready to play, were out coached, and looked light years from winning a Natty. We have the #3 rated roster for this season and just lost to the 51st ranked roster with a backup Frosh QB making his first start, in what world is that not unacceptable? Hamptons defense gave up 225 rushing yards to a one-dimensional team; I haven't even dug into the critical analysis of that debacle since I'm having a 2022 Beavers comeback win PST event. I'm not asking the guy to win it all, but he sure the hell shouldn't be getting run out of the playoffs in embarrassing style with all the resources he has behind him. He should be in the playoffs every year and competitive if he gets bounced, there is no shame in that. This season's regression will pass but he needs to do better than he has been at Oregon. The question going forward is what offensive scheme Lanning is going to run going forward and what is he going to do to address not being remotely competitive against elite teams in the playoffs. Those are fair questions when you have a coach with a $56.7 million buyout, top facilities, a huge NIL budget, and an Elite roster every year-the excuses run out on why you're getting blown out in the playoffs and why this year's team has tanked. I'm sure Phil has been on the phone to Mullens these same questions, there has been historical investment made in Lanning's Program-and the ROI is unacceptable. Oregon has gone all in on Lanning in every way and he signed the guaranteed contract deal, its' on him to deliver excellence for kind of coin.

Terrific post, Mike, thanks. Miami's O has played extremely well against nothing-burger competition. No. 14 (?) Wake Forest that won in double OT at Purdue shut down the Miami O in the 2nd half of the game in Winston-Salem. Miami's D was shredded by FSU and former Stanford and Auburn QB Ashton Daniels. A terrible holding call against FSU prevented the game from going into the 3rd OT. Phil Steele ranks Miami's SOS as the 61st most 'difficult' in the nation. Steele ranks Oregon's SOS the 20th most difficult. With Miami's schedule, I think Oregon would still be in the PO hunt. Very few people thought Oregon's schedule would be difficult before playing at Ohio State. Wrong. No. 21 Northwestern's SOS is ranked 14th by Steele. No team is being screwed over by the coaches and the AP voters more than NW. Six 2-loss SEC teams with 'worse losses' than NW's loss at No. 4 Indiana by two points are ranked ahead of 1-loss Northwestern. The AP Poll is ridiculously SEC-centric. USC loses to No. 25 Wisconsin on the road and drops from 16 to 31. Iowa loses a rivalry game on the road to a 2-loss Minnesota team and drops from 15 to 26. Roster rankings are based on recruiting and portal rankings that are a best guess. Texas WR Cam Coleman, with Archie throwing to him, was going to replace J. Smith as the best WR in CFB, right? This was the same guy who dropped close to 10% of the passes thrown to him while playing for Auburn. CFB SOS varies significantly nationally and within P4 conferences and is not properly calculated; ditto for roster rankings. I see no viable coaching candidate who, in his first four seasons, would have won more games than Dan Lanning. Would have defeated Ohio State in Eugene in 2024 and kept the regular-season game against Indiana in 2025 within one TD. Oregon was blown out in the Rose Bowl and in the Peach Bowl by teams with better talent who were better prepared by more experienced head coaches. Ditto for the two losses to UW in 2023. Will Stein and Tosh Lupoi were on hand in 2024 and 2025. Thank you for making note of the roster rankings. Oregon has a talented roster but not on the level of Ohio State or Georgia. To be a CFB champ today, a team has to win 3 or 4 games in a row against top competition. The quality of contending teams' rosters and the depth of the rosters will be tested. I think Miami had a better roster, especially on defense last season, and lost two regular-season games. Perhaps Ryan Day should be fired? After winning a championship in 2024, before defeating Indiana by a foot in Week 7 of this season, Day was 0-3 in the last three games vs. ranked opponents. This is with better talent than Dan has on hand. Perhaps Mario would have brought similar talent to Eugene, but would he have won more games? In the ACC, Mario has a superior roster advantage. The kind of advantage Riley had at Oklahoma. Every person and every entity suffers misfortune. How you and they respond is what matters.

Sorry, my remark about “haters” was misconstrued. I meant people outside this forum especially media figures who are biased towards the Ducks. I was not referring to anyone on this or other OBD threads. My apologies if needed.

55 Whole years? Pffffft! Mere child's play. I sat through seasons where I was sometimes one of 4-5 fans in the east end zone, at times. Those first few seasons at Autzen were painful. Rich Brooks was a godsend, in some ways, after years of Jerry Frei, Dick Enright, and Don Read. The murderers row of future HOF coaches who passed through the coaching tree under Frei is frustrating to ponder. If Lanning can build that sort of group moving forward, with the sort of talent he seems to have the ability on the team, the future could be amazing. GO DUCKS!

