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From my sources it directly conflicted with Cristobal's No-Go Offense.

Nothing good to say on this one.

A non-profit status is the loophole many use to make bank. The fact that the word non profit makes many believe nobody really makes any money, not the case at all. This is why it is important to look into who you donate money too, especially this time of year. There isn't a problem with this non-profit paying it's employee's $50k, that is the way they want it, probably nothing illegal, but ugly none the less. I would love to hear from a tax accountant who is knowledgeable about this type of thing. I doubt Sark is too up on this. 'This will bring me the best O-lineman, sign me up!'

I doubt former players have any idea of how to work the system. That is what it is coming down to. Hopefully this will be coming to an end, but the end isn't in sight yet. Thibs did create some crypto currency scam, but the program needs accounting nerds if we are going to keep up. I think the whole division street idea is a very savvy marketing idea. What programs are doing to leverage the new NIL angle isn't marketing, and Oregon may have to get with it if it is going to keep up. They may need to hire some quants to really figure out how to get money into the hands of the elite recruits, they are beginning to expect it.

It is just capitalism, right. What did the capitalist in the NFL do, capped the pay of their employees because they knew they had no self control. In college football there is no self control amongst the ultra wealthy when it comes to coaches. Imagine what an owner would pay to have Brady, or Rogers on the open market? Owners would pay massively to have these guys if there was no salary cap. There are penalties to keep teams under the salary cap, under the guise they want to keep things competitive. The real reason is they have no restraint. The funny one is the NBA where they have the soft cap, to help keep players on the same team. They then name the violations a luxury tax. Maybe we should call the excessive coaches pay a luxury tax. The continual upping of the coaches salaries the soft cap? Wait until this whole phenomenon hits the NIL if the whole non-profit program scam is able to work. As long as you 'work' for the non-profit, they can pay you whatever money the non-profit has, they actually have to spend it, can't have profits. The wild, wild world of an unregulated college football.

Their women's programs have had plenty of success, what are they talking about? Maybe they should just drop their men's programs, problem solved. Like I tell my kids, if you are going to complain, you won't like my answer.

You know the sometimes, scam, with non-profits. What is the value of an employee at a non-profit, whatever it takes to make sure they don't show a profit. The main item is, can we keep up and compete? We already loss, directly, a top recruit to this sales pitch. Kelvin Banks went from Oregon to Texas where he will be an employee of a non-profit and make $50k a year while attending Texas. Agree this seems like the old car washing jobs athletes use to get from dealerships of big donors. The difference is a non-profit is just about perfectly set up for this abuse. Maybe a tax accountant can correct my understanding? College football is big business and the athletes are getting in on the business side. Oregon needs to stay on the cutting edge or we will continue to get cut off.

We had Mario, we now have Lanning, both great recruiters. The recruiting field has changed and is shifting greatly. Will Oregon keep up? We already lost our 5* offensive lineman to the deals available to Texas, $50k per year, not bad. Can Oregon keep up with the competition at this level? I hope we also hired an NIL expert, I don't care how young he is.

I think it would be shrewd to bring in Bellotti a few times a month. There are so many thing about the program, conference, and just being a head coach that shouldn't be learned the hard way. At least have a consultant type person come in and answer questions in a nonthreatening way. Having an ex-head coach directly under a new head coach may split a staff, team. It is something coaches need to be aware of. A leaders instincts are very strong. Some of us can remember the Secretary of State, whose background as supreme commander of the allied forces and 4* star general came into play when Reagan was shot. Haigs, "I am in control" will always be remembered as a leader stepping over the line. I don't mean to denigrate a good man, Haig was a very good leader, and public servant!

Wouldn't that be a transfer! He was the lead on Kellee heading east to Georgia. I loved when Lanning said he has a notebook on coaches he would hire. I am sure he is aware of the student athletes he will contact who hit the transfer portal. The guy has a plan, and is putting it in place at the Oregon Football Program.

What Alabama did when they hired Saban was wait for an elite experienced college coach to finish his failure at the NFL level. This is also where sc had success with Pete. The only change I would have made was waiting for Matt Rhule to finish out at the Carolina Panthers. What has been proven to be a success is hiring NFL coaches who have proven themselves at the college level. Maybe Rhule wasn't interested in the Oregon job, but that is where I would have gone, and I bet the PK group reached out to check interest. Rhule is a proven high level college coach who will be poached to an elite program sooner than later. This may be the way programs use to do it, and it is no longer the way to do it. Now it is all the rage to hire the next great young coach at the college and pro level. I am extremely happy with the Lanning hire, and think he will get all the support needed to succeed greatly. That is the only thing I would add to your great take, other than questioning continuing the Canzano line that Wilcox was offered and declined the job. Until I hear or see evidence of the t-shirts, or first hand evidence, it is just another story by Canzano with nothing behind it other than an attempt to sell his product. Call me a skeptic, guilty as charged!

Lives less than an hour from the dawgs, has to hurt! They can keep trying to polish what they have up there, but it is still a ........... and starting to smell up the Pac-12.

