Oregon Ducks Program Earning Physical Respect Among Alabama, Georgia?
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00:00Yo, this is Big Mark. I'm here with DJak, Bosh, and Betch, and this is episode 5 of the Big Mark Show.
00:23So, uh, everyone's sitting here, you know, I had to put my glasses on for a hot second. I got too much star power.
00:28I'll take them off for a hot second, though, you know, because I got, you know, I'm sitting next to a lot of, you know, star-studded individuals here, you know.
00:35But y'all boys, like, we, like, I don't know y'all peeped the hat or nothing, but, like, we did it.
00:40Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, we came into Big Ten our first year, like, took it over type deal, and, like, we Big Ten champs.
00:46So, I'm gonna set the Big Ten championship hat down for everybody just to see that. Just put that right over there, just so everybody can see that.
00:53But, uh, Bosh, I'm gonna start with you, like, we kind of came in and ran, like, the same time and stuff, like,
00:58COVID was kind of weird, so you came in in January, and, like, we used to talk about this a lot when we were in the pack, like, how we wanted to win a championship.
01:06We didn't get it done last year versus U-Dub, and then we were talking about coming back.
01:09Like, that's one of the main reasons we came back was to, you know, go win a championship despite going into a new conference.
01:15And, you know, everybody was kind of doubting us, like, you know, that first year, like, oh, the Big Ten is about, you know, physical ball.
01:21Y'all not going to survive. It's setting the forefront.
01:23We went 13-0, and we were able to get the, you know, get the job done.
01:26So for you, you know, knowing you the longest out of everybody over here, like, what was it like to kind of see the progression in, like, you know, Oregon football, I say?
01:34And just us is like, you know, just knowing each other from the time we got here to now, and now we're about to leave, and, you know, we're about to leave to show, you know, Big Ten champs that we got that job done that we said we were going to get done.
01:45Yeah, no, for sure.
01:46I think, honestly, bro, just from our freshman year, obviously, like you just said, we came in around the same time.
01:52So, you know, when we first came in, going to, you know, little bowl games, losing like two or three games a year, right?
01:57And then, you know, junior year, you know, we're starting to get better and better, you know, under Coach Lanning's system with all the coaches that he brought in as well.
02:05And then going from, you know, just the end of the season last year, kind of some of the older guys like me, you, Teeford, you know, a lot of the older guys had a decision to make, you know, on whether they wanted to enter the draft or come back to school.
02:19And so I know that, you know, right when I told the coaches that I was coming back that I was also going to motivate, you know, the guys around me, like, OK, if we come back, we can really, you know, go undefeated in the Big Ten, win this whole thing out.
02:33So, yeah, just I think that was another just a goal, a goal accomplishment that we that we did, bro.
02:39So, you know, seeing that the program is headed in the right in the right direction, we're starting to get our respect as, you know, the Georges, the Alabamas.
02:46So I think that this whole program is headed in the right direction.