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Last week, Lee Corso made a comment saying how Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich needs to make some changes to his coaching staff in order to get Oregon back to the national championship. This week during a press conference, Helfrich was asked to respond to those remarks.
In a recent bowl projection, Sports Illustrated has the Oregon Ducks going to the Sun Bowl to go up against the Virginia Tech Hokies.
For a little bit of recruiting news, the Oregon staff has made a “pivotal” offer to wide receiver Dylan Crawford. Crawford is a 6 foot 1, 175 pound wide receiver from Santa Margarita Catholic (Calif.). He is a four star prospect and is currently the 91st overall prospect (according to 247 Sport’s Composite Ranking). He just spent a weekend at Michigan, as the Wolverines are going to be a key player here.
Lastly, for some golf news, the Ducks shot the lowest round of the season thus far behind freshman Petra Salko.

Which bowl games could the Ducks play in?

It’s been a common theme in the way Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich approaches each of his teams practice sessions.

Work hard and strive to improve every day in every phase of the game.

It’s that mantra that gives his team and his program the consistency and recipe for success.

As Oregon ( 4-3 / 2-2 ) enter their bye week, it’s that exact recipe that Helfrich and his staff are using to begin preparations for their Thursday match-up with Arizona State in Tempe.

“This week for us is a little bit different than maybe a bye week last year or the year before” explained Helfrich when asked how he plans to use this extra time to prepare.

“There’s still so much,..just basic teaching that’s taking place from a bunch of standpoints,… with young guys and situational work that comes out of games.  So, a little bit more split work right now than we’ve done in the past as far as everybody getting a bunch of work rather than just the scout teams and quote – unquote reserve guys getting the lions share.”

Although the Ducks haven’t had the start to the season they expected, they remain focused on the task at hand and continue to ignore the outside noise of pundits and fans calling for change.

“The biggest thing right now is we’re improving in all phases and hopefully that’s the goal regardless of your record,” Helfrich said.

“Trying to overcome all the hyperbole out there of whether the world’s coming to an end or whether you’re the greatest team ever.   Continuing to work,… continuing to improve and again,… for the most part, our guys are doing that.”

The UO head coach joined the weekly conference call of Pac-12 Conference football coaches on Tuesday, three days after his team beat Washington to move to 4-3.

The Oregon women's golf team shot a season-low 289 today to finish 10th at the Stanford Intercollegiate.