They’re talking about Kwan evolving into a five tool star this year. And the clock on Bazzana is about two months, and the fans expect him to be in triple A.
These are lofty expectations, and I hope they all come true.
This means he has a better NIL offer as he “reopens” his recruiting. Lol as he knows exactly where he’s going. Good for him and a negative for the Beavs
Dorman should have been fired immediately but OSU powers that aren ‘t’ are rubbing their chins, trying to look intelligent and speaking blither. It was the players who endured the raucous heckeling – should’ve been Dorman in a stock.
Singer 2-run double off the wall, turley a double, 3 consecutive singles but Reeder thrown out at home trying to score in a shot into left field. 6-6-0 b2.
Singer intentionally walked to load bases to get to Weber previously struck out 2x and looked silly, 0-2 count on 2 ridiculous 64 mph curves and next pitch Weber laces a double to the wall to clear the bases. 9-2 b4
Arquette, Turley, and Weber top of the lineup, Adam Haight dh batting seventh.
Macias and Caraway 8 and 9…..of course.
Talt sits.
interestingly, Macias is the only batter who swings from the left side.
3-2 Beavs as Keljo gets a stroke out with the tying run on second to end the game. The previous batter barely missed a 3 run hr to LF but died at the warning track. Hawaii led the country last year in ERA and is #18 in the nation this year and I had no idea their pitching was that good.
Sad news. Oregon has lost 2 of their top recruiting targets to rivals UW and now Ohio State in recent days. Fans are disgruntled and saying something is “off” with their program’s recruiting after both players were thought to be locks for them.
Hope you’re all able to enjoy the rest of your weekend
t7, down 5-0.
Due up: Reeder, Macias, Caraway………Reeder and Caraway have the only two Beavs hits so far, so naturally Reeder will be ph’d for.
UPDATE: Playing for a matchup, Miiiitch pinch hits for Reeder, but the same thought doesn’t apply to Caraway. Results: Jones flies out for Reeder, Caraway grounds into a dp….
Now, Miiiiitch has shown that he realizes Caraway’s weakness on D by subbing him out late in games, so it’s apparent that Miiiiitch is clinging to the hope that Caraway can get back to his very early season batting performance. How much longer will he cling?
Absolutely pathetic….to shutdown the Beavs is all pitchers need to do is throw off speed breaking stuff and the beavs might as well be swatting at flies while wearing a blind fold. They won’t get out of s regional if they even make the playoffs
“The 73-year-old coaching legend is looking to hire a PR specialist in lieu of Hudson, and has been in talks with former Bears VP of communications Brandon Faber for several months, according to ProFootballTalk.
The PR hire would help manage both Belichick’s new role as head football coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his public image, which was badly bruised by Hudson’s cringeworthy PR moves.
Belichick appeared on CBS Sunday Morning last week to promote his new book, but it went viral for the wrong reasons after Hudson, a former cheerleader, interrupted to shut down a question about how the couple met.”
Death, taxes, and Miiiitch’s teams having a late season fade with multiple batting slumps. The hallmark of great coaching is your team gets better and improves as a season goes on. My memory may not be totally correct, but I don’t remember this ever happening with Canham’s teams.
Let’s be unbiased. Does anyone here genuinely still believe that we are top 10 team at this point? We are still riding the media giving us credit for the Casey years. We’re not being dominant with a very easy schedule. I really think that if this team was in the SEC, they’d be around .500.
I’d put us around 20-25. Possibly one of the first few teams out of the top 25 now.
My postseason prediction continues to be a regional exit currently. This team has no consistency. If they aren’t hitting homers, the offense doesn’t exist. Pitching raises my blood pressure nearly every inning as well.
This schedule is much more difficult than the Pac 12 has been for the last five years.
But no, we’re not top 10 right now. 20-25 is far too low, but about 15 is right. And watching a not top ten UO lose to a Kent State in the Supers again won’t make any of it better.
We could easily beat anyone in the country, yet we choose to do this.
The annual overreaction thread after winning a series. This is clearly a top 10 team talent wise. Consistency is the toughest part of baseball. I don’t mind a slump right now. The key to the CWS is qualifying. Which we look like we are set to do.
Lmao, I guess I am supposed to say them losing one game to a decent Hawaii team means they are the worst team in college baseball, with the worst manager too?
That also means the Dodgers are the worst team in the MLB, because they lost to the Braves last night.
I hope folks realize how much Casey was criticized on here when he was actively coaching. Warts for days! lol
Let the false narratives begin! After all spring football complete, USAToday’s Preseason ranking of NCAA DI football:
Current PAC:
WSU #86
OSU #105
Old PAC 12 Members
UO #8
ASU #23
USC #31
Utah #33
UW # 52
CO #55
UCLA#59
CAL #92
UA #96
Stanford #115
Future PAC Members
BSU #19
Texas State(?) #74
CSU #77
Utah State #93
SDSU #100
Fresno State #102
So, in a (admittedly meaningless poll), the perception is that this coming season OSU will be the worst football program of recent, current, and the upcoming PAC iterations. Ouch. The only meaning in this is perceptions that take hold in popular media and viewers/readers.
It’s interesting to see that UCLA and USC don’t even figure into top 25 relevancy anymore. They actually have to earn it now. Only UO, BSU, and ASU are perceived at this point of being top 25 programs.
I do think Bray could use this as “Bulletin board” material.
The Beavers will surprise IF the OLine can get healthy and play to a solid “B” grade.
On the bright side, OSU would be improving by at least 80 spots in the rankings if they cracked the top 25. Bray could win 9 games if he resurrects the defense, and us any semblance of an offense.
Time to break out the pocket schedule game!
Is 9 wins impossible?
In Hawaii watching the Beavers play. All the do is look for the home run. They all swing for the fences every time. So far this weekend it is either been strikeout or pop up. They don’t look to go opposite field or up the middle they look to go home run. And the wind is blowing directly to right field hard it would take a lot to get one out of here
This is a top 50 team maybe top 40. They don’t get well enough they don’t field all that great and they’re pitching is too inconsistent. I hate the SEC but they could not compete in the top half of the SEC. They Feast on week pitching and struggle against anybody that is decent on the mound
This is what the SEC does too. A couple of teams just do it pretty well consistently. And the hottest bats in the end win.
If you’re complaining that disciplined and balanced teams are more our identity than what baseball has become, I agree. But there aren’t 40 or 50 teams better.
We’ll just have to wait and see if they can put it back together, after the hangover.
And the more I watch this team play I do not believe they’re very well coached. Mitch might be a great guy along with all the other coaches but this team is missing something that I think it is leadership
Wow, Caraway just swing at a pitch that hit 6 ft in front of the plate. He got on first base because it was such a bad pitch to catcher couldn’t handle it
Weber 3 run shot, 7-1 beavers as it looks like they’ve finally have broken out of their slump with 3 big flies tonight. Aube they read some of my comments earlier and got pissed. Lol
Jacob Kreig flashed some leather tonight stealing two hits on scorching line drives that he dove to his right to snatch. AJ closes the door on Hawaii 7-3 as Hawaii used 9 pitchers tonight. Weber had himself a series with three HRs, I think two doubles and like 9 RBIs. 3 out of 4 in Hawaii was a pretty solid outcome against a pretty solid Hawaii team.
USA Today MLB draft projections:
1. Washington Nationals: Ethan Holliday, INF, Stillwater (Okla.) HS
It will be a fascinating home stretch for Holliday, the Nationals and a handful of pitchers bullying their way to the top of draft boards. Washington GM Mike Rizzo’s pitching-first chops will be challenged by the everyday excellence Holliday – bigger and with more projectable power than 2022 1/1 and older brother Jackson – can provide.
2. Los Angeles Angels: Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State
The Angels’ ever-dire need for pitching and GM Perry Minasian’s penchant for quick-to-the-majors guys intersects with Arnold, a 6-foot-1 lefty who has dominated ACC competition with a WHIP of less than 1.00 and just three homers allowed in 55 innings. Not your prototypical top five power pitcher, but a lefty who can pitch off his fastball and has the profile of a rotation anchor.
3. Seattle Mariners: Aiva Arquette, SS, Oregon State
This might already be too far for monster prep right-hander Seth Hernandez to fall, but the Mariners have made their bones drafting and promptly developing college pitchers. This time, they roll with Arquette, a 6-foot-5 shortstop with considerable power (16 homers, 1.173 OPS) and discipline. Recently inspired an opponent to play a four-man outfield against him.”
