Thank goodness. Go Beavs
Members of the Oregon State University community,
I am writing to let you know that it is my intention to step down as president of Oregon State University on June 30, 2020, when my current five-year contract will be completed, and after almost 17 years since I had the great honor and joy to assume the presidency on July 31, 2003. I will continue to serve as president of Oregon State University until the new president assumes office.
The timing for this transition is excellent. We have just adopted a new chapter in our strategic plan, SP4.0, and we are guided by our common statement of aspirations: Vision 2030. Furthermore, we have recently completed a comprehensive self-study as part of a seven-year accreditation process and we will welcome an external accreditation review team to OSU in the next few weeks. We also developed a 10-year business forecast and a 10-year capital planning model to help guide university fiscal decisions. Perhaps most importantly, I have never worked with a stronger leadership team in my 16 years of service as your president, including an excellent university board of trustees.
Personally, my health is very good. Yet, I will be almost 76 years old when I step down as president, and I view my job as including my best effort to assist this wonderful university in transitioning to new leadership. Effective July 1, 2020, I will begin a sabbatical and transition to the College of Liberal Arts as a professor of economics.
Please know that my affection for each of you, my passion and commitment to the mission, vision and values of this university have never been stronger. And, I remain certain that the best is yet to come for Oregon State University and those we serve. Our graduates are our greatest contribution to the future, and my colleagues will help all of us provide for a more inclusive future to meet the educational, economic and social needs and aspirations of all Oregonians and those beyond our state, through our teaching, research, creative work and service.
Within the next few weeks, Rani Borkar, chair of OSU’s Board of Trustees, will provide further details regarding the process and timeline for bringing the 15th president to this wonderful university, including the role that each of you can play in contributing to a successful search for OSU’s next president.
Sincerely,
Edward J. Ray
President
I hope the next one is also super into butt kicking.
guy should have retired around 2008. Same for Riley. There’s a correlation of effect there.
Then your diploma would have been closer in value to your train of thought.
I’ve met Ed Ray multiple times. I can say he’s been good for the university. He’s done really well for the academic side. Raised over a billion dollars for the school.
Watch Larry Scott slide into that role after he gets ousted by the other Pac12 schools.
Or Mike Riley.
Haha
Or Brenda Tracy
He sure did help with causes more student debt too I’d guess? Then again most schools do this unless one can get their school paid for.
Here here. His strong point may have not been athletics, but the change that I’ve seen on campus since 2007 was incredible. The amount of capitol he poured into things deserves a job well done. We all have weak points, looking forward to the next President benefiting from the work Ed did and taking athletics to a better place.
When George Washington stepped down from the presidency, he did not get back on the gray train. A professor of Economics at the age of 76? Insane.
Whom better to teach you about making and managing money than a guy who can still rake it in at age 76.
Emeritus professors typically only work occasionally with grad/honors students working on research. Some will teach a class or two throughout the year if they really want to but it’s rare.
Whoever he’s replaced by needs to be someone that will not accept mediocrity in any way or form for any of our sports. I want a president with ambition, who will not be afraid to make hard decisions, especially when it comes to hiring and firings.
If nominated I shall not accept.
If elected I shall not serve.
I want one who will raise up the academic profile into the top 100 rankings. Continue to bring in research dollars, build up the bend campus to a legit 4 year school, continue to raise funds for the endowment funds when state support has declined, recruit the best students to the school, build up the entrepreneurship program.
Sports are the lowest priority in a candidate.
Ed Ray was already doing all of that (and doing a good job of it, too). I want a president who will focus on where we’re deficient, not where we’re already doing great.
A baseball hitting coach will be our next prez.
Ed Ray definitely helped OSU reach great heights in academics, and we didn’t have any major controversies under his direction, unlike other schools. I hope that the next President can use the clout we’ve built with academics, infuse life into the Athletic Department, and help OSU get somewhere on the field again.
Thanks for everything, Ed, but it was time for you to go.
The next president should freeze tuition, drastically reduce the number of administrators, and cut the number of liberal arts degrees. Then, make a policy where the university is willing to cosign student loans instead of parents. The quality of an OSU STEM degree will increase because professors are actually working with students to get a job.
Build a law school, too.
I’ll pass on that idea because Willamette already has a solid law school.
Too many lawyers already.
Agree, Oregon and Willamette have saturated that market and there aren’t enough jobs to support the supply of people earning JDs every year.
Lewis and Clark is pumping them out also.
We need more lawyers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRAiUPdRjk
Actually, despite the rag, research shows that liberal arts degrees are some of the most successful. It teaches you to think instead of just doing. More people need to know how to think these days.
