Post by Judge Smails on Sept 1, 2023 19:38:37 GMT -8
The biggest one was Dee Andros telling Fred Milton to shave off that thing! That set into motion decades of OSU living in college football purgatory, when we should've been building on our "Gianr killers" momentum.
The second biggest might have been hiring GAG, and his subsequent complete meltdown.
Both events had very unfortunate timing.....The Andros/Milton thing being during Civil Rights movement.....even though the incident had nothing to do with race, it was used as such, and blew OSU out of the water with athletes of color.....it had irreversible negative effects.
GAG obviously duped our admin. He was an unmitigated disaster. The way he left was embarrassing for OSU, even though he thought he was doing us a favor.
Fast forward to now......we have a rising program.....one of the hottest young coaches in football, who happens to have been the QB when we were a win away from at least a share of the National Championship.......I'm not gonna get into the s%#t show that is Pac 12 leadership that led to the conference falling apart. We all know the story. It just sucks so much that we are on the cusp of our football program being a perennial contender......and this. It's like a cruel f%#*ing joke.
Fred Milton.
Letting Andros wither on the vine for seven years, when he was done as a head coach.
Passing on Rich Brooks and Terry Donahue in favor of Fertig.
Hiring Avezzano.
Passing on Erickson to hire Kragthorpe.
Destroying everything that Kragthorpe had built to hire Pettibone. A 1970s solution to a 1990s problem.
Not reinvesting into football sufficiently, while football was good.
Splitting up the combined Oregon State Board of Higher Education and Oregon University System.
Forcing Langs out.
Hiring GAG to replace Riley.
Are we here if 10 of those 11 still happen? Nine? A bunch of little things added up to a major problem, and the poisoned fruits seem to have fully ripened today.
Kragthorpe would have gotten us over the hump with support.
His offense was great. He was Mike Leach before Mike Leach.