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Arizona head coach Dick Tomey brings his young, but talented team to Autzen Stadium Saturday, looking to
add to Oregon’s five-game losing streak. A Wildcats’ win would move Arizona closer to a possible bowl bid.
Preview: Ducks try to get back on track
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derstanding of defense. If after the
game on Saturday they’ve given
everything they had and they’ve
played as hard as they could, good
things will happen.”
One of the changes for Arizona
has been the meteoric rise of their
redshirt freshman quarterback
Keith Smith. Last week against
California, Smith set the school
record for total offense in a game
by racking up 418 yards passing,
completing 25-of-36 passes and
five touchdowns. He also ran for
84 yards and two touchdowns,
giving him a total of 502 all-pur
pose yards. In the last four games
Smith has started, he has thrown
for six touchdowns, ran for four
and averaged 194 yards in the air
and 74 on the ground. He is also
the leading rusher on the team for
the season.
“I don’t think we’ve faced any
body that has the combination of
speed, agility and ability to throw
the football like Keith Smith,” Bel
lotti said. “I think that he presents
probably the greatest problem that
we’ve faced in terms of one player
in the eight years that I’ve been
here.”
“I think his progress from week
to week has been nothing short of
phenomenal,” Arizona coach
Dick Tomey said. “He brings a lot
to the team, with not only his arm
but also his legs and his poise. All
people wanted to talk about before
last week was how he was such a
good runner, and they made it
sound like he was just an inca
pable thrower. I knew that there
was going to be a day when he was
going to light it up throwing, and it
happened sooner than I thought. ”
The road has been getting rocki
er for the Ducks in recent weeks,
knowing that — after two of their
most successful seasons ever —
they aren’t playing for any kind of
bowl this season. Bellotti doesn’t
think that the team is letting itself
down in any areas, it’s just not get
ting the lucky breaks it has en
joyed the past two seasons.
“I don’t think that anybody has
let up or given up, but you always
have to guard against the fatigue
that sets in without being reward
ed, and our kids haven’t been re
warded,” Bellotti said. “They’ve
tried hard and played hard and are
playing hurt. We need to make
some breaks. Good teams find a
way to make their own breaks.”
Bellotti still refuses to believe
that this is going to be the end of
the Ducks as we know them, and
this season just follows along
with the history of Oregon foot
ball after winning seasons. The
last time the Ducks only had three
wins for the entire season was in
1991. Three years later they were
in Pasadena.
“I’ve been here eight years and
I’ve seen the good and the bad
days,” Bellotti said. “If we can
pull off a winning season this
year, it will be the first time since
1964 that we’ve had three win
ning seasons in a row. I think
that’s something great to shoot for
and something that can be a rally
ing cry.”
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