A week is long enough to laugh at Seth Collins being the new QB coach. Let’s go general/baseball and the lead up to the spring game, which is April 22nd. Spring practice resumes April 13th.
Really looking forward to seeing the spring game this year. Hopefully fans show up but it’s a hard draw with how Oregon weather is in the spring.
I remember going to a spring game when I was younger with my dad and he straight up fell asleep. Those were back in the Riley years so no wonder it was a snooze fest.
Not sure how I like the extended practice type feel to recent spring games… I feel like they should greet it like an actual game but hey we have been improving each year and I doubt Smith will fundamentally change things given the trajectory of the program.
I think its great Chiles is impressing so much, makes the off season more competitive for the team (QB room and the secondary’s development ) and interesting for fans.
I’m glad in college football you don’t have to give up picks or players to “trade” for a transfer. It could turn out DJ doesn’t play all that much. Sounds like a great battle to be qb1.
Young athletes, whether bc of inexperience, youth or having received bad guidance, tend to not listen to what their body says, or have consistent prevention routines established.
When you’re last in every offensive category except for walks, it will be over. If we can finish this win today and get the series, that would be huge for this squad. But let’s be realistic, there’s no way this team will finish anywhere in the top 4 of the conference and even sniff post-season play batting below .200, last in runs, hits, rbi’s, etc.
“When you’re last in every offensive category…
And yet the games are played.
In the previous 8 games before this series, nike averaged over 11 runs per game. Vs Beavs it appears they’ll average less than 2. History does have some value of course but not the whole story.. Just sayin’
Anything can happen on any given Sunday indeed but that’s not probable over extended time. Let’s hope this series win gives them the boost to find the consistent offensive output.
Who are the downers?
Are you talking about people who rightly point to youth/inexperience and the inability of our pitchers to let the D play behind them? Those people will also tell you the first half performance is a little shaky at 18-10. But if they can utilize the talent that is obviously there–while expected to be inconsistent, but getting better as the back half of the season progresses–an 18-10 back half of the season looks a lot better.
The only thing that really bothers me is the home record since conference play began. It was noticeable before this series that the team is playing better on the road, but only so-so at home.
Agree with others that this is baseball, and if they get hot, their ceiling immediately rises. But the experience factor eventually wears them down… again, if they get hot.
The numbskulls who were whining about being able to beat everyone always were just annoying, almost like the whole of their wardrobes are Duck gear.
It’s a pretty important series as it stands for any post-season potential as the Beavs RPI is the lowest I’ve seen in years. It would be nice to knock the Quacks out of the Top 25 also. But the Beavs have tough opponents ahead, I think they’ve dug themselves a hole and now need to win multiple series and get at least a couple of games above,500, and not lose any mid-week games to get a bid. They’ve been burned before.
I think Meggs retired last year. I’m assuming he isn’t on any committees! Yeah, 2016 was a travesty. Casey bitched a lot about 2008 also even though they only finished 28-24. They took a series from Georgia that year which I think was Top Five and had a high SOS. His argument was that SEC teams got in all the time with that type of record.
You can’t get away with oversliding forever.
Talt could be ISP with no outs for Bazanna, but overslides for out #1 ahead of Dernedde’s bb.
t8 with 1 down, 7-0 Beavs
Great bounce back wins for the Beavs. I’ll admit I was pretty negative going into this series but it may be mostly due to not liking the loss to Ducks ever.
Hope this is a good start to a great last half run and possible postseason.
Beavs beginning to figure out various roles. 3 series wins in a row. 2 on road vs good teams. Season will be decided in next 2 weeks. I still don’t think this team is a team that will make postseason but there’s a chance. If they can split at Gonzaga and win 2/3 at USC, I like our chances though.
OT- does anyone know why Coach Casey didn’t make it to The Show as a player? I was checking his minor-league stats for shits and giggles. .282 average, .398 OBP, and 117 dingers in eight seasons. What was the knock on him? He obviously could hit.
As we’ve seen with the likes of Tinkle, lightning in a bottle or short term success shouldn’t trump sustained success. Everyone acting like “I told you so” because we won this series needs to wait a bit longer. The season has still, overall, been very mediocre, and we’ll just have to wait and see if this series is a sign of things turning around.
So we shouldn’t judge the team on a series win(or wins) but rather on the totality of the season… but… at the same time do judge the team on any single game (or series) that the Beavs lost?
How has UO only played 6 games on the road all year more than halfway through the season? Beavs have played 14 already and yet both are at 20 wins although Beavs do have a couple more losses.
Beavs basketball lands Nate Meithof, Former McNary High School basketball player and JC transfer from College of Southern Idaho. Appears to be a very underrated pickup. Averaged 16.5 points and 5.5 rebounds on a team that finished with a 29-2 record. Good 3pt shooter at 38.4 percent. A good rebounder for a 6’4 guard. Excellent finisher with the left hand, good at finishing through contact. Good spin move. Good shooting stroke. Will be interesting to see how he translates to the D1 level. Similar skill set to Taylor, but a much better shooter. Must be who they picked up to try and replace him.
Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnO7Gc4A_MI
“Negative Nelly Alert”
(For those who don’t want to read anything critical or pessimistic about Beaver sports)
I already feel bad for the kid as he will likely show out as the most fundamentally sound player on the roster and probably the best shooter, but none of that will matter in Tinkle’s system of disorganized chaos as the clock winds down possession after possession.
He will be fine if his skills mirror Ethan Thompson rather than Taylor, otherwise it is going to be another sad story of talent misused/wasted/transferring.
Tinkle needs to go…I no longer can give him the benefit of the doubt. He can’t incorporate an offense that helps the team and creates successful opportunities. His 2 successful years featured GP2 and Ethan Thompson finishing plays at the shot clock buzzer. Beyond those years it is fairly disappointing for the talent he has recruited, and the amount of talent that has departed, probably because they saw how poorly coached the program is from inside the bubble.
It’s Negative Nancy by the way. I am fine with reading critical and pessimistic views, problem is those in that camp typically are way too fanatical. Tinkle definitely deserves criticism. But he also deserves credit for the good years as well. His offensive scheme is definitely underwhelming (and a lot of times, piss-poor), but his defensive scheme has been the key to his successful years. The most glaring thing to me has always been his inability to win conference road games (and poor conference record in general) and that to me is what should cost him his job (unless he can get it together next year [I doubt it]). Also, his first year was a success even though they didn’t make the tourney. Also, saying those years were all GP2 and Ethan Thompson is a flat lie. We would not have made that run in 2021 without Alatishe, Calloo, Reichle and Silva and Lucas who were instrumental.
I purely wanted to highlight a talented local kid coming to our program and in short time you turn it into whining about our coach. Get over yourself and your petty hatred for Tinkle and maybe find something positive to mix in with your crying about Tinkle.
Yeah… you don’t get to coach the worst season in OSU history… with most of the team that took you to an elite 8 finish… and then claim just the good.
I get that this shouldn’t be about the coach, but that’s all it is, until either he progresses as a coach, or he leaves.
Meithof was aa good player in HS, but a pandemic happened. Glad to see he’s back on a level he deserves, but not exactly happy for him, given who his coach is.
Tinkle is the new Riley. He gets a pass when he should be feeling pressure to improve/upgrade/adjust but he gets to continue with the same year after year. Any school with a poor offensive scheme at the D1 level is in trouble, any team that locks blue chip prospects without a true offense is is deep trouble.
Defense wins championships only works when you start with offensive production as at least steady to plus production.
Tinkle fails on offense, talent to overcome his offense, and his defense isn’t able to overcome let alone complement his non offense.
I’ll give up trying persuade if fans can’t see it by now.
D and an efficient offense gets you to the tourney, which puts national eyes on you and makes you and your conference money.
But unless Bennett can get a blue-chip or two to augment that style, UVA is only good for also-ran status.
UCONN was a model of great D and a highly efficient offense. Bigs still have a place in this hoops world, if only to extend the reach of the perimeter D. Purdue failed to do the same.
It’s all relative, but we don’t have any semblance to those teams or their systems, and we didn’t appear to have any, until a hodge-podge of players decided to play for a stretch, a couple years ago.
I guess the biggest take I get from the team is I don’t see any joy in the game, at the very least.
Can he dribble though? Shooting doesn’t matter in this offense. I kid, I kid. Sounds like an interesting project. This will be his 3rd program in 3 years. I don’t know anything about JC basketball and what typical scores are but that team had a lot of wins and scored a lot of points. Sounds much more like a high octane system scoring above 100 pts 7 or 8 times. Regardless, gotta fill spots and maybe being a local kid he will want to stick around for his remaining eligibility.
Browsing MLB draft rankings and the Beavs have two commits in the top 250, both pitchers (Wilson and DeCremer). Forrester listed as a round 5/6 guy in the preseason. No one else ranked in the top 400.
Neither pitcher likely to go in draft. Forester gone either way.
My guess we going to lose a few more good to the portal this year as it has gotten worse.
Canham Doesn’t listen to his coaches and isn’t a very truthful coach when talking to his players.
The best players on team were all recruited before Canham took over.
There isn’t allot of incoming talent next year. DeCramer is decent but along ways from being college ready same with Wilson. Beyond that everyone coming is leftovers that weren’t recruited by many hard.
There is no family vibe in the clubhouse and it starts from the top. Canham preaches it but it’s more a “do as I say, not as in do” coaching style.
They have no hitting coach if you watch BP. Most time coaches are just standing around.
Kyle one of the best defensive SS in PAC 12 but he gets punished because the guys that are supposed to hit can’t. Same goes for Smith behind the dish. That kid has stole more strikes and made bad pitching look good.
The best players were all recruited by Canham at this point. The bigger problem is the high ranked guys that haven’t been developing. Younger guys need to start stepping up. Macias has looked good recently.
Mitch recruited all of the players that got drafted off of last year’s team that hosted a super regional. Kyle is one of the worst defensive SS to play at Oregon State in the past 25 years… one of the worst in P12 this year. He plays because his parents are big time donors and Trosky is hurt. Smith is a good catcher but Mitch has a lot to do with his catching fundamentals. This team is young and lacks a Friday night starter. The recruiting under Mitch has been highly rated every year and this year’s class is loaded with talent. Mitch has a long way to go to catch up to Casey but Casey may be the best college baseball coach of all time. He’s not perfect but IMO has been good to very good so far. If you’re going to have an opinion, at least get your facts straight. The kids Casey recruited have been gone for years
This is very very wrong. You must really know nothing about recruiting and baseball.
Do the math on recruiting this will help you figure out when each kid committed if you don’t know. Scouting these players I know.
You do realize Kyle was at ss last year right? If you watch pac you would be able to figure out her one of best in PAC this year. Not comparing to past OSU SS. With Smith he was and is one of the best defensive catchers before he got to OSU. They now have different guy working with catchers.
Please know what you talking about before you comment on recruiting if you don’t know.
So you have inside sources and you’re a scout? Please enlighten us on “the math of recruiting”. Maybe breakdown some of the players you’ve been scouting. We’re so lucky to have your insight on AB! Please accept my apologies. I’ve never watched baseball and I’m having a hard time with the math… didn’t PC retire in 2018? Trying to think about all the players that committed in 2018… or in 2019 that are on this team.
Pat Casey’s last 3 recruiting classes 32,46,53.
Bailey in 2019 was 31.
Mitch’s first 3… 71, 27, 24
2023 currently ranked 20 but won’t be final until May/June.
Based on recruiting rankings seems Mitch has been able to recruit despite not have the legendary status of PC. Based on players he’s recruited that have been drafted, he’s doing good with player development.
Lol what? Those kinds of guys get drafted all the time. They may not go in the early rounds if it’s obvious they’re headed to college, but someone will take a flier just in case.
I find it really hard to believe Canham isn’t listening to Barney.
Nah. Current K% is 44%. His HS K% was 30%. That’s not great, but it’s not as disastrous as his current mark. Scouts liked him because he was a HS tools guy. Raw power, etc.
That has nothing in common with Reed pulling out. What does Turley have to lose by not asking for lots of money and just going lower than expected? Nothing. Asking for money that he knows he won’t get doesn’t help anyone because if he knows he’s going to college anyway, no one cares where he gets drafted the first time around.
Ok I fell for it. Angry did you create a burner account with the user name “bad-coaching” to spew nonsense just to see how many idiots like myself would engage?
Kyle Dernedde “has a penchant for coming through in the clutch”….per Parker as Dernedde gets a 2 out RBI single with Reeder on the move from second.
t5, 2-1 sons-‘o-mitches
Appears Mitch sending a msg to Reeder (and the Zags coach); pulls him for pinch runner (Turley) after Reeder bunts home run #15.
The stunt doesn’t show much class, but then, the Beavs aren’t used to being in this position.
Sounds like Hickle and Tongue looking good at practice today. Still sounds like Aiden making the best plays out of the qbs but DJ is throwing some nice balls too. Hard to know without the top WRs out there. Hodgins getting some run at FB????
Hope the announcers don’t transpose first letters of their names…”Hongue with the initial, deep penetration there, joined by Tickle and the end of the play…”
So what are they chugging? Gatorade? Seems like an odd one for MLB to allow when they know kids are watching. I mean funny and all but doesn’t push out professional sportsman.
Anybody have insight on the transfer CB from MTSU? I saw he’s down to UCF and OSU, and will be committing today. Probably UCF since the Beavs recently picked up a JC DB commit?
He did choose UCF.
There was a JC corner we picked up recently, but somebody here mentioned he wont be available till next year.
To he honest, I have just barely been following recruiting lately, so I dont know if that is correct or not.
Regardless, still feels like we have room for 1 more CB on next years team. Hopefully the new portal window will open up more options to choose from.
Saw the women’s hoops team added Sela Heide as a transfer from Cal. Name sounded familiar so I looked her up. Sure enough, daughter of former men’s hoops player Jason Heide.
Yep, I was friends with Jason back in the day at OSU. His wife is Sissel Pierce who played for our WBB team over the same period.
And their Son Miles just recently committed to play at SDSU.
Another Tinkle recruiting blunder, should have been a slam dunk (pardon the play on words) to go out and recruit Miles to OSU, but nope.
That sucks. I remember Jason Heide. I don’t exactly remember when he played and am too lazy to look. Thinking it was either Eddie Payne or Ritchie McKay era?
We’ve had so much failure over the last 30 years it all just blends together anymore. And I’m old.
He was an Eddie Payne recruit. Same class as Dino Tamner and Ronnie Walton. The year after Corey Benjamin and JB Bickerstaff.
Can’t remember what year Payne and OSU parted ways. Beavs had so much talent and potential but never could put together a full season under Payne and most of the talented players left the program.
Deaundra Tanner, right? Tough defensive guard, I think he hit a buzzer-beater to defeat Arizona. I remember people being excited about one of those teams that ended up finishing a game under.500 because at least they played hard on defense and didn’t get blown out in every league game!
D1 picks Beavs!
Without going past the paywall you can see the staff picks for this week. Eleven “experts” listed and they all pick the #38 Beavs to take the series over #24 SC.
Are these guys focused on the RPI and SOS numbers where the Beavs are on top: RPI 54/68, SOS 74/125?
Is Goss that much of an advantage?
And yet, we see SC ranked 23 and 24. This weekend is a HUGE opportunity for the good guys.
Ranked at the top of the PAC in fielding and ERA (and attendance), looks a little like stats from the Casey days…….a little.
Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. Daschel reporting today that the QB competition is still neck and neck between BG and DJU amd that he expects that competition to continue all the way through fall camp and even possibly into the Non-Con schedule.
I read that as Coach Smith doesnt want anybody to stop competing and/or transfer out, so he’ll keep this competition wide open just like he and every other Beaver coach has does in every camp. Except maybe GA who pushed everybody aside for his boy Seth(the Great)
Also says he doesnt see Chiles being part of the competition, despite showing some some flashes early.
And how does anybody get a read on the QB competition when they’re only seeing a few minutes of actual practice time?
Even with the Spring game, it will be hard to know unless each QB gets a chance with the 1st string Offense vs 1st String Defense
Par for the course. JS doesn’t announce anything until they start prepping for game 1.
DJU and GB need to compete during the summer. Win teammates over and earn a captain spot
With two capable starters, it makes sense that Chiles is not in the competition. No sense in throwing in a true freshman who has zero game experience. I can see him getting reps in a late season blowout so that he doesn’t burn his redshirt. That’s the only time I’d see him in the game.
Saw former Beaver MBB player Jack Wilson transferred to Minnesota. Is that stop #4? OSU to Idaho to WSU and now Minn? How is that even possible? He and JT Daniels are working on setting a record for most schools in a college career
Didn’t Wilson leave the team early in his freshman year? Does anybody remember this. All the disasters involving sTinkle amd players leaving has all kind of run together in my mind.
If I recall correctly he had some injury issues. Then came back and saw minimal playing time and bolted. I remember thinking he looked a little sluggish after coming back from injury.
Probably not a huge loss, G Nick Krass enters the portal. Elite high school scorer, so he’ll probably go to a team/coach who develops him and we will see him in the tournament next season!
I liked his defense and energy off the bench. But he never could seem to find consistency. Seems like a guy that would thrive at a mid-major where he would see more minutes.
Most decent mid-major programs are more talented than Beavs. If he’s looking for minutes he should probably stay. He’s leaving because Tinkle is a clown and he knows the program isn’t set up to provide the development he needs. Same thing with Taylor. Pope is next. Quite frankly, we’re better off having a mass exodus similar to what happened with WBB prior to Rueck. It will force Scott Barnes to act sooner than later. I’m guessing next year will be Tinkle’s last year and it may as well be rock bottom.
12 pitches gets Sellers out of the t1, let’s see if he can get through 3 under 50.
Turley gets the start as DH, wouldn’t it be nice to see him catch fire!
UPDATE: Might be Sellers best start, gets through 3 on 45 pitches with a 1 run lead.
UPDATE.2: Looking like Sellers best, through t5 on 75 pitches. 5-1 good guys.
Sellers only got one out in the 6th. Pretty much his usual start. 98 pitches and doesn’t even get through 6 innings. I don’t get it. I don’t dislike Sellers and his k rate is really good. He’s just not very efficient.
Just when I think maybe I’ve heard of every college athletic program in the country, I read a story about the #13 pick in the ’22 MLB draft who has already been called up to the majors to take over full-time SS duties for the Angels. He played college baseball at Campbell University, some small Baptist college in North Carolina. Kinda wild.
Saturday has been a good day for the mix of O and D.
I like that we’re finally winning at home.
Sellers needs to trust his D. His stuff is good, as long as it’s near the plate.
Still waiting on Turley to figure it out. Once that happens, all bets are off.
Oregon ILB Keith Brown, from just down the road in Lebanon, OR, entered the portal yesterday.
He was just talking about how he’s not a portal guy and he’s a dog and was sticking with Oregon, blah blah blah. But then Lanning must have kicked him to the curb. They’re currently well over their scholarship limit for fall term if they dont cut more guys too.
So….would you take him at OSU? Or is he tainted? I was never a big fan of his game so I dont really care.
I saw a few of his high school games and came away less than impressed. He seemed to get hurt quite a bit from what I remember.
I think I wrote that I liked him better as a RB than LB. But it’s been a few years, my memory isn’t what it used to be and I’m too lazy to go back and look.
Personally, I’d pass on him. I’m not convinced he’s a difference maker at the FBS level.
On top of that, he was gonna be one of the nike players at the conference intro press conference where all HC’s bring a couple “faces of the team” to build excitement for the coming season.
I’m hoping the Bo Nix hype results in a Vegas line for nike wins this season is set at 10.5 (even 9.5?)………..some easy money to be made betting the under!
I watched him play in high school and he was solid but was no 5 star kid. I also thought he was a better RB than LB. Ducks have had several enter the portal this week.
Yep! When she found out I’m Czech on my dads side she went nuts! Said I’d like her Kolach… but I don’t think she was talking about the pastry, if you catch my drift.
#restrainingorder
Great series win! Not a Dorman guy, as you all know, but credit is due for the staff’s performance over the last couple of series. With UO taking 2 over Stanford this weekend, really shows how the Beavs pitching stepped up. Squad is up to 6th now in the Pac. Huge series vs ASU coming up. Pretty incredible what Bloomquist has done in just a little over a year at the helm there. Hopefully they can ride this wave of recent success to another series win down in Tempe.
“Sunday’s win did not come completely without challenges, however. Starting pitcher Jaren Hunter, who missed time last month with tightness in his throwing arm, departed the game in the second inning. After Hunter threw a third-pitch ball to cleanup hitter Johnny Olmstead, pitching coach Rich Dorman and an OSU trainer visited the mound to check on the right-hander and quickly pulled him in the middle of the at-bat. The nature of Hunter’s injury — and how long he might be sidelined — was not immediately clear Sunday.”
“If it was the last time the programs will play — USC is bolting the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference next season — it was a memorable and satisfying way for the Beavers to close a 72-year-old series between the pair of storied college baseball programs.”
Boydsworld projection shows the highest the Beavs can get is into the top 16, top 8 is out of reach. But even then the Beavs would have to win out.
Looking at ASU’s schedule so far, they started out badly but have really picked things up once conference play started. However, they are lacking wins against quality opponents. Beaten Cal, Utah, Arizona, UW and WSU. All teams below the Beavs in conference standings. They got swept by Oklahoma St and UC Irvine and lost a series to Miss St.
So two hot teams about to collide with each other. ASU can hit but the Beavs have better pitching. Beavs batting avg in conf play is .211. I can’t recall when hitting has been that bad.
Team has played well as of late but hard to envision a top 16 seed. Team still lacks hitters and a Friday night guy. Bazzana is becoming a legit threat and Guerra is finding his way so team has potential to improve offensively but not having a top end starter will limit this team’s ceiling IMO
That said, if they get a top 16 seed, MC is your P12 COY
There’s no shot at a top 16 seed. Way too much ground lost early this season and this still isn’t a top 25 team. Too many questions on the offense. Despite the success seen over last 2 weeks, the team is still only at. 211 team batting avg. 2nd to last in strike outs, hits, on base % and rbi’s. 9th in runs. Offense can’t afford to be that anemic and have sustained success.
D1 has ’em at 21 this week. Hard to see them staying there unless starting pitching improves or, maybe, Turley catches fire?
Not likely Turley is the answer though. On offense the trend is improving and needs to keep on.
Didn’t see D1 had them ranked today. Great to see! Offense has definitely been more timely these last like 6 games or so. Wish they had a few more guys being consistent. Aside from Bazanna and Forrester, and to some extent Kane, there really hasn’t been a reliable bat this season. McDowell started off great, cooled quite a bit, and now seems to be involving himself in the offense again. On one hand, it’s nice to have had several different guys step up and be heros during this streak but we need a few of them to be much more consistent. Despite the wins and increased scoring as of recent, we’re still in the bottom 2 – 3 in most every offensive category which really speaks to how bad this team has played for extended periods of time. I’d love to see Turley get confident again to have another legitimate power threat on the team. He was also getting on base via walks and definitely played a big role in getting runs. I don’t know if it needs to be him, but they definitely need a couple more guys to become that consistent presence in the lineup.
Its the 200+ RPI losses (New Mexico/Cal Poly) that eliminates any chance, only potential saving grace would be the lack of West Coast teams with hosting resumes other than Stanford. If you want hold out any hope to host a regional, they’d have to go 10-2 the rest of way in conference play (win all series), have a midweek win over Oregon and no midweek losses to teams with 100+ RPI team to be in the conversation.
It’s pretty obvious this team doesn’t have the talent/experience to make a deep run this year. BUT they are built to make a run next year. If they can get into a regional and get some postseason experience this year you have to count that as an overall win for the program in 2023.
What are they missing this year? Maybe more power bats? I haven’t watched all of the games. Maybe Turley will get it going. The small ball stuff has been working lately. Combined with the pitching right now that could take them a ways. Tennessee saw last year how power bats don’t always show up.
A little more power wouldn’t hurt but they’re currently tied for 6th in HR but still last in slugging percentage. They lack consistency and aren’t great hitters, at least so far into this season. Bazanna and Forrester have been consistent for them but outside of those 2 guys, a large chunk of this lineup is hovering around the .200 mark and for a couple of weeks the entire team batting avg was below .200 in conference play. They’ve been able to reach base with walks and a few base knocks here and there but have failed advance runners or take advantage of the 2 on and 1 out, or leadoff walks situations. They strike out a lot. 2nd to last in that statistic unfortunately. 2nd to last in rbi, hits, etc.
The offense is pretty brutal. As of now they rank #156 in Runs per Game, #146 is On Base %, #188 SLG %, and #225 in Batting AVG. A lot of young/inexperienced bats at the moment.
Can you see those numbers within a certain date range? I think they have found something here recently. The bad thing about college sports is there aren’t a lot of polished teams. The good thing about college sports is you can scrap together wins doing the little things and taking advantage of the other teams mistakes because there aren’t many polished teams.
FWIW:
Since the start of the UW series, and leaving out Gonzaga, I count 68 hits in 295 AB. An avg of .230 for 10 conf games.
That compares to .211 for all 18 conf games.
Pretty glaring lack of XBH. We lead the conference in LOB because we’re far and away the leaders in walks, but don’t have enough power production to get those base runners home.
Beavs may be lucking out with the Spring game weather if the forecast holds. A big if this time of year.
But currently looks to be 65 and mostly Sunny in Corvallis on Saturday.
Sounds about perfect. I’ll be going. Wanting to check out the construction progress and the QB battle in person.
Agree that he is a possible key, but the chances of him starting to hit seem slim to me.
It’ll take a very good job of coaching/evaluation to know when to put him in the lineup based only on his batting cage work; lately he’s had, what, a single start in half a dozen games? No time to look it up but that’s how it seems.
I just hope they can find spots here and there to get him some chances. Then he plays in a competitive summer league and comes back ready to live up to his potential.
I haven’t seen any mention of the fact the Beavs lead the conference in both offensive walks and K’s. I don’t know if they’re swinging K’s or not, but that looks to me like a heavy emphasis on waiting for your pitch at the plate.
I’d say it’s fair mix of both. They definitely go down swinging but they do seem to get caught looking a fair bit. Maybe it’s waiting for your pitch, maybe it’s not much confidence up there or understanding the pitches you’re seeing. Who knows. The hitting has been a bit better during this last stretch but it’s a rough offense to say the least. Hopefully they’re getting confidence with these wins.
Cant remember where, but I saw a story about her last year. It was during the time that Mike Riley was in the news with his current football team playing for their league’s championship.
Mike was bringing Dee around the facilities and talking with players and Dee really didnt recognize or remember anybody. Seemed she barely recognizes Mile anymore even.
Pretty sad to see people go that way. My grandpa had Alzheimers and it was all very similar
A lot of people like wise cracks (was broken yolk) if you like terrible service, mediocre food and a wait to get in, that’s the place. I fell its terribly over rated.
For breakfast old school style id say Sharon’s or Tommy’s.
Used to be a big fan of Caves, but the remodel is weird and we ate there just a week after reopening…used to be able to count on an interesting menu, good service and cozy surrounds, it lost a lot of their prior luster… I like Nick but we’re still a little gun shy.
If you don’t mind the drive to Albany, Brick and Mortar is an excellent choice as well; their service is good, benedicts are on point and lemon ricotta pancakes are yum… if you go on a Sunday expect to wait… spend some time downtown Albany poking in the vintage shops around the corner while waiting for your text to sit down.
Turley not in the lineup vs Seattle.
I get that every game is important, now that the lead is 4-1 might be time to give him some time at the plate?
Cedillo has a hit and 2 RBI’s.
If they’re going to be in Salem they’ll be better off staying there and eating at Sybil’s or
someplace else. Options in Corvallis or Albany are mediocre at best.
If only the original breakfast in Albany was still open.
Before Stanford’s loss to Sac St, 3 of 5 was their number, and they were forgivable losses. Sac St isn’t one.
UCLA is the opposite. Irvine is a good team, but Davis and Pepperdine are bad losses.
Riiiiiiiiiich planning to use Lattery in place of Hunter as Sunday starter……..per Parker.
Big test for Lattery and the other arms: ASU conf BA .319 (Beavs…211) and they K less than anyone other than SC in conf.
Looking at the stats, it’s the bullpen that is saving the day. Sellers and Kmatz both have ERAs over 4. Ferrer is struggling this year too. Not a great recipe for a team looking to make a move. Sellers and Kmatz need to step up big this weekend.
Portal re-opened for business this week(for 2 weeks), so there should be plenty of player movement to go around. Haven’t heard of any new Beav defections, but if anybody plans to leave, they have to transfer out by the end of next week.
“One of the hottest names in the portal at the moment is Rhode Island defensive back Antonio Carter II. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound defender entered on Sunday and has already picked up a number of offers. On Tuesday afternoon, Texas A&M became the latest school to extend one.
Carter, who hails from Orlando, Fla., originally, was fourth on the Rams team with 60 tackles this past year as he also added 4.5 tackles for loss, a sack, an interception and a pass breakup. In the past two years, he totaled 105 tackles and 17 pass breakups.”
Sort of a what-could-have-been situation. I don’t think he played much after the Boise St game last season. I never knew it was a neck injury, not sure if I missed that or if it was not disclosed in any detail.
There are many reasons why he may not have met his or UW’s expectations, and maybe one or more of those reasons could be addressed by Bray et al and the way Smalls might compliment the existing roster.
Here’s one assessment if Smalls:
“BRANDON HUFFMAN’S SCOUTING REPORT ON SMALLS…
“Size indicates he can play both as a hybrid edge rusher with his hand down or as a standup rush end. Terrific instincts. Quickly reads and reacts. Outstanding pass rusher who can also drop into coverage on occasion. Cat quick at the line of scrimmage, with a quick first step. Can chase down backs and end the play. Has shown improved technique. Uses his hands extremely well. Played a lot of linebacker in 7v7 in offseason to work on pass coverage. Also plays tight end and receiver and has natural pass-catching ability. Projects as immediate Power 5 starter and projects as first-round NFL draft choice.”
I’m not sure how frequently Huffman accurately identifies takent.
But, maybe Bray or position coach talks with him and maybe he becomes a good edge player or TE for OSU. Depth is important.
There could be many reasons. Maybe some of them can be addressed by Bray et al.
Here’s one assessment of Smalls:
“BRANDON HUFFMAN’S SCOUTING REPORT ON SMALLS…
“Size indicates he can play both as a hybrid edge rusher with his hand down or as a standup rush end. Terrific instincts. Quickly reads and reacts. Outstanding pass rusher who can also drop into coverage on occasion. Cat quick at the line of scrimmage, with a quick first step. Can chase down backs and end the play. Has shown improved technique. Uses his hands extremely well. Played a lot of linebacker in 7v7 in offseason to work on pass coverage. Also plays tight end and receiver and has natural pass-catching ability. Projects as immediate Power 5 starter and projects as first-round NFL draft choice.”
Maybe he becomes a good edge player. Depth is important for late season runs and meaningful bowl games.
This coaching staff knows how to get guys in the right positions too. He wouldn’t need to play every down and only one position. The flexibility depending on if it’s goal line, etc is what we need. I like what Angry said, bring him in.
According to PFF, he wasn’t bad (average P12 edge), they just had better guys ahead of him. Definitely don’t turn him down as a depth player and possibly more.
Oregon continues to kick playera to the curb.
2023 Safety Trejon Williams is the latest defection. Didnt play a snap in his true freshman season. Oregon is still well over the scholarship limit and expects to bring in even more transfers, so this cycle will continue.
I know its all part of the business, but pretty bad that theyre cutting these guys with local ties as well as guys who signed to play for Lanning in hia first class.
Lanning basically signed a bunch of guys but didnt commit to developing them apparently.
Hope the Beavs have room for a safety cause Williams was a monster at the high school level.
“Lanning basically signed a bunch of guys but didn’t commit to developing them apparently”
that could catch up with him.
The boy genius who lost 49-3 in a season opener against his former team he knew inside and out, then bookended the season losing the CW by giving up several scoring drives that featured zero passing attempts….
FTD.
This season could be one of the most disappointing for fans of the swoosh. Coaching staff TO and near total reliance on Nix seems a recipe for failure to meet expectations. As said earlier, easy money may be available betting the under for uck season wins.
Agree. I tend to think they’ll be fine on physical dominance alone. Utah/UW/USC and OSU will all give them a test, but they still have the talent to win all 4 of those.
They’ve upgraded talent at most positions, but most of those upgrades are transfers who have never played a snap for Lanning. Plus we saw how 1 dimensional their offense became once Nix lost his legs.
Still hope they lose every game, but realistically they have as good a chance as any Pac12 team to win the conference.
Been paying attention to the bulk of the PAC and, yes, 9 wins shouldn’t be a stretch for swoosh. That assumes Nix is in good form ALL season, that they successfully rebuild the O line, and that their D steps up.
They’re gonna miss Alex Forsyth on the O line (not sure Mike Cavanaugh can be a difference there). PS: I’d hate to be Cavanaugh if things don’t go well; young staff not gonna listen to the “old guy” if success isn’t quick.
As far as the bet on season win total, line hasn’t been set but the hype machine that is nike u could result in an opening line of 10.5. Think I’d take the under on that.
I just listened to today’s Joe Beaver podcast – QB talk, Bray conversation – ASU broadcaster – catchup on former BB Beavs, now in the minors/majors (or not) TJ Matheson and Jon Warren, so no 40-year-old movie references by Mike Parker, who was on his way to broadcast the ASU/Grand Canyon games. TJ, graduate of ASU’s Walter Cronkite broadcasting, has better technology & analytics skills and snappier patter than JW or MP.. BTW, series tv is Pac12 Insider. Huh?
WBB: Rueck adds a 13th scholarship player to the roster for next season. A 6′ guard who played two seasons at S.Georgia Tech., Susana Yepes becomes the 5th player who’ll be new to the squad.
13 players is, I believe, near the max Scott has carried. Maybe a sign of the NIL/Portal times?
Has to up the degree of difficulty coaching that many; only so many minutes to go around.
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13 is a nice number.
nobody on a hoops team expects more than 8 deep to play. It takes work by the individual to earn floor time, not a friendly coach with a smile.
1. Transfer play. DJU, Ivey, Omotosho, Terry all have expectations of coming in and playing right away.
2. Early enrollees are ones who are prime candidates to play early
3. Be nice to see the defense ahead of the offense. Want to see team speed
4. Chiles – let’s see how he looks, stats don’t matter. It’ll be about his presence, does he look comfortable or overwhelmed
5. Kicking game – make some kicks!
There’s a lot of reason to think that they will be faster. Miller and Mascarenas and Miller or Tongue would probably the fastest pair of ILB we’ve had in a long time. The secondary should be faster as well. A lot of the top combine performers were DBs. As good as Grant was he was limited by his speed Julian is more athletic than him.
The D really needs to dramatically improve its pass rush. Spring game it will be hard to tell for sure if it’s improved with the structuring of it but we need some guys who can consistently win 1on1 battles. Thats the biggest thing the defense was lacking.
“Everything in life that you go through, it’s a lesson.”
An alum who’s plugged in to St. John Bosco says the divorce of his parents really impacted DJ’s focus. He’s gone through that “lesson” now, hopefully with that load off his mind he’ll have a great season and set himself up for the NFL. His fans from SJB say he’s just as genuine as he appears, a good and very talented teammate.
Oh, and one of niners challenges this season will be keeping “Big Dave” under control!
From The Arizona Republic: It’s been a promising start for the Sun Devils, but conference play will only get harder from here. All five teams that ASU faced occupy the bottom five spots in the conference. Of the next five teams, four are currently ranked in the Top 25….“We’re in a good position now, but we get to find out how good we are when we start playing against these better teams in conference and seeing how we stack up against them,” head coach Willie Bloomquist said.
NCAA approved a new rule going into effect this year,
The clock will continue to run after first downs, the same as the NFL. Inside of 2 minutes, it will stop after first downs. Beavs would get a slight advantage for now with an offense led by the running backs.
You got 4 outs right in a row with Ruben Gavin Wilson and Kyle. It’s wishful thinking one will get hit but still kills a complete inning if only 1 of 4 get a hit.
God damn pac 12 broadcasts couldn’t be any worse…Vaseline on the camera lenses, shitty ‘analysts,’ anyone that wants to complain about Parker should watch this shit
Great sequence by Ferrer but why the fuck is our best pitcher, and closer, not coming in for a situation like this? Ferrer has been inconsistent this season. Like his stuff but Brown has been the most reliable guy on the staff.
Hoping for defensive dominance in football “scrimmage” today, with a few flashes of brilliance from at least two QBs and WRs besides Gould or Bolden showing playmaking ability.
I think the OLine and RBs will take care of their roles in 2023.
Looking forward to perceptions from anyone here who attends.
I wonder about the Oline, given a lot of people–including niner–have made comments about the Dline and RBs looking like the best units, by far.
That doesn’t mean the Oline isn’t as good or better or worse than last year, since there have been D upgrades, but if the D is looking good, the O will probably not, so much.
Combined conference record of last 4 opponents entering series against the Beavs: 30-11. Beavers record so far in those games: 8-2
They’re scoring 9 runs a game in their 8 game winning streak and have put themselves back in position to host a regional if they win this series and can beat UCLA in LA to end conference play and don’t drop a series to Utah or Arizona. Beavs hosting a regional without a top level starting pitcher and their top freshman hitter going into a month long slump when he was supposed to be a major piece, would be a coaching master class by Mitch Canham. Complaints about him as a coach are mystifying. 111-53 record in the last 3 seasons despite taking over after 2019 and there being massive holes in the program. He just wins games.
Dorman deserves a ton of credit as well. Almost every Beaver pitcher is having the best season of their Beaver career that returned from last year aside from Ferrer but I have confidence he’ll be in top form down the stretch. Ryan Brown is on pace for the greatest season of a Beaver reliever in school history.