The 2024 draft lasted eight picks before a high schooler was selected, an unprecedented run of collegians. This year, the teenagers take the power back. Schoolcraft just turned 18 last month and at 6-8, can touch 97 mph on his fastball. He’s an excellent two-way player but his projectability on the mound is obvious and the Marlins swing big here.
Cleveland doesn’t draft until 27…no Beaver projected there:
“27. Cleveland Guardians: Max Belyeu, OF, Texas
A thumb fracture ended his regular season after 22 games, but Belyeu was putting together a strong junior season – hitting .358 with a 1.107 OPS when he went down at the end of March. But teams certainly saw enough of his hit tool – he produced 18 homers a year ago – and a return in the postseason for the No. 1 team in the land could produce some helium prior to draft day.”
D1 baseball has OSU #10 in the RPI rankings that doesn’t include last night’s win. I doubt that’s going to hold up after the road series at Iowa. Beavs are putting on a lot of travel miles from Portland to Hawaii and then to Iowa so I would expect they will have some heavy legs this weekend going into Iowa.
BTW, I just saw tomorrow’s game with Portland has been cancelled. I wonder why? Lol
The entire Iowa series is on big10+ and they have a pretty solid production. Apparently, Iowa has one of the better pitchers in the country so that’s not good news for the on again, off again offense OSU offense.
D1 has OSU #7 RPI, and that does include last nights win.
That surprised me, but playing on the road vs RPI #66 Iowa isn’t, in and of itself, a sure fire serious hit to the ranking.
Sweep the series and bet the Beavs remain in the top 10 RPI; take 2/3 and maybe stay top 15.
Iowa leads their (weak) conference and has an ERA 1 full run better than the Beavs; they also are allowing 1 full hit less per game than Dormans guys.
Yeah, the on again/off again offense of the Beavs is the most obvious story but if D isn’t solid it just makes for a higher hill to climb.
Ducks lost out on the #1 ranked, 5* QB in the 2026 class to Georgia. Ducks fans were certain he was a lock to become a Schmuck QB but not so fast as he ends up a Dawg. Now duck fans be like, well, we didn’t really think he was going to sign with Oregon and we’ll just find another guy to replace him. Lol
The Big Ten Conference had just over $928 million in total revenue and distributed about $63.2 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its 2024 fiscal year, the conference’s newly released federal tax records show.
However, the new records, along with documents and data released by three Big Ten member schools in recent years strongly indicate that the conference’s revenue for its ongoing 2025 fiscal year will increase to somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, with the new TV deals taking full effect and the additions of UCLA, Southern California, Oregon and Washington increasing its membership to 18 schools. The Big Ten’s document was provided by the conference on May 6 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports.
The Big Ten’s per-school distributions for fiscal 2025 seem likely to be around $75 million for all except Oregon and Washington, whose shares are being phased in over seven years.
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All of this keeps – and, at least for now, stands to continue keeping – the Big Ten ahead of the now-16-school Southeastern Conference in terms of total revenue and per-school payouts. The SEC released tax records in February that showed $840 million in total revenue and average per-school distributions of about $52.5 million to the 14 schools other than newcomers Oklahoma and Texas. The SEC also is on a path toward at least $1 billion in total revenue for its 2024-25 fiscal year.
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Iowa state board of regents budget documents from this past July show that the University of Iowa was projecting $75.2 million in “Athletic Conference” revenue for fiscal 2025.
A University of Wisconsin athletics department budget presentation to a university athletic board committee meeting three weeks ago projected “Conference” revenue of $74.7 million for fiscal 2025 and just under $82.6 million for fiscal 2026, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
The Big Ten generally provides its longest standing members with equal amounts. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, respectively, joined the conference, their shares were scaled up to full amounts over a period of years. UCLA and Southern California, however, are scheduled to receive full shares immediately while, according to an Oregon athletics budget document for fiscal 2025, Oregon projects $54 million in “NCAA/Big Ten” revenue. (Another Oregon document from September 2023 said the Big Ten’s “media deal with Fox, NBC and CBS will pay both UO and University of Washington each an average of $32.5 million a year for the first six years and that amount should more than double when the two schools receive a full share of Big Ten media rights revenues beginning in the 7th year.” But that TV revenue will be supplemented by money from other Big Ten sources such as the College Football Playoff and Big Ten championships.)
Even using slightly lower amounts as benchmarks — $70 million to each of 16 schools and $50 million apiece to Oregon and Washington, that projects to a little more than $1.2 billion in total Big Ten distributions for fiscal 2025. And, in recent years, the conference has passed on to its schools about 95% of total revenue. That would put its total revenue for fiscal 2025 at just under $1.3 billion.”
Suck it SEC, you “poor” bastards…
Geezus, what is the PAC shooting for in a television deal? $20-30M per school?!
I got a preview of Teagan Scott,South Salem starting catcher, as he hit a solo shot and think he had another hit vs Sprague. Sawyer Nelson, headed to LMU, blasts 3 hrs, the last one trailing 8-6 in b6 that was the winning 3 run HR 9-8.
I can’t believe Canham didn’t go after Nelson too as this kid really can hit. Well, at least Scott is going to be a beaver.
“The Big Ten Conference had just over $928 million in total revenue and distributed about $63.2 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its 2024 fiscal year, the conference’s newly released federal tax records show.
Those figures represent a 5.5% increase in total revenue and a 4.5% increase in per-school payouts compared to those for fiscal 2023 due to the beginning of new television agreements.
However, the new records, along with documents and data released by three Big Ten member schools in recent years strongly indicate that the conference’s revenue for its ongoing 2025 fiscal year will increase to somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, with the new TV deals taking full effect and the additions of UCLA, Southern California, Oregon and Washington increasing its membership to 18 schools. The Big Ten’s document was provided by the conference on May 6 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports.
The Big Ten’s per-school distributions for fiscal 2025 seem likely to be around $75 million for all except Oregon and Washington, whose shares are being phased in over seven years.
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All of this keeps – and, at least for now, stands to continue keeping – the Big Ten ahead of the now-16-school Southeastern Conference in terms of total revenue and per-school payouts. The SEC released tax records in February that showed $840 million in total revenue and average per-school distributions of about $52.5 million to the 14 schools other than newcomers Oklahoma and Texas. The SEC also is on a path toward at least $1 billion in total revenue for its 2024-25 fiscal year.
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Iowa state board of regents budget documents from this past July show that the University of Iowa was projecting $75.2 million in “Athletic Conference” revenue for fiscal 2025.
A University of Wisconsin athletics department budget presentation to a university athletic board committee meeting three weeks ago projected “Conference” revenue of $74.7 million for fiscal 2025 and just under $82.6 million for fiscal 2026, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
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The Big Ten generally provides its longest standing members with equal amounts. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, respectively, joined the conference, their shares were scaled up to full amounts over a period of years. UCLA and Southern California, however, are scheduled to receive full shares immediately while, according to an Oregon athletics budget document for fiscal 2025, Oregon projects $54 million in “NCAA/Big Ten” revenue. (Another Oregon document from September 2023 said the Big Ten’s “media deal with Fox, NBC and CBS will pay both UO and University of Washington each an average of $32.5 million a year for the first six years and that amount should more than double when the two schools receive a full share of Big Ten media rights revenues beginning in the 7th year.” But that TV revenue will be supplemented by money from other Big Ten sources such as the College Football Playoff and Big Ten championships.)
Even using slightly lower amounts as benchmarks — $70 million to each of 16 schools and $50 million apiece to Oregon and Washington, that projects to a little more than $1.2 billion in total Big Ten distributions for fiscal 2025. And, in recent years, the conference has passed on to its schools about 95% of total revenue. That would put its total revenue for fiscal 2025 at just under $1.3 billion.”
Remember, while the substantial increase in revenue looks impressive, the former PAC12:traitors also have substantially increased travel costs that eats into that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. So it would be interesting to know what their actual net revenue is as opposed to gross revenue after travel costs are deducted from the gross revenues….at least for the first 6 years until they get full shares.
It’s all going to blow up in five years, when everyone but the ACC is up for new media deals. And even they significantly reduce exit fees at that point.
Does anybody know the reason why the Portland Pilots game was canceled?
I’m guessing it’s a bi-product of the jet lag after playing the Hawaii series, but also no reason was listed. Just that it was mutual.