Was there much thinking involved in racking up a ton of student debt with a degrees that have starting salaries around 45k and a saturated job market. But muh student debt :'(
The assumption that STEM teaches you to “just do” instead of think is laughable.
The liberal arts degrees are being pumped because of the higher drop out rates for STEM. The Universities want you there as long as possible, getting those federal student loan funds. Look at placement rates vs class sizes. Why are the STEM programs not keeping up with demand…STEMs are being hired their senior years months before graduation.
The Universities are acting in their best short term interest, can’t fault them for that. Long term interest would involve putting out quality students in the fields that are demanded the most.
EDIT- if someone get’s a liberal arts degree because they are passionate about the field, more power to them. Just don’t come complaining about the student debt afterwards; that’s poor planning. They should know what they are getting into beforehand.
Wait… adjusting foe inflation, a starting job of 45k is both respectable and easily paid for student debt when I was in school. Hell, if I knew I was guaranteed that salary straight out of school in the early 90’s, I wouldn’t have worked several part-time jobs.
These days, it looks like getting three part-time jobs is also a standard beyond what most grads can expect, let alone a student.
This is spot on. The liberal arts degrees have exploded at OSU. The reason is short term money for the University and not job placement for the student. Little meat bags that can transfer federal student loans to the college coffers then live their best years in debt. Not just an OSU problem.
OT- Ducks raped and pillaged Wisconsin………so much for the powerful Big 10.
Big ten is 7-1 after the first round. Please let me know what other conference has done better.
What he said. Normally I would revel in Wisky losing, but yuk.
I pontificated too soon ,but…. the P-12 is 3-1 and could be doing better IF they were allowed to have more than three teams in! I hate the precious Big 10 elite programs!
Sounds like football will have a new Nike uniform reveal happening on April 20th, but only season ticket holders will be allowed to attend the unveiling.
Of course, as always with these things, somebody will leak images before April 20th actually arrives. We’ve already seen pics of new gloves with rings painted on them that look like rings from a sawed tree.
Finally. These have been my least favorite unis since the bras and they’re so heavily steeped in GA it will do well to cleanse the program of that last link.
Small boy pants on the way.
I guess OSU should have kept Ritchie
Been asking for it and they finally listened. Eisert starts tonight.
This lineup stinks! Again, our better hitters placed 7,8,9. Malone batting 4th is not the answer!
This team already has two shutouts on the season, and working on a third. Bailey’s got a wart on his lineup.
Beavs have been really good at getting 2 on and then leaving them stranded.
Every time they need a hit, Malone is right there to kill the rally. He has really been struggling. Fucking unbelievable he is in the 4 spot the way he has been swinging. Should be:
1-Jones
2-Mcgarry
3-Mendazona
4-Rutschman
5-Philip
6-Ober
7-Malone
8-Armstrong
9-Does it matter?
I don’t know Jones has not been hitting well either as of late.
Thought Jones had a pretty good OBP. But yeah, not sure who else would lead off.
Preston swung at every pitch ball or strike
Terrible play by Preston to let a guy tag up and and advance from first on a fly ball. Don’t remember the last time I’ve seen that.
Gotta disagree. Base runner was very smart, got back to make the tag at first faster than many, and then showed good speed.
Preston may not have made a spectacular play but certainly not “terrible”. JMHO
From the stands, I’d say it wasn’t a terrible play but very lackadaisical, a mental mistake for sure and this team isn’t good enough to overcome these sorts of blunders
Beavs load bases in 8th with 1 out, but leave em stranded, again.
Down 3-2
Why is zak taylor playing.. dude is batting .105
DEFENSE
Bought in right after McGarry E
Hard to believe that OSU is a top ten team…
Now, if you want to criticize Preston, he could have beaten out that close play in the ninth. Spent too much effort watching the ball he hit rather than running. Head was turned toward third for two or three steps out of the box.
Again, JMHO
Armstrong, Taylor, Jones, and Malone were all pretty good last year and can’t hit for shit this year. Been a while since the hitting has been this bad.
And the defense….
Remember when I said the hitting was going to suck and we’d be pretty bad, miss Casey, etc, and everyone laughed at me and said we’d be fine and we’re in good hands? Yeah.
