OT: Oregon to fire co-offensive coordinator following DUI arrest

Submitted by OwenGoBlue on

Oregon is set to fire co-OC David Reaves following his arrest on DUI, reckless driving and reckless endangerment. The arrest happened Saturday night with seven recruits on campus. 

Reaves was previously at USF with Willie Taggart. This leaves Mario Cristobal as the remaining OC and I don't believe Cristobal has previously had play-calling duties.

The Willie era is off to a rough start. 

Lee Everett

January 22nd, 2017 at 4:39 PM ^

Good.
Coaches have a responsibility to be role models for their players. If I were a parent I wouldn't feel comfortable sending my boy to Oregon and learning how to be a man from examples like that.




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carolina blue

January 22nd, 2017 at 4:54 PM ^

If they fire him, why would you have an issue? You can't stop people from being stupid. getting a DUI doesn't mean he's a bad person, just that he screwed up. How does that reflect poorly on Oregon? Stuff like this only reflects upon the individual unless he has been known to be a multi time DUI violator, but by then he's probably in jail.




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Heptarch

January 22nd, 2017 at 6:17 PM ^

"getting a DUI doesn't mean he's a bad person"



This might be an unpopular opinion, but yeah it does.  At the very least it means that you either shouldn't be drinking or shouldn't have possession of car keys.  That your decision making is so bad that you'd happily put other people's safety at risk for your own convenience.



Perhaps we should ask the families and loved ones of those who were killed by drunk drivers whether those drivers are good people.

 

Heptarch

January 23rd, 2017 at 3:36 PM ^

So it's puritanical for someone to say that a person who drinks and drives is being selfish?  



Forgive me, then, for offending your sensibilities.  I sincerely hope that you are never in a position where someone you love has been taken from you by someone like that.

Lee Everett

January 22nd, 2017 at 7:09 PM ^

I'll respond to you, since I'm not interested in engaging with the "lol hurr durr let's pile on" crowd.

I don't know if firing him is the automatic way to go, but I do know that these coaches are also mentors and counselors and confidants and father figures and that they need to lead in a multitude of manners.  Oregon chose to fire him.  The amount of contrition, the time he'd have to endure while on moral probation, is up for debate...but for the immediate future a man who made a big mistake like this isn't going to have a lot of clout when preaching to 18-23 year old men about making smart decisions,

Jim Harbaugh had a DUI like, 11-12 years ago.  Okay.  I know, I knew before, I get it.  He's probably a stronger coach and man for it and after having experienced that I'm sure his words on the subject hold more weight.  

If anybody wants to disagree and say that a man who JUST had those charges levied against him is a credible mentor for 2017, I'm all ears.

Lee Everett

January 22nd, 2017 at 9:08 PM ^

Okay?

Jim Hackett's great. Jim Harbaugh's great. 

Oregon responded to an assistant coach's DUI one way, Jim Hackett responded to an AD member another way, and Jim Harbaugh had a DUI over a decade ago as a coach at San Diego.  

Instead of trying to show me up with your cute, clever little ~counterexamples~, tell me where you disagree with what I said, and why.

I reiterate: I do not think that a coach that commits a colossal fuckup sets a good example to impressionable young men and I think it's very important that coaches are credible.

You disagree?  Because while you can take what I said as "haha what a hypocrite let's pwn this fucker and throw Harbaugh and Hackett in his face", I can conclude that anyone else condones slaps on the wrist (not popular on this blog), not holding coaches accountable (also not popular on this blog), and coaches just delivering results in W-L format and not guiding young men (unpopular on this blog).

wolpherine2000

January 22nd, 2017 at 5:27 PM ^

I mean, every program is going to have people involved do bad s---, it's inevitable given the number of folks, many of them relatively young and immature. But the test of the integrity of the program isn't so much these incidents, as how the program deals with them. RE: Penn State/ Baylor. How much tougher can you be on a coach than firing them?

OwenGoBlue

January 22nd, 2017 at 5:00 PM ^

I thought the Cristobal hire was a bit of a coup and I suppose this gives him a chance for another splash hire.

All this before NSD can't help with recruiting, which is particularly important given that I don't imagine he has a particularly long runway before he needs to be winning big. Rooting for him though.

corundum

January 22nd, 2017 at 5:01 PM ^

Eugene should maybe think about bringing Uber and Lyft back to the city. Not passing the buck, but it would make avoiding these situations more convenient.

Blue1972

January 22nd, 2017 at 5:10 PM ^

If you read the article, this guy has had so many problems and so many shady dealings, the least being formerly related to Kiffin, how in the world was he even hired by Taggart and UO in the first place?

 

Also, $300 K for a co-coordinator is pretty darn cheap. How did UO manage that one?

LSAClassOf2000

January 22nd, 2017 at 6:32 PM ^

His arrest and expected firing follows a tumultuous week for Oregon, which suspended new football strength and conditioning coach Irele Oderinde on Tuesday for a month without pay, while also including a formal apology on behalf of Taggart, after three UO players were injured during offseason workouts last week and hospitalized for several days. All three have since been released.

Not a good start for the Taggart era at Oregon at all. I mean, I don't know how patient OU fans are willing to be, but this sort of beginning might entail the need for patience since it seems like it could create a problematic recruiting situation, among other things. 

Wolvie3758

January 22nd, 2017 at 6:49 PM ^

peoples lives severly impacted and careers ended over ONE stupid mistake...if thats his first offense which I dont know

Mr. Yost

January 22nd, 2017 at 9:16 PM ^

That's the consequence. Just don't make that "stupid mistake." Especially when you're working in higher education with a role as a developer of young people.

No high horse here, but you know that consequnce, I know it. If he was flipping burgers somewhere maybe he keeps his job. But when you choose to be a D1 head coach, some the consequnces are different for you.

His career doesn't have to be ended either - it's up to him what he does next. I wish him the best while have ZERO sympathy for him in losing his job.

By the way, I'm not sure you can call something a "stupid mistake" when it can end in killing yourself or someone else. I think you need something a little stronger. But that's just me.

URNotGuilty

January 22nd, 2017 at 7:35 PM ^

My Advice? If Drinking, get AAA. Call Tow Truck from bar. Have Tow Truck driver put car up on flat bed, and tow truck driver drives you home. Everyone home safely, and you don't have to try to retrieve car hung over the next day. Viola!