Starting to see the football coaches recruiting areas as they come out of the dead period and high schools send out their “thank you for visiting” tweets.
Coach Ford – Tacoma/Seattle area (of course)
Coach Cooper – San Diego
Coach DeVan – Arizona
Coach Boyer – Central Valley (CA)
Well he runs a lot like his dad, is big and physical but also elusive, has great speed and vision. Also from Las Vegas area.
Likes to truck safeties and dbs in the open field and will outrun lbs who take bad angles. Doesn’t get arm tackled, but can sometimes dance a bit too much after the handoff so he will get gang tackled for loss of 3 yards periodically.
Is loyal and may play his entire career with one team.
Spitballing the last few lines…but if he is reminiscent of his dad, all are true.
He didn’t start playing until his freshman year due to his parents’ safety concerns. Already a big producer at RB. Similar height to his dad.
We know SJ is a hardcore Beaver for life, so we’ll at least have a chance with him if he ends up as a big recruit. Doesn’t look like he’s had much recruiting attention yet, but he’s starting to get it.
Also intertesting tid bit- he is HS teammates with MLB prospect we’ve been on for a year or so with huge upside. Who is also officially visiting this weekend- class of 25′ kid. We have a great shot at getting the verbal commit soon from
Wonder if that visit will actually happen if the weather stays icy out? Portland airport is getting freezing rain throughout the night tonight. Not really worth it to ask a kid to make an unnecessary visit.
Speaking of MONEY, this from MLive via a FOIA request: As part of Smith’s seven-year, $52.85 million contract, only coordinators and the head strength and conditioning coach can receive three-year deals …
Noteworthy that the S/C coach is up there with coordinators (who both make at least $1 million).
BTW, Offensive line coach and run game coordinator Jim Michalczik will make $1 million in 2024 and receive a $100,000 raise the following season. He made $775,000 last season at Oregon State, according to USA TODAY.
Makes you wonder how bright thee coaches are after all. So precise and specific in one part of life doesn’t guarantee good decision making in other areas.
This is nuts. TheTE who used to play for Willie Taggart and was part of that group of athlete who sued oregon for unhealthy workout conditions, Cam McCormick. Played for Cristobal at oregon too, then followed him to Miami. Had gotten mulitple extra redshirt years. Well….he got one more.
Guy is coming back for a 9th season of college football!
@mckalk – you know anything about the kid? How many seasons he lost to injury? The role he has played in offenses at both Oregon and Miami? My guess is no. You just want to be snarky because you think it’s funny. Cam is a kid who has worked his ass off to overcome setbacks most of us couldn’t imagine. You, on the other hand, are a clown.
Beavs offer Jackson Kollock. 2025 QB who decommited from UW. Think we had brought him up earlier but wasn’t an official offer that I’m aware of. He just posted it about 30 min ago. Believe Gundy was in on him at UCLA. Don’t know much about him. 3* big frame. 6’4″ and 215 lbs.
Lots of talk around these stupid congressional hearings about players being deemed employees instead of students. Anyone think this will actually happen? Seems like a stretch for anyone that doesn’t play a revenue sport, and the death knell for non-revenue sports if it does happen.
I don’t know how they don’t deem them employees. The courts have boxed Congress in.
I have no idea what it would look like but it is the natural read on what the courts are saying. Any attempt to empower the NCAA to enforce rules over recruiting/transferring seems doomed to be overturned by the Courts.
Yup, how long is Barnes going to put up with this bullshit? I bet Pope doesn’t come back, why would he? I noticed he took a three while he was being triple-teamed, that says frustration to me.
You guys need to remember this is a young team still trying to gel together and learn the system. It is pretty unrealistic to expect a team with so much youth to play like 4 year veterans. We know how unstable the sport is and the great difficulty of keeping a roster together for several seasons. And we are still trying to overcome a fractured lockerroom from 2 years ago. This group will probably start figuring some things out around June and we should be playing our best ball by then. Coach Tinkle.
That’s been WT built in excuse for years now. Works on a lot of people. Hey new roster. Young team. Just need time to grow and develop. Rinse and repeat.
Seems like transfer activity is pretty much wrapped up for the time being. Did everyone make it on campus and enrolled? If not, they aren’t likely to be here for spring ball. Last year’s spring practice started first week of March with the last scrimmage in mid April. I’d expect similar timing.
Spring portal is Apr 15th to 30th.
