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Byline: Ron Bellamy The Register-Guard
What a strange, bittersweet day it was at the Casanova Center. Because you figured that ageless Neal Zoumboukos would somehow always be an Oregon football coach, and that hell would freeze before Tom Osborne coached at Oregon again, as in never.
Yet there they were Tuesday, ships passing, Zoumboukos announcing that he's leaving coaching to become a special assistant to the Oregon athletics director, and Osborne being introduced as his replacement.
A simple notice in transactions won't begin to tell this story.
The Oregon football program lost an icon Tuesday - a coach and mentor and leader and conscience for 27 years - and regained one of the best special teams coordinators in the country, who presided over some of the best special teams ever seen here.
And none of this could have been easy, really.
Zoumboukos and Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, old friends, go back to UC Davis, where Zoumboukos, as the freshman coach, gave the recent UCD graduate his first job in coaching.
Bellotti and Osborne go back to Osborne's not-all-sweet departure from the Oregon coaching staff in 2000 for Arizona State.
But the easiest thing isn't always the right thing. Time will tell if this was...
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