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Oh, where to begin.
First, I want to acknowledge the season-ending injury to Oregon linebacker Teitum Tuioti. Dan Lanning announced the news on Monday night, and while it will assuredly have an impact on Oregon’s defense — Tuioti had 44 tackles, nine tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks this season — I mostly just feel bad for the senior.
Tuioti is a joy. He cares about Oregon, he was a leader for the Ducks during the dip, and, selfishly, he’s just a fun interview.
Back in July at Big Ten Media Days, he told me that going to Japan was on his bucket list.
OK, Teitum, what else is on there?
“Ooh, there’s a lot of things,” he said. “One, I just want to get a house. That’s the big one.”
Are we talking starter, or something bigger?
“Something small,” he said. “I don’t need much in my life. I just need a small something. Call it good.”
OK, so we have the house settled. What else?
“Well, other than that, I love collecting Pokemon cards, so I definitely want to collect some base set cards.”
He said I probably didn’t know what he was talking about. I, a somewhat nerdy child of the ’90s, probably knew more about that than I do when he talks about football.
“I don’t know if I got too much bucket list things after that. I’d like to go to a really fancy restaurant. I love food. So maybe Gordon Ramsay’s place in Vegas. That was something I always drive past every time I go back to Vegas, and I definitely want to try that.”
I then asked him what was left on his Oregon bucket list.
He didn’t talk about national championships or playoffs or awards. But he did talk about football.
“One thing I definitely need to do is have a camp and go out to camps with some high school kids,” he said. “I’ve done it a couple of times, but definitely continuing that trend is going to be good for me because Eugene has done so many good things for me, and that’s my way of wanting to give back.”
A refreshing quote. A great player. We wish him a speedy recovery.
A worldly effort
Oregon football isn’t the only Ducks program surging.
UO’s volleyball squad is 20-4, ranked No. 12 nationally and thriving under second-year coach Trent Kersten.
But practices sound a little different for these Ducks than they do for the ones who play at Autzen.
From Lindsay Schnell’s feature this week:
Eavesdrop on a University of Oregon volleyball practice any day of the week, and you’re likely to hear one of several languages being spoken.
UO’s roster this season features players from Brazil, Argentina, Serbia, Romania and the Netherlands, plus seven American states. Depending on what the Ducks are working on during a given day, you might even learn a few new words.
“Most of us speak English, but we do curse in our own language if we make a mistake,” said Valentina Vaulet, an outside hitter from Cordoba, Argentina. She laughed. “It’s really only if we’re mad at ourselves.”
The Lanning Method
Is your favorite college football team struggling to score points? Has your ranking slipped into double digits? Are you beginning to wonder whether your head coach is the right man for the job?
Well, folks, have we got a miracle cure for you.
Three weeks ago, Oregon football looked like a lost cause. Now, after a 41-28 win at Ohio State that included 38 unanswered points, the Ducks suddenly look like a playoff contender again.
In this week’s Sunday Duck Report, we introduce The Lanning Method, a revolutionary treatment for struggling football programs that may involve changing quarterbacks, firing assistants and having a defensive lineman throw a jump pass to another defensive lineman.
Results may vary. Please consult your primary athletic director before use.
A new kind of Ducks football
Oregon has a new football team. And this one has been a year in the making.
Last year, UO sophomore Zoey Ceman set out to bring women’s flag football to Oregon. What followed was a year of emails, Zoom calls with NFL personnel, meetings with club sports officials and a whole lot of persistence.
Now, the Ducks have a coaching staff, 22 players and a schedule that’s beginning to take shape. More than 60 students showed up for tryouts last month, and on Nov. 2, Oregon’s newest football program finally held its first practice.
There’s still plenty of work to be done, but for Ceman, just getting to this point was a victory.
Lookout stopped by that first practice to meet the people building Oregon’s newest football program from scratch.
New details in Messiah Hampton case
Oregon wide receiver Messiah Hampton was formally charged Tuesday with felony fleeing or attempting to elude police and misdemeanor reckless driving following an Oct. 18 police pursuit in Springfield.
Newly filed court documents shed more light on how police connected the 18-year-old to the incident.
According to an officer’s affidavit, police pursued vehicles traveling at high speeds through Springfield before discovering a damaged Dodge Durango registered to Hampton at a gathering attended by Oregon football players. Investigators later used surveillance footage, social media posts and clothing recovered from Hampton’s home to build their case.
Jaime Adame’s latest report details the investigation and the new charges.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Man, I’ve got nothing to say to Coach Whit other than I think he’s an unbelievable coach. And I get it, they’re spending more money on the coaches they’re letting go, so maybe it makes it hard to sign players, but I know they’ve signed a couple guys that we weren’t able to compete with what they decided to do, and maybe a lot of that money is tied up up for them in another player, I don’t know. But Coach Whittingham is an unbelievable coach, he’s a hall of fame coach, I’ve got nothing but respect for him.”
— Dan Lanning responding to Michigan coach Kyle Whittingham, who emphasized Oregon’s NIL budget when complimenting the success of the Ducks under Lanning.
UPCOMING GAMES
Thursday, Nov. 12
- Volleyball: at USC, 6 p.m. (B1G+)
Friday, Nov. 13
- Cross country: NCAA West Regional Championships, Sacramento, 9 a.m.
- Women’s basketball: at Maine, 4 p.m. (ESPN+)
Saturday, Nov. 14
- Football: vs. Michigan, 12:30 p.m. (FS1)
- Volleyball: at UCLA, 2 p.m. (B1G+)
Sunday, Nov. 15
- Men’s basketball: vs. Pepperdine, 2 p.m. (B1G+)
All times Pacific.
STORIES I’m WORKING ON
Speaking of bucket lists, Lindsay has a great one coming up on a goal that Kelly Graves is finally closing in on.
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Get your rest. Could be a busy couple of months coming up,
Tyson
