Quack Fix: Catching up with Azzinaro, the basketball team learns from the football team, Blount reaches out
by jtlight on Oct 16, 2009 8:24 AM PDT
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Well, it's a pretty quiet Friday for the Ducks, which isn't such a bad thing, as the football team gears up for some tough games and the basketball team prepares for the season. Here is today's quack:
- SILive.com (a Staten Island news site) has a profile on Jerry Azzinaro, the Duck's new defensive line coach that has had a huge impact on the team this season. He talks a bit about his experience as a Duck and in Eugene, and it sounds positive so far. What I like the best is his relentless drive. He won't let up, and won't let his players, and we've seen the results of that drive on the field.
- The Oregon basketball teams is looking to make an impact this season, and is taking a cue from the football team. After taking many lumps last season, the Duck men's basketball team could be poised to turn things around in a big way. With confidence and consistency, this team will be greatly improved, and it will be fun to see what they can do in the Pac-10.
- LeGarrette Blount took some time this week to talk to at risk teens about not letting mistakes define who you are. What is also encouraging about this is that Blount stated that this was not part of the mandates discussed by Chip Kelly, but was actually first brought up by Will Tukuafu. It's good to see Blount pulling things together, and good to see him reaching out to help others, something the athletic department (with the Heroes program and Tsunami relief efforts) has excelled at recently.
- Ken Goe of the Oregonian isn't heaping the Ducks with praise just yet. And he joins Chip Kelly in that assessment. There are no prizes in mid-October, something Chip has been preaching to his team, and that hard work will be necessary each and every week. The Ducks have shown a great ability to overcome challenge and adversity, something they will need to get through the rest of their schedule.
As always, leave your comments below. GO DUCKS!
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Colin Cowherd...
…has our Ducks (given his prediction of a loss to USC) playing in the Fiesta Bowl vs Miami. In the broadcast, he points to the Pac-10 being a stronger conference than the Big-10 and more deserving of two teams in the BCS bowls. USC vs.OSU in the Rose and Oregon(or Iowa) vs. Maimi in the Fiesta.
I would rather have the Rose, but a game vs. Miami could be fun as well.
Its Rose or nothing
The way the polls have been rating us, if we lose the Pac-10 we aren’t going to the BCS.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
I agree, the coaches poll and thereby an extension the BCS will not give us a high enough ranking to get into a BCS without winning the Pac.
The best part is, Oregon (right now) is the only team that controls their own destiny. As Kelly would say, “it’s a one week season”
Hi, my name is Matt Daddy and I am a....
HUGE FREAKING DUCK FAN!!!!!!... "Hi Matt Daddy"
It’s waaaaay to early to make those pronouncements about the coaches poll. There’s just way to many variables in play.
On top of that, if we go 10-2, there’s a very good chance we end up in the top 10. But the BCS is not at all about who deserves to go to games, so who knows who actually goes.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
seriously?? we have doubts that the coaches poll might make a Pac 10 team a second BCS invitee??
Look at history, the polls hate the Pac 10. There is no way in hell the polls put a second team into the BCS unless it’s USC. I have no problem whatsoever making that prediction….doesn’t mean I like it.
I’ll stand by my second comment most though, Oregon needs to concern themselves with one thing and one thing only…win each week.
Hi, my name is Matt Daddy and I am a....
HUGE FREAKING DUCK FAN!!!!!!... "Hi Matt Daddy"
The Pac-10 could get a 2nd team into the BCS year, it just depends on how things shake out. Is it likely? No, but the polls will have very little say, because polls only come into play with at-large bids in very specific circumstances.
If Oregon goes 10-2, it will be eligible for an at large bid. Unfortunately, 8 of the 10 slots are going to be taken by the BCS conference auto-qualifiers and BSU and Notre Dame (who if they go 10-2 will be taken in a heartbeat if they don’t get an auto bid).
We can also pencil in the 2nd place SEC team, which will likely be Alabama or Florida. So that leaves one team left. It falls well this year because, if I read this correctly, it looks like the Fiesta Bowl will be picking 2nd to last. The Fiesta Bowl is the only way that the Pac-10 gets a 2nd team in. By the time the Fiesta Bowl chooses, it needs either the Big East champ, or BSU off the board. It will then be able to pick an at-large team. If that happens, it will likely be between Pac-10 runner up, Big 10 runner up (not looking real strong this year), and ACC runner up (which could be a one-loss Miami team that didn’t have to play an ACC championship game).
There’s gonna be a lot of competition for the last at-large spot, and the polls will likely have no say at all about who gets it. It will pretty much come down to who travels the best and who will draw the most TV exposure.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
Hey Jdudes
Quick question. When ESPN or FSN doesn’t pick up a football game, it’s broadcast locally on the Oregon Network right? What about other sports?
Do any of you know if the ORegon Network will be broadcasting the Cal vs Oregon volleyball match? FSN won’t pick up the match so I’m looking for alternatives. It’s sort of a big deal and I know many of your fans take volleyball seriously.
by danzig on Oct 16, 2009 1:52 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Unfortunately, it looks like goducks.com is only streaming the Stanford game tomorrow. BOO!
