EUGENE, Ore. — The school year doesn't officially open at the University of Oregon until Monday, Sept. 28, when more than 20,000 students trudge back onto campus for the first day of the fall quarter. For a select group of the student body, however, classes have already begun.
Every Thursday during the regular season, Oregon players file into meeting rooms and offices inside the football facility for the program's weekly version of the SATs: tests written by student interns, fact-checked by graduate assistants and administered to positional groupings by their respective assistant coach.
"It's clear at the end of that the things we're comfortable with, the things we're not comfortable with, and the two or three things that right now we don't have," said defensive coordinator Don Pellum.