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Bellotti safe at UO
THE HOME
STRETCH
ROBBIE McCALLUM
As head football coaches around
the Pacific-10 Conference are canned
left and right, Oregon head coach
Mike Bellotti finds himself in one of
the safest positions in the conference.
The week following the end of reg
ular season play has not been a good
one for many Pac-10 coaches. Three
head coaches were fired or driven out
following the 2000 season. Arizona
State’s Bruce Snyder was fired three
weeks ago while the Sun Devils pre
pared for rival Arizona, another team
looking for a new head coach. Long
time Wildcat head coach Dick Tomey
resigned last week following a loss to
Arizona State and lame-duck Snyder.
On Monday, Southern California
announced that head coach Paul
Hackett would be relieved of his
coaching duties, much to the enjoy
ment of tire webmasters of
www.FirePaulHackett.com. (I’m not
making this up. This is an actual Web
site.)
Many in the media and on the
sports chat shows predicted the fir
ings weeks ago. All three teams had
mediocre seasons, which looked to be
do-or-die years for the three coaches.
It just goes to show that a Pac-10
coaching seat is a shaky one—except
at Oregon.
Bellotti has seen nothing but suc
cess in his tenure at Oregon. In six sea
sons at the Ducks’ helm, Bellotti has
compiled a 48-22 record and .686
winning percentage. Oregon teams
have also enjoyed five bowl games
and winning records in each of these
seasons.
Bellotti has also done what no other
coach in school history has done —
guide the Ducks to three straight post
season berths. His winning records
have moved him to third on the Ore
gon all-time win list behind only Rich
Brooks and Len Casanova. What’s
more impressive is that both coaches
spent more than 16 years at Oregon,
while Bellotti has been here only six
years. Bellotti has won with Rich
Brooks’ recruits, watched them grad
uate, and then won with his own re
cruits. And he did it more effectively
than the inconsistent Brooks, who
coached several 2-9 teams to go along
with his 8-4 squads.
The closest Bellotti has come to
failure is a 6-5 campaign in 1996 that
saw no bowl game.
It seems that Bellotti has truly
found the recipe for success at Ore
gon. And that recipe is this:
1. Cultivate a young quarterback,
recruiting every two years, and have
him wait in the wings until he is given
the starting nod in his junior year
(Tony Graziani, Ryan Perry-Smith
and Joey Harrington, for example).
2. Complement the quarterback
with a junior college running back
(Saladin McCullough, Reuben
Droughns, Maurice Morris). Those
three backs in particular were quick
to learn the Bellotti system and made
an immediate impact on the Oregon
win column and the school record
book.
3. Protect offensive weapons with
a scrappy but effective front line. The
Oregon offensive and defensive lines
have taken criticism and their fare
share of injuries through the years, but "tI
the bottom line is that they have got
ten the job done. Standouts over the
years include Tasi Malepea, Caleb
Smith and Saul Patu.
4. Punish offenders with stingy de
fense (remember Gang Green?) Sup
port a scrappy front line with a thiev
ing secondary (Kenny Wheaton,
Reggie Jordan, Rashad Bauman and
Michael Fletcher, to name a few).
Bellotti and his staff have shown
the ability to achieve success by plug
ging in one player after another. Lose a
quarterback to graduation, put in a
sophomore. Lose a back to the NFL
draft, entice another JC star.
With the tradition that Bellotti has
built at Oregon, it looks as if we will
see no drop-off in talented recruits. In
the future, look to see even more suc
cess in Oregon football with Bellotti
at the helm.
If Bellotti is to leave Eugene, it will
be via the NFL, not the Pac-10 hotseat.
Robbie McCallum is a sports reporter for the
Emerald. He can be reached at
coach_robbie@lycos.com.
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