Oregon Football: Why Willie Taggart will turn Ducks around in year one

Oregon fans witnessed one their worst seasons in program history in 2016. Willie Taggart will start a new winning streak in 2017.

Oregon football has built its championship-caliber squads on blazing fast offenses. A few major factors in creating those types of units comes from experience, continuity and great coaching.

Luckily for new head coach Willie Taggart, the Ducks have loads of experience and continuity. All the while, Taggart brings in his own brand of explosive offense. Taggart joins the Ducks after turning around back-to-back programs. He turned around his alma mater of Western Kentucky first. He took them from a winless year in 2009 to bowl eligible in back-to-back seasons (2011-2012). The team hasn’t had season below eight wins since his departure.

Taggart would then go to South Florida who had also fallen on hard times. The Bulls went from a perennial bowl squad to back-to-back losing seasons. It would take Taggart just two seasons to build them into one of the best teams in the American Athletic Conference.

His key to success at both places started with great scrambling quarterbacks and dynamic NFL-ready running backs on the offensive end. Taggart’s offensive expertise will surely bring the Ducks back to prominence.