Those dominant Casey teams from years past always seemed to rely so much on the starting rotation. Now we have a rotation that can feel a little shaky but the bullpen and closer are throwing well
The Pac12 cast has been lots of sideline interviews and less scrimmage coverage, but they’re mostly treating it like a practice and rotating lots of guys in and out. Running basic stuff, lots of depth players getting a lot of reps.
DJ and Ben alternating reps with the 1’s on offense. Lots of coverage sacks with no one open to throw to early. Ben has been solid and looks like a starter. DJ made a WOW throw while scrambling that beavs simply haven’t had a QB that could make. Chiles looked GREAT on all fronts, honestly the best of the QB’s.
Isaiah Newell looks like he put on 15lbs. Running back room is stacked.
Seeing the Colorado spring game sold out on ESPN with a glorified JV team with only 4 defensive linemen left on the roster is surreal.
At the game, love that the pace is stepped up over prior years.
Already Aidan Chiles looks like he’s going to fun to watch.
He’s quick and decisive and runs really well. Might be our best QB overall, already. If only our receivers could catch…
Early on i saw several drops, but they seem to have cleaned that up a little. Not sure who the drops were from though.
DJ had a nice 2nd drive that resulted in a TD.
Chiles is just a different level athlete than we’re used to at QB. When he rolls out he covers alot of ground quickly and makes quick throws. His most recent series had a few off target throws but the potential is evident and he is really confident out there already. Doesnt have that deer in the headlights look that we’re accustomed to
Hmm thoughts on spring game
1. Our running back depth is ridiculous Fenwick and Martinez are still excellent. Griffin looks like he is alot stronger and was hitting holes hard! Newell also looks like he bulked up a good amount! I really think we have 4 running backs that could all have 100 yards games this coming season.
2. Wide outs, Zackary Card was in street clothes sadly I was hyped to see him play but looks like it will have to wait till regular season. Bolden hauled in some great catches he will be a beast next year. Dunmore didn’t get many looks but I expect him to be good next year. Other than that hatten, reddicks, and Gould also were not suited up.
3. O line has really gained size I think we have about 7 o line men that will be able to rotate in and out next year and play like starters. Also Brandon kipper was there in street clothes cool to see him still hanging around the team before he gets drafted.
4. Qbs calling it now gulbranson will either transfer or be third string. Dj and Chiles are both going to be better. They’re mechanics are much better they have better arms and move better both of them could taking a scramble and turn it into a passing touchdown or rushing touch down with ease. By far most impressed with Chiles he looked polished and played great.
That’s my offense thoughts. Really thinking this offense could be special I really don’t know between dj and Chiles who will start they both looked pretty good. I think we’re looking at undefeated at best and a 2 loss team at worst next year
Go beavs
1. I don’t think it’s hyperbole that this team has the best running back talent and depth in the OSU Beavers modern era. It remains to be seen if Martinez can have a Steven Jackson or Quizz Rodgers type of year, but he also won’t get the carries they did because of the depth and diversity. He’d have a monster season if he got carries like they did.
Griffin is one of my favorite players. In watching highlights of last season’s games, he ran hard early in the year and late, taking down a FLA DB on his TD run in the LV Bowl. Seems like he HATES to be tackled or slowed and i hope he’s worked on his receiving because he can be shifty.
4. BG will be third string and stick around for what looks to be a potentially special season. He’s a team player, humble, can learn a lot and enjoy the season, maybe transfer next year.
Its great to consistently hear how well Chiles comports himself along with his obvious physical ability. He probably did camps in HS, showed up at OSU early, and sounds like he’s doing well on the adjustment and learning curve. Finally looks like Smith has 1 or (probably) 2 special QBs.
Who knows. He seemed like the 6th guy last year after Grant, KO, Austin, Wright and Cooper Jr. 3 of those guys are gone. My thoughts were Robinson and Thomas at CB and KO, Julian and Cooper Jr in the safety spots. Or Cooper Jr at corner and Thomas at 3rd safety. Regardless, he was primed to take a big role with the 3 DBs leaving and Julian coming back.
General thoughts from Spring Game: Defense still looking great, running backs looking good. Chiles was by far the most impressive QB in my opinion. Crazy we still have 5 on the roster. They even got Throckmorton and Montiel in for a few snaps.
On a negative note: I’m always surprised at how terrible our fans are at actually showing up and bringing energy to things. Compare an average SEC baseball game or Spring game to ours. They always bring the energy and pack the stands for the most part. Yes, our baseball games are technically “sold out”, but they’re often half empty, and a program with the success of ours should have a better turnout.
I get its the spring game, but I’d wish we had a better turnout today considering last season and and addition of 2 fascinating QBs. On top of that, our fans have terrible energy, and I notice this at most of our sports. Hardly anyone going along with the first down chant, or other cheers. I’ve noticed that at most of our sporting events, our fans usually sit there silently, mouth agape, until they are prompted by a obviously frustrated announcer to make noise when they are meant to make noise. They never seem to key in when they’re meant to be loud or when to be silent. They’re quiet until right before the snap on we’re defense oftentimes, and they also seem to think it is a good idea to get loud when we’re on offense on 4th and short or kicking a key field goal, even when the players on the sideline are trying to shush them.
Compared to other teams, it seems as though we have a much larger fanbase in the 60+ age range. Probably a reason why we often have a low energy crowd.
I thought fans were energetic and loud last year even though stadium was at half capacity because of construction? I wasn’t there when in person, but reports here seemed positive?
OSU Spring games have never been well attended, even in the good years. Distance is the biggest thing and the game itself isn’t really a game so the draw isn’t there.
Precious years,, certainly some gripes about fan noise are obvious…But, it was very loud at reser last year, very. I suspect some due to reverb of the construction side but definitely loud, even of its own accord. Someone above clearly didn’t attend any of the games last year.
There’s always a way but highly improbable. Let’s remember who he’s playing against compared to DJ and Ben. Game 1 wouldn’t make sense anyways unless DJ and Ben get hurt or really struggle. Hopefully the game is well in hand and a bunch of guys get time in the first few games.
He looks like the most impressive freshman QB I’ve ever seen at OSU, by a wide margin too. I dont like hyping a HS kid up too much, but he already has all of the tools to be a starting QB in the Pac, and the game will only slow down for him with more reps. Quick decision maker. Throws a nice looking ball. Has better legs than any QB we’ve ever had(except maybe Seth, haha) And above all, he looked more confident in game action than pretty much any OSU QB in recent memory.
I’m very bullish on Chiles after seeing him in person.
I’m thinking a veterinarian student needs five years to get a degree, plus a Masters in Public Health.
summer sessions are concentrated, but there’s no way to work around volunteer hours, without utilizing those terms. And the best case scenario is that he accelerates his study to accomplish all that before his fourth year–not an easy thing to do.
If he stays on track, he can certainly be the next Terry Baker. If he strays, who knows?
I think he is crystal in his plans and is dead on track, and that shouldn’t eliminate a year of physical development while slowing down the game.
DJ may have his work cut out for him to be the number one his senior year, but I can see a dual QB system officially fucking with college football, in 2024.
I didnt really seek them out, but it was junior day and they seemed to have a consistent stream of players arriving at the valley facility when i walked by.
Oram calls out the foundation and progress built by Smith:
“The Beavers won 10 games last year. It was just the third time in program history. And yet somehow they still feel like a program that is very much in ascent.
The foundation is in place. The structure is solid.
It’s fitting that Oregon State is set to unveil a renovated stadium at the exact moment the Beavers appear poised to take another step forward.”
Can someone explain why in the blue hell I have to stream the Oregon State game while they are showing the Oregon-Cal game on repeat?? What is this shit??
Its the shitty pac 12 network. This shit is so ridiculous is laughable. They wonder why no one watches. Christ, they need a media partner with a brain, even half a brain would be better then the garbage they put out
Dernedde drops a great throw from right field that would’ve got the batter on an out at 2nd. As it is, lead-off double. Don’t go anywhere folks. I don’t think the scoring is done at 7-3.
Really unfortunate. Beavs got sat down 1,2,3 by the relief guy last inning. Can they figure him out? ASU offense is legit. Relief pitching by us not so great.
ASU relief pitching been great tonight, unfortunately. It’s like the Beavs from the early Pac12 play the last 2-3 innings. Bad at bats. Down in the counts early. Weak contact, if any.
This would be a tough loss after leading by four with the possibility of winning the series. And for god sake, the Beavs could at least get a win for me for having to listen to these two numbnut announcers for three-plus hours!
Tough loss, not gonna see 5 errors by any opponent very often. Beavs leave 13 on base.
May see pitch by committee tomorrow for Beavs, Lattery was said to be likely starter.
Macias went 0-5 and has a whopping .156 batting avg. Makes Dernedde at .216 look like Tony Gwynn. Kasper, Forrester, weber and McDowell all shit the bed tonight. With our top relief guys out for tomorrow’s game, there’s a real possibility of an ugly score tomorrow.
DJ has had 15(?) practices in a new system and is not going shotgun snap as much. And yet it sounds like he’s competing w/BG who is in his fourth year. I bet by fall DJ will look much better.
And if Chiles is playing the best in fall? “Launch it.” The Beavers will have more QB depth than likely ever, and can adjust if someone falters and appears to be holding the team back.
As Jack alluded to above, it would be interesting to see some 2 QB sets to give the opposition some fits and things to think about.
Agree… DJ will improve with more time but what Chiles is doing as a 17 year old and less experience than DJ is impressive. I wouldn’t be surprised if BG wins the job to start the year and Chiles finishes the year. That said, my biggest concern is that receivers can’t catch.
It’s likely the receivers had problems with his delivery, because it’s that diffferent, and the adjustment to two new QBs will take more than a handful of practices with both getting reps.
We were down a couple starting receivers yesterday. Pmus Bolden played great and made some really nice catches.
One of the first drops i saw yesterday was #24. I looked him up, it’s Gavin Haines, a RB who must be #5 or 6 on the depth chart right now. And I think Sharp dropped his first pass, but caught the rest.
So i guese what i’m saying is the early drops dont appear to be as big of a concern as i first thought considering who was involved
I’m wondering if the QB’s are seeing the toughest defense they will see all year? Seemed like they were kind of running for their lives out there. Won’t really know until we get into games.
Turley starts at DH, Tanner Smith behind the plate. Dernedde starts agaiin.
Lattery gets the chance to have his most impactful game, can he go 5 or even more?
Is part of Dorman’s pitching philosophy to have his pitchers nibble or is that just a lack of execution? I hate the full counts and walks with big leads, it never seems to end well.
6-5 ASU. Guess they don’t have any other pitchers since RD has left Lattery to give up 6 runs this inning and 0 outs. Or we just don’t care about winning this game? Jesus christ.
Smith an RBI single on a 1-2 count followed by Dernedde bb and then Bazanna goes Grand Slam on a 2-2 pitch. All three of those guys faced a count with 2 strikes at a point.
Miiiiiiitch (sportin’ the stirrups/sanitaries) gets zebras to review a review.
Is it a 1 run lead or 2? We’ll see.
Mitch for COY? Talks the umps into reversing their own review. 10-8 Beavs…for now.
First to 20 wins… gonna need a few more singers just to keep pace with ASU. Good grief, baseball in the desert gives you an ulcer. Get the win and get back to Corvallis already.
How many more pitchers are available for the Beavs today? ASU has been burning through their guys as well and it’a only the 6th
After inexplicably leaving Lattery in for waaaaaay to long RD has shown a much shorter leash on everyone else. Still in the 6th…might need some position players to toss some balls. I don’t think the Beavs can hang in a boat race unfortunately. Worst offensive team going against the top team is not a good recipe.
Not so fast, no one has reached 20!
Kasper steals his third base after bb to start the t8.
Turley with an opportunity with one out and Kasper on second.
On top of everything else, Bazanna overslides second when he had it stolen.
Not the first time a Beav (or for that matter Bazanna) has made that mistake.
Tough to lose the series when they had a clear shot at winning all 3 games but couldn’t hold leads late.
ASU is the better team but OSU had plenty of chances to win, just couldn’t close the door on them.
If Forrster gets a couple of key hits rather than outs on Sat and Sun Beavs probably sweep. Crazy how the weekend turns on the production of any one player but Forrester probably was 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position.
Who did the scouting for the pitching staff going into that series? That guy should probably
Be fired or not scout anymore.
Since when does the entire bullpen implode and walk guys followed by hitting batters then give up 3 run homers for the entire series? Good grief!
Well the streak was fun. ASU definitely the better squad. Elite offense and their pitching was better than ours. 5th or 6th in Pac is where I predicted they’d land pre-season and it seems more fitting. Too many warts on the offense and if our pitching isn’t on its game we don’t stand much chance vs decent schools. Hope the pitching shows up vs Zona. Another excellent offense that scores in bunches and i think its apparent that we can’t hang with good talent if pitching isn’t flawless.
Zona pitching is interesting. They give up a lot of hits, runs and have a really high team era. However, they are 3rd in strike outs and 4th in walks allowed. So, we likely won’t be getting too many free bases so can our guys hit the ball or they gonna strike out?
Their Ps are not better than ours.
Ours pitched to an elite O, while theirs pitched to half an elite O, and the difference in outcomes isn’t stark.
I’d be very worried about the pitching staff, if I were an ASU fan. Maybe they get a run like Indiana had a couple years back, but the pitching will be their downfall.
I’d agree that our staff is better. I’m just pointing out that they strike a lot of guys out and we strike out more than anybody. By the metrics, Zona has an even better offense than ASU so there is definitely concern to be had if our guys aren’t pitching like we did vs the ducks and pitch like we did vs ASU. We can’t win a boat race vs good to elite offenses.
Really bad series loss given their inability to hold sizeable leads. I would still like to see them make the tournament (not a given), but I don’t think the team is Omaha material anyway. It will be interesting to see where the team ERA sits after this series debacle. It won’t be third in the nation any longer.
we’re not a championship team.
p doesn’t trust the D, and we’re weak at being consistent.
Next year could be good… if the pitching staff figures out where the zone is.
In positive Beaver news, make the top 5 for 4* wr from CA and top 6 for a 4* athlete from Washington. Fun to see, would be even more awesome to see them actually land one of them now that they’re on the dance card.
After seeing the Spring game, Canzano seeing the same thing I am with Chiles. It’s going to be very difficult for Smith to not play him, despite the QB depth we have. And apparently he’s not making a bunch of freshman mistakes in practice that we’re just not seeing.
Will be interesting to see how he handles taking a few hits from defenders, because he’s still fairly slender(only 17 years old, so to be expected) but you can tell he has the frame to build up his physique. The future is bright at QB.
Also, I went back and watched the Pac12 TV coverage. Just doesnt compare vs seeing it live. Basically every play on tv was spent sharing the screen with a player or coach being interviewed and you could barely follow the game action.
In between plays Chiles was running over toward the sidelines, eager to get the next play call and was all about keeping pressure on the defense by keeping the ball moving
It was apparent at the AA bowl game that a couple hits hurt.
He’ll be more mature next year, but why spoil a good plan?
Maybe he’s a lynchpin in our 2023 championship endeavors.
Or… maybe he’s a lynchpin in our 2025 and 2026 national championships, following DJ’s one championship.
DJ would be the slacker.
Just have to take it for what it was. The offense was vanilla and Chile’s played against 2nd and 3rd stringers. He is very good and will be very good but it’s way too early to be taking so much away from that glorified practice. He really need to work on his pocket presence otherwise he will be very easy to scheme against.
Canyon is garbage and wants to stir the pot with clickbait.
I’m not saying he isn’t impressive. I’m just saying this doesn’t make him the undisputed starter. I think he’s very good as well and has impressed. But part of the jump from high-school to college I learning how to maneuver and stay in the pocket longer and not just scrambling everytime. Granted there wasn’t great protection but still. Also there is a lot of things that we’re not able to see like reading the defense and checking into the right plays. Both those things take time and that is Ben’s strength as well as gebbias. Jefferson praised gebbia multiple times for getting them in the right play for his big gains.
All that said I’m really excited about him and I do definitely think he’s the best freshman QB we’ve ever had or at least that I’ve seen. If the QB situation was different this year I could see him starting but right now I’m just hoping DJ is the real deal and can find his groove to take this offense to the next level.
In taking it for what it was (2nd and 3rd string D), also consider:
1) When was the last time an OSU FR impressed in spring? Maybe(?) Mannion?
2) OSU had the #1 D in the PAC last year in terms of yards allowed and points, and there’s more depth on D than in any time in the last 6 years;
3) Chiles is 17 and arrived in January(!);
4) Both NiceBeaver (in person) and Angry (film) have called out Chiles quick and good decision making, and accuracy and everyone recognizes his athleticism;
All of these are contextual reasons for being impressed by what he did Saturday and what Smith has said he’s been doing in practice (“…we kind of expect it from him anymore…).
Come fall, maybe he’ll get some series with/against the 2’s snd 1’s for a fair reality check that also gives him summer and fall development time. Him playing with #1 OLine, deep #RB and TE groups would be interesting.
Anyone know who won the Pac championship in 2018? That Pat Casey sucked. I mean he had the best record in college in 2017 and didn’t even win the CWS, and in 2018 he didn’t win the conference title…what a dick!!!1!1!
Colorado losing all their decent players from last year’s team. Coach Prime must be burning bridges pretty hard. Prime Time Academy is going to have an interesting season with basically zero continuity.
OT: I’ve been meaning to mention, and haven’t seen anyone else discuss, but the Whyte Track and Field Center is finally getting stands (such as they are) and presumably some toilets installed. It looks like a scaled back high school bleacher system but at least you can sit and watch an event, or well, you know.
Ah alright defense during spring game thoughts (here ya go angry)
1. Dline looks like an absurd amount of young talent, sione lolohea, seismi saluni, Travis shippen, Takari Hickle, Nikko taylor and Oluwaseyi omotosho all young talent that we’re able to past the oline a good amount. Really thinking are dline pass rush this year could be special…. Also Omotosho looked like the real his edge pass rush and first two steps are elite from what I saw..
2. Linebackers didn’t see Easton macarenas but assuming he will definitely be starting at ILB this coming season. John miller looks like he could be a pretty good ILB he diagnosed plays pretty well and hits hard. Mikaya tongue looks like he has a hugeeee ceiling for how good he could be at ILB you could tell he wasn’t as seasoned as John miller in playing ILB but his intangibles were good and looked like good instincts. He hits really hard too from what I saw. Andrew chatfield looked like an absolute beast he’s straight going to put fear into opposing olines this coming season.
3. Defensive backs: didn’t see Jaden Robinson play but I could have missed him I think he will be starting at one of the corner back spots, I also am calling it now tyrice ivy jr is going to be starting the opposite side at cb. Oladapo is going to be the anchor for the dbacks this coming season, he was calling shots and getting other people into position whenever he was in. Akili Arnold and noble Thomas both looked pretty good. Joe Swen not sure where’s he’s at one the depth chart assuming the twos not the ones, he was an absolute ball hawk I saw him break up 3-4 passes that were thrown pretty well he was just in great position every time, hoping he can move up in the depth chart cuzzz he could be picking off pac 12 qbs with that type of awareness he has of the where the ball is going.
All in all I’m not really sure where our weakness is on the defense, maybe the dbacks? Maybe the linebackers? Idk they both looked like they had a lot of talent that are working their asses of to get better.
I’ll throw in my thoughts on are field goal kickers, they seemed about the same as last year which means our kicking game probably won’t be a strength.
Limited snap count (which arguably makes it more impressive), but Miller had a high PFF rating last year. Throw out the horrible coverage grade and Mascarenas did, too.
CB and special teams are my only concerns for this team. Sky’s the limit.
Special teams wise I’m only concerned about our kickers and idek who our punter is this year.. but bolden receiving kickoffs and Gould receiving punt returns is scary good.
I think are corner backs will be fine lots of young talent I saw on Saturday
Josh Green will be the punter and is proven. Just the guys ahead of him are that good. The kicker position needs an upgrade badly. That could easily be the difference in a game. You would think they could find an upgrade pretty easily. You smaller uni university’s with better kickers than ours. Should be able to pick up a transfer or something. I would use Sappington this season for everything 55 and in and use Hayes for longer or go for it depending on the situation. Hayes just never has progressed. Mccormick missed an easy 1 in the scrimmage. Maybe they need to hire a kicking specialist or something.
Chiles has immense potential but it’s just that for now. Has the arm and the legs but he does not look ready for real game action. At times he held the ball way too long. Took a few sacks, had the ball stripped once. Even on his TD throw, the defender got his hands on Chiles before he threw the ball. He probably hasn’t taken a big hit yet either.
DJU looked as expected. Some struggles but moved the ball. GB looked the same.
Passes to the RBs! Hopefully they’ll be part of the passing offense more this fall. Just to make the defenses account for them.
Defense looked fast. Got a lot of pressure throughout the scrimmage. Hickle, Omotosho and Taylor had some nice plays. Good to see guys stepping up.
I’m bullish on the pass rush this season. With the new additions and the development from the younger guys and the building depth on the DL there should be a huge improvement. The Sharpe move to TE I think is a good one. There is a lot of depth and talent at the OLB and edge position and he was a talented TE out of high-school. I think he’ll be more valuable there. You can really tell that Bray has emphasized it in the off-season. It should really help the young secondary.
I havent heard Stover’s name much this year. Is he healthy? Really thought he showed signs of being a good edge rusher early last season but think he ended up on the injured list the remainder of the year. Hope he’s back to form
Beavs have pitched well all season long. Showing it again today. ASU has a really good offense obviously, but them going nuts on the Beavers pitching is a credit to them but also was the first time really all year the pitchers have played in hot weather and almost no pitcher had any command at all. Didn’t look they handled the heat well at all. Very similar to the PAC-12 tourney last year where almost every pitcher but Hjerpe looked horrible. If it was at Goss, Beavs probably sweep. Hopefully they can work through it come PAC-12 tourney time, especially if they get sent to the south for a regional. Offense has looked great lately
Will be a good contest vs Zona. Statistically they’re a better offense than ASU so our pitchers will need to be on their A game or we’re going to need to score 13 runs a game.
They keep running Weber out behind the plate pitchers will struggle just like vs ASU.
Turley needs to be put on shelf for the season find him good spot to play this summer to get team at bats instead of swinging for the fence.
Macias and talt should be used to run if needed. Reader and Peterson get occasional bats at DH or big leads to get MCDowell, Guerra, Kane some rest.
This is only way they even have shot at post season they going to squeeze into Pac-12 tourney at 7-8 seed.
Watched a good amount of the spring game. It’s hard to tell when you are playing yourself, but we know with what we are returning our O-line is likely one of the best in the Pac-12 and the defense looked very disruptive against them. They could be better than last year’s D which lead the league in several categories. The talent ceiling is certainly higher, I think it will come down to leadership and consistent playmakers.
There were big losses at receiver- Harrison, Lindsay. And musgrave I guess lol.
Harrison was inconsistent but he was our #1. Someone has to step up and much as I like Bolden and Gould, I’m not sure either had the size to be a true 1.
Bolden is a number 1. Cools won the Biletknikoff at 5’9-10. Bolden is poised to breakout and catches everything. Now that we have a QB that can throw the deep ball out speed at WR is a serious threat especially with the run game.
I hope so. I do like Bolden a LOT. He’s blazing fast but he’s so much more than that- great hands, smooth routes, clutch, consistent. His brother drove me crazy with consistency issues but Silas seems like the real deal.
Make it 18 as of this morning. CU has had 31 players enter the portal since Sanders was hired. As stated, they were 1-11 last year. Addition by subtraction?
I don’t see the Buffs being much better this year or next.
They’re not going to be good right away but it could speed up the rebuild after a couple of years in the toilet. A completely different than Smith and doing things the “right way”. The thing is I can’t see sanders staying there very long. What happens when FSU comes calling.
He doesn’t seem to care much about the fact that these are young STUDENT athletes. I wonder how incoming recruits will perceive this. I really hope he crashes and burns. I’d hate to see this kind of behavior be rewarded. Colorado went from one of the teams I least hate to one of the top.
Keep in mind anyone being asked to leave the team is still guaranteed a four-year scholarship that can’t be reduced or removed, so long as the SA doesn’t enter the portal.
If there are kids who refuse to leave CU, but they were asked to not be on the team, they now have room for those kids, numbers-wise.
First, the story of him coming to Corvallis was the same as what was reported. He confirmed that during the in game interview. Seems driven to make this work.
Interesting read on DJU’s thoughts on Clemson’s offense. A perfect storm of bad play calling and bad communication. But yet they still made it to the orange bowl. Firing the OC was an acknowledgement of DJU’s criticism.
On the other side, JS got a huge endorsement of his offense and where it can lead. Hopefully he can use DJU as a recruiter for all offensive players in this next cycle.
Hey Angry, your dismal, perpetually mismanaged Jets get 39 year old Aaron Rodgers…i’m guessing he’s too sensitive for NY media and likely won’t have enough talent around him on O to succeed, but don’t know Jets roster…i think they gave a good+ D?
Jets are actually loaded with talent right now. Last year they were truly a QB away from being elite…a lot like the Beavs actually. Zach Wilson put the worst QB tape of the 2022 NFL on display, though Mike White was sneakily decent.
Garrett Wilson might be the best young receiver in the league right now. Bryce Hall is an elite runner. Rodgers gets a talent upgrade.
For those in attendance at spring game, how did new construction look in person? Does it look sort of small and underwhelming given it doesn’t match the other side, or does it look like it will integrate well?
Sortof a mixed result for me. I think it will look nice by itself, but on the other hand, the transition from end zone seating(near the video screen) to the new side doesnt mesh very well to my eyes. The styles and angles are just different, so it doesnt have good flow between those sections. Plus there isnt a bridge connecting the seating sections up above the main walkway, so they don’t actually connect and there’s this big gap of open air in that corner.
Also, it’s a little odd looking that tue upper level doesnt extend out like the lower level. I know it’s partially because we just dont have the demand to fill that many seats, but it looks incomplete to me because of that. Wonder if they designed it so they can build those wings on later? Would be a good option for future stadium expansion if the demand ever requires it in the future.
It will be interesting to see how the viewing angle is from the upper deck. Those top level seats are pretty high, but close to the field. And the pitch is pretty steep between row 1 and the top of that section.
The entire thing definitely outs the fans closer to the field.
I also like that the concession area opens out to the field, so you wont miss the game while standing in line. Just not sure where the lines will queue up because it doesnt look like alot of standing room over there.
I asked those same questions when I toured the stadium on Friday. They designed it to where they can connect in the future and as you suggested they wanted to see how current capacity does. If it sells out regularly, they plan to expand and connect the open air space you mentioned.
I think that concession area “Beaver Street” is the coolest part of the remodel. Ability to grab what you want and still see game. Also open area at the end with fire pits and heaters where kids can run around and still see game.
Oh nice, well good to hear they have some future design ideas already in mind. Wonder if we’ll ever see that place fill up regularly.
The spring game was at least a sign that more people are into the team this year. Pretty much every parking spot in the Reser lot was full, i ended up having to park in another area and hike in. People were tailgating and really seemed eager to see some football.
I’ve been to most of the past Spring games, basically since the GA era started, and they were never well attended
Colorado OLB Shakaun Bowser hit the portal today, with 4 full years of eligibility remaining. Beavs were one of the teams that hosted him for an official visit originally, so you have to think Bray would still be interested in him, if there’s room.
Maybe since he has 4 years could be worth grabbing but it seems like we have a lot of guys at the position but I don’t know how it’s spread out across the class.
Daschel has a post spring depth chart for the football team but it’s paywalled.
I don’t put too much stock into what he says but would be interesting to see where he sees things. Though to be frank, he just seems like he does the bare minimum in his role as the beat writer for the team, and he seems like he could care less about the beavs. Just seems like just a paycheck to him with his constant softball questions, etc.
If you’ve been reading practice reports and watched last season what do u think? Probably as good of guess as him. There’s only a handful of spots up for grabs and you should I have a pretty good idea. A lot of guys haven’t played or arrived yet either. Transfers are going to come in and some might go out.
On paper there aren’t too many concerns based on the amount of snaps everyone got last year and how productive each group was.
Obviously the biggest questions will be replacing the starters at LB and CB, but the depth seems to be there already.
Looking forward to fall camp and the season with high expectations.
Velling stands out to me too – he was really good last year.
Fenwick is a good backup but I think Griffin should be our real #2. Better player overall IMO and I think he complements Martinez’s power better with speed and quickness. They’ll all play though. Curious who if anyone will take on the Colletto wildcat role – maybe Fenwick??
And yeah I have to think even a mostly healthy Julien blows Arnold out of the water. Arnold has always been such a frustrating player…seems like he’s good for a blown coverage TD once a game. Losing Skyler Thomas is a blow. I don’t remember ever even hearing Kane’s name before – is he a scholarship player?
Fenwick should not be a wildcat back. He is not very hard to bring down. Guys just hit him low and he is easily tackled 1on1. There’s no reason not to use DJ in that role. He’s bigger than Colletto and is a much better passer. He probably doesn’t have that same amazing nifty ability to will himself to the line to gain but he definitely has a lot of power.
Arnold has never played enough to allow a TD a game. He’s a solid player but Julian is better. Like I said he’s only listed behind him because he hasn’t step foot on the field yet. If he’s healthy there’s no way he doesn’t start.
Often times the TE position depends on if they’re running double tight or not if they start. Velling will be the go to receiving TE and Overman is a blocker. I can’t say for Terry and Riley because I haven’t really seen them before. Riley was a good TE in high-school and looked really good in the spring game. He also definitely has the size and strength to be a good blocker. Hopefully Terry can live up to his 4 star rating out of high-school.
Going from Middle Tenn St and ending at TCU. I’d say he did well for where he started out of high school. If you look at Duggan’s stats before last year, they were pretty pedestrian. Maybe Dykes can get Nolan going.
Looking at the pocket schedule for the Beavs next season, it could be a real possibility to start 10-0 going into UW and Civil War games to end the season. The Beavs would be too 5 by then and those games would be guaranteed national exposure. Could
Be an awesome year if the defense continues its solid to elite play and the offense returns to 30+ ppg averages.
Why the down vote on this?
If defense holds at the same or better, and the offense gets back to JS offenses normal output of +30 ppg, who beats them in the first 10 games?
I think we are looking at an undefeated season and a chance at the Rose Bowl and Playoffs, actually. I expect 13-0 after the conference championship and a real shot at an SEC or Big10 power for the playoffs.
Hope springs eternal and I’ll be saying again in the fall. If you down vote I’d like to know what you down voted at least for this…
I felt the same way last season too. I think they can beat anyone on the schedule and should beat most. It’s a funny shaped ball and bounces weird ways tho and I don’t think they’re good enough to beat the good teams if they’re not playing really good clean football. Often times in close games a call or a crazy play can go against you and it’ll cost you the game. There’s a lot of factors to come into play that makes it very hard to win every game and with our kicker a game could be decided on his leg which I don’t feel good about.
With all that said I do think realistically they could be undefeated heading into the Washington game. The ucla and Utah games will poise the biggest threats and Colorado and Stan are kind of wild cards because I don’t know what to expect with them but they should still be wins. If the secondary be as good or better than last year and they play their brand of football and don’t be themselves there island reason they can’t go undefeated. But injuries, bad luck, refs, and a QB having an off game can all easily change that. I’ll gladly take the over on wins against Vegas this year.
I’ll gladly take the over on wins against Vegas this year.
One advantage of the Beavs being ignored by much of the sports world has been the season win line put up by Vegas the past few years. Two years ago 4.5 and last year 6.5 were both (for those who closely follow the team) easy money betting the over.
It will be interesting to see how the publicity around DJ and the 10 win season impacts the Vegas view. Seems like 8.5 would be likely, but the line may be set at 9.5 too. As money comes in how much will the lines change…..anybody’s guess.
I’m optimistic about next season, and I can see it being a special one with a run to the CFP. But, I also think @WSU in Week 3 and Utah/UCLA are legit potential early season losses. After last season and the hype around the team heading into this one, I don’t think the Beavs are going to be overlooked in opposing locker rooms or be able to surprise teams as they have the past few years.
If they are 7-0 heading into the BYE week in October, then I think we can talk about the CFP.
On paper, they *should* be comparably productive on Defense and more so on Offense than they were in 2022, but maybe Speights, Grant, Gebbia (leadership), and Colletto are irreplaceable in the locker room and the team can’t play with the same confidence/production. Who knows.
What I really want to see is some kind of 60-7ish beat down in San Jose to open the season. Riley’s teams often improved greatly over the course of the season, and that would often carry into the hype for the next, only to fall flat with a loss to Sac State or Boise State early (leading to another season of gradual improvement and renewed hope/hype).
Want to see them show up and make CFP statement in week 1 and totally outclass a MWC team while making it look easy, that would make me a believer.
Ya but WR and DB there are still spots on the 2 deep up for grabs. OLB is real deep too. I think Smith is developing a culture where people understand their roles on the team. Obviously in this day and age there are bound to be transfers tho.
It seems like Smith is very good at convincing people to stay for playing time down the line. He also seems to have a knack for moving talent around when they are stuck behind really good players, but could meet a need elsewhere. I have been blown away by how happy he keeps the players.
I would think he would be downgrading in conference size or division if he does. He may want to be on a P5 squad. A lot will depend on if Ben stays or leaves.
I’ll predict that there is zero chance that Nix and Penix both have better years than they each had last year.
Neither will have as good of offensive lines. I think it is more likely that they each take a slight step backwards .
I think you are right, especially in the case of Nix.
The usual hype around nike coupled with some heisman talk may lead Vegas to set the line at 10.5, certainly 9.5. Said before, there is likely easy money to be made betting the under.
Well, it will be harder too because teams have more game film of them and they won’t be as much of a surprise to opposing coaches anymore. Happens all the time to QBs who have a big year. Unless they play for a perennial powerhouse.
This^^^^. I think people don’t realize how much that film can make a difference. Oregon allowed a ridiculously small amount of sacks. How much of their Oline is returning on both squads?
In terms of offensive production and what DJU adds to the mix: deep post, deep out route, legitimate play action, qb keeper, roll-out with double routes at depth, deep scramble drill.
DJ should be fine with touch passes to the flat and check-downs but I think his strength will be forcing the defense to honor everything 30 yards back from the line of scrimmage, which wasn’t the case for BG or Nolan. So defenses have much more space to cover, and will be forced to blitz, which creates holes for Martinez and company if diagnosed correctly. Let’s hope the offense clicks for him between now and fall camp and it all slows way down to a simple game of logic and anticipation rather than reactive.
In Coach M we trust, if DJ has time to let plays develop, defenses will have to honor the go routes from our speed at wr, and any kind of delayed hand-off becomes much more productive too.
I’m hoping to see play action and a nice arcing 60 yard drop in the bucket to Bolden/Gould reminding us of the DA/Haas days of old.
JS and Lindgren are looking at about a 4-5 year run of great qb play between DJ and Chiles, and they have all of the pieces in place around them to make it an epic run. I’d predict offensive numbers better than 2021, and defensive numbers better than last year which feels like a conference championship to me.
I’d love for that to happen, but if DJ and Chiles have that kind of success, Both JS and Lindgren are gone and we have a 2-3 year run. The grass isn’t always greener but money is.
I’m sure JS is already thinking about who will replace Lindgren. If Lindgren is talking to the media about other jobs, you can bet they’ve had honest conversations about it.
Im sure he does as well. They say coaches should expect it and always have a short list ready. Despite how people feel about Lindgren I think he’s done well and had the team near the top of the pac every year. He’s done so without any real talent at QB as well. You could argue that is partly because of him tho and that could be one of the knocks on him. He made a big turnaround right away with Luton tho so the jury is still kind of out. This year will be very telling with talent in the QB room and this much time to recruit and develop his guys. I think we can do better than Lindgren but we can also do a lot worse as well. I personally like the continuity. I trust Smith to pick a solid OC more than DC since it’s his Forte.
Zebras leaving
Wilner reports three of the conference’s top referees have accepted positions with the Big Ten. Along with Mothershed’s retirement this leaves 4 open slots.
A source in the officiating industry told the Hotline that the departing officials viewed the Big Ten as an enticing opportunity — the difference in salary isn’t believed to be substantial — and a chance to separate from David Coleman, the Pac-12’s vice president for officiating.
Ha! Jokes on the Big10 for this move…
PAc12 should raid the MWC for officiating crews and get a fresh start with internal operations.
Officiating and conference brass influences may be the only hindrance to the possible magical season in front of the Beavs.
Hopefully they don’t go crazy trying to push Colorado, USC and Oregon for ESPN.
It would be im the best interest of the conference to begin elevating other programs besides USC, Oregon…
Takari Hickle is already looking like a steal in the 2023 class. From a low division school in Washington and didnt even get offered by either in state school. Beavs saw the physical potential and offered him and that looks to be paying off. I’d say he’s well ahread of schedule if he’s already on the 2 deep in his RS Freshman season.
I was thinking the same thing. I think he’s only been. Playing football for a little bit. A report when he committed said he had a crazy wingspan and hands the size of jj watts or something like that.
I’m generally not warm to the idea of former Duck players ever transferring to the Beavers, but OSU likely needs a CB. No mention of where these ate kids interested in going.
Blue coaching a 4*(?) prospect does sound good…maybe they are 2* and 3* prospects who got a Duck bump?
They also had a fan favorite, nose tackle Sir Mells, enter the portal.
It’s interesting how many class of 2022 and 2023 guys they’ve had transfer out. Especially 2023. These are guys Lanning signed in his first class and he’s already telling them to leave to make room for transfers.
I’d still like to see us pursue Trejon Williams. I think he has Jordan Poyer type potential.
Came out of HS as a safety but most recently was listed as a CB at Oregon. Ball hawk who hits hard.
Listed as 5’11” 187lbs, so not the tallest/longest CB, but he makes up for it with athleticism and instinct
I cant track follows the way i used to. Elon Musk changed twitter around to monetize queries that hit twitter API, meaning the program i was using has ceased to exist since they are now being charged a penny per inquiry.
