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FSU is Team of Decade’
Bobby Bowden has his sec
ond national title in hand
following Florida State’s
46-29 win over Virginia
Tech in Tuesday night’s Sugar
Bowl, and the head football coach
will very soon put a picture-per
fect exclamation point on his
team’s 1999 success.
The affable Bowden, whose
down-home, Southern good ol’
boy personality makes redneck
comedian Jeff Foxworthy sound
like a blueblood, has kept an emp
ty photo frame on his office desk
during most of the season. He
promised to display a team snap
shot in the space as soon as he
had an undefeated team to honor.
All wins and no losses makes
Bobby a happy guy.
Bowden even maintained his
classic sense of folksy flair — one
might call it neo-hoedown — as
he finished up a phone call from
President Clinton during the post
game celebration. “See you, bud
dy,” said Bowden, as if the leader
of the free world had just filled up
his tank with gas.
FSU’s much-maligned Peter
Warrick essentially stole the Sug
ar Bowl spotlight from Bowden’s
accomplishment, scoring three
touchdowns and running away
with the MVP award. This time,
however, the senior wide receiver
won’t get into any trouble for his
theft.
W'arrick took his lumps earlier
in the season after he received a
sweet deal at a Tallahassee, Fla.,
area department store, paying just
about $20 for close to $400 worth
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Jack
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of clothing. The discount cost
Warrick the Heisman award and
prompted one sports columnist to
ask the question, how can a guy
who gives 100 percent on the field
give just five percent at the counter?
Warrick, of course,# will be
laughing all the way into the NFL
next season, with enough millions
to buy his own departmenfstore.
So, with the final piece of the
1990s in place, all that’s left is for
pigskin pundits and football fans
to debate the subjective question:
Which college football program
should be considered “Team of
the Decade?”
Of course, those living in Talla
hassee have a quick and obvious
answer.
Fans of Florida State throw out
several impressive statistics in
their arguments. An NCAA
record 13-year streak of finishing
fourth or better in the final college
football polls is a convincing start.
Two national titles and 109 total
wins, most in the NCAA during
the decade, bolster their claims.
Get a grip, those fans in Nebras
ka can reply. The Cornhuskers
won 108 games during the con
tested span. In addition, three na
tional titles — all unbeaten sea
sons to boot — ended up in
Lincoln during the ‘90s, which
should end the argument, they
say.
Let’s dissect those numbers a bit.
FSU won 89 percent of its
games during those 10 years,
compared to NU’s 86 percent.
Granted, that difference is negligi
ble, but the vote for best team is
close, so all stats count.
A more important fact dates
back to the 1992-93 season. That
year Florida State squeezed out an
18-16 Orange Bowl win, thus
clinching the school’s first-ever
national title. The loser? Nebraska.
The previous year’s Orange
Bowl matched up the same two
teams, with the same end result,
an FSU win.
In this writer’s opinion though,
the reason why FSU should be
considered the decade’s best is
that dominating streak in the final
polls. Finishing in the top four
during each of the last 13 years —
and winning at least 10 games per
season during that stretch — is a
stunning feat.
Doesn’t convince you? Then
consider this: No other team even
finished in the top 10 each of the
last 10 years, and Nebraska failed
to make it into that select group
four times during the ‘90s.
In this current era of ever
changing dominance in college
football, FSU has remained in the
elite. Thanks to a victory in the fi
nal game of the 1999-2000 season,,
Florida State proved it deserves
the label “Team of the Decade.”
JaGk Clifford, who grew up in the Talla
hassee area, is the editor of Pulse. He *
can be reached via e-mail at ode@ore
gon.uoregon.edu.
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finish higher than them. So we’re
ready to go and get that win.”
Oregon State’s victory in the
first Civil War matchup last sea
son broke a 10-game Oregon win
ning streak in the rivalry. But the
Ducks got a measure of revenge
later in the season with a 73-68
win at McArthur Court.
Oregon was far from alone
among Gill Coliseum victims, as
Oregon State went 7-2 at home in
conference games, beating UCLA,
Arizona and Stanford, all of
which were ranked in the top 10
at the times of their Corvallis vis
its.
