6 weeks later and we’ve turned into a national laughingstock
I know what some fans will say, this is a “doomer” take on the program, but let’s break down why fans like myself feel this way.
We have a 45-50 million dollar roster this year.
UCLA spent 24-29 million.
OKST spent 21.9 million
Boise state spent 17.3 million
We are completing a 200 million dollar facility for our football program alone.
UCLA/OKST have brand new staffs, less spending, less continuity, and they are RANKED after beating us.
We are already unranked.
Just two weeks ago our head coach said he didn’t want people/CFB analysts on our bus after we beat USC.
Here’s the thing, if we want to win we have to change this buddy buddy philosophy in house under lanning. Nick Saban didn’t win by promoting in house, he won by seeking out and bringing in the best of the best in terms of coordinators.
Not only did he do that, he Routinely chewed out and criticized his coordinators/staff when his program/team underperformed.
Some of our fans act like these coordinators/coaches are doing Oregon a favor by coaching here as if we aren’t a premier job that’s easily top 10 worthy and upcoming coordinators would beg to come coach here with the near endless resources at our disposal.
This year is a colossal failure under lanning and idc how people try to justify it, this team looks like they consistently get worse coming out of a bye.
Raiola looked WORSE after extra prep time.
We have all this talent on paper, but we play like paper tigers every time a team punches us in the mouth.
We post all these social media hype videos like ducks vs them, but if I’m being honest? We lack the substance in the “rooted in substance” part, big time.
I see OSU fans ready to fire Ryan day after a road loss at a top 5 team, a coach who’s WON a ring for them, and all we get is ducks apologizers acting like mediocrity is okay what the resources we have.
It is NOT okay.
We couldn’t even make it 6 weeks without being unranked with all our talent and continuity in the roster? Garbage.
If Dan lanning does not overhaul the staff at the end of the year, expect to become the Penn state ducks.
I’m tired of defending a staff that’s beating up all the lesser teams just to blow it when a team has a pulse and knocks us down.
Best believe this roster is going to have tremendous turnover once the year ends, guys like DK will go somewhere where they’ll actually get targets, TEs will go somewhere where they don’t have to wait 57 minutes to be targeted.
All these bluechip OL recruits and we’re constantly mixing and matching 6 weeks into the year?? Unacceptable
I understand being patient, but this is NOT okay. We can’t accept this garbage. This is how you regress as a program.
Standards have to be higher with the resources Dan has.