In the Dam podcast they said we’re currently 5 scholarships over the limit so something will have to give especially if they want to bring in some transfers.
One of your fellow AB readers has been tracking scholarships in a google sheets doc for awhile now, and he has them at 85.
I trust his thoroughness more than Angie’s. This includes up through Trey Lowe retiring last week, so it looks up to date.
Unless somebody can point out 1-5 missing names from this doc, I’m going with 85 current.
Maybe this comment will get lost in the thread but I do see some names missing (I might have missed them or they might not be on scholarship) but what about Hodgins, Tufaga, and Vickers?
Hey, good to see Jake Hedberg took over Carter Bahns old job at Blitz. He seems like a good kid and knows a ton about Beaver Football. Good hire. Angie can continue to coast by on the efforts of others.
He won one of our Pac12 pickem tournaments a couple years back.
Saw OL Tyler Knaak is xferring from Utah. Beavs were in his top 5 along with USC, ASU and Virginia. He signed Dec 2021 so guess that makes him class of 2022. Took 3 official visits with the beavs.
A name was floated to me today as a potential transfer candidate to watch. Redshirt Sr. Paul Moala from Idaho. Was at Notre Dame before that. Looks like potential ILB depth. Keeping an eye on him to see if he visits campus soon.
There are a couple players chosen who should have been passed over, a couple others who are reaches as low as they are.
This is the time of year we rediscover why some teams continue to be miserable.
Iowa State
Not much of a reach–late first rounder, not middle. But they didn’t have another pick until early 2nd round, and he was the best value left on their board. High ceiling, not much downside. Should be able to at least play to his salary slot. Any OL they would have picked would have been a much bigger reach, at that point.
They do need OL, though. Expect a couple today.
There’s no shame in a 2-3 round draft slot, nor 4-7, nor udfa for that matter.
But, I saw numerous folk discuss LM as a potential 1st rounder. I’m guessing sitting out most of your last year of football isn’t going to help push you up draft boards; not sure why anyone would think differently. Potential has cost plenty of teams in the draft too, see above referenced Raiders.
Ryan P**t, can you check your recurring PayPal donation? I am getting an error on that this morning. Was unable to reach you by the email on file, too. Hopefully you are still alive. Thanks!
That Nvidia guy’s stock is doing very well. Why not sell a few shares and buy out Tinkle?! How is the potato salad market these days? Are the Resers still big donors? It would be an interesting post to update our best donors. I haven’t heard much on that front in years. If anyone knows who they are, shoot me an email.
Too much money going into the stadium, at the moment.
I’m guessing there will be some discussions during football games with some hoi polloi about how it would be nice to, “have this sort of fan commitment for hoops, as well.”
I don’t watch college basketball anytime prior to March Madness. The overall product is not good. The product Tinkle puts on the floor is really not good though.
I watch it all the time. It’s a league that still has some rules.
It’s not nearly the same drop-off in team talent as there is from the NFL to the NCAA. But yes, some teams are bad, just like football. But watching hoops on the college level is at least or more entertaining than the NBA, imo. That can’t be said of football. It’s quite the opposite.
I remember the overwhelming sentiment here was to give Tinkle a big extension after the Elite 8 run. I was one of the more lukewarm posters. Think I eventually said to give him another year or two… but in hindsight if they had just let him get poached that would have been great.
I think most were reluctant of giving an extension. However, the optics of not giving a coach an extension after a deep tourney run would have been very bad. What good coach would come after seeing the school not reward success albeit just one year?
The Elite Eight was a fluke to be sure – it has had zero impact on recruiting. I will say though that Robinson bringing in Payton and getting the practice facility built made the program much better than when he found it after the Jay Johns experience. You can’t even say Tinkle at least graduates his players because most bail out of the program well shy of graduation.
CR also had to keep all the players from Jay John’s tenure.
And I mean he had to convince some of them not to drop out, just so they could get their grades up enough to take us off the list of possible sanctions. Nobody wanted that job, but he took the chance, and he was successful at both that and giving OSU a practice facility that a couple years later had people like Musselman and Howland wanting the job.
Say what you will about his actual coaching abilities–that were better than what we have now–but he pretty much brought OSU hoops back from the brink.
And then there were all these numbnuts who thought it was all political–alums and fans alike. Such a stupid time, on top of all the rest.
This is what I thought coaches would release for film. Individuals drills and scrimmage film because it was public. Wouldn’t seem smart to let them show practice plays since that would give away information.
Any under-preferred crawl-ons we should keep an eye out for?
JK, sounds like the football program is doin relatively well to hold on to their preferred guys!
Feels good to have a good-great football program….if it takes the basketball program to be in the dumpster for the Beaver god to balance out with a football program of this caliber, then I am all for it! Las Vegas bowl was fun, looking forward to the next great adventure!!!!
Edge has the ESPN FPI up. It doesn’t go game by game tho. Does anyone know how to look that up ot have a link. I’d be curious what they have their chances at in their games.
It was pretty well known that UNC was doing hinky things, at the time.
And then there was a whole NCAA case where Middle Tennessee got penalized for UNC giving out grades for imaginary classes… or at least someone besides UNC got penalized, because they sure didn’t.
If you click on each games TBD it tells you ESPN FPI predictions. They’re favored in every game by quite a bit aside from Washington but still a win, Utah a slight loss but pretty much a toss up and then oregon is favored by a bit. Pretty fair analysis at this point. That would leave them with a 10-2 record.
They are not going to throw as much with Rodgers gone. His upside is his athleticism and route running so I Hope his blocking will improve. Its great for him and its nice to see a beav go early.
Then why didn’t he ever catch those passes for the Beavs? JS rarely focused toward the TE on offense.
I don’t blame JS and BL but the player who wasn’t making those plays deterred them.
NFL teams get blinded by measurables and potential rather than looking at a guys actual productivity.
Wish him well and hope it is a nice career but I’ll add a thanks for a 2 game contribution for his career: Utah at Home and Fresno St on the road. Beyond those 2 games I can’t recall a game he impacted beyond bone headed false starts, holding and drops.
It sounds like the GM wants to flex both, not just run them as “standard” NFL TEs.
I’m surprised Cincy didn’t pick either.
It also funny, because I think the two of them became friends in the draft process.
Lineup for game 1 vs AZ includes: Weber at C, Dernedde in the 9 hole, and……DH Tyce Peterson.
No Turley
Sellers on the mound, hope he feeds off of Goss and manages 5+ innings.
Sellers with a very efficient 31 pitch inning. Walked 2 then struck out the next 2 to get himself out of the jam. Standard procedure. Get the bullpen ready by the 4th inning.
Weekend, first real nice weather game, home game vs tough foe, “sell out”, yet we still can’t fill our baseball stadium with butts in all seats. We really do have bad fans overall compared to the SEC.
I bet I make it everywhere more than you make it once.
Oh… you mean going to a physical location.
Yeah… you’re not too bright.
Tell us again how the SEC works, oh young wise student.
Bazzana robbed??
Anyone else think Bazzana was safe at second? No question the throw beat him but looked on TV like the tag wasn’t applied before he touched the base.
Anyone?
Sellers through 3 innings is at 59 pitches, he could make it past 5……..Dang, spoke too soon, he HBP and give up a double so runners at 2 and 3 with no outs.
He’s a magician. Loaded the bases and gets out unscathed. Over 80 pitches thru 4. My God. It’s pitching by committee when he starts. I can’t remember an Ace avg 5 or less innings per game.
Not gonna defend Wilson but Sellers is erratic regardless of who’s behind the plate. Think his longest outing this season has been the 6th inning. He’s usually done by the late 4th or into the 5th. It’s crazy.
Surprised he didn’t get tossed. I mean, he’s at 100 pitches so no real harm. I’d be pissed to if I slacked off and had home plate stolen on me. Meanwhile, Zona starter on auto pilot so far.
They stole hole on Weber. You don’t jump up like he did sellers has no idea where he was going. You let the pitch come in at that point and drive to tag.
Yes seller’s should have been more aware but I believe I heard he hates the pitch com.
He is very paced Pitcher hates to look down wants to trust his catcher. You can see they don’t jive.
Dernedde opts to throw to 1st for an out vs the lead runner force at 2nd. Mightve been close but think the force out was there. Hope it doesn’t bite us in the ass
On to the 3rd pitcher for the Beavs. Mejia comes in with runners on 1st and 2nd. Beavs have been very impatient at the plate. Zero walks and 6 strike outs. 4 hits on the night. It just has a feeling like Zona is going to bust this open. They’ve threatened multiple times during the game and I don’t know how much more we can duck and dodge our way thru the games.
Escape once again. Still 1-0 Zona bottom of 7. We earned our first walk of the night. Man on 1st, no outs. Zona starter at 88 pitches but no sign of slowing down.
Going into the game, Weber was hitting .230 and Smith .188. Weber also has had some big hits in the last 2-3 weeks (3-RBI 2B at ASU, Grand Slam at Oregon), so I’m sure those factors are taken into consideration. That said, neither of them have been great, consistent, or dependable this year, at least not at the level of OSU catchers we’ve become accustomed to.
Through 7 innings Beav pitchers have given up 5 bb, 4 HBP and yet the team with the top offense in the PAC has only one run on a steal of home. Baseball is a funny game.
Zona’s starter for tonight has been their mid-week guy until tonight according to Shotgun Spratling. Lol. Great for him, sad for us. Really a terrible job at the playe tonight for the Beavs offense. This is the Feb and March team. Can’t do shit. Strike out on 4 pitches. Weak contact. Time running out.
Small ball, Kasper beats out SAC bunt……..looks like a real ball player.
bases jacked no outs.
And then pinch runner Reeder doesn’t look like a real ball player, sloppy baserunning but safe at third.
Peterson and Bazzana the only beavs with more than one hit tonight; freshman is in pretty good company!
Zona’s strong suit was supposed to be offense, their weakness …….pitching……….not so tonight. They only got 3 hits, partly because so many bb and hbp!
On second thought, AZ pitching was actually pedestrian aside from their starter.
They keep running Weber out behind the plate pitchers will struggle just like vs ASU.
Turley needs to be put on shelf for the season find him good spot to play this summer to get team at bats instead of swinging for the fence.
Macias and talt should be used to run if needed. Reader and Peterson get occasional bats at DH or big leads to get MCDowell, Guerra, Kane some rest.
This is only way they even have shot at post season they going to squeeze into Pac-12 tourney at 7-8 seed.
Watched Colorados spring game. They look like a disaster already. Blocked kicks and blown coverages. Almost wonder if it was scripted or something. They’re going to have a hard time having enough guys that understand the system. They might improve the talent a bunch but I can’t see it working this year.
Ya I say over under is 2 games. Shedaur is going to have a hard time adjusting and have a mess of an offense with no one on the same page. It’s not like QB last year was the glaring problem.
Definitely why they pushed all those guys to the portal. Next year won’t be much fun for them as team chemistry will be pretty low but the following year is when they’ll make some noise. Deion is going to bring in some very good players, but we’ll see if he can coach them up. Need Colorado to be good or bring in viewers for the next media deal.
PAC12 baseball tournament moves to a pool format this year to reduce the number of games a team has to win for the title. Max 4 games vs 6 last year and only one game per day. Top 9 teams get in. 3 pools and with each winner advancing and top wildcard.
One flaw they have in there is that top 3 seeds would play four days in a row if they advance to the title game. The 4-9 seeds would get a day off if they were to advance to the semis. A small advantage for pitching staffs.
Currently Beavs in 5th place. That would put them in a pool with ASU and Arizona.
All 3 teams in one pool could go 1-1. In this case the highest seeded team automatically moves on to the semifinals.
What was wrong with single elimination? All they needed to do was add a 2nd site to avoid games ending after midnight.
Not sure I’m a fan of this format but I’ll give it a chance before I make a final judgement. Have to wait and see the schedule and how it all shakes out.
It’s the PAC12…of course the solution is worse. Any revisions will create even worse PR problems for the conference. Tired of the perennial shoot yourself in the foot leadership of this conference. Likely timed with an announcement of a less than favorable media deal.
My issue with it is this example I pulled out of my ass……
Per the article linked “Any tiebreaker will be awarded to the highest seeded team.”
Let’s say Stanford is the 2 seed, Arizona the 5 seed and Cal the 8 seed.
Arizona beats Stanford but loses to Cal. Stanford beats Cal. All 3 teams went 1-1. Stanford would be awarded the berth into the semifinals due to being the higher seed.
Arizona could still get to the semifinals as the wildcard but would need to be the highest remaining seed with a 1-1 record.
Does this seem like the best solution to determine a conference tournament champion?
Here’s an idea. A pair of 4 team pods. Double elimination. Just like a regional. The two pod winners meet for a single elimination championship game.
Guerra a 2 RBI single makes it 6-1. There’s your cleanup hitter taking what he can and not just up to swing for the fences.
Susac in to pitch for AZ. B4 1 down.
Several bunts today helping this offense get runs. I get it’s not the thing Mitch and co want to do but it applies pressure and helps create opportunities. Successful bunt to make the score 4-1 and the following batter, Guerra, gets a base knock up the middle to score two more.
They’ve had an aversion of small ball this year. Very few and far between, even when they were shitting the bed for a month offensively. Pretty sure they’re not measuring exit velocity and launch angle for bunts.
Niners Kyle Juszczyk is 32 and the highest paid FB in football. Niners probably looking to get younger and cheaper. Could be the perfect situation for Colletto.
Imagine what Shanahan could do with Colletto – the real question is if they have room on the roster for him. His versitility will be a strength though – special teams, emergency linebacker, third TE, blocking back, hell, third QB so they don’t have to put some guy out there with a busted wing.
First two outs in the t8 made by the maligned Weber and Dernedde.
Dernedde takes advantage of (not an overslide) overrunning cat, heads up play.
On to the b8, Cats have 3 outs left and need 5 runs to draw even.
Nice to see Susac putting in lot of work today, probably won’t be available tomorrow.
Colorado has gotten 2 Alabama transfers so far. I think everyone knows he’s going to be upgrading the talent at Colorado but will he be able to coach all of these egos and create team chemistry and get them to play together is the real question. How long before a bigger more attractive school sees the talent he’s bringing in and wants them at their school. I think it’s just a matter of time before FSU comes calling.
I feel bad for all of these kids caught up in it. The ones that are being forced out and the ones susceptible to his snake oil pitch. Reminds me of Taggart.
In three years, Sanders has almost as many winning seasons as Taggart had in 13, and he has one more ten win season.
Getting all angsty about him does you no good. It is what it is.
I’m talking about personality wise. Jackson state and P5 football is an entirely different beast. He should’ve gone undefeated with the talent gap he had.
FSU is his Alma mater and they have high expectations. All it takes is a couple of down or even average seasons for the fan base and donors to make his seat get hot. It doesn’t have to be FSU either. It could be Any former blue blood program with deep pockets looking to return to their former glory days that can outbid colorado.
It’s all fluff, is what it is, manufactured just to hate on something or someone.
Who cares?
Their disarray is our benefit, unless we do something irrational, like try and apply some imaginary sense of loyalty to college football.
Enjoy what we have, and forget the noise.
The noise is the noise.
A rundown on all the pac players drafted. Utah, ucla, usc, and Oregon are top teams that lost a lot of talent. Should help the Beavs to leapfrog these teams and take their place at the top of the conference.
Ya I noticed that. They have an opportunity to make the same move as OSU. Obviously the Beavs lost a lot too but no one that can’t be replaced by the next man up aside from Colletto. He was so important in keeping drives alive. I do think with the offensive line, the RBs , and DJU they should still be able to pick up 3rd/4th and short at a high clip.
That’s quite the jump to be making. We have very tough games in UCLA and Utah. @Wazzu is also always tough for some reason. Not to mention that if it isn’t decided by the UW game, Quacks in Eugene is also a hard game.
Likely means probability.
I would accept UW as a likely participant. UO is not likely, even after making UW not likely.
Utah is likely. UCLA is not likely.
OSU is likely.
UO is probable, at best.
The point of the comment was that those top teams lost a lot of talent in the draft which could open the door for the Beavs and Washington. Wazzu lost their best defensive player to the draft and grip to the portal not to mention coaches as well. I don’t think he was saying they wouldn’t still be tough just maybe not as good as last year.
Rich is definitely not fast on pulling the starter. Seems like he did the same thing for Lattery vs ASU. Scored like 5 runs with 6 batters or something along those lines.
Huge double by Forrester! Bases juiced with 2 out and 2 strikes! Clears them all. Bazanna turned on the jets and goes 1st to home on the double. Bottom 8 2 down. 8-7 Beavs
I was mostly joking. I don’t really watch college baseball outside the Beavers so I got no clue who should win. But COTY is always who exceeded pre-season expectations the most kind of award. Beavers were picked like 6-8 weren’t they?
Crazy, didn’t seem like they had enough talent to be rated that high preseason with all the losses from last years record. Guess they get the benefit of the doubt being a p12 powerhouse though.
All in all the season is going pretty much as expected, right? Inexperienced roster started the year slow, but has surged in the second half. Not talented enough to be a top national seed, but good enough to be in the pack, for sure.
Lots of people on here want to dump on the coaching staff, but Micah McDowell’s turnaround has been pretty amazing. This is a guy who was basically unplayable the last few years because of his anemic offense. Now he’s one of the team leaders in OPS and has an almost 1 BB:K ratio.
It’s been great to see Micah bring it this year. He had a great freshman season then definitely struggled the last 2. Next couple years will be telling to see how all these young guys continue to grow.
Struggles were likely mental when added to physical…..Parker seems to think he still has lingering shoulder issues-arm not as strong as before injury.
Good point about watching for continued growth from lower classmen.
The coaching staff was pretty high on Micah last year. I remember Mitch telling my pops to watch out for him. But then Boyd, Meckler, Melton happened. Big credit to Micah for sticking with it!
Teams are going after transfers more than JUCO players since the portal and no sitting out became the norm.
My guess is it’s more risky to sign a JC guy because of the difficulty transferring for academics.
Beavs have less conference games left to play than the teams ahead of them. Unlikely they can leap all 3 but possibly finish 2nd or 3rd in conference by the end.
I am fairly pro-Mitch as they come. But, why does he seem to challenge the hot hitters in crucial at bats? Last night with 3 home runs to the right fielder. The super regional last spring they kept giving the marshmallow man opportunities. Its happened more than that… Is it an analytics thing?
My prediction is football goes 8-4 or around there. People need to realize that the luck o the Beavs usually comes along. We’ve lost a lot of starters, and while we finished with 10 wins and could had more, we could have also very easily have lost the Civil War, Fresno State, and Stanford game, which was a completely lucky win. In this age of college football I feel as though 10-2 or 10-3 is the ceiling for this team, and that’s not a bad thing. Not every team can contend for conference titles or more.
They didn’t lose a lot of starters and the ones they did there is plenty of experience behind them. That 10-3 team was with a team hamstrung by QB play and Bray’s first year. It could’ve easily been 12-1 as well. The QB room went from empty to full. The biggest question mark is secondary depth the atarters should be fine especially with an improved pass rush. I think 10-2 is much more likely. This should be the best offense and defense combo since Smith got here.
My Brother has been fired from every job he has had in the last 30 years. He is always waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it does. That kind of thinking is from the Riley years and earlier. Anything can happen, they can replace all the refs with alums of who we are playing. RE James Rodgers at Arizona. They beat a top 10 team last year completing 6 passes. Personally, I want those 2 losses to Udub and the spoiled children. So hopen for 11-1 in regular season play.
I wrote this on the 17th after the USC sweep, I think it holds mostly true. They didn’t win the ASU series which hurts there chances, but if they win out finishing the year 20-10 in conference, and based on a lack of West Coast hosting spots they could host.
“Its the 200+ RPI losses (New Mexico/Cal Poly) that eliminates any chance, only potential saving grace would be the lack of West Coast teams with hosting resumes other than Stanford. If you want hold out any hope to host a regional, they’d have to go 10-2 the rest of way in conference play (win all series), have a midweek win over Oregon and no midweek losses to teams with 100+ RPI team to be in the conversation.”
41 wins far exceeds my expectations at the halfway point, when we were 18-10.
I was thinking 37, just to keep the losses in the teens.
But then we have the tourney to deal with, as well.
That many wins would still take a certain amount of consistency that I really haven’t seen yet.
You can’t be cardiac kids forever.
That being said, a couple players seem to be stepping up.
So we’ll see.
Right now UCLA and USC are playing their way out of the tournament.
USC just got swept in Seattle and their RPI has fallen into the 60’s. They have a chance to get back on the right side this week (non con with UCLA and Oregon at home this weekend).
UCLA has watched their RPI drop to mid 30’s with some series and midweek losses. I did read they are decimated from injuries.
Right now UCLA would probably be in but USC would be on the outside looking in. But fuck both of em.
PAC could be a 4 bid league when it’s all said and done.
I’m still confused as to why Austin is drafted and Wright signed as FA. Obviously Austin went pretty late so perhaps not much of a difference per say, but I thought Wright was by far our best corner. I do like Austin’s tackling ability but he was almost always a few steps behind or a yard or 2 off the receiver. Coverage seemed to be the weak spot in his game. Awesome to see the amount of beavs get signed though.
I think he was hurt by his brother being over drafted in the 3rd round by the cowboys and not living up to those expectations. Plus from what I’ve read he didn’t run at either the combine or OSU pro day so not having a recent 40 time on record hurt. Somewhere said 4.35 but I doubt that.
ESPN has UO at 10-2?
Are they using tarot cards and hoping really hard?
Just kidding. I understand they have zero clues about West Coast football. Most “experts” seem to think the USC D will put them in what they pretend is a college football playoff.
Just a duck trying to troll Beaver fans out of his own insecurity.
What he is trying to say is that his ducks won’t win more than 9 games. Classic misdirection because he knows the Beavs are going to be the juggernaut of the north.
Ducks win 9
Beavs win 12
UW wins 10
WSU wins 7
Panic in Eugene.
Maybe if they could have held a lead against ASU, I’d call them gutsy but playing down to a Zona team and requiring 2 walk offs at home isn’t gutsy. Does anyone have any confidence that this team could go on the road and win a regional? Outside of a couple wins at Oregon, which they probably slept in there own beds, this team doesn’t have a quality road series all year. Have to win on the road to earn being called gutsy.
Look at stats since conference play began.
Until USC, I would have said all of their road series, including Stanford, were better games than their home stands. Even at ASU, they put up some offensive numbers, only to come home to be erratic on Friday night at home.
Admittedly, that home record will look even better, at the end of the year. But we look like a better team on the road.
In conference play we are average more runs on the road, but our pitching has been awful. We are giving up almost twice as many runs on the road. In conference the average score on the road is 6.3-6.1 and at home it’s 4.9-3.3. Now the road schedule has absolutely tougher than our home schedule, but the original comment I was replying to was about this team being “Gutty” and I think that is determined by performance in the toughest circumstances. This year that is on the road versus ASU and Stanford. I think we fell short in those circumstances. I know it is only 2 games but if we one a game at Stanford and closed either of the final two games at ASU, I’d feel differently about this team chances in the postseason.
In conference play we are average more runs on the road, but our pitching has been awful. We are giving up almost twice as many runs on the road. In conference the average score on the road is 6.3-6.1 and at home it’s 4.9-3.3. Now the road schedule has absolutely tougher than our home schedule, but the original comment I was replying to was about this team being “Gutty” and I think that is determined by performance in the toughest circumstances. This year that is on the road versus ASU and Stanford. I think we fell short in those circumstances. I know it is only 2 games but if we one a game at Stanford and closed either of the final two games at ASU, I’d feel differently about this team chances in the postseason.
I’m not extrapolating to the postseason. I don’t see many paths for a deep run.
I’m just saying we looked like a more engaged team on the road, before USC.
Maybe it is the quality of opponents… or their hype in the media?
Maybe they figured out they could beat a “ranked” team, after that? Or maybe they figured that out at PK, and it has just carried over.
The tournament is going to be a roller coaster. Last two series have been full of lead swings. Does it start with the Friday night starter causing the good bullpen arms to get used up early and often?
So the new unsubstantiated Pac12 rumor is that Tulane is the new clubhouse favorite to join the Pac? Although Rice is also being mentioned.
Could make for a fun road trip, I suppose
PAC-12 still emphasizing academics? It’s clear who’s running the show. I guess that’s good for the universities; not good for their athletic programs.
Both schools kind of make sense in that they’re strong academically in major metro areas/recruiting hotbeds outside the current footprint. Neither is historically good in anything other than baseball, though, and neither grows the “brand portfolio” strength at all.
Sounds like Arizona and ASU… without the recruiting part.
And then they were able to afford real coaches and facilities.
There’s no way a Lute Olson ends up in Tucson, if they weren’t elevated by the Pac.
No way they pass on SoCal markets/SDSU to go get
Rice though. It may be a compromise to add 2 brands that are nationally known brands and 2 that are academically strong. I’d say that means they are looking at 4 teams to add-
I’ll guess:
SDSU
Houston or Boise St
Rice
Tulane
I’m not sure any combination makes up for the loss of USC alone.
Houston is already Big 12, and they have a ton of work to do to get their football facilities up to snuff. If Houston had Rice’s facilities, they would have been a P5 school decades ago, but there are high schools with better facilities in the area.
It’s funny that Wilner finally acknowledged that UNM exists.
I love watching hoops at the Pit. It’s up there with Pauley, Allen, Gill, Palestra for great hoops viewing… when there’s great hoops to be viewed.
Sightlines on any arena with a tiered deck automatically die. “Sitting on top of the action” seems to be further away, when it’s really not. It’s about the same distance, but the relief makes the players look more like ants, not players.
Regardless, UNM, CSU, SMU, Rice, SDSU, and Hawai’i are the only schools left in the west with BCS teams and academic standing–Tulane and Tulsa, if we want to expand a little more east.
I still say Hawai’i would be better off being football only, and Gonzaga would be a non-football member.
None of it matters, if I’m not able to stream games. Linear TV is going to be dead just in time for the Pac to make themselves beholden to it beyond its death.
Wonder how many “1000th!!!” comments we’re about to get? And only 1 will get that distinction.
Unless somebody goes in and deletes some posts. But nobody would do that….would they?
Good for Memphis Grizzlies already deciding to move on from trash talking Dillon Brooks. NBA is already an unwatchable product but his type makes it even less watchable. Wonder if his big mouth ends his career.
Same goes for Draymond Green and other big mouth floppers who can’t just play the game but need to ruin it with the antics and extra garbage.
GP in his heyday likely would be the same to me. I’d take Jordan and Bird on court demeanor over GP or any of these current guys. Steph Curry is a celebratory trash talker and he drives me crazy too. Curry is the best shooter in the history of the game and has to showboat shimmy for making them. Low class just like the rest of the league.
These current players need a balance like the old Pistons to just mail them for nonsense either flopping, jawing or showboating. Too bad the league is so ridiculous and would rather showcase a bunch of me-mugging prima Donna’s and flopping no talent drama queens.
The league has taken on the personality of LeBron and lost the dignity and poise of Jordan/Bird/Magic.
GO was the outlier in his day, but it is now league wide and insufferable.
The flopping and acting are absurd and difficult to stomach. Anytime someone is touched they act like they took a ninja sai directly in the eye, Curry being a frequent academy award wannabe.
I did love the Karl/Payton/McMillan/Kemp/Schrempf et al Sonics…fun style of ball, but, 2nd place to Bulls…and an all time flop to Denver.
Payton’s trash talking doesn’t compare to Brooks antics and Ja’Mont’s friends’ antics…and even Payton in his prime wouldn’t be allowed to play D in today’s league and his 3 point shot would need a lot of work.
Our pitcher needs to pay attention to runners on base. Guy on 2nd is a good 8-10 ft off the bag and Thor has such a slow delivery that the guy is more than halfway to third before he’s even released the pitch. And 3rd time in a row and they double steal. Not even close. Smh
Ducks error on a Bazanna grounder scores 1 and then Forrester gets a base knock and beavs lead 4-3. 2 hit batters, the error and a base hit. Not a great inning by the quacks.
Side note, after watching Sunday’s starter and our midweek guy tonight, how fucked is our starting pitching next year? Kmatz, hunter and lattery? No freshman have been pitching enough innings this season to be considered in the rotation that I can see. This could be a rough starting rotation next season. Lattery has great stuff for 2 innings then everything unravels. Hunter is still relatively unproven in mass quantities and who knows how he looks coming back from injury. There’s some real questions around the pitching next year for sure.
This might end up being the longest game in history. We’re 1.5 hours into this game and there’s still 1 out left in the 3rd. Beavs have had 4 straight doubles. Bazanna being the last one. He’s been ridiculously hot. 8-5 beavs.
Could Bazzana be a candidate for player of the year in the conference? He has the best hitting percentage on the team and seems solid on defense. I rest my case.
“The emotional game did not end without drama, however. After Ferrer polished off the last out, striking out Drew Smith on three pitches, he glared at the Ducks dugout and delivered a few choice words.
Oregon coach Mark Wasikowski took exception to Ferrer’s taunts and exchanged words with Canham near home plate as the coaching staffs shook hands after the game. The coaches had an extended and animated conversation that ended only after their assistants sidestepped them and shook hands.
When asked later about the postgame chat, Canham took the high road, refusing to divulge details.
“Just having a conversation,” Canham said. “I mean it’s competition. Guys are going to get fiery from both sides and both of our jobs are to take care of our guys and our attitudes and our dugouts. Just touching base there at the end.”
It doesn’t help that the NIL system has overwhelmed him.
He should take some of his money and hire a couple advisors to gain some professional insight on how to market and focus revenue better. It’s not enough to just be a nice guy and tall.
NiceBeaver, looks like official visits are picking up in June. Are you concerned about the number and rate of visits, recruits, or you think Beavers are fine for this time of year?
I’m not concerned. Program is on the rise. Things always pick up in June, and we’re hosting quite a few players. Plus several recruits seem pretty interested in OSU. I’d imagine those commitments start rolling in during June.
This year is a little different in that we arent solely focused on getting a QB in to kick start the class since we already have a solid QB room and Chiles appears to be the future at that position. And having Chiles should help make us attractive to pass catchers.
Don’t a lot of incoming players start in the summer session?
I know they have an official matriculation in the late summer, but I thought some started earlier than that, just to get on campus.
We might be talking about 2 different things. Several of our incoming class of 2023 players will be starting school in June.
But in addition to that, there will be several class of 2024 recruits making official visits to OSU in June.
And speaking of QBs, there is a QB included in that group, with other offers to Minn and UW.
They’re sort of different things.
I was thinking the timing is intentional, to get the summer session with the veterans and the newbies all being on campus for when recruits visit. All the energy is at its height at the time.
“Favorites and Dark Horses:” cliche with mostly standard picks, but at least the Beavers getting some national attention after 2022. Mention of DJ, photo of Silas Bolden:
It never ceases to amaze me that aTm continues to get hype, after all these years.
You’d think they rehired Slocum and still had a bunch of Sherrill recruits.
Including beating the Ducks on April 9th, Beavs are 12-2 since then and have scored double digits 9 times and are averaging 9.2 runs per game. For comparison, the top offense in the Pac is averaging 8.3 runs per game on the season but Goss is much less hitter friendly park. They’ve scored double digits 15 times with 3 weekend series to go. Last year they scored double digits 12 times in the regular season. When they won the title in ‘18, they scored double digits 14 times in the regular season. With adjusting for the change in bats back at the beginning of last decade, this is an unprecedented offensive run in OSU baseball history and basically doing it completely without what was expected to be their top freshman bat in Turley.
If the bullpen hadn’t blown the last 2 games against ASU they’d be on a 15 game winning streak. If they end up hosting a regional, this would be a pretty amazing turnaround. Unexpected but goes to show how good this coaching staff is. Quite a few players were virtually unplayable last season that are key pieces offensively now and just crushing it.
Really it just shows how thin the margin is at the top of college baseball and why surprise teams reach Omaha. Different outcomes in 4 games (ASU, WSU, Stanford and Nevada/New Mexico) and this team is ranked in the top 10 and we are talking about being a national seed. The reason I included Nevada/New Mexico is I believe the 2 loses to 200+ RPI teams hurts more than 1 loss to ASU or 2 loses to Stanford when comparing resumes to other top teams.
I envision a scenario where we keep winning, but don’t receive a regional host and the committee chair says is based on more quadrant 4 loses and our non conference strength of schedule.
All very good points. Hard to play that what if game though. We’ve had like 4 or so walk-off wins that I’m sure the other teams would say “if things had been different”. This team has definitely decided to peak at a good time and if starting pitching could last longer in a game we wouldn’t need to score 9+ runs to win these games.
It’s really quite incredible how bad this team was offensively 3 – 4 weeks ago. Despite this great record the last month, we’re still in last place in the Pac for batting avg. 9th in slugging. Last in strike outs. We have moved to the middle of the Pac in rbi’s, hits and even moved up to 4th in HR. There seems to be much more emotion and fire with this squad now which is translating to more confidence. Great to see!
Ferrer wave at the end of the game.
Parker thinks the bad blood after the game was Mitch not liking swoosh coach calling out Ferrer; thinking Mitch was making it clear that he (Mitch) would deal with any out of line move by Beav players.
The quote from Mitch seems to support Parker’s interpretation: When asked later about the postgame chat, Canham took the high road, refusing to divulge details.
“Just having a conversation,” Canham said. “I mean it’s competition. Guys are going to get fiery from both sides and both of our jobs are to take care of our guys and our attitudes and our dugouts. Just touching base there at the end.”
Any lip readers want to weigh in after viewing the clip?
well… there’s going to be crossover with early enrollees and outgoing seniors
nobody wants to inhibit a player’s ability to advance academically, because scholly limits are hard and fast
UW, Minnesota, WSU have offered as well. He visited Arizona but does not appear to have an offer.
A pretty good looking prospect. Overall I’d give a low 4 stars. 6-4, Great arm, quick release. A pocket passer but athletic enough to extend plays. Similar to GB but a little quicker. Started one year so a late arrival to the cycle. Not as much upside as Chiles but a very solid prospect. He led the team to the Southern Cal playoffs. Big schools will come for him when they strike out on their top targets.
Set for a June official visit so looking like the top QB target right now
I remember seeing a headline a few days ago about “suspicious” action in betting on an Alabama baseball game. I guess betting on college baseball is probably like investing in penny stocks? Not a lot of volume so it’s theoretically easy to manipulate?
Wow. Just got to checking the spam folder. Nuc still threatening to take down the site and claiming he can access it through a VPN, yet he’s nowhere to be seen. Hm. Nuc, you’re better off just writing me an email and apologizing for being a lunatic. That will get you further in life than the vindictive stuff.
I’m guessing it’s related to AB’s turbulent days as a political forum. He was pretty outspoken about his views and tended to post in volume when certain controversial topics came up.
He also had some chronic health issues he occasionally mentioned. That can creep into all aspects of your life. We all have our battles.
Dennis Dodd and anonymous Big12 official saying that ESPN is out for PAC12 deal, not interested in broadcasting any PAC12 games in a premium package.
I say good riddance to them. ESPN decided to go all in with SEC and Big10 a long time ago.
Klaikoff needs to pursue the alternative media opportunities and not buckle or go begging to ESPN.
Streaming seems to be the future, solving how it can bring revenue down visibility would be the master stroke that has eluded the conference for 20 years.
Wonder how this affects Arizona’s QB room this year. Somewhat similar to the Heimlich situation a few years back, where Jayden DeLaura and another dude who plays for Wisconsin were accused as minors of sexual assault.
Just recently, both players settled a civil lawsuit out of court with the victim.
The age at the time of the incident make the situation tricky to navigate. Neither player is technically “guilty” of anything according to law. So does Arizona continue to play DeLaura after this has gone public?
I think it depends on the media in Arizona. It was the Portland media (mainly Canzano and his unfathomable hypocrisy) that propagated inaccuracies about Heimlich and essentially forced OSU to keep him from playing, as well as ruining his career.
I watched the news broadcast story and there was a bit of difference between them and Heimlich. These two idiots bated their victim to a private location were they assaulted and raped her… they plead to a deal as they admitted to it via text messages. Seems to have worse circumstances involved then the Heimlich case. As a dad of girls I’d…
ESPN article about the numbers of transfers at Colorado. It says 71 outgoing transfers and only 35 incoming so far.
By the way, Oregon has had 44 transfer out since the end of the season, 2nd most in PAC12.
Both schools will hopefully struggle with any kind of team chemistry once the losses begin…
I can’t decide if Sanders is a snake I’m salesman or a stand up guy who is just being brutally honest with the players.
I lean towards a bit of a shady guy who can get away with tampering because no one wants to be the administrator who turns in Prime for cheating or be accused of racist jealousy at his success when you question why so many transfers from all
Over the country all of a sudden have an interest in Colorado football.
I call bs on all of it.
He got five star kids at Jax State, and everyone pays players, now.
Every coach wants their own players to restart a system, and he cut the ones he didn’t want.
Not sure what your issue is. Is it that he doesn’t hand out participation trophies for spring practice?
Turley starting as DH, Smith at C, and Sellers on the mound. Always a question on how the first 3 innings will go for Sellers even if the opponent is down in many stats.
UPDATE: Turley a 2 RBI double (scorer changed to single) makes it 4-0 Beavs. Turley gets a few moments at 2b before inning ends, wonder if he is aware of history with the very sensitive ump out there at 2nd?
Same old Sellers, takes 54 pitches to get through the 2nd; giving up 4 runs.
Tied m2.
UPDATE: Riiiiich finally faces reality and pulls Sellers after 91 pitches with 1 down and 2 on in the t4.
A pretty sad stat line for the guy some expect to start next Friday vs UCLA.
Pitching like Peter Sellers….
The worst Friday night starter we have had in forever!
For a program built on dominant starting pitching, this has been hard to watch.
How does Sellers stay in long enough to give up 9 runs? Egregious coaching for that at least. The rest of the game has the look of a team thinking the Utes would just let them win…
But, but he strikes people out!