Overall, the Beavers finished
14-15 and 7-11 in the Pac-10.
This season, Oregon State is 6
0 in Gill Coliseum but has played
only the likes of Texas A&M-Cor
pus Christi, Wyoming, Eastern
Washington, Denver, Idaho and
Chico State.
On the road, the Beavers, who
lost all nine Pac-10 road games
last season, have continued to
struggle. Their 2-3 mark includes
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same position that we are in that
they really need a game and we
really need a game. But for them
to drop a game, it’s just gonna
blow them up.
“We want to be the bomb. ”
It’s not nearly an unfamiliar
sentiment heading into a meeting
between the two area rivals.
“It’s always a very physical,
blood-shedding, elbow-throwing
match,” junior center Jenny
Mowe said.
Might fans expect more of the
same Saturday?
“Even worse, probably,” Mowe
said.
Mowe and the rest of Oregon’s
wins over South Carolina State
and Clemson at the SoCon Holi
day Hoops Tournament in
Greenville, S.C., and losses to
Mississippi, Colorado State and
Utah.
Point guard Deaundra Tanner,
an all-Pac-10 selection last sea
son, leads Oregon State once
again, averaging 16.1 points per
game in addition to five assists
and 4.3 rebounds per outing.
The Beavers’ third-leading
scorer, center Jason Heide, has
been sidelined since Dec. 20 with
a broken right thumb, but he
could play Saturday.
Six-foot-nine, 240-pound for
ward Brian Jackson, a highly re
garded freshman from Knappa, is
Oregon State’s leading scorer
with 16.7 points per game after
scoring 32 points and grabbing
10 rebounds in Tuesday’s win
over Texas A&M Corpus-Christi.
Jackson, however, has played in
just six games because of a knee
injury that kept him out of action
early in the season.
The Ducks enter the game in
tent on beginning their Pac-10
march toward March Madness
on a winning note.
post players have to handle Ore
gon State’s senior center Sissell
Pierce, who is leading the Pac-10
in blocks with almost three per
game. Pierce has traditionally
played well against the Ducks, in
cluding her 12-point, five-re
bound performance against Ore
gon the last time the two teams
went at it.
“Sissell Pierce always kills us,”
Runge said. “So we’ll have to do a
good job on her.”
The Ducks also need to stifle
the Beavers’ other potential
threats, including sophomore
guard Felicia Ragland, who’s av
eraging more than 12 points per
game, and sophomore center Eric
ka Cook (formerly Brosterhous),
who was never hesitant to mix it
up with the Ducks in her fresh
After easily dispatching of St.
Martin’s 94-52 on Tuesday night,
Oregon believes it’s revved up
and ready to go in pursuit of a
conference crown.
“We feel like this team is
ready,” head coach Ernie Kent
said, “and we feel like we have
played a schedule that has gotten
us ready to play for the confer
ence.”
Smith said the Ducks’ im
provement in low-post produc
tion, largely because of junior
college transfers Julius Hicks and
Bryan Bracey, should help Ore
gon’s fate.
“We’ve done a little better job
scoring on the inside, which is
something we haven’t done
maybe in the last couple years,”
Smith said. “And I think that’ll
open it up for our guards because
our guards really are the strength
of our team and probably are, I
would say, the best group of
guards in the conference.”
Hicks, however, is battling
mononucleosis, and junior guard
David Jackson is sidelined at
least a couple more weeks after
undergoing arthroscopic knee
surgery.
man season.
For Oregon, Williams is leading
the way offensively, putting up
17.3 points per game. Junior for
wards Angelina Wolvert and Bri
anne Meharry are also averaging
double figures.
The Ducks will need to contin
ue trying to spread offensive pro
duction around, especially as
teams begin to key their defenses
to stop Williams.
“We haven’t done the best job
of that in the past 12 games,” jun
ior guard/ forward Lindsey Dion
said. “Now we have no choice if
we don’t do it now, then we’re not
gonna go anywhere. We need to
have the ball in [Williams’] hands,
but we need to spread it around
too.”