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So now that Gary Andersen’s shocked nearly everyone and taken the Oregon State job, where does he rank among Pac-12 coaches? He went 11-2 at Utah State in 2012 and 10-3 this season at Wisconsin. He’s won at two vastly different schools.
You would have to say Andersen immediately joins the upper tier of Rich Rodriguez, Todd Graham, David Shaw and Jim Mora as guys who are highly respected within the conference.
This is not to say Oregon State will win next year, with heavy losses on defense and quarterback Sean Mannion departing. But they will remain dangerous for some conference opponent.
In the bigger picture, Andersen’s arrival will test whether a defensive coach who preaches hard-nosed football can thrive in the spread-happy Pac-12.
Maybe the Corvallis Gazette-Times will now hire Scott “the boy who cried” Wolf as their beat writer for OSU.
At Utah st. and Wisconsin he had middle to upper conference talent and he built USU in the rotting corpse of the WAC, not the MWC. Plenty of folks in Wisconsin are happy to see him go after that embarrassing title game performance as well.
I’ve seen a few chats which are questioning if the Big Ten and Wisconsin laid down on purpose for that game to get Ohio State into the four team playoff (means $$$$ for the entire conference). I’m not saying I believe it, just saying its out there. And then their coach leaves suddenly….hmmm
What? Excuse me? Jim Mora in the upper tier? Let’s not kid ourselves. His SUCLA teams haven’t even won the conference yet, and his phantom wins against SC came against the teams that were basically halves of what they would have been without sanctions in manpower. Overglorifying one’s achievement without taking the actual reality into consideration should be avoided by reputable journalists.
“SC sucks. SC sucks. SC sucks. Jim Mora is the greatest coach in the history of college football because he can beat SC.”
– UCLA Fan
Another SUCLA charmer.
Satire, my friend. Satire.
Satire?
This blog ain’t got no stinkin’ satire!
Apparently not because my post was removed.
Pobrecito!
#Hearts&flowersviolinsoloinbackground
Have to agree with including Mora in upper tier, wolfman, SO gratifying to see a beat writer who is not an insufferable homer!!!
As for the manic Dummies that reside here, well they are….such as they are.
#TotallyDelusional
Speaking of upper tier, guess who’s in it for pure delusion.
Mora has lost to Stanford 4 times, Oregon 3 times, and has never won anything in his life.The lessa of Mora the better.
Sound upper tier to me!
Interestingly, not hearing Sark’s name mentioned for any jobs so far this season…Again.
So Suckisian is officially the worst coach in the Pac
Gary Anderson had Utah State competing with the likes of Auburn and a few other schools of that caliber, he may nor have won the games, but they were there in the end. So don’t be surprised if Oregon State is competing at a high level in the next few years, and his hiring just dropped Steve Sarkisian and his staff another notch. And isn’t it funny how USC is suppose to be a football powerhouse, but they have one of the worst coaching staffs in the Pac 12 ? UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
It is unbelievable. If you abstract the lucky hire of PC where he was the AD’s 3rd or 4th choice, SC hasn’t hired a top tier FB coach since Robo’s first go around. Think about that, now almost halfway into four decades with only one quality coach to SC’s name. More amazing is that SC has managed to stay relevant through most of that time. There’s got to be something to the theory “the letters recruit themselves.” One can only imagine how strong the program could have been and could be with just a “B” level HC.
Exactly!!! and also UNBELIEVABLE !
Yeah unlike bel-air tech’s legacy ridden mens basketball program – 40 years later and one NC, Harrick a guy Dallis personally went out of his way to sack, to show for it.
true statement….a fortunate turn of events for both USC and PC. USC had a string of mediocre coaches – USC was not in the relevant in the national picture from the late 80’s to 02 – but still managed to make and win occasional Rose Bowls. Somehow I don’t see Sark ever getting a team to the Rosebowl – he makes USC more like UCLA: they will be ranked, but never challenge for a conf. title
Helfrich of Oregon riding Chip Kelly and Mariota, what will happen to Oregon when Mariota leaves??
Andersen is a great coach…. Beav AD is a genius way to go BDC!!
After seeing the Pac 12 Alumni Carroll, Harbaugh and Kelly turn the NFC Playoffs into a Pac 12 Reunion, more and more coaches will continue to come west.