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Bellotti still strong
in ninth season
with UO program
Head coach Mike Bellotti
leads Oregon into Autzen
against the team's toughest
home opponent of his tenure
By Mindi Rice
Senior Sports Reporter
It's only fitting that a game against
No. 3 Michigan at Autzen Stadium
— one of the biggest games of Mike
Bellotti's tenure — is also the 100th
game with the head coach at Ore
gon's helm.
Only Duck legends Len Casanova
and Rich Brooks have coached more
games at Oregon than Bellotti.
Casanova did it from 1951-66 and
amassed 163 games, while Brooks to
taled 204 from 1977-94.
"It's another game for me and I
guess it's my 100th game here as a
coach," Bellotti said. "That may mean
as much to me as anything."
It means a lot to the players and the
fans, too.
Bellotti, in his ninth season as head
coach at Oregon, is in a conference
where coaches turn over more often
than pancakes on a griddle.
On the other side of lauded foot
ball legend, Penn State's Joe Paterno
and Florida State's Bobby Bowden
— nationally revered coaches who
have both topped 330 wins with
their current programs — are closing
in on retirement.
But in Eugene, the Bellotti era is go
ing strong.
The UC Davis graduate took over
the program Feb. 13, 1995, one
month removed from a Rose Bowl ap
pearance and Oregon's first undisput
ed Pacific-10 Conference title in
school history.
It hasn't been all smooth sailing for
Bellotti's Ducks since then — a 6-5,
no bowl-game season in 1996 and
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the 2002 spiral to 7-6 — but the high
light films take up more space in the
proverbial closet.
For starters, there's the 23-game
Autzen winning streak that stretched
from Oct. 18, 1997 to Sept. 22,2001.
The 2001 season also marked the
first 11-win season in the history of
Oregon and the Ducks finished with
an all-time top ranking of No. 2 in
the Associated Press and ESPN/LISA
Today polls.
"I think if you look back at what
they've done, what Mike Bellotti has
done, they've established that pro
gram as a consistently ranked team,"
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr said.
Bellotti has led Oregon to seven
bowl games in his eight seasons, in
cluding six consecutive appearances.
Factor in victories in four of those
bowl games — the Fiesta Bowl, Holi
day Bowl, Sun Bowl and Las Vegas
Bowl — and Bellotti's teams have
more postseason wins than under any
other Oregon coach.
"He's a great coach," outside line
backer Anthony Trucks said. 'Tie's a
very smart man and he's created a his
tory for this program."
Bellotti has the best career win
ning percentage — 70.7 — at Ore
gon since C.W. Spears coached 19
games from 1930-31 and had a 73.6
winning percentage. Spears has the
best winning percentage of any
coach who led the Ducks for more
than one season.
Starting in the 1996 season and
continuing on through 2001, Bellot
ti's teams moved steadily up the win
column. The 1996 squad had a 6-5
record, and each consecutive team
added one victory until the 2001
squad made it 11-1.
His old job of offensive coordina
tor, which he held at Oregon from
1989-1994 during Brooks' tenure,
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