re: How does a college from Oregon have such a good football team every year?

And that has what to do with you not knowing Wtf you're talking about?

There's some funny stuff in this thread.

I'm just going to get to the heart of the initial question, which I think is really about continuity and consistency. Oregon's had coaching continuity that is basically unrivaled in all of college football, and that combined with discovering (and committing completely) to a system that gives kids more reps in both practice as well as games, has resulted in the Ducks being able to field young *and* successful teams every single season in recent memory. Seriously, people spend way too much time talking about the x's and o's on gameday, and "speed" while completely missing the fact that Oregon is giving more reps to young inexperienced players quicker than probably any other program in the nation. Even this team, probably Oregon's most talented *ever* is littered with underclassmen in key roles. By the way, this also means that when Oregon goes out on the recruiting trail, they have more playing time to offer kids. (When you begin to break Oregon's program into its different components, you see how they all fit together in a comprehensive way.) And speaking of the recruiting - every year Oregon winds up in the BCS picture, the coaches have been able to get more and more selective. There's a culture in Eugene now (insert weed/macstoli jokes here) and Oregon has adopted a notoriously restrictive - some might say stubborn - approach for weeding through the would-be Ducks and making sure that in addition to being capable of playing at a high level, the players that are offered are all capable of qualifying (Oregon hasn't had any non-qualifiers in about 5 years - unprecedented) highly committed to the sport, and not players who crave the spotlight or interested primarily in individual accolades. Oregon recruits low key, doesn't gas kids up, and expects kids to reciprocate interest in a significant way.