Dorman isn’t alone in putting too much emphasis on getting K’s when a pitch-to-contact approach without HBP and BB gets more reliable results. IMHO
On the bright side, ducks lost to usc. Unfortunately that’s a better loss than we’re facing here to Utah. On a Friday no less. Beavs had 2 on 1 out in bottom of 8 and had back to back strike outs.
Brutal. Absolutely brutal. Our starting pitching is gonna be rough next season. We’re truly becoming the Mariners. We can win but we gotta score 15 runs.
Anyone else find it kind of disappointing that Dorman/Canham went with Rhett Larson first out of the bullpen, instead of one of the better relievers? It was 7-6 at that point, and Utah went on to score their remaining runs (except for maybe one?) while he was on the mound. I don’t know, it just sort of feels like they were already conceding the game by not going with a more proven arm in a 1-run game. Either that or they were banking on the offense to keep pace with Utah.
Finally managed to catch some of the Spring scrimmage.
Wow; even with a shallow eyeball, our QBs unit look much improved in terms of technique & fluidity — very promising once they settle w/ playbook and dial in rapport with other units.
Noted excellent completion by Jermaine Terry II (84), who I see was a recent transfer from Cal? And was highly recruited out of high school. If he manages to win starting position with others, could see TE unit w/ bigger role in passing offense this season.
Utah gets a 3 run HR from a guy who has only hit 1 HR prior. 3-0 Utes after a half inning.
Tanner makes the final out, catching a foul straight back; interestingly he didn’t discard the mask and made the catch one handed with that big mitt.
Guerra ties it with a one out 3 RBI HR, his expression crossing the plate was controlled and “all business”, shows he’s been there before……nice to see no over exuberance.
Who is in charge of scouting opponents? Seems like the pitchers have no feel for how to pitch to certain players, or just throwing very predictable pitch sequences.
ASU and Utah both having batting practice off OSU pitching. At least the offense is scoring 10/game during the same stretch.
If USC hangs on to beat Oregon, Beavs will head into their final series against a struggling UCLA squad in third place if they win tomorrow. That’s a successful year to me. Starting pitching has been a mess lately and it’s time for a change. Sellers for me is so inconsistent and struggles to pitch deep into games. Him and Ferrer should switch roles imo. Ben has the stuff and control and looks to be hitting his stride and he has started before. Sellers would excel as a dominant bullpen arm that only has to see a lineup two times through at the most. They have more depth in the bullpen than they had last year and the rotation is where they need help.
Not sure if anyone else heard it but man, Parker is more critical of Gavin Turley than I’ve ever heard from him with another player. Feels like every time he chases a pitch or takes a good pitch he’s got something negative to say. Not sure what the deal is. I’ve liked what I’ve seen from Gavin lately but it’s a work in progress. Still think he’s gonna have a big postseason moment.
I don’t. Other than the first couple weeks of the season against mediocre pitching? He’s been nothing short of disappointing, shown zero improvement and been a strike out machine.
“Parker is more critical of Gavin Turley than….”
At the other end of the spectrum is Parker’s praise of nearly everything done by Dernedde.
I’m not down on Kyle as are some here; but you gotta admit he’s had a hard time at the plate on average. Kinda nice to see he is up to .243 but still, more K’s than hits. Gotta appreciate his D.
Sounds like it, but it’s somewhat puzzling. He wouldn’t have been able to transfer and enroll at WSU if he was way out of whack with academic progress, but he was sidelined for unspecified “eligibility issues” before the start of the season. Maybe he was taking summer classes that he needed to pass in order to be eligible for the season. Something’s funky if he’s still got classes he can take at community college after two full years and a summer at OSU/WSU. I liked him as a player his Freshman year, he had a lot of potential.
Really looking forward to seeing the spring game this year. Hopefully fans show up but it’s a hard draw with how Oregon weather is in the spring.
I remember going to a spring game when I was younger with my dad and he straight up fell asleep. Those were back in the Riley years so no wonder it was a snooze fest.
Not sure how I like the extended practice type feel to recent spring games… I feel like they should greet it like an actual game but hey we have been improving each year and I doubt Smith will fundamentally change things given the trajectory of the program.
I think its great Chiles is impressing so much, makes the off season more competitive for the team (QB room and the secondary’s development ) and interesting for fans.
I’m glad in college football you don’t have to give up picks or players to “trade” for a transfer. It could turn out DJ doesn’t play all that much. Sounds like a great battle to be qb1.
Josh Pate said on his podcast that programs would greatly benefit from replacing spring games with actual games between programs.
Seems like a really easy way for everyone to make money.
And injure your entire team before the regular season starts.
lol
Ya for real. Usually there is enough injuries that come out of it as is.
Wasn’t Robinson having a breakout spring only to have a season ending shoulder injury in the spring game?
Young athletes, whether bc of inexperience, youth or having received bad guidance, tend to not listen to what their body says, or have consistent prevention routines established.
Wilson Weber grand slam puts the Beavs up 5-0 in the 1st inning
Small ball makes it 6-0 going to the b2
McDowell squeeze home Bazanna.
What will the downers say now? Beavs lookin the ducks look silly today
If they win it’s a good series win and hopefully they continue the momentum, but the offense is still suspect
Game’s not over yet.
And the season?
It’s over, if you listen to most people here.
When you’re last in every offensive category except for walks, it will be over. If we can finish this win today and get the series, that would be huge for this squad. But let’s be realistic, there’s no way this team will finish anywhere in the top 4 of the conference and even sniff post-season play batting below .200, last in runs, hits, rbi’s, etc.
Tend to agree. This team is too Jekyll and Hyde. They may very well get into a regional. They also could not.
Its not reasonable to expect a deep run even if they make it.
“When you’re last in every offensive category…
And yet the games are played.
In the previous 8 games before this series, nike averaged over 11 runs per game. Vs Beavs it appears they’ll average less than 2. History does have some value of course but not the whole story.. Just sayin’
Anything can happen on any given Sunday indeed but that’s not probable over extended time. Let’s hope this series win gives them the boost to find the consistent offensive output.
Who are the downers?
Are you talking about people who rightly point to youth/inexperience and the inability of our pitchers to let the D play behind them? Those people will also tell you the first half performance is a little shaky at 18-10. But if they can utilize the talent that is obviously there–while expected to be inconsistent, but getting better as the back half of the season progresses–an 18-10 back half of the season looks a lot better.
The only thing that really bothers me is the home record since conference play began. It was noticeable before this series that the team is playing better on the road, but only so-so at home.
Agree with others that this is baseball, and if they get hot, their ceiling immediately rises. But the experience factor eventually wears them down… again, if they get hot.
The numbskulls who were whining about being able to beat everyone always were just annoying, almost like the whole of their wardrobes are Duck gear.
Dernedde up to .500 for the day with a single; Talt goes 1 to 3 with a (no harm no foul) overslide into 3b
Wow I just saw the Weber GS highlight…have the announcers been that bad all series? All season?
It’s a pretty important series as it stands for any post-season potential as the Beavs RPI is the lowest I’ve seen in years. It would be nice to knock the Quacks out of the Top 25 also. But the Beavs have tough opponents ahead, I think they’ve dug themselves a hole and now need to win multiple series and get at least a couple of games above,500, and not lose any mid-week games to get a bid. They’ve been burned before.
Meggs out of the picture now, right?
I think Meggs retired last year. I’m assuming he isn’t on any committees! Yeah, 2016 was a travesty. Casey bitched a lot about 2008 also even though they only finished 28-24. They took a series from Georgia that year which I think was Top Five and had a high SOS. His argument was that SEC teams got in all the time with that type of record.
And then Fresno State goes and whups up on everyone.
That’s probably about right. Finish with 15 or 16 conference wins and clean up on the midweek games.
You can’t get away with oversliding forever.
Talt could be ISP with no outs for Bazanna, but overslides for out #1 ahead of Dernedde’s bb.
t8 with 1 down, 7-0 Beavs
Combined no hitter into the 8th
I didn’t jinx it I made this comment after the no hitter was lost.
Great bounce back wins for the Beavs. I’ll admit I was pretty negative going into this series but it may be mostly due to not liking the loss to Ducks ever.
Hope this is a good start to a great last half run and possible postseason.
Huge win. Hope it can lead them to gaining that confidence and getting the offense going. ASU and USC are legit.
Hell, 12-2 @ Duckhole Field, what’s not to like…AND the ducks have to be burning over this series loss..
Beavs beginning to figure out various roles. 3 series wins in a row. 2 on road vs good teams. Season will be decided in next 2 weeks. I still don’t think this team is a team that will make postseason but there’s a chance. If they can split at Gonzaga and win 2/3 at USC, I like our chances though.
USC series and the NC games with Gonzaga are in Corvallis. 4-2 over this home stand should be the expectation.
Gonzaga is not good this year. So 4-1 is what the team needs to get back into postseason contention.
They play Gonzaga twice. Although I’m doubting it. Supposed to get over an inch of rain here tomorrow
Jesus. Math is hard. 3 + 2 = 5
Check that. I omitted the home NC game against Seattle U week after next. It’s a 6 game home stand.
No, 1-1 vs Gonzaga and 2/3 vs USC will work. Anything else is gravy. At ASU need to win 2/3 and we’re cooking.
I thought we were losing to Whoregon??? Where’s the shit talker now? Internet broken in mom’s basement again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISEXAwlQeA
Today’s highlights. You can hear the air go out of the Oregon announcers after the grand slam.
Where are the Oregon fans? Easter dinner? Were Fri and Sat games drawing fans?
OT- does anyone know why Coach Casey didn’t make it to The Show as a player? I was checking his minor-league stats for shits and giggles. .282 average, .398 OBP, and 117 dingers in eight seasons. What was the knock on him? He obviously could hit.
Those numbers are pretty decent. Must’ve been a minus defender?
Must have been the warts
As we’ve seen with the likes of Tinkle, lightning in a bottle or short term success shouldn’t trump sustained success. Everyone acting like “I told you so” because we won this series needs to wait a bit longer. The season has still, overall, been very mediocre, and we’ll just have to wait and see if this series is a sign of things turning around.
So we shouldn’t judge the team on a series win(or wins) but rather on the totality of the season… but… at the same time do judge the team on any single game (or series) that the Beavs lost?
Gotcha!
Gonzaga is #155 in RPI and USC is #73. Beavs are #57.
With the games at home, losses will hurt a lot. Really need to take both games from the Zags. Will they is another question.
Beavs #38 in coaches poll, SC #24.
I was a little surprised to see the two RPI’s; SOS even more with Beavs 72 and SC 128
USC and ASU both in the top 25. Beavs have a chance to get back in with series wins.
Thats some fucked up polling. I mean Meggs isn’t in charge, is he? I thought he was just shit posting now on ab as “bad-coaching”
Anyone ever think this would happen? Larnach is the leadoff hitter for the Twins today.
and on my fantasy team…
How has UO only played 6 games on the road all year more than halfway through the season? Beavs have played 14 already and yet both are at 20 wins although Beavs do have a couple more losses.
I think bad weather in Santa Barbara forced them to move that 4 game series up north
Beavs basketball lands Nate Meithof, Former McNary High School basketball player and JC transfer from College of Southern Idaho. Appears to be a very underrated pickup. Averaged 16.5 points and 5.5 rebounds on a team that finished with a 29-2 record. Good 3pt shooter at 38.4 percent. A good rebounder for a 6’4 guard. Excellent finisher with the left hand, good at finishing through contact. Good spin move. Good shooting stroke. Will be interesting to see how he translates to the D1 level. Similar skill set to Taylor, but a much better shooter. Must be who they picked up to try and replace him.
Highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnO7Gc4A_MI
“Negative Nelly Alert”
(For those who don’t want to read anything critical or pessimistic about Beaver sports)
I already feel bad for the kid as he will likely show out as the most fundamentally sound player on the roster and probably the best shooter, but none of that will matter in Tinkle’s system of disorganized chaos as the clock winds down possession after possession.
He will be fine if his skills mirror Ethan Thompson rather than Taylor, otherwise it is going to be another sad story of talent misused/wasted/transferring.
Tinkle needs to go…I no longer can give him the benefit of the doubt. He can’t incorporate an offense that helps the team and creates successful opportunities. His 2 successful years featured GP2 and Ethan Thompson finishing plays at the shot clock buzzer. Beyond those years it is fairly disappointing for the talent he has recruited, and the amount of talent that has departed, probably because they saw how poorly coached the program is from inside the bubble.
Tinkle needs to go….
Look on the bright side: he’ll be playing on a tournament team after he transfers from OSU like all the other talented guys that leave.
It’s Negative Nancy by the way. I am fine with reading critical and pessimistic views, problem is those in that camp typically are way too fanatical. Tinkle definitely deserves criticism. But he also deserves credit for the good years as well. His offensive scheme is definitely underwhelming (and a lot of times, piss-poor), but his defensive scheme has been the key to his successful years. The most glaring thing to me has always been his inability to win conference road games (and poor conference record in general) and that to me is what should cost him his job (unless he can get it together next year [I doubt it]). Also, his first year was a success even though they didn’t make the tourney. Also, saying those years were all GP2 and Ethan Thompson is a flat lie. We would not have made that run in 2021 without Alatishe, Calloo, Reichle and Silva and Lucas who were instrumental.
I purely wanted to highlight a talented local kid coming to our program and in short time you turn it into whining about our coach. Get over yourself and your petty hatred for Tinkle and maybe find something positive to mix in with your crying about Tinkle.
Yeah… you don’t get to coach the worst season in OSU history… with most of the team that took you to an elite 8 finish… and then claim just the good.
I get that this shouldn’t be about the coach, but that’s all it is, until either he progresses as a coach, or he leaves.
Meithof was aa good player in HS, but a pandemic happened. Glad to see he’s back on a level he deserves, but not exactly happy for him, given who his coach is.
Tinkle is the new Riley. He gets a pass when he should be feeling pressure to improve/upgrade/adjust but he gets to continue with the same year after year. Any school with a poor offensive scheme at the D1 level is in trouble, any team that locks blue chip prospects without a true offense is is deep trouble.
Defense wins championships only works when you start with offensive production as at least steady to plus production.
Tinkle fails on offense, talent to overcome his offense, and his defense isn’t able to overcome let alone complement his non offense.
I’ll give up trying persuade if fans can’t see it by now.
D and an efficient offense gets you to the tourney, which puts national eyes on you and makes you and your conference money.
But unless Bennett can get a blue-chip or two to augment that style, UVA is only good for also-ran status.
UCONN was a model of great D and a highly efficient offense. Bigs still have a place in this hoops world, if only to extend the reach of the perimeter D. Purdue failed to do the same.
It’s all relative, but we don’t have any semblance to those teams or their systems, and we didn’t appear to have any, until a hodge-podge of players decided to play for a stretch, a couple years ago.
I guess the biggest take I get from the team is I don’t see any joy in the game, at the very least.
Can he dribble though? Shooting doesn’t matter in this offense. I kid, I kid. Sounds like an interesting project. This will be his 3rd program in 3 years. I don’t know anything about JC basketball and what typical scores are but that team had a lot of wins and scored a lot of points. Sounds much more like a high octane system scoring above 100 pts 7 or 8 times. Regardless, gotta fill spots and maybe being a local kid he will want to stick around for his remaining eligibility.
Dashawn Davis had insane numbers at the JC level, but his game still translated pretty well to D1
I’ll remain extremely skeptical. Who was the last JC transfer we had that made a significant impact? Someone refresh my memory.
Philip Ricci?
Kylor Kelly and before that GP2
Fair enough. Forgot they were JC transfers.
Browsing MLB draft rankings and the Beavs have two commits in the top 250, both pitchers (Wilson and DeCremer). Forrester listed as a round 5/6 guy in the preseason. No one else ranked in the top 400.
Neither pitcher likely to go in draft. Forester gone either way.
My guess we going to lose a few more good to the portal this year as it has gotten worse.
Canham Doesn’t listen to his coaches and isn’t a very truthful coach when talking to his players.
Yeah. Any wins are in spite of him. We’re living off program reputation getting us just enough talent to not make the decline obvious to all.
The best players on team were all recruited before Canham took over.
There isn’t allot of incoming talent next year. DeCramer is decent but along ways from being college ready same with Wilson. Beyond that everyone coming is leftovers that weren’t recruited by many hard.
There is no family vibe in the clubhouse and it starts from the top. Canham preaches it but it’s more a “do as I say, not as in do” coaching style.
They have no hitting coach if you watch BP. Most time coaches are just standing around.
Kyle one of the best defensive SS in PAC 12 but he gets punished because the guys that are supposed to hit can’t. Same goes for Smith behind the dish. That kid has stole more strikes and made bad pitching look good.
The best players were all recruited by Canham at this point. The bigger problem is the high ranked guys that haven’t been developing. Younger guys need to start stepping up. Macias has looked good recently.
Should probably ask why they aren’t developing.
LOL, yeah Mitch really struggled to develop Boyd, Meckler, Melton, Hjerpe, etc.
You are actually wrong.
Travis, Garrett, Turley, smith, Guerra, kasper are all Bailey and Casey recruits.
When it comes to lineup he listens to no one. They may speak but it’s all him. This is coming from inside source.
You’re crazy and have zero credibility. Inside source my ass
Mitch recruited all of the players that got drafted off of last year’s team that hosted a super regional. Kyle is one of the worst defensive SS to play at Oregon State in the past 25 years… one of the worst in P12 this year. He plays because his parents are big time donors and Trosky is hurt. Smith is a good catcher but Mitch has a lot to do with his catching fundamentals. This team is young and lacks a Friday night starter. The recruiting under Mitch has been highly rated every year and this year’s class is loaded with talent. Mitch has a long way to go to catch up to Casey but Casey may be the best college baseball coach of all time. He’s not perfect but IMO has been good to very good so far. If you’re going to have an opinion, at least get your facts straight. The kids Casey recruited have been gone for years
This is very very wrong. You must really know nothing about recruiting and baseball.
Do the math on recruiting this will help you figure out when each kid committed if you don’t know. Scouting these players I know.
You do realize Kyle was at ss last year right? If you watch pac you would be able to figure out her one of best in PAC this year. Not comparing to past OSU SS. With Smith he was and is one of the best defensive catchers before he got to OSU. They now have different guy working with catchers.
Please know what you talking about before you comment on recruiting if you don’t know.
So you have inside sources and you’re a scout? Please enlighten us on “the math of recruiting”. Maybe breakdown some of the players you’ve been scouting. We’re so lucky to have your insight on AB! Please accept my apologies. I’ve never watched baseball and I’m having a hard time with the math… didn’t PC retire in 2018? Trying to think about all the players that committed in 2018… or in 2019 that are on this team.
Pat Casey’s last 3 recruiting classes 32,46,53.
Bailey in 2019 was 31.
Mitch’s first 3… 71, 27, 24
2023 currently ranked 20 but won’t be final until May/June.
Based on recruiting rankings seems Mitch has been able to recruit despite not have the legendary status of PC. Based on players he’s recruited that have been drafted, he’s doing good with player development.
So you think rankings are the tell all? Goes to show you knowledge.
What were the rankings of the championships years?
Retired in 18 so his coaches still recruited in 19-20, correct?
This years sophomore would have been sophmores in HS 18-19. You do the math.
Lol what? Those kinds of guys get drafted all the time. They may not go in the early rounds if it’s obvious they’re headed to college, but someone will take a flier just in case.
I find it really hard to believe Canham isn’t listening to Barney.
Do you know why Turley wasn’t drafted where he was predicted by the showcase boys?
He publicly stated he had certain money expectations that were unreasonable. Lucky for OSU.
This is actually a draft ploy. It’s like Reed pulling out.
He struckout just as much in high school you just didn’t see it because it’s HS and they don’t advertise that.
Nah. Current K% is 44%. His HS K% was 30%. That’s not great, but it’s not as disastrous as his current mark. Scouts liked him because he was a HS tools guy. Raw power, etc.
That has nothing in common with Reed pulling out. What does Turley have to lose by not asking for lots of money and just going lower than expected? Nothing. Asking for money that he knows he won’t get doesn’t help anyone because if he knows he’s going to college anyway, no one cares where he gets drafted the first time around.
He K% was over 50% in HS. Not all scouts like him.
Ok I fell for it. Angry did you create a burner account with the user name “bad-coaching” to spew nonsense just to see how many idiots like myself would engage?
Bout the only thing you got right there is that you idiot.
Tex Tech @ Stanford on PAC networ..does Goss have best attendance and atmosphere in PAC?
I think so.
After TT @ Stanford, PAC12 network showed OSU football @ ASU last season, forgot gow well the D adjusted in 2nd half. This year’s D should be faster…
Kylor Kelly and before that GP2
Kyle Dernedde “has a penchant for coming through in the clutch”….per Parker as Dernedde gets a 2 out RBI single with Reeder on the move from second.
t5, 2-1 sons-‘o-mitches
Small ball gets another run on a bunt. LOB’s still piling up without any power production.
Gonzaga looks really sloppy.
Sloppy is understatement of the year for Gonzaga.
14-1 Beavs
“Yeah, you like that, don’t you, you little bulldog bitch, bark for me, yeah…”
Appears Mitch sending a msg to Reeder (and the Zags coach); pulls him for pinch runner (Turley) after Reeder bunts home run #15.
The stunt doesn’t show much class, but then, the Beavs aren’t used to being in this position.
Not wrong but in same not you can’t turn the competitive mode on and off. You tell them to turn it off now lol to struggle Friday night.
Point well taken.
or it’s time to unload the bench and stretch some legs
Beavs at 9-3 over the past 12 since Stanford sweep. For a team not playing its best that is not too bad against mostly decent competition.
Thats not what “inside sources” are saying
Miiiiiiiiitch!
Dad has been awfully quiet since the Stanford series…lol
Sounds like Hickle and Tongue looking good at practice today. Still sounds like Aiden making the best plays out of the qbs but DJ is throwing some nice balls too. Hard to know without the top WRs out there. Hodgins getting some run at FB????
Tongue has D in his blood
Actually his saliva…
They should both make the D faster.
Hope the announcers don’t transpose first letters of their names…”Hongue with the initial, deep penetration there, joined by Tickle and the end of the play…”
Auburn scraping the bucket for transfers.
https://www.si.com/college/auburn/.amp/football/auburn-football-contacts-oregon-state-transfer-quarterback-chance-nolan
We need him at Minnesota! Down to one legit QB.
Squinting through the Minnesota snow….oh! Misread the signal…
Adley homers in orange and black again, drinks from “Dong Bong.” Umm, yeah…maybe take a pass on that…
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2023/04/watch-former-oregon-state-star-adley-rutschman-chugs-from-the-homer-hose-during-baltimore-orioles-win.html
So what are they chugging? Gatorade? Seems like an odd one for MLB to allow when they know kids are watching. I mean funny and all but doesn’t push out professional sportsman.
Walk-off homer for Adley today!
Anybody have insight on the transfer CB from MTSU? I saw he’s down to UCF and OSU, and will be committing today. Probably UCF since the Beavs recently picked up a JC DB commit?
He did choose UCF.
There was a JC corner we picked up recently, but somebody here mentioned he wont be available till next year.
To he honest, I have just barely been following recruiting lately, so I dont know if that is correct or not.
Regardless, still feels like we have room for 1 more CB on next years team. Hopefully the new portal window will open up more options to choose from.
https://twitter.com/Double3way__/status/1646559555097186305?t=Bg5I0n-1n8E1S-QxvAk0Yg&s=19
That was me. His recruiting profile on 247 said class of 2024, but later I read an article that he’s expected on campus this June.
Gotcha, makes more sense that 247 just had it wrong. Wasnt the right tine of year for OSU to be recruiting 2024 players out of JuCo.
I like the guy we got. 2 would have been nice insurance but no idea how many scholarship spots we have to work with
Saw the women’s hoops team added Sela Heide as a transfer from Cal. Name sounded familiar so I looked her up. Sure enough, daughter of former men’s hoops player Jason Heide.
Yep, I was friends with Jason back in the day at OSU. His wife is Sissel Pierce who played for our WBB team over the same period.
And their Son Miles just recently committed to play at SDSU.
Another Tinkle recruiting blunder, should have been a slam dunk (pardon the play on words) to go out and recruit Miles to OSU, but nope.
That sucks. I remember Jason Heide. I don’t exactly remember when he played and am too lazy to look. Thinking it was either Eddie Payne or Ritchie McKay era?
We’ve had so much failure over the last 30 years it all just blends together anymore. And I’m old.
He was an Eddie Payne recruit. Same class as Dino Tamner and Ronnie Walton. The year after Corey Benjamin and JB Bickerstaff.
Can’t remember what year Payne and OSU parted ways. Beavs had so much talent and potential but never could put together a full season under Payne and most of the talented players left the program.
Deaundra Tanner, right? Tough defensive guard, I think he hit a buzzer-beater to defeat Arizona. I remember people being excited about one of those teams that ended up finishing a game under.500 because at least they played hard on defense and didn’t get blown out in every league game!
That I do remember. Team was just meh, but managed to beat 3 top ten teams at Gill.
Ucla, Arizona and Stanford?
That’s right. Weird team, shitty on the road. Played worse against lesser competition.
Adley with a walk off homer tonight for the Orioles. Legend…
It sounded like somebody said “finish it” as he was about to crush it.
D1 picks Beavs!
Without going past the paywall you can see the staff picks for this week. Eleven “experts” listed and they all pick the #38 Beavs to take the series over #24 SC.
Are these guys focused on the RPI and SOS numbers where the Beavs are on top: RPI 54/68, SOS 74/125?
Is Goss that much of an advantage?
Eight of those eleven pick Stanford over nike.
USC hasn’t played away from home much and at 4-6 on the year. Losing at Auburn, at UCLA, while wins are from series at Utah and Cal.
Maybe the extended cold spring weather helps the home field advantage this weekend
And yet, we see SC ranked 23 and 24. This weekend is a HUGE opportunity for the good guys.
Ranked at the top of the PAC in fielding and ERA (and attendance), looks a little like stats from the Casey days…….a little.
Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. Daschel reporting today that the QB competition is still neck and neck between BG and DJU amd that he expects that competition to continue all the way through fall camp and even possibly into the Non-Con schedule.
I read that as Coach Smith doesnt want anybody to stop competing and/or transfer out, so he’ll keep this competition wide open just like he and every other Beaver coach has does in every camp. Except maybe GA who pushed everybody aside for his boy Seth(the Great)
Also says he doesnt see Chiles being part of the competition, despite showing some some flashes early.
And how does anybody get a read on the QB competition when they’re only seeing a few minutes of actual practice time?
Even with the Spring game, it will be hard to know unless each QB gets a chance with the 1st string Offense vs 1st String Defense
Par for the course. JS doesn’t announce anything until they start prepping for game 1.
DJU and GB need to compete during the summer. Win teammates over and earn a captain spot
With two capable starters, it makes sense that Chiles is not in the competition. No sense in throwing in a true freshman who has zero game experience. I can see him getting reps in a late season blowout so that he doesn’t burn his redshirt. That’s the only time I’d see him in the game.
Saw former Beaver MBB player Jack Wilson transferred to Minnesota. Is that stop #4? OSU to Idaho to WSU and now Minn? How is that even possible? He and JT Daniels are working on setting a record for most schools in a college career
He also switched sports and played football
Once he sees how shitty the team is, he’ll probably wish he had tried woman’s softball.
Oh, haha. I just assumed he was playing basketball
Didn’t Wilson leave the team early in his freshman year? Does anybody remember this. All the disasters involving sTinkle amd players leaving has all kind of run together in my mind.
If I recall correctly he had some injury issues. Then came back and saw minimal playing time and bolted. I remember thinking he looked a little sluggish after coming back from injury.
Go Beavs!
Beat USuCk
Probably not a huge loss, G Nick Krass enters the portal. Elite high school scorer, so he’ll probably go to a team/coach who develops him and we will see him in the tournament next season!
I liked his defense and energy off the bench. But he never could seem to find consistency. Seems like a guy that would thrive at a mid-major where he would see more minutes.
Most decent mid-major programs are more talented than Beavs. If he’s looking for minutes he should probably stay. He’s leaving because Tinkle is a clown and he knows the program isn’t set up to provide the development he needs. Same thing with Taylor. Pope is next. Quite frankly, we’re better off having a mass exodus similar to what happened with WBB prior to Rueck. It will force Scott Barnes to act sooner than later. I’m guessing next year will be Tinkle’s last year and it may as well be rock bottom.
12 pitches gets Sellers out of the t1, let’s see if he can get through 3 under 50.
Turley gets the start as DH, wouldn’t it be nice to see him catch fire!
UPDATE: Might be Sellers best start, gets through 3 on 45 pitches with a 1 run lead.
UPDATE.2: Looking like Sellers best, through t5 on 75 pitches. 5-1 good guys.
So far Turley is ice cold.
Yup. Mighta had a bad call or two, but he’s not helping himself. Too anxious to return to early form against weaker arms.
Sellers only got one out in the 6th. Pretty much his usual start. 98 pitches and doesn’t even get through 6 innings. I don’t get it. I don’t dislike Sellers and his k rate is really good. He’s just not very efficient.
Disagree in that he usually causes ulcers by the 4th, pretty smooth sailing tonight through 5.
Sellers loads the bases in the 6th. They left him in too long. Memories of Too late Nate.
Ferrer puts out the fire with two three pitch K’s. On to the b6 at 6-2 Beavs.
then gives up a 2 run bomb. 6-4 now
Uggghh…
Go figure, that 2 run bomb was worth 2 only due to a 4 pitch bb first.
6 pitches for two K’s and then 4 for a bb…….wow
holy shit. Where has this been??? These guys are actually starting to hit now?
Miiiiiitch
USC burning through the pitchers now. Beavs capitalizing, 10-4 bottom of 8.
Good start to the series. 10-4 Beavs.
Big win.
All the NW schools hosted today and all won vs the sunshine schools.
Any room left on the bandwagon?
Gate 9. GA only.
RPI up to 50 and 48 (per D1 baseball and Warren Nolan RPI live)
One would think a low 40’s RPI is all that would be needed for a regional at large.
I’d feel better if it were in the 30’s though.
10 of the final 22 games are against teams with 100+ RPI and are must wins (Utah 3x, at Grand Canyon, Portland 2x, Seattle U and Western Carolina 3x).
How would a conference run in the tourney factor in?
Just when I think maybe I’ve heard of every college athletic program in the country, I read a story about the #13 pick in the ’22 MLB draft who has already been called up to the majors to take over full-time SS duties for the Angels. He played college baseball at Campbell University, some small Baptist college in North Carolina. Kinda wild.
The Camels
He got the call up from the team in the minors with the greatest name ever. Angels double A affiliate in Madison, Alabama……
Rocket City Trash Pandas. Not kidding.
https://www.milb.com/rocket-city
1-1 through 3…..I’d like to see the Beavs getting further into the count against this arm for SC
Be nice to see the Beavs win the series today, but there have been so many uncompetitive at-bats in key spots. 2-2 Top of the 11th.
WOW, 7-4 DP
On to the b12, Forrester-McDowell-Guerra due up
Miiiiiiiiitch! Beats win in the 13th!
Another overslide, this time by Kane……no harm-no foui though.
Good thing, he becomes the winning run on Tanner Smith’s RBI single to win it in 13
Maybe they are using the Clark Griswold spray from Christmas vacation when they’re ironing their uniforms?
11-3 since the Stanford sweep with series wins over USC, Oregon and U Dub. And I still feel like they haven’t hit their stride.
And winning in different ways. Great pitching performance again.
Saturday has been a good day for the mix of O and D.
I like that we’re finally winning at home.
Sellers needs to trust his D. His stuff is good, as long as it’s near the plate.
Still waiting on Turley to figure it out. Once that happens, all bets are off.
Great game. Solid defense. Good to see some grit.
The 7-4 DP…crazy.
Even with 2 errors I’d agree there was some solid D and, for sure, GRIT.
Damn GWH, i always like seeing that bull! What was the carcass weight?
I wish we could have gotten a hanging weight on him…over 250# it and wrapped. He was a pig.
* cut and wrapped
Credit where credit’s due. Good job Beavs! Hope for a sweep tomorrow.
USC with 5 HBP’s? That’s some year 1 Dorman pitching right there.
Oregon ILB Keith Brown, from just down the road in Lebanon, OR, entered the portal yesterday.
He was just talking about how he’s not a portal guy and he’s a dog and was sticking with Oregon, blah blah blah. But then Lanning must have kicked him to the curb. They’re currently well over their scholarship limit for fall term if they dont cut more guys too.
So….would you take him at OSU? Or is he tainted? I was never a big fan of his game so I dont really care.
https://twitter.com/zacharycneel/status/1647385400867160065?t=qtuURdKub7Y4OtvTaG1q2Q&s=19
I saw a few of his high school games and came away less than impressed. He seemed to get hurt quite a bit from what I remember.
I think I wrote that I liked him better as a RB than LB. But it’s been a few years, my memory isn’t what it used to be and I’m too lazy to go back and look.
Personally, I’d pass on him. I’m not convinced he’s a difference maker at the FBS level.
On top of that, he was gonna be one of the nike players at the conference intro press conference where all HC’s bring a couple “faces of the team” to build excitement for the coming season.
I’m hoping the Bo Nix hype results in a Vegas line for nike wins this season is set at 10.5 (even 9.5?)………..some easy money to be made betting the under!
Wasn’t that the guy Nemec was pounding the table on being a legit 5-star?
I watched him play in high school and he was solid but was no 5 star kid. I also thought he was a better RB than LB. Ducks have had several enter the portal this week.
WOODEN and CASEY………..the subjects of this piece by Eggers:
https://www.kerryeggers.com/stories/wooden-to-casey-a-legend-follows-a-legend
Smith to Dernedde cuts down the steal attempt for 1st out in t2, nicely done!
1-0 good guys Mid 2.
Goofy strike zone, almost little league-esque. Blue must have something to do after the game
Tail end of the SC order due up for the t9, Beavs up 6-3
Miiiiiiiiitch! Been 10 yrs since Beavs swept SC in Goss!
(and only a year since they swept in La La Land).
Miiiitch is the man!!! Go Beavs!
I can enjoy the newfound success. Perhaps they are actually settling into a nice end of season run. Good weekend Beavs!
Beavers go bowling
Strikes and spares change their fortunes
Victory on field
Wasn’t pretty but got another win. Great effort by the pitching staff coming through.
Beavers sweep and build,
Mighty tails and gnawing teeth,
Nature’s champions
Warren Nolan update has us at 39.
Another good series for the Beavs! Don’t count them out. This team still has the will to win.
Hey BeaverGopher, from almost-a-Gopher to a Beaver…she stalking you?!?
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/04/oregon-state-womens-basketball-lands-czech-republic-wing-dominika-paurova-a-former-minnesota-signee.html
Yep! When she found out I’m Czech on my dads side she went nuts! Said I’d like her Kolach… but I don’t think she was talking about the pastry, if you catch my drift.
#restrainingorder
Czech here as well on my dad’s side. Perhaps we should form a club.
Pilsner beer! We got that going for us.
Great series win! Not a Dorman guy, as you all know, but credit is due for the staff’s performance over the last couple of series. With UO taking 2 over Stanford this weekend, really shows how the Beavs pitching stepped up. Squad is up to 6th now in the Pac. Huge series vs ASU coming up. Pretty incredible what Bloomquist has done in just a little over a year at the helm there. Hopefully they can ride this wave of recent success to another series win down in Tempe.
‘Success breeds success’
#GoBeavs
I missed the first couple innings. What happened to Hunter?
“Sunday’s win did not come completely without challenges, however. Starting pitcher Jaren Hunter, who missed time last month with tightness in his throwing arm, departed the game in the second inning. After Hunter threw a third-pitch ball to cleanup hitter Johnny Olmstead, pitching coach Rich Dorman and an OSU trainer visited the mound to check on the right-hander and quickly pulled him in the middle of the at-bat. The nature of Hunter’s injury — and how long he might be sidelined — was not immediately clear Sunday.”
“If it was the last time the programs will play — USC is bolting the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference next season — it was a memorable and satisfying way for the Beavers to close a 72-year-old series between the pair of storied college baseball programs.”
Amen.
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/04/oregon-state-baseball-stays-hot-sweeps-no-23-usc-trojans-to-win-6th-consecutive-game.html
Dorman has quietly put together the 6th best pitching staff in the nation in terms of ERA. The guy deserves some credit!
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/baseball/d1/current/team/211
WHIP is also #8. Walks allowed at 17
Gipson needs to coach em up!
Batting average is at #225
Getting the sweep was worth a lot.
Boydsworld projection shows the highest the Beavs can get is into the top 16, top 8 is out of reach. But even then the Beavs would have to win out.
Looking at ASU’s schedule so far, they started out badly but have really picked things up once conference play started. However, they are lacking wins against quality opponents. Beaten Cal, Utah, Arizona, UW and WSU. All teams below the Beavs in conference standings. They got swept by Oklahoma St and UC Irvine and lost a series to Miss St.
So two hot teams about to collide with each other. ASU can hit but the Beavs have better pitching. Beavs batting avg in conf play is .211. I can’t recall when hitting has been that bad.
Team has played well as of late but hard to envision a top 16 seed. Team still lacks hitters and a Friday night guy. Bazzana is becoming a legit threat and Guerra is finding his way so team has potential to improve offensively but not having a top end starter will limit this team’s ceiling IMO
That said, if they get a top 16 seed, MC is your P12 COY
There’s no shot at a top 16 seed. Way too much ground lost early this season and this still isn’t a top 25 team. Too many questions on the offense. Despite the success seen over last 2 weeks, the team is still only at. 211 team batting avg. 2nd to last in strike outs, hits, on base % and rbi’s. 9th in runs. Offense can’t afford to be that anemic and have sustained success.
D1 has ’em at 21 this week. Hard to see them staying there unless starting pitching improves or, maybe, Turley catches fire?
