Quack Fix: Baseball wins another series, spring game a success for team and troops
by jtlight on May 3, 2010 7:20 AM PDT
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- Oregon baseball won another series this weekend, this time beating WSU, giving Oregon its 30th win, and moving the Ducks into a tie for third in the conference. The Ducks blew a winnable game on Friday night, when they gave up an unearned run in the top of the ninth to lose 3-2. But they came back with a vengeance, winning the next two games by a combined score of 12-1. This effort was led by Justin LaTempa's one-hitter on Saturday night in a 6-0 win, and the only hit he gave up was a bloop double that landed on the right field line. The dominance continued into Sunday, as the Ducks got a couple of big hits in the 4th to win it 6-1. But it doesn't get any easier for the Ducks as they go on the road this weekend to struggling Oregon State.
- The Oregon spring game seemed to be a roaring success as Oregon essentially had a two hour infomercial for the football team on Satruday, and Oregon was able to give back during the process, honoring the troops multiple times throughout the game. The big on-the-field story of the day was the play of the QBs. Both Nate Costa and Darron Thomas looked very good at times, and not so good at others. Neither QB gained an edge in a battle that will likely go all the way into late August. But no matter who is chosen, the coaching staff is optimistic about the passing game, which is already ahead of where the Ducks were last season, according to offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich.
- Ken Woody has some thoughts on the spring game, and says that the Ducks aren't quite a top 10 team. One area he praises is the QBs under the leadership of Scott Frost. According to Woody, "the Duck’s receivers no longer appear to be a group of lackadaisical slackers, catching or blocking." However, Woody is still concerned about the physicality of the defense. The speed was on full display during the game, but the middle of the defense could be a bit soft unless a lineman can demand a double team at all times.
- Looking to get to know Dana Altman? Well, George Schroeder and John Hunt can help you out. Both filed stories on the new Ducks coach over the weekend. Schroeder takes a look at Altman's career up to this point, and how he got into basketball coaching. Meanwhile, John Hunt has a piece on why Altman took the job in Eugene, his basketball style, and his competitive spirit. While much of the praise for Altman could be dismissed as spin after the tumultuous coaching search, Altman has nothing by respect from the coaching community. He brings a competitive fire that may not have been prevalent in the basketball team the last couple seasons. Everything I read about coach Altman gets me more excited for next season. Excited for basketball? What a weird feeling.
- Altman's first test will come in recruiting, where he has a lot to do over the next couple weeks. But recent Oregon visitor PG Jon Lloyd will be announcing his college choice today. And Oregon is also going after Xavier Munford, a guard out of Pennsylvania.
Got any other quack? Leave it below. GO DUCKS!
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Altman’s first test will come in recruiting
And he seems to be doing everything he can to get a passing grade. Lloyd, Polee, Munford and now this JC transfer. It looks like Altman is working his arse off to get a decent class in this year.
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Woody...
commented on the Thomas interception, saying it was the kind of play that loses games. In a game, that was a sack. Thomas looked good. That mistake was big, but from my seat on the couch it was obvious he was sacked in a real game. I was impressed though by both he and Costa. Unfortunately, I’m moving to Mexico at the end of September, so I won’t be watching much of the Ducks come fall.
Icey
Sure, in a game that was a sack, but that doesn’t change the fact that Thomas was under pressure and made a poor decision. I very much doubt that his thought process was, “Oh well, that would have been a sack, so this is basically a free play.” Woody is right – that kind of a decision can cost you a close game.
After that play, Thomas looked pretty good, though. It seemed like he wasn’t using the whole playbook (a lot of his throws were quick WR screens), but he settled down and played alright. I still don’t think the game told us anything we didn’t already know – Thomas looks to have more pure ability, but is raw and inconsistent while Costa is a much better decision maker, even if he plays it a bit conservative at times.
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I would much rather see
thomas try to sqeeze that ball into double coverage in a game that doesnt matter when he thinks he was touched down and the play over. i dont see many times in a real game that he will just throw the ball into double coverage thinking hesdown because a guy ran passed him and two hand touched him.
