Phalanx wrote:
These posts are hilarious. Poor Helfrich was just bumbling along, accidentally recruiting two of the best quarterbacks in Oregon history, calling no plays, and basically letting his assistants do everything that turned out well, while all the bad stuff was his fault.
Whatever. I don't actually care what the process was, I just care about the results, which is why I posted them above. In terms of results, Helfrich had the third best decade in the Pac 12. Here's to Cristobal having the first best in the 2020's.
What about the fact that our defense fell apart after Aliotti left(If Aliotti was the defensive coordinator in 2014 we would have won it all) , what about the fact that in 2013 Oregon played terribly against Stanford and Arizona. The 2013 and 2014 successes were on Mariota and the fact that he was putting up video games numbers till the Stanford game in 2013 and in the 2014 season. The fact that Oregon needed to recruit a grad-transfer for the 2015 season especially after how great the early 2010s were for Oregon showed he was bad recruiter. Also 2015 Oregon without Vernon Adams was basically a preview of how the 2016 season would go, which was Oregon losing game after game . Losing 62-20 to Utah at home and 70-21 to Washington at home was disgraceful, and allowing the team to self-implode the way they did in 2016 showed how terrible of a coach he was.
The fact is we should have hired Chris Peterson after Chip Left and kept Helfrich around as an Offensive Coordinator and I am 100% sure if Peterson was willing to leave Boise St to go to a Washington team that hadnt been relevant in a long time, he would certinaly go to Oregon, a team that were title contenders and if we did I am sure we would have won a title in 2014 and Oregon would have remained title contenders post Mariota too and we would be spouting a 16 game win streak against the Huskies too.
We are lucky that we were able to get someone like Cristobal as our coach or we would be still stuck fixing the mess Helfrich created.