The Ducks are flyin’ high
with their eye in the sky
Not only do the Oregon football coaches
have a ground-level view of what transpires
at a football game, they also have their
“eye in the sky" to help.
No, the Oregon football team hasn’t
hired an AWACS plane to spy on game
days. Rather, they have their eight eyes
high up on the north side of Autzen
Stadium in the press box.
Each Saturday, four Oregon coaches will
sit in the coach’s booth during the game
and relay information to the coaches on
the sidelines. The four — offensive
coaches Bob Toledo and Steve Greatwood
and defensive coaches Bill Maskill and
Dave Walker — are plugged in with
headsets and must continually keep a
watch of the game to figure out the other
team's tendencies and weaknesses.
"Offensively, there is little guesswork of
what goes on during the game because
you have a game-plan you follow," says
Toledo, the Ducks’ offensive coordinator.
“We usually stick with the game plan
unless something drastically goes wrong.”
Toledo’s job in the booth is to relay
plays down to the field to running back
coach Gary Campbell, who in turn, gives
the information to a player to send into the
huddle. And when the play finally starts to
develop, it is Toledo that can see it the
best.
“You really have a good perspective of
the game when you sit up high in the
booth,” says Toledo. “You can see things
develop.”
Toledo says the most important factor of
the job is not what happens during game
days, but what occurs leading up to each
and every Saturday.
“The biggest part of the whole thing is
preparing and setting up the game plan,”
Toledo says. "So far this year we have pret
ty much stuck with our original game
plan.”
Head coach Rich 'Brooks has a headset
on during the course of the game to
monitor what the offensive and defensive
coaches are contemplating. Every once in
a while the Oregon mentor will interject
some of his thought into what should be
called.
“Rich has a headset that goes from of
fense to defense,” says Toledo. “He’ll talk
when he has to —- his decisions will be
more emotional because he's down on the
field but his decisions are also the best for
the situation.”
Walker, the Ducks’ outside linebacker
coach, works the defensive headset with
defensive coordinator Joe Schaffeld.
Walker, a former player with Oregon in the
early 1970s, is responsible for making sure
the Duck defense knows what the other
team’s offense is up to.
“Basically I'm up there to look at our
defense,” says Walker. “I have some
charts and stuff that we keep to keep track
of what opposing team's offenses do. We
have a list of defenses that we will run on
certain situations like second and long or
third and short.”
One thing that having coaches in the
press box means is that they are removed
from the.game and not surrounded by 85
screaming players with fans in the
background. They are secluded in a room
with charts and diagrams to they can ade
quately watch the game and relay pertinent
information to the sidelines.
Continued on Page SB
Almost all of the plays Oregon uses in a game originate from the coaches in
the press box.
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NEW YORK (AP)—Prime time
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That game pulled a 21.9 rating
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Those figures, combined with
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