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On Rob Mullens and Mark Helfrich, and Oregon State's two-quarterback solution: Issues & Answers

(Randy L. Rasmussen)

A couple things ...

-- The Merc's Jon Wilner is as incisive a college football writer as I read regularly.

He has a thought-provoking here about the job security or lack thereof for the Pac-12's head football coaches.

As Wilner sees it, Oregon coach Mark Helfrich is the most vulnerable.

Wilner writes: "Have (the UO power brokers) seen indications that Helfrich can reverse the direction? If not, then there's no choice."

I tend to be slow to call for coaching changes, having seen too many firings that not only failed to correct the problem, but made it worse.