Reality is…anytime you have to turnover virtually your entire position player’s roster, there is going to be some inconsistent offensive production. I recall when Michael Gretler was a Freshman and Sophomore, he couldn’t hit a lick. We finally saw major improvement in his senior year. The point is, the team has a lot of new players, some that have never played D1/FBS baseball before where the pitching in the Pac-12 is tremendously competitive. Hell, even Adley was a great hitter as a freshman. In fact, I think he was hitting somewhere around a buck 98 for much of the early part of the season and by season’s end he was hitting just under .250. As great as of a hitter he is, he had to learn how to hit in the Pac-12. Just like Adley, these new players such as Beau, etc., have to figure it out and that’s kind of where this team is right now….trying to figure it out offensively. Until that happens, and there’s no guarantee that it will, they are going to struggle with consistency. It’s kind of the nature of the beast. Personally, I’ll take a down year or two while still making the playoffs, in exchange for an occasional national championship. Of course, we’d like to see them win it all again this year, but anyone that thought that was going to happen was and is delusional. It took the Beavs what 12 years since their last title to win it all again and in the interim, the Beavs have had some very, very good players and great teams. So, hang in their Beaver Nation, this season is far from over and there is bound to me some offensive improvement later this season. For now, most of these guys are still trying to figure it out. Hopefully, that happens sooner than later.
P.S. Our worst years in baseball will easily surpass the best years the little ducksters can ever hope to accomplish in Eugene.
That’s not much consolation if both teams are shitty!
I was supposed to type, “Hell, even Adley WASN’T a great hitter as a freshman….”
Understood what you meant, you make good points.
But, Beavskis above listed 4 guys who’ve seen enough PAC12 pitching by now that they should be coming around.
Pretty much sums up my thoughts too. Missing Abel has left the margin for error a little thinner than if he were starting Fridays, and the hot start to the season against average competition was fool’s gold.
Bottom line, when you turnover the majority of a roster, while also having your Coach step away, it would be a miracle to produce similar results to the prior year. I’m actually surprised the record is as good as it is currently. It will get worse before it gets better.
Maybe seeing them struggle will encourage Casey to come back sooner than later.
Lundeberg tweets:
“Pat Bailey said the Beavers simply must be more competitive at the plate. He was visibly frustrated after the game”
Ya think?
Team batting average is dropping like a rock now down to .254.
….or he could recognize who is batting hot or cold and adjust the lineup accordingly. He is completely missing this. Beavs get at least two more runs with the lineup I posted earlier.
And it’s the experienced guys who are all slumping together or have never got it together this year, like Malone and Taylor that’s hurting the team. They were expected to shoulder the load while new guys come along. Not happening. Teams are going to keep pitching around Adley until they start making the opponent pay.
You guys see this?
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/26325753/kicker-boermeester-suing-usc-expulsion
I remember seeing a blurb about him not being on the team, didn’t realize it was this bizarre. Interesting that a “non-witness” can end one’s education and possible career. Sort of like the amateur judge and juries who decided to end Heimlich’s career.
This is the beginning of the end for the Beavs unless Casey comes back next year, as rumored.
Doubt it
You also doubted it when I said this team wouldn’t be able to hit about a month ago.
Well it was easy for you to conclude they couldn’t hit after watching/analyzing 6 whole innings against New Mexico. All of us knew the bats would struggle this year, BEFORE THE SEASON STARTED — they lost every good hitter, except for one, from arguably the best hitting club we’ll see ever. So what you say is no surprise to anybody. Bailey is not making the necessary lineup adjustments from game to game, that is the most frustrating part.
Well, everyone argued with me about it, so it must not have been obvious.
Bailey has also missed on opportunities to play small ball. Last nights game and the West Virginia game where they hit into 5 or 6 double plays come to mind. I pin those two losses on him.
The lack of hitting was always going to be there, again the Bailey factor, or lack thereof is surprising to me. So far he is a huge step down from Casey.
“…unless Casey comes back next year…”
Warts and all!
The kinds of mental lapses and general lack of fire/focus we’ve seen recently have to be killing Pat Casey; and, I think, making it more likely that he announces his return before that June 10 deadline.
As said before, I wonder if Bailey is too accepting of sub-par effort, too much of a nice guy. Not at all certain of this, maybe he is just different than PC. Sample is small, but getting larger.
Bailey can’t match Casey’s competitive intensity, and that intensity makes players play better.
Now watch Bailey try to flip the switch to becoming a demanding boss, that kind of overreaction makes players play scared…….and less effectively.
Hope I’m wrong, but Lundeberg’s remark above makes me wonder.
It’s going to be like the Ralph Miller transition. Bailey sucks. If Casey doesn’t come back the program is done until we find another Casey 50 years from now (still searching for our Ralph Miller replacement 30 years later).