Not likely Turley is the answer though. On offense the trend is improving and needs to keep on.
Didn’t see D1 had them ranked today. Great to see! Offense has definitely been more timely these last like 6 games or so. Wish they had a few more guys being consistent. Aside from Bazanna and Forrester, and to some extent Kane, there really hasn’t been a reliable bat this season. McDowell started off great, cooled quite a bit, and now seems to be involving himself in the offense again. On one hand, it’s nice to have had several different guys step up and be heros during this streak but we need a few of them to be much more consistent. Despite the wins and increased scoring as of recent, we’re still in the bottom 2 – 3 in most every offensive category which really speaks to how bad this team has played for extended periods of time. I’d love to see Turley get confident again to have another legitimate power threat on the team. He was also getting on base via walks and definitely played a big role in getting runs. I don’t know if it needs to be him, but they definitely need a couple more guys to become that consistent presence in the lineup.
Its the 200+ RPI losses (New Mexico/Cal Poly) that eliminates any chance, only potential saving grace would be the lack of West Coast teams with hosting resumes other than Stanford. If you want hold out any hope to host a regional, they’d have to go 10-2 the rest of way in conference play (win all series), have a midweek win over Oregon and no midweek losses to teams with 100+ RPI team to be in the conversation.
It’s pretty obvious this team doesn’t have the talent/experience to make a deep run this year. BUT they are built to make a run next year. If they can get into a regional and get some postseason experience this year you have to count that as an overall win for the program in 2023.
What are they missing this year? Maybe more power bats? I haven’t watched all of the games. Maybe Turley will get it going. The small ball stuff has been working lately. Combined with the pitching right now that could take them a ways. Tennessee saw last year how power bats don’t always show up.
A little more power wouldn’t hurt but they’re currently tied for 6th in HR but still last in slugging percentage. They lack consistency and aren’t great hitters, at least so far into this season. Bazanna and Forrester have been consistent for them but outside of those 2 guys, a large chunk of this lineup is hovering around the .200 mark and for a couple of weeks the entire team batting avg was below .200 in conference play. They’ve been able to reach base with walks and a few base knocks here and there but have failed advance runners or take advantage of the 2 on and 1 out, or leadoff walks situations. They strike out a lot. 2nd to last in that statistic unfortunately. 2nd to last in rbi, hits, etc.
The offense is pretty brutal. As of now they rank #156 in Runs per Game, #146 is On Base %, #188 SLG %, and #225 in Batting AVG. A lot of young/inexperienced bats at the moment.
Can you see those numbers within a certain date range? I think they have found something here recently. The bad thing about college sports is there aren’t a lot of polished teams. The good thing about college sports is you can scrap together wins doing the little things and taking advantage of the other teams mistakes because there aren’t many polished teams.
FWIW:
Since the start of the UW series, and leaving out Gonzaga, I count 68 hits in 295 AB. An avg of .230 for 10 conf games.
That compares to .211 for all 18 conf games.
Walks are a big % of our base runners, though, so AVG won’t tell the whole story.
Which may be fine, until Greg Street steps behind the plate.
Pretty glaring lack of XBH. We lead the conference in LOB because we’re far and away the leaders in walks, but don’t have enough power production to get those base runners home.
Still, I wouldn’t mind the back half of the order to be toying with Mendoza, at the end of the season.
Beavs may be lucking out with the Spring game weather if the forecast holds. A big if this time of year.
But currently looks to be 65 and mostly Sunny in Corvallis on Saturday.
Sounds about perfect. I’ll be going. Wanting to check out the construction progress and the QB battle in person.
Turley is the key to a postseason run. If he starts hitting, Beavs will be a team others won’t want to see in their regional.
Agree that he is a possible key, but the chances of him starting to hit seem slim to me.
It’ll take a very good job of coaching/evaluation to know when to put him in the lineup based only on his batting cage work; lately he’s had, what, a single start in half a dozen games? No time to look it up but that’s how it seems.
I just hope they can find spots here and there to get him some chances. Then he plays in a competitive summer league and comes back ready to live up to his potential.
How many of you all are going to the Spring Game?
I’ll be there with a +1
I haven’t seen any mention of the fact the Beavs lead the conference in both offensive walks and K’s. I don’t know if they’re swinging K’s or not, but that looks to me like a heavy emphasis on waiting for your pitch at the plate.
I’d say it’s fair mix of both. They definitely go down swinging but they do seem to get caught looking a fair bit. Maybe it’s waiting for your pitch, maybe it’s not much confidence up there or understanding the pitches you’re seeing. Who knows. The hitting has been a bit better during this last stretch but it’s a rough offense to say the least. Hopefully they’re getting confidence with these wins.
#mitchalytics?
I don’t read Canzano much at all but he’s got a couple OSU articles up. A pretty vanilla interview with DJU is one.
But the other one is about the Riley family in Corvallis. It was news to me that Dee Riley has Alzheimer’s and is not doing well.
Cant remember where, but I saw a story about her last year. It was during the time that Mike Riley was in the news with his current football team playing for their league’s championship.
Mike was bringing Dee around the facilities and talking with players and Dee really didnt recognize or remember anybody. Seemed she barely recognizes Mile anymore even.
Pretty sad to see people go that way. My grandpa had Alzheimers and it was all very similar
It’s been apparent for awhile. She’s remains a lovely lady. Good wishes for the Rileys, such a diagnosis can be a real struggle for families.
best to them
I fear the day I have to deal with the same from any family member… or that they will have to deal with me, in that situation
Best breakfast in Corvallis? Thoughts? Needing suggestions for a coworker heading there.
A lot of people like wise cracks (was broken yolk) if you like terrible service, mediocre food and a wait to get in, that’s the place. I fell its terribly over rated.
For breakfast old school style id say Sharon’s or Tommy’s.
Used to be a big fan of Caves, but the remodel is weird and we ate there just a week after reopening…used to be able to count on an interesting menu, good service and cozy surrounds, it lost a lot of their prior luster… I like Nick but we’re still a little gun shy.
Brick and Mortar in downtown Albany isn’t too bad either if they have transportation.
If you don’t mind the drive to Albany, Brick and Mortar is an excellent choice as well; their service is good, benedicts are on point and lemon ricotta pancakes are yum… if you go on a Sunday expect to wait… spend some time downtown Albany poking in the vintage shops around the corner while waiting for your text to sit down.
agreed on Sharon’s or Tommy’s and would throw Sam’s in there
Sharon’s is good. Rogers or Brick and Mortar in Albany if they want to drive. I’m
My vote is Tommy’s
Turley not in the lineup vs Seattle.
I get that every game is important, now that the lead is 4-1 might be time to give him some time at the plate?
Cedillo has a hit and 2 RBI’s.
Appreciate the replies guys. They’ll be in Salem for a softball tournament and wanted to swing down for a bit so definitely mobile.
If they’re going to be in Salem they’ll be better off staying there and eating at Sybil’s or
someplace else. Options in Corvallis or Albany are mediocre at best.
If only the original breakfast in Albany was still open.
Dernedde robbed of an RBI single to close out the b7. 7-1 Beavs
C’mon Miiiiiiitch, get an AB for Turley!
Getting interesting. 7-1 beavs but Seattle has bases loaded and no outs in the 8th.
14 LOB for RedHawks in 8 innings!
Well played! Gave up 1 run but got a inning ending double play. 7-2 beavs.
Bazanna has been bananas on the bases. Think he’s got 5 or 6 stolen bases tonight
Beavs can pour it on here. Bases loaded no outs. New pitcher for Seattle. Bottom 8.
4-2-3 DP by Seattle, beautiful D by them especially their catcher.
Portland beats Ducks
Sac St beats Stanford
UC Irvine beats UCLA
Evidently lots of bad coaching out there.
Beavs 13-3 since Stanford. Big series against ASU this weekend.
Stanford has lost 4 of their last 5, UCLA 3 of their last 5. Beavs?……5 W’s in their last 5.
Miiiiiiiitch got ’em going at the right time?….maybe.
Before Stanford’s loss to Sac St, 3 of 5 was their number, and they were forgivable losses. Sac St isn’t one.
UCLA is the opposite. Irvine is a good team, but Davis and Pepperdine are bad losses.
The mid week games can be brutal. Some of these teams will even throw some good pitchers and the P12 teams are trying to get young guys experience.
Riiiiiiiiiich planning to use Lattery in place of Hunter as Sunday starter……..per Parker.
Big test for Lattery and the other arms: ASU conf BA .319 (Beavs…211) and they K less than anyone other than SC in conf.
Looking at the stats, it’s the bullpen that is saving the day. Sellers and Kmatz both have ERAs over 4. Ferrer is struggling this year too. Not a great recipe for a team looking to make a move. Sellers and Kmatz need to step up big this weekend.
Hunter has a nagging injury
I didn’t know he was married -)
Groan…:)
New transfer portal offer for a Rhode Island DB
https://twitter.com/AntonioC_viii/status/1648487070653087745
Portal re-opened for business this week(for 2 weeks), so there should be plenty of player movement to go around. Haven’t heard of any new Beav defections, but if anybody plans to leave, they have to transfer out by the end of next week.
From 247 sports:
“One of the hottest names in the portal at the moment is Rhode Island defensive back Antonio Carter II. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound defender entered on Sunday and has already picked up a number of offers. On Tuesday afternoon, Texas A&M became the latest school to extend one.
Carter, who hails from Orlando, Fla., originally, was fourth on the Rams team with 60 tackles this past year as he also added 4.5 tackles for loss, a sack, an interception and a pass breakup. In the past two years, he totaled 105 tackles and 17 pass breakups.”
Gould, Bolden, Dunmore the starting WRs as of right now? That’s good, but it requires Dunmore to take a step.
Zack Card getting mentioned. I had him as a “faster Wayne Chrebet”….sounds about right.
You’re saying card could be our an Ace receiver??
Trey Lowe retiring from football, per Daschel.
One position where we have plenty of talent. Feel bad for the guy cause he did show flashes, but injuries must be a lingering issue.
Dang! He seemed like he could be serious weapon catching passes out of the backfield.
Yeah I thought he was a solid hurry up or 3rd down back.
Sort of a what-could-have-been situation. I don’t think he played much after the Boise St game last season. I never knew it was a neck injury, not sure if I missed that or if it was not disclosed in any detail.
He was the best pass catcher of all the RBs. Hurts to lose him in passing downs. He was money on third downs in 2021.
Former five-star Sav’ell Smalls in the transfer portal.
Background: https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Savell-Smalls-enters-transfer-portal-insiders-share-insight-on-what-could-be-next-for-former-five-star-208633413/Amp/
Maybe Bray can bring him to Corvallis… would be a great addition and great opportunity for him too
Do the Beavs need another reclamation project? Probably will have some spots available.
I’m going to guess around 3 guys will transfer after the spring game and then Lowe retiring opens a spot too.
Do the Beavs need another reclamation project?
Are we really in a position to turn down 5 star recruits?
Who cares how many stars he had coming out of HS. There’s a reason he failed to earn PT on an average UW D
Can he kick fgs??? He’s 6’3″, maybe he can be that tall receiver we’ve been searching for.
If all else fails, he can coach the baseball team. They seem to need a new coach.
We can hire him to find Simi Kuli.
There are many reasons why he may not have met his or UW’s expectations, and maybe one or more of those reasons could be addressed by Bray et al and the way Smalls might compliment the existing roster.
Here’s one assessment if Smalls:
“BRANDON HUFFMAN’S SCOUTING REPORT ON SMALLS…
“Size indicates he can play both as a hybrid edge rusher with his hand down or as a standup rush end. Terrific instincts. Quickly reads and reacts. Outstanding pass rusher who can also drop into coverage on occasion. Cat quick at the line of scrimmage, with a quick first step. Can chase down backs and end the play. Has shown improved technique. Uses his hands extremely well. Played a lot of linebacker in 7v7 in offseason to work on pass coverage. Also plays tight end and receiver and has natural pass-catching ability. Projects as immediate Power 5 starter and projects as first-round NFL draft choice.”
I’m not sure how frequently Huffman accurately identifies takent.
But, maybe Bray or position coach talks with him and maybe he becomes a good edge player or TE for OSU. Depth is important.
There could be many reasons. Maybe some of them can be addressed by Bray et al.
Here’s one assessment of Smalls:
“BRANDON HUFFMAN’S SCOUTING REPORT ON SMALLS…
“Size indicates he can play both as a hybrid edge rusher with his hand down or as a standup rush end. Terrific instincts. Quickly reads and reacts. Outstanding pass rusher who can also drop into coverage on occasion. Cat quick at the line of scrimmage, with a quick first step. Can chase down backs and end the play. Has shown improved technique. Uses his hands extremely well. Played a lot of linebacker in 7v7 in offseason to work on pass coverage. Also plays tight end and receiver and has natural pass-catching ability. Projects as immediate Power 5 starter and projects as first-round NFL draft choice.”
Maybe he becomes a good edge player. Depth is important for late season runs and meaningful bowl games.
This coaching staff knows how to get guys in the right positions too. He wouldn’t need to play every down and only one position. The flexibility depending on if it’s goal line, etc is what we need. I like what Angry said, bring him in.
According to PFF, he wasn’t bad (average P12 edge), they just had better guys ahead of him. Definitely don’t turn him down as a depth player and possibly more.
Other thing to consider, is there even any interest by either side?
Holy crap! ASSU got destroyed 20-0 last night by Arizona in a mid week non conference game.
Hopefully they’re trending downward and not pissed off Friday night.
Oregon continues to kick playera to the curb.
2023 Safety Trejon Williams is the latest defection. Didnt play a snap in his true freshman season. Oregon is still well over the scholarship limit and expects to bring in even more transfers, so this cycle will continue.
I know its all part of the business, but pretty bad that theyre cutting these guys with local ties as well as guys who signed to play for Lanning in hia first class.
Lanning basically signed a bunch of guys but didnt commit to developing them apparently.
Hope the Beavs have room for a safety cause Williams was a monster at the high school level.
“Lanning basically signed a bunch of guys but didn’t commit to developing them apparently”
that could catch up with him.
The boy genius who lost 49-3 in a season opener against his former team he knew inside and out, then bookended the season losing the CW by giving up several scoring drives that featured zero passing attempts….
Fuck Lanning.
FTD.
This season could be one of the most disappointing for fans of the swoosh. Coaching staff TO and near total reliance on Nix seems a recipe for failure to meet expectations. As said earlier, easy money may be available betting the under for uck season wins.
I wouldn’t bet on that. If you haven’t been paying attention the bulk of pac-12 football is still a joke.
They win 9 games a year on talent alone.
Lanning still gives off douchebag vibes.
Agree. I tend to think they’ll be fine on physical dominance alone. Utah/UW/USC and OSU will all give them a test, but they still have the talent to win all 4 of those.
They’ve upgraded talent at most positions, but most of those upgrades are transfers who have never played a snap for Lanning. Plus we saw how 1 dimensional their offense became once Nix lost his legs.
Still hope they lose every game, but realistically they have as good a chance as any Pac12 team to win the conference.
I think Dillingham was the Nix whisperer and dumbed things down enough so he could have success. New OC, I’ll be surprised if he sustains.
Been paying attention to the bulk of the PAC and, yes, 9 wins shouldn’t be a stretch for swoosh. That assumes Nix is in good form ALL season, that they successfully rebuild the O line, and that their D steps up.
They’re gonna miss Alex Forsyth on the O line (not sure Mike Cavanaugh can be a difference there). PS: I’d hate to be Cavanaugh if things don’t go well; young staff not gonna listen to the “old guy” if success isn’t quick.
As far as the bet on season win total, line hasn’t been set but the hype machine that is nike u could result in an opening line of 10.5. Think I’d take the under on that.
ucks are on the road for Utah and UW.
I just listened to today’s Joe Beaver podcast – QB talk, Bray conversation – ASU broadcaster – catchup on former BB Beavs, now in the minors/majors (or not) TJ Matheson and Jon Warren, so no 40-year-old movie references by Mike Parker, who was on his way to broadcast the ASU/Grand Canyon games. TJ, graduate of ASU’s Walter Cronkite broadcasting, has better technology & analytics skills and snappier patter than JW or MP.. BTW, series tv is Pac12 Insider. Huh?
WBB: Rueck adds a 13th scholarship player to the roster for next season. A 6′ guard who played two seasons at S.Georgia Tech., Susana Yepes becomes the 5th player who’ll be new to the squad.
13 players is, I believe, near the max Scott has carried. Maybe a sign of the NIL/Portal times?
Has to up the degree of difficulty coaching that many; only so many minutes to go around.
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13 is a nice number.
nobody on a hoops team expects more than 8 deep to play. It takes work by the individual to earn floor time, not a friendly coach with a smile.
Spring “game” on Sat
Things I will be looking at closely,
1. Transfer play. DJU, Ivey, Omotosho, Terry all have expectations of coming in and playing right away.
2. Early enrollees are ones who are prime candidates to play early
3. Be nice to see the defense ahead of the offense. Want to see team speed
4. Chiles – let’s see how he looks, stats don’t matter. It’ll be about his presence, does he look comfortable or overwhelmed
5. Kicking game – make some kicks!
Forgot to add
– Redshirt freshman progress. Need a few of these guys to contribute big this fall
Get your tickets for the Kord Shaw show this weekend.
I hope the D looks noticeably quicker and faster.
There’s a lot of reason to think that they will be faster. Miller and Mascarenas and Miller or Tongue would probably the fastest pair of ILB we’ve had in a long time. The secondary should be faster as well. A lot of the top combine performers were DBs. As good as Grant was he was limited by his speed Julian is more athletic than him.
Plus Hickle and maybe that new FR Howard (for last four games? Let him grow, adjust, be a late season player?)
The D really needs to dramatically improve its pass rush. Spring game it will be hard to tell for sure if it’s improved with the structuring of it but we need some guys who can consistently win 1on1 battles. Thats the biggest thing the defense was lacking.
Is Tugaga practicing with the team?
Havent heard his name mentioned.
I think he’s been listed in the practice reports
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/36249371/qb-dj-uiagalelei-ready-cut-loose-oregon-state
“Everything in life that you go through, it’s a lesson.”
An alum who’s plugged in to St. John Bosco says the divorce of his parents really impacted DJ’s focus. He’s gone through that “lesson” now, hopefully with that load off his mind he’ll have a great season and set himself up for the NFL. His fans from SJB say he’s just as genuine as he appears, a good and very talented teammate.
Oh, and one of niners challenges this season will be keeping “Big Dave” under control!
Why isn’t DE on the payroll as a “funding consultant?”
If I had a nickle for every time a 6’5″ student athlete praised Corvallis for being a big town where you can blend in easily, I have a nickle.
From The Arizona Republic:
It’s been a promising start for the Sun Devils, but conference play will only get harder from here. All five teams that ASU faced occupy the bottom five spots in the conference. Of the next five teams, four are currently ranked in the Top 25….“We’re in a good position now, but we get to find out how good we are when we start playing against these better teams in conference and seeing how we stack up against them,” head coach Willie Bloomquist said.
According to D1 RPI –
ASU has not played a top 25 team. 1-7 vs teams 26-50. They are #30 in RPI
Beavs are 2-4 vs top 25, 1-0 vs 26-50. #38 in RPI
So after we beat USC and they drop out of top 25, we no longer get credit for top 25 win? Seems we’re 5-1 vs top 25 in last 2 weekends
RPI, not hype rankings by coaches
NCAA approved a new rule going into effect this year,
The clock will continue to run after first downs, the same as the NFL. Inside of 2 minutes, it will stop after first downs. Beavs would get a slight advantage for now with an offense led by the running backs.
Gotta shorten this game up so we can get back to the ads!
What time does the spring showcase start?
Noon, I believe
Yup, noon on PAC12-Oregon. Gates open at 10:30
Turley, Dernedde, and Cedillo all starting vs ASU.
Turley is an Arizona guy, hope Mitch has reason beyond that to give him the start.
And, ASU catcher Ryan Campos not starting; he lead them with a .413 BA.
Mitch purposely throwing this game.
Campos is currently hurt.
Yup, missed the last three games.
Hopefully Turley can find some home town magic
You got 4 outs right in a row with Ruben Gavin Wilson and Kyle. It’s wishful thinking one will get hit but still kills a complete inning if only 1 of 4 get a hit.
Pretty bad coaching lineup!
Well best case scenario happen. Turley didn’t swing and 1 of 4 got hit.
Now let’s see defense.
Reverse jinx workin’ so far; Ruben solid contact, Gavin bb, Wilson 3 RBI double.
Solid contact???
WTH does that get you?
Dunn has consistently struggled hasn’t learned a walk ok sometimes. He will serve it up 8/10 on full count.
Are you AI… asked dumb stuff?
Bazanna with a base hit and Forrester with a bomb. Great start offensively. 2-0 2ith 1 on and 1out
Bases clearing double by Wilson! 5-0 in the first with 2 outs. Wow, wow, wow..
Dunn served a Cookie up to Weber. He struggling to control his offspeed
ASU’s Dunn at 43 stress filled pitches, none out in the t2
Finishes t2 at 60 pitches, good guys up 6-0
6-0. Guerra with a base knock to score 1. ASU up to bat in the 2nd.
And 4 cost you the third!
Oh wait Kyle had hard contact!
Weber get a walk but is going to cost us behind the dish.
Thank god the outfield can run!
Between them and Forrester. Just saved the day!
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Nice snag by Weber on a high pitch by Sellers. Trent at 48 after 3 full, 6-0 good guys.
Everyone was praying he would hold onto it.
And then he misses next one. Luckily aSu missing half their starters to injury.
Half? I’m aware of one player they’re missing tonight.
Missing half their starters and the “backups” have batting averages better than most of our starters!
Bad day to be a troll!
Is that what you are?
Ruben K.
We leave runners stranded
Guilty conscience?
God damn pac 12 broadcasts couldn’t be any worse…Vaseline on the camera lenses, shitty ‘analysts,’ anyone that wants to complain about Parker should watch this shit
It’s bad, I’d rather listen to Bill Walton.
But, would you rather Jon Warren??
Noooooooooooooooo!
Question, not that is matters but does Seller use an outfielders glove? It appears oversized for a pitcher.
Beavs pouring it on 11-1 top of the 5th, one out
Forrester came to play. 3 run bomb! 11-1 beavs
Forrester with his 2nd bomb of the night. 11–1 Beavs in the 5th
Hell has froze over in the desert! 3 infield hits by bottom 3. Lol
Really nice to see the offense get going lately!
Tail end of the Beavs lineup has 4 of the team total 9 hits, and a couple bb’s as well for a 50% OBP.
Just sayin’
Won’t happen against a good team! Oh wAit that has already been proven.
LOL, just imagine if they were up against the team at the top of the conference.
Imagine if they were? Asu missing 5 guys to injury.
Name them.
Not defending anyone but ASU’s record may be a little bit of fools gold.
Their first 5 conference series were against the bottom half of the standings.
As said the above posted quote from the Arizona Republic.
12-5 Beavs going to bottom of 6. Lawson on the mound.
Beavs looking good. So far ASU and beaverpride-tool not so much
Nothing I have said hasn’t been truth.
Atleast they hit for Turkey he was given his chance. Now to ride the bench for awhile.
Ruben may only go 0-5
“Nothing I have said hasn’t been truth.”
You said ASU was missing 5 starters. I’ve called bullshit. Twice.
Campos is the only starter missing. Prove your claim. Or you’re a liar.
Not much of what you’ve written even makes sense.
Pitchers need to slam the door shut. Nine more outs to get.
4 up/3 down in the 7th, 6 outs to go. t8, 12-5
Cedillo struggling bad.
Casper with a solo bomb. 13-5 with 1 down top of 8th.
Geez guys! Save some for tomorrow!
Well, getting interesting. 13-6 bottom of 8. 1 out and bases loaded for ASU.
What was that score?????
13-11 do I hear?
Even more interesting. Base hit clears bases. 13-9 beavs. 2 down 1 on for ASU bottom of 8.
Holy fuck…
13-11 now. Wanted to avoid it, but it might be time for Ryan Brown to get these last 4 outs.
Holy shit. If they choke that big of a lead.
Ferrer coming in with the tying run coming to the plate.
Ferrer strikes him out on 3 pitches. To the 9th.
13-11 Beavs
Great sequence by Ferrer but why the fuck is our best pitcher, and closer, not coming in for a situation like this? Ferrer has been inconsistent this season. Like his stuff but Brown has been the most reliable guy on the staff.
Brown comes in for the b9
Seems unnecessary for 1 out. They’ve had Brown throw 2 innings before.
Brown coming in for the last of the 9th
Brown coming in for the last of the 9th
Fingers crossed brown doesn’t get lit up!!!
Fuck off. The end
You’re not very good at this.
I’m pretty sure he picked a dildo as a name.
13-11 final
Might wanna rethink that name troll. It’s rather unfortunate.
Is that better??
Anyone that thinks that was a good game doesn’t know baseball.
Seriously get your heads out of the sand.
“I seem to recall a Friday night game last year in Tucson ended 12-9. Welcome to night games in the desert.”
Put your tiny pecker away choad.
I’ve been MORE than critical of this team.
And nope. Don’t see anyone here claiming this was a “good game”.
Your words choad.
It’s a road win. And I’ll leave it at that.
The”tool” part seems appropriate.
They made that way too exciting
I seem to recall a Friday night game last year in Tucson ended 12-9. Welcome to night games in the desert.
Brown. Clutch
Postgame: Beavs RPI 31……….for the moment.
Beavs up to 31st in RPI according to Warren Nolan. ASU drops to 40th.
https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2023/rpi-live
Stanford walks it off at home vs UW in the last of the 16th.
With USC loss the Beavs have moved into 5th place.
If this team can finish in the top 3 of the conference standings after starting 1-5 id call that a miracle.
All it took to have a turnaround to winning was:
1) bowling;
2) removing locker nameplates; and
3) wearing a fox fur hat.
All three of which I called in my preseason predictions.
The turnaround to winning ways is not a surprising development.
Bowliiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!
If this team can finish in the top 3 of the conference standings after starting 1-5 id call that a miracle.
FWIW
Warren Nolan believes in miracles, predicts Beavs to finish #2 in the PAC, behind only Stanford.
https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2023/conf-prediction-all
Schedule:
https://osubeavers.com/sports/baseball/schedule
AZ, Quax, Utah coming to Goss…then in road to UCLA.
Ouch for the BIG10, looks like they are a one bid league and when USC/UCLA join, they’ll be a two bid league
Might wanna look at those predicted standings again…….
16-14 won’t get 2nd.
And they predict UCLA wins the conference.
https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2023/conf-prediction-all
Changes by the minute, link now shows Beavs at 20-10 and on top of the PAC
Yeah. I just looked and it shows 19-11 and finishing 3rd behind Stanford and Oregon.
Just win every series and let the chips fall where they may.
Hoping for defensive dominance in football “scrimmage” today, with a few flashes of brilliance from at least two QBs and WRs besides Gould or Bolden showing playmaking ability.
I think the OLine and RBs will take care of their roles in 2023.
Looking forward to perceptions from anyone here who attends.
Would love to see DJU a few fastballs on deep routes. Show off the arm!
Yeah, a deep out?!? What?!?
I wonder about the Oline, given a lot of people–including niner–have made comments about the Dline and RBs looking like the best units, by far.
That doesn’t mean the Oline isn’t as good or better or worse than last year, since there have been D upgrades, but if the D is looking good, the O will probably not, so much.
O line not at full strength with Gray out.
A very valuable road win no matter how it looked
Combined conference record of last 4 opponents entering series against the Beavs: 30-11. Beavers record so far in those games: 8-2
They’re scoring 9 runs a game in their 8 game winning streak and have put themselves back in position to host a regional if they win this series and can beat UCLA in LA to end conference play and don’t drop a series to Utah or Arizona. Beavs hosting a regional without a top level starting pitcher and their top freshman hitter going into a month long slump when he was supposed to be a major piece, would be a coaching master class by Mitch Canham. Complaints about him as a coach are mystifying. 111-53 record in the last 3 seasons despite taking over after 2019 and there being massive holes in the program. He just wins games.
Dorman deserves a ton of credit as well. Almost every Beaver pitcher is having the best season of their Beaver career that returned from last year aside from Ferrer but I have confidence he’ll be in top form down the stretch. Ryan Brown is on pace for the greatest season of a Beaver reliever in school history.
Those dominant Casey teams from years past always seemed to rely so much on the starting rotation. Now we have a rotation that can feel a little shaky but the bullpen and closer are throwing well
I’ve been one of the biggest critics of Dorman in the past.
I’m thinking I probably should just shut it. He’s doing an exceptional job with the pitching staff this season.
I’m not on board with the Mitch hate. So far I think he’s done just fine.
What did anyone expect following Pat Casey? Does anyone else honestly think that Nate Yeskie would be have this program any better?
Looking forward to updates from the
Spring scrimmage if any ABs will be in attendance…
The Pac12 cast has been lots of sideline interviews and less scrimmage coverage, but they’re mostly treating it like a practice and rotating lots of guys in and out. Running basic stuff, lots of depth players getting a lot of reps.
DJ and Ben alternating reps with the 1’s on offense. Lots of coverage sacks with no one open to throw to early. Ben has been solid and looks like a starter. DJ made a WOW throw while scrambling that beavs simply haven’t had a QB that could make. Chiles looked GREAT on all fronts, honestly the best of the QB’s.
Isaiah Newell looks like he put on 15lbs. Running back room is stacked.
Seeing the Colorado spring game sold out on ESPN with a glorified JV team with only 4 defensive linemen left on the roster is surreal.
Was Chiles going against the 1s?
He did get some time with what looked like the 1s
Any streams available? Cut the cord recently…
If anyone sees and visiting recruits at the game it would be cool if you could list them here. Thanks!
At the game, love that the pace is stepped up over prior years.
Already Aidan Chiles looks like he’s going to fun to watch.
He’s quick and decisive and runs really well. Might be our best QB overall, already. If only our receivers could catch…
Thx!
Who is dropping the passes?
Early on i saw several drops, but they seem to have cleaned that up a little. Not sure who the drops were from though.
DJ had a nice 2nd drive that resulted in a TD.
Chiles is just a different level athlete than we’re used to at QB. When he rolls out he covers alot of ground quickly and makes quick throws. His most recent series had a few off target throws but the potential is evident and he is really confident out there already. Doesnt have that deer in the headlights look that we’re accustomed to
Hmm thoughts on spring game
1. Our running back depth is ridiculous Fenwick and Martinez are still excellent. Griffin looks like he is alot stronger and was hitting holes hard! Newell also looks like he bulked up a good amount! I really think we have 4 running backs that could all have 100 yards games this coming season.
2. Wide outs, Zackary Card was in street clothes sadly I was hyped to see him play but looks like it will have to wait till regular season. Bolden hauled in some great catches he will be a beast next year. Dunmore didn’t get many looks but I expect him to be good next year. Other than that hatten, reddicks, and Gould also were not suited up.
3. O line has really gained size I think we have about 7 o line men that will be able to rotate in and out next year and play like starters. Also Brandon kipper was there in street clothes cool to see him still hanging around the team before he gets drafted.
4. Qbs calling it now gulbranson will either transfer or be third string. Dj and Chiles are both going to be better. They’re mechanics are much better they have better arms and move better both of them could taking a scramble and turn it into a passing touchdown or rushing touch down with ease. By far most impressed with Chiles he looked polished and played great.
That’s my offense thoughts. Really thinking this offense could be special I really don’t know between dj and Chiles who will start they both looked pretty good. I think we’re looking at undefeated at best and a 2 loss team at worst next year
Go beavs
1. I don’t think it’s hyperbole that this team has the best running back talent and depth in the OSU Beavers modern era. It remains to be seen if Martinez can have a Steven Jackson or Quizz Rodgers type of year, but he also won’t get the carries they did because of the depth and diversity. He’d have a monster season if he got carries like they did.
Griffin is one of my favorite players. In watching highlights of last season’s games, he ran hard early in the year and late, taking down a FLA DB on his TD run in the LV Bowl. Seems like he HATES to be tackled or slowed and i hope he’s worked on his receiving because he can be shifty.
4. BG will be third string and stick around for what looks to be a potentially special season. He’s a team player, humble, can learn a lot and enjoy the season, maybe transfer next year.
Its great to consistently hear how well Chiles comports himself along with his obvious physical ability. He probably did camps in HS, showed up at OSU early, and sounds like he’s doing well on the adjustment and learning curve. Finally looks like Smith has 1 or (probably) 2 special QBs.
I will not be 3rd string!
I thought Riley Sharpe looked like a nice addition to the TE room. He was pretty active today and must have caught every ball thrown his way.
Skyler Thomas is out for the year with an ACL tear.
I feel so bad for him. I assume he was going to start and I have always been impressed with him when he has seen the field.
I assumed he was going to be CB2.
There’s still six solid DB’s in the rotation but the priority should be getting a true CB in the portal.
Who knows. He seemed like the 6th guy last year after Grant, KO, Austin, Wright and Cooper Jr. 3 of those guys are gone. My thoughts were Robinson and Thomas at CB and KO, Julian and Cooper Jr in the safety spots. Or Cooper Jr at corner and Thomas at 3rd safety. Regardless, he was primed to take a big role with the 3 DBs leaving and Julian coming back.
Nooooooo
Did Alton Julian play?
Julian is becoming like Sasquatch. Always rumored, but never actually seen.
General thoughts from Spring Game: Defense still looking great, running backs looking good. Chiles was by far the most impressive QB in my opinion. Crazy we still have 5 on the roster. They even got Throckmorton and Montiel in for a few snaps.
On a negative note: I’m always surprised at how terrible our fans are at actually showing up and bringing energy to things. Compare an average SEC baseball game or Spring game to ours. They always bring the energy and pack the stands for the most part. Yes, our baseball games are technically “sold out”, but they’re often half empty, and a program with the success of ours should have a better turnout.
I get its the spring game, but I’d wish we had a better turnout today considering last season and and addition of 2 fascinating QBs. On top of that, our fans have terrible energy, and I notice this at most of our sports. Hardly anyone going along with the first down chant, or other cheers. I’ve noticed that at most of our sporting events, our fans usually sit there silently, mouth agape, until they are prompted by a obviously frustrated announcer to make noise when they are meant to make noise. They never seem to key in when they’re meant to be loud or when to be silent. They’re quiet until right before the snap on we’re defense oftentimes, and they also seem to think it is a good idea to get loud when we’re on offense on 4th and short or kicking a key field goal, even when the players on the sideline are trying to shush them.
Compared to other teams, it seems as though we have a much larger fanbase in the 60+ age range. Probably a reason why we often have a low energy crowd.
I thought fans were energetic and loud last year even though stadium was at half capacity because of construction? I wasn’t there when in person, but reports here seemed positive?
OSU Spring games have never been well attended, even in the good years. Distance is the biggest thing and the game itself isn’t really a game so the draw isn’t there.
Precious years,, certainly some gripes about fan noise are obvious…But, it was very loud at reser last year, very. I suspect some due to reverb of the construction side but definitely loud, even of its own accord. Someone above clearly didn’t attend any of the games last year.
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Dude!
It was 70 and sunny.
The yard needs work, and if you’re caught up, fishing needs to be done.
I just listened to Mike Parker & Jim Wilson call the 2nd half of the 2022 Civil War game as my pseudo spring game hype for some good Beaver football.
Very enjoyable 2 hours. I found it on Varsity app.
Go Beavs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTvUzOMysj8
Highlights
BG pats the ball too much, needs to break that habit.
It’s both a tell and the reason he’s not on time.
Based on all reports, Chiles may be the most exciting qb the Beavs have ever had on the roster. Any possible way he jumps to A1 qb and starts game 1?
There’s always a way but highly improbable. Let’s remember who he’s playing against compared to DJ and Ben. Game 1 wouldn’t make sense anyways unless DJ and Ben get hurt or really struggle. Hopefully the game is well in hand and a bunch of guys get time in the first few games.
He looks like the most impressive freshman QB I’ve ever seen at OSU, by a wide margin too. I dont like hyping a HS kid up too much, but he already has all of the tools to be a starting QB in the Pac, and the game will only slow down for him with more reps. Quick decision maker. Throws a nice looking ball. Has better legs than any QB we’ve ever had(except maybe Seth, haha) And above all, he looked more confident in game action than pretty much any OSU QB in recent memory.
I’m very bullish on Chiles after seeing him in person.
Now that Seth is on the staff he can help him with the legs category.
I’m thinking a veterinarian student needs five years to get a degree, plus a Masters in Public Health.
summer sessions are concentrated, but there’s no way to work around volunteer hours, without utilizing those terms. And the best case scenario is that he accelerates his study to accomplish all that before his fourth year–not an easy thing to do.
If he stays on track, he can certainly be the next Terry Baker. If he strays, who knows?
I think he is crystal in his plans and is dead on track, and that shouldn’t eliminate a year of physical development while slowing down the game.
DJ may have his work cut out for him to be the number one his senior year, but I can see a dual QB system officially fucking with college football, in 2024.
Was it a good turnout for recruits? Any big names or ones to watch?
I didnt really seek them out, but it was junior day and they seemed to have a consistent stream of players arriving at the valley facility when i walked by.
Another JC cb gets an offer. Wouldnt be surprised if he commits too.
https://twitter.com/Jair_Smith04/status/1649939379887181825?t=QuiqzSruFYa7KVRNrARuwA&s=19
Kane with a home run. 1-0 beavs. Top 2nd with 1 down
Beavs appear to have uses all their offense yesterday. 1 hit so far tonight. Still a tie game though. 1-1. Top of 4
But ASSU more errors than hits
Three hits and 5 runs now
Good to see ‘Kumatz’ ‘Bazarra ‘ and ‘Guerarra’ made the trip.
These fucking announcers and camera work are the worst. When the hell is the pac going to come up with a media deal so we get some better broadcasts?
Are these guys ASU students? Some notes say it is an ASU livestream.