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
1) Does the Oregon Network ever pick up volleyball or is this a stupid question?
2) Do you guys even realize that you have a great team this year?
3) Can anyone name the girl in this picture? Thought so.
It depends on what you mean by Oregon Network. GoDucks.com streams quite a few of the volleyball games, though you have to be a member to watch the games. Also, I was initially wrong, and it turns out that tonight’s game will be available online. Oregon has a few TV stations throughout the state that can pick up Oregon Sports Network productions, though I don’t know if any pick up the volleyball games.
Also, I hope that Takimoto could name that player, to rid us of our shame.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
Sonja Newcombe, senior outside hitter, and my volleyball team crush.
It's spelled "T-A-K-O-T-U-E-S-D-A-Y-S-!-!-!."
I support inroywetrust in his support of The VD Special in his support of me supporting Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
Noooooo!
Actually, I’m pretty sure she knows, I was crushing on Sonja since my sophomore year, before Gabi and I met.
It's spelled "T-A-K-O-T-U-E-S-D-A-Y-S-!-!-!."
I support inroywetrust in his support of The VD Special in his support of me supporting Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
Thanks JT. I was looking for TV coverage on the Oregon Network TV channel… you know the one with the duck cheerleader reality show? Goddamn I’m so jealous.
I know the matches are streamed but the calbears.com stream is currently down (has been for the past three weeks) and yes I’m a paid sub. The only option is to subscribe to goducks.com for another $15 for this one match. Just thought I’d ask.
BTW: hahhaa…don’t worry about identifying this girl. I was just highlighting how there’s not enough interest in volleyball in general. I’ll give you a hint though… by the end of this year she’ll be the all time leading scorer in Oregon history… first team All Pac10, second team All American… was a Fab50 recruit (meaning she was one of the top 50 players out of high school) and Oregon player of year… among other things. You know, nobody that you should be concerned about. lol.
Totally out of date
She took over the career points record down in the desert last weekend.
*bump* U!
*set* of!
*SPIKE* OOOOOOOOO!
"[Louisiana] is the greatest football state in America."~Les Miles
Also, the Bayou Classic pwns whatever your I-AA does.
by AllSaintsDay on Oct 16, 2009 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I can answer your first two!
1) I’ve seen it air a volleyball match once in the last 5 years. Unless it’s online.
2) Yes. I’ve kept up on their wins/losses and how they’ve been doing, but I haven’t followed it nearly as closely as Football. I keep track of most Oregon sports performance, but Football is the only one I know intimately. (I don’t even follow basketball very much)
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-H-I-M-S-E-L-F"
You mean the one who’s second on the Pac-10 career digs list, but never made better than Honorable Mention on All Pac-10?
/misses having Katie around to dig everything (and having Sonja with a perfectly good knee)
*bump* U!
*set* of!
*SPIKE* OOOOOOOOO!
"[Louisiana] is the greatest football state in America."~Les Miles
Also, the Bayou Classic pwns whatever your I-AA does.
by AllSaintsDay on Oct 16, 2009 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Basketball scrimmage tonight....
just curious if anyone knows how long the volleyball games usually last. i want to see the scrimmage but skip the volleyball. and is there a fee to get in? thanks in advance!
If you’re a student it’s free, not sure if you aren’t. And don’t skip the volleyball game. This is a huge matchup for a really good Duck volleyball team against an equally strong Cal team. But if you really don’t wanna go, I’d expect the game to go 4 or 5 sets, so I’d say the basketball scrimmage will start at 9:30-ish.
It's spelled "T-A-K-O-T-U-E-S-D-A-Y-S-!-!-!."
I support inroywetrust in his support of The VD Special in his support of me supporting Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
Or, ya know, we could sweep them for the first time since 1990. :-)
Which has clearly made me too juiced as I’ve posted 3 volleyball comments to this post.
*bump* U!
*set* of!
*SPIKE* OOOOOOOOO!
"[Louisiana] is the greatest football state in America."~Les Miles
Also, the Bayou Classic pwns whatever your I-AA does.
by AllSaintsDay on Oct 16, 2009 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE SCORE OF THE BOISE ST GAME????
19-8…………THATS A 11 POINT LOSS= NOT A BLOW OUT!!!!!!!!
COME ON PEOPLE, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where did that come from?
Addicted To Quack [dot] com; Six-hundred and ninety-four yards of total offense.
The bowels of hell
A much needed bye week; and two whole weeks to focus the inner hatred of UW even moreso than normal.
Locker...Welcome to my profile, You will be formally introduced by Juju at a later date, 10/23 to be more specific!
week1
its been boiling up inside since the 1st week. I guess i finally burst.
HOOK ’EM HORNS!!!
Excellent timing for
Where the Wild Things Are
style responses.
by Bill Musgrave on Oct 17, 2009 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
And the emmy goes to.........
where the wild things are for creepiest movie
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