I can’t figure out if the Moderators on this board have a clue. How many times do you have to get slapped in the face before you finally figure it out. I have been watching this fiasco play out for a week now. All i get for trying to read what is written on the wall and posting it, is to have my posts deleted or locked or cancelled. I know the truth hurts but trying to hide from it does no favors for anyone.

It has been obvious from the beginning that Taggart wants to go to FSU and is just using Oregon as leverage to get the 5 million dollar contract he thinks he deserves because Frost got 5 million at Nebraska (they were rivals at FCU and FSU).
Mullens should have fired Taggart last week and hired a new Head Coach and a good Assistant Coaching staff with some integrity (Leavitt, Wilcox,Cristobal or another already established and respected Head Coach with a good track record etc. as soon as possible when it became obvious that Taggart has been lying through his teeth to everyone at Oregon all along and really has no desire to be here. He has been playing the Oregon Athletic Department like a bunch of rank amateurs.

That would have taken all his leverage away overnight. It’s so obvious to me he wants out of Oregon and that all he is trying to do is squeeze FSU for more money, by waving Oregon’s offer around. Save your money Knight he just wants to go home to Florida.

Slick Willie is playing you and Oregon big time. As I have said repeatedly, Taggart is a Con Artist and should be fired immediately and a respected Coaching Staff with some integrity hired before Taggart does any more damage to the Oregon Football Program and we start losing more recruits and even players and the fan base as well. It does no good to just sit and wring your hands and watch the Football Program disintegrate.

Memory lane. These were interesting times. Hout just got punched, but we didn't know it. BSU started playing replays over and over and over of the punch on their big screen but it was behind us so we didn't see it. To our left, and what Chip is looking at, is an irate BSU fan throwing a folding chair at some of the Oregon players. I think it was soon after this Chip started having a full time bodyguard at games. I was his unofficial body guard after that game.

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all three, kill deals.

I'm trying not to laugh as I type this, but I have a feeling lots of us on this board are going to need to "re-friend" Willie.

A brief history, from the blog "Lawyers, Guns and Money" :

Nominal coaching salary milestones, with inflation adjustments:

Bobby Bowden: Florida State 1996: $1,000,000 ( $1,505,105 2014$)

Steve Spurrier: Florida 2001: $2,100,000 ($2,800,209 2014$)

Bob Stoops: Oklahoma 2006: $3,000,000 ($3,154,152 2014$)

Nick Saban: Alabama 2007: $4,000,000 ($4,555,777 2014$)

Nick Saban: Alabama 2014: $7,000,000


From USA Today, top salaries of 2017:

2017 NCAAF COACHES SALARIES

1 Alabama SEC Nick Saban $11,132,000
2 Clemson ACC Dabo Swinney $8,504,600
3 Michigan Big Ten Jim Harbaugh $7,004,000
4 Ohio State Big Ten Urban Meyer $6,431,240
5 Arizona Pac-12 Rich Rodriguez $5,631,563
6 Florida State ACC Jimbo Fisher $5,700,000
7 Stanford Pac-12 David Shaw $5,680,441
8 Texas Big 12 Tom Herman $5,486,316
9 Texas Christian Big 12 Gary Patterson $5,104,077 --
10 Texas A&M SEC Kevin Sumlin $5,000,000

Jimbo Fisher just got $7.5 million from Texas A&M, and Willie Taggart is poised to join the big boys club by tonight or tomorrow with a deal that should pay him $5-6 million.

Willie Taggart is 47-50 in his career as a head coach. His highest AP poll ranking ever was 19th at South Florida. He's won one bowl game in his career.

Has YOUR salary doubled over the last 10 years? If so, you're one of the lucky few.

The chief driver has been escalating TV rights deals and the lucrative College Football Playoff.

How long will athletic directors and university presidents play this costly Faro game.with a fixed deck?

1. WT comes back to the Ducks

2. He poaches all of the players that he wants from FSU's recruiting class.

3. We win Natty

That's about it.

1)Talk to Kevin Sumlin

2) If that seems like a bad fit hire Cristabol

3) Give Levitt a raise to 2 mil a year

4) Give Joe Salavea a raise to 1 mil a year

Not too much actual news to report this morning. All parties who actually know what is going on, from both FSU and Oregon, are keeping things under wraps.

Part of the reason there is not news is that Coach Taggart said nothing to clarify the situation at Sundays press conference. What we saw was a person who clearly did not want to talk about the FSU job in public. Lots of deflection and it was uncomfortable to watch.