Micah a 2 out 2 RBI double in the t4, 3-1 Beavs,
Then Guerra brings him home with a HR, 5–1 Beavs
Dang, my game is on a lag. Lol
Error by ASU leads to Bazanna going to 3rd and Forrester reaching 1st. McDowell with a huge double to the left center gap. Scores 2. 3-1 beavs
Kane with another dinger, 6-1 good guys
*Shit 6-2
Maybe these fucking bozos will hire me, I’m still better than them, even with shitty typing
Kane a leadoff HR in the t5, Parker drops his cellphone but continues to describe things better than the video announcers.
6-2 Beavs.
Kane with another bomb! Solo shot. Made a great defensive play earlier too. Hell of a game foe him. 6-2 Beavs
6-3 going into the sixth.
Given late hitting last night , who knows where this is headed?
Bottom of the 6th, 7-3 Beavs. Who knows, it may take 10, 12, 25? to win this.
Oram calls out the foundation and progress built by Smith:
“The Beavers won 10 games last year. It was just the third time in program history. And yet somehow they still feel like a program that is very much in ascent.
The foundation is in place. The structure is solid.
It’s fitting that Oregon State is set to unveil a renovated stadium at the exact moment the Beavers appear poised to take another step forward.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/04/bill-oram-built-from-the-ground-up-oregon-states-football-program-seems-ready-for-moment-in-the-sun.html
7-3 Beavs. Bottom of 6th. New pitcher on the mound.
Can someone explain why in the blue hell I have to stream the Oregon State game while they are showing the Oregon-Cal game on repeat?? What is this shit??
Swoooosh……
Its the shitty pac 12 network. This shit is so ridiculous is laughable. They wonder why no one watches. Christ, they need a media partner with a brain, even half a brain would be better then the garbage they put out
Dernedde drops a great throw from right field that would’ve got the batter on an out at 2nd. As it is, lead-off double. Don’t go anywhere folks. I don’t think the scoring is done at 7-3.
a hbp is just a quick way to fill in, behind a lead-off double… right?
dammit!
Ferrer in… 7-5.
Tough luck on Kasper’s throw to the plate, musta bounced 10-12 feet over Weber. 7-5 now, Ferrer coming on for Jimenez.
wow… double scores both runners, but he’s caught trying to take a triple
tied game going into the 7th
Really unfortunate. Beavs got sat down 1,2,3 by the relief guy last inning. Can they figure him out? ASU offense is legit. Relief pitching by us not so great.
Dernedde a bunt single after error #5 puts Weber on first.
Pitcher was cruising until that error. ASU trying their hardest to lose this game, yet we’re tied
New arm for ASU, bases loaded and one out for Forrester. Time to break the 7-7 tie.
whatever
Man, wasted opportunity to say the least. Feels like momentum shifted to ASU. They’ve got 5 errors on the night…shouldn’t be a tied game.
Things like that happen when you leave 11 on in 7 innings.
ASU relief pitching been great tonight, unfortunately. It’s like the Beavs from the early Pac12 play the last 2-3 innings. Bad at bats. Down in the counts early. Weak contact, if any.
This would be a tough loss after leading by four with the possibility of winning the series. And for god sake, the Beavs could at least get a win for me for having to listen to these two numbnut announcers for three-plus hours!
Fourth arm in for ASU, Miiiiiiitch doesn’t pinch hit for Macias
And, then, with two down Miiiiiiitch doesn’t pinch for Dernedde.
Can’t believe they hit Dernedde on that pitch. Lol. Guy couldn’t hit an underhand lob, no reason to plunk him.
We don’t capitalize of course but still a dumb mistake on their part.
They should have hit for Macias and Weber and in the end it will cost them.
Brown hits batter to load them up
And that’s all she wrote!
Costs us
Wow. Grand slam. What an awful performance the last 4 innings. Felt like March all over again.
If Dernedde can tag a guy out in the 6th, Beavs likely win.
Tough loss and the bullpen looks horrid in the desert.
Get the series tomorrow Beavs!
Relief pitching has been awful. Not one reliever has been good.
You gotta blame coaches on this one. You can’t run Brown back to back nights
Huh? Closers go back to back all the time
Tough loss, not gonna see 5 errors by any opponent very often. Beavs leave 13 on base.
May see pitch by committee tomorrow for Beavs, Lattery was said to be likely starter.
Could be rough tomorrow. No Hunter, no Ferrer and no Brown. ASU could put up a ton of runs tomorrow.
Macias went 0-5 and has a whopping .156 batting avg. Makes Dernedde at .216 look like Tony Gwynn. Kasper, Forrester, weber and McDowell all shit the bed tonight. With our top relief guys out for tomorrow’s game, there’s a real possibility of an ugly score tomorrow.
Weber don’t even belong in the same sentence as Forrester, kasper, or McDowell they carry themselves decisively for most part.
Weber shouldn’t even be in lineup even though “miiiiitch Max the way he looks”. I am sure he rethinking those comments. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fMtPgP9GY
Matthew Loves Ball full spring game highlights.
OSU AD Barnes suffers medical emergency, taken to hospital:
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/04/oregon-state-athletic-director-scott-barnes-suffers-a-medical-emergency-while-in-fresno-calif.html?outputType=amp
Thoughts and prayers with Barnes and his family. Doesn’t sound good.
Spring game thoughts – Chiles continues to impress. DJ not so much. Receivers and kicking game = enormous concern.
Big game for baseball team today. Would be nice to bounce back and take series.
DJ has had 15(?) practices in a new system and is not going shotgun snap as much. And yet it sounds like he’s competing w/BG who is in his fourth year. I bet by fall DJ will look much better.
And if Chiles is playing the best in fall? “Launch it.” The Beavers will have more QB depth than likely ever, and can adjust if someone falters and appears to be holding the team back.
As Jack alluded to above, it would be interesting to see some 2 QB sets to give the opposition some fits and things to think about.
Agree… DJ will improve with more time but what Chiles is doing as a 17 year old and less experience than DJ is impressive. I wouldn’t be surprised if BG wins the job to start the year and Chiles finishes the year. That said, my biggest concern is that receivers can’t catch.
It’s likely the receivers had problems with his delivery, because it’s that diffferent, and the adjustment to two new QBs will take more than a handful of practices with both getting reps.
You must be drunk.
We were down a couple starting receivers yesterday. Pmus Bolden played great and made some really nice catches.
One of the first drops i saw yesterday was #24. I looked him up, it’s Gavin Haines, a RB who must be #5 or 6 on the depth chart right now. And I think Sharp dropped his first pass, but caught the rest.
So i guese what i’m saying is the early drops dont appear to be as big of a concern as i first thought considering who was involved
I’m wondering if the QB’s are seeing the toughest defense they will see all year? Seemed like they were kind of running for their lives out there. Won’t really know until we get into games.
I was thinking the same thing. Our defense looks very tough. And we know the O-line is good.
Turley starts at DH, Tanner Smith behind the plate. Dernedde starts agaiin.
Lattery gets the chance to have his most impactful game, can he go 5 or even more?
Lattery had a very efficient 2nd, and ASU’s P seems to be having issues… until Turley pops up the first pitch, and Smith fans in three.
5-0 m3
looks like they may have figured Lattery out, second time through
Best wishes to the Barnes family
Is part of Dorman’s pitching philosophy to have his pitchers nibble or is that just a lack of execution? I hate the full counts and walks with big leads, it never seems to end well.
Right when I tune in they give up 2. Tuning back out for the team.
6-5 ASU. Guess they don’t have any other pitchers since RD has left Lattery to give up 6 runs this inning and 0 outs. Or we just don’t care about winning this game? Jesus christ.
Bazanna grand slam. He’s been on a tear the last month. Wow. 10-6 beavs. Based on prior games, kinda think 15 runs is needed
Bazzanna set for a GS, and he hit it.
10-6 m5
Smith an RBI single on a 1-2 count followed by Dernedde bb and then Bazanna goes Grand Slam on a 2-2 pitch. All three of those guys faced a count with 2 strikes at a point.
5 run t5 makes it 10-6 Good Guys.
Thorsteinson faces two batters, give up a run and Dorman makes the move to Keljo. He’s got 17 k’s in 11 innings; 9 er too.
10-8 for now.
10-8 Beavs. Man on 2nd and no outs bottom of 6. Definitely trending to need more than 10 runs to win. Beavs pitching has not looked good this weekend.
Miiiiiiitch (sportin’ the stirrups/sanitaries) gets zebras to review a review.
Is it a 1 run lead or 2? We’ll see.
Mitch for COY? Talks the umps into reversing their own review. 10-8 Beavs…for now.
10-10 tie game. Bottom 6. 2 out. Man on 2nd.
Coming into this series I thought our bullpen was a major strength of this team They have been horrible. Not one reliever has performed well.
First to 20 wins… gonna need a few more singers just to keep pace with ASU. Good grief, baseball in the desert gives you an ulcer. Get the win and get back to Corvallis already.
How many more pitchers are available for the Beavs today? ASU has been burning through their guys as well and it’a only the 6th
*dingers
Not so fast. Got a game against Grand Canyon tomorrow
After inexplicably leaving Lattery in for waaaaaay to long RD has shown a much shorter leash on everyone else. Still in the 6th…might need some position players to toss some balls. I don’t think the Beavs can hang in a boat race unfortunately. Worst offensive team going against the top team is not a good recipe.
Beaver relievers are throwing batting practice for ASU. They are teeing off on every beaver pitcher.
Your beaver is getting teed off right now. LOL
Wheels are falling off. 12-10 ASU. 1 out. 1 on in bottom of 7.
Not so fast, no one has reached 20!
Kasper steals his third base after bb to start the t8.
Turley with an opportunity with one out and Kasper on second.
2 straight strike outs. Makes 10 for the game. ASU has 3. I like their chances of getting to 20 over ours.
On top of everything else, Bazanna overslides second when he had it stolen.
Not the first time a Beav (or for that matter Bazanna) has made that mistake.
And, it only took 12 for ASU to win today!
Tough to lose the series when they had a clear shot at winning all 3 games but couldn’t hold leads late.
ASU is the better team but OSU had plenty of chances to win, just couldn’t close the door on them.
If Forrster gets a couple of key hits rather than outs on Sat and Sun Beavs probably sweep. Crazy how the weekend turns on the production of any one player but Forrester probably was 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position.
Who did the scouting for the pitching staff going into that series? That guy should probably
Be fired or not scout anymore.
Since when does the entire bullpen implode and walk guys followed by hitting batters then give up 3 run homers for the entire series? Good grief!
Well the streak was fun. ASU definitely the better squad. Elite offense and their pitching was better than ours. 5th or 6th in Pac is where I predicted they’d land pre-season and it seems more fitting. Too many warts on the offense and if our pitching isn’t on its game we don’t stand much chance vs decent schools. Hope the pitching shows up vs Zona. Another excellent offense that scores in bunches and i think its apparent that we can’t hang with good talent if pitching isn’t flawless.
Zona pitching is interesting. They give up a lot of hits, runs and have a really high team era. However, they are 3rd in strike outs and 4th in walks allowed. So, we likely won’t be getting too many free bases so can our guys hit the ball or they gonna strike out?
Their Ps are not better than ours.
Ours pitched to an elite O, while theirs pitched to half an elite O, and the difference in outcomes isn’t stark.
I’d be very worried about the pitching staff, if I were an ASU fan. Maybe they get a run like Indiana had a couple years back, but the pitching will be their downfall.
I’d agree that our staff is better. I’m just pointing out that they strike a lot of guys out and we strike out more than anybody. By the metrics, Zona has an even better offense than ASU so there is definitely concern to be had if our guys aren’t pitching like we did vs the ducks and pitch like we did vs ASU. We can’t win a boat race vs good to elite offenses.
Really bad series loss given their inability to hold sizeable leads. I would still like to see them make the tournament (not a given), but I don’t think the team is Omaha material anyway. It will be interesting to see where the team ERA sits after this series debacle. It won’t be third in the nation any longer.
we’re not a championship team.
p doesn’t trust the D, and we’re weak at being consistent.
Next year could be good… if the pitching staff figures out where the zone is.
In positive Beaver news, make the top 5 for 4* wr from CA and top 6 for a 4* athlete from Washington. Fun to see, would be even more awesome to see them actually land one of them now that they’re on the dance card.
likely related to optimism of DJ and Chiles I suspect…a good showing this season would certainly help.
After seeing the Spring game, Canzano seeing the same thing I am with Chiles. It’s going to be very difficult for Smith to not play him, despite the QB depth we have. And apparently he’s not making a bunch of freshman mistakes in practice that we’re just not seeing.
Will be interesting to see how he handles taking a few hits from defenders, because he’s still fairly slender(only 17 years old, so to be expected) but you can tell he has the frame to build up his physique. The future is bright at QB.
Also, I went back and watched the Pac12 TV coverage. Just doesnt compare vs seeing it live. Basically every play on tv was spent sharing the screen with a player or coach being interviewed and you could barely follow the game action.
In between plays Chiles was running over toward the sidelines, eager to get the next play call and was all about keeping pressure on the defense by keeping the ball moving
https://twitter.com/johncanzanobft/status/1650295140886675456?t=_rZ4QF5xRu-U8oiW2iB0Iw&s=19
It was apparent at the AA bowl game that a couple hits hurt.
He’ll be more mature next year, but why spoil a good plan?
Maybe he’s a lynchpin in our 2023 championship endeavors.
Or… maybe he’s a lynchpin in our 2025 and 2026 national championships, following DJ’s one championship.
DJ would be the slacker.
Just have to take it for what it was. The offense was vanilla and Chile’s played against 2nd and 3rd stringers. He is very good and will be very good but it’s way too early to be taking so much away from that glorified practice. He really need to work on his pocket presence otherwise he will be very easy to scheme against.
Canyon is garbage and wants to stir the pot with clickbait.
The Grand Canzano
Lol.
I’m not saying he isn’t impressive. I’m just saying this doesn’t make him the undisputed starter. I think he’s very good as well and has impressed. But part of the jump from high-school to college I learning how to maneuver and stay in the pocket longer and not just scrambling everytime. Granted there wasn’t great protection but still. Also there is a lot of things that we’re not able to see like reading the defense and checking into the right plays. Both those things take time and that is Ben’s strength as well as gebbias. Jefferson praised gebbia multiple times for getting them in the right play for his big gains.
All that said I’m really excited about him and I do definitely think he’s the best freshman QB we’ve ever had or at least that I’ve seen. If the QB situation was different this year I could see him starting but right now I’m just hoping DJ is the real deal and can find his groove to take this offense to the next level.
Take it for what it was……… Eggers did and is also impressed with Chiles:
https://www.kerryeggers.com/stories/resers-almost-ready-and-maybe-aidan-chiles-too
In taking it for what it was (2nd and 3rd string D), also consider:
1) When was the last time an OSU FR impressed in spring? Maybe(?) Mannion?
2) OSU had the #1 D in the PAC last year in terms of yards allowed and points, and there’s more depth on D than in any time in the last 6 years;
3) Chiles is 17 and arrived in January(!);
4) Both NiceBeaver (in person) and Angry (film) have called out Chiles quick and good decision making, and accuracy and everyone recognizes his athleticism;
All of these are contextual reasons for being impressed by what he did Saturday and what Smith has said he’s been doing in practice (“…we kind of expect it from him anymore…).
Come fall, maybe he’ll get some series with/against the 2’s snd 1’s for a fair reality check that also gives him summer and fall development time. Him playing with #1 OLine, deep #RB and TE groups would be interesting.
Miiiiiiiiiitch and crew have destroyed all hope of a conference title. Guess we’ll go without one for the 6th year in a row.
The conference trophy can be found up your ass next to the corncob.
Oh no.
Conference championships mean everything in baseball.
What shall we ever do?
This is so devastating.
I’m going to go clip my toenails.
Anyone know who won the Pac championship in 2018? That Pat Casey sucked. I mean he had the best record in college in 2017 and didn’t even win the CWS, and in 2018 he didn’t win the conference title…what a dick!!!1!1!
The Athletic with a fairly in depth article on DJ:
https://theathletic.com/4438474/2023/04/23/dj-uiagalelei-oregon-state-football/?amp=1
Did anyone do a synopsis of their take on the Spring Game? I see NiceBeav with a few notes about Chiles. Anyone else go? If so, what did you see?
There are a couple farther up in the thread, before the Saturday and Sunday baseball shenanigans.
Colorado DBs jumping in the portal, any of them worth pursuing?
Colorado losing all their decent players from last year’s team. Coach Prime must be burning bridges pretty hard. Prime Time Academy is going to have an interesting season with basically zero continuity.
They didn’t want them anyway.
I saw him him wearing a really cool cowboy hat in a picture. Lol what a tool.
“we transferrin”
zero continuity from a 1-11 team though
This is your semi-annual reminder that practice performance really doesn’t mean anything. I’ll be back with the same message this fall.
OT: I’ve been meaning to mention, and haven’t seen anyone else discuss, but the Whyte Track and Field Center is finally getting stands (such as they are) and presumably some toilets installed. It looks like a scaled back high school bleacher system but at least you can sit and watch an event, or well, you know.
Ah alright defense during spring game thoughts (here ya go angry)
1. Dline looks like an absurd amount of young talent, sione lolohea, seismi saluni, Travis shippen, Takari Hickle, Nikko taylor and Oluwaseyi omotosho all young talent that we’re able to past the oline a good amount. Really thinking are dline pass rush this year could be special…. Also Omotosho looked like the real his edge pass rush and first two steps are elite from what I saw..
2. Linebackers didn’t see Easton macarenas but assuming he will definitely be starting at ILB this coming season. John miller looks like he could be a pretty good ILB he diagnosed plays pretty well and hits hard. Mikaya tongue looks like he has a hugeeee ceiling for how good he could be at ILB you could tell he wasn’t as seasoned as John miller in playing ILB but his intangibles were good and looked like good instincts. He hits really hard too from what I saw. Andrew chatfield looked like an absolute beast he’s straight going to put fear into opposing olines this coming season.
3. Defensive backs: didn’t see Jaden Robinson play but I could have missed him I think he will be starting at one of the corner back spots, I also am calling it now tyrice ivy jr is going to be starting the opposite side at cb. Oladapo is going to be the anchor for the dbacks this coming season, he was calling shots and getting other people into position whenever he was in. Akili Arnold and noble Thomas both looked pretty good. Joe Swen not sure where’s he’s at one the depth chart assuming the twos not the ones, he was an absolute ball hawk I saw him break up 3-4 passes that were thrown pretty well he was just in great position every time, hoping he can move up in the depth chart cuzzz he could be picking off pac 12 qbs with that type of awareness he has of the where the ball is going.
All in all I’m not really sure where our weakness is on the defense, maybe the dbacks? Maybe the linebackers? Idk they both looked like they had a lot of talent that are working their asses of to get better.
I’ll throw in my thoughts on are field goal kickers, they seemed about the same as last year which means our kicking game probably won’t be a strength.
Go beavs
Limited snap count (which arguably makes it more impressive), but Miller had a high PFF rating last year. Throw out the horrible coverage grade and Mascarenas did, too.
CB and special teams are my only concerns for this team. Sky’s the limit.
Special teams wise I’m only concerned about our kickers and idek who our punter is this year.. but bolden receiving kickoffs and Gould receiving punt returns is scary good.
I think are corner backs will be fine lots of young talent I saw on Saturday
Josh Green will be the punter and is proven. Just the guys ahead of him are that good. The kicker position needs an upgrade badly. That could easily be the difference in a game. You would think they could find an upgrade pretty easily. You smaller uni university’s with better kickers than ours. Should be able to pick up a transfer or something. I would use Sappington this season for everything 55 and in and use Hayes for longer or go for it depending on the situation. Hayes just never has progressed. Mccormick missed an easy 1 in the scrimmage. Maybe they need to hire a kicking specialist or something.
I don’t know any names but I heard Doctor had a ton of recruits at the game for Junior day. I didn’t attend but sounds like lots of people did.
For those thinking the spring game should have had more attendance…UW yikes!
https://twitter.com/EthanArles/status/1649866719928909824
Beav baseball just tweeted score vs gcu currently 11-1, bats are finally alive,, guess the question is can beavs hold on?
Facing subpar pitching I would hope they hit. GCU running out everyone to get their bullpen practice I.
This game is the pad your stats to scare people game. There have been 5 infield hits that should have been easy plays.
Weber is about as good of catcher as you would expect from a Juco or d3 school. He must have some dirt on canham to be played this much.
Kyle is stepping up and playing like he should. Defense solid. Bat is there since Miiiitch like hard hit balls he doing that.
13-2 final
Watched the replay of the spring “game”
Lots of small thoughts –
Chiles has immense potential but it’s just that for now. Has the arm and the legs but he does not look ready for real game action. At times he held the ball way too long. Took a few sacks, had the ball stripped once. Even on his TD throw, the defender got his hands on Chiles before he threw the ball. He probably hasn’t taken a big hit yet either.
DJU looked as expected. Some struggles but moved the ball. GB looked the same.
Passes to the RBs! Hopefully they’ll be part of the passing offense more this fall. Just to make the defenses account for them.
Defense looked fast. Got a lot of pressure throughout the scrimmage. Hickle, Omotosho and Taylor had some nice plays. Good to see guys stepping up.
I’m bullish on the pass rush this season. With the new additions and the development from the younger guys and the building depth on the DL there should be a huge improvement. The Sharpe move to TE I think is a good one. There is a lot of depth and talent at the OLB and edge position and he was a talented TE out of high-school. I think he’ll be more valuable there. You can really tell that Bray has emphasized it in the off-season. It should really help the young secondary.
I havent heard Stover’s name much this year. Is he healthy? Really thought he showed signs of being a good edge rusher early last season but think he ended up on the injured list the remainder of the year. Hope he’s back to form
Beavs have pitched well all season long. Showing it again today. ASU has a really good offense obviously, but them going nuts on the Beavers pitching is a credit to them but also was the first time really all year the pitchers have played in hot weather and almost no pitcher had any command at all. Didn’t look they handled the heat well at all. Very similar to the PAC-12 tourney last year where almost every pitcher but Hjerpe looked horrible. If it was at Goss, Beavs probably sweep. Hopefully they can work through it come PAC-12 tourney time, especially if they get sent to the south for a regional. Offense has looked great lately
Will be a good contest vs Zona. Statistically they’re a better offense than ASU so our pitchers will need to be on their A game or we’re going to need to score 13 runs a game.
Only advantage OSU will have is Goss.
They keep running Weber out behind the plate pitchers will struggle just like vs ASU.
Turley needs to be put on shelf for the season find him good spot to play this summer to get team at bats instead of swinging for the fence.
Macias and talt should be used to run if needed. Reader and Peterson get occasional bats at DH or big leads to get MCDowell, Guerra, Kane some rest.
This is only way they even have shot at post season they going to squeeze into Pac-12 tourney at 7-8 seed.
?
Have you ever watched baseball?
Guessing you haven’t too question facts
Guessing what?
They’re all words, but in that sequence they make no sense.
Watched a good amount of the spring game. It’s hard to tell when you are playing yourself, but we know with what we are returning our O-line is likely one of the best in the Pac-12 and the defense looked very disruptive against them. They could be better than last year’s D which lead the league in several categories. The talent ceiling is certainly higher, I think it will come down to leadership and consistent playmakers.
We have the same playmakers on offense. We just need a QB that can make big plays every now and then.
There were big losses at receiver- Harrison, Lindsay. And musgrave I guess lol.
Harrison was inconsistent but he was our #1. Someone has to step up and much as I like Bolden and Gould, I’m not sure either had the size to be a true 1.
Bolden is a number 1. Cools won the Biletknikoff at 5’9-10. Bolden is poised to breakout and catches everything. Now that we have a QB that can throw the deep ball out speed at WR is a serious threat especially with the run game.
I hope so. I do like Bolden a LOT. He’s blazing fast but he’s so much more than that- great hands, smooth routes, clutch, consistent. His brother drove me crazy with consistency issues but Silas seems like the real deal.
Now that OSU has QBs that can throw Bolden can do double moves like Cooks did for big plays.
15 Buffs players hit the transfer portal today.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/36280712/montana-lemonious-craig-4-colorado-players-enter-portal
Most will head to FCS. Couple good size WRs in there. Might be worth looking at.
Probably has another x-fer “class” inbound…
I already have “Sanders Fatigue,” CDC suggests it could spread rapidly…
Are they AT UO? That would be an ESPN slobberfest….
Imagine Lanning moves on and they hire Prime. It’s a match made in hell.
Ahahah I’d love that, they would fail and it would be catastrophe
Anyone who chose to be referred to as a high quality grade of beef is pathetic. But it does make me want to grill a nice thick ribeye…
prime time means beef
got it
Make it 18 as of this morning. CU has had 31 players enter the portal since Sanders was hired. As stated, they were 1-11 last year. Addition by subtraction?
I don’t see the Buffs being much better this year or next.
They’re not going to be good right away but it could speed up the rebuild after a couple of years in the toilet. A completely different than Smith and doing things the “right way”. The thing is I can’t see sanders staying there very long. What happens when FSU comes calling.
He doesn’t seem to care much about the fact that these are young STUDENT athletes. I wonder how incoming recruits will perceive this. I really hope he crashes and burns. I’d hate to see this kind of behavior be rewarded. Colorado went from one of the teams I least hate to one of the top.
“He doesn’t seem to care much about the fact that these are young STUDENT athletes.”
Great point, and i thought CU lowered academic standards to improve his recruiting ability?
Keep in mind anyone being asked to leave the team is still guaranteed a four-year scholarship that can’t be reduced or removed, so long as the SA doesn’t enter the portal.
If there are kids who refuse to leave CU, but they were asked to not be on the team, they now have room for those kids, numbers-wise.
Some interesting items from DJU this weekend,
First, the story of him coming to Corvallis was the same as what was reported. He confirmed that during the in game interview. Seems driven to make this work.
Interesting read on DJU’s thoughts on Clemson’s offense. A perfect storm of bad play calling and bad communication. But yet they still made it to the orange bowl. Firing the OC was an acknowledgement of DJU’s criticism.
On the other side, JS got a huge endorsement of his offense and where it can lead. Hopefully he can use DJU as a recruiter for all offensive players in this next cycle.
Hey Angry, your dismal, perpetually mismanaged Jets get 39 year old Aaron Rodgers…i’m guessing he’s too sensitive for NY media and likely won’t have enough talent around him on O to succeed, but don’t know Jets roster…i think they gave a good+ D?
Dick pick incoming.
Jets are actually loaded with talent right now. Last year they were truly a QB away from being elite…a lot like the Beavs actually. Zach Wilson put the worst QB tape of the 2022 NFL on display, though Mike White was sneakily decent.
Garrett Wilson might be the best young receiver in the league right now. Bryce Hall is an elite runner. Rodgers gets a talent upgrade.
But it’s the Jets.
Wilson was a terrible pick so high and I called it but that’s what the jets do.
They’re loaded at receiver. They should be fun to watch.
Oregon state offered Colorado WR transfer.
https://oregonstate.rivals.com/news/oregon-state-offers-colorado-wr-transfer-montana-lemonious-craig
For those in attendance at spring game, how did new construction look in person? Does it look sort of small and underwhelming given it doesn’t match the other side, or does it look like it will integrate well?
Sortof a mixed result for me. I think it will look nice by itself, but on the other hand, the transition from end zone seating(near the video screen) to the new side doesnt mesh very well to my eyes. The styles and angles are just different, so it doesnt have good flow between those sections. Plus there isnt a bridge connecting the seating sections up above the main walkway, so they don’t actually connect and there’s this big gap of open air in that corner.
Also, it’s a little odd looking that tue upper level doesnt extend out like the lower level. I know it’s partially because we just dont have the demand to fill that many seats, but it looks incomplete to me because of that. Wonder if they designed it so they can build those wings on later? Would be a good option for future stadium expansion if the demand ever requires it in the future.
It will be interesting to see how the viewing angle is from the upper deck. Those top level seats are pretty high, but close to the field. And the pitch is pretty steep between row 1 and the top of that section.
The entire thing definitely outs the fans closer to the field.
I also like that the concession area opens out to the field, so you wont miss the game while standing in line. Just not sure where the lines will queue up because it doesnt look like alot of standing room over there.
I asked those same questions when I toured the stadium on Friday. They designed it to where they can connect in the future and as you suggested they wanted to see how current capacity does. If it sells out regularly, they plan to expand and connect the open air space you mentioned.
I think that concession area “Beaver Street” is the coolest part of the remodel. Ability to grab what you want and still see game. Also open area at the end with fire pits and heaters where kids can run around and still see game.
Oh nice, well good to hear they have some future design ideas already in mind. Wonder if we’ll ever see that place fill up regularly.
The spring game was at least a sign that more people are into the team this year. Pretty much every parking spot in the Reser lot was full, i ended up having to park in another area and hike in. People were tailgating and really seemed eager to see some football.
I’ve been to most of the past Spring games, basically since the GA era started, and they were never well attended
Colorado OLB Shakaun Bowser hit the portal today, with 4 full years of eligibility remaining. Beavs were one of the teams that hosted him for an official visit originally, so you have to think Bray would still be interested in him, if there’s room.
Although it looks like Coach Tibs offered him originally, rather than Bray.
He would be a nice pick up.
Maybe since he has 4 years could be worth grabbing but it seems like we have a lot of guys at the position but I don’t know how it’s spread out across the class.
We need to pursue that receiver from Colorado. I actually think receiver could be a problem for us next year now that we should have a decent qb.
Anyone a subscriber to OregonLive?
Daschel has a post spring depth chart for the football team but it’s paywalled.
I don’t put too much stock into what he says but would be interesting to see where he sees things. Though to be frank, he just seems like he does the bare minimum in his role as the beat writer for the team, and he seems like he could care less about the beavs. Just seems like just a paycheck to him with his constant softball questions, etc.
If you’ve been reading practice reports and watched last season what do u think? Probably as good of guess as him. There’s only a handful of spots up for grabs and you should I have a pretty good idea. A lot of guys haven’t played or arrived yet either. Transfers are going to come in and some might go out.
Portal window ends this week, so if they plan to get out, it needs to happen soon.
Some could retire too, like Lowe already.
Did my best to copy and paste. Hope it works
WR: John Dunmore (Jr.), Jesiah Irish (Sr.)
WR: Silas Bolden (Jr.), Trevor Pope (Soph.)
WR: Anthony Gould (Jr.), Zachary Card (Fr.)
TE: Jermaine Terry II (Jr.), Jake Overman (Jr.)/Jack Velling (Soph.)
RB: Damien Martinez (Soph.), Deshaun Fenwick (Sr.)
QB: D.J. Uiagalelei (Jr.) OR Ben Gulbranson (Soph.)
LT: Joshua Gray (Jr.), Jacob Strand (R-Fr.)
LG: Marco Brewer (Sr.), Heneli Bloomfield (Sr.)
C: Jake Levengood (Sr.), Dylan Lopez (R-Fr.)
RG: Grant Starck (Jr.), Tanner Miller (Jr.)
RT: Taliese Fuaga (Jr.), Tyler Morano (Soph.)
Defense
OLB: Oluwaseyi Omotosho (Jr.), Andrew Chatfield (Sr.)/Nikko Taylor (Jr.)
OLB: John McCartan (Sr.), Cory Stover (Jr.)
DL: Isaac Hodgins (Sr.), Sione Lolohea (Jr.)/Semisi Saluni (Jr.)
DL: James Rawls (Sr.), Joe Golden (Sr.)/Takari Hickle (R-Fr.)
ILB: John Miller (Jr.), Mason Tufaga (Soph.)
ILB: Easton Mascarenas-Arnold (Jr.), Makiya Tongue (Jr.)
CB: Jaden Robinson (Sr.), Joe Swen (R-Fr.)
CB: Tyrice Ivy (Jr.), Jack Kane (Soph.)
S: Kitan Oladapo (Sr.), Ian Massey (Jr.)
S: Akili Arnold (Jr.), Alton Julian (Jr.),
NICK: Ryan Cooper (Sr.), Wynston Russell (Jr.)
K: Everett Hayes (Sr.)
P: Josh Green (Sr.)
KR: Silas Bolden (Jr.)
PR: Anthony Gould (Jr.)
Veiling #3 behind a guy who was the worst blocking TE in college football last season? Someone must be sending a message.
I’m sure it’s only because Velling hasn’t practiced yet. Same with Julian.
We had2 former starting walk ons at safety last year and that turned out pretty well.
To paraphrase Darth Vader, I find our lack of CB depth disturbing. Only 2 scholarship guys in the two-deep, neither started last season.
Yup. Gonna be hard to beat Washington without scholarship CBs.
That is a solid 2 deep on the o-line. In coach M we trust.
On paper there aren’t too many concerns based on the amount of snaps everyone got last year and how productive each group was.
Obviously the biggest questions will be replacing the starters at LB and CB, but the depth seems to be there already.
Looking forward to fall camp and the season with high expectations.
Omotosho is a RS Soph
Not a lot of seniors up there either. We’re set up for a pretty solid two year run.
Griffin should be ahead of Fenwick.
I agrees: quicker, shiftier, fights through tackles, could become receiving threat.
Maybe mix in Fenwick and Newell later when D is getting tired?
I dunno. Griffin is very good, but Fenwick’s consistency is overlooked. He rarely loses yards.
Velling stands out to me too – he was really good last year.
Fenwick is a good backup but I think Griffin should be our real #2. Better player overall IMO and I think he complements Martinez’s power better with speed and quickness. They’ll all play though. Curious who if anyone will take on the Colletto wildcat role – maybe Fenwick??
And yeah I have to think even a mostly healthy Julien blows Arnold out of the water. Arnold has always been such a frustrating player…seems like he’s good for a blown coverage TD once a game. Losing Skyler Thomas is a blow. I don’t remember ever even hearing Kane’s name before – is he a scholarship player?
Fenwick should not be a wildcat back. He is not very hard to bring down. Guys just hit him low and he is easily tackled 1on1. There’s no reason not to use DJ in that role. He’s bigger than Colletto and is a much better passer. He probably doesn’t have that same amazing nifty ability to will himself to the line to gain but he definitely has a lot of power.
Arnold has never played enough to allow a TD a game. He’s a solid player but Julian is better. Like I said he’s only listed behind him because he hasn’t step foot on the field yet. If he’s healthy there’s no way he doesn’t start.
Often times the TE position depends on if they’re running double tight or not if they start. Velling will be the go to receiving TE and Overman is a blocker. I can’t say for Terry and Riley because I haven’t really seen them before. Riley was a good TE in high-school and looked really good in the spring game. He also definitely has the size and strength to be a good blocker. Hopefully Terry can live up to his 4 star rating out of high-school.
Velling, Overman, Terry, Riley…impressive depth and options. I think Riley will surprise opponents with his catching ability.
Women’s basketball hires Aleah Goodman as assistant coach. I’m sure she’s glad to be back closer to home.
Good hire
Chance Nolan to TCU
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/36291047/qb-chance-nolan-transfers-oregon-state-tcu
Which one? Game Manager Chance or Gunslinger Chance?
Wish him well, given how bad the injury actually was.
He did have some great moments as a Beav, and some horrible turnovers too.
Taking his squints to the Horned Frogs… he may have a shot at starting and Sonny Dykes may be the qb whisperer…
Their qb transferred out right? Could have a shot. He has potential if he could get out of his own way.
Likely both of them…
Going from Middle Tenn St and ending at TCU. I’d say he did well for where he started out of high school. If you look at Duggan’s stats before last year, they were pretty pedestrian. Maybe Dykes can get Nolan going.
He may do well in an air raid system. We shall see
Luck o’ da beavs he figures out his deep ball and turnover problem and tears it up.
Best of luck to him! Stay healthy!
Looking at the pocket schedule for the Beavs next season, it could be a real possibility to start 10-0 going into UW and Civil War games to end the season. The Beavs would be too 5 by then and those games would be guaranteed national exposure. Could
Be an awesome year if the defense continues its solid to elite play and the offense returns to 30+ ppg averages.
Why the down vote on this?
If defense holds at the same or better, and the offense gets back to JS offenses normal output of +30 ppg, who beats them in the first 10 games?
I think we are looking at an undefeated season and a chance at the Rose Bowl and Playoffs, actually. I expect 13-0 after the conference championship and a real shot at an SEC or Big10 power for the playoffs.
Hope springs eternal and I’ll be saying again in the fall. If you down vote I’d like to know what you down voted at least for this…
I felt the same way last season too. I think they can beat anyone on the schedule and should beat most. It’s a funny shaped ball and bounces weird ways tho and I don’t think they’re good enough to beat the good teams if they’re not playing really good clean football. Often times in close games a call or a crazy play can go against you and it’ll cost you the game. There’s a lot of factors to come into play that makes it very hard to win every game and with our kicker a game could be decided on his leg which I don’t feel good about.
With all that said I do think realistically they could be undefeated heading into the Washington game. The ucla and Utah games will poise the biggest threats and Colorado and Stan are kind of wild cards because I don’t know what to expect with them but they should still be wins. If the secondary be as good or better than last year and they play their brand of football and don’t be themselves there island reason they can’t go undefeated. But injuries, bad luck, refs, and a QB having an off game can all easily change that. I’ll gladly take the over on wins against Vegas this year.
I’ll gladly take the over on wins against Vegas this year.
One advantage of the Beavs being ignored by much of the sports world has been the season win line put up by Vegas the past few years. Two years ago 4.5 and last year 6.5 were both (for those who closely follow the team) easy money betting the over.
It will be interesting to see how the publicity around DJ and the 10 win season impacts the Vegas view. Seems like 8.5 would be likely, but the line may be set at 9.5 too. As money comes in how much will the lines change…..anybody’s guess.
I saw 7 wins predicted by one pundit …could be something like 7.5, which would be dumb.
9-9.5 sounds about right.
I’m optimistic about next season, and I can see it being a special one with a run to the CFP. But, I also think @WSU in Week 3 and Utah/UCLA are legit potential early season losses. After last season and the hype around the team heading into this one, I don’t think the Beavs are going to be overlooked in opposing locker rooms or be able to surprise teams as they have the past few years.
If they are 7-0 heading into the BYE week in October, then I think we can talk about the CFP.
On paper, they *should* be comparably productive on Defense and more so on Offense than they were in 2022, but maybe Speights, Grant, Gebbia (leadership), and Colletto are irreplaceable in the locker room and the team can’t play with the same confidence/production. Who knows.
What I really want to see is some kind of 60-7ish beat down in San Jose to open the season. Riley’s teams often improved greatly over the course of the season, and that would often carry into the hype for the next, only to fall flat with a loss to Sac State or Boise State early (leading to another season of gradual improvement and renewed hope/hype).
Want to see them show up and make CFP statement in week 1 and totally outclass a MWC team while making it look easy, that would make me a believer.
I wouldn’t mind a 60-7 beatdown but it ain’t happening
Interesting to see there were no immediate transfers after the spring game. But maybe the coaches haven’t met with all the players yet.
Hard to say who are obvious candidates to transfer. DBs, Oline and WRs are pretty deep so it might make sense for a guy to move on.
Ya but WR and DB there are still spots on the 2 deep up for grabs. OLB is real deep too. I think Smith is developing a culture where people understand their roles on the team. Obviously in this day and age there are bound to be transfers tho.
“I think Smith is developing a culture where people understand their roles on the team.” Very accurate. And he’s been able to build depth.
I also think some players appreciate that if they’re effective, they can reduce mileage and wear and tear and still get a shot at the NFL.
It seems like Smith is very good at convincing people to stay for playing time down the line. He also seems to have a knack for moving talent around when they are stuck behind really good players, but could meet a need elsewhere. I have been blown away by how happy he keeps the players.
Throckmorton seems destined for the portal, too
I would think he would be downgrading in conference size or division if he does. He may want to be on a P5 squad. A lot will depend on if Ben stays or leaves.
I’ll predict that there is zero chance that Nix and Penix both have better years than they each had last year.
Neither will have as good of offensive lines. I think it is more likely that they each take a slight step backwards .
I think you are right, especially in the case of Nix.
The usual hype around nike coupled with some heisman talk may lead Vegas to set the line at 10.5, certainly 9.5. Said before, there is likely easy money to be made betting the under.
Well, it will be harder too because teams have more game film of them and they won’t be as much of a surprise to opposing coaches anymore. Happens all the time to QBs who have a big year. Unless they play for a perennial powerhouse.
This^^^^. I think people don’t realize how much that film can make a difference. Oregon allowed a ridiculously small amount of sacks. How much of their Oline is returning on both squads?
An important guy who is not returning for the nike Oline is center Alex Forsyth.
He had a big part in keeping that sack number low.
https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/22GG1/traffic.megaphone.fm/CAD4634182790.mp3?updated=1682434730
43:10 they talk about Aiden, lots of high praise from a national recruiting outlet.
In terms of offensive production and what DJU adds to the mix: deep post, deep out route, legitimate play action, qb keeper, roll-out with double routes at depth, deep scramble drill.
DJ should be fine with touch passes to the flat and check-downs but I think his strength will be forcing the defense to honor everything 30 yards back from the line of scrimmage, which wasn’t the case for BG or Nolan. So defenses have much more space to cover, and will be forced to blitz, which creates holes for Martinez and company if diagnosed correctly. Let’s hope the offense clicks for him between now and fall camp and it all slows way down to a simple game of logic and anticipation rather than reactive.
In Coach M we trust, if DJ has time to let plays develop, defenses will have to honor the go routes from our speed at wr, and any kind of delayed hand-off becomes much more productive too.
I’m hoping to see play action and a nice arcing 60 yard drop in the bucket to Bolden/Gould reminding us of the DA/Haas days of old.
JS and Lindgren are looking at about a 4-5 year run of great qb play between DJ and Chiles, and they have all of the pieces in place around them to make it an epic run. I’d predict offensive numbers better than 2021, and defensive numbers better than last year which feels like a conference championship to me.
I’d love for that to happen, but if DJ and Chiles have that kind of success, Both JS and Lindgren are gone and we have a 2-3 year run. The grass isn’t always greener but money is.
Lindgren has one foot out the door. Smith isn’t going anywhere. “He ain’t done yet”!
I’m sure JS is already thinking about who will replace Lindgren. If Lindgren is talking to the media about other jobs, you can bet they’ve had honest conversations about it.
Im sure he does as well. They say coaches should expect it and always have a short list ready. Despite how people feel about Lindgren I think he’s done well and had the team near the top of the pac every year. He’s done so without any real talent at QB as well. You could argue that is partly because of him tho and that could be one of the knocks on him. He made a big turnaround right away with Luton tho so the jury is still kind of out. This year will be very telling with talent in the QB room and this much time to recruit and develop his guys. I think we can do better than Lindgren but we can also do a lot worse as well. I personally like the continuity. I trust Smith to pick a solid OC more than DC since it’s his Forte.
Zebras leaving
Wilner reports three of the conference’s top referees have accepted positions with the Big Ten. Along with Mothershed’s retirement this leaves 4 open slots.
A source in the officiating industry told the Hotline that the departing officials viewed the Big Ten as an enticing opportunity — the difference in salary isn’t believed to be substantial — and a chance to separate from David Coleman, the Pac-12’s vice president for officiating.
Worth a quick read.
https://www.ksl.com/article/50630144/pac-12-officiating-exodus-of-top-refs-leaves-pac-12-with-overhauled-crews-for-2023
So David Coleman is our new scapegoat? Cool.
If they suck here they’ll suck there.
They’ll fit right in!
If we lose our top ones how bad will the officiating be this year?
Ha! Jokes on the Big10 for this move…
PAc12 should raid the MWC for officiating crews and get a fresh start with internal operations.
Officiating and conference brass influences may be the only hindrance to the possible magical season in front of the Beavs.
Hopefully they don’t go crazy trying to push Colorado, USC and Oregon for ESPN.
It would be im the best interest of the conference to begin elevating other programs besides USC, Oregon…
B1G: Hey USC, we’d like to invite you to join our conference.
USC: Can we bring our own refs?
B1G: Um… maybe we can do some….
USC: We’re in!
Sedge’s summary of the Spring game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcDe2-tZAg
Some highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fMtPgP9GY
A more accurate offensive depth chart (IMO) by blitz.
https://247sports.com/college/oregon-state/LongFormArticle/Oregon-State-Beavers-football-Spring-Camp-2023-post-spring-camp-depth-chart-208992233/
Barnes out of the hospital. That’s great news. Hope he makes a full recovery.
Sounded very serious and more so when they release very little information.
Very fortunate to have an emergency doc at the event.
Higher ups are looking out for him
Amen
Murthy gets an amen, eh?
OSU’s giving day today, if yall have any extra cash you’re sitting on and want to direct it to a dept of your choice, still a couple of hours left.
Wayne Tinkle with donations to both women’s team and the band(!), big w for Tinks
Takari Hickle is already looking like a steal in the 2023 class. From a low division school in Washington and didnt even get offered by either in state school. Beavs saw the physical potential and offered him and that looks to be paying off. I’d say he’s well ahread of schedule if he’s already on the 2 deep in his RS Freshman season.
He looked fast in the scrimmage. His high school film was pretty sparse
I was thinking the same thing. I think he’s only been. Playing football for a little bit. A report when he committed said he had a crazy wingspan and hands the size of jj watts or something like that.
I recall Angry rated him very well when recruited. I’m looking forward to seeing Hickle play this year and suspect he eill be surprising opponents.
I gave him a high 3-star and wrote “I think this guy is underrated. Fast, physical, and finishes plays.”
2022 class, I think, not 2023?
You’re right, 2022. Redshirted last season
A 4* and a 3* CB leaving Ducks:
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2023/04/oregon-ducks-cornerback-avante-dickson-entering-transfer-portal.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2023/04/oregon-ducks-cornerback-darren-barkins-entering-transfer-portal.html
I’m generally not warm to the idea of former Duck players ever transferring to the Beavers, but OSU likely needs a CB. No mention of where these ate kids interested in going.
Blue coaching a 4*(?) prospect does sound good…maybe they are 2* and 3* prospects who got a Duck bump?
They’ll end up at Prime Time Academy. Same ethos and they have half their scholarships to fill.
Good point but i suspect their CB stable is pretty loaded?
God i hope the Beavers feast on Buffalo Burgers….
Talent is talent. Tyner and Quitoriano came from Oregon not too long ago. I’ll take anyone who wants to be a Beav.
Quitoriano was a Duck? I must have missed that.
Well… he was in high school.
It’s an understandable mistake.
They also had a fan favorite, nose tackle Sir Mells, enter the portal.
It’s interesting how many class of 2022 and 2023 guys they’ve had transfer out. Especially 2023. These are guys Lanning signed in his first class and he’s already telling them to leave to make room for transfers.
Lanning will implode the program in a few years. Peter principle in action. He is in over his head.
He’s better than Mario, but still in that mold of personality ahead of substance.
I’d still like to see us pursue Trejon Williams. I think he has Jordan Poyer type potential.
Came out of HS as a safety but most recently was listed as a CB at Oregon. Ball hawk who hits hard.
Listed as 5’11” 187lbs, so not the tallest/longest CB, but he makes up for it with athleticism and instinct
I do see a lot of OSU staff is following him on Twitter. Do you know if these are recent or follows from when he was being recruited out of HS?
I cant track follows the way i used to. Elon Musk changed twitter around to monetize queries that hit twitter API, meaning the program i was using has ceased to exist since they are now being charged a penny per inquiry.
lol… he’s going to start monetizing screenshots, next
Are you hearing anything about any of these guys visiting? Any follows from staff members?
Isn’t the portal window closing soon? When does it open again?
In the Dam podcast they said we’re currently 5 scholarships over the limit so something will have to give especially if they want to bring in some transfers.
One of your fellow AB readers has been tracking scholarships in a google sheets doc for awhile now, and he has them at 85.
I trust his thoroughness more than Angie’s. This includes up through Trey Lowe retiring last week, so it looks up to date.
Unless somebody can point out 1-5 missing names from this doc, I’m going with 85 current.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/14aiO9DPZKktzHAsY7xi5wN_lGUMBwZ33mCC-xJsz3FQ/htmlview
Maybe this comment will get lost in the thread but I do see some names missing (I might have missed them or they might not be on scholarship) but what about Hodgins, Tufaga, and Vickers?
Hey, good to see Jake Hedberg took over Carter Bahns old job at Blitz. He seems like a good kid and knows a ton about Beaver Football. Good hire. Angie can continue to coast by on the efforts of others.
He won one of our Pac12 pickem tournaments a couple years back.
Zach Holmes has transferred out. Was a PWO OLineman
Since he was PWO did he count towards the scholarship limit?
Saw OL Tyler Knaak is xferring from Utah. Beavs were in his top 5 along with USC, ASU and Virginia. He signed Dec 2021 so guess that makes him class of 2022. Took 3 official visits with the beavs.
A name was floated to me today as a potential transfer candidate to watch. Redshirt Sr. Paul Moala from Idaho. Was at Notre Dame before that. Looks like potential ILB depth. Keeping an eye on him to see if he visits campus soon.
https://twitter.com/PaulMoala?t=bE7mZ6j9EtAepyKku1f5TA&s=09
Musgrave passed over in the first round of NFL draft.
Top 3 round pick IMO, not necessarily a 1st round pick. I called this his freshman year and people got all over me.
There are a couple players chosen who should have been passed over, a couple others who are reaches as low as they are.
This is the time of year we rediscover why some teams continue to be miserable.
Anyone know about the guy the Jets selected? LB from Iowa. Seems athletic, but seems like a bit of a reach that high.
Iowa State
Not much of a reach–late first rounder, not middle. But they didn’t have another pick until early 2nd round, and he was the best value left on their board. High ceiling, not much downside. Should be able to at least play to his salary slot. Any OL they would have picked would have been a much bigger reach, at that point.
They do need OL, though. Expect a couple today.
As a Raider fan, I can appreciate that sentiment.
There’s no shame in a 2-3 round draft slot, nor 4-7, nor udfa for that matter.
But, I saw numerous folk discuss LM as a potential 1st rounder. I’m guessing sitting out most of your last year of football isn’t going to help push you up draft boards; not sure why anyone would think differently. Potential has cost plenty of teams in the draft too, see above referenced Raiders.
Ryan P**t, can you check your recurring PayPal donation? I am getting an error on that this morning. Was unable to reach you by the email on file, too. Hopefully you are still alive. Thanks!
I can’t believe Tinkle has been here almost ten years.
Career totals:
Overall: 127–158 (.446)
Pac-12: 58–110 (.345)
When can we try something new? I’d like to be able to watch basketball, but I’m not going to waste 2+ hours on this product.
Edit: it looks like he is under contract through 2027. Disaster. What is the buyout?
As soon as he gets his system in place, watch out!
No one is coming to the rescue to buy this guy out, fans, alumni and donors have forgotten OSU even has a MBB program. #sad
That Nvidia guy’s stock is doing very well. Why not sell a few shares and buy out Tinkle?! How is the potato salad market these days? Are the Resers still big donors? It would be an interesting post to update our best donors. I haven’t heard much on that front in years. If anyone knows who they are, shoot me an email.
Pat Reser is still pretty active but the next generation of Reser’s isn’t going to be as enthusiastic in terms of donating.
Nvidia guy donates for academics. Haven’t heard much for athletics.
Is Jensen Huang persona non grata, these days?
Are we not allowed to name him?
And yes, his company’s stock is doing fairly well. It makes me smile.
Too much money going into the stadium, at the moment.
I’m guessing there will be some discussions during football games with some hoi polloi about how it would be nice to, “have this sort of fan commitment for hoops, as well.”
I don’t watch college basketball anytime prior to March Madness. The overall product is not good. The product Tinkle puts on the floor is really not good though.
I watch it all the time. It’s a league that still has some rules.
It’s not nearly the same drop-off in team talent as there is from the NFL to the NCAA. But yes, some teams are bad, just like football. But watching hoops on the college level is at least or more entertaining than the NBA, imo. That can’t be said of football. It’s quite the opposite.
Yes. I do not watch the NBA, it’s incredibly boring and the “stars” get babied. College game will still give you good solid basketball.
College game will still give you good solid basketball.
WBB
Mostly not
I remember the overwhelming sentiment here was to give Tinkle a big extension after the Elite 8 run. I was one of the more lukewarm posters. Think I eventually said to give him another year or two… but in hindsight if they had just let him get poached that would have been great.
I think most were reluctant of giving an extension. However, the optics of not giving a coach an extension after a deep tourney run would have been very bad. What good coach would come after seeing the school not reward success albeit just one year?
The extension was fine.
It was the steep buyout clause that made many scratch their heads.
The Elite Eight was a fluke to be sure – it has had zero impact on recruiting. I will say though that Robinson bringing in Payton and getting the practice facility built made the program much better than when he found it after the Jay Johns experience. You can’t even say Tinkle at least graduates his players because most bail out of the program well shy of graduation.
CR also had to keep all the players from Jay John’s tenure.
And I mean he had to convince some of them not to drop out, just so they could get their grades up enough to take us off the list of possible sanctions. Nobody wanted that job, but he took the chance, and he was successful at both that and giving OSU a practice facility that a couple years later had people like Musselman and Howland wanting the job.
Say what you will about his actual coaching abilities–that were better than what we have now–but he pretty much brought OSU hoops back from the brink.
And then there were all these numbnuts who thought it was all political–alums and fans alike. Such a stupid time, on top of all the rest.
Another transfer out for OSU today. I believe he was a walk on
https://twitter.com/campbell_mcharg/status/1651965024855027712?t=lTmUCiq93qPWwA9wMcyXHQ&s=19
Unlike Deon Sanders, Coach Smith allowed Campbell to use the scrimmage highlight film to showcase his abilities.
This is what I thought coaches would release for film. Individuals drills and scrimmage film because it was public. Wouldn’t seem smart to let them show practice plays since that would give away information.
Any under-preferred crawl-ons we should keep an eye out for?
JK, sounds like the football program is doin relatively well to hold on to their preferred guys!
Feels good to have a good-great football program….if it takes the basketball program to be in the dumpster for the Beaver god to balance out with a football program of this caliber, then I am all for it! Las Vegas bowl was fun, looking forward to the next great adventure!!!!
Men’s basketball makes final 3 for guard from UT Rio Grande Valley. Avg 14 pts and 3 assists. Australian.
Edge has the ESPN FPI up. It doesn’t go game by game tho. Does anyone know how to look that up ot have a link. I’d be curious what they have their chances at in their games.
Gio Bernard retired today. I was always bummed he picked NC over us. I was hoping he would follow his brothers footsteps.
Who was the RB when he was at NC woods? He should’ve.
I thought his bro said on a podcast that a bag of money swayed his decision.
It was pretty well known that UNC was doing hinky things, at the time.
And then there was a whole NCAA case where Middle Tennessee got penalized for UNC giving out grades for imaginary classes… or at least someone besides UNC got penalized, because they sure didn’t.
I’ve always followed him and his career because of the Yvenson connection. Gio has always seemed like a good dude.
If you click on each games TBD it tells you ESPN FPI predictions. They’re favored in every game by quite a bit aside from Washington but still a win, Utah a slight loss but pretty much a toss up and then oregon is favored by a bit. Pretty fair analysis at this point. That would leave them with a 10-2 record.
D1 has beavs as a 2 seed in Charlottesville bracket. Way too early prediction but interesting. Have yucks and Stanford hosting.
Good things have happened when the Beavs are sent to UVA
Musgrave in round 2 to Green Bay. Ends up in one of the least proven QB situations in the league. LODB.
They are not going to throw as much with Rodgers gone. His upside is his athleticism and route running so I Hope his blocking will improve. Its great for him and its nice to see a beav go early.
A TE safety valve is a young inexperienced QBs best friend. Could be a big reason as to why they got him.
Then why didn’t he ever catch those passes for the Beavs? JS rarely focused toward the TE on offense.
I don’t blame JS and BL but the player who wasn’t making those plays deterred them.
NFL teams get blinded by measurables and potential rather than looking at a guys actual productivity.
Wish him well and hope it is a nice career but I’ll add a thanks for a 2 game contribution for his career: Utah at Home and Fresno St on the road. Beyond those 2 games I can’t recall a game he impacted beyond bone headed false starts, holding and drops.
Who’s claiming he caught passes? I don’t understand.
Highest OSU draft pick since *checks notes* 2014
Packer choose another TE. From S. Dakota State. 4 picks in the 1st 3 rounds and you grab 2 TE’S?
It sounds like the GM wants to flex both, not just run them as “standard” NFL TEs.
I’m surprised Cincy didn’t pick either.
It also funny, because I think the two of them became friends in the draft process.
Lineup for game 1 vs AZ includes: Weber at C, Dernedde in the 9 hole, and……DH Tyce Peterson.
No Turley
Sellers on the mound, hope he feeds off of Goss and manages 5+ innings.
Sellers with a very efficient 31 pitch inning. Walked 2 then struck out the next 2 to get himself out of the jam. Standard procedure. Get the bullpen ready by the 4th inning.
Just about nailed it!
Weekend, first real nice weather game, home game vs tough foe, “sell out”, yet we still can’t fill our baseball stadium with butts in all seats. We really do have bad fans overall compared to the SEC.
You’ve never been to Goss, but good try
I’m currently a student. I bet I make it out there more than you do.
I bet I make it everywhere more than you make it once.
Oh… you mean going to a physical location.
Yeah… you’re not too bright.
Tell us again how the SEC works, oh young wise student.
Bazzana robbed??
Anyone else think Bazzana was safe at second? No question the throw beat him but looked on TV like the tag wasn’t applied before he touched the base.
Anyone?
Sellers through 3 innings is at 59 pitches, he could make it past 5……..Dang, spoke too soon, he HBP and give up a double so runners at 2 and 3 with no outs.
Sellers in some trouble. 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. 67 pitches. Top of 4.
He’s a magician. Loaded the bases and gets out unscathed. Over 80 pitches thru 4. My God. It’s pitching by committee when he starts. I can’t remember an Ace avg 5 or less innings per game.
Sellers does it all himself. Weber looks like a lost little boy slashing and framing horrible.
It’s no wonder he loads the bases.
Moving Mason finally showed why he was normal 3rd baseman. Couldn’t read the ball to catch the fly ball.
Not gonna defend Wilson but Sellers is erratic regardless of who’s behind the plate. Think his longest outing this season has been the 6th inning. He’s usually done by the late 4th or into the 5th. It’s crazy.
They stole home on him. WTF
He looked happy heading into the dugout.
Surprised he didn’t get tossed. I mean, he’s at 100 pitches so no real harm. I’d be pissed to if I slacked off and had home plate stolen on me. Meanwhile, Zona starter on auto pilot so far.
You let the runner get a 40 foot lead off the bag at third what do you expect?
They stole hole on Weber. You don’t jump up like he did sellers has no idea where he was going. You let the pitch come in at that point and drive to tag.
Yes seller’s should have been more aware but I believe I heard he hates the pitch com.
He is very paced Pitcher hates to look down wants to trust his catcher. You can see they don’t jive.
Dernedde opts to throw to 1st for an out vs the lead runner force at 2nd. Mightve been close but think the force out was there. Hope it doesn’t bite us in the ass
To me, looked like no chance at 2nd, fortunately no harm.
On to the 3rd pitcher for the Beavs. Mejia comes in with runners on 1st and 2nd. Beavs have been very impatient at the plate. Zero walks and 6 strike outs. 4 hits on the night. It just has a feeling like Zona is going to bust this open. They’ve threatened multiple times during the game and I don’t know how much more we can duck and dodge our way thru the games.
As I type this, walk the bases loaded. 1 down.
Escape once again. Still 1-0 Zona bottom of 7. We earned our first walk of the night. Man on 1st, no outs. Zona starter at 88 pitches but no sign of slowing down.
Can pederson be the hero? Kane with a double and it’s 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. 95 pitches now for Zona starter. 1-2 count
He cannot. Pops up to 2nd base. That’s unfortunate.
Can Weber be the hero?
He cannot. Strikes out looking. Awful at bat.
Smith must have really pissed Canham off if he willing to sacrifice great catcher for Weber.
Going into the game, Weber was hitting .230 and Smith .188. Weber also has had some big hits in the last 2-3 weeks (3-RBI 2B at ASU, Grand Slam at Oregon), so I’m sure those factors are taken into consideration. That said, neither of them have been great, consistent, or dependable this year, at least not at the level of OSU catchers we’ve become accustomed to.
Those hits were decent but I don’t think it compares to the walk off from Smith to take the W vs usc.
Plus I think Smith is worth the lower BA for how much he saves your pitchers getting extra strikes.
Smith a great catcher? You his dad or something?
I thought it was his mom, but same same
Sorry man no I have no relations.
Do you watch him behind the plate?
You must be related to a duck?
Um… this is Oregon.
Families go to both schools.
You would know this, if you had been here.
Through 7 innings Beav pitchers have given up 5 bb, 4 HBP and yet the team with the top offense in the PAC has only one run on a steal of home. Baseball is a funny game.
The bat’s and the pitching can’t put it together at the same time.
Zona’s starter for tonight has been their mid-week guy until tonight according to Shotgun Spratling. Lol. Great for him, sad for us. Really a terrible job at the playe tonight for the Beavs offense. This is the Feb and March team. Can’t do shit. Strike out on 4 pitches. Weak contact. Time running out.
Oh God, this would be Zona’s first shutout since April 2022.
Goss gonna get ’em? 4 pitch bb puts 2 on with no outs in the b9.
New AZ arm has given up 7 er and 17 hits in 18 innings.
Like I said last week.
Goss is their only advantage
New pitcher. 20k to 5 bb. Can we do it? Need the bottom of lineup to come thru.
Kasper with a beautiful bunt. Safe at 1st. Bases loaded
Bases loaded with nobody out. Last of the 9th
Small ball, Kasper beats out SAC bunt……..looks like a real ball player.
bases jacked no outs.
And then pinch runner Reeder doesn’t look like a real ball player, sloppy baserunning but safe at third.
What’s Mitch arguing here?
Mitch must think AZ catcher did not step on home; looked pretty clear that he did, I think Mitch loses this one.
Seems like we had more to lose on that play at 3rd.
Beavs win 2-1
That was fuckin awesome!
Freshman comes thru! Pederson! Base knock scores 2 for the win!
Peterson and Bazzana the only beavs with more than one hit tonight; freshman is in pretty good company!
Zona’s strong suit was supposed to be offense, their weakness …….pitching……….not so tonight. They only got 3 hits, partly because so many bb and hbp!
On second thought, AZ pitching was actually pedestrian aside from their starter.
Had their chances. Stranded 10 tonight. Beavs pitching wasn’t clean but they got outs when it mattered. No Ferrer or Brown in game 1.
A downvote?……really?
Creek speaks truth and makes a good point about Ferrer and Brown being saved for later.
That’s a good thing. They’ll both be available tomorrow and possibly Sunday if needed.
Miiiiiiitch!
Yes, Miiiiiiitch a brilliant move to have Peterson DH tonight, only his 8th game this season.
As stated April 24th
Only advantage OSU will have is Goss.
They keep running Weber out behind the plate pitchers will struggle just like vs ASU.
Turley needs to be put on shelf for the season find him good spot to play this summer to get team at bats instead of swinging for the fence.
Macias and talt should be used to run if needed. Reader and Peterson get occasional bats at DH or big leads to get MCDowell, Guerra, Kane some rest.
This is only way they even have shot at post season they going to squeeze into Pac-12 tourney at 7-8 seed.
7-8 seed for the Pac-12 tourney? OK Mr Smith
Excuse me?
Who are you talking to?
Goss has not been an advantage, thus far this year.
Last night was warmer than usual, though.
Big win tonight. A loss would’ve been 3 straight and facing a 2nd series loss in a row, at home no less. Let’s get that series win tomorrow
Gonna take more than 6 or 7 runs to win each of next two. Now that we’re past the guy tonight I like Beavs chances.
Watched Colorados spring game. They look like a disaster already. Blocked kicks and blown coverages. Almost wonder if it was scripted or something. They’re going to have a hard time having enough guys that understand the system. They might improve the talent a bunch but I can’t see it working this year.
Shadeur has all the physical tools at QB. I think he alone will win them 3-4 games unless everything else is just an absolute unmitigated disaster.
They won’t compete for the championship, but they should at least be competitive and better than last year.
Calling they win 4 games.
We absolutely, positively, cannot afford to lose in Boulder.
I think 4 wins is a stretch. Although I admit I haven’t looked at their non conference schedule.
Ya I say over under is 2 games. Shedaur is going to have a hard time adjusting and have a mess of an offense with no one on the same page. It’s not like QB last year was the glaring problem.
Definitely why they pushed all those guys to the portal. Next year won’t be much fun for them as team chemistry will be pretty low but the following year is when they’ll make some noise. Deion is going to bring in some very good players, but we’ll see if he can coach them up. Need Colorado to be good or bring in viewers for the next media deal.
PAC12 baseball tournament moves to a pool format this year to reduce the number of games a team has to win for the title. Max 4 games vs 6 last year and only one game per day. Top 9 teams get in. 3 pools and with each winner advancing and top wildcard.
One flaw they have in there is that top 3 seeds would play four days in a row if they advance to the title game. The 4-9 seeds would get a day off if they were to advance to the semis. A small advantage for pitching staffs.
Currently Beavs in 5th place. That would put them in a pool with ASU and Arizona.
Explained. Sort of
https://pac-12.com/article/2022/10/18/pac-12-announces-change-pac-12-baseball-tournament-format
If correct, and I could be wrong…..
All 3 teams in one pool could go 1-1. In this case the highest seeded team automatically moves on to the semifinals.
What was wrong with single elimination? All they needed to do was add a 2nd site to avoid games ending after midnight.
Not sure I’m a fan of this format but I’ll give it a chance before I make a final judgement. Have to wait and see the schedule and how it all shakes out.
Most likely Cal and Utah won’t be participating.
It’s the PAC12…of course the solution is worse. Any revisions will create even worse PR problems for the conference. Tired of the perennial shoot yourself in the foot leadership of this conference. Likely timed with an announcement of a less than favorable media deal.
Games that go on until midnight, venue with 100 degree + temps, just utter genius all around.
And you can watch it all on PassionFlix!
My issue with it is this example I pulled out of my ass……
Per the article linked “Any tiebreaker will be awarded to the highest seeded team.”
Let’s say Stanford is the 2 seed, Arizona the 5 seed and Cal the 8 seed.
Arizona beats Stanford but loses to Cal. Stanford beats Cal. All 3 teams went 1-1. Stanford would be awarded the berth into the semifinals due to being the higher seed.
Arizona could still get to the semifinals as the wildcard but would need to be the highest remaining seed with a 1-1 record.
Does this seem like the best solution to determine a conference tournament champion?
Here’s an idea. A pair of 4 team pods. Double elimination. Just like a regional. The two pod winners meet for a single elimination championship game.
That’s what last year’s tournament format was. Double elim, single title game. This is just a format to reduce games.
And what was wrong with it? Other than games ending after midnight?
Use more than one location. Or start the first game earlier. Allow a flex day. Multiple things could’ve been done.
Instead, let’s go to pool play and add another team.
As I stated, I’ll give it a chance this year before final judgement.
Number of games. Had UCLA made the title game, it would have been game 6 in 5 days. Not ideal for pitching.
I am in the opinion of the tourney is dumb. It doesn’t determine the best team in the conference. Reg season figures it all out.
Dernedde goes 1st to 3rd on Bazzana’s single. None out Beavs on 1 and 3 behind 1-0.
Beavs come right back in the last of the 3rd. Up 3-1 now
4-1 good guys now. Bases loaded, one out in the last of the 4th
Guerra a 2 RBI single makes it 6-1. There’s your cleanup hitter taking what he can and not just up to swing for the fences.
Susac in to pitch for AZ. B4 1 down.
Several bunts today helping this offense get runs. I get it’s not the thing Mitch and co want to do but it applies pressure and helps create opportunities. Successful bunt to make the score 4-1 and the following batter, Guerra, gets a base knock up the middle to score two more.
Why say it’s not the thing Mitch wants? He does preach aggresive base running, seems small ball follows.
They’ve had an aversion of small ball this year. Very few and far between, even when they were shitting the bed for a month offensively. Pretty sure they’re not measuring exit velocity and launch angle for bunts.
Alex Austin selected by the Bills in the 7th round.
8-1 Beavs now
Kmatz having his best outing of the year. 8 k’s. 5 hits. 2 runs. Went 7 2/3 on 99 pitches.
Against the #1 offense in the PAC
While that may be true I’m curious what their road stats are.
I’m guessing padded since the ‘Cats are about to be 2-11 in road games this season.
Colletto goes undrafted, signs with the 49ers.
49ers got a bargain……….and several new MILF fans!
Perfect fit, he’ll find a way to get on the field and contribute
Niners Kyle Juszczyk is 32 and the highest paid FB in football. Niners probably looking to get younger and cheaper. Could be the perfect situation for Colletto.
Free Agents:
Kipper to Baltimore
Wright to Carolina
Lindsey to Seattle
Grant to LV
Colletto to SF
Bummer than Colletto and Wright didn’t get drafted
Wright was surprising. He’s got the prototype frame teams are looking for and stepped up his game a lot this past season.
Imagine what Shanahan could do with Colletto – the real question is if they have room on the roster for him. His versitility will be a strength though – special teams, emergency linebacker, third TE, blocking back, hell, third QB so they don’t have to put some guy out there with a busted wing.
Is Kipper being undrafted a surprise? Honest question.
No, he was not a prospect. Never made first or second team all conference
Guerra kind of a liability in left. Would Kasper not be a better option and have Guerra in right? Seems he’s more comfortable in the infield.
Harrison to Titans as udfa
First two outs in the t8 made by the maligned Weber and Dernedde.
Dernedde takes advantage of (not an overslide) overrunning cat, heads up play.
On to the b8, Cats have 3 outs left and need 5 runs to draw even.
Nice to see Susac putting in lot of work today, probably won’t be available tomorrow.
Brown is the man.
10 pitches, should be available if needed tomorrow.
Anyone hear anything on Mundt? Totally forgot about him but before the season started I thought he would be back by March or early April.
Not sure, but I seem to remember him being mentioned on a recent broadcast, maybe even warming up.
10-4 final and a series W
Crickets from Tanner Smith’s dad. Or mom. Take your pick.
Pretty sure most of not all parents have no clue about your page.
No crickets straight up facts.
Peterson DH. Kyle at SS doing awesome work.
Is his interpreter here? Sorry, I don’t speak downs.
he’s an annoying little turd that doesn’t know much about much, but that was uncalled for.
At the moment…
Beavs have moved percentage points ahead of ucla and usc into 4th place in the conference standings.
Also 32nd in RPI
Colorado has gotten 2 Alabama transfers so far. I think everyone knows he’s going to be upgrading the talent at Colorado but will he be able to coach all of these egos and create team chemistry and get them to play together is the real question. How long before a bigger more attractive school sees the talent he’s bringing in and wants them at their school. I think it’s just a matter of time before FSU comes calling.
I feel bad for all of these kids caught up in it. The ones that are being forced out and the ones susceptible to his snake oil pitch. Reminds me of Taggart.
Why would FSU come calling? Norvell is doing well there.
In three years, Sanders has almost as many winning seasons as Taggart had in 13, and he has one more ten win season.
Getting all angsty about him does you no good. It is what it is.
I’m talking about personality wise. Jackson state and P5 football is an entirely different beast. He should’ve gone undefeated with the talent gap he had.
FSU is his Alma mater and they have high expectations. All it takes is a couple of down or even average seasons for the fan base and donors to make his seat get hot. It doesn’t have to be FSU either. It could be Any former blue blood program with deep pockets looking to return to their former glory days that can outbid colorado.
It’s all fluff, is what it is, manufactured just to hate on something or someone.
Who cares?
Their disarray is our benefit, unless we do something irrational, like try and apply some imaginary sense of loyalty to college football.
Enjoy what we have, and forget the noise.
The noise is the noise.
A rundown on all the pac players drafted. Utah, ucla, usc, and Oregon are top teams that lost a lot of talent. Should help the Beavs to leapfrog these teams and take their place at the top of the conference.
https://pac-12.com/article/2023/04/26/tracking-pac-12-2023-nfl-draft
No Huskies got drafted.
Ya I noticed that. They have an opportunity to make the same move as OSU. Obviously the Beavs lost a lot too but no one that can’t be replaced by the next man up aside from Colletto. He was so important in keeping drives alive. I do think with the offensive line, the RBs , and DJU they should still be able to pick up 3rd/4th and short at a high clip.
The winner of the UW-OSU game in November will likely be in the conference championship game.
That’s quite the jump to be making. We have very tough games in UCLA and Utah. @Wazzu is also always tough for some reason. Not to mention that if it isn’t decided by the UW game, Quacks in Eugene is also a hard game.
The word you’re looking for is “leap”, and no, it’s not a leap looking at both team’s schedules.
Likely means probability.
I would accept UW as a likely participant. UO is not likely, even after making UW not likely.
Utah is likely. UCLA is not likely.
OSU is likely.
UO is probable, at best.
So what you are saying is that, probability wise, we are either 9-1, or 10-0 going into the UW game? I don’t think that is the most likely event.
I see both teams being 9-1, assuming UW doesn’t shit the bed in East Lansing.
The point of the comment was that those top teams lost a lot of talent in the draft which could open the door for the Beavs and Washington. Wazzu lost their best defensive player to the draft and grip to the portal not to mention coaches as well. I don’t think he was saying they wouldn’t still be tough just maybe not as good as last year.
yeah… okay
Going for the sweep, Miiiiitch brings on Tanner with his .188 avg. Otherwise same lineup with Lattery on the mound.
Rough 2nd inning for Lattery. Gives up 2 run hr. A double. A walk and a hit batter. Somehow limits it to just the 2 runs. Beavs up to bat down 1.
Why leave Lattery in? bb and HBP to start the t3
Not sure. That seems to be his limit. 2 or 3 innings per outing. And he just gives up another home run. 5-1 Zona
Shades of too late Nate, Riiiiich waits till Lattery gives up a 3 run HR to make it 5-1 cats.
Rich is definitely not fast on pulling the starter. Seems like he did the same thing for Lattery vs ASU. Scored like 5 runs with 6 batters or something along those lines.
Miiiiitch and crew are blowing the sweep. We need a few of them at this point.
That didn’t age well.
You seem to have your finger on the pulse of all things osu
lol
Beavs not quite done yet. Kasper with a 2 run dinger in the 8th. 7-5 Zona. 0 outs in the bottom of 8th. New pitcher coming in for the Cats
2 on no outs. We got a new pitcher coming in for Zona. Still 7-5. Bottom 8.
Huge double by Forrester! Bases juiced with 2 out and 2 strikes! Clears them all. Bazanna turned on the jets and goes 1st to home on the double. Bottom 8 2 down. 8-7 Beavs
Big country forrester!
Is there anyone other than Bazzana you’d rather have going from first to home on a double in the LF corner?
Beavs up 8-7, after 8 full.
Top of lineup due for AZ in 9th, Brown on to get 3 outs.
Wow. Brown gives up a 3 run hr to their right fielder. It was his 3rd hr of the day! Maybe put him on 1st.
Coming down to Tanner and, maybe, Dernedde.
Wow, Tanner ties it……his relatives will soon sign in here, I’m sure.
He had a good day, can’t slight him, but yeah his ‘folks’ are too much
Tied up! Runners on 1st and 3rd 1 down. Dernedde at the plate. Tries to bunt and pops it out of play by the 1st base bag. Weird. 10-10 bottom 9
Dernedde strikes out. Bazanna is intentionally walked for a 2nd time. Can Forrester be the hero in back to back innings
He can! Beavs win 11-10. Wow, wow, wow a sweep
Dernedde with one hit all weekend? Ugh.
