The Helfrich hire was a no-brainer. Not just from a football perspective, but from all other angles of the puzzle. Oregon is paying Helfrich a very low salary - $1.8 million dollars a year over the next five years - for being the head coach of a perennial top-10 team.
What I'm saying here is this: Oregon has the potential to go to the moon with Helfrich while only paying for a trip to the skyscrapers and, if true Ducks fans can't get behind Helfrich and give him full-throated support to succeed, they'll never get behind any coach.
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