Angry, that’s an apt comparison (Casey/Miller-Bailey/Andersen) It’s interesting to me that Jimmy Andersen is a beloved figure with the alums, when it could be argued that he started the descent into hell for the basketball program. I certainly hope the reality is different this time…….but……Luck O’ the Beavs often prevails.
WBB: a team that has lost 4 of the last 9 games and cannot blame a change at the HC spot for their problems. A team that hasn’t shown a “step on their throat” mentality all year.
2:30 today on ESPN2 or 3. A step down in competition compared to the last nine games, but Pivec can’t do it all. Fifteen days since the last game, let’s see what has been accomplished in the interim.
Home floor gonna take away the nerves, lets hope for a 15pt+ win to set up another next Monday.
Does anybody have any insights on Rani Borkar, chair of OSU’s Board of Trustees, and how well this board might approach this transition?
Paying a search firm entirely too much money, then not using their recommendations. Followed by hiring a spinless yes man with no original ideas. Basically a guy collecting a paycheck. And for some reason that pay will be twice the rate of other pac12 schools.
*this is just one of infinitely ridiculous possibilities, but one of these things will be true.
I don’t question Bailey’s competitiveness or abilities, I do wonder if he’s spread too thin or the assistants aren’t getting the job done.
Malone, Taylor and Armstrong were all above .260 hitters in conference games last year and the expectations were they would be better this year. Small sample but so far they’re a combined 0 for the conference and all below the Mendoza line for the year.
Do agree though that Malone needs to drop in the order and Mendazona needs to be following Adley in the lineup
Malone is at best a 6 hitter. To me that’s his ideal slot.
Bailey must read this blog
https://twitter.com/BeaverBaseball/status/1109601213601861632?s=19
Rueck being out coached, making no adjustments
Beavers 7 turnovers and 6 points in 3rd qtr
WTF is going on with WBB
Got no heart. Like someone already said, they don’t step on the throats of opponents. Today just played ho-hum ball until it was almost too late.
Yup, that’s what I said. But I also said Pivec can’t do it all. One for Two ain’t bad
First time since Rueck has been the coach
that women have regressed at end of year.
Mcwilliams and Corosdale give us nothing on offensive end.
This is the first season under Rueck that the team has regressed by season’s end. They peaked against Oregon at Gill, and it’s been downhill since.
This team has major flaws, FTs and turnovers. Surprised they got by BSU.
Having 2 of the starting 5 out for the season with injuries didn’t help this team. No team would be considered a contender under those circumstances.
Remember when I said the Final 4 team vs CT was the best we’d ever do, and people laughed and gave all kinds of reasons we’d be back? Yeah…
Lol Angry with the quick delete ;-)
;)
Whatever he said, it worked
Sometimes I like to say extremely negative things (knowing if I do, the opposite will happen and I will look horrible). It’s called taking one for the team. ;)
Florida’s dance line is…………………Talented.:)
Grimeck is a liability need to play Washington
I haven’t watched much WBB this year, she is extremely nonathletic, can’t even finish at point blank consistently. Is there an upgrade coming?
Yes we have 3 highly rated bigs for next year. And we have Aquino who was I think the #9 recruit in the nation who red shirted this year. We are losing Macwilliams and Grimeck so we should be just fine next year.
I think she made a good difference in one or two games when ball was fed to her and she reached up to score. I don’t know if there’s an award for not being able to hang onto the ball but she might well have won that trophy.
Maddie Washington did really well in the first part of the game and then didn’t play much.
Eighteen turnovers the last I heard.
Hands of stone, seems to be common for bigs under Rueck. Both Ruth and Marie were that way early in their careers, Jo doesn’t have time to rectify that as they did.
Washington has had some good games, especially earlier in the season. She used to be a PersFoul machine but is a bit better lately.
Waiting for WBB twitter to post “We won.” a dozen times
Rename the site “FaithlessBeavs.com”. Thnx
I liked Ed Ray except for the athletic mess. Sure didn’t bring his A-game there.
Was Ron Callan the radio guy today?
If so, can he take Parker’s spot for games? I like his more even tempered call of the game. Parker is too dramatic for me.
Yes. I’m a big fan of Ron, an interesting guy. You probably know he has sung the national anthem of both Germany and Poland on senior day lately. He does some work for the Seahawks as well, along with sideline for Beavs FB.
I’ve never heard him do p-b-p for baseball and with the overlap with WBB probably won’t.
He often posts on twitter, videos of post-game interviews with WBB players.
Here is your baseball stream, complete with audio by Parker:
https://pac-12.com/live/oregon-state-university-2
Thanks for the link. It’s Parker doing the play by play. Shit, Beavs already down 2-0 bottom of 3. Parker just babbles on and on. Give it some space, dude.
