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Post by alwaysorange on May 21, 2018 15:18:32 GMT -8
Why would any beaver fan. Heck any pac12 fan want him to leave oregon. I would want him to stay for as long as he wants and longer than that.
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Post by cbeavs1 on May 21, 2018 15:53:56 GMT -8
Horton could survive at CSF in a weaker league with good pitching and defense. However, in the Pac-10 you have to have offense as well. He never did consistently have offense in his 10 years with the Schmucks. I too would have liked him to stay another 10 years.
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Post by joeavocado on May 21, 2018 16:05:40 GMT -8
Bellotti just turned down the job, however, Butterstick says: "Hold my beer".
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Post by mbabeav on May 21, 2018 16:43:12 GMT -8
Bellotti just turned down the job, however, Butterstick says: "Hold my beer". "and let me grab my shovel" |
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Post by chinmusic on May 21, 2018 16:43:13 GMT -8
Isn't Horton signed through 2022? Didn't he sign a new 5 year deal last year? I don't know what his buyout would be but it might be more than UO wants to pony up to dismiss him. After all, it is a minor sport and not that relevant to the overall success of the UO athletic program. If it weren't for "Beaver envy", even fewer would be that interested in duck baseball fortunes.
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Post by Tigardbeav on May 21, 2018 17:11:05 GMT -8
Isn't Horton signed through 2022? Didn't he sign a new 5 year deal last year? I don't know what his buyout would be but it might be more than UO wants to pony up to dismiss him. After all, it is a minor sport and not that relevant to the overall success of the UO athletic program. If it weren't for "Beaver envy", even fewer would be that interested in duck baseball fortunes. Kerry says 2 years left on his contract. So $1.487 plus a bag of balls should make him go away |
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Post by Werebeaver on May 21, 2018 17:25:52 GMT -8
That is a damn shame. The $uck$ don't deserve a fine man like George Horton. |
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Post by ricke71 on May 21, 2018 18:16:14 GMT -8
Horton could survive at CSF in a weaker league with good pitching and defense. However, in the Pac-10 you have to have offense as well. He never did consistently have offense in his 10 years with the Schmucks. I too would have liked him to stay another 10 years. indeed offense has been his bug-a-boo (other than HBP and Ryon Healy). He just never quite caught on in the PNW. |
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Post by gnawitall on May 21, 2018 20:39:03 GMT -8
If Horton is gone we should have an over under poll of how much they're going to shell out for the next guy. It will be interesting who they steal.
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Post by Werebeaver on May 21, 2018 20:41:26 GMT -8
If Horton is gone we should have an over under poll of how much they're going to shell out for the next guy. It will be interesting who they steal. If Horton can't make the $uck$ winners nobody can. |
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Post by eugenedave on May 24, 2018 4:59:49 GMT -8
Register-Guard reports Eggers is wrong. George has been given another year. Athletic Department annoyed that Eggers blew their cover, wondering if he forced their hand.
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Post by nabeav on May 24, 2018 7:44:52 GMT -8
Is Horton the Mike Riley of Eugene? Well respected coach nationally, disrespected locally due to success of his rival and never quite getting over the hump?
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Post by Judge Smails on May 24, 2018 9:40:20 GMT -8
Is Horton the Mike Riley of Eugene? Well respected coach nationally, disrespected locally due to success of his rival and never quite getting over the hump? Well......he looks like he ate Mike Riley, so maybe |
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Post by bennyskid on May 24, 2018 10:03:54 GMT -8
Hardly. Riley took a program that was arguable the worst team in the history of modern college athletics and brought real success. He set the stage for DE's success, and followed up with several fine seasons of his own. He did this with sub-par facilities and low budgets, in a sport that gets the hottest spotlight. He earned major scalps - including a fine record against Pete Carroll - arguably the most iconic coach of the era - and twice came within a single win of making the Rose Bowl.
Riley accomplished what for Fertig, Avezzano, Kragthorpe, Pettibone, and Anderson were unimaginable goals. Only DE - who won multiple National Championships and National COY awards - exceeded him in my lifetime.
True, Horton started from scratch, but with gleaming new facilities and what is likely the largest budget west of Texas. He rode the initial wave of publicity (and his personal reputation) to a couple seasons of relevance, then slowly slid back to the bottom half of the Pac. He did nothing more than what the UO could have expected had they hired any of the better coaches from the mid-majors at half the salary.
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Post by mbabeav on May 24, 2018 10:50:07 GMT -8
Hardly. Riley took a program that was arguable the worst team in the history of modern college athletics and brought real success. He set the stage for DE's success, and followed up with several fine seasons of his own. He did this with sub-par facilities and low budgets, in a sport that gets the hottest spotlight. He earned major scalps - including a fine record against Pete Carroll - arguably the most iconic coach of the era - and twice came within a single win of making the Rose Bowl. Riley accomplished what for Fertig, Avezzano, Kragthorpe, Pettibone, and Anderson were unimaginable goals. Only DE - who won multiple National Championships and National COY awards - exceeded him in my lifetime. True, Horton started from scratch, but with gleaming new facilities and what is likely the largest budget west of Texas. He rode the initial wave of publicity (and his personal reputation) to a couple seasons of relevance, then slowly slid back to the bottom half of the Pac. He did nothing more than what the UO could have expected had they hired any of the better coaches from the mid-majors at half the salary. I don't think the final assessment is correct. Horton did bring immediate coaching chops relevance, which is the only way you can recruit at a high level right off the bat. Few mid-major coaches can offer that. He just, after that burst out of the gate provided by all the money and all the facilities and all the publicity, couldn't get past the first few recruiting classes into a sustained pipeline to match the Pac-10/12 upper level programs. Face it, they came so close to getting to Omaha a few years in, and if he couldn't parley that into a relatively stable high level group of recruits each year, then that is on him. |
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