Volleyball coach should follow players out the door
The way I look at this Oregon vol
leyball team is kind of like the way a
child looks at a Van Gogh.
“Mommy, I could paint a better
picture than that.”
Mr. Moos, I could coach this Ore
gon volleyball team better than that.
It’s time for volleyball coach Carl
Ferreira to pull a Van Gogh and cut
the proverbial ear off his program.
It’s time for Ferreira to quit. Or
be fired.
The fact that he hasn’t yet been
axed is a small miracle in itself. Five
players left or were released from his
program for various, undisclosed
reasons last week. Four were juniors.
I
One was a soph
omore. Fer
reira’s team will
look like an
anorexic teenag
er next season
with all the play
ers he’s lost.
And yet Fer
reira, presum
ably, will still
roam the side
lines. He es
caped the ugly
situation with a
slap on the back of the head—a “cou
ple weeks away” from the program, in
Hockaday
Two minutes for
crosschecking
his words. The athletic department
may as well have told him to sit in the
comer of Athletic Director Moos’ office
and take a 15-minute “time out.”
But that’s partly our fault in the me
dia. It took us here at the Emerald a
while to break the story, and The Regis
ter-Guard, preoccupied with a felon
football recruit, didn’t publish a story
on the volleyball walkout until today.
That’s a shame. This is a big story,
and it illuminates the local media’s bias
toward football and basketball.
But it’s partly the fault of our read
ers. Five players walk out on the vol
leyball program, and there are no let
ters to any editors, no outraged
response, no thirst for more informa
tion on the part of our readership.
As a student at this university, don’t
you have a right to know what’s going
on with your athletic department?
Don’t you want to know?
Five players have left the Oregon
volleyball team, and, personally, I
want to know why. For that matter, I
also want to know why Shaquala
Williams was kicked off the women’s
basketball team. And why Roderkus
Wright was suspended from the foot
ball team in the fall.
I’m not going to pretend that we
have professional teams here at Ore
gon, so I’ll avoid the “he or she chose
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the life of a superstar athlete, so he or
she chose to have their lives exam
ined” routine. If these athletes left
their teams for reasons too personal to
disclose, that’s fine. Tell us that. Or let
the athlete tell us that.
But sometimes, I get the eerie sensa
tion that the athletic department isn’t
covering up for the athletes’ sake, it’s
covering up for itself. The department
guards its reputation like a momma
bear protects its cubs.
As a student or supporter of the pro
gram, this should outrage you. It out
rages me. These aren’t pro teams.
They’re your teams. For once in your
life, you will be direcdy connected to
the athletes you support. You sit next
to the athletes in class.
Don’t you have a right to know
what’s going on with a team that, in a
sense, you own?
I think you do.
And I think this comes back to the
issue at hand, the volleyball team and
Carl Ferreira. It’s time for the students
to care, to be loud like only the Pit
Grew can.
Fire Ferreira.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
His views do not necessarily represent
those of the Emerald.
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