Pilots also had reason to cancel, this from the story in the big zero: “…The Pilots, meanwhile, face an important three-game series this weekend at San Francisco. Portland (20-24, 11-7 WCC) sits in a third place in the West Coast Conference standings,…….The conference series carries more importance to the Pilots’ postseason hopes — which hinge on a WCC tournament championship — than a midweek matchup in Corvallis.”
Makes sense, just surprising it stayed on the schedule so long, since fans plan around their personal schedules around these games too.
OSU traveling to Iowa this week can’t help. That’s a pretty big swing in time zones for the team this week.
Does the fact that the Iowa series is considered “neutral” hurt the Beavs post season positioning? Game is in DeMoines (roughly 2 hours from Iowa’s home field), so it’s not exactly neutral even though technically it is.
I didn’t realize the game wasn’t at Iowa’s home. A road win is a little better than a neutral win, right?
Just Win! Glad Iowa has RPI in 60’s and not 90’s!
Sorry NB. Reading and posting from bottom up and saw you posted the games were in Des Moines. Now if it would only quit raining out here. St Louis averages around 40” of precip every year. Picked up just under 11” in April alone!
Interesting if true and it makes me like Bray’s style even more, don’t give in to prima-donna behavior.
Having committed to Oregon State early in the process, Bell elected to re-open his recruitment Friday, but insisted he was still strongly considering the Beavers and would still be taking his official visit in May.
On Monday, Oregon State removed that option.
“Oregon State (canceled) my visit, so I won’t be visiting anymore,” Bell said.
Reference it? Mike will do the complete history of the song! :) Parker really is an amazing announcer. Having grown up with Bill King in the Bay Area, I haven’t heard another announcer do a better job in all three sports, and he is a lot different in all three. Baseball is his joy obviously, but so solid in hoops and football as well.
Anytime you start taking him for granted turn into a Ducks game. Jerry Allen seems to do zero prep on the opposing teams during football season and the Duck voices that do basketball and baseball sound like frat boys – though I have to think if the Ducks have a college radio station, those students are little more professional.
So Iowa is #1 in the Big 10 at 21-6, and all that gets them is 202 SOS? What a shitty league. The Beavs should be ashamed of their subpar performance against that league so far this year. If they lose this series, they will be under .500 against the Big 10 for the season. Not good.
So Texas Tech NIL collective founder and billionaire Cody Campbell and Nick Saban are going to fix college sports. Perhaps their objective work will inform a Trump Executive Order. Whew! Order and equity are on their way, no more advantages for the richest programs. Looking forward to the Beavers competing on a level playing field!
Any executive order on NILs would be nothing but a meaningless document. President’s don’t have the power to create laws. Not how it works. Trump can write whatever the fuck he wants, it won’t bind anyone to anything.
So the Schmucks have played 33 home games and only 15 on the road? Wow, that’s a pretty loaded home schedule. Uncle Phil doing his best to keep the ducks relevant.
The former Utah Utes quarterback and longtime college football player announced Wednesday he is medically retiring after suffering a hand injury during the 2024 season. He said he was advised by two orthopedic physicians he won’t ever be able to play football and is seeking a third opinion as he will undergo surgery.
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Rising lost the quarterback battle to start the 2021 season, but after a 1-2 start, head coach Kyle Whittingham turned to Rising under center. The Utes found momentum with Rising as the starter, finishing the regular season 8-1 and earning a spot in the Pac-12 championship game. In the contest, Rising led Utah past Oregon for the school’s first Pac-12 title and first Rose Bowl appearance. He was named a Pac-12 first-team selection with 2,493 passing yards with 20 touchdowns and five interceptions, as well as 74 carries for 499 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns.
The quarterback returned to Utah in 2022 and again led Utah back to the Pac-12 championship game. Against College Football Playoff contender Southern California, Rising led the upset against the Trojans to clinch back-to-back conference titles and Rose Bowl appearances. However, in the Rose Bowl game against Penn State, Rising suffered a devastating knee injury.
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If this is in fact the end, Rising finishes his college career with 6,127 passing yards, 53 passing touchdowns, 986 rushing yards and 12 rushing scores. Rising went 20-8 as a starting quarterback, fifth all-time in career wins at Utah.
Beavs add Dez White a 6’2″ guard fro Missouri State who averaged 14 PPG last year. His FR year at Austin Peay, he hit 63 3 pointers. He actually sounds like a pretty talented kid and I will be a junior which means he will be a 1 and done at OSU. It sounds like Tinks is putting together a decent roster again so……
Sounds like Iowa has 3 solid pitchers, two of which are lefties, throwing at the Beavs and two of them are undefeated. Lefties can be very rough and nasty but we have lots of right handed batters that swing for the fences. If those lefties throw junk at the beavers hitters, the Beavs are in for a long a weekend
Most Pac-12 legacy schools leaned hard on campuses to bail athletics out of settlement, growing expenses
But in that fraught final year — with 10 schools preparing to join other leagues and Washington State and Oregon State fighting for survival — all but one athletic department relied heavily on school support.
That support typically takes two forms: 1) direct transfers from central campus; and 2) student fees that are allocated to athletics. In each case, the support is booked as revenue in accordance with the NCAA’s financial reporting rules.
The reasons vary. But clearly, the demise of the conference played a significant role on several fronts:
— The 10 departing schools had $65 million withheld from the conference based on the terms of the negotiated settlement with WSU and OSU.
— Conference distributions were also lower as a result of the Comcast overpayment fiasco that was discovered in 2022. To recoup what it was owed, the company withheld $72 million over the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years.
— Many of the former Pac-12 schools increased their budgets to either build the infrastructure needed for their new conference’s media platforms (e.g., the Big Ten Network) or to increase resources for their sports programs to meet competitive benchmarks in the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC.
The subsidization of athletic departments by central campus is not universally condemned within the college sports space. The process is considered an investment in brand-building, for few facets of campus receive as much media exposure nationwide as the sports teams.
“Oregon State booked $120.3 million in revenue against $112.9 million in expenses for a surplus of $7.4 million. The revenue total includes $11.2 million in campus support. The Beavers recorded $19 million in conference distributions unrelated to media rights or the postseason, reflecting a portion of the cash secured in the settlement agreement with the 10 departed schools. (Washington State reported a similar amount.) OSU’s spending on football was essentially flat year-over-year.
— Washington State booked $89.5 million in revenue against $89.1 million in expenses for a surplus of $400,000. The revenue total includes $6.6 million in campus support. The Cougars were the only Pac-12 legacy school to spend less in FY2024 than the previous year, with the football program’s operating budget dropping 20 percent, from $25.3 million to $20.3 million. Of note: The Cougars spent $6 million less on football than Oregon State did during the first year of the transition phase to the new Pac-12.”
This article originally appeared on Pac-12 Hotline.
— Jon Wilner: jwilner@bayareanewsgroup.com. Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
I’m curious if this actually did any damage to these institutions or if it’s all just being justified as marketing expense. The only way any lessons will be learned will be if someone feels the pain.
https://x.com/pablofindsout/status/1920802680705831163
Sources tell
@PabloTorre
that Bill Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, is now banned from UNC’s football facility.
One Belichick family source adds: “There is deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.”
“University of North Carolina again had to address coach Bill Belichick’s relationship with his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, on Friday after a new report stated Hudson had been banned from the Tar Heels’ football facility.
“While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Football facilities,” the school said in a statement issued to reporters. “Jordon will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina Football and the University.”
What you aren’t certain that it is true love? He’s an octogenarian and she is in a locker room full of peak physical condition D1 athletes all about 10 years younger than her so why could possibly go wrong? I sure she will set an example as the typical coaches wife/mother figure.
At least NC thought this all through.
Luck ‘o the Beavs??
t8 begins tied at 6, ends with Beavs up 9-6, scoring 3 runs on one very questionable 3RBI single and the third error on a hawkeye pitcher. Free bases go in favor of the Beavs this time!
I’m surprised we are that high after the oregon sweep. It seems we’re benefitting quite a bit from playing so many neutral site games at the expense of actual home games.
At 13, we have at 3 times as many neutral site games as any other team toward the upper end of the rankings other than Texas/Auburn which still only have 6.
Road games also impacting RPI
Did y’all hear Josh describe the trip to Iowa? Seems the team gathered at 0300 Thursday am and the bus never showed up to take them to PDX for their commercial flight to Des Moines. So, coaches carpool it was!
