Dan Lanning is making stuff up and unaware of West Coast football history. "Oregon has been always a premier team in college football" That guy is already taking shrooms in Eugene since he doesn't recall that Oregon was a basement dwelling nobody for many decades prior to Uncle Phil and all. Pump it all he wants, Oregon is a recent phenomenon, put on steroids by Chip Kelly.
I tend to agree with David Shaw in that in 10-20 years, much of the current turmoil will self correct, though it won't be to go back to the way it was. But his hope of their relationship with USC and UCLA not changing, that they continue to play each other even if they're out-of-conference games, an idea I've heard from others as well, is basically impossible. Given the need to play 9 conference games (in the B1G [and SEC] in order to ever get around the rest of the conference, and also still play ND (unless they join the B1G, and why would they when they can make more money and playoff appearances by not doing so?), and still play their traditional regional rivals, would eat up the full schedule (unless we are going to expand to 14 games, which won't fly with an expanded playoff that creates a 14/16 game schedule for some by itself), and there will still be pressure to play other attractive games, regional or interconference.
Even suggesting some of the ideas floated only gives false credence to them. Realistically, splitting football off from the other sports organizationally seems the most feasible route forward. Football needs to make the money to pay for everything else, but nothing else can or should be run the way footballl is, or has been, or will be.
Dan Lanning is making stuff up and unaware of West Coast football history. "Oregon has been always a premier team in college football" That guy is already taking shrooms in Eugene since he doesn't recall that Oregon was a basement dwelling nobody for many decades prior to Uncle Phil and all. Pump it all he wants, Oregon is a recent phenomenon, put on steroids by Chip Kelly.
I tend to agree with David Shaw in that in 10-20 years, much of the current turmoil will self correct, though it won't be to go back to the way it was. But his hope of their relationship with USC and UCLA not changing, that they continue to play each other even if they're out-of-conference games, an idea I've heard from others as well, is basically impossible. Given the need to play 9 conference games (in the B1G [and SEC] in order to ever get around the rest of the conference, and also still play ND (unless they join the B1G, and why would they when they can make more money and playoff appearances by not doing so?), and still play their traditional regional rivals, would eat up the full schedule (unless we are going to expand to 14 games, which won't fly with an expanded playoff that creates a 14/16 game schedule for some by itself), and there will still be pressure to play other attractive games, regional or interconference.
Even suggesting some of the ideas floated only gives false credence to them. Realistically, splitting football off from the other sports organizationally seems the most feasible route forward. Football needs to make the money to pay for everything else, but nothing else can or should be run the way footballl is, or has been, or will be.