A note from FishDuck.com: Today we have a unique treat, this article from a highly successful college coach explains how football coaches address off-season goals with their players. This will provide an insider perspective into an area of football that fans rarely get to see up close or understand, what goes into preparation for a football team when not on …
Follow me on Twitter: @MarkDFlores Be sure to like us on Facebook: FISHDUCK.COM Football Recruiting News/Offers BREAKING NEWS: This past Monday night, highly touted in-state offensive lineman Evan Voeller (4-Star/West Linn, OR/Rivals250) announced his commitment to play college ball for the Ducks. “I visited my top five schools and at the end of my trips I saw Oregon as the place for me,” …
Each week FishDuck.com’s Kurt Liedtke (better known as Keeerrrttt1) speaks with current/former student athletes, other FishDuck contributors, and outside experts in a one-on-one conversation–the FishDuck.com One-On-One. This week Kurt was joined by Oregon Ducks center Max Forer, a walk-on from Los Angeles, who became a vital cog in the rotation along Oregon’s offensive line in the Chip Kelly era culminating …
It’s no secret that Amanda Johnson did not have the senior season that she and Ducks fans hoped she’d have as a major impact on the floor for the women’s basketball team, and it was all due to a pesky injury. She missed 11 games during her senior campaign with a fractured thumb. Waiting for Amanda… When she returned to …
There are tons of principles and assignments for an Oregon football player to learn over his career and I often have wondered what was the difficult concept for them to learn. Recently I heard a defensive coach at Oregon answer that question, as he explained that the toughest concept to coach into defensive players is to check their keys, follow …
Normally every week Kurt Liedtke (better known as Keeerrrttt1), co-owner of FishDuck.com, creates video blogs (vlogs) to update all you fine folk on all things FishDuck. HOWEVER, this week with Kurt back in Eugene, we figured why not have FishDuck and Kurt sit down and share their post-spring game thoughts on the events of this past weekend. The FishDuck Weekly …
Get used to hearing that name. And pronouncing it correctly. Get used to that arm. That vision. That stride. Who’s the best Duck quarterback? That’s not decided yet. And probably won’t be until roughly the end of August. But we got an inkling Saturday during Oregon’s spring football game that the guy who no one had really seen before — …
Once in a while something happens to remind me that, in the grand scheme of things, my wife and I haven’t been together all that long. Case in point, the other night. She came home from work . As she clicked the car lock button and started across the yard she saw where a few burned waffles (Eggo type) were …
Finally! We are allowed to go back inside!! The Annual Oregon Spring Game is upon us. Yes, you read that right, we are now just mere HOURS away! Congratulations to all of you fellow Duck fan “survivors.” As my good friend “Fitz” likes to say, we have survived the “Dark Age.” This of course comes after one of his other token phrases, “Welcome …
Sometimes the best entertainment about our Ducks can come from scrimmages of the past. This report was written in April 2005 after the annual spring game. The interesting perspective that time gives us! Long before FishDuck.com existed, there were FishDuck scrimmage reports. When spring came around, if the Ducks were practicing I’d do my best to document it all. These …
The following is part of the NIKE Coaches Clinic Presentation “EFFICIENT USE OF PRACTICE TIME given by Chip Kelly a year ago in spring of 2011 that was recorded and printed in the book, “2011 Coach of the Year Clinics Football Manual” by [D. Mark Robertson] the leading coaching education publisher, Coaches Choice and edited by Earl Browning. [D. Mark …
Being emotionally invested in the Oregon football program is something that nearly all Duck fans have in common. All the sights, sounds, even the smells of a cloudy fall afternoon in Autzen Stadium are things that Oregon fans young and old all share and love equally. But an afternoon in PK Park next door is, quite literally, still wearing in …
