OldMacManaic wrote:

Canzano is like a weather-vane on the roof of the Pacific Dunes clubhouse mid-afternoon. he dogged Marcus Arroyo for three years, right up until Mario hoisted that Rose Bowl Trophy in the looming darkness of a cool January eve.

'Anyone miss Marcus Arroyo. Me neither'
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/john_canzano/2020/11/canzano-oregon-ducks-victory-over-washington-state-was-a-joe-moorhead-welcoming-party.html

well . . . maybe, huh?

my personal take is that Canzano has burned so many bridges in Eugene that he'll heap praise on anyone who will talk to him. he wrote a lovebomb to Moorhead after he first got hired, and wet himself over DeRuyter just last week.
and if a UO coach or admin won't share info, come on the radio program, or play teenage-texting w him, then that person becomes a target, and 'sources' tell JC that their job is on the hot seat.

He is not the best at presenting a full perspective i.e. So what does the hiring of DeRuyter mean in terms of the loss of Heyward and especially since they essentially switched schools and both happened simultaneously.

He is an opinion columnist and not a beat writer covering a team. I remember when George Schroeder was in a similar position at the RG and if he wrote even one negative Duck sentence people would pounce and rip him on message boards. Opinion columnists are often seen as "traitors" to fan bases but to me nothing is worse than "everything is awesome" opinions or fanboy websites like FishDuck who have college kids writing articles and zero access to any aspect they cover...coaches, players, press conferences, etc.

Otherwise I don't know what if any policy exists in the Oregon AD about communicating with him but on his podcast, which may be less threatening because the subject does most of the talking, he had Cristobal on in September, October and November; Graves and Mullens on too during these last 3-4 months.

He needs "sources"(people who will talk anonymously when necessary) for his writing efforts but he needs "guests" for his podcast.

KONA808 wrote:

Don’t read his “stuff.” Don’t care for his opinions.

So I guess you disagreed with his opinions/analysis on Taggart, Arroyo and the disaster that was Larry Scott for our Conference. He wrote a top notch series that completely exposed Larry Scott for the selfish failure that he was and probably still is.

Expounding upon my Arroyo reference, they had Herbert and they finished 11-2 despite Arroyo's shortcomings. He had a runaway future NFL rookie of the year QB playing big time. And also a very good D really helped him look better than he was too.

I was actually the first on OL comments for being critical of Taggart early on, as well as Arroyo. I was all over Marcus when he didn't have Burmeister ready after Herbert goes down. He was the QB coach his first season. And Larry Scott too, as soon as the replay scandal hit - it's time to ring the alarm bells.. Myself and Canzano took a lot of heat for those viewpoints, but of course we were later vindicated.

Canzano ain't perfect and I didn't like some of his early attacks on basketball coach Dana Altman. He also might have a bit of an ego.  However, putting that aside he has very good insights.
 

Last edited by Orygun303 (1/29/2021 10:17 am)

Fair enough...