Fire Aliotti. Reason #1.

by Addicted to Quack on Oct 8, 2008 10:39 PM PDT in Events Comment 22 comments

Mike Bellotti in August, per the Daily Emerald:

At Monday's press conference, Oregon head football coach Mike Bellotti said that he considers his cadre of defensive backs among the best secondary units in the nation.

Oregon's pass defense through week six:

111 Oregon

One hundred and eleventh. Behind such talent-laden secondaries as Buffalo, Washington, Navy, Syracuse, Rice, and Florida International.

GO DUCKS!!!

--Dave (addictedtoquack@gmail.com)

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Shh. Not so loud.

We should try to get Buffalo, Washington, Navy, Syracuse, Rice, or Florida International to hire NA as head coach.

by grimc on Oct 8, 2008 10:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Let him go to Portland State

I watched most of their loss to Washington State. I don’t care what division you play in. If you give up points to the Cougs this season you need a new D-coordinator. Let NA go be a Viking.

- Jeremy

by JConant on Oct 9, 2008 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What's the vibe about Glanville in PDX, anyway?

If I still lived there I’d probably have a sense, but I don’t, so I can’t. Do you?

by grimc on Oct 9, 2008 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have no idea

But I feel like a major geek because I’m often very entertained by Camp Glanville.

Your friendly neighborhood placekicker.

by qrsouther on Oct 10, 2008 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There is a common denominator. It’s Aliotti. 111 is awful, even if it is an “off-year”.
We were talking about expectations – I expect more. We’re only a few passes from being 119th. aka the worst.

It's spelled "S-h-u-f-a-i-l"

by JShufelt on Oct 9, 2008 6:15 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Exactly right.

It’s simple. We know we don’t have 111th ranked talent. It comes down to preparation and execution. In my book that’s 50% coaches and 50% players. And you can’t fire the players.

- Jeremy

by JConant on Oct 9, 2008 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Passing yards is a stupid stat...

Granted, we do suck, we’re 69th in pass efficiency defense.

Last year, our TD:Int ratio was 1:1. This year it’s 2:1. Our completion percentage given up is 58% instead of 52 last year. However, our passes per completion is 6.8 compared to 6.55 last year.

Things are bad, sure, but not quite as bad as they looked on Saturday.

--www.AddictedToQuack.com, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog

by jtlight on Oct 9, 2008 6:52 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

6.8

Is our passes/completion? I thought that was the yards per attempt on that graph…

Your friendly neighborhood placekicker.

by qrsouther on Oct 10, 2008 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah...

That’s what I meant… yards per attempt. Sorry.

--www.AddictedToQuack.com, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog

by jtlight on Oct 10, 2008 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Alright

Just making sure I wasn’t reading the graph wrong.

Your friendly neighborhood placekicker.

by qrsouther on Oct 10, 2008 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bellotti's not stupid

He knew exactly what he was saying. Unless he’s somehow changed his mind in a big way about the talent, there can really be only one explanation — and only one course of action.

Of course, I hope he stays. :-)

CougCenter

by Nuss on Oct 9, 2008 8:25 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs