Oregon Daily Emerald Sports
'Bullet’ Bob gets shot down
Dave Charbonneau
the
lifelines
The Ducks are 2-0 without
Boh Fife. Coincidence?
Obviously.
Oregon is not a better basket
ball team without the R-foot-11
junior.
it could be true, however, that
the Ducks are no worse off with
out him.
Three years ago, there was
talk Oregon had a potential
future NBA player on its team.
And it wasn't Terrell Brandon.
The man former coach Don
Monson affectionately called
"Bullet" Bob joined the Ducks
os a freshman in i9H9. That sea
son. Bob Fife worked his wav
into Oregon's starting lineup. He
blocked 38 shots that season,
helping the Ducks make the
National Invitational Tourna
mont.
"My freshman year was prob
ably the best season for me."
Fife said. “I had almost no pres
sure on me. I had a lot of good
games my first year."
The following season. Fife
started all but one game for Ore
gon and averaged seven points
and seven rebounds. As a
sophomore, Fife at time*
showed potential to be on
impact player for the Ducks But
other times ho looked lack
adaisical and uninspired.
“My sophomore season
wasn't bad.” he said, "hut! had
more pressure on me A few
players got hurt. 1 got more
expectations put on me, and mv
game slipped a little."
Fife had become a model of
inconsistency for the Ducks He
scored in double-figures It
times during the 1990-91 cam
paign. but had four games where
he didn't score a point.
Despite his inconsistency, the
media built him up as potential
NBA player.
All he needed was to put on
about 30 pounds, perfect a few
moves, and voila — the next
Blair Rasmussen.
The words that were most
commonly associated with Boh
Fife were: "Just wait 'til next
year.”
Unfortunately for Fife, "next
year” never came.
His inconsistency, skinny
frame and last name — you try
growing up with the same lust
name of a character played hy
Don Knotts — made him the
butt of many a joke around cam
pus.
Those jokes were perpetuated
when, after a summer of bulking
up his 190-pound frame. Fife
dropped a toolbox, that's right. a
toolbox, on his hand and was
forced to redshirt the 1991-92
season
After watching helplessly
from the bench ns his team
crawled through u miserable f>
21 season, Fife returned for the
1992-93 season
Filter Jerry Green
Green took over for the fired
Munson last spring and let all
scholarships under Monson
stand Fite still had a place on
the team
Or did he?
At first, things went well.”
Fife said
Indeed. Fife seemed to bo in
love with Green's system He
scored a i areer-high 2fi points in
Oregon's sixth game this season
and was averaging about 15
points after eight games
Hut once the Pacific-ft) Con
ference season started. Fife's
playing time dropped from 23 to
15 minutes a game. His playing
time bottomed out against UCLA
two weekends ago. when he
played only throe minutes.
"1 finally just decided I wasn't
(Green's) type of player." Fife
said.
Fife went home to California
to talk with his parents the fol
lowing Monday. When he
relumed to Euxene Thursday, he
was off the team
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Backup QB Musgrave calls it quits
ftt Pr**5
Doug Musgrsvs will forgo his senior year of foot
ball st Oregon to attend medical school.
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Oregon quarterback Doug Musgrave will not rw
turn to the Ducks' team for the 1993-94 season and
will instead enter medical school next fall, head
coach Rich Brooks announced Monday.
Musgrave will graduate with a decree in general
science this spring and will then start his medical
studies Musgrave has played sparingly for the
Ducks as a backup to Danny O’Neil since transfer
ring from Michigan in 1990
"We re extremely sorry to see Doug leave.”
Brooks said. "But It’s probably the best thing for
his future. With eight years of school and residen
cy ahead of him. he made the right decision to start
as soon as possible.”
Musgrave saw action in eight games during his
career at Oregon, completing 29 of 51 passes for
318 yards. He started his career in 1991 at.Wash
ington before being sidelined with a broken finger.
The departure of Musgrave leaves four quarter
hacks in Oregon's camp. Football practice resumes
March 31. O’Neil will likely be Oregon's starter,
but behind him are three inexperienced players;
redshirt freshmen Tony Gra/ianl and Ryan Perry
Smith, and sophomore Clayton Mills
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