Parker did say that he has invited Ron Callan to stop by the baseball broadcast and discuss the WBB “escape” today.
And if you didn’t hear, Adley is calling pitches today. At least for the beginning innings……….yup, he called the successful pitch out. All this due to Nate’s expulsion for today.
Apparently Ron Callan couldn’t get in to Goss.
Darn Barnes and his clear bag policy!
Nice to see Zak get one to drop in fair for a hit. Just his 5th hit on the year.
…and erased with a double play ball from Philip
Good to see Mendazona in the top of the lineup and Malone moved closer to the bottom.
Now there’s some classic Beaver small ball execution. Game tied 2-2.
Yes exactly….at the end of the day, one more run than the other team is all you need.
Two nice diving plays by Mendazona today at 3b
Why doesn’t Malone bunt Claunch over?
If we would have had Malone sac bunt we’d have another run now.
WBB: Never a doubt today…Carry on.
I see that Nick Daschel stole my lead.
JAKE !!
And again I say, JAKE !!
Ye of Little Faith!
How ’bout this: phighting pheathered phils whip ASU in 12 innings despite having only 6 hits to go with 2 E’s; left 15 on base! Of course 3 HBP’s, but all the runs were earned.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SethTweets/status/1106278951784235008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1106278951784235008&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwinsdaily.com%2Farticles.html%2F_%2Fminnesota-twins-news%2Fminnesota-twins%2Ftrevor-larnach-homers-in-first-mlb-spring-at-bat-r7599
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz78PLSPT6w#action=share
postgame ladys
post game w Aleah & Mikayla – beautiful young women, real athletes. In comparison to recent college admissions scandal. Btw, I’m betting no one involved goes to jail.
Thanks for the link.
Additional vids on Ron Callan’s twitter:
https://twitter.com/roncallan
Eight point favorites against the Zagettes
Not sure if this has been posted already. 3 former Pac12 officials sent Wilner a copy of a letter that they sent to Larry Scott. It’s pretty good stuff and spells out what we all suspected about Scott’s claims that the Woodie Dixon event being a one time occurrence.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/21/letter-58/
Ha!
That doesn’t sound like anyone we know.
Ha!
So dumb.
Anyone else getting audio only on PAC12 TV?
(for baseball broadcast)
BTW, if you’ve been locked out by JetPack, wait awhile and try again. Worked for me.
Don’t know how good today’s Cal pitcher is, but the Beaver bats are coming alive so far. 5 runs in the 1st, 6 hits total. 5-0 B2nd.
Ober a grand slam in the b2, Beavs lead 9-0
Ober grand slam makes it 9-0 b2
Ober’s grand slam makes it 9-0, bottom of the second.
Middle of the 6th, Beavs up 9-2.
Gambrell at 102 pitches has 11K’s and zero bb.
4 hitter, both runs unearned
Chamberlain comes in to relieve Gambrell and Cal gets 3 runs in the T7th to make it 9-5, heading to the B7th. Chamberlain hasn’t looked as good in his last couple appearances as he did prior.
OTOH, Verburg looking good, comes back from 3-0 to K the final Cal batter in the t8.
9-5 Beavs, only need three more outs, and may not have to face Vaughn again (although Vaughn hasn’t done a lot of damage so far this series).
Sherwood boys working! Adley RBI sac fly to bring in Zak, now 10-5.
On to the t9
JAKE !!
Beavs win 10-5
Good Grant today.
With Louisville losing their series to Georgia Tech, look for Vandy, OSU, and NCState all to move up a slot in the D1Baseball poll. The coaches poll may have the Beavs slide a spot or two, but look for them to remain in the top 10 — I don’t see anybody else, outside of Vandy, getting enough momentum to supplant them. Texas, LSU, and Florida will drop 2 or 3 spots each.
Nope, gotta hand it to D1 Baseball and their undying love for SEC and Texas. They leapfrogged Vanderbilt over us so we stayed put at #7.
Of course Florida (10 losses), Texas (10 losses), Mississippi (8 losses), and LSU (7 losses) all remain safely in the poll despite losing their weekend series and leading all poll participants in the L column.
Not sure what you are looking at. Both Florida and Texas slid, which they should – although Texas should be in the 20-25 range. Like I said, not surprised Vandy overtook the Beavs with a very impressive sweep of Florida.
Oregon is playing on another level.
It’s irritating. I hate a feel good story when it involves the Quacks because the media eats it up.
I’m sure it will be quickly followed by a feel good story about how Luke is doing in Mexico, right?
