Quacking up
So, BYU pastes the Ducks 38-8 in one of many meaningless bowl games coming up in the next few days.
Of course, it isn’t so meaningless if you’re a Duck fan.
Personally, I saw the loss coming, looming large on the horizon. Hoping beyond hope for the Ducks to show a glimmer of life, I was pretty sure that they’d come to the game unprepared and leave unrewarded.
I just didn’t think it would be this one-sided.
Questions now have to abound. What does this mean for Mike Bellotti, to me, is the biggest. Given the level of talent he’s drafted, he really isn’t doing too much to impress. Fans game him a much-deserved pass late last season when Kellen Clemens broke his leg, meaning that anything afterward that was good was seen as icing on the cake. But this year, there were no such excuses.
I personally think it’s time for Bellotti to hang up his whistle and recruit a replacement. Sure, he may need to coach next season since the coaching carousel seems, for the most part, to be done moving, but he needs to start putting some feelers out. Why does Bellotti need to do this? Because I think he’ll be the Ducks Interim Athletic Director within the next 3 weeks, and then its a question of replacing himself with a quality coach so that he can shed the “Interim” title.
So, who do you think will be the next Ducks coach? I’m hoping for Tedford. He’s got history here, he can win, and I think we’re a better school to recruit to than Cal. Your thoughts?
And, Ducks faithful, what do you think of this season? I’ve taken heat for feeling a tremendous letdown this year, but at the same time I argue that we were supposed to be vying or the Pac-10 title. What do you think?
It’s so confusing, given how easily the offense was moving down the field early in the season… they just disappeared during the second half of the season. I don’t think the defense has been all that bad considering the inept offense keeps them on the field so much.
Doesn’t it seem like we’ve seen this before, perhaps several times during the Belotti era? People talk about ‘heart’ so much it turns into empty rhetoric, but his teams approach games so businesslike… it’s like they need someone more fiery and motivational to keep the momentum going the entire season. They just seem to run out of gas.
Also, what’s with the mouth-breathers on the Beavers O-live blogs? The beav fans are foaming at the mouth with hate, immaturity and gay-bashing nonsense over this. Duck fans were never that stupid or zealous when the Beavs were miles from bowl contention. Get classy, Beavernation.