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Then came the e-mails. “Coach, I just wanted you to know that Bryan Bracey has been clearly holding his own in Chicago in a talented league that includes many pro players.” “Coach, the two Lukes (Jackson and Ridnour) were real impressive in helping their high school All-Star team beat some talented foreign teams down at the Global Games in Dallas, Texas.” “And coach, Freddie Jones just scored 82 points in a summer Pro Am game up in Portland. ” All Oregon men’s basketball head coach Ernie Kent had to do was sim ply sit in his office and he would hear of all the hard work and dedi cation his returnees and new re cruits were putting in over the sum mer. “Man, from what I’ve been hear ing, everyone really went after it and has themselves ready for the upcoming season,” said Kent, who also stressed not to make too big a deal out of Jones’ scoring totals as it was just a summer league game and you never can tell what type of de fense he was playing against. Kent specifically wanted to men tion the names of sophomore guard Anthony Norwood, senior guard David Jackson and senior centers Flo Hartenstein and Julius Hicks. Hartenstein had some aches and pains last year, but is healthy again and Hicks has fully recovered from the mononucleosis that sidelined him for a few games last year. Kent did say that Jackson is still recuper ating from his banged-up knees, but that he is looking forward to even tually seeing him out there at full strength. “I thought we had a very positive summer,” Kent said. But the biggest story of the sum Emerald Senior forward Bryan Bracey will help coach Ernie Kent lead the Ducks to Pac-10 glory. mer was not the accolades of the team, but rather the news tljat the coach could be leaving his alma mater. On the night of July 11, the news leaked that Kent was Notre Dame’s No. 1 candidate to fill the Fighting Irish’s head coaching vacancy. For the next 30 hours after the story broke, there were new rumors and updates on the hour on many na tionally acclaimed sports Web sites. Kent flew to Washington, D.C., and interviewed with Notre Dame athletic director Kevin White on July 12, and the word on the street was that he was gone — poised to become the first African-American coach in Notre Dame history. But that night, Kent confirmed what most people in the Eugene area hoped: That his love and desire for Oregon hoops was just too strong to leave, and the program that he had going here was equal, if not bet ter than Notre Dame’s. “It was really a compliment to all of us here at Oregon to attract atten tion from a school of that stature,” Kent said. “When you look at the entire program, you realize that we’re definitely on the up and up and that atmosphere that the stu dent body makes in The Pit is a big reason why.” Jackson, the 6-7 forward from Creswell High, admitted that half the reason he chose Oregon was be cause of Kent and he said that he wasn’t really sure what he would have done had Kent left. 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