text: Anyone playing the “Chip Kelly and NCAA sanctions” cards as a way to rationalize the rapid decline in Oregon football is simply in denial and making a bunch of excuses. How did Oregon get to the National Championship Game in Helfrich’s second year as head coach and then two-years later plummet to LAST PLACE in the division? Sorry but the sanctions are not that bad. Helfrich is in his 4th year as head coach…these are HIS recruits; his coaching hires(promoting Lubick to OC when has never been an OC…hiring Hoke as DC when he has never been a DC); he chose the strategy of pursuing one and done graduate transfers for the QB position rather than develop the players HE and his staff recruited…it is his coaching style which allows players to decide whether to go for 1 or 2 points after a TD…the list goes on and on. When you have been at your job for 4-years and have taken a championship caliber team from elite to a “disaster”…YOU are the problem and far more so than "disappearing" veterans.