OT: Oregon's recruiting material is pretty cool
http://www.oregongridiron.com/#!/
My husband just showed me this. From a production standpoint, it's pretty awesome. Weird music, but the rest of it totally appeals to the tech-savvy 21st century player.
November 3rd, 2014 at 8:34 PM ^
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November 3rd, 2014 at 8:46 PM ^
Not sure that's going to work on a mobile site.
Oregon's football facilities are by far the best in the country. Alabama has waterfalls, Tennessee had the MMA ring (still do?), MSU has misspelled signs, but Oregon has ambient light sensors that match the lighting in Autzen so that players' eyes don't have to adjust.
November 3rd, 2014 at 8:43 PM ^
Between the SEC and Oregon ?
The SEC has Bagmen,
Oregon has Douchbagmen.
/s
November 3rd, 2014 at 11:05 PM ^
and bagmen
November 3rd, 2014 at 8:54 PM ^
Not surprising since the University of Phil Knight, er Nike, er Oregon probably uses the same ad agencies that produces some of those iconic Nike videos,
November 4th, 2014 at 3:10 AM ^
is Widen+Kennedy, based here in Portland, OR. They know what they be doin'.
November 3rd, 2014 at 9:19 PM ^
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November 4th, 2014 at 8:29 AM ^
I thought so too.
Change the green to blue and you could have produced the same thing for Michigan.
November 4th, 2014 at 2:11 PM ^
is that Oregon actually did produce this. You could try arguing that Michigan's facilities are a fancy and all (probably not a winning argument), but you can't argue that their promotion and self marketing are top notch.
November 3rd, 2014 at 9:39 PM ^
toughness?
November 3rd, 2014 at 9:49 PM ^
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November 3rd, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
not trying to defend our last decade, but its not like oregon has any history to promote.
November 3rd, 2014 at 10:29 PM ^
Pretty awesome video and results, but I'm not sure what history you are referring to. To 18 year old kids in the internet age, history and tradition means since the BCS era. They do not care about all the championships we won in the early 1900s and all those black & white photows of guys looking tough in poses without helmets. Stop living in the past, you don't drive a car buy CONSTANTLY looking at the rearview mirror, your liable to crash!
November 4th, 2014 at 1:02 AM ^
The only team that hadn't won a national title to even play for a national championship are Va Tech with Vick and Oregon. There are 0 first time winners.
November 3rd, 2014 at 10:49 PM ^
November 4th, 2014 at 12:55 AM ^
So...no. That win did not put them on the map any more than they already were, especially after our loss to Appalachian State. Oregon has pretty much been the same team for about 7 years. a top 3 Pac 12 team that struggles in big games. They have had one undefeated season in a Pac 10/12 that has been fairly down before the beginning of last season.
November 4th, 2014 at 1:01 AM ^
November 4th, 2014 at 1:16 AM ^
They lost to Cal in week 5, then because it was a weird season they found themselves at number 2 by squeaking by USC and by beating ASU, both at home, before losing Dixon and showing that he was a one man show, finishing the season at 5-4 in the Pac 10. The idea that they would have gone 11-1 without the injury is kind of dubious. Their defense was average to kind of bad.
If anything, it was the USC game that put them on the radar, not beating an unranked Michigan team, but they didn't become a team to be reckoned with until Kelly.
November 4th, 2014 at 8:31 AM ^
November 4th, 2014 at 1:28 PM ^
Which is obviously what I was talking about. As OC he realized that they needed a defense and began recruiting a little differently than his preecessor. I also find it kind of funny that you were proven wrong (that they indeed didn't go undefeated with Dixon) so you just change your argument.
November 3rd, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^
The Oregon Difference
November 3rd, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
And we have the Muggle Difference!
November 3rd, 2014 at 10:08 PM ^
I do wonder what will happen once he is gone? He'll probably leave the athletic department so much money they'll become an NFL team. Or they'll go back to being mediocre. We shall see.
