[unclechuck]

According to my Duck colleague (who is still pissed at Taggart), this was the correct/best hire.

Keeps the program "on track" as much as possible, following the Taggart bail.

Ditto teejers "source". Martyup's point on the paucity of sure things highly germane. Other internal option was Leavitt, who did do a scary good job for them this year. However, there were a couple factors going against Leavitt including his stated desire to return to head coaching @ Kansas State, and some residual taint (legit or not) from his departure from USF for alledged (never proven) verbal abuse.

On those kinds of issues Cristobal was clean, and he has many other pluses including the significant player support cited by His Eminence Sagehen, plus his 4 year stint with Saban @ Bama as his O-Line coach; the last two years as his recruiting coordinator as well. His coaching postdoc with Saban came after his FIU stint, and Bama does recruit nationally, so the opining that he'd be limited outside of FL seems questionable. Further, as point man for gaining verbals from 3 OLine prospects for UO's 2018 class (1 from PA, 2 from CA) he's already got a couple of data points to counter that argument.

The Eugene paper's Ducks writer, Steven Mims, today stated that 3 of the other defensive coaches have already indicated a preference for staying, as has co-OC Marus Arroyo (ex of OK State).
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ss..._cris.html

So, the Duckies still have a lot of issues, but don't look to be in as dire circumstances as they were the past week while rumors of the candidacy of Kevin Sumlin and Jeff Tedford swirled around.

BTW, I am formally changing my view on the UO/Boise game from a Ducks sell to a buy. I think the athletes will be hyper focused to validate this hire of their choice by acclamation. I see a double digits Duck victory, and 4-5 bowl wins for Pac12.

[unclechuck]

According to my Duck colleague (who is still pissed at Taggart), this was the correct/best hire.

Keeps the program "on track" as much as possible, following the Taggart bail.

Ditto teejers "source". Martyup's point on the paucity of sure things highly germane. Other internal option was Leavitt, who did do a scary good job for them this year. However, there were a couple factors going against Leavitt including his stated desire to return to head coaching @ Kansas State, and some residual taint (legit or not) from his departure from USF for alledged (never proven) verbal abuse.

On those kinds of issues Cristobal was clean, and he has many other pluses including the significant player support cited by His Eminence Sagehen, plus his 4 year stint with Saban @ Bama as his O-Line coach; the last two years as his recruiting coordinator as well. His coaching postdoc with Saban came after his FIU stint, and Bama does recruit nationally, so the opining that he'd be limited outside of FL seems questionable. Further, as point man for gaining verbals from 3 OLine prospects for UO's 2018 class (1 from PA, 2 from CA) he's already got a couple of data points to counter that argument.

The Eugene paper's Ducks writer, Steven Mims, today stated that 3 of the other defensive coaches have already indicated a preference for staying, as has co-OC Marus Arroyo (ex of OK State).
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ss..._cris.html

So, the Duckies still have a lot of issues, but don't look to be in as dire circumstances as they were the past week while rumors of the candidacy of Kevin Sumlin and Jeff Tedford swirled around.

BTW, I am formally changing my view on the UO/Boise game from a Ducks sell to a buy. I think the athletes will be hyper focused to validate this hire of their choice by acclamation. I see a double digits Duck victory, and 4-5 bowl wins for Pac12.