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Autzen
continued from page 2
2001 highlight video on the Duck
Vision giant screen.
If that doesn’t get the average
Ducks’ blood boiling for football,
nothing will.
“It’s been going up all summer,
and now it’s done, and we’re definite
ly very excited to get in there and
see how it feels, see all the extra peo
ple,” fullback Matt Floberg said.
Those extra people will be excited
about some new amenities inside the
stadium. The main concourse, under
neath the expansion itself, has a
plethora of eating options, including
“Mike Bellotti’s Barbecue” and others.
The Oregon Bookstore will have a
shop set up so fans don’t need to make
the trek to the Duck Shop in the back
of the Moshofsky Center. There are in
formation booths and increased First
Aid stations. Perhaps most important
ly, the number and quality of bath
rooms increased significandy.
With new amenities come new
rules. Some of the new seats were
added closer to the field, not above the
"We're definitely very
excited to get in there
and see how it feels "
MattFloberg
Duck fullback
rim of the bowl, and so there is even
less space on the sidelines this year.
That means there won’t be any
standing-room spaces on the field,
and the public won’t be allowed on
the field until five minutes after
game’s end. There are also new,
discreetly placed planting boxes in
between the visitor’s sideline and
the stands.
There are other small touches
that fans will notice at Autzen. Each
gate has a skyward-pointing wooden
structure, each made with wooden
beams that were salvaged from the
old press-box overhang. The south
gate, the new student entrance, was
renovated to look like the north gate,
complete with ticket booth.
The final new amenity to Autzen
is on the field itself. The Ducks
ripped up the old NexTurf, which
caused slipping problems last sea
son, and replaced it with FieldTurf, a
surface that plays more like grass.
Now all that remains is for the
Ducks to go out and play.
. “I hope and I believe we will do
justice to it,” Bellotti said.
In the new stadium, “doing it jus
tice” could mean simply staring at
the structure, soaking it all in.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Jude
continued from page 2
For #50,000, Moos put the Ore
gon Ducks in the living room of
thousands of homes in New York
and across the country on satellite.
Even if it is at 2 a.m. on Sunday,
Oregon will have its games replayed
on the Yankees’ broadcasting net
work. More importantly, he showed
he means business, literally.
Forget the fact that New York is
3,000 miles away and that most
New Yorkers probably hadn’t
heard of Oregon football until they
saw Joey staring down on them.
Forget that the game is at 2 a.m. It
doesn’t matter.
Now the commercial capital of
the world is practically being force
fed green and yellow. They’ll have to
take notice soon enough, especially
with the national media attention
Moos is getting for such innovation.
But $50,000? True, it’s more than
most University professors probably
make in a year — and at some
point, the spending on both sides of
the Willamette River will have to be
balanced — but it’s next to nothing
in the money-rich world of sports.
Considering Moos has spent $140
million on facilities alone in his
eight years in Eugene, $50,000
seems like tissue paper.
Moos has got it, and this is appar
ently what the donors want, so why
not spend it?
The check may have already
been written for the Yankees, but
the Ducks’ campaigning may still
cost them — on the field. With the
money-driven exposure comes
great pressure. A few extra viewers
may not affect the football team, but
the Ducks will have a target on their
backs from now on.
The Ducks used to relish the role
of underdog and the unknown, but
that’s not the case anymore. Moos
may like the attention, but you can
be sure the USG Trojans will be
ready to grind out another game this
year, considering the Oregon bill
board that lies just off their campus.
Everyone else will be gunnin’ for
them, too.
Fifty-thousand dollars won’t get
the Ducks out of a seven-point
deficit late in a game or put them in
the national championship game.
They still have to play football.
It doesn’t matter, anyway. It’s just
pocket change.
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
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