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I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. My point is that it’s NEVER a good idea to try to squeeze a ball into double coverage like he did. Unless it’s a specific drill that the QBs are running where the coach wants them to work on pinpoint accuracy, but this clearly wasn’t that. I think it’s a bit tenuous to say, “Well, of course Thomas wouldn’t do that in a REAL game!” This was a game, and the players treated it like a game for the most part, even if it didn’t count.
I don’t think there’s any need to treat that interception as this momentously terrible play. But I also don’t think there’s any need to sugarcoat it or sweep it under the rug. It was a poor decision. Thomas will learn from it, and hopefully improve on his decision-making.
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it's easy to be a duck hunter
I just read an article in the New York Times about how “The Athletic Department is out of Control” and….. “It is time for the athletic department to do a little soul searching on how they can serve the univeristy”. This according to an Oregon biology professer by the name of Tublitz, or something. Isn’t this a little bit of biting the hand that feeds you? It seems to me that our outstanding athletic department (yes, there’s always room for improvement) is at least partially responsible for drawing students to the univeristy, which somehow must relate to Mr. Tubs salary. Anyone, and I do mean anyone, can dress in camo, hide in the bush’s waiting for a duck to make a mistake and then blow him/her to smithereens. Pay no attention that the rest of the flock is flying high, still in formation and mistake free. Just sit tight in your state-of-the-art duck blind (built partially due to the athletic department). Cower down and hide there, waiting for the occasional stupid duck to leave the formation, and then blast him out of the sky. It will be your 5 minutes of fame when the New York Times finds you, the outstanding duck hunter you are. Hey, I have an idea! Why don’t you quit your menial job, get out into the work-force, develope something as big as Nike, and then donate money back to the biology department. I promise, the athletic department would not be jeolous or envious, all the while takeing pot-shots at Biologists. Heck, they might even applaud you. What a concept, a university with academics and athletics respecting each other and working towards a common goal. Academics “and” athletics, we can have both you know. I love Uncle Phil, and I will love Uncle Tubs when he actually puts more into the Univeristy of Oregon then he just took away from it.
been down so long, it looks like up to me.
Isn't he kind of late to the party?
Please cue: last incident meter.
by HoodRiverDuck on May 3, 2010 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
For being out of control the athletic dept. has made some great recent hires
In Track you get Vic Lannannana – bam national title contender, olympic trials, all that
In Football you get Chip Kelly – Rose Bowl his first year
In Baseball you get Horton – team is poised to go to playoffs
In Girls Basketball you get Crazy ol Westhead – ZAP! Women’s basketball is somehow fun to watch
Thats some good company right there
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by My Name is Bryce on May 3, 2010 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, he is a biology professor ya know?
Which is important enough I suppose, but has little to do with the scheme of things. Heck, he probably doesn’t know what a football looks like….other then it is shaped a little bit like a whale. He must have thought quack-smacking is original. I say “hah”, he’s pedestrian on this matter. Stick to biology.
been down so long, it looks like up to me.
by ducky darling on May 3, 2010 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Collge Professors are almost as big of whiners as grade -high school teachers
Almost…
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by My Name is Bryce on May 3, 2010 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I read this as well,
And the author wrote things about how Phil Knight only gives money to the athletic departments, as “evidenced” through the Jaqua center. Seriously? What is the name of the LAW center? Or the LIBRARY?
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or that he endows 25 professorships
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Seriously.
Due to the ongoing contributions by Phil Knight and the accumulating interest, he will soon have endowed 30.
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Wow,
I had never read or heard anything about that before. That is an additional couple of million dollars annually that he provides to maintain a quality education at UO.
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College professors are the very definition of "pointy-headed liberals in their ivory towers".
It’s absurdly easy to find at least one prof at any university with an athletic department who will spit out a pithy quote about how academics are being ignored while all the money flows to the jocks.
‘Twas ever thus. And as long as there’s a media out there looking for that “opposing view”, a few of our friendly, tenured professors will be there to oblige them.