Whitney gives up a single and then a double that Macias in LF made a good play on but couldn’t keep the line drive in his glove and Whitney Ks the next guy to get out of the inning. T5 4-0.
Macias robbed of at least a double on a great play by the 1st baseman to take away extra bases. Talt must be 0 and forever in his last 30+ at bats. B6 4-0 beavs
Whitney gets out of a jam after walking back to back hitters but does give up an rbi single to plate a run. 4-1 Beavs t7 and Whitney has 11 Ks at around 82 pitches.
Beavs loaded the bases with no outs with back to back HBP followed by a walk but Weber grounds into a DP and the Beavs scored 1. B7 5-1 Beavs but the Beavs could have really put it out of reach had they taken advantage of the walks. Keljo in to replace Whitney.
Beavs get a couple of hits including leadoff double by Macias but he’s thrown out at third trying to advance on a weak grounded to the pitcher.. 5-1 b9.
Well, it got a little crazy in the b9 as one out and nobody on and a routine pop fly to Kreig and he drops it. Keljo then gives up a hot and a walk with runners at 2nd and 3rd and the gets btob Ks for the win 5-1. I think Beavs pitchers struck out 18 batters.
No team had as much offensive production hit the portal, especially at running back. A potential starter and at minimum a valuable piece of the puzzle for the Sooners, Ott ran for a combined 2,212 yards in his first two years before dipping to 385 yards in 2024. Counting the winter portal, Ott is one of five backs to leave the program; coach Justin Wilcox added three in return, including former North Carolina State backup Kendrick Raphael. Another huge loss this spring was tight end Jack Endries, who transferred to Texas after pulling down a team-high 56 catches last season.”
Happy May Day(ish), comrades
Guardians fans are hype for Beavs.
They’re talking about Kwan evolving into a five tool star this year. And the clock on Bazzana is about two months, and the fans expect him to be in triple A.
These are lofty expectations, and I hope they all come true.
3rd! Bring on the bronze!!!
4th! i will move up when one the three of you fails the drug tests
Four or five panel?
Lamarcus Bell backs out of verbal to OSU.
This means he has a better NIL offer as he “reopens” his recruiting. Lol as he knows exactly where he’s going. Good for him and a negative for the Beavs
Is he a football recruit?
RB from LO.
Nice add as a homegrown recruit. But not a position where we have trouble finding good or great players.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sports/college-football/breaking-news/article/president-trump-reportedly-considering-executive-order-limiting-nil-after-meeting-with-nick-saban-012129625.html
“Hopefully we’ll get to sit down with Coach Saban. President Trump wants to help on this NIL. I don’t know how he can do it through an executive order. But possibly we can sit down and talk some insight of what Coach Saban thinks about it, what I think about it and we can come up with some sort of agreement because right now it’s in a tailspin.”
He can withhold federal funding from those schools that don’t comply with is EO…ha!
Not legally he can’t. Not that legality matters in this country anymore.
King Trump and another pathetic EO.
Pope?
Ducks baseball is shut out 2-0 by MI State. Lol
Too languid, enjoying a smoke after pounding the beavers four times?
and ducks should be enjoying it!
Dorman should have been fired immediately but OSU powers that aren ‘t’ are rubbing their chins, trying to look intelligent and speaking blither. It was the players who endured the raucous heckeling – should’ve been Dorman in a stock.
Beavs up 2-0 B1 as Turley gets a double.
Clean inning by Segura t2.
Caraway makes superb play on hard hit ball but errant throw to 1st leads to an unearned run on a WP. 6-2 T4. SEGURA @ 49 pitches.
Singer 2-run double off the wall, turley a double, 3 consecutive singles but Reeder thrown out at home trying to score in a shot into left field. 6-6-0 b2.
Walk, single, sacrifice bunt, runs scored on, strike out and ground out. 6-1 T3.
B3 6-1 as Beavs go down on order but Macias hits a hard liner to 2nd base for third out.
Singer intentionally walked to load bases to get to Weber previously struck out 2x and looked silly, 0-2 count on 2 ridiculous 64 mph curves and next pitch Weber laces a double to the wall to clear the bases. 9-2 b4
Weber a 3 RBI double on a 0-2 count after two k’s earlier in the game.
9-2 Good Guys
Segura through 5: 86 pitches, 5 k’s, 3 bb, 1 hbp, 1 wp, 3 hits, 2 er
t6, 10-4 Beavs
Noga headed to, get this, WSU!
It’ll be interesting to watch Wazzu run a pro-style offense. Their D should benefit a lot, which could be scary.
Weird. I wonder what that was all about.
One more year to play, and he’s buried on our depth chart.
I’ll cheer for him.
Arquette, Turley, and Weber top of the lineup, Adam Haight dh batting seventh.
Macias and Caraway 8 and 9…..of course.
Talt sits.
interestingly, Macias is the only batter who swings from the left side.
t6, Weber a 3 RBI HR makes it 3-2. Only the third hit for the Beavs, comes off the second pitcher for Hawaii who came in to face Weber.
3-2 Beavs as Keljo gets a stroke out with the tying run on second to end the game. The previous batter barely missed a 3 run hr to LF but died at the warning track. Hawaii led the country last year in ERA and is #18 in the nation this year and I had no idea their pitching was that good.
…..a strike out…. I suppose he could stroke it out too. Lol
Very friendly park for pitchers.
Because of the dimensions and trade winds?
Sad news. Oregon has lost 2 of their top recruiting targets to rivals UW and now Ohio State in recent days. Fans are disgruntled and saying something is “off” with their program’s recruiting after both players were thought to be locks for them.
Hope you’re all able to enjoy the rest of your weekend
https://x.com/kdamp/status/1918851061198065790
Texas state president
He’s wearing a p12 polo in one
Oh those sneaky university president’s!
It’s just horseplay.
I’ve been posting for the past several weeks that Texas State will be the next to join the conference and that’s a really good addition IMO.
Watch, he’ll “take his talents” to another conference…
*swaps polo at press conference*
Except that the guy wearing the Pac12 polo in that picture isn’t the Texas State president…
Beavs down 4-0 and getting no hit through 4 innings. I have no words for their lack of offense again nst a good Hawaii team but it’s freaking Hawaii!
t7, down 5-0.
Due up: Reeder, Macias, Caraway………Reeder and Caraway have the only two Beavs hits so far, so naturally Reeder will be ph’d for.
UPDATE: Playing for a matchup, Miiiitch pinch hits for Reeder, but the same thought doesn’t apply to Caraway. Results: Jones flies out for Reeder, Caraway grounds into a dp….
Now, Miiiiitch has shown that he realizes Caraway’s weakness on D by subbing him out late in games, so it’s apparent that Miiiiitch is clinging to the hope that Caraway can get back to his very early season batting performance. How much longer will he cling?
Absolutely pathetic….to shutdown the Beavs is all pitchers need to do is throw off speed breaking stuff and the beavs might as well be swatting at flies while wearing a blind fold. They won’t get out of s regional if they even make the playoffs
Better put some butter and jam on this team bc they are toast.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sports/article/bill-belichick-benches-24-old-192014825.html
“The 73-year-old coaching legend is looking to hire a PR specialist in lieu of Hudson, and has been in talks with former Bears VP of communications Brandon Faber for several months, according to ProFootballTalk.
The PR hire would help manage both Belichick’s new role as head football coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his public image, which was badly bruised by Hudson’s cringeworthy PR moves.
Belichick appeared on CBS Sunday Morning last week to promote his new book, but it went viral for the wrong reasons after Hudson, a former cheerleader, interrupted to shut down a question about how the couple met.”
Pathetic soap opera and terrible judgement on Belichik’s part. NC should cut ties ASAP.
You can’t explain true love… Just let those crazy kids be happy!
Right?! Who ever said you can’t buy love?
Um… the Beatles.
But they specifically said you can’t buy it with money. So maybe they had a bartering system in mind.
Day #1, Lanning #4, Smith #12 in this ranking of B10 coaches…still no comment on the conference’s ability to count…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/04/29/big-ten-college-football-coaches-rankings/83217490007/
Death, taxes, and Miiiitch’s teams having a late season fade with multiple batting slumps. The hallmark of great coaching is your team gets better and improves as a season goes on. My memory may not be totally correct, but I don’t remember this ever happening with Canham’s teams.
