Or 5 year old son.
I mean, listen to this.
Holy cow his is going to be bad, and we have Scott Barnes, Jon Smith, and Ed Ray to thank. That video is so terrifying it’s time to name names and hold all these people accountable…as well as the old guard.
Or 5 year old son.
I mean, listen to this.
Holy cow his is going to be bad, and we have Scott Barnes, Jon Smith, and Ed Ray to thank. That video is so terrifying it’s time to name names and hold all these people accountable…as well as the old guard.
I don’t understand why we have not seen more video of Smith; It is his “return” not Riley’s right?
Follow the link for Riley’s video and you’ll find plenty of Smith.
Beavs add one on a RBI bunt 1-0 b3
Luke throwin’ K’s and Madrigal making plays.
I almost lost my shit… All you can do is laugh, wtf!!!
Riley is such a dork.
You lie.
He’s a three-time quitter who gets paid millions to be a quitter.
I insist you apologize to all dorks for slandering them. Being known as a quitter is no way to go through life.
Beavs up 2-0 in b6
Luke 9 K’s, has given up 2 hits and one HBP.
ASU arm beginning to fade, but 7 K’s, 5 hits through 6
Rename the blog stretcharmstrongbeavs with that reach angry
@OrangeSwagger….is that you?
What reach?
I won’t watch the vid, because I don’t want to watch a known dishonorable quitter. But I’ll bet that dishonorable quitter is a dishonorable quitter.
And I guess that’s a surprise to anyone who sees him anew.
Morons.
I give up on OSU football as long as OSU football gives up on itself.
There is no reach to be had.
Blah blah blah, you sure can’t let one mention of riley go by without blathering on about him being a quitter. Your opinion, and the consistent blathering on about your opinion is just obnoxious. We all get your opinion that he is a quitter. That is not why any other person on this site doesn’t like him.
What fucking opinion?
He quit on OSU twice.
Is the number two just an opinion to you? Are you one of those wishy-washy minds that thinks quitting is not quitting?
I’d love to hear your take on how divorce isn’t really an end to a marriage. It must just be some legal opinion or something.
What kind of upside-down world do you live in where facts are just opinions?
My opinion is that you’re a moron for conflating fact with opinion.
Anderson quit, riley bought out his contract to take a better job. I draw. In a business that firing is a major threat at all times, I have no problem that a coach puts his career above an institution.
You also have no problem when that institution chooses to normalize that behavior.
Show me any companies that do that, and I will show you major divestment.
You obviously aren’t part of corporate America. People often come back to a company that they have “quit” for a better job. Often, they come back to an elevated position.
Either way, my main point was to say that your argument is getting old. Look at this topic and you will see that you have monopolized the topic just sayingthe same crap over and over. It just screams that you are trying to convince people that you are right through repetition rather than merit.
Do those people quit without notice… or even over the phone?
I highly doubt that since being a professional is the reason they are considered eligible for hire by a competent company.
We’re also talking about CEO level pay. So you’re going to have to go above what I would consider assistant coach status at best. But we’re not talking about moving on up the food chain here. We’re talking lateral moves borne of greed and/or obstinance.
So you’re either a merc or unprofessional. In this case, he’s both.
An efficient organization understands this and will not normalize what you are trying to normalize. It is an immediate failure. And then you have to come to terms with the static thinking you just rehired. I have seen people get rehired at certain places where they were unceremoniously waved to on their way out the door because of actions like this. I have never seen it work out well. Soon enough, the organization realizes why that person wasn’t a good fit in the first place.
We had this discussion already. I think the only company we could find that did rehire a CEO was JC Penney. You can see how that worked for them.
“We had this discussion already”
That was my point, we have heard your point for months. It hasn’t changed, move on with your life and stop blathering about this on the blog. You have around 25% of this post talking about “that quitter”.
You want to talk OSU football, then this is what you’re going to get. This is what OSU football is, lock stock and smoking barrell. My position doesn’t change because OSU football has yet to change for the better.
This is what you will hear constantly until OSU football decides it wants to reenter the norms of decency, honor and integrity. Until then, this very visible pimple on OSU’s face will e pointed to as the very very poor decision it is.
If you don’t like it, do something about it. If you’re fine with it, take what it brings with it like something other than an entiltled whiner.
Put another way, if you want to talk about OSU football as being relevant and respectful, you need to first remove their disrespect for themselves. Until that happens, the first response will always be a request for them to grow the fuck up.
Anyone who wants to normalize this is missing the forest for the trees, not vice versa.
Quitters are as quitters do.
Just like drinkers gonna drink, right Jack?
I suppose?
That’s a difficult question to answer because one of the two (quitting and drinking) is free.
It’s hard to be a quitter and still have enough to buy alcohol, let alone really good whiskey. Unless you have a bunch of chumps in your pocket, you can’t be a quitter and still make coin.
What’s he going to do?
Quit?
ASU brings in a new arm for the b8, Luke still standing after 8, 106 pitches.
If you aren’t watching, you’re missing some very solid D (and excellent pitching) by the Beavs.
2-0 good guys.
EDIT/ADD: Add to that some nice baserunning, an Adley FEETFIRST slide and a couple ASU E’s and it’s 6-0 Beavs still in the b8.
Beavs add on 4 more in the eighth to make it 6-0
Why tf is Luke still pitching?
127 pitches and finally pulled
Luke kept in the game, I believe, because Casey/Yeskie have to consider the psyche as well as the physical aspect. Luke appreciates the opportunity to go for a complete game.
Obviously, Just my 2 cents.
Just seems like a ton of unneccessary extra throws for our most valuable arm, with the game seemingly out of reach
Yes, it does seem that way.
A CG is a proud moment.
Why do you want Luke to not have it?
They usually pull him at around 100 pitches. He got up to 120 and gave up a HR and allowed 2 more on base.
Hurt his ERA plus he didnt even get the complete game.
Understood.
But unless the win is in question, let him work it. Especially on the front of a weekend, arms are golden.
This just in……..from the GT
…Added Heimlich: “On Friday nights, it’s my job to go deep into games and keep the pen out of it. So I was pretty upset when I had to come out.”
Heimlich allows 5 hits 1 run and deals 11 strikeouts to lead the beavs to a 6-2 win
Quitters never win, and winners never quit.
But if you want to hire a quitter,
make Nebraska your bitch.
… and just become a quitter and dishonorable person yourself.
Nothing like being a two-time quitter at one place, quitting while on the job at another place, sabotaging anything even remotely good at the place you quit twice before then stepping in with the oblivious “I’m just an innocent bystander, not a multi-quitter looking for the easy out from a bunch of chumps.”
Nothing like being a record with a skip that states the same thing time after time….
Give it a rest.
Why?
This is now my relationship with OSU football.
It’s a deserved consequence for a very poor decision. If OSU football wants to quit, I will abide so long as they do.
I guess you could say that me playing OSU’s record over and over is what’s annoying you. It’s not mine.
You want it to change?
I do too.
Building the Dam want to remind everybody that bringing Riley back was a good move. Their February twitter poll proves it.
https://twitter.com/BuildingTheDam/status/990093286709780480?s=19
Fuck that noise hard and thrice!!!!!!!!!!!
“Am amazed to find that there are actually folks, OSU fans, that aren’t thrilled to have Riley back. Great developer of talent. Great offensive mind. #GoBeavs”
#barf
Great chewer of gum……
Golly, thanks for the compliment! I try my goshdarned best to bring strong jaws to every game. pound sign chewthegum
I don’t hate the re-rehire of Mike Riley, btw.
I just know it’s unethical professionally and personally, and it’s completely antithetical to best practices for efficiency.
I hate that anyone at OSU is that immoral plus that stupid. I hate that they make us all chumps if we want to cheer for our alma mater’s football team.
So I choose not to be a chump.
OK…… I will give Mike Riley this, he would make a great coach for 3rd grade Pop Warner. That video clip is embarrassing, it’s an insult to the young men that play on the team to be treated like 3rd graders.. Life isn’t 3rd grade.. That’s not preparing them for shit… That’s awful..
He’s a fucking quitter.
If anyone at OSU would like to discuss this, they need first to address this glaring weakness. Anyone under his purview is subject to his loserdom. He’s getting rich. He’s a quitter.
He’s a quitter.
And it’s not just after the season. As he did at Nebraska, he will simply quit during any given season.
He’s a quitter.
I hopeone day to make my case before someone who has an ounce of sense.
Until then… down in front.
Has anyone recently mentioned that Michael Riley is a quitter twice over at OSU alone? He’s also a quitter at Nebraska. But it’s rumored that he quit there so he could throw last year’s athletes under the bus with all the talk about him returning to OSU… as the quitter he is.
Come on….im no Riley fan but he left OSU to take much better jobs….get over it and move on….thats what Riley did…he moved on and then back and then on and then back…the rest of the story is about to begin again.
Yes… he left OSU.
He quit on OSU twice.
OSU is who he quit on… twice.
He put his best interests ahead of OSU… twice.
He didn’t even have the decency to man up when he quit the second time, slinking away with a phone call. He was probably on a recruiting trip when he met with the AD he got fired at Nebby… because it was such a better job… so he quit there in the middle of a season.
He’s a fucking quitter.
Fortunately, only OSU and Nebby are the only places he quit. If he ever wanted to rehab his quitting ways, there are hundreds of other schools at which to do so. But those two schools know first hand that he isn’t committed to them at all. And one of them was already burned by him once. So why the fuck not just go full chump?
I’m so done with college football. One douche of a quitter has spoiled it for me. There’s no getting over it until he just quits… again. I can’t believe anyone at OSU would be so devoid of ethics so as to allow some idiot to re-rehire him. But that’s the reality of OSU football right now. And it’s hard not to look at the whole of OSU athletics and be depressed. If something this majorly wrong is okay in their minds, what else is going on behind closed doors? There is an ocean of wrong between re-rehiring Mike Riley at OSU and doing what’s right. And then you have grey area to cross as well. If something this wrong is acceptable, anything wrong must be acceptable to OSU and our chump fans.
“He put his best interests ahead of OSU… twice.”
While he is an OSU-quitter (not quite at the level of Anderpants), pretty much everyone would put their own professional interests ahead of those of their employer. Are you obligated to stay at every company you work for until you get fired? Of course not.
C’mon you’re making me defend the gum chewer here *puke*
First, I would never quit without notice or over the phone.
So let’s now draw comparisons given your scenario.
I understand coaching is that way (minus the phone bit) because of the necessity to get an organization and recruiting in place. But that doesn’t normalize the very real actions that are taken in each instance. It’s still quitting without notice, leaving your former organization in the lurch… usually at the worst time in terms of recruiting.
When I leave a position, I give them enough notice so that they aren’t stuck without someone to do that job. If they don’t fill that role, that’s their choice.
In your scenario, you now have to explain to your kids that burning bridges is a normalized practice. In mine, I taught my kids to honor their commitments and respect them enough to be a great team player to the last day.
OSU doesn’t want that respect now. So I’m not going to give it to them.
What’s your point other than to hear yourself spout? Over and over and …
… over.
The point is the ghost of Lynn Snyder is getting its revenge on OSU right now.
I’m happy to say that Dee gives me a harumph when she sees me these days.
And that’s before I get to tell her what a dishonorable quitter her husband is.
Maybe not beg a quitter is a good ethic.. not that OSU would tell this to you with their actions.
We’re such chumps.
But quitting when you’re a loser AND still drawing a paycheck is just so – easy…convenient…
quit quit quit quit quit quit quit…..
Mike Riley
Quitter, quitter, quitter, quitter, quitter, quitter, quitter.
Ima start calling you OF – Old Faithful
I’ve been called worse.
At least he didn’t say OF — old fart.
And Jack is still a raging bigot.
You have the opportunity to prove that.
Until then, keep on quittin’ on.
Are you going to attempt to prove it?
Or are you all hat?
Come one, quitter!
Just do it!
I didn’t think so.
Actually, I knew so… just as you do.
So… no honor on your side.
Good to know.
Did you quit?
You have the opportunity to support your lies, but you choose to run away, like the coward you are. You don’t even double down by continuing the lie. You just confirm your laziness by running away.
Sad!
Come on.
Give the dog a real bone, you lazy little lying coward with piss-poor faith.
Of course, I can back my name-calling with your posts. You can’t do the same with mine.
Sad!
Agreed, but he’s not wrong about Riley
And no… I will not be coming over to see your Elliot Rodger shrine.
Here’s a list of things to watch for at the Spring Game today, by an AB’er or at least a kindred spirit! Starts off by taking a swipe at the “throw away newspaper written by *Morons* up north…”
Only thing missing from the list is the significance of seeing how each coach involves himself with his players. Our last staff would be checking out cheerleaders and gals in attendance, this group will likely have Riley sleeping, but how about the rest? Will they show energetic engagement?
https://pnwsportsfans.com/2018/04/27/osu-football-spring-game-preview-8-things-we-will-be-watching/
I have a list of one thing to watch when it comes to OSU football’s spring game:
1. Something else
Apparently over 100 former players attended the for “The Return”…they probably outnumbered the fans?
Something to consider for you Simple Jack apologists……………….
He left OSU twice. For bigger and better opportunities. Be that as it may, he fell flat on his face. Twice. What does that say about Mike Riley as a coach?
Will a report on the use and condition of the inflatable helmet follow todsy’s spring game?
Hey guys, does anybody think mike riley is a quitter? If you really think about it he quite twice.
I don’t see what the big deal is.
Luton gets picked practically on his first throw. Yikes.
Whoever had 36 minutes in as the time for Pac-12 Network to interview Riley, you win!
Being loyal to an Institution is stupid. So I have no problem with Riley leaving. In fact, I wish he’d leave again and stay away. My issue is that he’s a bad coach. He’s not even mediocre anymore. If you can’t win at Nebraska you’re bad.
We’re not talking about loyalty.
We’re talking about proper consequences to real actions.
Well… that’s what I’m talking about. If you want to talk about loyalty, then it’s also stupid for an institution to be loyal to anyone based on your premise. It would be doubly stupid to give any trust or loyalty to someone who has not earned it.
Well, in my experience, institutions are quite often NOT loyal to their employees.
So his premise is showing to be correct more often than not on the anecdotal front.
I won’t disagree.
That leads to the re-rehire of Riley being a highly stupid thing to do, if we’re to follow this premise. Institutions will act on information, not emotion. Loyalty is an emotion. Information is accumulated. Riley’s accumulated information related to OSU is that he’s a two time quitter who went on to be a quitter wherever he went immediately after he quit on OSU.
It should have been clear when he replaced Joe Pascale with some assistant DB coach, who hadn’t earned even the job he had, that Mike Riley isn’t a good coach. Neither is he beholden to the sport enough to even try.
He’s a quitter.
I hope you weren’t trying to defend that which is indefensible.
I would also say that his abilities as a head coach are not surprising knowing his business acumen.
Are they going to actually play?
Even Pee-Wee football keeps track of the score, but I guess we don’t
And Ryan nall is still not drafted? Seems like another year might have been worth sticking around for at this point?
I bet he’s thinking that right now.
Ryan Nall goes UNDRAFTED….as I predicted.
Media can spin it as a good thing that he can choose which team he wants to play for.
He’ll get a shot but it’s long uphill battle for him. Best case scenario, he sticks around on the practice squad hoping for injuries to the guys who make the cut.
Their loss.
Jets sure could use him over that awful 3rd round pick they made.
FA deal with Da Bearssss
https://twitter.com/Ryannall34/status/990364996927291393
PS, fuck Danny Moron
“35% of early entry underclassmen go undrafted. Bad decisions based on bad advice. https://t.co/pkGLsj6w2n”
Tweet from Coach Tibbs
Did we win the spring game???
It’s been so long since the Beavers won anything in football except for a coin toss.
My wife’s takes….
They need to pay people to show up.
Has anybody caught a ball?
They don’t need to pay me to not show up.
$50, a half case of beer and free tickets wouldn’t be enough to get me to show up.
Beaver football = steaming pile of burning garbage
Nall will either surprise the Bears/NFL or should have returned for a Senior season. I’m mixed, because he quit last year and I think insiders in the NFL saw that. Too bad, cause he is a talent with size and speed..
The Bears are a pretty poor landing spot for Nall. They have a pretty established – and talented – pair of RBs in Howard and Cohen that he’s not likely to beat out.
Realistically, he needs to be able to beat out Cunningham for the #3 spot, and then hope for an injury, or at least enough PT over 4 years that someone signs him to a real contract at that time.
FWIW- that’s not a bad path for an NFL RB. The average RB career is so short that a lot of talented guys never see the second contract, where the money is. If Nall’s good enough to stay on a team (and off the practice squad) for the duration of his FA contract, he has the chance to get a say in where he goes, get a significant chunk of change, AND keep some tread on the tires in the meantime.
Nall threw the Stanford game.
What? You’re back again with inside info?
I’ll bet you can’t share details due to fear of legal action.
The boys downtown will find that other subpoena for your thumbdrive pretty soon!
What inside info? Anyone with a brain knew he threw that game.
His quitting in the early part of the season led to him being unprepared to handle all contingencies, including the wham block that Wiley-Matagi half-assed.
I suppose I was fortunate to hear your original rant suggesting this… or you were.
That is one horrible call.
Home plate ump is trying to give Greg Street a run for his money
Baseball team playing like a Riley coached team today.
Agree. What a difference from the stellar D yesterday.
And as I get ready to post, a nice 5-4-3 DP to end the t6. 5-4 good guys.
One of the weirdest baseball games I’ve watched and it’s not over…..7-5 ASU Beavs bases loaded and Madrigal line shot to first for a d-play. Man, this game is so freaking weird. ASU second baseman on a routine throw to first throws wide opening the door for the Beavs with madrigal who makes great contact on a line drive right at the 1st baseman….inning over….yikes
He comes across as more of a mentor/cheerleader in this clip….I’m not seeing much actual coaching. In his position the coaching and strategizing should come first, not mentoring and/or pretending to be their daddy. It’s uncomfortable to watch.
We were gonna go do some fishing today but I decided to have a kidney stone instead. Never had one before, if you get the chance go ahead and skip it.
Ouch!
I had a friend who had pain one day, found out he had one, scheduled a sonic procedure and passed the damn thing three hours later.
He said it was not pleasant, but the relief from the pain afterward was worth all the not pleasant.
Plus… he didn’t have to go through the sonic thingy and pay for that. Although, I think the USAF would have paid for it.
OT: Sounds like some management at Nike’s been mistreating their women employees. NYT did a great write-up of it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/business/nike-women.html#commentsContainer
Good read, not only for the issues with women employees, but for how toxic their work environment is at large.
That is the worst game I can remember a Casey coached team playing.
Bad D, poor fundamentals, and boneheaded mental errors abound.
Is our star catcher injured, or did he catch Steve Sax disease? Can’t throw to second all of a sudden.
Yeskie won’t win any coaching awards this year. Without Luke, this season could really be ugly.
ASU did everything possible to give the game away and da Beavs could not take advantage.
Gambrell better pitch his ass off today.
Noticed in an article a recently that QB Pat O’Brien is transferring from Nebraska because he’s not a fit in Frost’s offense. Wonder if he’ll follow mike riley?
“The 6-foot-4, 230-pound O’Brien was recruited by former coach Mike Riley to run a pro-style offense.O’Brien, a four-star recruit in the 2016 class, leaves NU having completed 18 of 30 passes, all in 2017 mop-up duty behind Tanner Lee, who beat O’Brien last spring for the starting job. O’Brien played the second half of the 54-21 loss to Minnesota — completing 12 of 18 passes for 137 yards — in relief of Lee, who had suffered a concussion. Lee recovered the following week, however, and O’Brien did not throw a pass for the rest of the season”
If O’Brien was passed over at Nebraska when Riley was head coach, why would he follow Riley?
Because Riley’s offense was known for having their QB’s developed by their Junior/Senior year. Jury is out with Lindgren and Smith’s Offense.
Also no clear starter for this season or beyond. This is Luton’s last shot…no HS QB recruited this past cycle to RS this year and take over next, correct?
NU would likely grant O’Brien clearance to play at OSU. I don’t know if he would have to wait a year, or could practice this fall?
Luton is still trash
Spring Game was very fun yesterday. Watched some drills and then they scrimmaged. Would have liked to feel a little more energy. Saw former players, met Matt Moore, really nice staff around the stadium. Could go into Toyota Level. Weather turned out to be pretty good. Lots of kids and adults on the field at the end. Will go again next year.
What did you think of the pace of play during the scrimmage?
Seemed like a typical pace, not super fast but there was an emphasis on getting a call and getting the so the qb could make adjustments. A few things I noticed though from a guy that has never played fb:
-saw two dropped snaps (Luton and Colleto each) ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME
-Smalls seems to know how to make himself an open target
-some wide open running backs leaking out and missed by the qb
-Neither Luton or Colleto stood out
-Moran got snaps at qb (thought he was a wr now, not sure why Colletto or Luton don’t get those snaps)
-defense played fast
-our wr get open, we just need a qb to get them the ball (Taylor looks good)
Claunch with a nice throw to cut down SunDevil runner at 2b on steal attempt. Nice to see such a good throw after Adley’s recent miscues.
Middle of the 2nd Beavs up 2-1
EDIT/ADD: Claunch hits his first career HR as a follow up to that nice throw. End of 2, 3-1.
Solo shot for claunch to left, 3-1 beavers
Gambrell pitching like shit.
Again
Listening to Parker’s call today and yesterday and he has repeatedly made incorrect calls on the score, batter’s count, etc. and he’s done it consistently…..not sure what the heck is wrong with him.
Too many napkins pregame?
The ASU pitcher’s arm is going to fall off
Funny, Riley pretty much thanks the exact same group in this interview:
https://twitter.com/NickKrupke/status/990414651757244417?s=09
Riley must read AB…
Wow, too funny. Riley is senile, but at least he knows who’s to blame for him coaching here yet again.
Back to pretending he’s players’ dad, too. So disturbing.
Anybody who watched the spring game, how did Jaelen Bush look?
Also, is there a recording anywhere for those of us who want to see it?
He had 1 Sack and a few standout TFLS, and showed a lot of potential
Blunt was by far the best qb of the day. Decent touch, fit a couple of longer passes in as well.
The thought of an Anderpants QB being the best we have is terrifying
What if the coaching was just so bad, they made good players look bad? I still think even Luton could be okay with good coaching.
We’ve won with a walk-on before…
Past performance is not a predictor of future results.
Jake Thompson agrees
If he doesn’t, LSU’s bats would say otherwise.
Chokes when it matters most, Thompson.
In order for him to choke, he would have had to have unbeatable stuff then not find it at the most crucial time. I thought the whole argument was that he didn’t have unbeatable stuff. He just had good college stuff that wouldn’t beat disciplined bats, which it didn’t in the end.
Looks like bad/low snaps are going to be a concern. Again.
Beavs up to #3 in D1 poll. Casey’s team gets the benefit of the doubt.
Is Verburg out for the year? Sure could use a guy that can throw strikes.
Beavs strike out on transfer PG Christen Cunningham of Samford.
Wayne T cannot land a PG. Again.
Does this surprise you?
Being realistic the Beavs had zero chance of beating out higher profile programs in Louisville and tOSU.
He was down to us, Louisville and ASU.
Louisville is caught up in the FBI scandal and coaching change so I figured most players would avoid that program because of the uncertain future they face.
ASU actually has a PG. So yes, I’m a little surprised, because we have a team with experience at most positions, but no PG to run it. He would have started immediately.
But, I’m also realistic and know we are the Beavs, so nothing surprises me
Unless I’m mistaken, Cunningham is from Kentucky so Louisville has probably been a dream school for him growing up
He’s from a suburb of Louisville.
If anyone has time or wants to watch the Ohio State spring game….this is what we’ll be up against in September.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TN1ri2x8bs
One of my patients is an Ohio State grad and trolled me last week. Came in with Buckeye garb and said he just noticed who their first game was against. Christians vs lions was my appraisal and told him to check the baseball scores. Of course he doesn’t care about baseball. Team and fans will need grief counseling after the “Return” debut in the Shoe.
Are you a proctologist? You may be our only chance to shove it up the Buckeyes ass.
They look small and slow… Easy win, maybe Luton even gets mop up duty when we are up by 45 in the fourth.
Anybody here watch the show “Alone” on History channel?
I dont watch much tv, but happened to start watching season 1 last night(i think its currently in season 5)
Pretty good show. They drop 10 people on remote parts of Vancouver Island and they try to outlast each other out in nature with 10 objects of their choosing. The elements and animals of the area make it pretty challenging. Entertaining, slow burn type show so far.
I love that show! Didn’t realize it was back on.
I’m watching reruns. Not totally sure if there is a current season running.
Here are my few takeaways from the Spring game.
(1) Riley spent about 20-25 minutes of what was supposed to be practice time talking with Ed Ray. So, we know where his priorities lie.
(2) It now appears to have been a good thing that Blount preserved some of his eligibility. He was FAR superior to Colletto and Luton in being able to deliver a ball, or do something as simple as catch the snap when delivered to him.
(3) We’ll see a lot of the fade called if and when Blount gets the team inside the 5 yard line. it was the one throw all four qb’s attempted several times.
I’d caution making any kind of takeaways. The defense might just be really bad and makes guys like Blount look good.
Yeah it looks like most of the starting secondary is injured right now. Not sure who #14 is but from the limited clips I saw he was getting torched pretty much at will.
I didn’t mean to suggest that Blount was good; just that he was better than Luton and Colletto.
I think it’s fair to take away that the Riley shit show continues. Practice time is a regulated event and a limited commodity. Any waste of practice time is completely foolish. All popsicles and slip and slides.
I appreciated wannabeavs observation/report of Riley at the practice/spring game; still curious if other coaches did anything noteworthy.
I did notice that Eggers (in a tweet) wasn’t ready to say anything more than that the new coaching staff is “working hard” and that GA’s staff did the same.
EDIT/ADD: A bit later, Eggers says he wouldn’t disagree with this statement: Effort being equal sounds fair. I think it’s also fair to say Smith’s staff is a step above what that last guy assembled.
Recently there was discussion of Kwan’s walk up music. Lundeberg tweets this:
“…He was sick and picking up a prescription at a pharmacy when Dancing Queen started playing. It instantly made him feel better”
This Lundeberg guy handles himself like an actual Beat Reporter, a welcome change from what we’ve seen from the big zero.
New DamPodcast. Now, they finally decide to start piling on Andersen. They criticize the McM decision last year, among many other of his failures. A little late guys.
https://twitter.com/BrandonSprague/status/991138701752188928?s=19
Just like they criticized Riley after the fact. Nobody but AB has the balls to do this stuff in the moment while it’s happening.
I do enjoy their podcast most of the time, FWIW. Sprague is a dope, and Angie is always trying to sell subscriptions, but it’s still somehow entertaining.
MM quit too.
It’s amazing how much quit is ingrained in OSU and its fans.
Quit, quit, quit, quit.
OSU likes to quit.
And when we have soe team rise above all the quitting, the world knows we can be beat down by whatever means… because we know how to quit.
Greg Street corrupted the College World Series. We accepted it… because we’re quitters. Why rock the boat when you’re at least foot within wrong?
Re-rehiring middling putzes doesn’t help.
Old Faithful spouts again!
Let me guess you would stay?
If I didn’t, I would give proper notice as stated in the employee manual. And if I did but changed my mind at a later date, I would expect the organization to check to see that I left as an employee eligible for rehire… as efficient organizations would have classified me immediately after my exit interview.
If I quit without notice, I sure as hell wouldn’t go back to that organization and expect anything more than an email telling me they would keep my application on file. That’s just the consequence of a negative exit. So I wouldn’t ask any organization to dismiss its printed policy for just me, especially if I cared about said organization. That action opens the door to litigation when they don’t rehire anyone else for the same policy breach.
You also immediately diminish morale in those employees who do abide by policy or who do stay. Although, the level of sycophancy for this man is blinding the low bar of expectations met by his hire. But it will become apparent soon enough.
Thanks for the novel. I’m more interested in what you would do if you were in McM’s shoes?
Generally, I would work harder and win the job.
In his case, I would have put 10 more pounds of muscle on to show that I was committed over the summer to win the job outright. If I didn’t win it, I would have taken my reps at #2 and outplayed #1 on every one of them.
Then I would have put money on game three in the “When will McGiven break Luton” pool.
-or-
I wouldn’t have shown up for fall ball and committed to the team. I have my degree. That decision is to be made before I step foot on the field with any team. I sure as shit don’t have a foot out the door when I do commit to a team. That would noticeably affect my focus and performance.
Dunno about quitting per Jack, but luck of da beavs pervades. Why oh why did timing ordain that, when Riley left, (hip, hip, hooray) Gary Andersen would, in that moment, leave Wisconsin to curse Oregon State football for almost three years.
more like curse it for 5-6 years…he just made a rebuilding year into a rebuilding decade. Toxic is as Toxic does….kills. GA killed whatever Riley built and now JS is trying to rise this program out of the ashes.
Sincere question:
What do you think Riley built, if anything?
“GA killed whatever Riley built ”
I think Riley was already burning the program down, GA just poured gas on it.
Riley helped form a culture that is predicated on welcoming and family atmosphere. That is the identity of the program. Riley always was open to having former players come back, but JS, a former player himself now the head coach, that means more to Alums than anything. Riley had reached his end after 2 straight seasons playing the Civil War for the Rose Bowl. Riley went 6-2 at Oregon State in Bowl games and 1-1 at Nebraska(Beating UCLA first year, then lost to Tennessee second year).
Okay?
The question was what he built. If the culture is what you want to claim, then it should be one that survives after he leaves if it’s to be anything of substance in this context.
heh heh… identity
A culture that would fit your argument:
Barry Alvarez
One culture survived GA. One did not.
Other cultures that would fit:
DE and Prothro
Marcus was a former player for GA. So it’s now slowly coming out how GA was forcing his agenda on the team. We didn’t know the details, but we knew the details and facts would come out. They weren’t criticizing GA and his staff, they were just comparing the differences between coaching staffs and how players were treated, including the walk-on players.It’s enlightening.
Greaves basically confirms guys were run off. GA only played his recruits. That’s what I saw and tried pointing out, with much backlash. It was so obvious. Some guys had no business playing yet where in there, as better players sat on the bench.
That explains some of the early Nall mishandling. GA was going to anything he could to play his guys.
Nall having to learn the playbook on the O side and lose bad weight because Riley wanted to make hi a linebacker and played him as such on the practice squad explains all of Nall’s early lack of PT.
Don’t try and pawn that one off on GA.
Nall quitting in the early part of the season was also Nall’s decision. But at least that was something you can blame on GA because he started him over other RBs who were there to actually play.
Who was run off? Are we talking walk-ons?
McM was run off
MM wasn’t run off. MM quit.
If you’re saying MM was hurt by not getting the starting nod, that’s understood. But that’s not being run off. That was just a poor decision made by a coach or coaches. That happens on teams. If you’ve committed to a team, you understand this is one of the possible outcomes. Most players resolve to work harder.
Some choose to quit because their entitlement is greater than their resolve.
MM leaving was all MM’s choice. He committed to the team then left when his entitlement got the better of him. I’m glad it worked out for him. But he was never a leader on that team. Leaders aren’t the first to run away.
You saying over and over again that McM wasn’t a leader on the team doesn’t make it so. It makes it your opinion.
In fact, if you listen to the podcast Greaves was on that team and he was in the huddle when MCM was the leader on that team during the civil war win. First hand account, eye witness. Not an opinion.
Then GA did GA’s typical bullshit so McM went somewhere where he’d be appreciated rather than try to prove his worth *again* to a head coach that obviously didn’t want him there.
Oh… leaders are the first to run away.
That’s what I meant to say.
Silly me. Opinions are funny that way.
Leaders are the first to run away. Good to know.
Leaders have transfer plans in their back pocket when they show up to lead a team in the fall. Good to know.
Leaders leave their team without depth at a position they thought they had a leader.
Good to know.
I’ll amend my “opinion” of how a leader should act to conform to these facts.
How did I get them all backward?
McM was run off
Well yeah…
WFO, MCM was the leader. You could see and feel the air fall out of the team when he was put on 3rd string. He would have won them a few more games and made the offense look respectable. He wasn’t a game changer but a very good game manger who was improving each week. GA choose to be blind to that, and so GA went nuts, quit, and went into rehab.
Jack is just on his high horse acting holier than thou. If the best player is put on 3rd string for no reason other than the coach didn’t recruit him, then that player should leave and so somewhere he’s appreciated. Nobody worked harder than McM. Working harder wasn’t going to matter or get it done with GA. Jack has some major problems with his perception of quitting. He said Riley quit, too. Going after a better opportunity does not equal quitting. Imagine if every OSU grad just stayed out OSU out of loyalty? Lol. That Linus Pauling was a real quitter for going to Cal Tech! Lol
He put himself on 3rd string by not showing up for practice.
Try again.
He was already gone by the time 3rd string came around.
And Riley quitting is just what he did. If you don’t give notice, what do you call it? If you have a problem with quitting, then you have a problem with MM and Riley. They quit. Once they quit, they are nothing to the organization they left (without feedback, btw). There is no daydreaming about who they would have been had they not quit. There is just what remains.
I don’t begrudge him quitting to go somewhere he thought was better. I begrudge him coming back after somewhere better kicked him to the curb. It bothered the shit out of me when Bobby D allowed him to return. And I was not alone.
Once a quitter, always a quitter. If anyone was surprised by the second time, they were delusional about who they were studying. His pretty little nostalgia neat deals about Corvallis always rung hollow, more so now.
What Snyder did at KSU is completely acceptable. His greener grass was supposed to be family, not some other school… with the best fans in the nation. And the only reason he returned was because what he thought he left as a solid organization was having problems following his lead. I have a lot of respect for Snyder.
While I respect the decision to quit for other opportunities, I do not have respect for that person when I think of them through the lens of the organization they just quit. Perhaps respect is too heavy a word for you guys, since you don’t seem to know the definition of quit. Maybe I should say that lens would never allow me to trust that person for that organization ever again. I can’t really respect someone I don’t trust. I can respect them outside that lens, but not within.
You guys are trying to redefine some pretty remedial stuff. You can like this guy and dislike that guy all you want. You’re not going to change the basics.
Maybe you need to define what you think “quit” means. In the context of sports, it usually means “to give up”….but it can mean simply “to leave”. If the latter, yeah, he quit. I’d just say he transferred to a place that appreciated him and wanted him, but if you want to call that quitting (leaving) you’re technically correct. If you mean he gave up, obviously you’re very wrong.
Where he went has no bearing on his actions with OSU.
He showed up for fall ball. That means he committed to the team. He could have decided to leave in the spring. If he cared about the team, he would have given them time to find contingencies for the depth issue he leaves behind… not that GA would have done that at that position.
When you show up for fall ball, you are committed. When you choose not to be committed anymore, you have given up. It can be for the best reasons in the world, but it’s still quitting. His reason was entitlement. That’s fine. Buh-bye and good luck.
And before any of you try to retread the “GA bullshit forced him to leave” tire, does that mean that we need to amend the fool me twice maxim?
Fool me thrice, shame back on you.
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For the record, I thought Luton winning the job was the wrong call. I could see where the coaches thought their plan for the O led them to make that decision. But I was completely against their plan and would have rather had a game manager with wrinkles until we got someone who could actually compete for the job.
Yeah, that is convoluted thinking. Sorry. If you meant he “quit” in the simple sense that “he left permanently” then technically under that definition you’d be correct.
As Greaves noted, GA lead McM on to keep him as long as possible. He should have left earlier because it was obvious GA was doing this, but he was so committed to the team he tried to ride it out.
Sure. Keep telling yourself that… and that basic definitions are convoluted.
I’m waiting for someone to tell me that thinking one deserves something isn’t entitlement.
New definition for convoluted:
Simple, singular and unwavering
I’ll add that to my new definition of leadership.
Re: Riley’s coaching of the TE’s
I was at the Mountainside scrimmage/practice, and I was as close as any fan could get to the TE’s as they did some drills in the corner of the EZ. Riley wasn’t around for half the time (not sure where he was), but when he was around, he didn’t do much coaching.
Let’s be clear – Brian Wozniak (quality control assistant) is really coaching the TEs.
Riley is a figurehead that the university trots around like he’s some old legend or hall of famer. I hope that he treats this year as his pseudo-victory lap and then “retires” to some consultant position where he’s not on the actual coaching staff next year. Let him schmooze donors in the Toyota Club next year and give hip-hip-hooray speeches, but get him away from the day-to-day football operations.
So my perception of the video is spot on? Good to know.
Looks like my perception of the short clip was spot on too. Mr. Rogers is alive and well in the Oregon State football program. It’s a good day today, and why shouldn’t it be?! Ok Bilbo Baggins, time to go sail away and take your long and needed Holiday.
Change that to “….let him SNOOZE in the Toyota Club next year….”
If he’s schoomzing donors, he’s reinforcing low/no expectations. I also fear OSU retaining him as a consultant and prolonging the mediocrity. “Yeah, sure, whatever. Just make it your identity. Looks good. Have you transferred the funds to my account yet?!?”
He should be coaching at a Corvallis HS for free and hanging out and sleeping at the Toyota Club where fans can chat him up. He should not a representative of OSU in any fashion.
” Riley wasn’t around for half the time (not sure where he was), …he didn’t do much coaching.
According to wannabeav above, MR spent significant time brown nosing Ed Ray.
Ray was explaining to him what an A game looks like.
That’s why it took so long.
So I went on Rivals site and looked up the Pac-12 coaching recruiting rankings….makes sense JS takes the #9 slot on this list.
https://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/CompositeCoachRankings?Conference=Pac-12
Wow, on the DamPodcast Angie says (and Greaves confirms) GA lost the locker room with the McM decision. Again, what I wrote AT THE TIME, and people laughed. Is being able to see situations a gift or just detaching from emotion and looking at the situation objectively and logically?
This Podcast is fascinating. Best one they ever did and confirms so much.
Seems like GA was so stuck in his ways of having his guys for both coaching and playing. Especially at qb position with Blount and Garrison coming in. I get it if they were both legit power 5 starters but they weren’t/aren’t. Riley or not, it’s going to take a couple of years for JS to be able to start to turn this ship around and put his touch on things. Hearing players talk about the improved energy and coaching is a start. It can’t do anything but help improve on the recruiting trail as well.
It’ll get better faster if js can get a QB. Not just any QB but one that can will his team to a w.
That’s the key to get the ball rolling. Ga was never able to get that QB. Many thought garrettson would be a version of Keaton. He obviously wasn’t.
I think everyone knows we need a QB.
and a PG after that
I’d rather have the PG first. At least that’s a depressing reality I’m still willing to watch.
Yep, looks like you were right. Just remember, if your McMaryionection lasts longer than 4 years, its time to see your doctor!
Andersen sucks.
To be clear, they’re saying he lost the locker room by making him #2. Is that correct?
Couple Twitter convos with Greaves:
https://twitter.com/angrybeavs/status/991352003392520192
https://twitter.com/MarcusGreaves_/status/991353988648878080
Best in the history of the school?
How far above .500 was he overall? How far above .500 was he in conference play? How many conference championships did he win? Did he build off what Barnhart and DE put in place by completing the facilities, as was planned?
If the answers are not a perfunctory bunch of zeroes plus some mention about a blue practice field, I would probably give up on that person as a valid source. He seems to be mailing it in.
I believe Tommy Prothro was the best at 63-37-2. And he won 3 league championships with 2 rose bowl appearances. I would have less of problem with riley if he had that resume.
If he was that good we’d want him around.
Why on that podcast does Angie say she liked Riley being back? When he left, she treated him like a pariah and said it was time for change/glad he was gone. They talk about Riley more than Smith in the opening minutes. So disturbing.
My guess is, she’s glad he’s back for other reasons than a HC. I always thought Riley would make a better assistant than HC, but he’s proving that theory wrong after him basically having a Graduate Assistant coach the TE’s while he collects a paycheck. I could see Riley going up to Wozniak and asking,
“So what kind of drills do TE’s usually run? Cone drills, ball handling drills, oh, they can learn blocking techniques from Michalczik right? I don’t have to do that portion. Catching drills can be fun, I can still sling the ball around a bit…may need to work on it a bit more, but I can manage that.”
If you need to ask around how to teach a position group how to prepare and what to do in practice….you shouldn’t be that position groups coach. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a new TE coach next year and Riley become an Offensive Analyst or something.
Well this is because the old guard engineered his return. They had to find a position for him that looked minor, so they gave him TEs. Now we see he has no idea how to coach them, and his roll is much larger. He’s there to coddle Smith and the media. That he was seen schmoozing with Ed Ray rather than coaching his position group is also a red flag. What a disaster.
In the video, he talks about “getting that call” which stopped him from taking another job and changing things up so he would come back to Corvallis. But in previous interviews, he’s talked about initiating contact with Smith and suggested that coming back to Corvallis was his idea. I’m not saying there’s a conspiracy, but why can’t he get the story straight?
Either he called Smith asking for a job, or Smith called Riley asking him to join the staff. Which one is it?
Liars always mix up their story.
The truth is that the old guard wanted Riley back, but that wouldn’t be palatable, so they put Riley Jr (Smith) as HC. Remember, Dee knew Riley was coming back to town months before anything was formal and the moment he was fired at NE. There was no national search. As soon as they knew Smith had interest he was their guy, and they could bring Riley back easily under him. I’m not sure it matters who called who other than it highlights that this was all engineered (i.e. not being able to keep stories straight is a sign it didn’t happen organically as they’re trying to make it seem).
‘The call’ is what happened. Not going to be a popular or believable answer on this blog, but it is the truth.
Too many brewskis?
Then he lied about it in other interviews.
So now his credibility is shot as well. Not going to be a popular or believable reality at the VFC or Gill, but it is the truth.
Been offline all day. Sounds like WT picked up SDSU decommit Jordan Campbell?
Shooting guard. When he gets a point guard, call me!
What’s your number? These guys call him a PG
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/aztecs/sd-sp-jordan-campbell-sdsu-20170815-story.html
Maybe there are multiple guys with that name. When I googled him it came up shooting guard.
Is this the same player?
https://247sports.com/player/jordan-campbell-46035768
247 going all out with that profile pic.
Lets call him a combo guard. Same guy
Ducks’ Yovan with the 3 run HR. Up 3-0 over OSU after 1
Larnach gets 1 back with solo shot. Adley walked
Larnach follows with a solo jack 3-1
Anyone have insight on Conforto and his injury? Is that surgery a career ender? Seems he can walk but not hit anymore.
https://www.mlb.com/news/all-about-mets-michael-confortos-injury/c-250540776
So he should be fine by now.
He’s not hitting at all. It’s concerning.
Change his walk-up music to ABBA?!?
Gotta give it to Luton he has a good sense of humor.
https://twitter.com/angrybeavs/status/991451238708330496
Beavs take a 4-3 lead in the 4th
Re:MBB. Check out the only “like” on this tweet.
https://twitter.com/HerkyCoug/status/991464933110923264?s=19
Drew has/had lots of issues with his own game, although I am curious why he’s all butt hurt
Probably didn’t like every close game turn into STJ 1-on-5, chucking 3’s
Just as effective as missing dunks.
I’m no hoops guru, but isn’t a PG looking for the assist first and setting up the shot? Maybe Drew doesn’t understand how it’s supposed to work.
Beavs win, 4-3.
nikegon only gets 2 hits, and that’s without using Luke at all; Abel a nice 6.1 inning outing and Mulholland again does his thing facing 5 and eliminating them all (surprisingly, no K’s).
Thanks for the update! The O only posts beaver baseball stories when they lose a game…..
FTD, FTO
Got to love Riley’s latest tweet.. I’m not usually a grammar police guy, well I never am… But when Riley screws up it just makes too much sense.. Honestly………. There was a time when Riley was good for the program, but that time has passed.. Nothing lasts forever and the school needs to move on.. It’s OK to move on..
“latest tweet”?……actually his ONLY tweet!
Riley’s twitter activity is such a joke! For those who have little time to waste on things like this, I’ll recap: Prior to last November 25th it is all Nebraska (TLB), since then, two retweets and now this mention of a recruiting trip.
That’s it! The “talented recruiter” (aka: Assistant Head Coach) has posted ONE original(?) tweet since he was re-rehired!
https://twitter.com/Coach_Riley
He doesn’t have Gundy around to run his account anymore.
Check out the replies to his 1 tweet you mentioned. Nebraska fans are all over his ass. It’s pretty funny
I love the one thst says “Thanks for everything you tried to do at Nebraska.” Do or do not. There is no try.
Thanks for everything you said you were going to do but never actually did?
What’s it say? Riley banned me. Lol
Seriously? wow….
Yes, it’s been that way for like 3 or 4 years. I am pretty sure Gundy ran that account and blocked me back then. So lame.
I think Gundy was behind #beaverjuice. That’s a solid legacy in my book.
Desmond Howard coined the term, accidentally. He meant to say “I’m not sipping that Beaver Kool-aid just yet” but said Beaverjuice.
Fan jumped on that term quickly and Gundy followed suit
And after Howard said that, OSU choked at UW, correct? Would have been a program record 8th straight win if I recall correctly. And I often don’t…
And Angry almost shut down the site after that loss…
Flash forward to now and OSU AD and OSU football are still underperforming. Casey has been steady, Rueck has had obvious success at WBB…
Looks like beaverjuice came out game three (Arizona – 9/29/12) of that year, which was my memory. This is from 10/6/12 and references Howard saying he wasn’t ready to drink the beaver juice the week before.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2012/10/6/3464410/david-pollack-delivers-in-n-out-burgers-and-some-beaver-juice
Just a generic “heading out of the road” tweet to let recruits know he’s headed to california. See screenshots below
https://ibb.co/bD6dES
https://ibb.co/ge5uon
The reply below it is just the “Riley doing the Carlton dance” gif, because I figured it needed to accompany his post.
https://twitter.com/BeavRecruiting/status/991461490858147840?s=19
I posted screenshots but the spam filter must have blocked my post?
Yes.
I don’t see the big deal about the tweets. Am I missing something?
Not a particularly Big Deal, just more confirmation of how out of touch is MR. Really, originating a single tweet since November?
Those who can view his page will note that, in what I suppose is termed his “profile”, on the left side, he lists his title correctly as Assistant Head Coach. However, at the top of the page it says Associate Head Coach/Tight Ends Coach. The word associate is partially covered by a pic of MR; all that shows are the letters “ate”, certainly not the last three letters of “assistant”.
A small detail which is more likely an example of slipshod work rather than intent.
https://twitter.com/Coach_Riley
check out the video highlights on Olive of the new guard the beavs just landed. The kid reminds me an awful lot of GPII but much more polished offensive game, great leaper, better outside shooter, good passer, good shot blocker….I think he’s quite a get for the Beavs given he’d committed to San Diego State and they let him out of his commitment. Hopefully, the kid can qualify academically. I think he’s going to be quite an impact player for the Beavs if he meets the academic requirements.
More comparable to a Russell Westbrook style play. Westbrook’s HS tape was a lot like this.
Unless Tinks is going to open the floor and condition these guys to run, half his talent will be wasted.
Postgame report from enemy territory…………….
Nice outing by Kevin Abel. If not for a throwing error and hit batter by Britton in the 1st inning, that’s a solo shot. Once again, free passes kill. Britton was his own worst enemy that inning.
8 straight over the ducks. Nice. Whiskey’s old man reminded him that Pat Casey won’t be around forever.
PK Park is much nicer than Goss. No metal bleachers that I saw and the concourse has plenty of space for people unlike Goss. Maybe if Horton hired a better hitting coach they wouldn’t need to move the outfield fences in. However, he forgets the opponents hit too. I foresee some real slugfests there in the future.
Did you bring your own food too? One more advantage over Goss
Unless of course it’s dietarily necessary, then I guess Goss is on equal footing.
F you Scott Barnes
I only caught the last few innings on TV; sure seemed like the announcers spent a lot of time explaining how the ucks could still make it to the post season.
Speaking of Barnes. I caught part of an interview he had during the spring game where he spoke about some facility upgrades coming this summer to Reser. I want to say he mentioned new “ribbon banner” electronic signage is going in on the west side. Did I hear that right?
I cant even imagine where it would go on the west side, plus any west side improvements outside of tearing it down and replacing it just amount to wasting money. Why dress up the part of the stadium that needs to be replaced the most. More band-aid solutions.
Can somebody tell me if I heard him wrong?
I also noticed during the spring game how much concrete is blank where there could be logos or at least some color. Maybe there is usually more color but they haven’t put everything up yet. I look at other stadiums on tv and it seems like the stadium is littered with their school colors.
The school that just can’t get out of their own way. What exactly is the message they are trying to send?
“We know we suck at football, but we have a good baseball team”?
Self deprication isn’t a good look for a university.
https://twitter.com/OregonState/status/991756934318510083?s=19
And they’ve already deleted it. Dumbasses. Screen shots below.
https://ibb.co/gRmepS
https://ibb.co/nyKM3n
Wouldn’t this be better?
https://preview.ibb.co/g022R7/IMG_1591.jpg
Posted screenshots again, but blocked by spam again. No biggie, just Oregon State’s official twitter account showing they have no idea what they’re doing.
lol who the fuck thinks that’s a good idea to post
Guess we need to hire outside the university for marketing
Just a fail on so many levels. The meme itself was played ouy several weeks ago, and nobody really currently uses it anymore. So from that perspective, they’re showing how slow they are to catch on to current pop culture.
Then they use the meme to essentially take a shot at their own football program, which is supposed to be their biggest revenue generator and “front porch” of the university.
It’s like Nike saying “We know our products are ugly and are poorly constucted, but at least we have nice shoe laces!”
I haven’t seen the meme at all, but it looks like the fake Marilyn Monroe quote from about five or six years ago.
WOW! Really?! They really need to hire people who are innovators and not Interns. Just because you have a marketing degree, doesn’t mean you know how to advertise/market the product you’re trying to sell. Maybe hire a salesperson to work in their marketing department?
Oh wow, they’re trying manipulation techniques. That’s pathetic.
It’s been a popular meme the last few months. Just insert random millennial thing and add dumb saying.
Russian hack obviously
Nah… the Rooskies only like to work on malleable losers who would rather lionize a man’s almost successes while ignoring his abject failures over a span of decades.
So they hacked Riley’s Facebook account?
Confidence in Barnes = zero
Can we go negative on confidence? If so I’m going -?
I think the message they are sending is that -273.15=37.78, when expressed numerically.
Oh…NOW I see.
Another way to look at it is in the context of the immaturity of the actor. Think of it more like your teenager after you’ve grounded him or her, and they’re running away from you whining something about how they hate you or something equally irrational.
Lady Quacks lose fourth player to transfer.
Whoa! I haven’t been following them, was surprised at how many had left the program. Recap in this piece from the Eugene paper, which still projects them to be a pre-season top 5 in the USA!
http://www.registerguard.com/sports/20180503/mallory-mcgwire-is-leaving-oregon-womens-basketball-team-will-transfer-to-boise-state
Now they’ll find 4 all americans to transfer in and somehow get the 1 year waiting period waived.
Haha. If they follow their men’s pathway.
Didn’t realize Oregon also had a 5 star player who will be eligible next year too, which probably led to the transfer. That means 3 of the top ten recruits in 2016 will be playing in the state of Oregon next year. Weird. If Oregon doesn’t score in this next recruiting cycle, they’ll be in a lot of trouble once ionescu leaves.
Ayuso went home to Spain. All are due to playing time… and less expected for their remaining careers there. That, and I think one of them wanted to get a degree in a science, which Nikegon doesn’t offer.
Leaving the ball hog in while blowing people out so she can get her triple double cuts down on everyone’s minutes and can’t be good for team morale. McQwire is a legit loss. Net gain for da Beavs to not have to face her next year.
They weren’t going to see her next year.
Now they might.
What? If she stayed at Oregon, she would have been the back up to Ruthy and, therefore, the Beavs would have seen her. She was tough and played Marie Gulich tough in both games last year. She was a physical player that also had a nice soft touch from the outside. Still don’t get your comment though….
Nope.
Incoming Sabally and Boley will eat all the front court minutes available, and she knows this.
I agree that she’s a decent player. She’s not a 30 minute player who can retain intensity over a span of games. But she’s a quality 10-15 minutes with a couple full games here and there. On a lower level, she can probably extend her minutes.
So the Beavs still have Jake Dukart from LO HS coming in the fall as a true freshman. Are JS Lindgren and potentially Riley’s input too, willing to play him immediately if he’s the best QB coming in, or will they redshirt him no matter what? I wouldn’t play him against OSU in the Horseshoe unless it’s in garbage time and they are going to burn his redshirt year. We will have to see how they handle an incoming QB. GA started a true freshman at QB and look how badly that turned out in getting QB’s to come to Corvallis.
His new name is Beavart. No duck-art allowed.
Not rebuilding, just reloading….
Doing a few days catch up. Regarding the previous post/discussion. Tinkle on a hot seat could make Gill reek next year.
Hoops: Senior highlights of the Beavs new basketball recruit who bailed on SDSU. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhB4SECiYlw
After seeing these highlights, the way he can dunk I am upgrading him to a 5 start. 247 and Nemec please update our recruiting rankings and spread the word. Thanks
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Biggest waste of talent to ever wear a Beaver uniform.
From Lundeberg’s latest piece on Beavs Baseball:
…OSU hasn’t been able to replicate the brilliance and consistency provided by Jake Thompson (14-1, 1.96), Drew Rasmussen (3-0, 1.00) and Max Engelbrekt (3-0, 0.43)….
…OSU still has plenty of talent on the mound, but the losses of Thompson, Rasmussen and Engelbrekt have been felt.
“There’s no doubt about that,” Casey said. “No doubt.”
http://www.gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/baseball/osu-baseball-no-weak-links-in-beavers-batting-order/article_ffddfbb7-5488-5860-a910-48398e225cae.html
I’d wager good money those same players wouldn’t replicate those numbers themselves. Then we would be experiencing their losses in a different way.
It’s not like we’re racking up the losses now. We had a .500 stretch over a few weeks, and now we’re toiling with 7 losses.
This guy gives a shit about school athletics, hire to replace Rueck?!?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43998174
Ha! Meant AD Barnes…
Well, I won’t be able to listen to 1080 the Fan in Portland anymore…..It’s the new home for the athletic department to the team down south. they switched from 750 the game to 1080.
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/176390/kfxx-1080-the-fan-portland-to-air-university-of-or
Today, from the office of stupidity at Oregon State Athletics, Hawaii head coach is pissed off because we mailed recruitimg info and spring game invites to some of his current players(which is a violation in and of itself)
But how did Coach Rolovich even know we mailed his players? Well, funny thing…..we sent the mail directly to the University of Hawaii.
Ffs….
So now coach Rolovich is going all public tattle tale and blasting us on twitter, while alao tagging the NCAA and….Lavar Ball?
https://twitter.com/NickRolovich/status/992340819817320448?s=19
Um… tattle tale?
That has to be the stupidest recruiting violation I’ve ever seen.
He’s not tattling. He’s recruiting. And he’s apparently been given an edge by some people who probably need to be fired, heavily sanctioned at the least.
Meanwhile, we’ve got some coaches who are excited to find some future beavers.
But hey!
There are no apparent systemic faults that would have led to this being an expected outcome.
So there’s that.
Remove Mike Riley from the mail room. Problem solved.
The mail room did its job. The mail was obviously delivered.
Mike Riley is off the hook this time. Can’t bike the mail over to Hawaii.
heh heh…
He’s not wrong.
https://twitter.com/umiguessso/status/992411186275680256
This is the perfect time to humiliate Barnes and put him on a super hot seat.
Maybe they thought the school wouldn’t notice because they were sent c/o Mark Banker.
This recruiting tactic is pretty dumb. We have coaches from Hawaii….Maybe they are trying to get Hawaii investigated with us getting this minor recruiting violation? There is no excuse for trying to talk former players into transferring to your program…what does that tell your current players? How does this instill trust in the players and team you’re currently trying to coach?! Whoever sent these, needs to be sanctioned or removed from the mailing department.
Something’s fucky about this. No one is that stupid, it has to be a glitch. Like forgetting to delete some players from a mailing list then sending out a mass mailer.
That glitch which you mention would be extreme stupidity and/or laziness as well.
Every football program has little glitches here and there that constitute minor offenses every year. A coach will call a PSA twice because he didn’t cross him off a list the first time. Someone who shouldn’t have got a milkshake when their older brother was on a visit. Etc. You’re going to find probably 5-10 minor blunders like that within any program. They’re self-reported and given minor sanctions.
This is a really big no-no.
But it’s also an indication of efficiency.
I’d be inclined to agree with you but there’s just one little tidbit of information that bothers me……
If what you said were the case, how in the fuck do they get mailed DIRECTLY to the University of Hawaii athletic department? Once those players have committed and signed, shouldn’t they be removed from the database?
This whole thing just reeks of low level incompetence. But it is Oregon State and what I have come to expect.
Did this mailing happen in March? And just now Rolovich goes to twitter?
Does it even matter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RWvcuVKHa0
With all of the NCAA regulations regarding recruiting do’s and don’ts, you’d think we would have a QA assistant or at least an intern designated to catch these violations? I mean if we don’t have some sort of quality control, this speaks volumes to the level of incompetence within this athletic department.
I didn’t believe that this department was thatincompetent but this has definitely changed my mind.
FFS is right. Barnes has to go and everyone replaced within the department.
Department?
That’s 203 years of coaching right there.
List of suspects within OSU Athletic Department:
http://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=992&path=football
http://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=991&path=football
http://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=995&path=football
http://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1015&path=football
http://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1012&path=football
http://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=990&path=football
http://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=989&path=football
Perfect time to remember that Barnes is an Andersen crony. Can we really expect competence?
GA quit.
He gone.
You’re attacking Barnes because he sucks at major revenue sports coaching hires.
I agree with you on that.
Sadly, some lower level employee is going to lose their job over this.
Even more sad, the firing won’t fix anything.
If OSU football adopted an American Indian name, it would be Runs With Scissors.
That would imply some sort of athletic talent.
Maybe “Trips on Shoelace, Drops Scissors in Ocean” would be more appropriate?
Everybody hurts… sometimes.
Chewsguminsteadofcoaching?
In other news: beau baldwin will be the next head coach of Oregon state football!
Maybe OSU should self impose sanctions. Vacate all win/losses of the last 4 years? Deal?
Lol, that’ll show’em.
One vacates wins because someone involved in improprieties (like this) is actually swayed to go to OSU and play in those wins. These would be future players.
So a one year self-imposed bowl ban should do it.
With our luck, we would go undefeated in pac12 play.
My understanding of what may have happened is Kefense Hynson and Legi Suiaunoa, had a list of players on their recruiting list in an excel spreadsheet or word file with contact information. With this list of players to recruit, had been recruited, and players committed, they probably sent one to everyone on that list to their current addresses, or affiliated adresses.
That’s nice.
So I guess the only thing we need to wait to see is if we self-reported before now.
I mean… we’ve only had 1.5 months to do so.
Two ways to look at that scenario…
The “Oh shit!” way: There are more kids from other schools who got these, making it that much worse.
The “That’s sad,” way: Those are the only kids they recruited who made an NCAA roster on any level.
In other news… at least we’re not Wazzu.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/23395190/audit-finds-mismanagement-washington-state-cougars-athletics-program
#sloppycougars sounds about as bad as #sloppybeavers
I wonder if Mike Leach is excited to find some future cougars.
Saw that the other day…Moos moves on leaving WSU $65M in the hole…. ?
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