The University of Oregon football has become synonymous with two things: cutting-edge facilities and uniforms and offensive firepower.

When Chip Kelly came to Eugene as an unknown, he brought with him, at the time, a new wave of offense. One based off tempo and big-play ability.

The offensive revelation under Chip Kelly was something that took college football by storm at the time. Now everyone runs with some degree of tempo, no huddle and spread elements. It's almost harder to defend a true pro-style, power game with everyone scheming for the spread defensively.

But Oregon will have a new offensive coordinator in Marcus Arroyo this season. Willie Taggart brought his 'Gulf Coast' style of offense to Eugene last season which also saw tempo and some big plays on the field.

Although Taggart called his own plays (mostly) last season, Marcus Arroyo was very much involved in the game plan and offensive execution.

Mario Cristobal now takes over a team that is known for offense after spending the bulk of his college career at Alabama, which specializes in power football.

Oregon also added an assistant in Jim Mastro who is widely credited with bringing (assisting) the pistol offense to college football at Nevada.

All of these different offensive minds in one room will make things interesting this Fall in Eugene.

If you missed it Tuesday, we talked with Marcus Arroyo about what he looks for in quarterback recruits. In that same interview we also talked about his offense and what we'll see this Fall.

"Last year when we all got here we ran an offense that worked well with who we had. We revamped that playbook a little bit this year and there are several new components that we added. But we didn't just scrap it and start something new. We have so many different elements to what we are going to do this season I'm excited to see it all come together. We're still going to do some of the things we did last year but we're also expanding on it."

Arroyo said that Oregon will also keep tempo as a major element in the offense.

"I'm a big believer in tempo in the offense. But not just always going fast. I really like changing the tempo. I think that's a big element of keeping the defense honest and not giving away your snap counts and your cadence. It can be very disruptive to a defense when you are varying the tempo. We want to be rigid in our fundamentals but flexible in our scheme if that makes sense."

The addition of Jim Mastro was not by luck. Marcus Arroyo had talks with Mario Cristobal about adding that element to the offense.

"Coach Mastro is exactly what I thought he would be. He's an excellent addition to this team. Not just as a coach but as a person too. He fits in with this staff and when we are in the room together he's right there with the rest of us. I had a lot of talks with Mario over the Winter about how I wanted to add the pistol to our offense. We did some of that at Tampa Bay and it went with me to Oklahoma State. The pistol is great because it gives a zone-read look but changes the balance of the defense. I really believe in multiple formations. It forces the defense to think which slows them down giving us an edge."

Oregon will not forget that Alabama physical style that coach Cristobal has coached under for the past few years.

"We want to be a physical team that can own the line of scrimmage too. Not just flash and speed. We absolutely have to be able to run the ball and run the ball hard. We are going to use that to set up the play-action screens and our vertical passing. Being able to run the ball successfully is a huge part of that in our offense."

By no means is Arroyo advocating this will be a 'run-only' team, however he feels a major part of the success of this offense will be controlling the line of scrimmage.

Along with the addition of the pistol, which is merely a FORMATION, not an offense, Oregon will also expand its use of one position.

"I believe in the tight end completely. I'm a huge believer in using the tight end in our offense. I'm sure this season you will see at least 1 or even 2 tight end sets on every snap. Last year we ran them about 90-percent of our snaps. Those guys are going to have a chance to make some plays for us and keep the defense honest by respecting them. Again it's about keeping the defense off-balance with multiple formations, changing the tempo and being really good at what we do. We aren't looking for quantity in our offense, we are looking for quality. Keep it simple and get really good at it through repetitions."

Marcus Arroyo also credited most of his offensive input from the following coaches through past stops: Jeff Tedford, Dirk Koetter and Todd Munken. He also credits a lot of his offensive philosophies from Dick Tomey.