Does Scotty have an updated scholarship count? or maybe scotty doesn’t know
Looks like a prolific small school kid. Several offers from a lot of the better G5 teams (App State, Liberty, Toledo, etc.). Looks like UCLA had been recruiting him previously. I think we’re his first P5 offer (yes, I still consider the PAC2 a P5). Really quick release and good mobility.
Is this Gundy’s first HS QB offer? We had a bunch of 2025 offers earlier to higher-ranked guys that it doesn’t look like we’ve had much traction with (unsurprising, given JS/BL track record).
I just watched his highlights again. Dude is a state champ, top 5 in the state all time in multiple stats, can sling it 60 yards easily, his coach let him call plays from the LOS and he hurdles people. How do guys like this still get underrecruited in this day and age?
He’s definitely not as fast as Chiles in the open field, but he extends the play really well in the backfield.
I get that message as well. It’s a bit annoying because when I click continue, it brings me to the top of the page and I lose my place. Not anything to lose sleep over but should be filed in the “it might be nice” category.
Thanks to Daschel for doing the math but Beavs basketball is 1-25 on the road the last 3 years. Lol. That’s just such an incredibly bad number. 1 fucking win?!
Man, Tinkle needs to go. I’m all for Jack’s idea of a go fund me or something. Last night was horrible. Saw a write up about the game online and the writer said the Beavs had jet lag because of a long flight delay in Eugene because of weather. No quotes from WT but its not that long of a flight.
Sounds like Sports Illustrated just folded. Laid off their entire staff. The ceo was fired recently for publishing articles written by AI with fake authors. Interesting.
That’s a group that absolutely failed to adapt to the changing media landscape. The brand still has some cachet, I’m sure someone will buy it and resurrect it.
have you looked at a swimsuit issue lately?
They’ve gone so overboard with the whole diversity of body types/genders/etc. it’s nothing like the old days( I think that used to be their best selling issue?)
There’s a decent chance that model on the pages used to be a 300lb man. Just a different world and there’s not much of a market for it.
I never drank bud light or read sports illustrated, but apparently the people that did weren’t interested in the direction those companies went so they voted with their wallets.
there’s zero surprise that anyone doesn’t know that “america first” isn’t just a Nazi slogan adopted by possibly the most abjectly stupid trust fund baby that ever existed.
Seriously, the man speaks in stupid. The stupid is his lexicon. He is stupid.
He is possibly the stupidest person I’ve ever been forced to listen to, simply because his stupid ass was put in charge of stuff.
The.Stupidest.Person.Ever.
And that all his campaign slogans are Nazi doesn’t help.
To wide receivers: “We are going to go 5 and sometimes 6 wide receivers , no TEs so we can just sling that rock all over the yard and you can go make plays!”
To qbs : “We will go with a 2 qb set, with rpo and zone read, and a lot of downfield passing out of scramble situations, so you can just sling it.”
To running backs: “We will keep running backs in I formation, or lots of motion and misdirection, add the triple option, a wing T and even a multiple set zone read package featuring a lot of run emphasis!”
the new Reser is trend-setting. Northwestern is demolishing their old stadium, capacity 47,000, and replacing it with a new facility, capacity 35,000. Almost spot on the Reser number. in the Big 10. In Chicago.
WBB now up by one with 5 minutes left. Beers is now 1-10 from the line. Weird, they wouldn’t be in the game if it wasn’t for her, but you can’t miss that many free throws. Playing on the road is tough, but Lady Beavs need this game. They are better than Cal.
Big comeback vs Cal, 71-64 after being down 14 at one point.
Beers after going 1 of 10 hits 2 FT’s near the end.
Paurova 16 pts and never missed, added a nice assist to Gardiner for a 3 with 1:15 to go in the game.
T. Gardiner 18 pts, 4 of 4 FT late
I will be surprised if. on Sunday, against the Beavs, the Stanford wbb coach doesn’t get her whatever the number is to tie the Duke mbb coach most wins#.
Signs were pointing that way but glad it’s official. OT was one of my big concerns so this is very welcome news. I’m sure next year’s starting quarterback is happy as well.
Will have to wonder what the status of Brewer is. Not sure he meets the criteria to get a 6th year. Typically he would have needed to miss two years due to injury.
2019 played JUCO at Laney(Last Chance U)
2020 – redshirt year but also Covid year
2021 – played redshirt Soph
2022 – played redshirt Junior
2023 – Injured all season
If that’s all accurate, then I dont think he technically used his redshirt year yet since it was 2020.
So either he could use his redshirt year still, or he would be a candidate for a medical hardship for an extra season.
