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FOOTBALL OREGON VS PACIFIC Preview: Players to watch ■ Continued from Page 3B Abdullah is an All-America candidate, and netted over 1 .tKM) rustling yards last year "(Abdullah) is ns good of running buck as we have seen all year and hopefully will see all year," Be I lot! I said Senior wide ret elver Kric Atkms is another ol Par ific's offensive weapons that (..trig Green must stop. Atkins was an all-league player last year and tie amassed over 700 yards receiving in 11 games The Tigers have two quar terbai ks with different strengths. but who both have the ability to score point* Senior Nn k Seller* is the more mobile of tho two Junior Chad Potheringham is the powerful one. standing at ft tool-tt and 2.12 pounds Bel lot ti is concerned about both quarterbacks I think that they have the ability of moving the ball." stated Hellottl. 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Hood with coupon Ihroujh October JO. 190S Eugene’s Flower Home mi i MVK.Hsm n orim 610 I I Mh at I'jUcimwi • 4X5 3655 Owners arc l' of O alumni Tigers’ schedule is no joking matter ■ PACIFIC: B g buor, and valuable experience are gamed from the team s tough non-conference road trips By Trevor Kearney SpOfJS ( <Hi* With the kind of rough and lumbl*> football schedule Pacif ic puts up veer after year. some people might call the Tigers masochist* Others might «.ill them crazy and still others might even call them a joke But the Tigers will simply be laughing at these name i allure — all the way to the bank It is no secret that Pacific's unbalanced schedule isn't a scheme to earn the team a nation al championship — not yet. any way Nor is it an optimistic plan to upset some of college football's powerhouse teams "To sav this year's schedule is challenging is an understate merit," Pacific head c oach Chm k Shelton said "It's a schedule that w# probably would have liked to wait a y ear or two to take on. in terms of getting the athletes in here that we need to meet that kind of schedule " At the moment, the school is simply making big bucks plavmg non-conference football foes at just a slight cost lopsided scores While the Tigers have had to endure a -t 10 loss to Arizona, a 5fi-24 loss to Fresno State and a 49-7 defeat at the hands of sei ond ranked Nebraska tins year, they w ill have collet ted nearly SHOO.000 from non-conference opponents at the end of the sen son to cover travel expenses and fund the school's fooltiall schol arships. Nebraska forked over $400,000 of that dividend, w hile Arizona paid Pat (fit: $250,000 anil Ore gon will pay the Tigers $150,000. MONEY IN THE BANK By school, the money paid to Pacific by its 1995 non conference opponents Nebraska $400,000 Arizona $250,000 Oregon $150,000 IrMtRAlD That land of money is hard (or a school with an enrollment of 4.(XX) to pass up And somewhere along the line, the exponent e of playing big name and big game footliall teams is going to pay off "The schedule is here, we have to deal with it." Sheldon said, "1 think a lot of our athletes that will lie helping us win in '9f>. '97 and 98 are here because of that s< bed tile So vou have to lake the good with the Iwd " In fact, it has already started to help Pacific this year. In the Tigers' second game of the sea son, they lesat Oregon State 23 10 The win was the Tigers' first win over a Pncific-10 Conference team sint e 1983. While Oregon State is by no means a Nebraska or even Ore gon i alilier team, it shows the Tiger, have come a long way since putting together a string of 16 los ing seasons from 1978 to 1993 And in terms of recruits. Pacif ic's schedule has helped them come up with a few players that have come to Pacific because the team's i ompetitive nature The Tigers landed three transfers from Sacramento State in wide ns eiv er lake Hoffart and defensive backs kato Serwanga and Wass wa Serwanga, and also attrrn ted junior quarterback Chad Fother ingham from Snow junior Col lege In 1994. Pacific attracted 6 foot-2. 304-pound defensive tack le |yme Daniels, who has become one of the Tigers' most valued defensive players Shelton, who was named co Coach of the Year for the Rig West Confomni» last year, turned Pacif ic around in just his third season ns head < om h, Inking the Tigers from a 3-8 overall record in 1993 to a 6-5 nsord last year, the team's first winning season in 17 years The showing made the Tigers the tilth most improved team in the country last year. In 1993, Shelton initiated the tough-schedule routine for the Tigers, penciling in thn-e Pacific 10 Conference teams, including powerhouse Arizona along with Washington State and Oregon State. The schedule got even tougher the next year, as the Tigers faced national champion to be Nebraska for the first time in team history. Pacific's tough schedule has also caught the eye of the Ducks, who an* w ary after a loss to under rated Stanford two weeks ago. “Pacific is o good team," Ore gon qunrterhm k Tony Graziani said. “They lost by less points to Nebraska than Arizona State did. " So far this season. Pacific hasn't even plnved a team in their con ference. The Tiger's impressive non-conference schedule comes to a close Saturday at Autzen when Pacific plays the Ducks, but hitting the road is something that the Tigers are accustomed to, ns they have only had one home game this year and only have four all year long. “That is what scares me the most, that they have gone into hostile situations and played well," Graziani said. While the team's competitive ness hasn't by any means pro duced a national championship or even a conference title yet. Pacific is a team on the rise, and a team that is gaining the experi ence and financial status needed to become a college foot Nil l pow erhouse. 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