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Finally Admit Lanning > Mario

Pearson704 said:
This is just semantic gymnastics and moving the goalposts to avoid admitting the take was premature.

You qualify that Lanning was better 'early but Mario is better now'; that's not the premise of the thread (Lanning is better than Mario). In fact, it's a perfect example of the "cap/spin/whitewashing" you mention. Your effort to decouple staff turnover from roster turnover is an entirely unrealistic way to look at program building. No coach in America—not Saban, not Smart, not anyone—has a 100% hit rate on assistants during a total teardown.

Bumping threads to point out that people panicked, made premature declarations of coaching superiority based on Year 1 and 2 growing pains, and were ultimately proven wrong by Year 4 isn't 'reigniting divisions'—it's just stating facts.


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Can you point to multiple coordinators hired by Lanning who weren't up to the task or a couple of games where Oregon **** the bed? Because that's why people had their opinion on Nov 30, 2024 when this thread was started. At that point, Oregon was #1 and beat Washington 49-21 and we, the #6 team in the country, blew a 21-0 lead to lose to lowly Syracuse.

This thread was an emotional react to a loss that shouldn't have happened the same way it had happened the prior two seasons. Look at how many stupid threads have been started about which game we should win but will lose before the season starts.
 
KingB02 said:
No **** the rankings are not perfect lol. But the rankings are just a part of it! If Al blades went to Bama or UGA where he would have top of the line coaching, strength and conditioning, and culture, he would have turned out a better player. Our evals look better now because we have all of those things in place. Blades had everything required to be a good player. Talent, bloodlines, height, weight, and he was a vocal guy who was a leader. Give that to Saban or Smart, they have a higher chance of molding buddy into a better player. We didn’t just accidentally pick all the 4-5 star busts like we were doing a challenge NCAA football 27 lol. We just didn’t have what we needed to give the players we got their highest chance to thrive! While other ACC teams have been doing more with less for decades.

And speaking on Dawson, he ain’t out schemed anyone since he been here lol. He’s got the players, not the skills. If you give him wakes team he would have like 2 wins. He ain’t creative or innovative. Name me 1 game where he out schemed another coach! And don’t say A&M last year. Because it was windy and we ran the ball. Nothing earth shattering about that
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Hmmm, really?!?! How did that work out for Isaiah Horton, or Colbie Young, or Josh Horton, or how about Jaden Harris? All regressed or disappeared Perhaps you want to rethink this, but based on your other posts, you probably don't/won't.
 
What’s ironic is one of the fair criticisms of Mario while he was at Oregon was QB recruiting/play. But now, Ward, Beck, Mensah have obliterated that argument. All 3 of those guys are better college QBs than Dante Moore, who for all the draft buzz never plays to that level of praise.
 
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