Moos out at Oregon

[OSU8085]

Thats the word I'm hearing

tough weekend for the Moos family...first his son loses to Jesuit 65-7 after being ranked #2 then he gets fired, ouch

[Autzen Powers]

yeah - it was in the paper today that he is resigning. I heard the rumor a few weeks ago and the rumor said that Van Lannana (sp?) will pick up the job. We'll see how it all shakes down and if this means a coaching shake down as well.

[OSU8085]

ya in the Oregonian it was talking about Bellotti taking over, I doubt that

[Autzen Powers]

I doubt it, too. It pays less....plus more headaches.

It would be hard for Van Lannana (again, sp?) to hold down the job, though because he's focusing on the Olympic trials.

Dunno what this means for the Ducks programs - better or worse?

[brady_44]

I take it Moos was the AD up there?

[OSU8085]

ya, he and Phil Knight weren't exactly friends and there was conflict over UO getting another basketball arena

[impur]

This talk started a couple years ago, when the UW position was open and Moos expressed "interest" in the job. Then he got the backlash of that from everyone. THE HUSKIES!?!?!?!?!?!?! It was an inevitable move, but i think it will be a good one. He has done a lot for this school, time to take it to the next level and get us on the same field as tOSU, USC, Texas etc.

I wonder what this has in store for UO athletics. Lannana would be good, he's done it before but he has a lot on his plate right now. Might be time for Bellotti to step aside and do something different. I'd like to see him take the spot. We'll see, i wonder...........

[Autzen Powers]

Originally Posted by impur

This talk started a couple years ago, when the UW position was open and Moos expressed "interest" in the job. Then he got the backlash of that from everyone. THE HUSKIES!?!?!?!?!?!?! It was an inevitable move, but i think it will be a good one. He has done a lot for this school, time to take it to the next level and get us on the same field as tOSU, USC, Texas etc.

I wonder what this has in store for UO athletics. Lannana would be good, he's done it before but he has a lot on his plate right now. Might be time for Bellotti to step aside and do something different. I'd like to see him take the spot. We'll see, i wonder...........

you're right - I totally forgot about Moos's interest in UW.

I think it was really difficult adjusting to the spread offense and that maybe next year it will be a bit better. It might have been an "adjustment" year. I'm not ready to see Bellotti go as head coach yet - he had said that our old offense just wasn't going to work anymore because a lot of our old coaches are at other pac-10 schools now and they all know the old system. .....plus turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. That's the players fault and not the coaches. It was a little like watching a train de-rail in slow motion for the 2nd half of the season.

But I'm with you, too, I'd like to see us take it to the next level with a new AD, whoever that will be.

[impur]

Yah i'm not totally ready for Bellotti to go yet either, but i think he would be a good fit for this job.

Turnovers were definately a killer this year. I do question the coaching though. It seemed in some games, Cal and Wazzu, they knew exactly what play we were running. But we did nothing to switch it up. In the Civil war i really liked the play calling. 3rd and 1 you line up in the I, put Dante at FB and pound that yard out. That impressed me, that game was the best play calling of the year IMO. Do more of that, eliminate the turnovers, and get a new defensive coordinator and i'd be one happy fan.

[Autzen Powers]

Do more of that, eliminate the turnovers, and get a new defensive coordinator and i'd be one happy fan.[/quote]

I could not agree more. The play calling was getting predictable, the turnovers just sucked...and I wasn't impressed with the DC this year either. I mean when the announcers are slamming him for going soft on the 2nd string QB at Zona, you know you got a problem.

[impur]

Bend but not break has been our motto for awhile now and i hate it. It should be Attack take no prisoners!! Those are the teams that are great, they don't let you get an 8 yard pass. Our defense lets you dink and dunk till you shoot yourself in the foot with a penalty or bad play that backs you up. We rely on the other team making a mistake and don't take advantage of situations where the D has the upperhand enough.

I think its gonna take a change at DC to get away from that. It worked to an extent last year, but was still our downfall.

[Autzen Powers]

Whatever happened to Ganggreen? I do believe it was our current DC who started that way back when. Where did that go?

I wonder if Moos had been protecting certain coaches(like Aliotti) for a long time and if that wasn't why Knight wanted him out. All I caught in the papers was they were on the outs over the Arena deal gone dead. I'd like to know the real reason, and I'd also like to think that Knight doesn't just get people sacked due to personal differences. (ie, I don't like you, so I'm taking my ball and going home)

[impur]

Yah good point, i don't remember if that was Aliotti or not. You raise some good questions though. I guess we'll see how it turns out!

[impur]

Just read that the Univ and Moos agreed to a 2mil buyout coming from private donors and a noncompete that says he cannot go to a school west of the Mississippi for the duration of the 10yr payout. Looks like he just wanted to retire.