Originally was class of 2018 but legal trouble in HS caused a delayed start to college. I don’t think he played in 2018 at all, but I’m not 100% certain.
2018 could have been considered his redshirt year I guess, if he was enrolled but didnt play more than a few games for Laney.
Just think of it as if 2020 doesn’t count in any way toward eligibility, because it doesn’t.
There were several athletes in all sports who simply sat out for a year, and the NCAA wasn’t going to question the best decision for each individually. So it’s where the “extra year” comes from. It just benefits football players in this way.
I didnt count it. Just wrote out what the OSU profile page for Brewer says.
But they also say he played for Laney in 2019, as a freshman, but helped them to a state title in 2018. So it almost sounds like he played a short season in 2018, but it’s not clearly written.
I think the only difference would be whether or not he had to apply for a medical hardship, which he would probably easily get, if he hasn’t done so already.
Marco and my son were both on the football team at chs and socialize a bit…he was in my store a month or so ago, told me he planned on playing next year. Although Akili Arnold told me he needed surgery and was coming back next year a week before he left too though so who knows for sure I guess
He was planning to go there before Bama made the late push for him when he was coming out of high school. He is from Iowa. Weren’t we expecting Tufaga to give the Beavs a look? Didn’t we expect DA to be a Beav?
I doubt that is going to stop us from offering if its a big upgradein in an area of need. Based off of Beav Blitz reporting, we’re already over scholarships…sitting at 91. So anyone that’s committed recently was already given a scholly we didn’t have. Have to drop at least 6 but Blitz was also thinking we’d have around 10 guys move on that are still on the team. Would also seem likely that they’ll want to wait until spring camp as another round of xfers or juco guys come available. They’re all out on the trail recruiting the HS kids now.
I actually really like Brennan, I think he would have been a home run hire.
I really like Bray so this isn’t an anti-Bray thing. I probably hire Bray given the situation also. But I expect Brennan to be very successful at Arizona whom I follow a bit since I actually started college there.
Beavs already down 15 in Boulder. MBB is ground hog day! Same poor result game after game. How much longer do we have to put up with Tinks! Obviously he’s not going to step down as he should have a number of years ago. Sad thing the program is in such poor shape who would want to come in and clean up this train wreck?
Crazy thing is the talent level isn’t bad. Pope and Bilodeau are studs. Rataj always looks better when he’s not surrounded by this garbage coaching staff. Ndong looks like a future solid big. An actual coach worth a damn could face some real pieces if they don’t transfer. They just got to find the money to get Tinks out. I can’t remember a time when the program had such overwhelming lack of interest and I remember them going winless in conference play. So glad they “got their culture back” tho.
To be honest I don’t watch much college hoops too much anymore primarily because the Beavs have stunk it up for so many years less their final 8 run. Even Mizzou stinks this year!
It’s sort of men against boys tonight. Outmatched in every facet. Of course, the numbnuts announcers were praising Tinkle and his “system”. I have to hand it to WT, he must be a great guy, he has built an abundance of goodwill around the league. The other coaches probably want him to stay so they keep having sure wins.
I don’t know anything about him or if he’d even have interest, but maybe the USF Dons coach? They seem to be decent and near the top of the WCC every year.
Last Beaver MBB game I watched, Tinkle had Craig Robinson energy, like towards the end of CR’s tenure. He just seemed done with it. Signaled to me there’s no point in tuning in as a fan till he’s gone.
The remaining fans that can stomach attending at Gill need to bring signs for Scott Barnes to “Fire Tinkle”
Tinkle has mailed it in for several years now and needs to just move on. He is the biggest fraud at OSU since Craig Robinson, Jay John, Ritchie Mackay, Eddie Payne…
“The Beavers completed a two-game road trip that is among the worst in program history. OSU lost by 33 to Colorado and 27 at Utah on Thursday. Not even the 3-28 (2021-22) and 5-27 (2016-17) teams had a two-game road trip where it lost by a combined 60 points.”
Arizona and ASU come to Gill next week. See any wins there? Dry January continues
OSU needs to just flush the Tinkle era and start over. Now is the time for Barnes to appeal to the alumni base to donate to a buyout campaign because a once great basketball school is being embarrassed by Tinkle’s train wreck.
I do wish he’d agree to just defer the rest of the money he’s owed out, say 10 years or so. He has another $10mil left on the deal. I don’t see the Beavs doing any better in the WCC where hoops is pretty much the whole ball game. Right now if you use Sagarin, they are 11th in the Pac-12, and 9th in the the 10 team WCC (12 with the Beavs and Cougars).
