Common sense would also look at the environment of the PAC 12 for the last decade.  During the Oregon glory days there was no other show in town. USC was down,  UCLA was non-existent and neither Washington school was relevant. Oregon benefited from being flashy, new and on the national stage in ways no other program in the conference was. Also, while we are applying common sense, why is nobody remembering that we had our own recruiting situation which had the NCAA sniffing around before good old Chip took his wares to the NFL. We should probably question how we got some of those players all the way from Houston to come to rainy Eugene.

Oregon is not a Ferrari - it is at best a Corvette. You have a delusional fan base who will scream for you to get fired after one down year and you are in a state where you have maybe 3 D-1 athletes coming out of high school each year. Enjoy the occasional run but an 8 win season is probably going to be the norm in the future. I wish Coach Taggert luck.