As Annie pointed out, still not a coach at sc who can control the talent. Oklahoma was way up there in penalty yardage. They could use more discipline and the same talent level and go a long way. I like the thought of sc self imploding, again, against the disciplined Oregon Program under Lanning. I think Lanning understands it is the 11 guys on the field working together in a disciplined fashion which makes the best team, with the rest ready to go. The Compton elite position team hasn't understood that since Pete, and even then it was hard for him to control. I look forward to when we can look past the recruiting numbers, and look at what really matters. QB development is #1, an elite program has a top arm, and decision maker behind center. The other item is player development and putting them in position to succeed. We know we can recruit, we need player development and scheme to make it all work, more importantly.

At this point, show me. I want to see what Lanning's team does, and in a weird way what Mario's team does. I will be watching both, reading the stat line for Mario, thankfully don't have to watch.

The first time he made the t-shirt story was bad, this one is just pathetic.

I think there are two things which could sour Lanning's stay at Oregon. If his wife is miserable, he is miserable. I don't know if there is a welcome party, or someway to get her connected to the community, but EZ hit this one on the head. The other is if he is a failure. We hope every program, NFL team in the world is after him. That means the program is growing developing and Lanning is a success. If he is a failure, then he won't be here too long, just the way it goes. Even that success and an unhappy wife won't cut it. I have a feeling that may have been part of what led to Mario leaving. A wife who grew up in the South may not get the ways and weather of Oregon. Mario said they loved Eugene at first sight, I didn't see it in his wife.

I would qualify Canzano does his job, and does it well at times. I think the whole Mario leaving, Lanning hiring he did very poorly, from start to finish. As far as Wilcox, he is a bigger part of Oregon's football history than most any of the fans on this site. We don't know what happened in the interviewing process, and that doesn't change his status as a Duck Football Alumni. He deserves our respect and admiration for what he has done for the University. He isn't obligated to do anything more. The alumni who wrote the letter obviously care greatly for the program. It was probably the worst part of the journalistic job Canzano did publishing the letter like he did. These guys bleed green and yellow. In the end the letter showed how much the Duck Nation cares about the program. Lanning is only seeing the tip of the iceberg of the care and support he will receive. Time to put this story to bed and move forward!

I reflect on the last game Mario coached and Noah's reaction. He was broken, and I doubt we will see that ever again. I will say the players on the other side will be broken once Noah is under Dan Lanning's defense. I was actually worried he might transfer after that game. When you look at the effort Noah put into the team and the outcome, it will be an upgrade. My bet Noah thought about transferring to the guy who recruited him at Georgia, and is ecstatic about the new hire, enough said about our programs direction.

Listening is the only way to effectively communicate, brilliant. Reading a crowd is also a skill, but we don't need anymore of that. Listen communicate and tell it like it is, good enough! I don't know how many people I have spoken to and told you don't know how to communicate. Their response, what do you mean I was talking the whole time, 'exactly that is not communication!'

I imagine an OC who can develop and evaluate qb talent will be able to tell us more in a couple days than was known over the season. 30 has a great point, AB was Mario's guy, he brought him onboard, and AB played the prevent offense extremely well. Time to move onward, and forward!

All I care about is T Thompson isn't in the transfer portal, and is showing leadership on the team right now. I also don't want a coach bringing somebody who may be perceived as having an advantage. The culture Ty is part of is important. We need somebody who will continue the build, not knock it all down and start over.

It will be refreshing to do well in recruiting, but not hear about that being the end all. It is known a coach can recruit to Oregon, get it done and move on to football! I want to hear the coaches talk about how they talked about Patrick Chungs back in the day, the potential, not the stars. I then want to see that potential met with scheme and effort. If I never hear about our recruiting rankings again I will be a happy fan! I get it, we can recruit to Oregon, now get it done in the gym, on the practice field and on Saturdays.

Great comment and Georgia ranked 10th on the fewest penalty yardage. Oregon ranked 113th, and it was distressing to see so much undisciplined play. One can talk about wanting discipline, but that is a tough one to pull off when you are concerned too much about relationships. Hearing Lanning say he is willing to be honest, even when it hurts is awesome. I don't mean going off on a player on the sideline. The discipline starts in practice and then is followed through with expectations from the players, something which seemed lacking, and the stats back that up. With sc at #125 on the list it will be interesting to see which coach can move up to closer to where Georgia is. Oklahoma was at 70, still not good. If I was hiring at sc this is a stat which I would want the coach to excel at, evidently still not important at sc. I would like to see us in the top 20 of fewest penalty yardage next season. Can this young coach build discipline into the program, a good test to watch.

I do think there has to be a big headwind. Mario sold himself, I think, more than even the program. That will be a tough one to beat, but it will be Lannings first test. Not one I am going to grade too hard. The transfer portal will be critical to a guy with SEC connections. He knows more talent than we do out west. He saw, as Mario said, guys get hit in the face, and saw how they reacted at Georgia. He will, in my opinion, go after some good talent in the transfer portal to help out any holes he sees.

In relationships there is often things said on one side to make themselves feel better about themselves. I think this is what happened and Canzano bought it hook line and sinker. It doesn't mean we have to buy it. I done buying what people say, or write, show me!