This Hawk Is A Duck

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A group of former Dartmouth football players including 1990 captains Pete Chapman and Richard Joyce along with fellow All-Ivy League first-team pick Mike O'Flynn are among the teammates celebrating a 34-6 freshman win over Brown in 1987 with Jeff Hawkins, a freshman linebacker coach and jack-of-all-trades with the Dartmouth football team in the late '80s whose trademark call was Figawi!

Hawkins, the third Musketeer on the Silver Lake Regional High School football team in Massachusetts along with Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens and Harvard coach Tim Murphy, is the longtime director of football operations at Oregon. Check out his bio HERE.

The onetime Dartmouth assistant is also Oregon's senior associate AD in change of football – and to get to Marcus Mariota or other Duck players, first you have to pass muster with Hawkins. That's not an easy thing to do. From a CBS STORY last summer:

Hawkins is the bouncer at Oregon, a bulldog, a guardian at the gate of what's left of the collegiate model. The imposing former Division III defensive end and Army veteran is built for the part.

It's not so much that he hates agents, he despises the unscrupulous ones. That's why he worked for four years developing the state's own Uniform Athlete Agent Act. It took effect Jan. 1, 2013.

He has kicked representatives out of the Ducks' locker room. Agents have to deal with him if they want proper access to Oregon players. Positioning himself like an imposing D-end he played for real, they can't go through through him.

"I will hunt them down and report them," Hawkins told SportsBusiness Journal.

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It was supposed to be cold this morning but the mercury stalled up here on the mountain at 10.3 below zero.