Season
continued from page 9
and the first half of their game
against Arizona State, the Ducks
gave up 112 points. In the second
half of the Arizona State game and
the remaining six games, Oregon al
lowed 250 points.
The offensive numbers? In the
first half of the season, the Ducks
scored 246 points, in the second
half they scored 155.
Oregon’s first-half offense versus
its second-half defense would be a
great game.
For the Ducks, there is nothing left
to do but look to next year. The Ducks
lose two key players, one on offense
and one on defense. David Moretti,
the team’s leading tackier, will be
gone. Keenan Howry, Oregon’s all
time leader in receptions, will be gpne.
“Of all the seniors, he’s the one I’ll
probably miss the most,” Bellotti
said of Howry.
Onterrio Smith, who rushed for
more than 1,000 yards despite miss
ing most of the second half of the
season with a knee injury, might still
leave Oregon early for the greener
pastures of the professional game.
Junior tight end George Wrighster
and junior wide receiver Samie
Parker may also make the leap. An
announcement by Bellotti on all
those players is expected soon.
But if all those underclassmen
stay for next year, the losses will be
nothing like last season, when six
Ducks went in the NFL Draft, start
ing at the top with Joey Harrington.
Harrington’s departure left a void
in the normally-rich quarterback
position, a void Fife failed to fill this
year. Bellotti said the quarterback
job will once again be open when
the Ducks start spring practice.
“We’ll go into the spring with a
practice order, and they’ll compete
for the job,” Bellotti said.
Howry said he thinks Clemens
will win the job.
“(Clemens) came out and put
some good drives together,” Howry
said after the Seattle Bowl. “He was
throwing some good balls, so that’s
pretty much where it is.”
Bellotti said every position on the
team will be open for next year. On
offense, the Ducks will still have a
talented receiver in Keith Allen, and
an offensive line that only loses
Corey Chambers and Phil Finzer.
On defense, fearsome linebacker
Kevin Mitchell returns, and the young
stars of the defensive line, Haloti Ngata
and Igor Olshansky, will also be back.
And a secondary that took a lot of
deep balls this season will only be old
er and wiser, from experience alone.
“We need to get better, and the
only way to get better is to work
hard and compete,” Bellotti said.
In the end, as the Ducks finished
the season with an almighty col
lapse in the Seattle Bowl, the words
of Bellotti rang true.
“Optimistically, we had hoped
that we had remedied (the prob
lems) during our bowl game prac
tices,” Bellotti said after the game.
“But the reality is the same prob
lems we had in the second half of
the season were there tonight.”
The Ducks can only hope those
problems don’t stick around for next
season, too.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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freshman Haloti Ngata, the Ducks
have one of the best tackle combos
in the conference.
With spring practices three
months away, Oregon head coach
Mike Bellotti has declared that every
position on the team is open.
“We just have to learn from it and
get on with it,” Bellotti said. “We
have to help ourselves in recruiting,
and work in the weight room and on
our speed to be a better defense.”
Just forgive and forget— if it were
only that easy. But that’s all the
Duck ‘D’ can do.
“Oregon’s got a great program,”
Moretti said. “We have some young
guys, and we had some problems
this year. But we have a great coach
ing staff and some great kids.
“I wouldn’t be surprised to see
this team back on top again next
year.”
Contact the senior sports reporter
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
Rice
continued from page 9
lost cause until the fumble-that-was
n’t, and suddenly Duck fans had to
face the facts.
The season was over. There
would be no bowl game win.
A loss in the who-wants-a-Seattle
Bowl is worse than not going to a
bowl at all.
Maybe Duck fans should start
blaming Mandrake. He made his de
but before Oregon’s second loss of
the season, but couldn’t be bothered
to follow our fuzzy-tailed original
mascot to Seattle for the bowl game.
If nothing else, Mandrake and his
padded rear might have helped the
Ducks have a softer landing from
their hard fall to reality.
It would have kept the Huskies
occupied for another quarter or two,
at least.
For the Ducks, the Seattle Bowl
was this season’s last-ditch effort to
prove that Joey Harrington and the
players who left with him weren’t
the end of the mighty Oregon Ducks
football program. They may not
have been the end, but they certain
ly took something with them when
they left.
Any questions?
For fans, there are only two
questions.
Is the massacre over yet?
And can we have a promise of no
more Seattle Bowls?
Yes as an answer to both ques
tions would be much appreciated.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer for the
Emerald. Her views do not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald.
Adam Amato Emerald
Keenan Howry leaves Oregon as the Ducks'all-time leader in receptions, punt return
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