Oregon is in some serious shit. They have a current crop of players who already have a history of quitting when faced with adversity.
They also have a recruiting class filled with "committed but i will still take all my visits" kids from the East coast who bought into this idea that Oregon was back, baby.
Then there's the coaching staff who looks like shit.
They needed to win this year.
You sound hopeful, but this is a bit dawgman. Even Kim-like.
A few data points:
They're not in fact quitting;
Their defense is playing well, especially considering their offense can't stay on the field;
Credit this to the new staff.
But that staff also inherited a team with one functional qb, who is now down, and they're light on receivers (bump creepy's poast about dismissing Carrington).
It's easy to say "just run the ball on every play" but that only works in your living room. Against good teams, and the the Cuogs are a good team, you have to be able to hurt a defense stacking the box. Oregon can't do that right now and has a kid who can't make easy reads because he's not ready for PAC 12 play. None of this spells " you fucked up with Taggart." We are well within LIPO.
I don't think their recruiting profile is exactly unique.
Finally, 8-6; 7-6.
Now 6-0 and coming off a pretend run at the title, and this is all anyone here cares about. Tell Willie his rent check is overdue.