Jim Moore is messing with our brains

In an article in the Oregon Daily Emerald, Jim Moore, Master of the Resurgence, feels that his team has "lost the fear of losing." (Maybe that's why they don't mind losing Djuric.)

So I guess it's only fitting that, according to the article, what Moore most appreciated during a recent tournament was a loss.

"It was really good for us. I changed some things up to make it difficult on ourselves and they didn't handle it well. It was a really good experience."

Yea! They didn't handle it well! Look, I know teams can grow from losses, but...I've never heard a coach enjoy it this much.

But you can understand Moore's optimism after taking the Ducks to the Big Dance for the first time since 1989, a feat Moore says you can trace back to senior Kristin Bitter declaring "We are not going to lose anymore."

Well, yeah, except for the 12 times that they did. But that doesn't change the fact that Oregon won 17 times, and finished 6th in the Pac-10, a marked improvement from past seasons.

And Moore's excited for the coming year, where he'll have the services of Sonja Newcombe and Gorana Maricic, a duo of which Moore says, "They're good."

Yeah, yeah, they're good, I'm good, everyone's good. So?

"They are legitimately good."

Oh! Legitimately good. Well that changes everything. Plus, Moore cryptically says, Maricic "hadn't perfected defense and now she is."

Stupid consistent verb tense, gets ya' every time.

Do we have a chance to make the NCAA tourney? That is not even in our mind.

Kinda negative thinking, isn't it? I mean you made the tournament last year, so--

Our mentality is now we have to go as deep in the Tourney as we possibly can.

Ohhhhh! I see where he's going with this! Clever Master of Resurgence.

22% of Oregon offense defects to Seminole Nation

Remember that Oregon Duck resurgence orchestrated by Resurgence Master Jim Moore? Well, don't get too excited, because Mira Djuric, owner of 359 kills for the Ducks last year, has packed her bags and moved to Tallahassee. Florida, that is.

And waiting with open arms is Todd Kress, who says that Djuric "brings the international style that is only going to help us be better as a program."

"International style"? What is that? Does she smoke a pack of cigarettes while riding to the matches on her Vespa? Is she bringing an aversion to air conditioning and the modern ice cube?

Nevena Djordjevic has no idea what she's getting herself into

In January we brought you the Xmas plans of some Oregon Ducks, and reader "bruce" informed us on the differences between the Serbian Orthodox Christian Church's calendar and everyone else's.

Now, with winter fading, the Duck website brings us news of different players' spring break plans. For the most part, those plans are fairly tame, although Kristen Forristall is going to Italy (Maybe she can save the Utes!).

Lindsey Stone's plans, however, are perplexing. On the one hand she claims she will "bask in the wonder of doing absolutely nothing!", but then goes on to recite a laundry list of activities she's going to undertake with teammate Nevena Djordjevic, including eating grass. Totally not kidding:

Nev and I are going to trek through the forest, ride horseback, make campfires, eat grass, wreak havoc on anything and everything, and come back a little crazier.

I'm gonna assume, for the purposes of legal liability, that Stone isn't talking about actually eating marijuana (Although that might explain the "come back a little crazier" part). But I wonder if Nevena knows about all these plans?

(Lindsey will) try to make my spring break as crazy as possible and hopefully she'll teach me how to ride a horse, which would be amazing.

Horse riding! That is crazy! Horse riding is insane! But I still don't understand the whole grass-eating thing. Is it possible that Lindsey got the activities she and Nevena would be doing with the daily activities of the horses? Was that a subtle hint to Nevena that Lindsey was going to make her horse riding dreams come true? Is this the last time coach Jim Moore lets the team make their own spring break plans?