USA Today: Oregon is College Football’s Biggest Fraud. Dan Lanning Owns This Mess

Ouch... talk about a painful read... painful, but IMHO, mostly accurate.

Sadly, this is more than likely just the beginning as it's going to take a while to turn our badly listing ship around.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/10/25/oregon-ducks-football-dan-lanning-will-stein-offensive-coordinator-flop-disappointment/92330820007/

Pretty predictable article and of course correct. The hangover from the bad hiring decisions will extend to the off season at minimum. But now that he's finally done the hard part (firing Merhinger), he can start the course correction and get things ready for a steady comeback season next year.

Lot of Duck haters out there. I ignore them. How this will work out is not yet known, but it is not the best situation. Let’s see what happens with the upcoming recruiting classes.

I actually believe this firing will help since recruits are not stupid and have seen the train wreck under this OC.

7 minutes ago, lownslowav8r said:

Lot of Duck haters out there. I ignore them. How this will work out is not yet known, but it is not the best situation. Let’s see what happens with the upcoming recruiting classes.

I actually believe this firing will help since recruits are not stupid and have seen the train wreck under this OC.

I have no idea if this guy is a hater or not. But I'm wondering what you think he says is hateful and/or inaccurate?

I think he provides a rather accurate assessment of where we are. We can choose to bury our heads in the sand, and see where that takes us. Or, take a stone cold look at reality and begin to make the tough decisions to turn this program back around.

As we did today, starting with the firing of our OC.

29 minutes ago, kirklandduck said:

Pretty predictable article and of course correct. The hangover from the bad hiring decisions will extend to the off season at minimum. But now that he's finally done the hard part (firing Merhinger), he can start the course correction and get things ready for a steady comeback season next year.

Oh come on. Firing Merhinger was the easy part, now what's DL gonna do?

This is a hit piece. Low hanging fruit. The writer is lazy and ignorant.

He has a "if you cant kick a man when he is down, when can you kick him?" Writing style.

Trash article that has no substance and was only written to cause more damage.

What a hack

Edited 57 minutes ago57 min by Log Haulin

25 minutes ago, Log Haulin said:

Trash article that has no substance and was only written to cause more damage.

When you’ve experienced the decades of success that we have, and that others envy and covet, coupled with our financial entitlement from Phil Knight, it’s little wonder that Duck haters are a dime a dozen. So, what else is new? Water off a Duck’s back.

1 hour ago, anyotherduck said:

Oh come on. Firing Merhinger was the easy part, now what's DL gonna do?

For most people, admitting that you're wrong is the hardest part. Merhinger was with him from the beginning when they first stepped foot in Eugene so firing him wasn't easy both personally and professionally. Performing a candidate search and hiring a new OC is a far easier task.