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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 297823, member: 204"]
I didn't start the debate about "exciting football."
 
I think it's a pointless argument.
 
And, sorry, but I just don't agree with you at all.
 
Exciting and losing turns fans off - when the Phillies here in Philadelphia had a great offense and scored lots of runs and lost most of the time, the fans stayed home. It was only when they began to win that the fans really showed up.
 
And, over the past year the Phillies have been about as boring a team to watch as I have seen. But with great pitching they have won and have drawn fans. 
 
This stuff about systems is really a bunch of nonsense in my opinion. It's really about the talent.
 
Oregon runs an option based offense and happens to have a lot of athletes - recruited on the basis of the tremendous amount of money that the program has received and spent over the last few years. It's football. There is nothing all that tricky about what's happening with that program.    
 
The inherent notion that Chip Kelly is some kind of genius is just as inaccurate as the old notion that Pete Carroll - after years of mediocrity in the NFL - became a genius at USC. 
 
Indeed, Nick Saban is a football genius when he has superior talent but is mediocre when the talent levels are comparable.
 
It's about talent. It's really not about the particular system - various systems can be exciting, whether it's Ga Tech, Michigan, USC or Oregon. 
 
So, would it be nice if the Orange was "exciting"?
 
Of course it would.  
 
But, given the talent level, we probably will not be "exciting" in the sense that Oregon is exciting for awhile.
 
Right now, the idea is to win on a consistent basis so that the fans are happy when they leave the Dome and are confident that the program will soon once again be a prominent one.
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