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I would go with "they've stolen a SHOT at the title." We still would have had to beat Bama.

Great article though. The refereeing continues to be a BIG distraction and frankly the epic sucking needs to end.

Josh got a couple BHASB penalties this last season, as he has in years past. What's a BHASB penalty you ask? It's a Beat His A$$ So Bad it looked like a penalty penalty. Josh blocks like a TE out wide and because of that, there are numerous times where he has been tagged with a holding call when all he did was do his job with devastating efficiency. And while I will never be convinced that Ertz made that catch as the video evidence shows, I still don't think the refs took the game from Oregon. Yes, there were some bad calls that went against the Duckies but the only people who took the game from Oregon was Stanford. Well, that and Oregon didn't do themselves any favors by not bringing their A game. This is why every coach will tell you his team, don't leave the game close enough where an official can change the outcome with a call. Obviously, this is easier said than done but there are bad calls in every game and you have no choice but to respond to them.

NO we would of had to Beat Notre Dame, and that would of been a for sure, just think about it, we would of rolled just like BAMA.

It has been inferred on several occasions that the one game CK called all the plays was Stanford. I am still curious as to the dynamics between Helf as OC and Chip during that game. Was Helf calling for more vertical passing plays or more seam routes only to be overruled? Did ANYONE think Colt Lyerla could have dropped his pads and rushed the ball a few times to negate Stanfords LB corps or was it just me? Did Marcus feel pressure in a late-season, cold-weather game enough to disrupt his rhythm and shake his confidence? Sure ther refs f***ed up a few times, but it was our lack of execution, mental errors (DAT's no-block brain-fart/knee-down catch at the 10 yardline) and Stanford's resilience that were our undoing. Stanford was so disciplined and assignment-savvy that the mistakes we left on then field were what tripped us up, not the refs.

But to get the Natty, you need plays and luck. Luck was not with us that day.

There was at least three games this year where the O was standing around far to long while the refs got it together. The Stanford game was really punishing to be at with all the difficulties the zebra's were having. Add Chip headphones off, away from everyone crouched down with his arms crossed. I really felt he wasn't with the team. Not to take away from Furds play yet it felt like everybody was off and time was slow. Almost like adding another game to the schedule would be to much.

are you saying we could have made the refs irrelevant?...yes we could have...but we didn't.........my question to you where does it end? here?.....belief in our past staff? where is your place in our fan base? are you part of the spoiled majority?

Thanks johnch, first I've heard of that. I've wondered far to long if I imagined Chip being off. +1

Chip wasn't the one out there not making plays. To put the loss on anything else than Stanford playing the best game they have played in the past 3 or 4 seasons and Oregon not playing a good game IMO is just making excuses. Chip didn't miss blocks. Chip didn't miss tackles and Chip didn't miss FG's. I'm not saying he didn't go off on kids about giving out practice info, but why would that surprise anyone? I think we ALL know that if there was one thing he would be really pissed about it would be guys spilling perceived secrets to the media. And please save the "Chip didn't call good plays". It doesn't matter what plays you call if the O line doesn't block well and the offense doesn't execute. Chip did what any good coach would do and that's take the blame for his teams failures rather than dumping the blame on the players IE Lane Kiffen. The reason Oregon lost is because Stanford played harder, they played better and they finished and IMO there's no reason to make any other excuses

Sorry, Chip didn't call good plays. He even admitted as much. It was not a good game for him and that is part of the reason we lost.

One thing about Chip is that in a couple of our losses he did admit when he didn't coach well. In the Natty he said we should've thrown more (and he's right, DT/Maehl/Tuinei were hot and we probably would've won), and against Furd he said he got stubborn with calling the plays himself.

Even the best coaches on the planet can have bad moments that could cost their team a game. As it's been said a lot, you need a lot of luck to make the Natty as well as playing well. In 2010 we got lucky with the Cal game. In 2011-12 we didn't with USC/Furd.