When Oregon hired Willie Taggart, I have to admit that my first thought was that Oregon was going to stop being, well, Oregon. I wasn’t thinking about the 250 random uniform combinations that Nike provides the Ducks equipment staff; I was thinking about the breakage from the Chip Kelly offensive philosophy that turned Oregon into one of the most lethal offenses in college football.
Turns out that my first impression was a little dated. Sure, Taggart’s offensive philosophy originally was rather traditional with a lot of pro-style, West Coast concepts, as it was in his days at Stanford.