NCAA Baseball Top 25:
Oregon State falls to #10
(Oregon moves up to #5 to make this worse)
Let’s be unbiased. Does anyone here genuinely still believe that we are top 10 team at this point? We are still riding the media giving us credit for the Casey years. We’re not being dominant with a very easy schedule. I really think that if this team was in the SEC, they’d be around .500.
I’d put us around 20-25. Possibly one of the first few teams out of the top 25 now.
My postseason prediction continues to be a regional exit currently. This team has no consistency. If they aren’t hitting homers, the offense doesn’t exist. Pitching raises my blood pressure nearly every inning as well.
This schedule is much more difficult than the Pac 12 has been for the last five years.
But no, we’re not top 10 right now. 20-25 is far too low, but about 15 is right. And watching a not top ten UO lose to a Kent State in the Supers again won’t make any of it better.
We could easily beat anyone in the country, yet we choose to do this.
The annual overreaction thread after winning a series. This is clearly a top 10 team talent wise. Consistency is the toughest part of baseball. I don’t mind a slump right now. The key to the CWS is qualifying. Which we look like we are set to do.
They didn’t win anything. There’s one more game tonight
Lmao, I guess I am supposed to say them losing one game to a decent Hawaii team means they are the worst team in college baseball, with the worst manager too?
That also means the Dodgers are the worst team in the MLB, because they lost to the Braves last night.
I hope folks realize how much Casey was criticized on here when he was actively coaching. Warts for days! lol
From a baseball nerd perspective, the “Last 10 games” stat is going to read 5-5 for at least three more games.
It was just deflating to open the newspaper and see your team in struggle mode.
No. Im correcting your false premise that they won the series. No amount of lol’s or any of the rest of your post that was meaningless, fixes that.
The only thing that does is a W tonight
Hey Semantics Boy, they ended up winning the series that they couldn’t lose last night. Talk about meaningless comments lol.
Let the false narratives begin! After all spring football complete, USAToday’s Preseason ranking of NCAA DI football:
Current PAC:
WSU #86
OSU #105
Old PAC 12 Members
UO #8
ASU #23
USC #31
Utah #33
UW # 52
CO #55
UCLA#59
CAL #92
UA #96
Stanford #115
Future PAC Members
BSU #19
Texas State(?) #74
CSU #77
Utah State #93
SDSU #100
Fresno State #102
So, in a (admittedly meaningless poll), the perception is that this coming season OSU will be the worst football program of recent, current, and the upcoming PAC iterations. Ouch. The only meaning in this is perceptions that take hold in popular media and viewers/readers.
It’s interesting to see that UCLA and USC don’t even figure into top 25 relevancy anymore. They actually have to earn it now. Only UO, BSU, and ASU are perceived at this point of being top 25 programs.
I do think Bray could use this as “Bulletin board” material.
The Beavers will surprise IF the OLine can get healthy and play to a solid “B” grade.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/05/05/college-football-ncaa-re-rank-spring-practice-texas/83370355007/?tbref=hp
Oh, and in its last full season, the PAC had 5-6 teams in the top 25, including the Beavers.
*second worst , Stanford viewed as worse.
On the bright side, OSU would be improving by at least 80 spots in the rankings if they cracked the top 25. Bray could win 9 games if he resurrects the defense, and us any semblance of an offense.
Time to break out the pocket schedule game!
Is 9 wins impossible?
I agree, if the o-line can play, the rest could come together for 8 wins.
Murphy has experience winning close games, there’s size at WR and TE, proven production at RB…
And if the young DLine stays healthy, they’ll surprise. I tend to forget how many FR played..
Beavs pick up a new RB transfer today from LaTech.
https://x.com/MarquisTCrosby/status/1919448417547231524?t=WdZ-jM7-qyeIqt_QIoj_jg&s=19
Wonder who’s gone?
LaMarcus Bell just reopened his recruitment but other than that I haven’t heard or read about any defections.
I think he just rounds out the room, with Hank, Allah, Reichle, and Hatcher. Him and Hank are gone after the season.
It sounds like he has a solid FR year with over 900 yards rushing. https://youtu.be/PksHxRgNu1M?si=WICLjIwIemP97OHZ
An all right handed lineup: Adam Haight starts in the 9 hole, McEntire 8th.
Of course, Caraway starts, tonight batting 7th.
Like I said yesterday, feed this team a steady diet of off speed breaking stuff and they look completely overwhelmed.
This team can’t hit worth a crap!
In Hawaii watching the Beavers play. All the do is look for the home run. They all swing for the fences every time. So far this weekend it is either been strikeout or pop up. They don’t look to go opposite field or up the middle they look to go home run. And the wind is blowing directly to right field hard it would take a lot to get one out of here
Singer is one player that looks the best at the plate. Aiva has looked awful this whole weekend I think coming home put too much pressure on him
This is a top 50 team maybe top 40. They don’t get well enough they don’t field all that great and they’re pitching is too inconsistent. I hate the SEC but they could not compete in the top half of the SEC. They Feast on week pitching and struggle against anybody that is decent on the mound
This is what the SEC does too. A couple of teams just do it pretty well consistently. And the hottest bats in the end win.
If you’re complaining that disciplined and balanced teams are more our identity than what baseball has become, I agree. But there aren’t 40 or 50 teams better.
We’ll just have to wait and see if they can put it back together, after the hangover.
Hit
And the more I watch this team play I do not believe they’re very well coached. Mitch might be a great guy along with all the other coaches but this team is missing something that I think it is leadership
13 consecutive innings without scoring although I can’t remember the last score in game 1 but this team just can’t hit!
What a relay from Reeder in CF to Arquette to Caraway to mail the runner trying to stretch a double into a triple.
Pop up, strikeout ,pop up , strikeout. Rinse and repeat over and over. We seldom even groundout. We look for home run or nothing
Wow, Caraway just swing at a pitch that hit 6 ft in front of the plate. He got on first base because it was such a bad pitch to catcher couldn’t handle it
2-0 Beavs b6
Big fly Weber 3-0 t7 runner on 1st no outs.
Last inning great DP on 3-1 count to get out of a potential jam or jelly.
3-1 t8
McEntire solo shot in the 8th, 4-1 runners on 1st and 3rd two outs.
Weber 3 run shot, 7-1 beavers as it looks like they’ve finally have broken out of their slump with 3 big flies tonight. Aube they read some of my comments earlier and got pissed. Lol
Oakes walks two, a single, another single and bases loaded NO outs 7-2 as Hutcheson comes in with bases juiced.
AJ puts out the fire and allows only 1 run 7-3 T9.
7-3 b9
Jacob Kreig flashed some leather tonight stealing two hits on scorching line drives that he dove to his right to snatch. AJ closes the door on Hawaii 7-3 as Hawaii used 9 pitchers tonight. Weber had himself a series with three HRs, I think two doubles and like 9 RBIs. 3 out of 4 in Hawaii was a pretty solid outcome against a pretty solid Hawaii team.
Maybe road trips to Hawaii arent a great idea.
Was there any tv? And games ending at 1:30am?
ESPN+
TV only for 2 of the 4 games…go figure
Go Beavs, winning where it really matters.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/where-oregon-state-university-of-oregon-rank-in-sustainable-dining-practices/ar-AA1Dg6JE?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=a138a00235e84088bbddabb844329be7&ei=91
Lol
USA Today MLB draft projections:
1. Washington Nationals: Ethan Holliday, INF, Stillwater (Okla.) HS
It will be a fascinating home stretch for Holliday, the Nationals and a handful of pitchers bullying their way to the top of draft boards. Washington GM Mike Rizzo’s pitching-first chops will be challenged by the everyday excellence Holliday – bigger and with more projectable power than 2022 1/1 and older brother Jackson – can provide.
2. Los Angeles Angels: Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State
The Angels’ ever-dire need for pitching and GM Perry Minasian’s penchant for quick-to-the-majors guys intersects with Arnold, a 6-foot-1 lefty who has dominated ACC competition with a WHIP of less than 1.00 and just three homers allowed in 55 innings. Not your prototypical top five power pitcher, but a lefty who can pitch off his fastball and has the profile of a rotation anchor.
3. Seattle Mariners: Aiva Arquette, SS, Oregon State
This might already be too far for monster prep right-hander Seth Hernandez to fall, but the Mariners have made their bones drafting and promptly developing college pitchers. This time, they roll with Arquette, a 6-foot-5 shortstop with considerable power (16 homers, 1.173 OPS) and discipline. Recently inspired an opponent to play a four-man outfield against him.”