How did Washington get North Carolina and the Shmucks get UC Irvine….???
As does Boise State wbb wonder how @ 28-4 they were paired w OSU in a game in Gill.
Wyking Jones gets the axe at Cal after only two seasons. They don’t accept mediocrity either.
https://m.sfgate.com/sports/article/Cal-fires-coach-Wyking-Jones-after-2-8-win-seasons-13712875.php
Surprised they can afford to do that. Cal’s financial situation is pretty messed up.
Mediocre would have been a step up for them this year.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/22/this-cuts-to-the-core-uc-berkeley-football-coach-promises-to-fully-support-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-by-coaches-players/amp/
Leg humpers were a 9 seed. The 8/9 winner matches up with the 1/16 seed winner. Ducks were a 12 seed, UCI a 13. Both teams upset the higher seeded team 4/5. Therefore, they played each other.
The Ducks will next play 1 seed Virginia. A team that plays very good defense. I don’t expect it will go well for them.
Edit: meant as a response to jockitch
Virginia always underachieves in the tourney. Let’s hope this year is different, but I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if the quackers win. I’d be more surprised if Virginia wins.
Just strange to me that conference winner Wash gets the name brand power matchup in N Carolina. Oregon gets hot for a couple of weeks and gets a better more winnable bracket. KSU respectable, but not a N Carolina.
Baseball needed that win yesterday. A bit surprised Abel didn’t get in for an inning.
Pretty big series with UW. If they want to stay in the title race, they’ll need to take 2 of 3.
And beavs will need to make quick work of Portland in the weekday game. Can’t get into a marathon like vs Oregon and use up valuable arms.
La’Marge Simpson playing center for Boise State.
Rueck being out coached again. Mcwilliams has been awful
Mcwilliams 22 minutes, 0 for 5 from field with 1 rebound. Washington 13 minutes 6 points and 5 rebounds. Mcwilliams has something on Rueck because she is a liability for the beavs
Rueck has made no adjustments at all.
He is betting on the hands of the Polish sausage.
Lady Beavs got this.
Beavs win despite Rueck making no adjustments,
I’m sorry… I usually don’t take the bait but you have no clue. There were plenty of adjustments especially on the defensive end. May be difficult for the average fan to see but there were some really solid adjustments in that game that Rueck made. Just because another team plays well and makes plays doesn’t mean the coach is not making adjustments. Rueck is an incredible coach with a track record of making adjustments. This team has some talent on the perimeter but it’s a credit to the coaching staff to have this team in the Sweet 16 for the 4 year in a row without a post presence.
Would have been fun, but frustrating to watch in person…Rueck deferring to McWilliams because she’s a senior? Washington sounds like she had a great, efficient game?
She did. Made some great catches leading to easy buckets. If Grymek had her hands she would be deadly.
Would Grymek having Maddie Washington’s hands help Grymek make free throws?
Macwilliams 28 minutes 2 rebounds and 2 points, 0 assists, 0 steals. she has did nothing for the last month. And she is not playing because of her defense because she was trailing her man all night. We are so much better when she is not on the floor.
I am very confused as to why Rueck continues to play Macwilliams. Just look at her stat line for the last 10 games it’s awful. She is not playing because of her defense because she was trailing her man all night tonight. We are so much better when Washington is on the floor. Take a look at Macwilliams stat line tonight, 28 minutes 2 points 2 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals.
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At minimum the team should always make the sweet 16.
4 of the starters were 5 star recruits. No excuses for these close games.
This is a much higher level of play — anybody can win, and the seeding seemed right. Just glad they advanced to survive another day.
“No excuses for these close games.”
Does this apply to the Duke men’s team?
This sniping at the WBB program is really precious.
Buffs won tonight to make the NIT quarterfinals. They’ll play next at Texas with the winner going to New York for the semifinals.
I recommend you all avpid the replay of Trailblazer Jusuf Nurkic’s injury tonight. You’ve been warned
*avoid*
Holy cow, should have listened to your warning. That’s one of the worst breaks I’ve ever seen. What’s up with the ref kicking his broken leg?
First thing I thought to myself was good thing he was wearing tall socks. If that was seen bare skin it would prob be worst sports break I’ve ever seen. Several friends of mien were at the game in attendance close enough to hear the snap…
Blazers Center curse lives on. So brutal.
Compound fracture of his tibia and fibula. Agree on the socks, that would have been more gruesome
Tabloid news of the day. Stormy Daniel’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti was charged with wire fraud and attempted extortion of Nike today, where it sounds like the guy had dirt on Nike regarding pay for play and was holding it over Nike in an attempt to get paid to withhold the story.
