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WD Turner's avatar

Maybe we should consider what may be becoming the Oregon curse. When you leave Oregon, you do not better yourself. Brooks to Kentucky, pffft. Chip to NFL, pffft. Taggart to Florida State, pffft. Mario to Miami, pffft (so far). Is there a pattern here?

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Auburn is a great place if you are looking for one last big football score. They will give you $80 million to coach, lose, and leave in 3 years. It's not a good place if you are looking to win football games. I get the feeling that Lanning is still interested in winning football games.

It's crazy how ESPN's big media dollars are simply paying most of the SEC to hire and fire losing coaches every few years. And this sets the pay scale for coaches and offsets all that big money gain for the mediocre teams. The Big10 will now have the money to do the same thing.

Our universities and this sport would be in a such a better place if someone could go back in time 70 years and establish a modest salary cap on NCAA football teams.

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