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"Character (drove Oregon) and just
believing in it and not giving in to ad
versity," senior Steven Moore said.
"That's what the biggest success of our
season was, to overcome all those things
that we went through."
Oregon started out strong, winning
its first four games against Mississippi
State, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan.
Consecutive losses to Washington State,
Utah and Arizona State looked to doom
Oregon to the bottom of the Pacific-10
Conference
A shutout of Stanford seemed like a
step in the right direction, but a blowout
loss to Washington in Seattle a week lat
er left the Ducks at 5-4 and in dire straits.
That was not to be.
"Overall, I think this was a very posi
tive season," Oregon head coach Mike
Bellotti said. "1 think that the kids put a
positive spin on it with the way they
turned the season around. (The Sun
Bowl) was probably as exciting as any
and will go down in history."
In keeping with tradition, the 8-5 sea
son may provide the same kind of boost
the 1998 season did. A year before that,
the Ducks had finished 7-5.
Bellotti led Oregon to an 8-4 record
in 1998, then nine wins in 1999, 10 in
2000 and ended with 11 in 2001.
Can nine wins or better be expected
in 2004?
Maybe. The ingredients are there.
"We're young," Moore said. "Each
year, people get better. It's scary be
cause we're still in kind of a new sys
tem on defense. We're going to get
better with that system.
"Speed-wise, we're going to be faster,
stronger. We're young. This was a good
year for the young guys to get it under
their belt and see how college football
is. Next year is going to be a whole lot
better year for us."
After the Sun Bowl loss, a number
of Ducks said that they are looking
forward to next season, when Oregon
expects to get a key number of con
tributors back. On offense, that in
cludes a starting quarterback in Kellen
Clemens, a backfield with Terrence
Whitehead and Dante Rosario, a tight
end in Tim Day, a wide receiver in
Demetrius Williams and four-fifths of
its offensive line.
Clemens had a career season in 2003,
passing for 2,400 yards and completing
18 touchdown passes with just nine in
terceptions. He split time with Jason Fife
for most of the season, but once he took
over full-time, he threw for eight touch
down passes in his final three games —
wins over UCLA and Oregon State and
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Mike Bellotti has gone 44 in bowl games during his tenure at Oregon.
the loss to Minnesota.
"1 think Kellen did a very nice job
(against Minnesota)," Bellotti said.
"I think he can even play better. I
have high hopes and will raise the
bar for Kellen."
On defense, Haloti Ngata will re
turn to bolster one of the nation's
strongest lines. If Igor Olshansky de
cides against the NFL, he will return
along with Devan Long.
Jerry Matson is Oregon's lone return
ing starting linebacker, and Moore and
Justin Phinisee should be back as start
ing comerbacks.
"I always have faith in my Ducks,"
senior Quinn Dorsey said after the
game. "If you ask me, every year we're
going to win a national championship
and I believe in my players like that. I say
that with total conviction.
"As long as they keep their heads on
straight and work hard in the offseason,
they'll be contenders next year."
Dorsey pointed out long, Ngata and
defensive tackle MattToeaina as players
to watch next season.
"We've got a lot of good players on
that defensive line," Dorsey said.
"Robby Valenzuela is coming back;
he's awesome."
The Ducks will miss playing USC for
the second straight season next year.
Oregon will open up its season with In
diana on Sept. 11 at Autzen Stadium,
then play at Nevada and at home
against Idaho in consecutive weeks be
fore opening Pacific-10 Conference play
against Arizona State on Oct 2.
Until then, the Ducks will open
spring practices in early April, followed
by the annual spring game in May.
Four months later, they'll do it all
over again.
Contact the sports editor
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
FINAL OREGON STATISTICAL LEADERS
Rushing Att. Gain Loss Net Avg/G
Whitehead, T. 192 796 59 737 61.4
Fife, Jason 42 282 57 225 17.3
Washington, K. 39 189 15 174 13.4
Shaw, Ryan 42 182 13 169 13.0
Passing Att-Cmp. Pet. Yds. TD Avg/G
Clemens, Kellen 304-182 59.9 2,400 18 184.6
Fife, Jason 120-64 53.3 879 6 67.6
No. Yds. Avg. TD Long Avg/G
77 1,088 14.1 7 55 83.7
51 935 18.3 8 86 71.9
Receiving
Parker, Samie
Williams, D.
Receiving No. Yds. Avg. TD Long Avg/G
Whitehead, T. 28 253 9.0 1 46 21.1
Day, Tim 23 318 13.8 3 31 24.5
Taylor, Kellen 16 158 9.9 0 20 19.8
Rosario, Dante 12 131 10.9 2 21 10.1
Defense Tackles TFL/Yds Sacks/Yds Int.
Mitchell, Kevin 112 6.5-20 2.0-11 1
Lewis, Keith 86 2.0-5 0 3
Matson, Jerry 81 14.5-52 1.0-8 1
Phinisee, Justin 59 5.0-17 2.5-13 2
Olshansky, Igor 58 15.0-71 6.5-50 0
Tucker, Marley 56 3.0-10 2.0-24 0
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