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Open letter to Phil knight

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Mr. Knight:
I think it’s past time you called Willie Taggart in for a heart to heart talk about his head coaching job at Oregon. I find it hard to believe that you would let the Oregon Football Program into which you have so graciously donated 100’s of millions of financial resources, years of time and effort, be jeopardized for a few million dollars in salary.
I think you have to believe 20 million over 5 years is chump change in todays world of College Football Programs. Most of the elite schools pay far in excess of that to keep exceptional coaching staff’s in place. It is unfortunate that in today’s world that this is the case.
I feel Willie Taggart, the Coaching Assistants and recruits he has assembled are remarkable. I do not think this could ever be duplicated again in my lifetime(71) or your’s. I do believe Taggart has the recruiting and coaching ability to continue this ascension into elite statue and maintain it there for a number of years. He is young and could conceivably continue this for many more years.
I have a hard time believing that you would let all this be flushed down the drain over a few millions of dollars/year in contract salary difference. I know that you, as I, desperately want to see Oregon be a perennial player in the CFP’s before we die.
I have been an Oregon fan with my Dad(95) for over 65 years. I ran Track as you did and you and Bill Bowerman were my role models. We practically lived at Hayward field during the 60’s and were proud to watch the Oregon Team win the NCAA Track Championship in 1964. I am proud of the fact Oregon is now considered Track Town USA(again in no small measure because of your support) and have long hoped to see the Football Program also ascend to such an elite status.
Please don’t allow this opportunity to slip away now before it is too late for both of us.
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LOI Date's and Question

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So, with the first one being on the 20th of December, who do we expect to sign on that date? I'm sure not all will, but I guess maybe?

I was also wondering...with that big recruiting weekend just before that...anyone else think they will have all the kids sign their LOI's while they are all together? I know they can't fax them in until the 20th, but I bet they can fill them out together.

By the way...doing a weekend like that is a brilliant idea. Start the bonding as soon as is possible.
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Coaches hit the road recruiting...

A.J. Jacobson
Aside from knowing we have a new commit from yesterday

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the coaches are out and about visiting with prospects until Friday, the day of the first bowl practice.

Coach Taggart was up in Portland last night. Here was one stop, with Braden and Max Lenzy.

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For Coach Leavitt it has been Colorado, Georgia and then Florida. All before returning for Friday.

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So as of today he is in Colorado then off to Atlanta in the morning.

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Some fans don't get what a loss Taggat would be

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I know all fans understand that recruiting is important, but some don't understand that it is the biggest challenge to winning in an out of the way place like Eugene,OR.

Willie Taggart is the best recruiter in the country. Good coaches are not that rare. Great recruiters are extremely rare. If Taggart stays, the Ducks are going to win National championships. It Could happen with another coach as well ,but Taggart in my mind is as sure a thing as it gets in college football. I not trade him for Chip Kelly, Nick Saban,or any other coach in the country. Recruiting is EVERYTHING

Another problem is this. When most coaches leave right before recruits sign,the majority of verbal commits still sign with that school. In this case, with all these Florida kids, the recruiting class will most likely be decimated. Maybe they can save it by hiring Cristabol or someone else from within,but it could get really ugly.This staff are not Oregon guys like the last staff. Most would probably go with him unless they were promoted

DF4L said in another thread that it "would set back Oregon football 30 years" . That is not true, but right now we are a year or 2 at most for competing for Pac 12 titles, and playoff appearances. If Taggart leaves the future is unknown. The program will still be very good, but with Taggart it is heading for being in the top 5 in the country on a regular basis.Even if things go well,it would at least put the program back 3 years or so,as far as having any chance of being elite

The odds are that Taggart stays as several things have to fall in place,starting with the FSU job coming open.I don't think he will screw us, but if he leaves , that's what he will be doing.I don't care if NEW England comes in offering him 20 million a year. A guy should not leave after one year. He should stay long enough to pay back the trust of the guys who hired him
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Need someone smarter than me to explain this...

Johnnie the K
A buddy of mine sent me the following...can somebody provide the answer?

John, help me understand this December signing thing.

I've long thought recruits were not fully committed until February.

So what is this early signing period?

I read Ducks have something like 25 recruits in the early signing period. So does that mean they are committed, or can they "Chip" off until February?

I'm really confused about this.

Thanks, in advance, for helping my buddy (any myself) fully understand this.

JtK
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Do Something, Willie

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If silence was thunder, Willie's refusal to put to rest his FSU plans is deafening.

It seems we have normalized, rationalized the Sextons of this world and their complicit coaching clients as they manipulate colleges, fans and donors by playing one off against the other in football war games. And there is something stupid, if not robotic in the near universal acceptance of it all by an opiated fandom.

I find it stupid to declare Taggart as our football savior based on one year of not being Helfrich, to the extent we wish him well and godspeed elsewhere. Or that we pay him more than the President because he coyly won't tell us one way or the other.

Put up or shut up, Willie. Stay or go. Tell us now. But don't treat us with the disrespect that would use us as some sort of pathetic sheep, so bereft of self respect as to wait until either yours or Sexton's manipulations play out.

From where I sit, the longer Taggart defers, the more he is diminished as a person of value, of character, of someone to trust going forward.

DO SOMETHING, WILLIE
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Taggart should make a public statement

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If I were Knight/Mullens I would tell WT in no uncertain terms that he agree to a new contract with Oregon and state publicly ASAP that he is not leaving Oregon. The longer he lets this drag out the less integrity I feel WT has. It hurts recruiting and causes turmoil among the current players. If he is unwilling, I would fire him for cause as he would obviously have taken the Oregon job under false pretenses. I would have my attorneys pursue all civil and criminal remedies applicable. He agreed to a contract not to just use Oregon as a way station for the next big job to come along and suddenly leave Oregon in the lurch as he seems to be doing, but to build a strong program over several years.
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