One great thing is the media is holding Slingblade's cock to the fire. All of the "Way too early" 2014 polls have Oregon in the Top 3 again like they did this year. When you're pre-season Top 3 you're not allowed to be Mike Bellotti.
Sure, Chip lost a nail biter to Stanford his last year, but he also didn't lose another game and face fucked K-State in the BCS. Slingblade got smoked by Stanford, made it look close in junk time, and got slaughtered by Rich Rod (one of the successful architechs of what we try to do) to get to San Antonio.
The ass ramming by Stanford this year doesn't look good now that they lost to USC after they beat Oregon, ASU exposed themselves to be a gimme in the CCG, and lost the Rose Bowl.
If Oregon loses to Sparty in week 3 you can already start to rule out making the playoff as two SEC teams making up 50% of the bracket will be mandatory.Pre-season Top 3 and out of the race before conference play even starts means you've failed. Any blunders after that will be extremely magnified.
I can't see Slingblade getting much support after taking a Top 3 team to the Alamo and taking another Too 3 team to whatever isn't the playoffs next year. Beating Mack Brown in his fuck off game after a shit season earned him nothing in my book. #10 vs 8-4 with fired coach = you better win easy.