Well, my daughter got to cheer at Autzen Stadium. Wasn't a lot to cheer about for Portland State, but she still enjoyed herself and I enjoyed being there for her.
BNM
I agree. I think Smith is going to be a good coach and turn it around there in a few years.
Glad you enjoyed it, and glad she enjoyed herself too.
I've heard from a Beaver donor friend of mine that the reason he left so abruptly was because he was about to be outed for having relations with a cheerleader. The powers that be there found that to be more then lame and showed him the door.
It makes sense too as neither side wants this to come out. OSU avoids a much bigger PR disaster and paying the millions left on the contract. Anderson leaves those millions on the table & looks like a scumbag leaving his team mid-season, but the silence allows him to turn the page and continue with his career elsewhere.
I don't know how OSU does it, but Oregon's HC doesn't hire the DC the AD (Rob Mullens) does. Clearly Pellum and Hoke were suspect hires as they had zero experience as a Coordinator which is why they were so cheap. They didn't even interview someone with experience so it seems to me that they were primarily looking for a low priced option.
If someone needs a car they might want a new Lexus, but if they've only 8G to spend, they're buying a used Hundai or something more in that category. Oregon needed a DC twice during Helfrich's tenure and hired guys with zero experience both times for bargain bin prices. With Leavitt they paid 3 times as much. Does it make any sense to you that any HC would prefer someone with zero experience working beside them when wins and losses are tied to their career? It makes far more sense that others in control of the purse strings told those doing the choosing they couldn't afford top or even the middle shelf. I'm sure Helfrich had input on which DC from the 400K bargain bin he wanted, but in no way would it be anyone's preference to be shopping there.
He followed the Oregon model of promoting from within for the most part though. Yeah they were cheaper but he was familiar with all the coordinators he had. He probably had confidence they could do the job because he knew them.
MH wasn't familiar with the all the Coordinators he had on staff because none of the Assistants he inherited from the Kelly era had ever been one (a Coordinator) before. Hoke's hiring flies in the face of the hiring from within theory. I think the overriding factor in that hire was that like Pellum, he was willing/available to sign for the same 400K that Pellum did. Like Don, he had no track record as a Coordinator. His inexperience & the switch to a 4-3 combined with a rash of injuries to the front 7 made that the roughest season for UO in more then a decade
The hiring of hoke came after they fired Pellum, it’s plausible MH didn’t think anyone internally could do it. The original hiring of MH and the staff were mostly from within. I don’t know what the truth is here about the decision making process for all those hirings. It could’ve been money driven and I’m sure it at least somewhat was. I just find it kind of hard to believe that the AD told Helfrich to hire no names just because of the money, I suppose it’s possible.
Again, they didn't even interview an experienced DC either time. I find it impossible to believe that after the Pellum debacle, that it was Helfrich's choice to go with someone with no track record. That Hoke signed for the same exact dollars that Pellum commanded suggests thats what was budgeted and no one with options was interested.
You could be correct. Helfrich didn’t seem like a good hire from the start to me. He spent way to much time trying to prove he could be just as good as Chip, then spent a bunch of time trying to show us how he was different than a chip. He really buckled under the pressure of coming after Kelly.
Your post is dripping with bitterness. Wild guess that you're a Beaver fan?
Well, my daughter got to cheer at Autzen Stadium. Wasn't a lot to cheer about for Portland State, but she still enjoyed herself and I enjoyed being there for her.
BNM
and I've read plenty of unhinged Beaver fan posts like yours that have zero connection to what they're responding to, which is why I thought you were a Beaver fan. I never expressed that Oregon is up there with Bama & Ohio State in any way. The Ducks don't generate close to the amount of money that either of those two programs do and consequently don't have the money to spend on coaches that they do.
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Syracuse? Do you hail from NY?