The narrative has shifted towards Avenatti being a shady dude who is trying to screw over Nike, bit the funny thing is, nobody is talking about what the story could possibly be that would be worthy of attempting to extort some $20 odd million out of Nike. Where there’s smoke?
A little more from the Nike/Avenatti story:
https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1110274248210345985?s=19
Gary Franklin Sr is the AAU coach Avenatti us saying has a dirty relationship with Nike.
Everyone knows Bol Bol was bought and paid for before he committed. Altman couldn’t talk enough about how he was nowhere near campus when he visited and committed… how it was all Stubbs who landed him.
It was so obvious, the coach of the team the player chose was disavowing everything to do with the recruitment of said player… and everybody knew why.
Now Avenatti is naming Bol Bol specifically in his Nike accusations. Dana Altman has already denied any knowledge.
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1110546772819103745?s=19
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2019/03/26/michael-avenatti-nike-deandre-ayton-bol-bol/3276960002/
I’ve always suspected the timing of his injury and the other player’s transfer (just before league play) that there was something going to be linked to them.
LOL, it wouldn’t surprise me if Altman denies that Bol Bol was ever on his team. Dana is the master of playing dumb with his off the court crap yet somehow pulls it together on the court.
Any chance Miller gets canned soon at AZ?
Not a surprise as that guy came off as a complete grease ball while a regular on CNN. But then it is CNN.
don’t you mean CIA-N?
ZNN on NCIS is better.
Maybe it’s a good thing WBB wasn’t a #3 seed as 3 of these teams lost last night at home. Meanwhile, 3 of the #4 seeds won.
Perhaps Rueck stacked the deck — lost to Wash, get some RR, and get preferred bracket…?
lady’s presser…..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvjljAQQYAc#action=share
Thanks, again, for the link.
Here is Eggers take on the victory:
https://portlandtribune.com/pt/12-sports/423549-328834-battle-tested-beavers-find-way-back-to-ncaa-sweet-16
The money grubbing folks at ESPN/NCAA have what, to me, seems a net negative effect on the fan experience in the post season. For one thing, the “live stats” link leads to a media members only dead end. There are other examples, one of which is a restrictive interview policy which prevented the WBB gals from hanging around for their usual visit with fans on the floor at Gill.
And, I suppose, GET OFF MY LAWN!
Any football news? Its been pretty quiet.
Angie Machado was on JBS today, proclaiming that the decision to by-pass McMaryon several years ago was one of the most questionable decisions in recent OSU coaching history, but then opined that Luton, seemingly on the basis of seniority, should be the presumed starter until beaten out.
Whatever. We’re talking missing out on maybe one win over how many years?
It’s not the talent.
Jake Pfennigs on the mount tonight. The lineup seems to be settling in with quite a few younger guys getting more and more at bats, which I think is good. I think we’ll swing the bats well by the end of the season. Here’s the lineup.
1 ss 4 Philip, Beau
2 3b 13 Mendazona, George
3 1b 35 Rutschman, Adley
4 lf 44 McGarry, Alex
5 2b 18 Ober, Ryan
6 dh 3 Gretler, Matthew
7 rf 7 Malone, Tyler
8 c 17 Claunch, Troy
9 cf 33 Jones, Preston
10 p 19 Pfennigs, Jake
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=248086
PahFennings is not Pahpitching very well.
Better swing them good tonight cuz the game is already getting out of hand!
Looks like Jake is not ready for prime time.
Pfennings: 1-2/3 innings: 3 hits, 3 walks, 2 hit batters, and 4 earned runs
Tweedt in the game now
…and the bats don’t look ready either. PAC pitching or not, these guys can’t hit. Now I’m convinced it is in their own heads more than anything. Where is the batting coach when you need him?
He is taking the year off.
Any live link?
It is absolutely amazing how much the Beavers strike out looking.
….and Texas losing to Incarnate Word. Thought it was a hack at first but it is real. University of Incarnate Word.
https://uiwcardinals.com/sidearmstats/baseball/summary;team=away
Sometime ago I posted tidbits abt Incarnate Word. Their President was @ Carroll College in Helena. Ambitious and into athletics bigtime.
I think they have a plan to get to D-1 with football also.
We beat out Incarnate Word for a recruit. He looks terrible.
11 Ks and counting for the beavs against the mighty pilots.. still 4-1 UP B7
Well, they can only go up from here I suppose.
UP is not a terrible team.
You know it’s a new era when describing the team you lose to as “not terrible” is acceptable. We’re Oregon State. We just won the college world series. An opponent not being terrible isn’t acceptable.
