Oregon fires Mark Helfrich

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BREAKING Mark Helfrich is out at #Oregon, source tells @FoxSports.. 1st reported by Aaron Fentress.

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) November 30, 2016
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doggdetroit

November 29th, 2016 at 11:36 PM ^

Oregon's Offense in 2015: 9th per S&P
Oregon's Defense in 2015: 82nd

Oregon's Offense in 2016: 21st
Oregon's Defense in 2016: 119th

The offense took a step back this season, but it was still a top 25 unit. The defense was bad last year, but had it simply remained bad this year Oregon likely wins 2-3 more games and Helfrich returns as coach. Instead, the defense got worse and Helfrich is now gone.

Probably shouldn't have hired a coach who had never coordinated a defense in his college career.

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stephenrjking

November 29th, 2016 at 11:51 PM ^

Good numbers. The defensive collapse isn't all on Hoke, but he failed to turn things around. Those types of numbers look... familiar to me, as to most of us who suffered through the RR era. Helfrich did not get the right guy or the right players for his defense, and it killed him.

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markusr2007

November 30th, 2016 at 12:47 AM ^

FishDuck says: "How Mark Helfrich could allow this to happen … to not get in the face of Brady Hoke and f**cking tell him how to defend the play that Helfrich and Oregon knows better than most teams in the nation? It is beyond me."



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skwogler

November 30th, 2016 at 2:18 AM ^

Autzen Stadium and the Oregon campus are sites to behold.  Bolstered by Phil Knight's Nike bucks and a seemingly unlimited variation of uniforms, it is one of the premier coaching jobs in the country.  I'd like to see P.J. Fleck get a shot at it.

I was there in 2003 when we rolled into Autzen stadium and lost to the Ducks in a close one.  It was so loud in that stadium, I couldn't hear anything people sitting right next to me were saying to me.

What I vividly remember is how nice the Oregon fans were....I couldn't sustain any anger toward them...they were giving me hiking trail tips as I skulked out of the stadium.  Beauty in nearly every direction.  Pretty Beavers don't only reside in Beaverton....plenty abound in Eugene.

 

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superstringer

November 30th, 2016 at 9:38 AM ^

There are two logical candidates:

Scott Frost is the most logical.  Decent turn-around at UCF, and obviously he knows the offense at OU.  I think the parallel here is Chip Kelly.  Kelly gets a lot of credit as the originator of OU's offense, but in fact it was Mike Belotti -- Kelly was his OC.  When Belotti left, Kelly got promoted.  So to me, bringing in Frost is even more easily justified, he's had a year as an HC on top of his OC stint.  The downside to Frost?  When -- not if -- Nebraska opens up in a year or two, Frost be gone.

I think Dana Horgerson is the other obvious candidate in terms of style, but does he know the West Coast?  Recruiting California is the most important thing.  Horgerson's teams are more physical than typical BigXII teams, so he should be able to adapt to playing Stanford, USC, UW, etc.

And I'd rule out Les Miles.  Oregon made their fame by being the extreme, dynamic program -- crazy offense, crazy uniform, crazy spending of Nike $$$.  I'm not saying they can't win with Les; but if you're UO, do you junk your brand that's been built for over a decade, and go in a completely different direction?  Too much unknown there.  (Plus, Miles isn't a West Coast guy either, although OU does do a lot of recruiting in the Southeast.)  I don't think they do this.

BTW ... while we're at it, anyone else feel like I do that Purdue is destined to get Charlie Strong?

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