'You either win or you learn,' said Fisch. 'In this case, we learned.'
Greg Hansen Phil Knight, the long-time Nike czar. the financial generator behind Oregon’s football empire, walked almost incognito through the press box suites at Arizona Stadium on Saturday night.Knight began pouring tens of millions of dollars into the long-deficient Oregon football program in the late 1990s. About all that the Ducks have failed to accomplish over those 25 years is to win the Big One, a national championship.
The Ducks did not come to Tucson merely hoping to survive and advance. They played with the ambition and intent to bury Arizona and, if nothing else, get back into serious consideration for the college football playoffs. The sobering night at Arizona Stadium, once packed to the gills with 50,800 hopeful fans, was a lesson on what it takes to play with the Big Boys in college football. Midway through the third quarter, with the Ducks safely leading by 29 points, Oregon’s second-team defense swarmed UA quarterback Jayden de Laura, sacking him and forcing a fumble that the Ducks turned into a touchdown in what seemed like a Usian Bolt 100 meter sprint.
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