An Oregon HS player projected at 7:
7. Miami Marlins: Kruz Schoolcraft, LHP, Sunset (Ore.) HS
The 2024 draft lasted eight picks before a high schooler was selected, an unprecedented run of collegians. This year, the teenagers take the power back. Schoolcraft just turned 18 last month and at 6-8, can touch 97 mph on his fastball. He’s an excellent two-way player but his projectability on the mound is obvious and the Marlins swing big here.
Cleveland doesn’t draft until 27…no Beaver projected there:
“27. Cleveland Guardians: Max Belyeu, OF, Texas
A thumb fracture ended his regular season after 22 games, but Belyeu was putting together a strong junior season – hitting .358 with a 1.107 OPS when he went down at the end of March. But teams certainly saw enough of his hit tool – he produced 18 homers a year ago – and a return in the postseason for the No. 1 team in the land could produce some helium prior to draft day.”
D1 baseball has OSU #10 in the RPI rankings that doesn’t include last night’s win. I doubt that’s going to hold up after the road series at Iowa. Beavs are putting on a lot of travel miles from Portland to Hawaii and then to Iowa so I would expect they will have some heavy legs this weekend going into Iowa.
BTW, I just saw tomorrow’s game with Portland has been cancelled. I wonder why? Lol
The entire Iowa series is on big10+ and they have a pretty solid production. Apparently, Iowa has one of the better pitchers in the country so that’s not good news for the on again, off again offense OSU offense.
D1 has OSU #7 RPI, and that does include last nights win.
That surprised me, but playing on the road vs RPI #66 Iowa isn’t, in and of itself, a sure fire serious hit to the ranking.
Sweep the series and bet the Beavs remain in the top 10 RPI; take 2/3 and maybe stay top 15.
Iowa leads their (weak) conference and has an ERA 1 full run better than the Beavs; they also are allowing 1 full hit less per game than Dormans guys.
Yeah, the on again/off again offense of the Beavs is the most obvious story but if D isn’t solid it just makes for a higher hill to climb.
Ducks lost out on the #1 ranked, 5* QB in the 2026 class to Georgia. Ducks fans were certain he was a lock to become a Schmuck QB but not so fast as he ends up a Dawg. Now duck fans be like, well, we didn’t really think he was going to sign with Oregon and we’ll just find another guy to replace him. Lol
And he could transfer at the first opportunity…to Oregon, to Ohio State, Texas, Tennessee…whoever has the best one year cash deal…
the guy was playing all -maybe, just maybe, not that Oregon couldn’t afford i but, that they were just tired of playing the game.
Can’t recruits get paid to take campus visits now? Don’t blame the guy. They are onto Lyons now but hopefully usc can hold them off.
Oregon just lost put on a 4* can I’m head to head with USC of all teams. It’s an open bidding war now that players can take offers before signing
I can’t handle autocorrect anymore so I’m turning it off.
The edit function here is handy if you are on a laptop, not certain it’ll work on phone.
I’m on my phone but thx for the tip.
The Big Ten Conference had just over $928 million in total revenue and distributed about $63.2 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its 2024 fiscal year, the conference’s newly released federal tax records show.
However, the new records, along with documents and data released by three Big Ten member schools in recent years strongly indicate that the conference’s revenue for its ongoing 2025 fiscal year will increase to somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, with the new TV deals taking full effect and the additions of UCLA, Southern California, Oregon and Washington increasing its membership to 18 schools. The Big Ten’s document was provided by the conference on May 6 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports.
The Big Ten’s per-school distributions for fiscal 2025 seem likely to be around $75 million for all except Oregon and Washington, whose shares are being phased in over seven years.
…
All of this keeps – and, at least for now, stands to continue keeping – the Big Ten ahead of the now-16-school Southeastern Conference in terms of total revenue and per-school payouts. The SEC released tax records in February that showed $840 million in total revenue and average per-school distributions of about $52.5 million to the 14 schools other than newcomers Oklahoma and Texas. The SEC also is on a path toward at least $1 billion in total revenue for its 2024-25 fiscal year.
…
Iowa state board of regents budget documents from this past July show that the University of Iowa was projecting $75.2 million in “Athletic Conference” revenue for fiscal 2025.
A University of Wisconsin athletics department budget presentation to a university athletic board committee meeting three weeks ago projected “Conference” revenue of $74.7 million for fiscal 2025 and just under $82.6 million for fiscal 2026, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
The Big Ten generally provides its longest standing members with equal amounts. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, respectively, joined the conference, their shares were scaled up to full amounts over a period of years. UCLA and Southern California, however, are scheduled to receive full shares immediately while, according to an Oregon athletics budget document for fiscal 2025, Oregon projects $54 million in “NCAA/Big Ten” revenue. (Another Oregon document from September 2023 said the Big Ten’s “media deal with Fox, NBC and CBS will pay both UO and University of Washington each an average of $32.5 million a year for the first six years and that amount should more than double when the two schools receive a full share of Big Ten media rights revenues beginning in the 7th year.” But that TV revenue will be supplemented by money from other Big Ten sources such as the College Football Playoff and Big Ten championships.)
Even using slightly lower amounts as benchmarks — $70 million to each of 16 schools and $50 million apiece to Oregon and Washington, that projects to a little more than $1.2 billion in total Big Ten distributions for fiscal 2025. And, in recent years, the conference has passed on to its schools about 95% of total revenue. That would put its total revenue for fiscal 2025 at just under $1.3 billion.”
Suck it SEC, you “poor” bastards…
Geezus, what is the PAC shooting for in a television deal? $20-30M per school?!
I got a preview of Teagan Scott,South Salem starting catcher, as he hit a solo shot and think he had another hit vs Sprague. Sawyer Nelson, headed to LMU, blasts 3 hrs, the last one trailing 8-6 in b6 that was the winning 3 run HR 9-8.
I can’t believe Canham didn’t go after Nelson too as this kid really can hit. Well, at least Scott is going to be a beaver.
I forgot to say the SS won and is still undefeated. Another game tomorrow night at Sprague and the finale at South again this Friday.
“The Big Ten Conference had just over $928 million in total revenue and distributed about $63.2 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its 2024 fiscal year, the conference’s newly released federal tax records show.
Those figures represent a 5.5% increase in total revenue and a 4.5% increase in per-school payouts compared to those for fiscal 2023 due to the beginning of new television agreements.
However, the new records, along with documents and data released by three Big Ten member schools in recent years strongly indicate that the conference’s revenue for its ongoing 2025 fiscal year will increase to somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, with the new TV deals taking full effect and the additions of UCLA, Southern California, Oregon and Washington increasing its membership to 18 schools. The Big Ten’s document was provided by the conference on May 6 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports.
The Big Ten’s per-school distributions for fiscal 2025 seem likely to be around $75 million for all except Oregon and Washington, whose shares are being phased in over seven years.
…
All of this keeps – and, at least for now, stands to continue keeping – the Big Ten ahead of the now-16-school Southeastern Conference in terms of total revenue and per-school payouts. The SEC released tax records in February that showed $840 million in total revenue and average per-school distributions of about $52.5 million to the 14 schools other than newcomers Oklahoma and Texas. The SEC also is on a path toward at least $1 billion in total revenue for its 2024-25 fiscal year.
…
Iowa state board of regents budget documents from this past July show that the University of Iowa was projecting $75.2 million in “Athletic Conference” revenue for fiscal 2025.
A University of Wisconsin athletics department budget presentation to a university athletic board committee meeting three weeks ago projected “Conference” revenue of $74.7 million for fiscal 2025 and just under $82.6 million for fiscal 2026, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
…
The Big Ten generally provides its longest standing members with equal amounts. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, respectively, joined the conference, their shares were scaled up to full amounts over a period of years. UCLA and Southern California, however, are scheduled to receive full shares immediately while, according to an Oregon athletics budget document for fiscal 2025, Oregon projects $54 million in “NCAA/Big Ten” revenue. (Another Oregon document from September 2023 said the Big Ten’s “media deal with Fox, NBC and CBS will pay both UO and University of Washington each an average of $32.5 million a year for the first six years and that amount should more than double when the two schools receive a full share of Big Ten media rights revenues beginning in the 7th year.” But that TV revenue will be supplemented by money from other Big Ten sources such as the College Football Playoff and Big Ten championships.)
