Ducks fly south in season
By Jake Berg
Emerald Sports Editor
Somewhere in the first half of
the Oregon football season, the
Ducks made .1 turn onto the
wrong road.
Oregon left that yellow brick
road of high preseason (expecta
tions first in a stop at Utah,
where the 14-point favorite
Ducks dropped a 24-17 deci
sion to the Utes The Ducks
hoped to make a U-turn the
next week in a nationally tele
vised home game against USC,
but the Trojans demolished Or
egon 30-14
New Mexico State did pro
vide u brief vacation to the
Ducks when Oregon rolled to a
2,.)-(> home win, but the Ducks
returned to reality in a 45-7
thrashing at the hands of Cali
fornia.
All of that after two big wins
in the opening two games of the
season and preseason expecta
tions that the Ducks would
likely be driving onto the fret
way of postseason play for an
unprecedented third straight
year.
Now halfway through the
season with a bye this week
and a visit to third-ranked
Washington on the hill next
week, an Oregon team decimat
ed by injuries is a disappoint
ing 3-3 overall and 1-2 in the
Pacific-10 Conference.
Oregon Coach Rich Brooks
said his team is not on the road
that he hoped it would be on at
this point in the season.
"We're not where i expot ted
us to be, obviously,” Brooks
said. ”1 felt wo would he at
least 4-2 or 5-1 at this point.
"I think we played well the
first two games, but since those
tirst two, we have failed to im
prove."
Standing in the way of Ore
gon’s possible improvement,
though, is a ridiculous amount
ol injuries that have sidelined
many of the team's starters at
some point this season But
Brooks was not about to blame
the three losses on just injuries.
"If we’d been a healthy foot
ball team, we wouldn’t be 3 3,"
Brooks said "Football has inju
ries, ami we just haven't re
spondod very well to it."
Brooks then pointed to the
fart that in those three losses,
Oregon has turned the hall over
Id times but has zero take
aways. Those 11 turnovers
have often put the Oregon de
fense in a bind as tar as the op
posing team's offensive lieid
position goes
in Oregon's throe losses,
Utah, USC, and California have
totaled 'O points, but the Ducks
are still ranked third in the Par
10 111 total delense Oregon is
third in passing defense and
fourth in rushing defense
“Despite our injuries,'' Ore
gon defensive coordinator Den
ny Schuler said, "wo (the de
fense) have played well for the
most part We are third in the
l’ac-10 in defense I see that
as a major miracle'' considering
the injuries and held position
The offense, on the other
hand, is performing somewhat
less than miraculously The
Ducks rank eighth in the con
ference in total offense and are
second to last in rushing of
fense, likely because of the an
kle injury suffered by star toil
back Sean Burwell after the sea
son's second game
“That's probably the biggest
factor," Oregon offensive coor
dinator Mike Bellotti said. "The
value of Sean Burwell to us is
hard to estimate "
So was the value of Bill Mus
grave. The graduated quar
terback led Oregon to its firs!
consecutive bowl appearances
ever, but his leaving forced the
Ducks to a 11 e in [it to till his
shoes with four inexperienced
players who had never taken a
hike in a major college lootball
game before the season
Although the Dm ks are sting
ing from injuries, have question
marks on the olfense and must
play the Huskies next week,
Bellotti said he knows what the
team has to do.
"We've got to suck it up and
play better overall," he said
"Saving it and doing it are two
different things "
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two meets so I'm not that wor
ried."
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Last year, Oregon won the
meet easily .is Nusrula finished
10th, Holmen finished 17th
and Karnopp came in at 20th.
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