I would say an era of being “Elite” or known to always be a challenge is over, but we have Elite talent on the roster. PC knew exactly how to get his players to play to their full potential. I honestly believe PC will be back if this season continues this way because he does not want to leave OSU in a downward spiral.
When’s the last time we lost to UP?
3 hits and 14 strike outs. 4th loss in last 7 games. This team could miss the postseason.
We need Pat Casey back badly.
JAKE !,,,,,,,even Jake was not himself tonight, faced 7 and allowed 2 hits and 1 bb while getting 2 K’s.
From Lundeberg’s tweeter:
“Pat Bailey after the game: “Our lack of competitiveness started in the first inning on the mound. It’s just sad … somebody on that team has to take leadership and get our guys to start battling. It’s ridiculous, it’s very frustrating.””
Bailey isn’t a motivator. It’s on him.
Beavs are in serious trouble, as I thought they’d be. The era is over.
Agree, they are in trouble. They will get rolled in Seattle with that kind of performance. But then again, this is baseball….there’s no crying in baseball.
He really said “that team”? Odd language, almost like he’s washing his hands of them. Umm…it’s his team, he’s the manager.
“That team” is simply a way of differentiating this group from Beaver teams of the past. You know, teams led by PC.
Oh, and D1 awards the Beavs “Upset of the Day”, saying,
The sky isn’t falling yet but there’s the reason why Bailey is the interim coach.
Plenty of very successful guys out there who will want the job if PC doesn’t unretire. Tcu coach is one guy to go after.
Mitch Canham is a guy to take a long look at.
Brosius left the mariners so he may be a possibility again.
Those seem like two good candidates. I still expect PC back though.
Lundeberg tweets that Beavs went back to “daily doubles” today; practiced this morning and tonight. He notes the problems with the lights lately, and with Friday’s game set for 7pm that makes some sense.
Is Bailey making a smart move? Doing a 180 to become a taskmaster? Desperate or simply frustrated at the apparent lack of leadership within this team?
A writer out of Louisville for the WBB Blog, SwishAppeal, is claiming Scott Rueck is being courted as a candidate for the Tennessee job(along with the Louisville WBB coach).
Take from that what you will, but if true, does OSU have what it takes to match salaries?
I know, OSU is his “dream job” and all that. But money talks.
https://twitter.com/PaigeS_502/status/1110989051849596929
Pretty doubtful.
More likely outcome is Westbrook transfers back home to OSU.
kelly graves to tenn? Just a guess
Graves has a great resume, could be a candidate. Does he have any strong ties to Eugene? Of course, nikegon should have little trouble if it becomes a bidding war.
OTOH, Rueck is an alumn, a father of young kids, a man of faith. I doubt a job with the expectations of Tennessee, even in the “Bible Belt” would be attractive to him. Of course if it did become a bidding war it is hard to see OSU prevailing.
A choice to forever live in the shadow of Pat Summitt or to continue to build a dynasty at his alma mater and live close to his own parents would seem, to me, to be a simple one.
Your inclusion of superstition as a rational variable… and then not… and then supposedly rational again… is confusing.
Sooo….here’s a reason why Larry Scott needs to go! It’s a paywall, but still, the headline says it all….Pac-12 Networks turns down ESPN as a tv partner.
https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2019/03/25/Colleges/Pac12.aspx
Not defending Scott but it was a one sided deal giving ESPN all the power. They lowballed the league assuming they were desperate.
Basically the deal would mean all pac12 games would be 7pm kickoffs and basketball playing on all sorts of odd days. For 20 years!!
Yeah, not sure bspn would be willing to give the pac any decent game times and upset their gravy train sec boosters.
https://sports.yahoo.com/why-nike-officials-should-be-nervous-after-avenatti-allegations-204614831.html
Don’t know if it has been mentioned here, but Joe Casey will be out for a couple weeks due to a broken index finger suffered in bunting practice last week. Bailey says he’ll likely be DH before returning to the outfield.
Here’s a piece from the GT headed Beavers seeking more energy
Not one of my favorite writers, but some interesting quotes which give a peek into Bailey’s thinking.
https://www.gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/baseball/osu-baseball-notebook-beavers-seeking-more-energy/article_32b5529f-4a58-5617-b358-2efcd910bfc3.html
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2828251-michael-avenatti-tweets-alleged-docs-of-nike-payments-to-deandre-aytons-mother
New football uniforms will be on display at the spring game
http://news.sportslogos.net/2019/03/27/oregon-state-set-to-unveil-new-football-uniforms/
Prepare to be underwhelmed.