Bo Nix reveals his favorite pregame stretching exercise
During the offseason, Oregon Ducks starting quarterback Bo Nix has answered a number of questions over a variety of topics. But recently, the Ducks signal caller took on his most challenging question yet when he was asked to name his favorite pregame or pre-practice stretch.
“That’s actually a great question,” said Nix. “I like, so we do A-skips at the very beginning once we get in lines. And that kind of gets you in, I guess, running condition; kind of gets your body going. That’s probably my favorite.
“That’s been around for a long time. I remember doing that when I was in middle school, back in stretch lines. So that’s an old one, but it still works.”
While that question may have made Nix stumble just a bit, he and the Oregon offense are running full steam ahead into the 2023 season. Oregon came up just shy of making it to the Pac-12 championship game the last year, finishing the regular season 9-3 and 7-2 in conference with losses to Washington and Oregon State. The Ducks did finish 2023 with a win against the North Carolina Tar Heels in the Holiday Bowl to finish the season 10-3.
In his second and last at Oregon, Nix is looking to build off of his best collegiate season in 2022, where he threw for 3593 yards, completing 71.9 percent of his passes, 29 touchdowns through the air, 14 on the ground, to just seven interceptions. If Nix can surprise his impressive stat line from last season, Oregon will be a serious contender for the Pac-12 title and national championship in head coach Dan Lanning’s second season at the helm.
Nix says relationship with new Oregon players is really good
Nix transferred into the program last offseason. So, he is familiar with the process of getting acclimated to the Ducks’ way of doing things. Which is why he was the perfect candidate, as the team’s star quarterback and a former transfer, to explain how the new Oregon players are connecting with the rest of the team at fall camp.
“I think really good. We started when they got here. We just have a close-knit team, they connected overall, and then they just fit in and just kept right on going,” said Nix. “I think from a team perspective, I like where we’re at. A lot of the time, in this day and age, you get a lot of new guys and a lot of clicks and a lot of guys on teams that have been here for a while. And the new guys, I have a hard time matching or gelling together. But I feel like we have a very close team.”
Oregon brought in 27 players via the recruiting trail this offseason and another 15 out of the NCAA transfer portal. That brings the number of new faces entering the program to 42 in total. Which means, there are a lot of individual thoughts, feelings, and opinions that had to merge and align into one vision under Lanning in order to achieve the Duck’s goal of competing for a national championship this year.