Heyward to Oregon

salemcoog said:

Mosster47 said:

salemcoog said:

That's awesome. They stuck to the tried and true practice of hiring a member of the 2000 Beavs in an important coaching position.



Hard to see any negatives here.

To be fair, the only weak link on the team was Jonathan Smith. Those guys were fucking nails on both sides of the ball. I still have no idea how they lost to UW.

IMO that was the only team from the state of Oregon that would have actually won the national title game. They would have smoked OU or FSU with a month to prepare.

I was at the 2000 game in Husky stadium that year. Great game that was played at a high level on both sides. Smiff made some great plays that game. None better than the lose a shoe and throw it as far as you can across your body throw for a 50 yard gain. Will never forget that play.

Anyway. If I remember right it was the 4th game of the Season so they didn't really know yet if they were gonna be really good or not. Ochocinco was a one and done for them. The 1st 3 games He hadn't done squat and couldn't catch a cold. But He like the rest of the team took off from there. Great team that was as good as a hon that Season.

That was by far my favorite season ever. If I remember right the Cuogs finished second/fourth that year.

The Oregon vs UW game that year is still my favorite game ever at Autzen. I was there for The Pick too. We jumped on them early and played that signature Bellotti/Tedford ball dangling the game in front of the Huskies for what seemed like forever.

We were on the opposite side of the stadium on that first score where Joey half rolled to his left and rocket the ball through three defenders to Peele who was sliding through the back of the end zone. When Joey was on that fucker was dynamite.

I knew the Beavs were going to hammer us. They were better than us at every position, but QB and Joey always sucked in the Civil War. The PNW was stacked that year across the board.