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November 3rd, 2014 at 10:14 PM ^
T. Boone Pickens has had a similar (though not to the same level) effect on Oklahoma State.
November 4th, 2014 at 3:19 AM ^
They found Chip Kelly in New freakin' Hampshire, and now he's one of the top coaches in the NFL!! They made uniforms a big deal. Their stadium is LOUD, by design. It goes on and on. It's more than just money, it's ingenuity. Nike is run brilliantly, and that management excellence is brought to the Oregon Athletic Department. You can see evidence of it everywhere here in the Northwest.
November 4th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^
Plain and simple. But they have a different thing to market than we do. The last thing I want to see is M with even more uniformz.
November 4th, 2014 at 11:53 AM ^
I live in the Northwest too. Lived in Eugene for 4 years, in Portland now. Oregon was very lucky to find Chip, but prett much everything else comes down to Phil making his alma mater into Nike U. There's a reason they were terrible for the 80 years prior to him showing up.
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November 3rd, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
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November 3rd, 2014 at 10:23 PM ^
Also, get off my lawn
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November 4th, 2014 at 12:06 AM ^
...I was sure I was going to see the WD avatar when it was done.
November 4th, 2014 at 12:43 AM ^
They had a 3 year run starting in 2009 in which they won the Pac 12 and went 1-2 in the corresponding bowl games (and they barely beat Wisconsin in the Rose for that one win.) It always seems like they're competing for a national title, but they never really do except that one year where they played in the game. They are going to have played a whopping 3 ranked teams this year (4 including Arizona, whom they lost to)
They have a lot of Nike money and they are doing their best in trying to create something out of nothing in regards to tradition. But, despite the flash and all the dumb teams trying to copy their uniform practices (including Michigan), it's always going to be about winning and real tradition than cool videos and uniforms.
November 4th, 2014 at 1:57 AM ^
ah yes the classic real tradition sure showed Oregon who's boss in 07! Oh right....give me Oregon anyday over post '04 Michigan.
November 4th, 2014 at 7:08 AM ^
November 4th, 2014 at 1:34 PM ^
my point is that you always hear about Oregon being this dominant program, but they really aren't. They have 3 pac 12 titles and a Rose Bowl win. That is better than Michigan, of course, but they are hardly some kind of burgeoning super program. Michigan is much better suited to be Alabama, FSU, or LSU than Oregon. All you have to do is look at recruiting rankings to see how the flash of Oregon does compared to traditional programs.
November 4th, 2014 at 11:59 AM ^
They've used all that sizzle to get onto the national map. But sustaining it over the long term takes more than that. That's where tradition comes in. When Oregon lost to Stanford last season, they basically lost their sellout streak at the next home game despite being 6-1 or something like that. Only reason it sold out was that some donor bought 10,000 tickets the day before the game. That tells you something about their fan base IMO. As soon as the losses start coming, many duck fans will go back to whatever they were doing for the 80 years prior to 2000.
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November 4th, 2014 at 2:03 AM ^
Mike Belloti was a genius when he decided to throw out his Offensive playbook and go with the complete switch to the spread which was kind of unheard of outside WVU and RR at the time. Now they have a mini tradition of just promoting their Offensive Coordinators whenever the HC leaves (Chip Kelly) or gets promoted to AD (Bellotti) and recruit to what fits the system. Shit... even Bellotti was the OC before he became HC. Oregon man anyone?
This probably explains why you dont' see them in the top 10 recruiting rankings ever when they probably can be given the Nike resources, facilities, hype and swagger/uniformz!
Gonna be interesting to see if Helfrich can keep it going next year without Mariota.
November 4th, 2014 at 7:13 AM ^
Sorry for the double post. Not sure how that happened
November 4th, 2014 at 7:11 AM ^
Very cool video. I'm a fan of the Assassin's Creed franchise of video games and it seems like they took the design of that game and made it into a promo video. If that truly was the inspiration for the video, hats off to them for thinking outside the box.