We look like little kids against grown ass men.

The defense created turnovers, but the offense was so potent, the defense only had to worry about the pass most of the game.

Most Duck fans want NA fired, but the only person in the world who can’t see the truth is Mike Bellotti.

he will can Aliotti’s ass.

As a somewhat objective observer, I would say Allioti has a good defense more like 25% of the time and that’s usually do to unusually good football players. Never his schemes.

A secondary with three NFL prospects on it should not give up 450 yards passing. To anybody.

I don’t know if I can ever defend Aliotti again.

I was going to compile a bunch of information and write a post about firing Nick Aliotti. Problem is, Bellotti won’t fire his best friend.

Funny that Knight supposedly has everyone at U of O dancing to his tune and yet he’s unable to get a crappy defensive coordinator fired.

It’s time for Aliotti to get shitcanned!

I know Aliotti is going to get a lot of grief over this performance. I do wonder though if we are at the point where we need to consider that our secondary just isn’t what we were led to believe? Both Boise St and now USC have done quite the number on our secondary.

I know they are talented but can we really rest this all on Aliotti? Seems like there were a lot of mental errors on the field today that were out of the control of a coach. Personal fouls and blown coverages come immediately to mind

I logged on here ready to rag rag rag dave for supporting the coaches. Thank yyou for not at least supporting Nick. That guy is a joke. Although it was apparent that we were not good enough to beat USC before the game, allioti really rubbed it in. Christ. But really, we were pretty bad all seas…no way we were gonna win the P10.

PLUS FIRE BELOTTI AND HIRE DORRELL!!!!!!

-Cal fan

yes, defense is the BIGGEST problem right now, but it is far from our only problem. I’m sorry but there is no excuse for not even being able to score a field goal in the second half of tonight’s game. You can blame our QB situation all you want, but the fact is that Masoli is the best one on the team today, and it’s all we have got.

Is it acceptable for things to remain status quo and for us to lose to Cal and OSU this season? If things don’t change now that’s exactly what will happen.

The pass coverage has gotten progressively worse the past several games (with the exception of WSU).

We gave up 386 passing to a redshirt freshman at home in a play-action clinic where we couldn’t cover tight ends. And then against USC, we give up 443. That’s embarrassing.

Our defensive backs were running into each other tonight and just getting burned deep when USC finally started to throw the long ball. It doesn’t work when Alliotti puts them on islands and expects them to pick off everything. All the pressure is on our secondary. What the hell is bend but not break? If you bend something enough, it breaks. That’s not genius, it’s stupid.

How about: “don’t bend!”

Any way we can throw some money at one of the SEC D-coordinators to join the green & gold?

Sorry if I sound a little harsh. I’ll feel better tomorrow. I just HATE watching the Ducks go into the Coliseum time after time with a team I think can finally win down there just to see them get obliterated. It’s like the proverbial elephant in the room. We can’t win there. Pete Carroll is so smug.

I was asked last season if I thought the Ducks were capable of A) Winning the National Championship had Dixon stayed healthy and B) Becoming a National powerhouse. As much as I love the Ducks, with our staff, the answer was no to both.

We had some great games last season but our offense carried us in every game that mattered. Truly good teams have to have a COMPLETE team. Time and time again, Aliotti’s excuse was that he had THE best scheme in the country but lacked the athlete’s to make it work.

2 Reasons why that makes Aliotti a terrible coach. 1) This year he had the talent and he still failed. There is no more excuse. 2) Chip Kelly is a great coach because he constantly talks about planning around his players. Aliotti is that idiot in the corner trying to pound a round peg into a square hole.

Raise your hand if you feel like this quote describes Aliotti’s D.

The sooner he leaves the program, the better.

I’ve been rehearsing this same rant for a long, long time, having been on the Fire Aliotti bandwagon for YEARS. Two simple reasons why:

1. A flawed scheme. Aliotti’s approach is exploited over and over even when Oregon seeming has ample talent.

2. Horrible technique. But for the fact that the individual players themselves play their butts off – and I appreciate that – our play at linebacker and cornerback has largely been a joke during Aliotti’s stay. What good do great athletes provide when they aren’t coached to tackle, get off blocks and or maintain some discipline against double moves and play action?

I’ve never said Aliotti is a terrible D-coordinator. He wouldn’t be a Pac-10 coordinator if he was terrible. He simply is not equipped to get the Ducks to another level. Our current level is good enough to beat a lot of teams. It’s not good enough to help Coach Mike achieve his goal of bringing a national championship to Eugene. I don’t understand why he’s still here.

If athleticism was all it took to win, we’d have the players run some 40s, do a few drills and jump up and down a few times, then we’d name a national champion. Winning requires COACHING great athletes.

Reason #1 Aliotti is still around.

I tried to read through the comments to make sure I wasn’t re-posting but I saw that question a couple times recently.

into the conversation,and i didnt read any other comments, but i’ve been saying this for a while now, i really havent liked NA that much , we have such great defensive players and they cant show their skill with that defense

when they mentioned how long his tenure has been i was blown away. his schemes are consistently terrible. “3rd and long” has become a private joke among my friends because his game plans are so pathetic for YEARS at stopping this key component of the game.

FIRE HIM 3 YEARS AGO!!!!!!

Or is there a current coordinator we could reasonably get?

… while being terrible.

then do whatever you want

2001 2002 2003 2005 2007…we can’t quite add our D this year yet….besides the staff has been through harder shit than this