These quotes from this mornings Eugene Register Guard:
Mike Bellotti, the UO football coach, acknowledged "a brief conversation" with Frohnmayer about the opening.
"I'm sure that will continue after the bowl game," Bellotti said when contacted while recruiting. "Right now, I'm more looking at (the football) program. I've got a lot of things going on right now."
Asked if he had definite interest in the position, Bellotti said "I don't even know that yet," and predicted "there will be a lot of people who will want this job."
Bellotti was hired as football coach three months before Moos took over the department. He is the only Oregon head coach who wasn't hired by Moos, but the two have worked closely and Bellotti had great praise for the departing director, and what he did for football.
The question that naturally follows is whether Bellotti feels one person can be football coach and director of athletics.
"I would say probably," Bellotti answered. "It's been done before."
Rich Brooks did both at Oregon from 1992 to 1994, when Bellotti was the offensive coordinator for the Ducks.
"He did some good things (as the director)," Bellotti said. "He was good for the department."
Bellotti said he felt Brooks gave up the director's job because he "got more tired of the personalities and the politics" than the workload. Bellotti said he also felt that football didn't suffer from Brooks holding both jobs.
"We did our thing. I don't remember any change at all," Bellotti said in how the staff worked.
Bellotti may talk with Brooks, now the football coach at Kentucky, and Barry Alvarez, the athletic director at Wisconsin who was also the head football coach in recent years before retiring from coaching and concentrating on the one position.
"I know that Barry, when he did (both), he was very comfortable with it," Bellotti said. "He said (making it work) was all based on having great people around him."
