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...
avoid brute contact eyes learn needs people run slow strength strong three
He is a tough, strong runner. He has to learn to run more with his eyes than his brute strength ... so he can avoid some of that contact because after you run over two or three guys, it can slow you down. He needs to use his eyes and make some people miss.
alive attack biggest came created half inside plays point quite run second stay stuffed talked
What they did in the second half was run more laterally, created some gaps. And some of their biggest plays came when we stuffed it inside at the point of attack and then they reversed it. We didn't quite stay alive as much as we talked about.
brought couple entire runs team
A couple of times he's made runs that brought our entire team to its feet.
couple felt impression kids oftentimes putting uniform win
I think it was a wakeup call. I've said for a couple of years, oftentimes I got the impression some kids that come here felt just by putting on the uniform we were going to win games.
changed fit guys knew last mobility recruit scheme taken vision year
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.
complete high loved saw
We really loved him out of high school. He was the most complete back we saw that year.
emphasis huge
It hasn't been a huge emphasis so far.
everybody last played quite situation week
I thought last week (at Houston) we should have played everybody that was there, but the situation wasn't quite right or they weren't quite ready.
felt football game giving importance people realized sure understood urgency
I think they realized it wasn't enough for them to want it, or to be giving everything they have. They wanted to be sure other people understood and felt the same sense of urgency and sense of importance about the game of football and about the team.
carries coming forefront performers seniors weight
There are a lot of seniors and, as I've said before, those seniors are coming to the forefront because they are also our performers and our contributors. Their voice, their word, carries more weight because they are also doing it on the field.
needs played ready step
Jackie, having played two years in the program, needs to step up and I think he's ready to do that.
happened scheme worked
That wasn't by accident. That happened because that scheme worked for us.
direction moving offense option per scoring spread wish yards
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.
draw three weeks
When you have three weeks to prepare, you draw some things up in the dirt. Unfortunately, in the end, they were just better than we were.