Even using slightly lower amounts as benchmarks — $70 million to each of 16 schools and $50 million apiece to Oregon and Washington, that projects to a little more than $1.2 billion in total Big Ten distributions for fiscal 2025. And, in recent years, the conference has passed on to its schools about 95% of total revenue. That would put its total revenue for fiscal 2025 at just under $1.3 billion.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/05/06/big-ten-conference-revenue-kevin-warren-bonus/83471735007/
Suck it SEC, you “poor” bastards….you can’t buy all the talent now.
And the PAC is hoping for $20-30 per school in a television deal?!?
Ha! “$20M-30M” per PAC school
Remember, while the substantial increase in revenue looks impressive, the former PAC12:traitors also have substantially increased travel costs that eats into that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. So it would be interesting to know what their actual net revenue is as opposed to gross revenue after travel costs are deducted from the gross revenues….at least for the first 6 years until they get full shares.
It’s all going to blow up in five years, when everyone but the ACC is up for new media deals. And even they significantly reduce exit fees at that point.
Apologies for the duplicate posts…I thought I had inadvertently closed the browser tab before posting.
Does anybody know the reason why the Portland Pilots game was canceled?
I’m guessing it’s a bi-product of the jet lag after playing the Hawaii series, but also no reason was listed. Just that it was mutual.
https://osubeavers.com/news/2025/5/6/baseball-wednesdays-oregon-state-portland-game-canceled
The travel is probably just that bad.
It takes a couple days to decompress (maybe literally?) from long plane trips.
Pilots also had reason to cancel, this from the story in the big zero:
“…The Pilots, meanwhile, face an important three-game series this weekend at San Francisco. Portland (20-24, 11-7 WCC) sits in a third place in the West Coast Conference standings,…….The conference series carries more importance to the Pilots’ postseason hopes — which hinge on a WCC tournament championship — than a midweek matchup in Corvallis.”
Makes sense, just surprising it stayed on the schedule so long, since fans plan around their personal schedules around these games too.
OSU traveling to Iowa this week can’t help. That’s a pretty big swing in time zones for the team this week.
Does the fact that the Iowa series is considered “neutral” hurt the Beavs post season positioning? Game is in DeMoines (roughly 2 hours from Iowa’s home field), so it’s not exactly neutral even though technically it is.
I didn’t realize the game wasn’t at Iowa’s home. A road win is a little better than a neutral win, right?
Just Win! Glad Iowa has RPI in 60’s and not 90’s!
much better than getting to Iowa City – which has a “municipal” airport –
I think they are playing in Des Moines at the Cubs triple A park. Nice facility! Saw a game there last summer.
Sorry NB. Reading and posting from bottom up and saw you posted the games were in Des Moines. Now if it would only quit raining out here. St Louis averages around 40” of precip every year. Picked up just under 11” in April alone!
Interesting if true and it makes me like Bray’s style even more, don’t give in to prima-donna behavior.
Having committed to Oregon State early in the process, Bell elected to re-open his recruitment Friday, but insisted he was still strongly considering the Beavers and would still be taking his official visit in May.
On Monday, Oregon State removed that option.
“Oregon State (canceled) my visit, so I won’t be visiting anymore,” Bell said.
https://www.si.com/high-school/recruiting/oregon-state-beavers-not-lamarcus-bell-cancel-crucial-in-state-official-visit-01jthksf6ct0#:~:text=Having%20committed%20to%20Oregon%20State,Oregon%20State%20removed%20that%20option.
Beavs MBB sign Australian big man, 6’11”, Yak Yak, who played one year at New Mexico State and another year at a smaller division. Let’s go Yak Yak!
“Yak Yak attacks the rack! And the Beavers deficit is cut to twelve! Portland Pilots bringing the ball up court…”
Beavs finally responding to the ducks signing Bol Bol!
Now we can cheer for Yak Yak. Must be a joke and can’t be real
I said the same thing about Bol Bol reference to a duck fan/friend of mine just earlier tonight.
At least his name isn’t Yuk Yuk or Fuk Fuk……
If they had a child, it would be Yak Boi…
Yak off the glass… gets his own miss… YAK with the flush!
How about Yak jacks up a 4 pointer.
3 pointer.
I wonder if Mike Parker will reference the old Coasters song “Yakity Yak” sometime during the season?
And Yaak Yaak could do the Dikembo Mutumbo finger wag…
He will probably do that.
Reference it? Mike will do the complete history of the song! :) Parker really is an amazing announcer. Having grown up with Bill King in the Bay Area, I haven’t heard another announcer do a better job in all three sports, and he is a lot different in all three. Baseball is his joy obviously, but so solid in hoops and football as well.
Anytime you start taking him for granted turn into a Ducks game. Jerry Allen seems to do zero prep on the opposing teams during football season and the Duck voices that do basketball and baseball sound like frat boys – though I have to think if the Ducks have a college radio station, those students are little more professional.
How about, Yak’s off the bench.
Just noticed, Iowa SOS per D1 is 202!
Beavs 37
Just Win
Beavers putting on a lot of miles in the last few days so hopefully they’re not suffering from jet lag…
So Iowa is #1 in the Big 10 at 21-6, and all that gets them is 202 SOS? What a shitty league. The Beavs should be ashamed of their subpar performance against that league so far this year. If they lose this series, they will be under .500 against the Big 10 for the season. Not good.
They have two undefeated lefties they’re throwing at the Beavs and if their predominantly off speed guys, we are in trouble.
So Texas Tech NIL collective founder and billionaire Cody Campbell and Nick Saban are going to fix college sports. Perhaps their objective work will inform a Trump Executive Order. Whew! Order and equity are on their way, no more advantages for the richest programs. Looking forward to the Beavers competing on a level playing field!
Any executive order on NILs would be nothing but a meaningless document. President’s don’t have the power to create laws. Not how it works. Trump can write whatever the fuck he wants, it won’t bind anyone to anything.
Trump just wants some Equity and Inclusion in these NIL deals.
So the Schmucks have played 33 home games and only 15 on the road? Wow, that’s a pretty loaded home schedule. Uncle Phil doing his best to keep the ducks relevant.
7 seasons of college football;
“Cam Rising is calling it career.
The former Utah Utes quarterback and longtime college football player announced Wednesday he is medically retiring after suffering a hand injury during the 2024 season. He said he was advised by two orthopedic physicians he won’t ever be able to play football and is seeking a third opinion as he will undergo surgery.
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Rising lost the quarterback battle to start the 2021 season, but after a 1-2 start, head coach Kyle Whittingham turned to Rising under center. The Utes found momentum with Rising as the starter, finishing the regular season 8-1 and earning a spot in the Pac-12 championship game. In the contest, Rising led Utah past Oregon for the school’s first Pac-12 title and first Rose Bowl appearance. He was named a Pac-12 first-team selection with 2,493 passing yards with 20 touchdowns and five interceptions, as well as 74 carries for 499 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns.
The quarterback returned to Utah in 2022 and again led Utah back to the Pac-12 championship game. Against College Football Playoff contender Southern California, Rising led the upset against the Trojans to clinch back-to-back conference titles and Rose Bowl appearances. However, in the Rose Bowl game against Penn State, Rising suffered a devastating knee injury.
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If this is in fact the end, Rising finishes his college career with 6,127 passing yards, 53 passing touchdowns, 986 rushing yards and 12 rushing scores. Rising went 20-8 as a starting quarterback, fifth all-time in career wins at Utah.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/05/07/cam-rising-medically-retires-seven-year-college-football-career/83499464007/?tbref=hp
“1 more year! 1 more year!”
He’s as old as some of his linemen teammates now….
Beavs add Dez White a 6’2″ guard fro Missouri State who averaged 14 PPG last year. His FR year at Austin Peay, he hit 63 3 pointers. He actually sounds like a pretty talented kid and I will be a junior which means he will be a 1 and done at OSU. It sounds like Tinks is putting together a decent roster again so……
How soon until Parker retires due to learning 150 new names every year for all the sports he calls games for.
Reading up on these transfers, all of them are bouncing after one year. It’s happening everywhere at every level.
Yep. Take it to the bank this guy will do the same if he had a solid season. It’s making CBB unwatchable.
