AP: Cristobal is out
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Welp... Just goes to show as one of the most well funded schools in the nation, even they can't retain their coaches. It has to be living in Oregon. I know I wouldn't want to pay those taxes.
13th lowest in the nation. Oregon?
Oops, looks like we're confused about who is confused.
Since one also must pay local taxes, and 60% of Oregonians live in PDX metro, its effective average state-local tax rate is 11.1%, which is higher even than Washington, and is the 11th highest in the US, not the 13th lowest. Edit: this is a total state number, although it's undoubtedly higher in PDX).
Plus, you're one of 2 remaining states not trusted to pump your own gas, and you have to share a state with the ultimate jack-fans in all of sports. Go find a Ducks ballcap in PDX and ask them to name at least 3 starters...
My guess is the fact he's from Miami and his mom is ailing, combined with the opportunity to bring Miami back to national relevance is the draw.
I also think it's easier to win in the ACC than some other conferences. Given the fact that automatic bids are on the table for conference champs, and the PAC-12 is a tough conference, I can see the draw/appeal personally. USC, on paper, just got better.
I also think it's easier to win in the ACC than some other conferences. Given the fact that automatic bids are on the table for conference champs, and the PAC-12 is a tough conference, I can see the draw/appeal personally. USC, on paper, just got better.
weird flex but i would be fine with never pumping my own gas again
There are parts of the state that allow self serve just not in the major population centers and umatilla county.
Add to that the easy recruiting market. You can focus all but one or two assistants within your own state.
He was born in Miami. He was raised in Miami. He went to high school in Miami. He played football at the University of Miami. His mother is sick and lives in Miami.
Yep. It is easy to see that the only reason he is leaving Oregon is that on his 8.5 million salary, he is worried about taxes.
Sounds like Mario might have burned the Phil Knight bridge when he didn't immediately accept UO's more-than-generous extension over the weekend. Knight immediately pulled the 10-year, roughly $80 milllion deal and left Cristobal with really one choice– go to Miami. Yes, he was still under contract but with a miffed Uncle Phil, it wasn't going to be easy to stay in Eugene. Mario still gets a great deal and gets to go home. I honestly can't understand why he was such a hot commodity.
On another note.....the first commitment has bailed. 4-star quarterback from State of Alabama. Of course, the Oregonian immediately reported that he was the "lowest rated" QB recruit that Oregon has brought in since Cristobal came to UO after gushing all over the recruit when he first committed. (WDWHA?)
Early names being circulated for the Duck job: (of course) Matt Campbell, Dave Aranda, Chip Kelly, Justin Wilcox, Jeff Tedford, and, yes, Urban Meyer.
Glad Cougar
On another note.....the first commitment has bailed. 4-star quarterback from State of Alabama. Of course, the Oregonian immediately reported that he was the "lowest rated" QB recruit that Oregon has brought in since Cristobal came to UO after gushing all over the recruit when he first committed. (WDWHA?)
Early names being circulated for the Duck job: (of course) Matt Campbell, Dave Aranda, Chip Kelly, Justin Wilcox, Jeff Tedford, and, yes, Urban Meyer.
Glad Cougar
I take everything out of the Canzano camp with a grain of salt. THAT sounds like a WDWHA for CMC, in my opinion.
self service gas has been on the ballot mor than once over the 35 years I have been in Oregon, never came close to passing. Trust has nothing to do with it, we don't want to pump ourselves and put all of those people out of jobs so the oil companies can make more money
Love it.. A moron who thinks a vaccine that doesn't stop the spread or infection of Covid, should be mandated on here trying to be cute. Maybe to your fellow inmates that might work but on here, you're put on blast.
Oregon's sales tax per capita is 2627 and Washington's /...2863. It must be all those gas attendant salaries and the taxes they pay keeping it TPC slightly lower.
Anyway, the OP made it sound like it was so much higher. Oregon's tax system is progressive, so those making pay more and not the same as someone making 1/10th of what they make. The Seattle schools are suffering as a result and those damn Spokane potholes...don't get me started.Here's the one I was talking about.
The tax system in the state of Washington has nothing to do with the "suffering" in Seattle schools.Oregon's sales tax per capita is 2627 and Washington's /...2863. It must be all those gas attendant salaries and the taxes they pay keeping it TPC slightly lower.
remember when they promised that the lottery would fully fund WA schools?
Wonder what they're doing with those billions of weed dollars?
I heard the Ducks were going after Lou Holtz, he is only a year older than Uncle Phil. At 84 I am sure Lou can relate to the players. It should be a great move more shocking than anything else we've seen. If you can't convince Chip to come back give Bellotti a call, he's not doing anything.
Even with all that money they can't seem to hire or keep a staff together. They are starting to look more an more like UCLA of the north.
Even with all that money they can't seem to hire or keep a staff together. They are starting to look more an more like UCLA of the north.
All those guys likely are better coaches than Chrissie Poo. Not clear any (other than Urban, who almost certainly isn't going there) could recruit at the same level or better, but the dropoff wouldn't be that great for some of the others.
I would be surprised if Campbell or Aranda went to Oregon. That would be a lateral move for them at best.
Not even close to a lateral move, especially Iowa State.
Now Ducks are losing more top recruits. Their crown jewell– 5-star OL Kelvin Banks– has decommitted along with 4-star LB TJ Dudley & the 4-star QB (Tanner Bailey). Banks was ranked as the 13th best overall recruit in the nation. Probably going to Texas or Texas A&M, maybe Miami? By the way, last year's 5-star OL who signed with UO (Kingsley Suamataiai entered the transfer portal earlier this year and is signing with BYU. Both Suamataia and Banks were actually rated higher coming out of HS than Penei Sewell.
Glad Cougar
Glad Cougar
Thibodeaux just declared for the draft and will not play in the ducks bowl game.
No offense to Iowa State, but that is not a "lateral move". Do you know how many 10 win seasons that Iowa State has had in school history? You remember every one of them because the answer is zero.....zip......nada......zilch.
They are a decent program that is arguably on the rise and with the departure of OU and Texas, they are one of the bigger fish in the Big 12 pond......but Iowa State football isn't worthy of holding Oregon's jockstrap when it comes to program prestige and positioning. 2020 was only the third time in school history that they finished ranked in the Top 25 and their one and only Top 10 finish.
Oregon is one of the few schools in the Pac-12 (along with WSU) that hasn't routinely fired head coaches. Helfrich is the only coach that they've fired in the last 40+ years. Iowa State has fired almost every coach that they've had in the same time frame (Duncan, Criner, Walden, McCarney and Rhoads). Chizik is the only coach that they didn't fire and he would have been canned if he hadn't jumped to Auburn when he had a chance.....where he got fired after four seasons.
When Walden was fired from Iowa State he said, "If you stay at Iowa State, you're going to lose and you're going to get fired. That's very evident." So yeah, it's not a lateral move. Iowa State finished 7-5 this year after starting with high expectations. Much like David Shaw at Stanford, he may end up not being a hot commodity for long.
This.
For some reason, Matt Campbell and ISU have been on the media hype train for the last 5 years or so. I know he's gotten them out of the basement, but that's not a very high bar. Not that Mike Leach did a bad job, but anyone who followed CPW was going to be successful in comparison.
The only thing ISU has going is that Campbell is getting paid well for where he's at, but he's not a $7MM/ year coach imho.
They're buying Meth and handing it out like candy in their "Safe Injection" sites. Found sleeping on the sidewalk? Meth to help you stay awake for 3 straight days. And people say Seattle isn't doing anything to solve the homeless crisis.
