DucksReign wrote:

Chip wouldn't be my first choice but I could live with it.

The last 2-years against Oregon the Ducks have won 38-35 and 34-31.

For a guy(Kelly) who can't recruit; can't do this; can't do that...with mediocre UCLA teams...he could compete against Mighty Oregon with all its star studded recruits.

I won't jump off a bridge if it's CK, but I will be very disappointed. During Mario's tenure, exactly who have we beaten up on..pretty much nobody. Everybody has played us close. Chips recruiting classes at UCLA have been in the mid 30s, and this was his first winning season..hell, he was on the hot seat earlier this spring. I've heard people say it would be a great hire, but then they reference his last time here...but he doesn't run that offense anymore. He is, IMO, a very pedestrian coach. I'll feel like other teams reached for the brass ring, while we reached for a pull tab on a can of PBR.
 

I rather have Wilcox if it's between him and Chip. 

You'd have to have a strong DC and coordinators around Chip to be successful. The thing is it's hard to keep around big name DC's and assistants that recruit well as they'll get poached for HC jobs elsewhere.

I've heard plenty of nonsense about what if you made Chip the OC with Wilcox or Chris Peterson as HC. Like Chip's coming back to be an OC on a team he took to the playoffs.

Canzano said he talked to Mike Leach recently to get his take. He wouldn't say who they should get, but he did say he thought the best coach the Ducks ever had was Bellotti. 

WoodburnDuck wrote:

Does anyone know if it’s true they interviewed Dan Lanning?

I haven't heard. He's known as a great recruiter and obviously a great D coordinator. He did coach some at ASU, and he is ambitious.
 

I cannot believe Lanning would leave with Georgia in the playoffs. If he did but coached through the playoffs that means he comes to Oregon after the New Year...I don't think Oregon can go the entire month of December without a head coach.

Plus he has no head coaching experience i.e. another guy who learns on the job and then IF he is successful is lured away to another school after 4 or so years.

DucksReign wrote:

I cannot believe Lanning would leave with Georgia in the playoffs. If he did but coached through the playoffs that means he comes to Oregon after the New Year...I don't think Oregon can go the entire month of December without a head coach.

Plus he has no head coaching experience i.e. another guy who learns on the job and then IF he is successful is lured away to another school after 4 or so years.

I'm beginning to think that if the Ducks truly want to be contenders, four years from a coach is probably the best we'll get...maybe more, but I just don't think that many coaches want to be lifers anymore. I'd be fine with Bmac as well; same thing, but he'd recruit the talent, and then next coach up. MC did not leave the cupboard bare.

I do not believe Oregon wants to hire someone with no head coaching experience and in the case of Lanning...none at any level. I don't want that either. If I concede we will only get 4 or so years anyway...which I am not sure I agree with, AT LEAST hire somebody who has head coaching experience. So he knows defense...does he know how to hire coaches as one of many questions I can think of? Heck after 4-years as a head coach MC still struggled with game clock management. Please nobody who is going to use Oregon  to learn on the job. Enough already.

Win CFP ASAP then hire for stability after we have a trophy sitting in the H-DC.