Dernedde was good for an error a game and a lousy hitter. Now he is just a lousy hitter. It is an improvement.
Miiiitch for COTY?
Blue blood programs don’t get COTY awards unless they rise from the dead. Bloomquist is the front runner
I was mostly joking. I don’t really watch college baseball outside the Beavers so I got no clue who should win. But COTY is always who exceeded pre-season expectations the most kind of award. Beavers were picked like 6-8 weren’t they?
Beavs were picked #3 in the PAC12 preseason poll.
But yes, it’s usually who exceeds expectations
Crazy, didn’t seem like they had enough talent to be rated that high preseason with all the losses from last years record. Guess they get the benefit of the doubt being a p12 powerhouse though.
Miiiiiiiiitch is the man!
C’mon angry, get off the bike and admit that Miiiiiiiitch has psyched these guys into being a pretty gutty crew!
Annual bowling trip already scheduled for 2024
Wasn’t pretty, but……Got the sweep, end the weekend all alone in 4th place and up to 27th in RPI at the moment.
Big civil war game on Tuesday at Goss
Boydsworld ISR has the Beavs at #18.
Team has guts but supers look like the ceiling this year.
Considering how they started, supers would be amazing
they would be
A W tuesday vs swoosh should elevate RPI and ISR, right?
Wins tend to do that…
(sorry that was an easy lob and dunk)
So, I get an assist?
Swoosh been hot lately, win Tue worth more than some.
Brown did get 3 outs but gave up 3 hits and 3 runs………still gets the win.
Baseball is a funny game.
All in all the season is going pretty much as expected, right? Inexperienced roster started the year slow, but has surged in the second half. Not talented enough to be a top national seed, but good enough to be in the pack, for sure.
pretty much.
anyone with different expectations just hasn’t been paying attention… to baseball… for a long time.
Lots of people on here want to dump on the coaching staff, but Micah McDowell’s turnaround has been pretty amazing. This is a guy who was basically unplayable the last few years because of his anemic offense. Now he’s one of the team leaders in OPS and has an almost 1 BB:K ratio.
Both Micah and the staff deserve a ton of credit.
It’s been great to see Micah bring it this year. He had a great freshman season then definitely struggled the last 2. Next couple years will be telling to see how all these young guys continue to grow.
Struggles were likely mental when added to physical…..Parker seems to think he still has lingering shoulder issues-arm not as strong as before injury.
Good point about watching for continued growth from lower classmen.
The coaching staff was pretty high on Micah last year. I remember Mitch telling my pops to watch out for him. But then Boyd, Meckler, Melton happened. Big credit to Micah for sticking with it!
Damir Collins in the xfer portal again. Wonder if there are some issues there? He couldn’t break the rotation at Idaho State? Wish him luck.
Another Juco CB scheduled to take an official visit towards mid May.
https://twitter.com/AshlyndBarker/status/1652737776721207296?t=sIvpBKyBwnADttazO4QGGA&s=19
Listed at 6’3″, 200 lbs, claims 4.4 forty…4.0 GPA, offers from New Mexico, Jacksonville State…
I wonder what his story is? Listed at 6’3″ 200 LBS, claimed 4.4 forty, 4.0 GPA. Few offers, New Mexico, Jacksonville State…
Teams are going after transfers more than JUCO players since the portal and no sitting out became the norm.
My guess is it’s more risky to sign a JC guy because of the difficulty transferring for academics.
There was another JC offer today at CB too.
https://twitter.com/BennettWalker99/status/1653099762927939584?t=GsRr1_BbShtXgx3DAPBKAw&s=19
These are some good sized corners they’re offering…6’3″ and 6’1″….
Are they for the coming season or 2024?
They’ve had success in the past with it. It would be nice to see them improve their prep recruiting of DBs.
Bennett will be on an official visit to OSU this weekend
Tuesday weather in Corvallus:
A 20 percent chance of showers before 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 69. Light and variable wind becoming northeast around 6 mph in the morning.
You just invented a new marketing slogan for OSU and city of Corvallis.
CorvallUS
All proceeds to my early retirement fund….
D1 moves Beavs to #15
Beavs have less conference games left to play than the teams ahead of them. Unlikely they can leap all 3 but possibly finish 2nd or 3rd in conference by the end.
I am fairly pro-Mitch as they come. But, why does he seem to challenge the hot hitters in crucial at bats? Last night with 3 home runs to the right fielder. The super regional last spring they kept giving the marshmallow man opportunities. Its happened more than that… Is it an analytics thing?
My prediction is football goes 8-4 or around there. People need to realize that the luck o the Beavs usually comes along. We’ve lost a lot of starters, and while we finished with 10 wins and could had more, we could have also very easily have lost the Civil War, Fresno State, and Stanford game, which was a completely lucky win. In this age of college football I feel as though 10-2 or 10-3 is the ceiling for this team, and that’s not a bad thing. Not every team can contend for conference titles or more.
They didn’t lose a lot of starters and the ones they did there is plenty of experience behind them. That 10-3 team was with a team hamstrung by QB play and Bray’s first year. It could’ve easily been 12-1 as well. The QB room went from empty to full. The biggest question mark is secondary depth the atarters should be fine especially with an improved pass rush. I think 10-2 is much more likely. This should be the best offense and defense combo since Smith got here.
I’m still sticking with 9, unless a big-time corner and receiver come in.
13 wins is the ceiling because they’re not winning a game in the CFP.
41-9
41-9 ain’t happenin against Bama or Georgia
It also wasn’t happening against Notre Dame.
Those fan bases are parochial enough.
You don’t need to reinforce the dumb.
My Brother has been fired from every job he has had in the last 30 years. He is always waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it does. That kind of thinking is from the Riley years and earlier. Anything can happen, they can replace all the refs with alums of who we are playing. RE James Rodgers at Arizona. They beat a top 10 team last year completing 6 passes. Personally, I want those 2 losses to Udub and the spoiled children. So hopen for 11-1 in regular season play.
Who’s we, person who is extremely lacking in all things sport.
The breaks kind of go both ways though, USC and UW could gave been wins.
I think 8 wins in ’23 is possible, and should be the minimum. I also think 10-11 wins is possible depending on QB play.
D1 speculates if Beavs finish strong they could host even without a top 16 RPI.
I wrote this on the 17th after the USC sweep, I think it holds mostly true. They didn’t win the ASU series which hurts there chances, but if they win out finishing the year 20-10 in conference, and based on a lack of West Coast hosting spots they could host.
“Its the 200+ RPI losses (New Mexico/Cal Poly) that eliminates any chance, only potential saving grace would be the lack of West Coast teams with hosting resumes other than Stanford. If you want hold out any hope to host a regional, they’d have to go 10-2 the rest of way in conference play (win all series), have a midweek win over Oregon and no midweek losses to teams with 100+ RPI team to be in the conversation.”
If that’s the case they’d have to go 11-1 imo
Sweep Utah
Win the series vs UCLA down there
Sweep W Carolina
Beat Oregon and Portland 2x
They can’t lose the series to UCLA and reasonably expect to host.
Right now Stanford and Oregon have inside track to be regional hosts and I don’t see that changing.
Stanford has a huge series this weekend vs ASU
41 wins far exceeds my expectations at the halfway point, when we were 18-10.
I was thinking 37, just to keep the losses in the teens.
But then we have the tourney to deal with, as well.
That many wins would still take a certain amount of consistency that I really haven’t seen yet.
You can’t be cardiac kids forever.
That being said, a couple players seem to be stepping up.
So we’ll see.
And for the record….
Right now UCLA and USC are playing their way out of the tournament.
USC just got swept in Seattle and their RPI has fallen into the 60’s. They have a chance to get back on the right side this week (non con with UCLA and Oregon at home this weekend).
UCLA has watched their RPI drop to mid 30’s with some series and midweek losses. I did read they are decimated from injuries.
Right now UCLA would probably be in but USC would be on the outside looking in. But fuck both of em.
PAC could be a 4 bid league when it’s all said and done.
So what’s up with Mundt? Getting him back right now could really make this team dangerous going forward with the offense starting to find a groove.
I’m still confused as to why Austin is drafted and Wright signed as FA. Obviously Austin went pretty late so perhaps not much of a difference per say, but I thought Wright was by far our best corner. I do like Austin’s tackling ability but he was almost always a few steps behind or a yard or 2 off the receiver. Coverage seemed to be the weak spot in his game. Awesome to see the amount of beavs get signed though.
The thumb surgery may have been why
Austin is a prototypical zone corner.
I think he was hurt by his brother being over drafted in the 3rd round by the cowboys and not living up to those expectations. Plus from what I’ve read he didn’t run at either the combine or OSU pro day so not having a recent 40 time on record hurt. Somewhere said 4.35 but I doubt that.
Glenn Taylor lands at St John’s to play for Rick Pitino
He’ll be in the tournament next year, like every other player that Tinkle drives away.
It’s pretty likely, given who Pitino has managed to recruit in a short time.
We’re not winning more than 9 football games. That’s just the most likely reality.
You mentioned this above. Why are you repeating it? Are you just trying to incite people?
Not according to ESPN. They have them at 10-2. You might go let them know.
ESPN has UO at 10-2?
Are they using tarot cards and hoping really hard?
Just kidding. I understand they have zero clues about West Coast football. Most “experts” seem to think the USC D will put them in what they pretend is a college football playoff.
Just a duck trying to troll Beaver fans out of his own insecurity.
What he is trying to say is that his ducks won’t win more than 9 games. Classic misdirection because he knows the Beavs are going to be the juggernaut of the north.
Ducks win 9
Beavs win 12
UW wins 10
WSU wins 7
Panic in Eugene.
sad
no need to even play, at this point
we would just be a loser state, in football, nobody worth watching
Come on 1k!
Miiiiiitch
What about him?
ECHO:
C’mon angry, get off the bike and admit that Miiiiiiiitch has psyched these guys into being a pretty gutty crew!
Maybe if they could have held a lead against ASU, I’d call them gutsy but playing down to a Zona team and requiring 2 walk offs at home isn’t gutsy. Does anyone have any confidence that this team could go on the road and win a regional? Outside of a couple wins at Oregon, which they probably slept in there own beds, this team doesn’t have a quality road series all year. Have to win on the road to earn being called gutsy.
Again… home has not been a plus factor for us, this year.
Why does everyone think this, when the numbers say differently?
They are 17-4 at home vs 10-8 away.
Look at stats since conference play began.
Until USC, I would have said all of their road series, including Stanford, were better games than their home stands. Even at ASU, they put up some offensive numbers, only to come home to be erratic on Friday night at home.
Admittedly, that home record will look even better, at the end of the year. But we look like a better team on the road.
In conference play we are average more runs on the road, but our pitching has been awful. We are giving up almost twice as many runs on the road. In conference the average score on the road is 6.3-6.1 and at home it’s 4.9-3.3. Now the road schedule has absolutely tougher than our home schedule, but the original comment I was replying to was about this team being “Gutty” and I think that is determined by performance in the toughest circumstances. This year that is on the road versus ASU and Stanford. I think we fell short in those circumstances. I know it is only 2 games but if we one a game at Stanford and closed either of the final two games at ASU, I’d feel differently about this team chances in the postseason.
In conference play we are average more runs on the road, but our pitching has been awful. We are giving up almost twice as many runs on the road. In conference the average score on the road is 6.3-6.1 and at home it’s 4.9-3.3. Now the road schedule has absolutely tougher than our home schedule, but the original comment I was replying to was about this team being “Gutty” and I think that is determined by performance in the toughest circumstances. This year that is on the road versus ASU and Stanford. I think we fell short in those circumstances. I know it is only 2 games but if we one a game at Stanford and closed either of the final two games at ASU, I’d feel differently about this team chances in the postseason.
I’m not extrapolating to the postseason. I don’t see many paths for a deep run.
I’m just saying we looked like a more engaged team on the road, before USC.
Maybe it is the quality of opponents… or their hype in the media?
Maybe they figured out they could beat a “ranked” team, after that? Or maybe they figured that out at PK, and it has just carried over.
The tournament is going to be a roller coaster. Last two series have been full of lead swings. Does it start with the Friday night starter causing the good bullpen arms to get used up early and often?
So the new unsubstantiated Pac12 rumor is that Tulane is the new clubhouse favorite to join the Pac? Although Rice is also being mentioned.
Could make for a fun road trip, I suppose
https://twitter.com/TheMontyShow/status/1653135765323542528?t=lzyszjH8QE3r_WlNnexj0w&s=19
PAC-12 still emphasizing academics? It’s clear who’s running the show. I guess that’s good for the universities; not good for their athletic programs.
Both schools kind of make sense in that they’re strong academically in major metro areas/recruiting hotbeds outside the current footprint. Neither is historically good in anything other than baseball, though, and neither grows the “brand portfolio” strength at all.
Sounds like Arizona and ASU… without the recruiting part.
And then they were able to afford real coaches and facilities.
There’s no way a Lute Olson ends up in Tucson, if they weren’t elevated by the Pac.
No way they pass on SoCal markets/SDSU to go get
Rice though. It may be a compromise to add 2 brands that are nationally known brands and 2 that are academically strong. I’d say that means they are looking at 4 teams to add-
I’ll guess:
SDSU
Houston or Boise St
Rice
Tulane
I’m not sure any combination makes up for the loss of USC alone.
Sorry… who suggested we pass on SDSU for anyone?
I’ll go troll that moron.
Houston is already Big 12, and they have a ton of work to do to get their football facilities up to snuff. If Houston had Rice’s facilities, they would have been a P5 school decades ago, but there are high schools with better facilities in the area.
Tulane has some outstanding football and baseball uniforms. I would not mind seeing those every other year in Corvallis
It’s funny that Wilner finally acknowledged that UNM exists.
I love watching hoops at the Pit. It’s up there with Pauley, Allen, Gill, Palestra for great hoops viewing… when there’s great hoops to be viewed.
Sightlines on any arena with a tiered deck automatically die. “Sitting on top of the action” seems to be further away, when it’s really not. It’s about the same distance, but the relief makes the players look more like ants, not players.
Regardless, UNM, CSU, SMU, Rice, SDSU, and Hawai’i are the only schools left in the west with BCS teams and academic standing–Tulane and Tulsa, if we want to expand a little more east.
I still say Hawai’i would be better off being football only, and Gonzaga would be a non-football member.
None of it matters, if I’m not able to stream games. Linear TV is going to be dead just in time for the Pac to make themselves beholden to it beyond its death.
Inching….closer….to….1000….comments….
Who’s it gonna be?
Will AB break before we get there?
Stay tuned!
No gratuitous posts.
Just to increase.
Post count.
Hey all, how is your day going?
995
I mean, fine. Thanks for asking
Wonder how many “1000th!!!” comments we’re about to get? And only 1 will get that distinction.
Unless somebody goes in and deletes some posts. But nobody would do that….would they?
Let’s go Beavers!!!
Now let’s go for 2,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DbVlLVbLgE
Good for Memphis Grizzlies already deciding to move on from trash talking Dillon Brooks. NBA is already an unwatchable product but his type makes it even less watchable. Wonder if his big mouth ends his career.
Same goes for Draymond Green and other big mouth floppers who can’t just play the game but need to ruin it with the antics and extra garbage.
What are your thoughts on Gary Payton? He was a major trash talker Do you hate him too?
Dillon Brooks intentionally hit Donovan Mitchell and LeBron in the nuts, in the same season. He’s a dirtbag.
I’m not saying draymond green and Dillon brooks aren’t dirt bags I’m just saying if you’re talking about trash talking. Oregon state has Gary Payton
GP in his heyday likely would be the same to me. I’d take Jordan and Bird on court demeanor over GP or any of these current guys. Steph Curry is a celebratory trash talker and he drives me crazy too. Curry is the best shooter in the history of the game and has to showboat shimmy for making them. Low class just like the rest of the league.
These current players need a balance like the old Pistons to just mail them for nonsense either flopping, jawing or showboating. Too bad the league is so ridiculous and would rather showcase a bunch of me-mugging prima Donna’s and flopping no talent drama queens.
The league has taken on the personality of LeBron and lost the dignity and poise of Jordan/Bird/Magic.
GO was the outlier in his day, but it is now league wide and insufferable.
The flopping and acting are absurd and difficult to stomach. Anytime someone is touched they act like they took a ninja sai directly in the eye, Curry being a frequent academy award wannabe.
I did love the Karl/Payton/McMillan/Kemp/Schrempf et al Sonics…fun style of ball, but, 2nd place to Bulls…and an all time flop to Denver.
Payton’s trash talking doesn’t compare to Brooks antics and Ja’Mont’s friends’ antics…and even Payton in his prime wouldn’t be allowed to play D in today’s league and his 3 point shot would need a lot of work.
I think it’s funny that you invoke Rick Mahorn in your rant against Draymond Green… and also that you think there wasn’t any trash-talking in the 80s.
Dillon Brooks is just another level of crap.
Not sure what happened to the kid, but he’s not even trying to hoop, at this point.
Ya but Ducks are divas
Lead off walk then a HR to right. Ducks lead 2-0 with 1 out in top of 1st. Thorsensen on the mound. Let’s hope we get weak pitching too.
Bazanna stays hot. Rips a single. Steals 2nd. McDowell singles and drives him in. 2-1 ducks.
Our pitcher needs to pay attention to runners on base. Guy on 2nd is a good 8-10 ft off the bag and Thor has such a slow delivery that the guy is more than halfway to third before he’s even released the pitch. And 3rd time in a row and they double steal. Not even close. Smh
Ducks error on a Bazanna grounder scores 1 and then Forrester gets a base knock and beavs lead 4-3. 2 hit batters, the error and a base hit. Not a great inning by the quacks.
Side note, after watching Sunday’s starter and our midweek guy tonight, how fucked is our starting pitching next year? Kmatz, hunter and lattery? No freshman have been pitching enough innings this season to be considered in the rotation that I can see. This could be a rough starting rotation next season. Lattery has great stuff for 2 innings then everything unravels. Hunter is still relatively unproven in mass quantities and who knows how he looks coming back from injury. There’s some real questions around the pitching next year for sure.
Only chance is bringing in two stud starters via the portal or juco.
This might end up being the longest game in history. We’re 1.5 hours into this game and there’s still 1 out left in the 3rd. Beavs have had 4 straight doubles. Bazanna being the last one. He’s been ridiculously hot. 8-5 beavs.
9-5 Beavs in the 4th.
Neither team pitching worth a shit. Might take 20 runs to win.
Mejia going to change that.
Guerra with a Homer! Didn’t he have 1 last at bat?
Why the fuck did they take Mejia out?
I don’t have the link but New York Post has blurb abt Glenn Taylor Jr being prize recruit for Pitino. Oh well.
Could Bazzana be a candidate for player of the year in the conference? He has the best hitting percentage on the team and seems solid on defense. I rest my case.
Good win! FTD
Good win.
Do all the yuck batters have to have at bat antics? Squat and touch the ground, yoga pose, head jerk, like wtf, get in the box and bat you fuckos.
Enjoyed the wave by Ferrer to the yuck bench at the end.
Was that why the yuck skipper looked so butt hurt during handshakes?
#FTD
Not sure. Things did seem a bit icy there between the skippers. Maybe he wasn’t happy losing 3/4 matchups this season?
Apparently it was indeed Ferrer…
“The emotional game did not end without drama, however. After Ferrer polished off the last out, striking out Drew Smith on three pitches, he glared at the Ducks dugout and delivered a few choice words.
Oregon coach Mark Wasikowski took exception to Ferrer’s taunts and exchanged words with Canham near home plate as the coaching staffs shook hands after the game. The coaches had an extended and animated conversation that ended only after their assistants sidestepped them and shook hands.
When asked later about the postgame chat, Canham took the high road, refusing to divulge details.
“Just having a conversation,” Canham said. “I mean it’s competition. Guys are going to get fiery from both sides and both of our jobs are to take care of our guys and our attitudes and our dugouts. Just touching base there at the end.”
-per Olive
The Nikegon dugout chatters so much.
It’s like listening to a sputtering leaf blower.
Damn, i thought the Beavers baseball was 4-0 v. the ducks this season.
Football CW win and baseball series win though..
The batting antics are metrics.
It gives them time to catch and send signals.
It also gives the D time to read them… all… game… long.
Beavs up to 23rd in RPI.
Absolutely cannot lose to tbe Utes this weekend. Has to be a sweep
Dropped to 24th after posting…..
If anyone needs to know why the RPI system is flawed and stacked in favor of southeast teams?
I give you Georgia. Now 23rd in RPI with a seller 25-20 record and 8-13 in SEC play.
No shit its easier to get 4 teams to Omaha when you have 4-5 top 8 national seeds and 7-8 regional hosts.
How many road games you guys actually play out of conference? Weak sauce.
Suck
Every
Cock
Pretty solid win against another ranked team.
The miiiiiiiiitch hating has really fallen off lately now that the team is finding its stride.
Well, remember the haters will still have Tinks to pick on.
“Waaayyyyynnnne.”
I never know how the intonation is supposed to go with the drawn out name. Anyone?
It’s hard to hang onto the “N” sound with any force. Focus on the “AYYY” part.
Just say Wayne, stomp your foot, and shrug.
Concerning WT, is it really ‘picking on him’ though? Seems more like well deserved criticism rather than the nit picking posted here about Canham.
It doesn’t help that the NIL system has overwhelmed him.
He should take some of his money and hire a couple advisors to gain some professional insight on how to market and focus revenue better. It’s not enough to just be a nice guy and tall.
Good point…
Yep…the whole miiiiitch rant was another embarrassingly bad take by angry. lol
NiceBeaver, looks like official visits are picking up in June. Are you concerned about the number and rate of visits, recruits, or you think Beavers are fine for this time of year?
I’m not concerned. Program is on the rise. Things always pick up in June, and we’re hosting quite a few players. Plus several recruits seem pretty interested in OSU. I’d imagine those commitments start rolling in during June.
This year is a little different in that we arent solely focused on getting a QB in to kick start the class since we already have a solid QB room and Chiles appears to be the future at that position. And having Chiles should help make us attractive to pass catchers.
Don’t a lot of incoming players start in the summer session?
I know they have an official matriculation in the late summer, but I thought some started earlier than that, just to get on campus.
We might be talking about 2 different things. Several of our incoming class of 2023 players will be starting school in June.
But in addition to that, there will be several class of 2024 recruits making official visits to OSU in June.
And speaking of QBs, there is a QB included in that group, with other offers to Minn and UW.
https://247sports.com/Player/Dermaricus-Davis-46113741/
They’re sort of different things.
I was thinking the timing is intentional, to get the summer session with the veterans and the newbies all being on campus for when recruits visit. All the energy is at its height at the time.
“Favorites and Dark Horses:” cliche with mostly standard picks, but at least the Beavers getting some national attention after 2022. Mention of DJ, photo of Silas Bolden:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2023/05/03/college-football-conference-favorites-dark-horses-after-spring/70174656007/
It never ceases to amaze me that aTm continues to get hype, after all these years.
You’d think they rehired Slocum and still had a bunch of Sherrill recruits.
And Beavers #17 in ESON’s list post soring:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/36313407/updated-spring-2023-college-football-top-25-power-rankings
Maintaining some media “mindshare.”
Including beating the Ducks on April 9th, Beavs are 12-2 since then and have scored double digits 9 times and are averaging 9.2 runs per game. For comparison, the top offense in the Pac is averaging 8.3 runs per game on the season but Goss is much less hitter friendly park. They’ve scored double digits 15 times with 3 weekend series to go. Last year they scored double digits 12 times in the regular season. When they won the title in ‘18, they scored double digits 14 times in the regular season. With adjusting for the change in bats back at the beginning of last decade, this is an unprecedented offensive run in OSU baseball history and basically doing it completely without what was expected to be their top freshman bat in Turley.
If the bullpen hadn’t blown the last 2 games against ASU they’d be on a 15 game winning streak. If they end up hosting a regional, this would be a pretty amazing turnaround. Unexpected but goes to show how good this coaching staff is. Quite a few players were virtually unplayable last season that are key pieces offensively now and just crushing it.
Imagine how good this team would be with a better starting rotation.
Really it just shows how thin the margin is at the top of college baseball and why surprise teams reach Omaha. Different outcomes in 4 games (ASU, WSU, Stanford and Nevada/New Mexico) and this team is ranked in the top 10 and we are talking about being a national seed. The reason I included Nevada/New Mexico is I believe the 2 loses to 200+ RPI teams hurts more than 1 loss to ASU or 2 loses to Stanford when comparing resumes to other top teams.
I envision a scenario where we keep winning, but don’t receive a regional host and the committee chair says is based on more quadrant 4 loses and our non conference strength of schedule.
And it is a stacked deck already with 6 out of top 8 ranked from SEC with little to no justification beyond “but it’s the SEC”…
Proves again how steep the climb was for Casey to get 3 championships and how obvious it was that the 4th was stolen by an umpire in favor of the SEC…
All very good points. Hard to play that what if game though. We’ve had like 4 or so walk-off wins that I’m sure the other teams would say “if things had been different”. This team has definitely decided to peak at a good time and if starting pitching could last longer in a game we wouldn’t need to score 9+ runs to win these games.
It’s really quite incredible how bad this team was offensively 3 – 4 weeks ago. Despite this great record the last month, we’re still in last place in the Pac for batting avg. 9th in slugging. Last in strike outs. We have moved to the middle of the Pac in rbi’s, hits and even moved up to 4th in HR. There seems to be much more emotion and fire with this squad now which is translating to more confidence. Great to see!
Colletto makes the SF Chronicle…nice!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/undrafted-jack-of-all-trades-jack-colletto-18073343.php
I like the way the Athletic lists his position.
Ferrer wave at the end of the game.
Parker thinks the bad blood after the game was Mitch not liking swoosh coach calling out Ferrer; thinking Mitch was making it clear that he (Mitch) would deal with any out of line move by Beav players.
The quote from Mitch seems to support Parker’s interpretation:
When asked later about the postgame chat, Canham took the high road, refusing to divulge details.
“Just having a conversation,” Canham said. “I mean it’s competition. Guys are going to get fiery from both sides and both of our jobs are to take care of our guys and our attitudes and our dugouts. Just touching base there at the end.”
Any lip readers want to weigh in after viewing the clip?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1653632503239049222
I’m hearing the Beavs are at 89 scholarships right now. Anyone know if this is correct and when the number has to be at 85?
well… there’s going to be crossover with early enrollees and outgoing seniors
nobody wants to inhibit a player’s ability to advance academically, because scholly limits are hard and fast
also… depends where you’re hearing it
some people can’t count
Just watched the film of one of the QB targets in the next cycle,
https://www.hudl.com/profile/15832798/Dermaricus-Davis
UW, Minnesota, WSU have offered as well. He visited Arizona but does not appear to have an offer.
A pretty good looking prospect. Overall I’d give a low 4 stars. 6-4, Great arm, quick release. A pocket passer but athletic enough to extend plays. Similar to GB but a little quicker. Started one year so a late arrival to the cycle. Not as much upside as Chiles but a very solid prospect. He led the team to the Southern Cal playoffs. Big schools will come for him when they strike out on their top targets.
Set for a June official visit so looking like the top QB target right now
Bleedorange,
I’ve been trying to contact you at your email on file. Did something happen? I am getting a returned email.
Must have the wrong email.
I haven’t seen any but my email is right when I sign in.
https://www.espn.com/college-baseball/story/_/id/37409279/alabama-fires-baseball-coach-brad-bohannon-amid-betting-probe
Interesting. Alabama fired their baseball coach for involvement in some shady betting?
I remember seeing a headline a few days ago about “suspicious” action in betting on an Alabama baseball game. I guess betting on college baseball is probably like investing in penny stocks? Not a lot of volume so it’s theoretically easy to manipulate?
I’m actually kinda curious if we can hit 2k.
Is Nuc gonna nuke the site when this thread reaches 2k?
Wow. Just got to checking the spam folder. Nuc still threatening to take down the site and claiming he can access it through a VPN, yet he’s nowhere to be seen. Hm. Nuc, you’re better off just writing me an email and apologizing for being a lunatic. That will get you further in life than the vindictive stuff.
What happened with him? He was a long, long-time commentor here and always seemed very calm, rational, and level-headed to me.
He wasn’t a “long time contributor”
I’m guessing it’s related to AB’s turbulent days as a political forum. He was pretty outspoken about his views and tended to post in volume when certain controversial topics came up.
He also had some chronic health issues he occasionally mentioned. That can creep into all aspects of your life. We all have our battles.
I’d true, that’s not surprising
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2023/05/oregon-state-forward-raegan-beers-among-22-invited-to-usa-basketballs-americup-team-trials.html
This should be hood for her continuing development!
Or good, too…(just kidding)
D1 now has Beavs as 2 seed in Fayetteville regional, quacks and Stanford hosting.
Arkansas does not like seeing that
Strategic clickbait matchups…
Dennis Dodd and anonymous Big12 official saying that ESPN is out for PAC12 deal, not interested in broadcasting any PAC12 games in a premium package.
I say good riddance to them. ESPN decided to go all in with SEC and Big10 a long time ago.
Klaikoff needs to pursue the alternative media opportunities and not buckle or go begging to ESPN.
Streaming seems to be the future, solving how it can bring revenue down visibility would be the master stroke that has eluded the conference for 20 years.
*revenue and visibility…
The PAC-12 will almost certainly solve how to bring revenue down
COTT
OK, the thread can die now haha
Baseball with a must not lose series vs Utah. Ideally come out and smash them in game one and take any aspirations of an upset out of them.
RPI will start to decline after this week even with wins and only one road series left. Only UCLA has a decent RPI.
Will need some upsets elsewhere to keep the RPI from dropping too far. Might gain a little bit if they make the finals of the conf tourney.
Wonder how this affects Arizona’s QB room this year. Somewhat similar to the Heimlich situation a few years back, where Jayden DeLaura and another dude who plays for Wisconsin were accused as minors of sexual assault.
Just recently, both players settled a civil lawsuit out of court with the victim.
The age at the time of the incident make the situation tricky to navigate. Neither player is technically “guilty” of anything according to law. So does Arizona continue to play DeLaura after this has gone public?
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Also, time for a new thread(baseball series related maybe?)
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I think it depends on the media in Arizona. It was the Portland media (mainly Canzano and his unfathomable hypocrisy) that propagated inaccuracies about Heimlich and essentially forced OSU to keep him from playing, as well as ruining his career.
I watched the news broadcast story and there was a bit of difference between them and Heimlich. These two idiots bated their victim to a private location were they assaulted and raped her… they plead to a deal as they admitted to it via text messages. Seems to have worse circumstances involved then the Heimlich case. As a dad of girls I’d…
Yeah I’d be fueling up the backhoe.
A Morbark could come in handy
ESPN article about the numbers of transfers at Colorado. It says 71 outgoing transfers and only 35 incoming so far.
By the way, Oregon has had 44 transfer out since the end of the season, 2nd most in PAC12.
Both schools will hopefully struggle with any kind of team chemistry once the losses begin…
I can’t decide if Sanders is a snake I’m salesman or a stand up guy who is just being brutally honest with the players.
I lean towards a bit of a shady guy who can get away with tampering because no one wants to be the administrator who turns in Prime for cheating or be accused of racist jealousy at his success when you question why so many transfers from all
Over the country all of a sudden have an interest in Colorado football.
I call bs on all of it.
Really you can’t tell?
He got five star kids at Jax State, and everyone pays players, now.
Every coach wants their own players to restart a system, and he cut the ones he didn’t want.
Not sure what your issue is. Is it that he doesn’t hand out participation trophies for spring practice?
Turley starting as DH, Smith at C, and Sellers on the mound. Always a question on how the first 3 innings will go for Sellers even if the opponent is down in many stats.
UPDATE: Turley a 2 RBI double (scorer changed to single) makes it 4-0 Beavs. Turley gets a few moments at 2b before inning ends, wonder if he is aware of history with the very sensitive ump out there at 2nd?
Same old Sellers, takes 54 pitches to get through the 2nd; giving up 4 runs.
Tied m2.
UPDATE: Riiiiich finally faces reality and pulls Sellers after 91 pitches with 1 down and 2 on in the t4.
A pretty sad stat line for the guy some expect to start next Friday vs UCLA.
Rough outing for Sellers
Nothing new there.
So wherever they go for the regional you have to assume they will lose game one.
What a dumpster fire. Sellers was awful. Errors left and right. Utah leads it 10-6 in the 4th
MIIIIIIIITTTTCHHHHHHHH
MIIIIIITTTTCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Need to be easily sweeping these kinds of teams.
Seems like only pitching is holding this team back now.
I’m out. That’s game. Pathetic.
Sellers seems like a good Sunday guy. What an awful start. This team can rarely put both sides of the ball together.
Pitching like Peter Sellers….
The worst Friday night starter we have had in forever!
For a program built on dominant starting pitching, this has been hard to watch.
That’s “chief inspector cluseau”
Beaver broadcasting should have a IV drip with anti depressants ready to stick into Mike Parker for games like these.
I appreciate that he gets frustrated. It’s much more relatable.
How does Sellers stay in long enough to give up 9 runs? Egregious coaching for that at least. The rest of the game has the look of a team thinking the Utes would just let them win…
But, but he strikes people out!
Dorman isn’t alone in putting too much emphasis on getting K’s when a pitch-to-contact approach without HBP and BB gets more reliable results. IMHO
On the bright side, ducks lost to usc. Unfortunately that’s a better loss than we’re facing here to Utah. On a Friday no less. Beavs had 2 on 1 out in bottom of 8 and had back to back strike outs.
Eh, a Ducks loss doesn’t help or mean much if the Beavs lose too.
Hutcheson seems to field his position very well.
Brutal. Absolutely brutal. Our starting pitching is gonna be rough next season. We’re truly becoming the Mariners. We can win but we gotta score 15 runs.
Anyone else find it kind of disappointing that Dorman/Canham went with Rhett Larson first out of the bullpen, instead of one of the better relievers? It was 7-6 at that point, and Utah went on to score their remaining runs (except for maybe one?) while he was on the mound. I don’t know, it just sort of feels like they were already conceding the game by not going with a more proven arm in a 1-run game. Either that or they were banking on the offense to keep pace with Utah.
Did we use some of them on Tuesday perhaps?
Finally managed to catch some of the Spring scrimmage.
Wow; even with a shallow eyeball, our QBs unit look much improved in terms of technique & fluidity — very promising once they settle w/ playbook and dial in rapport with other units.
Noted excellent completion by Jermaine Terry II (84), who I see was a recent transfer from Cal? And was highly recruited out of high school. If he manages to win starting position with others, could see TE unit w/ bigger role in passing offense this season.
Keep an eye on his blocking. He was the worst rated blocking TE in the country last year on PFF.
Uh oh, forgot you can’t say anything negative about baseball here…
Why not?
Don’t conflate saying something relevant about baseball with most of your ideas.
I’m gonna guess you’re a player that got cut in the fall? Although that might be giving you too much credit.
Since when? Cranial rectal inversion much?
Utah gets a 3 run HR from a guy who has only hit 1 HR prior. 3-0 Utes after a half inning.
Tanner makes the final out, catching a foul straight back; interestingly he didn’t discard the mask and made the catch one handed with that big mitt.
Guerra ties it with a one out 3 RBI HR, his expression crossing the plate was controlled and “all business”, shows he’s been there before……nice to see no over exuberance.
Our starting pitching is not good. Jesus. 2 hr given up to a guy that had 1 on the entire season? Christ.
Miiiiiiitchhhhhhhhhh
Who is in charge of scouting opponents? Seems like the pitchers have no feel for how to pitch to certain players, or just throwing very predictable pitch sequences.
ASU and Utah both having batting practice off OSU pitching. At least the offense is scoring 10/game during the same stretch.
True, but so far even scoring 10+ has left them at 1-3 vs ASU and Utah. We can’t win the boat races
If USC hangs on to beat Oregon, Beavs will head into their final series against a struggling UCLA squad in third place if they win tomorrow. That’s a successful year to me. Starting pitching has been a mess lately and it’s time for a change. Sellers for me is so inconsistent and struggles to pitch deep into games. Him and Ferrer should switch roles imo. Ben has the stuff and control and looks to be hitting his stride and he has started before. Sellers would excel as a dominant bullpen arm that only has to see a lineup two times through at the most. They have more depth in the bullpen than they had last year and the rotation is where they need help.
Not sure if anyone else heard it but man, Parker is more critical of Gavin Turley than I’ve ever heard from him with another player. Feels like every time he chases a pitch or takes a good pitch he’s got something negative to say. Not sure what the deal is. I’ve liked what I’ve seen from Gavin lately but it’s a work in progress. Still think he’s gonna have a big postseason moment.
I don’t. Other than the first couple weeks of the season against mediocre pitching? He’s been nothing short of disappointing, shown zero improvement and been a strike out machine.
“Parker is more critical of Gavin Turley than….”
At the other end of the spectrum is Parker’s praise of nearly everything done by Dernedde.
I’m not down on Kyle as are some here; but you gotta admit he’s had a hard time at the plate on average. Kinda nice to see he is up to .243 but still, more K’s than hits. Gotta appreciate his D.
Poor Nike loses out on Bronny. It always seemed to be a USC-tOSU race, anyway. Not surprised he chose to stay in LA.
Who cares?
I believe Zeriah Beason may be playing for Hutchinson CC this season. Wonder if grades were an issue at both OSU and WSU?
Sounds like it, but it’s somewhat puzzling. He wouldn’t have been able to transfer and enroll at WSU if he was way out of whack with academic progress, but he was sidelined for unspecified “eligibility issues” before the start of the season. Maybe he was taking summer classes that he needed to pass in order to be eligible for the season. Something’s funky if he’s still got classes he can take at community college after two full years and a summer at OSU/WSU. I liked him as a player his Freshman year, he had a lot of potential.