"Getting ready for Northwestern...." Nov. 23, 2025: Chip Kelly was fired as the Las Vegas Raiders’ offensive coordinator after a disappointing 2-9 start to the season. The decision came following a 24-10 loss to the Cleveland Browns, marking the sixth game this year where the Raiders failed to score at least 20 points. Kelly, who joined the Raiders after winning a national title as Ohio State’s offensive coordinator, struggled to improve the team’s offense, which ranked near the bottom of the league in scoring, total yards, and red zone efficiency. This marks the second midseason firing of an offensive coordinator for the Raiders in consecutive years. Luke Getsy was fired in Nov. 2024.

I am not happy this yr.. I am absolutely pro Dan Lanning and doubt we could have hired a better coach at the time or for these time.. I hope he will hire hire experienced assistants and coordinators... I hope our booster are strong enough to realize that in today's world of Nil, money talks. We are in Oregon thankfully, but not LA or Atlanta or Dallas etc... we just may have to pay more... Location Location.

I was only using AI as there are very few people available to come in and help this year as everyone you'd really want is under contract and will be unavailable till the end of the year. A OC/QB coach is needed to preserve the rest of the season and in doing so preventing as many of the talented skill posting players from leaving via portal. After the end of the season go get the best you can find.

The Duck is resting up a bit, prior to beginning a new push-up regimen... everybody needs a break once in a while!

Come next year?

Getting Ready for Northwestern....

Nix was a bit of a coach on the field. It takes a while for most quarterbacks to reach that level.

I also have NO confidence in AI to recommend coach!!!!

I'm not mad at you. You Absolutely have a right to vent. You made valid points. You're not the type of Oregon fan I am talking about. Lanning does not have a top five group of players. Just like Penn State didn't have a top five group of players last year. That is a big misconception. I want you to go back and look at Miami the first month of last year. Our Ducks have NEVER looked that good. Even in 2019- Oregon's best defense ever. This is my opinion, Indiana, Georgia, Alabama Ohio State and Texas all have much better talent than we have. And I mean much. They perform better, and all but Texas have been consistent. And Miami has an offensive that is damn near unstoppable. That is six teams right there that are better. Potential isn't the same thing as performance. Out of all the contenders this year, and I counted seven, Oregon was the least likely to win a title. We have not performed close to how well the other six have on the field against elite talent. Everybody put on the hype that evidence contradicted. I've been saying for a long time, Lanning is elevating his team beyond it's talent capacity. Some people still can't accept that. Look at Dante Moore in the heat of battle. Everybody said last year she better come back because he has work to do. That was the first sign. The defensive line, in both playoff blowouts played poorly. That was the second sign. The offensive line played worse. Third sign. There are dozens of NFL teams that overpay their players. What makes you think that's not going to happen in college football? And that is not a criticism of you. That's rhetorical. Penn State is learning what it means to be an unrealistic fan base. It's going to take 5 years before they match what James Franklin did that at that program. We bought an unreasonable point of view. It is that simple. It is time to pay attention to how difficult it is to win a National championship. It is time to correctly assess talent based on performance. It is time to allow a coach to evolve completely into excellence.

The very title of the thread suggests Dan should be fired but we're stuck with him due to the size of his buyout. So it seems like just a play on semantics to say it didn't call for him to be fired. Maybe that wasn't the true intent, but that's how I read it as well. Dan's record and accomplishments in the first few years of being a very young HC are extremely impressive. Yes he has great resources, but those alone do not make a top 5 team. This season is actually proof of just how fragile things can be at the elite level of the sport. He was knocking on the door in just his 3rd and 4th seasons as a HC. Now he has a hiccup with a bad hire and a down season and the sharks immediately start to circle. I totally agree that he's made some decisions that warrant criticism. I've questioned some of them myself on this forum. But in my mind he's built a lot of equity and I see it as a long-term relationship. I can't get on-board with any talk of firing him at this point or the foreseeable future. To me it's like the difference between telling my wife she spends too much money or needs to stop dinging her car in parking lots vs telling her that the only reason we're still married is that I can't afford to divorce her. Totally different plain.

That’s the question of the day isn’t it?

I completely disagree. I'm going to beat this dead horse because Oregon fans have beat this dead horse, and I'm going to express how I feel about it. It isn't wrong to be upset. It isn't wrong to vent. But when people start acting like they're better coaches than the guy who elevated this program so high- its insulting. I will leave it at that because I'm beyond livid. I see a lot of Oregon fans that refused to recognize after the Oklahoma State game we were beyond capable of winning a National Title this year. The time to lament is when Lanning's career is over. He's barely getting started. Settle in and enjoy the ride. Or put in an application and put your money where your mouth is.