Jones: Dark side wins, but
school spirit stays intact
Continued from page 3B
many statistical categories. Unfortu
nately for the Ducks, they also allowed
him to throw for three touchdowns.
Against the second-best pass de
fense in the conference, USC, Rodgers
had one of the best passing days in
Pac-10 history. He completed his first
23 passes of the game (and stole the
Pac-10 Player of the Week away from
Kellen Clemens’ six-touchdown per
formance against Washington State)
on his way to going 29 of 31 for 267
yards and a touchdown.
The Ducks just don’t have the conti
nuity and the schemes to shut down
this Cal team.
They will play well against the Gold
en Bears, much like against Oklahoma,
but the game will have the same result
— an Oregon loss.
Unfortunately, the other side of my
brain (the I-still-have-school-pride
and-am-optimistic side) has been over
whelmed by the pure statistics and
overall dominance of the Golden
Bears. The “dark side” of my mind has
won this argument.
But the other side of the mind is
content with the fact that Oregon’s sea
son isn’t lost if it loses.
It hopes.
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Siegel: Kicker his own worst critic
on a bad day, teammates say
Continued from page 3B
Recruitment of a kicker
Coming out of high school, Siegel
was recruited by many schools, but
kickers aren’t high on the priority list.
“Everyone’s looking at you,” Siegel
said. “As a program slowly evaluates
their needs they don’t want to burn
any bridges, but kickers, regardless of
how good you are, are never at the top
of the list.”
Oregon piqued his interest because
the program was heading in the right
direction and supported its athletes on
and off the field. But the Eugene area
also brought Siegel to town.
“I saw the Eugene area being a
good fit for me,” Siegel said. “It was
somewhere I could be happy because
more than football, more than class,
that’s where you’re going to live for
the next four or five years. ”
Oregon career
Siegel started his career on a team
that went to the Fiesta Bowl and fin
ished second in the nation. That’s
pretty big for an 18-year-old freshman.
“It was something I think you al
most take for granted because it is just
so overwhelming,” Siegel said. “I was
spoiled my freshman year, even my
sophomore year, because we started
6-0 and thought we were on our way
to the national championship. ”
They wouldn’t go to the national
championship, but Siegel would be
named a first-team All-Pac-10 player
his sophomore year when he made 49
of 50 extra points and 20 of 24 field
goals, including a 59-yard field goal
against UCLA.
He would statistically slump his
junior year, but that was probably due
to a slumping offense in 2003.
Freshman kicker Luke Bellotti said
anytime Siegel misses a kick, Siegel
himself is his worst critic.
“If he has a bad day, nobody will be
harder on Jared than himself,” Bellotti
said. “But he is always excited to go
back out there.”
Now in his senior season, Siegel
has accomplished a lot, not only on
the field, but off the field as well. He
has finished his undergraduate degree
in business and is currently working
on his MBA. He plans to finish the lat
ter degree in the fall of 2005.
He even got married last June.
“Coming in as a freshman I saw a
couple of the guys on the team mar
ried ... I never pictured myself being
one of those guys,” Siegel said. “I
guess times changed and I grew up.”
But Siegel said any football plans
past Oregon would be a plus.
“I’m going to stay in shape and
hope I get lucky and get an opportuni
ty to kick,” Siegel said. “But I’m not
going to chase a dream forever.
“It will be weird (not playing foot
ball) though, because football has
been part of my identity. ”
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Preview: Bears intimidate with ground game
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receiving yardage this season, passing
former Golden Bear Bobby Shaw.
McArthur now has 2,802 yards to go
along with his 177 career receptions.
Despite Cal’s ability to move the
ball through the air, the Golden Bears
have done most of their damage on
the ground.
Senior running back J.J. Arrington
leads the Pac-10 in rushing yards
with 1,106 and rushing touchdowns
with 11.
Oregon middle linebacker Jerry
Matson said limiting Arrington’s pro
duction on first down will be the key
to a Duck victory.
“If you control first down by stop
ping the run, you can do a lot of
things on second down and third
down that make it easier to get off
r
the field,” Matson said. “If you give
up five (yards) on first down, it’s
kind of like you’re playing Yahtzee;
you’re rolling the dice. ”
Tedford said his team will have to
be versatile on offense as he expects
Oregon to focus on stopping the run.
“We’re going to have to be di
verse,” Tedford said. “We’re going to
have to be balanced. There’s not one
phase we’re going to be able to rely
on. We’re going to continue giving it
a shot running the ball, but we’re go
ing to have to mix it up.”
Defensively, Cal has been equally
as tough. The Golden Bears are al
lowing only 12.3 points per game
and are ranked seventh in the nation
against the run (91.6 ypg).
Oregon has the weapons to crack
the Cal defense, however. Quarter
back Kellen Clemens enters Saturday
as the Pac-lO’s leader in total offense,
averaging more than 271 yards per
game. Running back Terrence White
head is third in the conference with
819 rushing yards and ranks eighth in
receptions with 34 for 310 yards.
Clemens said the Oregon offense
will have its hands full against a Cal
defense that hasn’t allowed a point
during its last two games.
“They’ve got everything."
Clemens said. “They’ve got speed in
the secondary, they’re very aggres
sive, and when it gets to the point
where you’re leading the Pac-10 in
defense, they’re struggling to keep
you from getting every single yard
that they can.”
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