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Adam Amato Photo Editor Redshirt senior Matt Floberg said his favorite aspect of football is the relationships within the team. Floberg will graduate after fall term. A note on how this works: The pickers (the sports staff and the editor in chief) choose teams against the Las Vegas spread, meaning that if the picker chooses the favored team, that team would have to beat the spread - win by more points than the spread - for the picker to ‘win’ the pick. Jesse Jon Scott Brad Thomas Roetman Archer Schmidt (12-16) (12-16) (15-13) (9-19) Oregon @ Washington (2) _ WASHINGTON OREGON OREGON OREGON WASHINGTON OREGON Arizona @ Oregon State (22) ARIZONA ARIZONA OSU OSU » OSU ARIZONA PAC-10 PICKS (Spread in parentheses next to favored team) Hank Mindi Hager Rice (13-15) (14-14) CAL UCLA use MICHIGAN OKLA. ST. CaIifornia@ArizonaState(EV£N) CAL CAL CAL CAL UCLA (5.5) @ Stanford UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA Washington State @ USC (n.s> WSU USC WSU USC m Michigan (4) @ Michigan State Oklahoma State @ Oklahoma (i«) OKLA. ST. OKLAHOMA OKLA. ST. CAL UCLA WSU MICH. ST. MICH. ST. MICH. ST. MICHIGAN MICHIGAN OKLA. ST. FLOBERG continued from page 3B lineman, I work in the trenches. I feel like I've always been one to do that dirty work that nobody else wants to do — play the role that doesn't nec essarily get all the attention, but it's important to the team. “That's OK with me. I don't care about the attention — I enjoy playing for my team, and my role is to block and I'll gladly accept that. That's what I enjoy doing." Floberg's love of football is from the camaraderie as much as the sport itself. "Relationships on the team is probably what I enjoy most," Floberg said. "That sense of connection you have with one another that comes from not only being friends but sac rificing together and working hard together." As a senior in high school, Floberg was on a Jesuit team that finished 12 1 in the state 4A semifinals. He was named Oregon's 4A Defensive Player of the Year by The Oregonian and ranked as the top fullback in the Northwest by Superprep Magazine. "My senior year, we were a very close group," Floberg said. "Every body on the team was good friends. We all hung out together. That was the best part. We were pretty success ful just because we were so close." Floberg gets that same family feel ing with his Duck teammates and said they support each other on and off the field. His coaches and teammates con sider Floberg an integral part of the Oregon squad. "Matt brings experience, dedica tion and leadership," head coach Mike Bellotti said. "He's a solid blocker inside. Just his experience and calm demeanor are very impor tant to us." The redshirt senior is spending his final season enjoying every game. He was injured for Michigan and unable to play, but said it was a close second to the 2001 Fiesta Bowl as his favorite game as a Duck. "After each game this year, espe cially the Pac-10 games, I think 'that's the last time I'll play Washington State or play Arizona again' or 'I'll never play Stanford again," Floberg said. "I've been here a long time, so it's kind of weird to think that this is my last opportunity." After fall term and football season conclude, Floberg will be an Oregon graduate. He wants to travel overseas and spend some time in Europe, joining his college-age brother who will be studying in Prague. "Being a student athlete, I was here in the summer, so I never really had a chance to travel," Floberg said. "Af ter that I plan on coming back to Portland and starting my career — start being a working man, I guess." In between the traveling and work, chances are there will be two con stants: movies and Jerry Seinfeld. "I'm kind of a movie buff," Floberg said. "I've got a reputation of knowing a lot of worthless movie and Seinfeld trivia, so people joke around and try and stump me and everything." "Relationships on the team is probably what I enjoy most. That sense of connection you have with one another that comes from not only being friends but sacrificing together and working hard together." Matt Floberg Oregon senior fullback Floberg's favorite movie genres are drama — particularly organized crime movies — and straight comedy. His fa vorites include the first and second "Godfather," "Casino" and "Saving Private Ryan." "He's a huge movie buff and he loves 'Seinfeld,'" quarterback and good friend Jason Fife said. "If you just give him some trivia, he eats it up. He's just like any college kid right now. He's trying to figure out what he wants to do and prepare himself for later on in life." Floberg will graduate with a de gree in business administration, but he is unsure what he will do once he returns from Europe. "I don't exactly know what I want to do, and I think it needs a little more looking into before I decide," Floberg said. *The one thing I would be looking for is just the ability to meet a lot of people and make a lot of connections." Through those connections, he'll find a place that feels like a family. Contact the senior sports reporter at mindirice@dailyemerald.com. RESTAJDAI1T & E)AD ‘if 4 *y kind# plate!' 54L544.4I4I • 174 F tROAPWAf WWW.AIJltD05IACt5FAJRAIIT.CCII Awe^&me Lood y&ull (&V&! ...a! aoreeahle ono04 you d like! 'Try &ur <rpdghgLu ado 0&(&ar\e4e if .*?&. 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