Want to talk about something with a low ROI? How about a tenured biology professor, who may actually teach one class per term, with TAs there to pick up the slack while he goes on sabbatical. Oh, and he wrote the textbook, so he gets revenue from that. If he’s involved with “research”, he’s likely not doing much of the actual research — that’s for his grad students, he just supervises, and ensures his name gets on the published work.
Sure, you can confuse him with facts, such as that the athletic department is self-funded, but then the argument shifts to how much more good all that DAF money could do if it was donated to, say, the biology department.
BENZDUCK FOR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR!
Why the hell not?
Tell him that he can go bust his ass trying to hire everyone in the biolog department
and we’ll see what he thinks.
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As I read the article, I had very similar thoughts to yours.
I am positive that at any school with D-1 athletics, you could find quite a few professors that would complain about funding towards the athletic programs.
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but then the argument shifts to how much more good all that DAF money could do if it was donated to, say, the biology department.
But that’s a really bad argument. Maybe it makes me a asshole, but I sure as hell wouldn’t give additional money to the university, unless I really struck it big time.
A student already pays $25,000+ plus interest rates. Times that by three for out of state tuition. Then you have tons of other expenses on top of that.
With the athletic department, I get something in return for my money spent. And as a tax payer, I am glad that it is self sufficient. I sure as hell wouldn’t be proud to say John the Oregon Taxpayer’s money went towards paying for a trip to the Rose Bowl, when John the Oregon Taxpayer probably doesn’t get a flying shit about it.
its spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-A-L-I-T-T-L-E-I-L-L-L-A-T-E-L-Y"
yep
the truth is most athletic donors wouldn’t donate if it weren’t for the athletic department.
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Honestly, this post seems Canzano-worthy.
He probably has a source deep inside the program telling him that this bio prof doesn’t actually do his own research. And he’s also going to extrapolate something about “college professors being the very definition of” something from one professor who said something, as opposed to, say, all the ones who attend sporting events.
STILL stopping every few minutes to realize "Whoa. The Saints won the Super Bowl."
Yes, I am, and it was warranted.
The whole “Man, I bet he doesn’t actually do research, he just slaps his name on what his grad students do.” and “College professors are the very definition of pointy-headed liberals” seem like just the sort of baseless sensationalist statements he’d come up with.
I can’t vouch personally for the bio department, but professors in my department do their own research. And I’ve seen plenty of them at Duck sports in contrast to this one guy who’s getting airtime at the NYT precisely because he’s at the extreme end of sports hatred.
STILL stopping every few minutes to realize "Whoa. The Saints won the Super Bowl."
There's always one stalwart professor at a D1 school
See: Rutgers.
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I am confused by this statement.
STILL stopping every few minutes to realize "Whoa. The Saints won the Super Bowl."
by AllSaintsDay on May 4, 2010 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
And we have another slow thread
So i’m going to go with another conversation starter. Which of these three ducks will have the best professional career?
A) Walter Thurmond III
B) Legarrette Blount
C) TJ Ward
D) Someone else from the 2009 senior class (please explain below)
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Tim Tebow
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by My Name is Bryce on May 3, 2010 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
He throws ducks...
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by My Name is Bryce on May 3, 2010 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
And we have another slow thread..
sometimes less is more!
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by dvieira on May 3, 2010 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
John Lloyd has committed to Oregon. Nice job Altman!
Let’s see those commits start rolling in now.
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I suck at basketball.
Looks like I committed one year too late
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But do you 'want' to be there?
Rumor has it that’s key for who Altman has on his team.
by HoodRiverDuck on May 3, 2010 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Up to #15 in lastest baseball rankings
Nicely done: http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/top-25/2010/269899.html
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We went to 3 baseball games at PK Park this past weekend
and the whole thing . . . PK Park, game atmosphere, hustle of our players . . . was amazing. I watched Oregon baseball at Howe Field when I was a student and the difference is awesome, outstanding, astonishing, spectacular . . . you get the idea.
Mark Schlabath has the Ducks 10th in his updated Top 25.
This seems about right. I wouldn’t expect to see many preseason rankings place the Ducks above this, as it’s hard to justify anything higher than 10th with the QB situation being what it is. I’d expect anywhere from 10 – 15.
