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Oregon Football
Defense holds high-scoring Bruins
Giving up the big play
kills the Ducks again
after holding UCIA to
just 39 points
By Joel Hood
Sports Reporter
UCLA fans call him the Bus,
and in the first quarter of UCLA's
39-31 triumph over Oregon, tail
bank Skip Hicks looked as if he
was in fifth gear rumbling down
the interstate.
Hicks, as he did a season ago
against Oregon, ran straight
through the Oregon defense,
breaking tackles like matchsticks
and carrying defensive backs like
they were issued equipment.
But the Oregon defense never
really broke down. In fact, the
players and coaches said, save for
a couple of big plays, the Duck de
fense did a good job against one of
the nation’s most prolific scoring
teams.
“We were hot and cold,” defen
sive coordinator Rich Stubler said.
“We would play well at times and
then we wouldn’t. We need to be
more mentally tough. We need to
find ways to step up.”
Before the game, Oregon coach
es railed Hicks “the key” to stop
ping UCLA’s ground attack, and it
was clear throughout that the
Ducks weren't going to let Hicks
beat them.
He finished the first half with 90
yards rushing, but after his first
carry of the game, which netted 42
yards, Oregon kept him from
breaking the game open.
However, Hicks presented
countless problems for the strug
gling Oregon defense, whether he
carried the ball or not.
In the first quarter, with Oregon
ahead 7-3, UCLA quarterback
Cade McNown faked a hand-off to
Hicks, who sold the play by diving
headlong into the Duck defensive
line. As Oregon’s secondary
rushed in to stop the hard-charg
ing Hicks, McNown threw to a
wide open flanker, Rodney Lee,
for 50 yards.
Though it was susceptible to the
big play, Oregon’s defense
scratched and clawed through the
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Garth White tries to bring clown UCLA wide receiver Danny Farmer.
first half, making the plays and,
seemingly, on the verge of taking
complete control of the game.
But the Ducks' propensity for
giving up the big play at the game’s
most inopportune moments kept
them from taking control.
“We weren't playing responsi
bly on defense,” safety Jaiya
Figueras said. “We would hold
them on a couple of downs, and
then we’d give up a big play. We’d
miss tackles; we wouldn’t got into
the right gaps; we’d miss our as
signments. We beat ourselves.”
In the third quarter, with Hicks
on the sideline but the Ducks still
weary of the run, McNown faked a
pitch and completed a 40-yard
bomb for a touchdown over a
stunned Oregon secondary. That
touchdown, players said, sunk the
Ducks and put the Bruins on top
for good.
“We are a young team that
needs to find out how to win,” de
fensive tackle Desmond Byrd said.
“We need to put mistakes like that
behind us during the game. We
need toget tougher.”
Tougher indeed.
In the fourth quarter, with Ore
gon trailing 27-24 and needing to
make a big defensive stand, UCLA
began a crucial drive from its own
16-yard line. With the crowd
standing, urging someone to make
a play, Oregon gave up a 21-yard
run on the Bruins’ first play from
scri mmage.
A play later, McNown dumped
the ball to flanker Jim McElroy,
who broke four tackles en route to
a 30-yard gain and a UCLA first
down inside Oregon territory. The
Bruins scored five plays later.
“It always just seems like we are
our own worst enemy,” linebacker
Peter Sirmon said. “We are always
hit or miss.
UCLA’s back-breaking seven
play, 84-yard drive closed the
door on the Ducks. For the third
consecutive game, coaches said,
Oregon’s defense played hard, and
kept the Ducks in the game until
the most crucial moments. But the
big play, like October rain, always
came.
“We are working our tails off,
but we are missing opportunities,”
head coach Mike Bellotti said.
Frank: Ducks can’t afford to lose to Utah
■ Continued from Page 9A
here, a ball caught there, would have, could have
made the difference.
But once again, tackles seemed to be missed at just
the wrong time and a pass seemed to be dropped at
an even worse time.
Of all the couldas, wouldas or shouldas, none
seemed bigger than the third-down quarterback
switch in the fourth quarter that resulted in an inter
ception on Jason Maas’ first pass of the game.
If the Oregon coaches had it to do all over, would
they still put an ice-cold Maas, who had been sitting
on the sideline for 3 1/2 quarters, in for Akili Smith,
who played the entire game to that point?
No way. That’s one everybody wishes they could
have back.
“I want to be quoted on this; we put Jason Maas in
a very, very, very tough situation,” Koetter said. “To
come in on a third and eight and ask him to make a
play — that’s 100 percent on me.”
Head coach Mike Bellotti called the substitution a
mistake and said Maas wasn't ready.
Maas, who is always tough on himself, took it so
hard that he left the stadium without speaking with
reporters, something he didn’t do even after throw
ing three interceptions against Washington State the
game before.
Thanks to Maas’ interception, the Bruins got the
ball on the Oregon 23-yard line with 6:50 left to play
and four plays later, Chris Sailer kicked the field goal
that gave UCLA a 36-24 lead.
Had Maas, or Smith for that matter, converted that
third-down situation and taken the Ducks the rest of
the way for the touchdown, the score would have
been 33-31.
Maas’ interception could be considered the mast impor
tant play ofthegameand the one tliat ultimately doomed the
Ducks, but there were enough other problems on both sides
ofthe ball to cost the Ducks two games.
The question: How do they fix the problems and
start winning games?
The dilemma is who knows if the problems can be
fixed.
If there were problems for a game or two, every
thing would seem fixable. But the way the Ducks
have been playing throughout the season, who
knows if things will get any better.
The problem may be that this team is, hold your
breath, a mediocre team in one of the toughest con
ferences in the nation.
The only game the Ducks won outright this season
was against Arizona to start the season. Since that
game, every one has been a dogfight.
It took a Maas miracle to beat Nevada, the defense
let Fresno State back in the game late, Stanford made
the defense look like it belonged in a Pop Warner
league and against Washington State offensive exe
cution seemed like a foreign word.
Unfortunately, things may not get much better for
the Ducks.
A win against Utah this week is a must, and
should come without much problem, but after that
are three straight on the road, not an easy task for any
team, let alone one that is 1-3 in conference play.
Expect the questions to continue for Koetterand
the rest of the Ducks.
Ryan Frank is the sports editor for the Emerald