Offensive coordinator Matt Lubick met with reporters at Oregon’s second practice of the spring season Wednesday.
He discussed the progress of graduate-transfer quarterback Dakota Prukop, the adjustment to his new role and the prospect of Oregon basketball player Dwayne Benjamin — an All-State wide receiver in high school — joining the football team.
Now that you’ve seen a couple practices, what are your thoughts on how the team is coming together?
Very happy with attitudes. Guys are having fun, enjoying practice. They’ve been waiting a long time to get back out on the field. Spring ball is a great time because you’re not worried about an opponent; you can make yourself better. For coaches, that’s a blast. Another thing that’s really neat for us is we’re trying a lot of new guys in different spots.
In the short time you’ve been around Dakota Prukop, what’s your assessment?
His attitude has been incredible. He is doing everything he can possibly do to get better. To play in his situation — in really anyone’s situation, when you haven’t played before — you have to do a lot of time off the field, and he’s doing that. When he’s not in class, he lives in our building.
The hardest thing is it’s a whole new language. Even though he’s experienced and he’s played football before, it’s learning and processing before he can even play. He’s just starting to pick that up and, each day, you can tell he’s getting more comfortable.
How are you distributing reps at quarterback?
It’s hard to rep five guys. But right now, with Dakota in the mix, Travis [Jonsen] and Terry [Wilson], we want to give those guys a majority of the reps. What we’ve explained to Jeff [Lockie] and Taylor [Alie] — and they’ve been awesome; they’ve been studs — if you’re new, the only way you can really learn what’s going on is you have to be thrown into the fire. So we’re throwing those guys into the fire. They haven’t proven it yet; they’ve got to still prove it. But we want to see what they can do, and the only way to do that is to give those guys the majority of the reps.
You were in a different role at this time last year. How are you adjusting to your new job?
I’m enjoying it. Each day is a little bit different. What makes my job easy is I’m around a bunch of great coaches. What a coordinator does is just kind of interact with other people and try to organize the big picture. But it hasn’t changed a ton. I’m still coaching the receivers. I try to get a little more involved at the other positions.
Dwayne Benjamin: Any word on him? 
Nope, but we’d be happy to have him. I heard there’s a rumor that he was thinking about coming out. If he comes out, we’d be jazzed. We had a great experience with Johnathan Loyd. I’m sure [Benjamin] has other things he has to weigh, as well.
Where would you put a 6-foot-7 guy?
We’d find a place. He’d give us a lot of options.
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