I thought this was funny from the Wisconsin blurb:
Wisconsin football fans have grown accustomed to watching the Badgers’ prodding and methodical offense…
Really Mark? “Prodding”? The Badgers offense likes to poke things?
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Brandon Spikes likes to poke things.
Does that count?
Honestly, running a 250 pound halfback (John Clay is a beast) up the gut 30 times a game does not exactly describe “prodding”.
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Ducks LaTempa named Pac 10 Pitcher of the Wee
Congrats to baseball kicking ass!!!
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I preferred Pitcher of the Wee
He’s the favoritest pitcher of leprechauns and munchkins everywhere, laddie!
by HoodRiverDuck on May 3, 2010 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
It is much more fun and exciting to leave it as "Wee"
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TeeHee
Fake Locker’s stats from the UW spring game: 2-7 for 15 yards.
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"Fake" Locker?
Really?
Bob Davie is about to kick your ass.
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Come on his name is really Joke Licker
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Jock Licker you mean?
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by qrsouther on May 3, 2010 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
I just vomited
John Canzano named nation’s best sports columnist by Society of Professional Journalists
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sure.
but quite frankly that was worth posting. Kudos to Dave for finding it too.
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there's a reason I sent it to you privately instead of putting it up on here
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Society of Professional Journalists sounds about as real
as the Judean People’s Front of Judea.
by HoodRiverDuck on May 3, 2010 7:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Judean People's Front, fuck off! We're the People's Front of Judea!
Judean People’s Front. Cawk.
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by Bill Musgrave on May 4, 2010 5:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Still unlikely that his parents believe in him.
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by CaDuck on May 3, 2010 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The most important part of Xavier Munford is the high school he goes to – St Benedict’s Prep. it’d be nice to get a little pipeline into that program….
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i wonder if we could’ve beat them last year … i know we prob would’ve lost the coaching battle.
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by NEP on May 3, 2010 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
nevermind. i was thinking Dad Hurley at St. Anthony’s…
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by NEP on May 3, 2010 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Not far off. He’s the son of Bob Hurley Sr and the brother of Bob Hurley Jr. He’s now the coach at Wagner which may be why Munford has them on his list still.
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Hmm?
Bob Hurley Sr. is the coach at saint anthonys. Thats what I meant. Jr played for duke and then got hurt right?
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yes. Jr’s brother WAS the coach at St Benedicts and is now the coach at Wagner and is looking to take brother with him as an assistant (unlike at USC where you take your Dad to be your assistant… cough… Kiffin)
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no porn, Jr is the assistant at Wagner, Dan Hurley is the coach. Geez, click the link
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I don’t know about you Oregonians, but I’m currently suffering from some hellish allergies. I love nonstop coughing and sneezing, along with being incredibly hoarse.
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 7:20 PM PDT reply actions
You should definitely move to Eugene, you won’t have any problems there.
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It could also be a cold, I suppose. All I know is that I feel like crap, which is perfect timing, considering our district baseball tourney starts on Wednesday...
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 7:23 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s a lie, and you know it.
They call him Rags. Where he goes, no-hitters follow.
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You see, I'm not an absolute dumbass, so I'd rather not.
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Seriously though. Did you click the link?
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Yes.
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions
It's a great, great show. And that episode is one of the best.
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Kind of on this topic which is off topic,
My grandfather was a military germ warfare specialist in the 50’s, he had tons of fun stories about those days.
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 7:37 PM PDT reply actions
Which qualifies her perfectly to be a cougar.
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Anybody here (not named musgrave or benzduck)
who would have sex with a 53 year old woman, raise your hand.
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Mr. Cromartie, you already have 9 children in 8 states.
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm so glad that parasite is out of San Diego.
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 8:20 PM PDT reply actions
Why would I be walking by a dead body in autumn?
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by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on May 3, 2010 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Wow, good move for Rutgers. Complete upgrade for that program
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does rutgers even compete in sports anymore
isnt there one professor there who’s all up in arms about Rutgers being a D1 school at all?
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