Oregon Football: Marcus Arroyo’s Potential Departure Would Be Bad

If Marcus Arroyo leaves Oregon Football for UNLV, there will be a good amount of happy Ducks fans, but I don’t think it would be good news.

This afternoon, Kevin Wade of 247Sports reported that Oregon football OC Marcus Arroyo is ‘close to a deal’ to becoming Head Coach at UNLV.

Marcus Arroyo and his pistol offense has received a lot of flack over the last two years, but I think the criticism has been pretty unfair. There are so many reasons that offensive drives have stalled every now and then, and it has unfortunately become a pervasive trend on Twitter—and around water coolers everywhere—to assign those failures to Arroyo alone.

In reality, Arroyo’s offense has objectively improved…