Sounds like Iowa has 3 solid pitchers, two of which are lefties, throwing at the Beavs and two of them are undefeated. Lefties can be very rough and nasty but we have lots of right handed batters that swing for the fences. If those lefties throw junk at the beavers hitters, the Beavs are in for a long a weekend
Schmucks women’s softball upset 5-0 by Michigan in the B10 tourney and are one and done. Lol
Most Pac-12 legacy schools leaned hard on campuses to bail athletics out of settlement, growing expenses
But in that fraught final year — with 10 schools preparing to join other leagues and Washington State and Oregon State fighting for survival — all but one athletic department relied heavily on school support.
That support typically takes two forms: 1) direct transfers from central campus; and 2) student fees that are allocated to athletics. In each case, the support is booked as revenue in accordance with the NCAA’s financial reporting rules.
The reasons vary. But clearly, the demise of the conference played a significant role on several fronts:
— The 10 departing schools had $65 million withheld from the conference based on the terms of the negotiated settlement with WSU and OSU.
— Conference distributions were also lower as a result of the Comcast overpayment fiasco that was discovered in 2022. To recoup what it was owed, the company withheld $72 million over the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years.
— Many of the former Pac-12 schools increased their budgets to either build the infrastructure needed for their new conference’s media platforms (e.g., the Big Ten Network) or to increase resources for their sports programs to meet competitive benchmarks in the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC.
The subsidization of athletic departments by central campus is not universally condemned within the college sports space. The process is considered an investment in brand-building, for few facets of campus receive as much media exposure nationwide as the sports teams.
“Oregon State booked $120.3 million in revenue against $112.9 million in expenses for a surplus of $7.4 million. The revenue total includes $11.2 million in campus support. The Beavers recorded $19 million in conference distributions unrelated to media rights or the postseason, reflecting a portion of the cash secured in the settlement agreement with the 10 departed schools. (Washington State reported a similar amount.) OSU’s spending on football was essentially flat year-over-year.
— Washington State booked $89.5 million in revenue against $89.1 million in expenses for a surplus of $400,000. The revenue total includes $6.6 million in campus support. The Cougars were the only Pac-12 legacy school to spend less in FY2024 than the previous year, with the football program’s operating budget dropping 20 percent, from $25.3 million to $20.3 million. Of note: The Cougars spent $6 million less on football than Oregon State did during the first year of the transition phase to the new Pac-12.”
This article originally appeared on Pac-12 Hotline.
— Jon Wilner: jwilner@bayareanewsgroup.com. Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
https://www.oregonlive.com/collegefootball/2025/05/most-pac-12-legacy-schools-leaned-hard-on-campuses-to-bail-athletics-out-of-settlement-growing-expenses.html
I’m curious if this actually did any damage to these institutions or if it’s all just being justified as marketing expense. The only way any lessons will be learned will be if someone feels the pain.
“….just being justified as marketing expense. ”
Seems most likely. Institutions of higher learning seem slow to learn on this topic.
https://x.com/pablofindsout/status/1920802680705831163
Sources tell
@PabloTorre
that Bill Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, is now banned from UNC’s football facility.
One Belichick family source adds: “There is deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.”
“Hudson, is now banned from UNC’s football facility.” Bill doesn’t want her around athletes her own age…ha!
“Honey, please stop handing out towels in the showers! And we do not need a “hot tub lifeguard and settings manager!”
Geezus, imagine dating someone 50 years younger and being surrounded by people her age…but, grifters gonna grift!
“University of North Carolina again had to address coach Bill Belichick’s relationship with his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, on Friday after a new report stated Hudson had been banned from the Tar Heels’ football facility.
“While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Football facilities,” the school said in a statement issued to reporters. “Jordon will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina Football and the University.”
What you aren’t certain that it is true love? He’s an octogenarian and she is in a locker room full of peak physical condition D1 athletes all about 10 years younger than her so why could possibly go wrong? I sure she will set an example as the typical coaches wife/mother figure.
At least NC thought this all through.
BB will put her on the payroll as a scout (for her OF page)
Good point. Only true love could bridge those age AND financial disparities. It is heartening and gives one hope.
Correction on spelling as it is Yaak Yaak and I have no idea how it is pronounced.
UTSA RPI at 20. Get them in the PAC!
How in the world is Nike ranked #5 in Baseball America??? Ahead of Arkansas who swept #1 Texas last weekend!
Correction: it was the D1 Baseball.com rankings, not Baseball America.
I think the top 25 in college football should be chosen by a conclave sequestered away and releasing smoke signals based on team colors!
Oh wait, that’s how they’ve been doing it…
Would that be orange smoke?
Luck ‘o the Beavs??
t8 begins tied at 6, ends with Beavs up 9-6, scoring 3 runs on one very questionable 3RBI single and the third error on a hawkeye pitcher. Free bases go in favor of the Beavs this time!
Final 9-6 Beavs
Iowa uses 5 pitchers
Weber goes 4/5 with 4 RBI’s
Beavs leave 9 on base
Krieg, Talt, Caraway, and McEntire go hitless.
Beavs now #6 RPI, Iowa 68
I’m surprised we are that high after the oregon sweep. It seems we’re benefitting quite a bit from playing so many neutral site games at the expense of actual home games.
At 13, we have at 3 times as many neutral site games as any other team toward the upper end of the rankings other than Texas/Auburn which still only have 6.
Stuck in neutral seems like the Canham/Dorman theme…lotsa revving though!
Road games also impacting RPI
Did y’all hear Josh describe the trip to Iowa? Seems the team gathered at 0300 Thursday am and the bus never showed up to take them to PDX for their commercial flight to Des Moines. So, coaches carpool it was!
Unacceptable. Some intern is going to lose their unpaid job
Budget cuts and all
Arquette a 2 run shot in T3, 2-0.
2 out, 2 run double by Reeder, 4-0 Beavs. B3.
Whitney perfect after 3 with 5 or 6 K’s and is overwhelming Iowa hitters so far. T4 4-0
I’m watching the game streaming so…..
Arquette Ks with runner on 3rd to end the inning. Still 4-0 B4.
Whitney gives up a single and then a double that Macias in LF made a good play on but couldn’t keep the line drive in his glove and Whitney Ks the next guy to get out of the inning. T5 4-0.
Weber singles to center but Beavs go quietly after that. B5 still 4-0 Beavs
Whitney is just throwing smoke at Iowa with 9Ks on mostly fastballs. He’s at 65 pitches thru 5 innings. T6 5-0 Beavs
Macias robbed of at least a double on a great play by the 1st baseman to take away extra bases. Talt must be 0 and forever in his last 30+ at bats. B6 4-0 beavs
Whitney gets out of a jam after walking back to back hitters but does give up an rbi single to plate a run. 4-1 Beavs t7 and Whitney has 11 Ks at around 82 pitches.
Beavs loaded the bases with no outs with back to back HBP followed by a walk but Weber grounds into a DP and the Beavs scored 1. B7 5-1 Beavs but the Beavs could have really put it out of reach had they taken advantage of the walks. Keljo in to replace Whitney.
Keljo strikes out the side heading to t8 5-1 Beavs.
Beavs go 1-2-3 in order t8. 5-1 b8.
Keljo gives up back to back singles with one out runners on 2nd and 3rd but ends threat with btob Ks. T9, 5-1 Beavs…
Beavs get a couple of hits including leadoff double by Macias but he’s thrown out at third trying to advance on a weak grounded to the pitcher.. 5-1 b9.
Well, it got a little crazy in the b9 as one out and nobody on and a routine pop fly to Kreig and he drops it. Keljo then gives up a hot and a walk with runners at 2nd and 3rd and the gets btob Ks for the win 5-1. I think Beavs pitchers struck out 18 batters.
Hey Beaver Gopher, did you make it down to Des Moines? Would have seen a couple good wins.
Made it down for yesterday’s game!
Beavers better win that CAL opener:
“California
No team had as much offensive production hit the portal, especially at running back. A potential starter and at minimum a valuable piece of the puzzle for the Sooners, Ott ran for a combined 2,212 yards in his first two years before dipping to 385 yards in 2024. Counting the winter portal, Ott is one of five backs to leave the program; coach Justin Wilcox added three in return, including former North Carolina State backup Kendrick Raphael. Another huge loss this spring was tight end Jack Endries, who transferred to Texas after pulling down a team-high 56 catches last season.”
Good wins, let’s get that’s sweep tomorrow.
So the SD Padres brat the Rockies 21-0…..wow, the Rockies are now 6-33 and their team ERA must be through the roof.