That fucko Race plagiarismed my shit. Coker > Slingblade at this point. Coker was coaching at a program with greater talent, but it also has a higher ceiling, harder to fuck up. Sorry duck fans, but that's true.
Marriott is gone now along with other "key" players. The system is designed to be plug and play with the right plugger doing the playing, we'll see if (to paraphrase the great @Swaye) Slingblade can follow the master plugger (75k). He might, but chances are he won't and you don't need an "analysis" utilizing a SRS to come to that conclusion.
I get the sense that folks in here think it's easy to go from winning lots of games to winning national titles. It's not, some damn good coaches have tried and failed to break that code. Slingblade is still too early in his tenure to be properly evaluated. I will say that so far he does have Kelly's team executing at a high level, though some of that has to be balanced with them shitting themselves when they get punched in the mouth. Stanford and Arizona last year were clear examples of that, and this year, anyone with a pair of eyes can see that they are not deep with elite fast and powerful athletes such as those at Ohio State. To be fair, USC is probably the only team in the conference that typically has that depth, but they're just coming off sanctions and coached by an inept armenian. Oregon should continue to compete for conference titles, but getting to the playoffs again, under the current format, let alone getting over that last hump will be no easy task.
