Mike Bellotti
Mike Bellotti
Robert Michael "Mike" Bellottiis an American college football analyst for ESPN and ABC. He was with the University of Oregon's football program for over 20 years serving as offensive coordinator for six years, head coach for 14 years, and athletic director for one year. Bellotti is the winningest coach in Oregon football history and is credited with building the program into a major football power. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2014...
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People were viewing him as the savior, as the guy who's going to take care of everybody. I felt the pressure as his coach. Everyone is counting on him.
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One of the things we'll do with Cameron is look at him at that X position. I think the toughest guy to replace from last year's football team may actually be Demetrius Williams.
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Last year I changed our vision of what we were going to recruit in preparation of what I knew we were going to do. That's why we didn't take a quarterback last year. The guys that we could have taken would have have fit into this mobility scheme that we have. And these guys, they fit that.
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There aren't many guys in the NFL that are 350 pounds that can move like he can move, that possess both the strength and the athleticism.
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He kind of scooped up a pile of offensive linemen and just started shaking everybody until the guy with the ball fell out. It was like a cartoon.
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The main emphasis point will be to evaluate newcomers and the second-line guys that we're looking to go in if somebody gets hurt.
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Terrence Whitehead is a bona fide, Pac-10, 1,000-yard ground gainer.
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(Costa) reminds me a lot of Kellen Clemens in that he played safety and quarterback, was one of the toughest, one of the fastest and one of the best athletes on the field. And he is a great leader.
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We do physical exercises where he can gauge a little bit their physical toughness and their leadership and their commitment to it, but (now) he gets to coach real football. That's what's exciting.
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We really loved him out of high school. He was the most complete back we saw that year.
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That wasn't by accident. That happened because that scheme worked for us.
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I wish we were scoring more points, but we are averaging more yards per game. We are moving in a direction away from our traditional offense into more of a spread option look.
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I think in all honesty, defense is going to win this game. It's not going to be offense.
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It hasn't been a huge emphasis so far.