It was a stark contrast to how Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente handled the same basic question yesterday. "We've been approached and I've declined to talk to anybody." Fuente was one of the other coaches FSU reportedly had on their short list.

From Taggart we got "nothing has changed" since he was asked about FSU on Friday. The problem is, fans (and recruits) don't know what the status is that hasn't changed.

And do they need to know? Well, yes. Not that the fans are entitled to the inner workings of negotiations, but the recruits certainly should know in general whether they are taking place. And they clearly are, or Taggart would have gone the route of Fuente with his answers.

We also know that Coach Taggart was flying out at 11 pm last night to hit the recruiting trail. Though his twitter feed has gone uncharacteristically quiet, we have heard his travels would eventually take him to Florida, home of 2018 commits Isaiah Bolden, Jonathan King, Warren Thompson and Malcolm Lamar.

To head off the next question, it is highly unlikely he would stop by FSU while traveling on Oregon's dime.

FSU is not without troubles of their own. Once Jimbo Fisher jumped ship, their committed prospects followed suit. So far, seven prospects have decommitted from FSU since Fisher left.

And the Ducks could actually stand to gain from it, with one of them being RB Jashaun Corbin, who just took an official visit to Oregon during Civil War weekend. Of course if Taggart leaves that could change things drastically.

So that is where we are at on this Monday morning. Just like Oregon's 25 committed recruits; waiting for a real answer.

This maybe should be in Cas Center but...

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and he he begun to assemble a staff.

On a related note. UCF boosters are freaking out right now.

Quick update on Marcus Watson, a top-50 small forward prospect out of the 2019 class, that holds Oregon high within his budding college list.

https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/news/four-star-marcus-watson-expecting-a-difficult-decision

Per CBS......not shocking since his name has been bandied about but still....No experience recruiting that I know of. Hasn't coached for, like, 9 years.

Seems like a reach to me.

Twitter sucks!!!

According to this story, WT has turned down two previous overtures, but has heard nothing yet from FSU.

http://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/...has-rejected-two-programs-fsu-remains-unknown

This is both new five stars and then some guys that lost their fifth star. This happens because Rivals is very stingy with total number of five stars given out.

One five-star Duck target is now a four-star. Doubt WT even wants him anymore.

New five stars

Hearing DP will be the new LB coach at UCLA. Double checking to make sure that is correct but I was expecting this.

check his latest tweet!

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Harrison decommit. At the risk of sounding like ruthie, while he posted it as related to uncertainty, this had been a long time coming. The flirtation with Jalen Hall and several other receivers, combined with Washington making a late push created a dilemma.

The uncertainty was really just the reason he needed to pull the trigger he had wanted to pull for several weeks.

It's starting to look more likely as Washington is No. 11 in the final playoff committee rankings. That should put them in one of the New years games, meaning everybody in the P12 bumps up one bowl. So Vegas then? We'll know soon.

This is beyond my understanding that the Oregon fan base is so unable to see what has been very obvious to me from the beginning. Willie Taggart is the ultimate con artist and he is merely playing for more time to get the offer he so obviously wants from FSU.
It he really cared about his players, recruits and the Oregon fan base and if he really had any intention of staying at Oregon he would have clearly announced it by now. The sad part about this is the gullibility of the Oregon fan base and Administration.
He obviously doesn’t care about the damage he is causing to Oregon recruitment and the Oregon Football program. It appears to me he is merely using Oregon as leverage to make a play for getting as much money as he can in a contract from FSU.
Taggart appears not only to be lacking in the integrity department but he only cares about himself getting the best contract he can squeeze out of FSU. I do believe Mullens and Knight are doing the best they can to keep him at Oregon but they are getting played big time. This whole Taggart/Oregon/FSU affair looks like a slow motion train wreck that is bound to end disastrously for the Oregon Football Program.

Hey guys what are the current rumors out there about Taggart and FSU? I want to do a piece today addressing those but I actually am not sure what all is out there. If the rumor is from some premium content from somewhere then I don't want those.

- per Justin Hopkins from scoop duck.

Hopefully Scott, Brandon, or AJ can confirm to add..

Uncle Phil is meeting with WT tonight or early tomorrow to go over new extension personally, as Mullen’s currently in Texas for the playoff committee.

No word on dollar amount or number of years, my guess is somewhere like 4 years and $22-24 mil.