The buzz and excitement that come from spring practice and ultimately the Spring Game for the Oregon Ducks football team is now behind us. The early installations of the offense and defense have been put into place, a first look at the depth chart has been accomplished, and Mario Cristobal has his team feeling confident about where they stand going into the fall.
So now what?
Well, according to Cristobal, there is some time for a quick break to get everyone back to full health, and then it’s time for the fourth quarter program to get players through the summer.
“There is not much rest, these guys have a couple of days to get their bodies back,” said Cristobal, via 247 Sports. “It’s lifting, its walk-through, it’s meeting time. It’s really high progression, development, learning cycle.”
Though the weeks of diving into game plans are gone for now, the Ducks will use the ensuing weeks to focus primarily on strength and conditioning, being led by coach Aaron Feld, the program’s lead Strength and Conditioning Coordinator.
“After a couple of days next week, they’ll come in. We’ll screen them from a functional standpoint. We will put them through a series of movements that we will put them through strength standpoint, mobility standpoint,” said Cristobal. “We’ll put them through a series of movements.”
As we get closer to June, players will be given a week to go home and visit family if they’d like after school gets out, but then they are to come back to Eugene and enroll in summer school, jumping into the full summer program and getting ready for the season to kick off.
We have seen this four-quarter program work well over the past few years under Cristobal, and there is no reason to believe that’s going to change any time soon.
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