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Let the mayhem begin. Saturday and Sunday will be broadcast on TV. I have a crappy feeling the Ducks take 2 of 3 as I don't see the Beavs scoring many runs versus them…it will come down to OSU pitching outdueling those guys.
| 05/17/13 | at Oregon * | Eugene, Ore. | 6:00 p.m. PT |
| 05/18/13 | at Oregon * | Eugene, Ore. | 2:00 p.m. PT |
| 05/19/13 | at Oregon * | Eugene, Ore. | 12:00 p.m. PT |
Let the moaning begin: Article
The Ducks will lose one or two scholarships for three years, have some restrictions on recruiting and be placed on probation for five years.
They'll avoid the hammer, penalties like a bowl ban, rescinded titles or vacated wins. Those "looming sanctions" will no longer loom so ominously.
Fans of other schools around the PAC-12 will be moaning that the Ducks got a slap on the wrist, but the ruling feels appropriate and reasonable. The investigation took so long that UO deserves some credit for time served.
Appropriate and reasonable? So they get to a title game and 2 Rose Bowls with those players, yet only lose 1 or 2 scholarships, and this is reasonable?
UO deserves credit for time served? What time served? Scruitny for cheating and (negative) public opinion now count as time served?
That's nice.
Go NCAA.
I thought this was funny, sad, and interesting. From Deadspin:
You can read the full article here.
Game times:
| 05/10/13 | at Stanford * | Stanford, Calif. | 6:30 p.m. PT |
| 05/11/13 | at Stanford * | Stanford, Calif. | 2:00 p.m. PT |
| 05/12/13 | at Stanford * | Stanford, Calif. | 1:00 p.m. PT |
Just a quick update for those interested in the switch from BNO streams to Pac-12 streams.
I received confirmation that the streaming operation is the same as it has been since 2008. The past two years of TV on Root were the same crew of students on camera as the stream, augmented by graphics and with Jim Wilson and Erik from KEZI doing commentary. As everyone knows, the stream is no longer a subscription service. This crew works on campus and point their encoder to the Pac-12 streaming servers, which streams for free without requiring a BNO subscription.This year, when the Pac-12 TV network covers a game, the coverage is a completely separate operation–they roll in their own cameras and setup their own production. The old BNO crew isn't involved in those productions.
In the past, apparetly the complaint was no overhead camera. This year, the complaint is that there's no CF camera (my complaint too, which is why I looked into the matter).
Also, as noted here a month ago, it seems there's legs to the rumor Pat Casey asked the CF camera be removed. I've heard this from various people.
OSU is notoriously clandestine, so hopefully this sheds some light.