Oregon Duck fans, at halftime of Saturday’s big game against UCLA, are thinking they made the right exchange at the head coaching position. Mario Cristobal leaving for Miami and Dan Lanning coming to Eugene has been a net-positive development for the Ducks, who scored 24 points in under 25 minutes against UCLA, busting out to a double-digit lead in the biggest Pac-12 game of Week 8. Oregon scored 31 points in the first half.
While Oregon built that first-half lead with a high-octane offense, something very different happened to the Ducks’ former coach in Miami. Mario Cristobal watched his Miami Hurricane offense implode yet again this season. How bad was this performance? There’s plenty of historical context and a lot of fan anger to be found: