Next game is Thursday, meanwhile, what can be learned from a 6-1 start where the Beavs outscored (81-26) and outhit (86-62) two teams who are just OK and two who are less than that?
Things like BA and runs scored are surely related to the competition. BB’s received, Slg% and base stealing success too.
Let’s hear thoughts on areas that aren’t very dependent on the level of competition. Things like hitting 7 batters in 7 games, or committing 8 errors in that span. Things like over sliding the bag (lookin’ at you, Bazzana) and getting picked off of 1b (Turley today). Any tendencies you’ve noticed. Other things which can give hints as to how this squad will perform against higher level opponents?
Which Beavs have been most surprising so far? (Forrester’s wheels and play at third?)
What’s the best starting lineup?
Any stats that stand out, good or bad?
Other baseball thoughts?
Go general if you’d like with thoughts on PAC12 broadcast predicament? Tinkle’s future? Chance that WBB wins another game? Other General Stuff?
Have at it,
GO BEAVS!
Fiiiiiirst!!!!
To comment on the post…
A lot of the early errors are learning opportunities. Hopefully, things that will not be repeated over and over. I don’t have as much faith in some of the older players making errors and learning from them.
It looks to be a very good team.
Second!
Tinkle stinks
If it’s any consolation, take a look at Louisville’s season.
Made me smile.
Especially after eating asparagus
Too early to judge. All but one top ten teams have a loss (Wake Forest). Vandy and TCU have three already.
WBB : Beavs play Wed, late game in LV – I hope they have fans there. Perhaps the AZ game will help keep the team together. Sidenote: Reagan Beers has a ***** smile. This Senior Day, Ron Callan sang the Serbian National Anthem.
Ron Callan’s twitter has Reagan’s smile, his singing, and a recap vid of the AZ win (pay attention at 1:47)
https://twitter.com/roncallan
Until they play Stanford in mid March this team’s ceiling is hard to predict
Equally important is how good this team is when (if) Ferrer and Mundt return.
Agreed
Musgraves continues to rise up the boards. Big opportunity at the combine to move way up.
https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-s-top-50-2023-nfl-draft-prospect-rankings-1-0
Cavanaugh the new OL coach for the toilet seats.
Big story line to watch there for me is drop off on OL as the Cristobal-coaches guys move on
As reported here last week, Cavanaugh will carry title of assistant OL coach and offensive analyst. Since the ’22 season the OL staff in swooshville has had numerous changes as Beav in OH has indicated.
-Viona T was a GA, he’s gone to Stanford
-Adrian Klemm has gone to the NFL; he held the titles of Associate HC/OL Coach/Run game coordinator.
Newcomers:
-Cutter Leftwich as an OL assistant
-A’Lique Terry as the OL coach
-Cavanaugh
Of course, they’ve got a new Offensive Coordinator as well and some turnover on the defensive side too.
Phil keeps digging into the vault hoping for that (dare I say) illusive natty.
I suppose there are at least two sides to the coaching turnover thing. Lots of TO could mean you’re developing talent in a successful program or, even, that you aren’t satisfied with results and are searching for a way to improve. OTOH, lack of TO might indicate a patient long term approach or acceptance of mediocrity (where have WE seen that??).
Cav is plenty familiar with that.
Mediocrity ?
I think turnover in this case is related to production. Like it or not, the Ucks had a productive offense. Nix was rarely sacked (though he was sacked and TFL as a runner in the CW), and they had a highly productive run game. One of the most productive offenses in the PAC and country I think. That’s a reflection on both the O coordinator (Nix’s best season ever, fewest INTs, probably fewest sacks, based on scheme to get rid of the ball quickly) and both Oline recruiting AND coaching. I think going into the CW the Beavers had the number one overall D, but after the PAC season did not. Second or third?
But the turnover also suggests to me these staffs don’t want to stay in Eugene. I don’t blame them. OSU’s line coach could clearly move on, but he appears to want to stay. At least for now. Maybe he’s older. Maybe he’s got kids in school, or he likes the Corvallis environment enough to offset the higher pay elsewhere.
But that CW victory is sweet, and this turnover on the Ducks’ staff suggest to me they won’t sustain their productivity. I always thought Cav was overrated.
May Phil finally find his cheap beer!
The coaching carousel is just a thing.
It’s possibly more equalizing than many things, outside NIL sums… if it were anything about competition.
Good!
Do you all remember how Cav OL were constantly hurt in pre-season camps? Bear crawls and getting yelled at is what I remember of Cav OL. Time will tell how Cav does at ucks.
Watching Caleb Hamilton in camp for the Red Sox. Smacked a double then scores on sac fly from second when center fielder lolly gagged that’s some beaver baseball!
then Jake Thompson pitches the 9th for the Red Sox to Caleb at C that’s what I’m talkin bout. Go beavs
Larnach also played in that game too. All three were on the team in 2016.
Jake Thompson is Awful. Just ask Angry
Give it a rest
Beavs up to No. 19 in Baseball America ratings.
Per Beav Blitz pod, Dernedde was sick this weekend, hence not playing. Hope MC rides the success of Mikey Kane though vs going back to Dernedde. However, I don’t see Mitch doing that as he stuck with him all year last year when players like Trosky were as good defensively and had better plate appearances. I love seeing the Beavs beat teams they should…Coppin State has like 100 wins in its history or something like that so while a win is a win, we should be putting up big numbers vs this level of comp. There’s bound to be some drop for sure once we hit Pac 12 play and even some or the midweek matchups, like Portland, will be very telling. This squad is somewhere between the team that played the first few games and what we’ve seen the last 4. Which end of the spectrum…we shall see. I do think pitching is still a question mark…can the starters make it thru 6 or 7 innings and limit how deep we need to go to bullpen?
I can’t wait to see how good Turley can be. He gets on base either with the bat or with walks which is awesome to see from a power guy who doesn’t take cheap swings. Really looks mature in the batters box for sure.
Which series will be their first real test? I don’t follow other baseball teams enough to know this, but for those of you who do, when will we actually learn something?
Stanford in mid-March
Thanks. That’s a ways off.
I know this is boring stuff and off-topic, but dealing with Apple might not be the worst thing to happen to the Pac 12.
And Kliavkoff may not be a madman, given what could be in the near future.
hmm… I must have flubbed the tag.
Apple will buy ESPN prediction
Wow, that’s pretty interesting and actually could see it happening. Disney has been less interested in the ESPN portion of their portfolio in recent years so would make sense the network is available.
The downside is I find Apple’TV and ESPNs user interface and security layers quite a bit less user friendly than something like Netflix or even Amazon PrimeTV.
But also very fixable.
Think: Pac 12 Network interface being adopted by Apple via lease or outright purchase.
I’m not an Apple fan, but one thing they do very well is lead tech-deficient people to be just as tech-deficient as they were before and after they were subscribers.
They’re looking for both content and infrastructure, and this could be it.
There will be no linear TV subscriptions, by the time some of these TV deals end.
Related to the topic above of nike hiring Cavanaugh, sedge just reported that “Oregon State Defensive Quality Control Assistant Brian Michalowski” has been hired to be their new inside linebackers coach.
Weird they took the cheap route
Michalowski goes way back with Lanning; at both Georgia and Memphis. He was rated #15 PAC12 recruiter in 2020 when he was at Colorado.
Time to hire heyward
It’s not like they need recruiters, with the money they’re paying their players.
How do we get them to hire Tinkle?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/football-world-reacts-to-the-big-ten-expansion-news/ar-AA182Ix7?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fcd3e5ef49364454a1a8bfbce03e4c3a&ei=42
(Not sure link will work on click, but copy and paste works.)
Mountain West, here we come. Maybe, we can turn the Mountain West into one of the Power 6
So what’s in it for UO or UW fans, students, and alums?
The school gets more money, and they get to probably never play their rivals again, plus no more road trips to conference games.
Only the jetset get to play?
And UO would be in the WAC, right now, if it wasn’t for their ties to OSU. It’s not like football powers don’t come and go, and the first West Coast Heisman school didn’t insist the rat school come with them, if they were to rejoin the now Pac schools.
Also, any realignment value is in Palo Alto, not Seattle or Eugene. USC and UCLA will suffer mightily, without the Bay Area and its money and influence. I know they thought the move was about money, but they will soon find out how green the grass is in Indiana in December.
UW does wield some power, and they would have been an immensely more sensible choice for the B1G to poach, instead of UCLA. But the play has been made, and now UW and UO would be making moves out of desperation for short term security.
A: “The school gets more money,…”
And they think they have a better chance for playoffs? I don’t think they do. They may become 2-3 loss teams at their high end now? Once they start traveling and playing those cold, away games…
There was a hilarious thread on Twitter the other day talking about changing clock rules to shorten college football games. The general consensus was “fuck that, have fewer TV time outs”. The B1G and SEC fans were dismayed to learn that those TV time outs are a direct result of their conferences massive TV deals. The fuck do you mouth breathers think the money comes from?
It’s not just talk…….
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35754068/ncaa-panel-eyes-shorter-football-games-cites-player-safety
There’s also talk in California that UCLA will be made to repay Cal for any loss of revenues, due to their greed.
So that ought to be fun.
There is as much speculation being thrown around as ucks have in uniform combinations. They aren’t getting anywhere with the Pac-12 media rights, so now they’re cycling back to B1G expansion talks like they did last summer. No one outside of those with direct dealings with the Pac-12 Media Rights deals know anything. “Sources” could mean a catering company who overheard something while refilling the coffee at an in person meeting.
ASU’s AD said he expects them to close a deal with enough revenue to “keep the conference together.” Should be good enough as a short-term bandaid, at least, but the long-term writing is on the wall.
The short term media deal is to bridge the gap until 2029/2030. By then, it will be known what the major conferences are wanting to do with expansion and renegotiated media deals. If an ACC merger is to happen, it most likely won’t happen until 2036 when the ACC media deal expires. Third point, with the new expanded CFP format, it will give the conference a viable chance to have 1-2 teams in the CFP each year without expansion, with going from 9 conference games to 8 and adding an additional non-conference game later in the season like the SEC does now. So imagine playing a Portland State or Idaho State or Sac State in November instead of September. It would make the Conference Championship Game more meaningful with an 8 conference game schedule.
An MSN article citing Jason Scheer is like Yahoo news citing an intern at Oregonlive on Arizona/ASU news. Not saying it couldnt be true, but that’s pretty thin on substance.
I take it back, its more like Yahoo news citing Mama Machado for Arizona/USC news.
The Oregonlive intern would be more credible.
better
just dumb speculation… that any of us can do
I saw some name for some dude who is apparently a writer for the Groanian saying something about going full streaming being a death-knell, in lesser words than I just put forth.
dude’s a tool
the only reason I have “linear” TV is for the Pac Network.
Kiss that ass goodbye, and I’m a happy camper.
So any loss before Stanford I get to write “Miiiiiiiiiiiiitch”!? Sweet!
It’s baseball. A loss before then isn’t the end of the world.
Ten games before Stanford, I won’t be surprised with 2 losses.
Not a major focus, but I hope not to see HBP at the 1 per game rate we’ve tossed so far. Also gonna closely watch for smart baserunning.
yeah… pitch control is more than sketch
just put the ball over the plate, and let the fielders play
Maybe I missed it but there wasn’t any Pat Casey coming back to coaching rumors this last offseason, was there?
Straw poll for ABs:
What is the preferred option for the PAC12 and media deals:
1) No expansion and go with any network that will take us
2) No expansion and hold out for the best media deal with streaming as the focus
3) Poach Big12 and go for a bigger conference with slightly better media rights from Fox/ESPN
4) Expand with MWC schools and hope for an improved media deal
5) Coastal Conference merger with ACC and demand a big media with the added leverage
6) Fold the tent and join the MWC with 10 schools intact as a group
7) Disband and let each school fend for themselves
8) Mega conference with multiple Big12/MWC teams joining to make a 20 team mega conference and hope for a lucrative media deal
9) Sit tight and wait for USC/UCLA to beg to return in 2 years
This is why there isn’t any clarity because there are too many variables and not much tv demand
I prefer the ACC merge or the mega conference approach at this point. But it seems unlikely to have anything beyond a collapse in reality.
ACC merge -with- the Amazon streaming deal.
I think college football is underestimating the cord cutters. I haven’t paid for cable TV in 15+ years and I won’t ever do it again. If people get a taste of high quality sports streaming with minimal/no ads it’ll become the new standard.
That’s the thing people don’t get about ESPN: their user numbers are declining fairly quickly. They can’t keep splashing big cash on rights deals if their revenue is drying up.
They’re still a big player in this rights cycle, but the next one is going to look pretty different. I’d expect Amazon, Apple, etc. to be on more even footing.
Just saw where Iger confirmed they’re going to cut back on spending
ESPN is spent
As a result, I will have zero reasons to need ESPN
Bye, ESPN… and the TV package I needed to own to see you.
such bullshit, that I had to pay for several years of “linear” TV, just because providers have been idiots.
The ACC is a mess. Clemson is arguing for unbalanced revenue sharing and that won’t go away once you bring UW and Nike ego and a marriage of unequals into the picture. Plus they have a few years left on their ESPN deal, so it would be difficult to work out a profitable scenario for all parties involved.
In a perfect world the Coastal Conference idea would be cool, but it seems highly unlikely.
It is unlikely, which is why it’s somewhat fun to think about.
Beyond some 15 teams, football doesn’t make money for any school, beyond TV deals. And even those who post numbers in the positive are probably lying, using accounting tricks none of us have ever seen before… or even in the past.
I don’t see a way forward for college football, except to become a minor league, with a draft an d payment schedule and all that.
Otherwise, fuck the NFL.
I don’t need to be subsidizing their asses.
Seems they need to expand at this point. Need strength in numbers to protect against attrition, increase time zone presence and market size thus increasing value. Assume media value with 16-18 institutions spanning 3 time zones and 6 new TV markets could fetch $420-450. Limit to 5 years. Add Fresno St, UNLV, SDSU, SMU, Tulane, Rice, Boise St (pay $19M ea) and Gonzaga ($14M). Pay UW and UO $35M ea. Pay Stanford, Utah, Arizona, ASU $30M ea. Pay Colorado, Cal, OSU, WSU $25M ea. Time to get creative since standing pat doesn’t seem like it would keep UW and UO content. Of course, if we could get $350M (but I’m thinking $250M is more realistic) annually with existing 10 schools, that would be best… pay UW and UO $40M, WSU and OSU $30M, and everyone else $35M.
Giving Oregon and UW more money than everyone else in the conference is an absolutely terrible idea.
That’s what they’re going to demand.
Both can be true.
The biggest whiners have the biggest donor bases.
Wish in one hand, shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.
Wanna bolt for the B1G? Which doesn’t even want you and you’ll have to take less in revenue than everyone else?
You go right ahead. Enjoy those 7-5 and 6-6 seasons.
All I can say is I hope USC doesn’t have to play the powerhouse Tulane Green Wave regularly in the BIG20 that looks like it would not turn out well
I don’t give a fuck about their stupid conference my only goal is for the beavs to go to the rose bowl
Rotation at Cal Poly:
Thur–Rhett Larson
Fri–Trent Sellers
Sat–Jacob Kmatz
Sun–Jaren Hunter
One thing that has continually baffled me and it’s really my only criticism for the coaches right now is the Jaren Hunter obsession. AJ Lattery is leaps and bounds better than him but can’t crack the starting rotation over him? Trying to understand that. Lattery has performed well everywhere he’s been and I think should be their Saturday guy. He just knows how to pitch
This comment didn’t age well
FOOTBALL:
On their podcast Bahns and Mama M float the idea that Riley Sharp could be the next Jackhammer.
Apparently it’s already been announced that he is moving to TE for next season.
As for Jackhammer, I think they may be overlooking the value of the originals experience at QB and his overall FB IQ.
It does seem that moving Sharp from OLB shows confidence in the rest of the room there, pretty bold in my opinion.
Teams should not set out to replace guys who are that unique. There is no next Colletto. Guys like that get replaced in the aggregate. The math changes every year.
You are right, OLB is deep if they are willing to move Sharp. ILB should be fun to watch in the spring. Tongue and Tufaga should fly around the field.
Yeah, hard to replace Colletto. However, we do have a true dual threat 250 lb qb that hits 20 mph so I’m not as worried about replacing The Jackhammer.
Plus so much RB depth. I wonder if Martinez will get more “wildcat” snaps(?) like he did in CW.
Fenwick also took direct snaps too. Ran one in for a TD at UW
Even if Sharp moves to TE, he could still play OLB if needed. I guess it’ll be nice that he can come into the game and throw off the defense. Smith loves the mind games.
“…That might have been the shot of the day that finished the game, really.”
A couple degenerates here are likely to start a FIRE RUECK campaign if they listen to his comments here:
https://www.gazettetimes.com/sports/rueck-on-win-over-arizona/video_dc8c8d7e-5f08-5d1a-855a-0b42d35ecdd5.html
I read it, was afraid to post it, figured you’d have to see a doctor after the four hour boner.
His wife is a doctor?!? Well done!
@OJ……..heh, heh, clever response. Candidate for COTT for sure!
I would have gone with “your mom” but “his wife” is good also.
So Jalen Carter was racing the car in which his teammates died… due to a crash caused by excessive speed?
This will probably drop his draft stock from first, overall… to maybe second pick, overall.
This is just hard to read.
https://twitter.com/SethWEmerson/status/1630945655781728257
Contrast that with this from Andre Carter II, Army:
“”I want to represent the Military Academy, the Army with the utmost respect while I’m playing,” said Carter, “just because it’s given me so much, and I’m really grateful for the opportunity.”
The 6-6, 252-pounder tallied 15½ sacks in 2021, second in the nation behind Alabama star Will Anderson Jr., who’s expected to be a top-five pick in this year’s draft. The effort earned Carter a spot on that season’s third-team All-American squad.
“He’s a talented athlete. He has crazy-athletic attributes, and so that’s gonna help him,” NFL Network draft analyst Bucky Brooks told USA TODAY Sports.
“Super versatile. He’s a rare guy that can play either from a stand-up position or in a three-point (stance). I think he is one of those guys, that when you think about a 3-4 defense – kinda being a hybrid player – he’s a perfect fit.”
Thursday’s combine workout will likely be Carter’s first exposure to a lot of teams and scouts, and he plans to use the platform as a showcase for himself and his school.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/draft/2023/03/02/andre-carter-army-nfl-draft-service-academy-military/11373769002/
His sack production really dropped in 2022, and he’ll face a very different level of competition in the NFL, but kind of rooting for him. He also says he’ll be able to build and maintain muscle, something that is hard to do with his current schedule and training requirements.
Is this the incident that happened after the national championship celebration? I thought it was a UGA female staffer who was driving one of the cars? Or at least i thought that was the story at the time? I havent been online much lately to catch up on news.
Yeah, looks like two cars were racing. Was reported as a single car crash in the initial reports.
It’s already bad enough, but even worse that they lied and had an innocent person take the fall for crashing the car when she wasnt even driving.
Whole thing is just really sad.
She was almost 0.20 drunk, and he left the scene… why?
This is pretty dark, but I feel it’s going to have a Tyreek Hill ending.
Happy March. 6 days until Spring practice.
Melton with a 2 run homer in the Astos spring training game today
Melton with a 2 run homer in the Astros spring training game today
Did you guys see Melton with a 2 run homer in Astro’s spring training game today…?!? :)
Do tell…
How did Melton do?
Apparently he hit a two-run homerun in the Astros game today.
Did anyone see it?
I haven’t been able to find a video
I saw Melton had a 2 run homer in Astro’s spring training today.
Anyone else?
Receipts or it didn’t happen
Perhaps the most exciting performance of the afternoon was that of Jacob Melton.
A tougher opponent coming up for the Beavs. Not that they are good, but they are more solid top to bottom. Expectations are to win the series. Lots of extra points for winning 3 of 4 in the RPI calculations.
On the road too.
Looks like no video for the series, radio only. Anyone heard that Josh Worden will be replaced by Jon Warren? Ugh.
Believe he’s got another announcing gig in Texas. Thought he already moved there so was a little surprised he handled these early games.
Bummer, but good for Josh. He is so very good but if Tinkle can’t pull off something special we’ll soon hear Parker.
The Rangers’ AA team in Frisco… with another Beav in the booth, I think
WAY OT:
Our buddy Hank at Go Mighty Card was asked via twitter to, “Tell me something you did that’s baseball-related that no one else who reads this tweet has ever done.”
His response:
While umpiring a Little League championship game at age 16, I ejected a parent for arguing, then ejected her son for throwing his helmet, then cancelled the whole game when other fans argued. Officially the first example of “fuck around and find out.” I was ahead of my time.
awesome
I once had a child go ballistic in a grocery store with a full cart of food.
I slung the child over my shoulder and walked out of the store, apologizing to the clerks, as I handed off the cart.
The next time I came back to that store, they thanked me for my swift action.
Apparently, that noise doesn’t bother some parents enough to make corrections.
Many times I’ve thought of making those corrections for the apparently deaf parents.
Did you ever return the kid to his parents?
almost immediately
Somehow slapping Beers arms while she’s shooting, two consecutive attempts, is now considered shot blocking
Hard to believe, Yeaney 0 of 7 so far.
Why is Keith richards on the sc bench?
To get some satisfaction
56–48, beavs win…no satisfaction for Keith and the condoms
Beers is truly special so athletic driving to the basket multiple times from 10 feet out! Marotte played super hard happy to see her earn those minutes! Still think timea should be playing more, go beavs
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/usc-women-basketball-crashes-pac-110624964.html
Pretty funny – USC lost because the officials started calling hand checking in the 4th quarter.
“Technically, according to the rule, the foul was legitimate and could have been called. However, a lot of those kinds of fouls aren’t called during games and weren’t called in the first three quarters of this particular game.”
This is how the beavs have lost so many in the fourth quarter, only in reverse. What typically happens is beavs’ opponents are allowed to get away with a few in the first three quarters then in the fourth they crank up the fouls getting mugged for 10+ minutes. Leaving the beavs in a street fight with no recourse,
Strange how when you don’t allow the beavs to be fouled literally ever time they have the ball, they can actually win.
Then,tonight’s game might depend upon the mood and whims of the officials. Colorado plays ultimate bully ball and features a couple of linebackers.
Their pg destroyed the Beavs last time they played at home.
This may be a controversial take but:
How long until a major university womens basketball team begins bringing in trans athletes to attempt to dominate womens basketball?
The game shouldn’t be a street brawl, especially womens basketball. The trajectory of less fundamentals and more physical play will begin the temptation of some programs to respond with more physicality, hence trans athletes who are much stronger and able to be more aggressively physical based on differences in the male and female body.
It has happened in soccer, wrestling, swimming, volleyball in some high schools already. I’m just wondering how long it will take for a desperate university to try it in womens sports at a higher profile school. I actually expect it to happen at a school like Oregon in the near future, an Attention starved school with lack of foresight and no real integrity for the conference or sport in general, only a desire to win and be praised. It
may have already been done by other schools without any fanfare, but a school like Oregon would want to be congratulated for changing womens sports by doing such a stunt.
Sadly the trans athletes stuff will destroy actual womens competitions as time goes on unless it forbidden for male athletes to compete directly with female athletes for safety alone, not to mention the integrity of true competition.
At the moment, I question if Oregon, with Kelly Graves, would do that but what option would a school have if such a person declared for a team? At the moment, I’m with Geno Auriemo who has wondered if some of the women’s teams are playing basketball. (or rugby (my word))
This kind of cynical pre-meditated effort would ultimately be harmful to the trans-inclusion cause because it would be so much easier to oppose than the “she’s just looking for a place to belong” narrative and would vindicate the “he’s/they’re just taking advantage of people” narrative.
I’d say you are making an assumption that previous attempts weren’t premeditated.
I’m not passing judgment on any of it with that comment. Just stating how it would be viewed.
I mean… transgender women have won NCAA titles and Olympic gold.
How controversial can it be?
It’s just people playing sports.
Right, what’s his(her) face Jenner, every east German to Olympic sport in the 70s, etc.
Maybe the answer is a co-ed league where there can be any number of men/women/trans.
As long as women have an anatomically different musculoskeletal structure from men, since birth, it seems unreasonable to put them in head to head competition with what were recently thought of as men.
If we’re talking archery, maybe it doesn’t matter, basketball…track…wrestling…et al, different story.
In my cynical perspective, since it seems inevitable that some schools will continue to push this whole agenda, why not shift half the mens team to the women, call them trans and win a womens national championship before other schools do the same? If it’s just people playing sports…punchline for OSU of course is that the men even playing as “women” still couldn’t shoot the ball.
Because that sounds really stupid and bigoted.
Why would someone want to be completely stupid and bigoted?
Sabrina Ionescu played for oregon
I think the Beavs may have a transgender PG already. No way that is a female.
Bro, don’t be the douche that’s pissed a woman can do more reps than you
beer gut says what?
Band nerd humor, courtesy of the Stanford band, a website in tribute to ‘The Spirit of Troy’
http://spiritoftroy.org/
Beavers football game @ SJSU has been moved from Saturday 9/2 to Sunday 9/3. Not sure what to make of this, other than it’s Labor Day weekend and it’s prior to the NFL regular season starting. So Sunday that week is probably a little more attractive than Sundays later in the season.
But still a little odd, and I dont like that SJSU gets an extra day to prep after playing USC in week 0.
Wonder if this has anything to do with an upcoming change to the Pac12 media deal?
Only one game was played last year on the Sunday of Labor day weekend. LSU vs FSU. And they are repeating that matchup this fall.
Maybe SJSU is getting the nod because they are showing off a stadium renovation too. This game better be on national TV in an east coast prime time spot.
Canzano on DJ:
https://www.johncanzano.com/p/canzano-uiagalelei-era-quietly-setting
Clownzano = D-bag
Dbag interviews DJ
FWIW, his wife seems nice
Damn, beavs wasted bases loaded in 1st inning. Scored 1 run, loaded the bases with 1 out and then get 2 strike outs. Always stings to have bases juiced and walk away with no runs.
Just announced Tyree Reed is playing for the Knights this summer. Good to hear he’s sticking around and hopefully he can stay healthy.
Saw that. Pretty impressive he’s stayed the course and trying to get back from all the injuries.
Dropped fly in CF, HBP after that…….we saw that type of thing in New Mexico.
I’m listing to the CalPoly radio guy, are y’all listening to Beavs radio (Jon Warren)? I don’t know how to get his broadcast.
josh worden is on broadcast
How do you get that broadcast, KEJO had basketball when i checked.
Nevermind, found it at am 620
1340 AM
I know this will come as a shock to you all, but the men’s basketball team has lost to Stanford by 23 pts. Stanford was 1 spot in front of the beavs. Good to know we can hang so close to teams with similar talent.
I’m sorry, but that was a pathetic effort, especially at home. They jump out to a nine-point lead, get the sparse crowd a little excited, and then completely tank in the second half. I know economic considerations are going to lead to Tinkle getting another year, but this is bad.
Yeah, we’ve been blown out so many times this year and by teams in the bottom half too. We should be competitive with the other shitty teams at least. I just don’t know what’s going to be different next year with Tinkle. There’s no offensive scheme that will suddenly develop in year 10 and these guys aren’t freshman anymore with the minutes they’ve played this year. Might even be worse now than in the early season with less experience.
True Mitch fashion, brings Dernedde back to the starting lineup and he’s 0-3. Good thing we sat Kreig who went around. 400 for the 3 game series.
Dernedde, he is who we thought he was
He’s batting .182 after tonight. C’mon now. After this last weekend we know there are better options too. I don’t get the infatuation by MC to stick with him. Same thing all last season. For a team all in on metrics and analytics you’d hope batting avg would potentially be one.
Guerra is also a hitting machine. Two guys with the best batting averages on the team did not play tonight.
Gotta wonder how much leash Dernedde has left. Might have to move him into a late defensive sub role.
Leash? Dernedde seems to be attached to a broken retractable leash.
Well he did execute the first Sac Bunt of the season, so there’s that. Sounded like a great play to start that late DP as well.
Somewhat like Noelle, he has flashes of brilliance in an season marked by little of note on the stat sheet.
Oh no…don’t do it oob.
WBB Beavs tied with #3 Buffa at the half
Yeaney 3 of 10 in the first half after going 0 for 8 last night. Tied at 33 at the half.
Baseball sounding ragged, 2 HBP, a Balk, 1 E, a WP aand 4 bb’s; didn’t expect to need 6 arms to get through 8 innings.
Buffs starting with the street fighter bullshizz
Sherrod on the Buffs plays completely out of control, both ends of the court, and never called for a foul…strange
The Sons of Mitch’s came back and won a messy one. Good experience to have for a relatively young team early in the season.
Now that the Beavers have ample QB talent, the development of the WR group may be one of the more intriguing stories during spring/fall camps. DJ can throw them open, and more routes will likely be used.
The primary TE should be great, increase pass catching opportunities for the RBs, DJs run threat has to be respected…
I expect they rely on the run game pretty heavily and then use play action to capitalize on big plays.
Bolden and Gould can outrun any DBs but we haven’t had anyone who could throw them open yet.
DJs arm alone changes the offense, and his running will be used less than we expect, although he should be pretty efficient on 3rd and 1 etc.
Beavs offense could be as good as USC next year, maybe even better.
It’s Lindgren. He’s going to start the season pass-heavy, then adjust when it’s obvious to everyone we should be running more (game 4 or 5).
Ya beat me to it, but I’ll put the o/u at 3 games.
Yeah, Lindgren has a new toy, you can bet he’s going to play with it.
Well that just sounds wrong…sorry.
“…and his running will be used less ..”
I agree and expect it. He will run a lot less than at Clemson and he will enjoy it.
BUT occasional use of it, the threat of it, will benefit other players. Going to be challenging to defend.
Those of you who own businesses, are you seeing any recession signs yet?
My hair has been in recession for about three years now…we must be getting closer!
We doubled sales from 2019 to 2021, the pandemic ended up being kind to our little retail business. We’re seeing things settling back to the prepandemic mean so far this year.
Is that recessionary? It definitely makes the checkbook feel like it but I think that’s a matter of short term perception. Anecdotally we are having a lot of folks complain about cost of goods, despite the fact I’ve held our pricing from 2019 to now. I was able to hold pricing due to volume but I ate all of my price increases, this year we’ll have to adjust so I expect more pushback.
What kind of business is it?
Onlyfans.
Hang in there, if anyone can handle pushback you can!
What kind of local/regional support do you have from “traditionally” pro business groups?
I don’t own a business, but it’s hard not to notice locally:
The waves of layoffs everywhere each week (including several friends in tech jobs outside of the big tech firms). Reportedly new hiring is absorbing a fair number of these so a lot of this is just labor shifting from a macro perspective.
The housing market is dead. There’s always an active market where I live and there’s almost nothing on the market because listings are staying open for longer and high rates are scaring buyers away. A realtor friend says it hasn’t been this dead since 2009.
Charitable giving is down, presumably because inflation is eating away at people’s personal budgets and there is less space in the budget for charitable giving.
More available commercial real estate than usual, even in high traffic retail areas.
I thought charitable giving typically went up during hard economic times? I imagine the changing of the standard deduction hurt charitable giving more than anything
Just speaking from personal experience gleaned from organizations where I’m active
so it’s anecdotal and an ohio thing.. because ohio flies hat way… got it
You’re not wrong.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/charitable-giving-dropped-last-year-in-the-wake-of-the-new-tax-law.html
We administer retirement plans and didn’t see any slowdown in 2022. But the first couple of months in 2023 have definitely been slower than anything I’ve seen in the last 5 years. But we did also have regulatory changes that may have slowed new plan adoption.
I never slowed down because my main customers are breweries, distilleries and cannabis.
I did just have my land lady not renew my lease on my shop space. No reason given. There’s more industrial space open since the weed operations have settled down, but it’s still pretty expensive.
We’re also looking for acreage outside of town and the market is pretty stale at the moment.
Men’s hoops – my goodness. There is no offense.
au contraire
Any truth to the latest rumors of UA, ASU, Utah, Colorado all in talks to depart to Big12?
Sounds like an off-season clickbait rehash of prior storylines from last year.
Klaikoff needs to get a media deal done asap or these stories will begin to disintegrate any trust within the remaining 10 schools.
Big10 has already shut the door on UW and Oregon joining, so it would still leave all 6 west coast schools stuck between a rock and a hard place.
If 4 corner schools bounce, Oregon and UW will be on the phone begging to join either Big10 or Big12 right away.
Klaikoff assures no schools will leave but soon enough each team is just going rogue negotiating their departure. Klaikoff will look like a fool even worse than Larry Scott…
First of all, it’s the three corners schools, and anyone who plays with the wrong count is a geographic idiot.
Second, they all know how affiliation elevates their own existence, because we gave that to them.
Will loyalty and honor follow?
Fuck no.
If schools leave regional affiliations for money, the can fuck the hell off.
Probably TMI, but will share anyway.
Had my first colonscopy this week. They removed a couple pretty large polyps that were obstructing my lower GI tract and causing some issues for me for awhile now. I got lucky in that the lab results came back negative when testing for cancer.
I wanted to mention this in case it encourages any of you who may be on the fence to get checked out, to just do it.
If they want you to get a colonoscopy, the procedure is a breeze. The day before prep isnt fun, you basically fast for a day and then drink a gallon of solution that causes you to flush out your sytem. That’s the worst part, but it is all very doable.
I feel stupid for ignoring the warning signs for as long as I did, but also got lucky. Dont be stupid like me.
Nice. I had my first one last year. All good here. It was weird when they emailed me the photos of the inside of it…
People should definitely get this done. It’s not too bad.
I had them show me the polyps they cut out and took a picture of them. Looked like a couple of small raspberries. The view from inside showed that they were basically obstructing maybe 75-90% of the tract. I’m sure things are a little flexible up there so in reality those percentages are probably smaller, but still significant.
I’ll be 50 in September. Probably time.
They recommend it at age 45 now, no longer 50.
Had one last year at age 47. Yes, I have an asshole and am one
Yep I had it at 45. It used to be 50. Smart to move it up…
All the shit you hear (pun intended) about colonoscopies is so stupid. It’s no big deal and a great way to get a really cool nap. Glad you guys are keeping your fingers on the pulse of things.
Make it fun, before you go under, say “Remember! The safety word is ‘taco’.” Or other preferred term…
“I taste metal” – Robert Schimmel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iucFquo_EyA
The nap was amazing. One moment I’m making small talk about work and the next moment I’m waking up feeling completely happy and relaxed, with zero memory of the past 90 minutes.
And I was up and walking/talking just minutes after I woke up.
“The nap was amazing”
Ahh, controlled anesthetics…as an insomniac i loved that part of it.
I had one a few months back and I was amazed at the “improvement” from the one I had 15 years ago. It was a breeze, the hard part is drinking that gallon of shit that leads to a night of shitting and not much sleep.
The procedure itself is the least of the process. It’s over in a blink.
The bucket of bowel cleansing down the throat is the hard part.
Yeah night before is the hard part. ObjCritic, as an insomniac, have you realized negative health effects from that?
Yeah, its really frustrating. It becomes a pattern. I power through most days but it eventually catches up with me after several and I have to sleep late morning…a side, more minor note, after about two years in it really ages the appearance, going to work tired affects attitude and obviously less energy. Trying to exercise more, and get back to a healthy sleep pattern. Otherwise, health is pretty good.
Yeah, I take two melatonins and a Tylenol PM to get about 4 hours of sleep and then after two hours awake I get sleepy again and sleep a couple of hours more. I very rarely work weekends so I do catch up on sleep sometimes.
I try half the recommended dose of Tylenol PM and sometimes that gets me past 1 pm. I’m trying not to rely on those regularly.
It’s definitely not the same as good, true REM sleep.
Glad to hear that! In Nov 2020 I had my first colonoscopy and they did find cancer in my colon. Had just turned 40 in Sept. Colon resection and 12 rounds of chemo later, am currently NED. Don’t ever be too proud to get a colonoscopy.
damn… good fortune to you
and damn skippy on the need for people to scope
take care of yourself, even if it is science
i promise, it’s not a conspiracy
Damn, sorry to hear you have been through so much the past few years CW. I dont know much about NED status, but sounds like that means treatment went successfully?
Yes, so far so good. Get blood work quarterly and scans 2x a year right now to monitor things. Colonoscopy yearly but now I can wait 3 years for my next one. Not sure I want to wait that long but that’s what my surgeon and oncologist recommend now based on my results post chemo.
Turley. Interesting kid.
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/03/with-scary-talent-piano-playing-outfielder-gavin-turley-is-new-face-of-oregon-state-baseball.html?outputType=amp
Double header with Cal Poly tomorrow at noon to wrap up the series due to expected rain on Sunday
Old Man Roberts back as a GA after one season in the USFL. Nice to keep the high performers around the program.
The Smith “Tree” continues?
Kane and Macias take the place of Dernedde and Bazzana today.
Riiiiich Dorman leaving Sellers in to start the b4……hard to believe, must be enamored of K’s?
96 pitches and the last 20 or so have been less than effective. Rich playing with fire, brings in relief with two on and no outs. b4, 1-1
Sellers seems to have some decent stuff but the guy needs to get further in the game for us.
Is he still having stomach problems?
96 pitches to get 9 outs? 5bb, 1wp and 7 K’s but the trend today showed him slipping, Dorman should have pulled him a couple batters before he did.
I hate billy ball for pitchers
while the pitch should be innate, stats aren’t going to tell you which pitches you’re throwing best at any moment.
if the best pitch is something you can’t do in the moment, it isn’t the best pitch.
And that translates to every pitch leading up to saturation.
If decent stuff is failing to hit the plate I agree.
The kid may have some stuff, but he’s failed to show it to us.
The “just run the damn ball” equivalent for a pitcher would be, “Just put the ball over the lower part of the plate, and make them beat you.”
I’ve seen a lot of walks without strikes.
This does not bode well.
Mikey Kane with another HR tonight. If he gets sat in favor of Dernedde at any point moving forward we know that Dernedde has dirt on Mitch.
A few football notes
Austin with a 4.56 40
https://twitter.com/Dubs408/status/1631751782891413504?t=FQFJwuRJzR_H2FguJMwy4w&s=19
Avery Roberts back as a GA
https://twitter.com/nickdaschel/status/1631740483964928001?t=leFMxzpITWqXIKNOsuccnA&s=19
I’m buying on the Austin time.
Turley HR from last night.
https://twitter.com/DASBeavers/status/1631909719865712640?t=5Q-CeJ41EaNbevYfYb3y-w&s=19
I’m by no means an expert but his swing just seems so good. Compact enough to really protect the plate but still generates a ton of power
The funny thing is, the one knock on him coming out of HS was a lack of consistent power.
Which doesn’t make sense as he led the state of Arizona in HR as a senior.
Son of a bitch. Might be worth a trip to go watch that kid.
“Anything that travels that far ought to have a stewardess on it!” – Crash Davis, Bull Durham.
Mustangs ignore the right/left matchup theory to start the game. All righties vs RHP Kmatz.
Bazzana picked off for the second out in the t3; of course Turley follows with a hit.
OK, Bazzana is certainly one of the stars on this team, but he has proven lately to need improvement. At least two times he’s over slid second on steal attempts and this pick off. There have been other baserunning mistakes.
Maybe he is just trying too hard but needs to play smarter. He is capable of better.
Maybe his cricket background is a bigger hindrance than we realize….
Luke Musgrave says returning in 2022 was not a real option:
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/03/oregon-state-tight-end-luke-musgrave-returning-from-knee-injury-during-2022-season-not-a-possibility.html
Beavs put plenty of men on, but couldn’t get them home. Lack of power showing up again. XBH is how you solve that problem.
Score? D1 not showing the first game for some reason.
4-2 loss
Not sure XBH is needed; earlier in broadcast Josh pointed out that Beavs were something like 1 of 19 with runners in scoring position.
A few timely singles would solve the problem.
EDIT/ADD: Example: Turley with a timely single with RISP scores two in the t3
Mitch has them all uptight under the pressure as each at bat with risp fails? Are guys feeing more and more pressure to not screw up and they then screw up because they can’t relax and just play ball?
Mitch and his arm chair psychology at work.
Depends on your aspirations for the team. How far do you think they can go just relying on singles and opponent errors all the time?
We’re talking RISP, nothing about errors (or even bb’s).
Just my opinion, a team can go a long way on clutch singles……with Runners In Scoring Position.
Yeah, cue the UCLA singles barrage when they came back in the 9th and extras to beat the Beavs in the PAC tournament last year – never seen anything like it (of course they needed some hard ass dirt so balls could bounce over the infield)
Musgrave with a 4.62 40 on his first attempt. Stumbled a bit near the finish line.
4.63 in his second attempt. Not bad.
4.63 on his second attempt. Those 40 times are not considered elite to be first round material. Probably keeps in the second round as top TE time this year was 4.54.
I read where Travis Kelce runs a 4.61 so Musgrave is right there as far as speed goes.
Dernedde follows the plan Mitch mentioned to begin the season……”We’re gonna leave the box planning double until the D takes it away”.
Double to start the t3. No score yet.
Just wanted to say one thing tonight: Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!
Hunter through 4 full………..45 pitches, nice!
2-0 sons of Miiiitch’s
MBB…holy shit! I went to get something to drink and they were already trailing Cal 9-1. It’s very, very early and Cal is awful, but screw the media for all of the Tinkle excuse-making!
3-1 series on the road isn’t too bad. Pitching was solid. Lack of actual run production was the only real negative I see in the box score.
MBB has finally taken the lead with 10 minutes left 52-50. They were behind by 16 in the first half. The final result is still up in the air.
Inspired by SoM, they complete an impressive comeback (at home against the worst team
In the conference).
69-66 good guys, whadaya mean “up in the air”?
And, in other improbable news: Dernedde is the only Beav with more than one hit in the 3-1 win this afternoon. XBH’s?…..yup, two doubles.
Never in doubt…
Compared to the Oregon game, they actually had a couple of nice plays in the final minute when they trailed by one. Not sure why Glen Taylor is no longer starting, but he had a hell of a game.
My attention to mbb has been in occasional video/radio clips. Tinkle’s weird sideline behavior, scowling, pulling players after missteps. Post game last night w Parker: Tinkle alluded to Taylor being disciplined but he was ‘good about it.’ (words to that effect).
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut. Those 2 his might put him around .200 on the year. We clearly have better options but Mitch has proven he’s not going to play more talent if it means sitting Dernedde. Hunter showed the form he had at the end of last season, be huge if he could be consistent for them. Starting pitching needs to improve for pac play. Our Ace can’t be pulled after 3 or 4 innings in league play.
.231 now.
How about Hunter with zero walks today and 5 K’s.
Would ya rather have 5 k’s with zero bb’s or 9 or 10 k’s with 5 bb’s?…..sometimes I think Dorman is in love with k’s when “pitch to contact” with minimal bb’s yields better results and might keep starters on the mound for additional innings.
I’m not a fan of giving free bases. While I appreciate a good strike out statistic, limiting free runners with fewer walks or hit by pitch seems more impactful.
9-2 is nice. But as of today? I have minimal confidence in Sellers as a Friday night guy if it took him that many pitches to get through 3+ innings against Cal Poly. Kmatz reminds me of Bryce Fehmel. Not overpowering but good enough if he hits his spots. A poor man’s Greg Maddux. Hunter seems to have the best results of the 3. So far. Could or should he be the Friday night guy? Back end of the bullpen feels like a strength. Should get better when Ferrer and Mundt return. But if you can’t get there tied or with a lead? What good is it? I still can’t shake this feeling that this offense will struggle against good pitching teams. Still feels like a regional team at best. Time will tell.
Yeah, 9-2 is nice. But I’m not convinced given the level of competition. Still just seems meh so far. My worthless opinion and I hope I’m wrong.
Feel free to talk me off the ledge……
From what I’ve seen so far, I would tend to agree on Sellars. He throws way too many pitches and that spells trouble. Even if he didn’t give up a ton of runs, our starters, and for sure the Friday guy, need to go more than 3 or 4 innings. Hunter needs to prove consistency imo. Towards end of last season he was the 2nd best starter we had but he wasn’t that great early this year. Last night was his 1st win and his 3rd start if I’m not mistaken.
Our offense has been better than what I expected but I do think it takes a step back once competition gets better. While it was fun to see the Coppin State scores, that was a program with like 100 wins all time. I have this feeling that wins on Fridays might be few and far between. Obviously we’re facing their Ace but if ours only goes 4 innings, that’s bad news. Winning the series is what’s important but you hate to start 0-1 and essentially have 2 must win games. Gotta love sitting at 9-2 though!
I also see the mens hoops team (not 12th, but 11th!) will play ASSU in the late game on Wednesday in Vegas. So, on the bright side Stinkle and the misfits season will be over in the next 5 days. Nor will anyone be up to see it.
Bmbb has actually been somewhat competitive against ASU. Perhaps Tinkle will allow Taylor out of his starters punishment corner, the team will ignore the former, get a win and then . . .
They’re entering the tourney on a winning streak. Anything can happen!
Tinkle is going to “punish” Taylor Jr right into the transfer portal and there goes his best player (along with Pope). No worries though, that will give Tinks another excuse when they tank next season.
I have the feeling these guys are all seeing this season as a portal audition anyway.
I wonder- if – the Beavs had not gotten so far behind in the Cal game last night – Tinkel wd have left Taylor sitting. As it was, he waited too long, but the result was Taylor being highlighted. That’ll show him, Tinks.
And I guess Tinkle was smart (or desperate) enough not to continue that bullshit for the second half as Taylor started. I think this is the second round of Taylor “punishment” if I remember correctly he was benched earlier in the season.
Tinkle is a disaster at this point. He is creating a revolving door of transfers and using it as the excuse for no team chemistry or growth. It is a trash excuse, his own coaching is the problem and his dismantling of every team has been a theme for the last decade.
I remember 4 distinct periods of enjoyable basketball:
His first group of CR misfits,
GP2 and his merry band of sidekicks,
The coach’s kids season 1
The Elite 8 run
The thing I’m common with all of it is that Tinkle had optimism and nothing to lose. I’m most years he has overcoached the wrong areas and under coached the needed areas.
Pope is the first legit point guard in 10 years aside from the kids he chased out.
Lack of shooters and chasing out shooters.
No developed big guys aside from those that left for the draft or transferred out.
Poor talent evaluation to fit into his system if he even has a system…
Which as far as I can tell revolves around a poor dribbling point guard, shooting guards who can’t shoot, post players who can’t post, wing players who can’t finish at the rim, undersized rebounders, and a general lack of trust in his own guys to play freely.
Please send him packing after next weekend.
Sadly we are going to be stuck with Tinkle and I’m sure he’s well aware it doesn’t matter how the team does…his job is safe until contract is up. Not saying he doesn’t care, it just doesn’t matter. I’ve repeatedly asked people on social media that are all for keeping Tinkle what they expect to be different next year and nobody will answer. He has no offense scheme and there’s zero reason to assume he’ll get one 10 years later. I would be absolutely shocked if we didn’t lose 3-4 of these guys to the xfer portal…it might even be worse than that. It’s the nature of the game now to lose some to portal but it’s even worse on teams that suck…and we suck. Outside of Pope, who’s the young talent that we hope would stick around? While I could see some of the mental errors possibly getting better with more maturity, most these guys can’t hit a shot to save their life. We’ve got a pathetic point per game avg and have had some historically low scoring games. Does an off-season suddenly make them good shooters? Hopefully that’s the case.
So you’re evidently not a fan of our scheme of dribbling around while everyone stands there until the shot clock is down to 3?
I guess the lack of dribbling skills does create excitement around how far into the shot clock we can go without turning the ball over. Not much else to like aside from that.
I bet you’re wrong that he’ll be here until the end of his contract.
Is there a bet on Taylor, Jr. leaving? I don’t know how good he is – altho, he seems to make a difference. I don’t recall MP’s question in a post-game q&a – but Tinkle alluding to Taylor not starting because he was being disciplined, altho Taylor was being a good sport about it. I’m not sure publicly embarrassing your players in this era is a good thing.
Not that this team is “on the cusp” of anything – but if starters leave, I do wonder if that impacts Tinkle’s tenure. The fans are voting with empty seats at games. The program doesn’t have much of a pulse.
Pope has already said he doesn’t plan on leaving. Who knows if it’s true, but still.
Beavs win pac 12 in wrestling, some awesome https://twitter.com/BeaverWrestling/status/1632576371372302337/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1632576371372302337¤tTweetUser=BeaverWrestling
Some great wrestling by the beavs. 5 individual champions.
Pretty awesome what the wrestling team has done in a short period of time under Chris Pendleton. I wrestled in HS and was around the sport before that, so I am super excited to see the program get back into some prominence. Some really good wrestlers throughout the school’s history but those mid 90’s to early 2000’s squads had some really incredible wrestlers.
Beavs ranked #25
https://d1baseball.com/top-25/d1baseball-top-25-rankings/
Seats being installed in the lower section on the West side. Surprised they’re installing black seats since the rendition photos show Orange seats.
https://webcam.oregonstate.edu/res
I think Barnes said it could be done in June and ready for trial use to troubleshoot.
Maybe at a fall scrimmage people will come and get to sit in the new side?
Just occurred to me that DJ and Chiles are going to have an additional benefit in helping the D and secondary develop. The D will now be facing top caliber QBs in the very practice, helping them prep for top conference foes.
Iron sharpens Iron baby!
One of my favorite scenes and songs from The Hobbit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPuH5zcxqRk
Iron most often dulls iron… sometimes breaks iron.
Only in the recarburization process does iron exist as a tool which a human uses to shape iron, but nobody would call a blade that has just been quelled “sharpened.”
I literally ten minutes ago just used a steel wrench to loosen a bolt on my mower, and the bolt broke in half. While steel isn’t exactly iron, I assume the same can happen. And fuck, it’s almost mowing season…………
Impact driver and Kroil or PB.
Impact vs steady pressure with a wrench. Impact wrench, 60% of the time, it works every time.
Copper for pressure flaking obsidian, which gets pretty damn sharp…brittle though.
What other materials can we use to beat this analogy (metaphor) into better shape?
What makes Stinkle and the shit job he’s done this year even more of a joke is how much of hot garbage this conference is. As of right now the PAC is a 3 bid league to the NCAA tournament and USC is barely in and could play their way out with a one and done this week. ASU is in the first four out and Oregon is in the next four out.
They managed to win 5 conference games. And 2 of those were against Cal. Let that sink in.
How anyone can defend Stinkle and the mess he’s created is beyond me.
Patience grasshopper. He’s only had 9 years.
“When we have time, we build winning programs”. Direct quote from Wayne Tinkle.
It is pretty likely that any 5 random readers of angrybeavs could become a new mens basketball coaching staff and either duplicate or improve upon Tinkles results over a 10 year window.
115-137 Overall record over 8 years
53-95 PAC12 over 8 years
I don’t think Tinkle wants to be here anymore but stays because the money is better than anything else he can get elsewhere. He is just grinding out years and destroying lots of talented kids through the process.
Barnes needs to let him go and hitch to another rising coach rather than a tired old workhorse…
Wishful thinking…….
Leon Rice at Boise State. In 13 seasons his teams have won 19 games or more in 11 of them. Only had 2 losing seasons.
Maybe he’s happy at Boise. Sure seems someone would pay him to give him an opportunity at a P5 school.
Any of Mark Few’s assistants will do.
Why perform a job search, when he’s already done that work?
Yep. If we’re going to settle for those results then let’s pay someone half or a third as much to do it and re-invest the savings in football or other sports. Fuck Wayne Tinkle.
Here’s a piece titled: Inside the Plan to Fix Baseball.
Some interesting history and “the big story here is that baseball is no longer sitting around and waiting for the game to cure itself.”
https://www.esquire.com/sports/a43098257/fix-major-league-baseball-mlb/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Colorado appears to be getting antsy with this whole Pac12 media deal negotiation dragging out. Makes perfect sense to spend your entire Pac12 existence being terrible and then right when you finally try to improve your football team, jump ship.
https://twitter.com/MattSBrodsky/status/1632907087352135681?t=AEYDR9s9XPXZ25UEe21RmQ&s=19
I figured it out.
All the talk has been about SDSU and SMU being locks, and CSU being a third, but there’s apparently a fourth school who nobody has a clue about. Of the football schools on this side of the Mississippi, academically, there’s Rice, Tulane, Tulsa, UNM, Wyoming, and Hawai’i.
But there are also several very good non-football schools in the WCC and Big West.
So I’ve decided Kliavkoff and the Pac Presidents are getting a little creative and coming up with what became the simple solution, in my mind:
Hawai’i as a football-only member, and Gonzaga as a non-football member.
Both schools up their revenue by quite a bit, and neither Hawai’i nor the Pac are stuck trying to figure out Olympic sports schedules. The Big West works for Hawai’i, because it limits travel. The Pac 15 works for Gonzaga, because it puts their athletics on the level they’ve been trying to put them on for years, and they partner with SDSU, another hoops powerhouse… that probably gets better with the move up.
Think content.
Having Hawai’i in the conference for football allows for the Hawai’i Rule to kick into effect.
More home games means more money.
New thread for start of spring football practice tomorrow? I think the most obvious developments of interest interest are 4/5* QBs DJ and Chiles, and to me, related questions are:
1) Everyone knows DJ’s the presumptive favorite to start. How does that affect a selfless 2022 team? I think they’ll be fine. DJ has said all the right things, even his dad has said the attraction is “the pieces around him (OLine, deep running back stable, TE, D). DJ won’t have to run as much as he did at Clemson, he’ll be allowed to focus on throwing the ball. DJ himself said part of the attraction of the Beavers was the offense and its ability to prep him for the next level. He’ll be put in a position to make all of the offensive pieces shine.
2) DJ’s social media presence. This is under-reported in my opinion. He gets so much more social media attention than OSU is accustomed to its ridiculous. I noted his announcement of transfer to the Beavers had 1.5M views. That’s not just good for DJ. Its good for Smith and the Beavers. Its going to get an underappreciated talents like RB Martinez much more notice. DJ and Martinez continue to sound humble and dedicated to OSU and not the transfer portal, and this could be a tremendous boost to Smith’s continuing progress in building a program.
3) How will the WRs respond? Gould and Bolden are almost certain to respond. How will Dunmore et al respond to the new opportunities before them? Young WRs will have some great opportunities to surprise the conference.
4) How will the RBs be better integrated into the passing attack? This would make the offense very difficult to defend. There’s the obvious run threat of Martinez and Griffin for example, and DJ himself. But what if he might also pass to Martinez, Griffen, Lowe…..
5) DJ and Chiles will help the D and secondary improve. Every day in practice the D will face elite QB talent. That’s a great thing.
Next, On D, what young CBs step up? How does Tongue’s move to LB pan out? How much does DLine play improve? I think this D is going to be fast and make more plays behind the line of scrimmage.
It all(?) comes together this fall. A “completed” Reser full of enthusiastic fans, new QB talent, great RB depth, a reliable impact TE that catches the ball, a D with a full year under Bray, a decent home field schedule (UW, UCLA, Utah)…what’s not to like?
DONE
New Thread Up……….thanks ObjCritic