Tinkle would have to agree to that and why would he? I do think Barnes has to pull the trigger even if it means finding someone on the cheap and hoping for the best, can’t be any worse.
Spaces on “X” if anyone wants to listen. Damien Martinez joins about 25 or 30 min. Talks a bit about Gundy and how he’s going to open up and create space. Def sounds like we could be in for much more of the 3 and 4 wide sets. He also mentioned that the offense didn’t seem to change at all and now teams had several years of film and the offense was the same.
The Niners are so successful on offense because they have a QB that can identify a zone and receivers that can find holes in that zone, and tight ends that can beat man. They go 3 or 4 wide then come back with a zone run in a tight formation which forces the defense to adjust how many down linemen to play.
We effectively saw that in 2018 and 2019 under Smith but afterwards we didn’t have the receivers who could beat man coverage consistently, so teams would play press man and we shifted to throwing more fades.
Fire Stinkle. And hire Gary Payton to lead this program. This is exactly what this program needs right now. Just like Prime with CU. Could things really get any worse?
That would be great or some other former Beaver great (AC Green?) whose heart would be in it to take on the task. One caveat though, is I think of Patrick Ewing going back to Georgetown didn’t work out that great. Couldn’t do any worse than Stinkle. How many years does he have left on his contract. Apparently the man has no shame. He needs to do what’s best for OSU and step down.
I don’t know anything about Payton’s administrative or off court skills and abilities, though I’m sure he could fund raise and recruit.
One thing pretty sure, he’d bring the attitude of one of Casey’s last teams: “We’re coming and Hell’s coming with us!”
I don’t think Gary has shown any interest in coaching at the college level has he? I mean, I am a hard yes but gotta think there are other options.
Wasn’t there a former Beav player coaching in the NBA during the last cycle but he couldn’t apply because he hadn’t graduated? Who was that? Maybe he has finished by now or you could make finishing a condition of the job? Head basketball coach attending classes with his players?
We have 3 visitors this weekend. Durant is already committed. Ione is class of 2025. Jay Tuia(2024 OLineman Devan visited in Idaho last week) is the only one who would make sense as a Beaver/Lock tweet (unless we’re using that for 2025 guys too?)
Seemed like Smith only used Dam Right for guys committing to the current year’s class. But I giess the same rules dont have to apply anymore.
I’m a little suspicious that Terrell Kim might have visited this weekend. I dont know anything, just based on the fact that he and Jay Tuia started following each other in the past few days, which seemed a little odd because Tuia doesnt have an ASU offer
Sounds like Camerson Brink is a game time decision for today’s WBB game at Stanford, because of a leg injury that cased her to miss the 2nd half vs oregon
We’ll need all the help we can get. We lose and their coach breaks the all time win total set by Coach K. Would suck to be forever linked as the loser for that record but it would be the luck of the Beavs.
Lane Kiffin shared an article that reports, based on CFB Focus info, that Ohio State has spent $13 mill on their 2024 roster so far. Still in the running for a top WR xfer from Bama and looking for some OL help. So that # will likely go up. This is incredible. Really emphasizes what Bray and Co have been able to do with nowhere near those resources.
Tara gets #1203 at the expense of a senior-less Beavs squad; 65-56.
Points off of TO’s favored the winners by 16-5, Beavs shot 25% from 3, rebounds nearly even.
Rematch coming at Gill, 2-29……..Cameron Brink likely to return, ugh.
I don’t think this stuff flies with Bray. In the X Spaces the other night D Mart mentioned the team was already starting workouts but that he wasn’t able to participate yet since he was still dealing with his earlier issue. Since his case was dismissed, this would likely mean he’s dealing with internal repercussions. Will be interesting to see what happens with Brewer.
I’m picturing a football player at a college party and somebody says something he disagrees with and a gaggle of college kids surround them with cell phone cameras on, waiting for the first shove
Funny, saw Caitlin Clark was trending and figured it was because of some crazy half court shot she made or something, but instead it was because Ohio State beat Iowa. But in the aftermath, the fans stormed the court and Clark and a fan collided, which cause Clark to be helped limping off the court.
Then this video comes out that pretty clearly shows she initiated the contact and flopped. Which in a way is pretty smart because now Ohio State is going to get fined for not protecting the court better and lack of player safety
Frankly, the slo-mo and glitch-action is bullshit.
Play the tape at a real speed, and it will probably show how violent it actually was–unintentional, of course. But two blind runners colliding, with one looking like a knee-knock and possible hyperextension is easily seen, if dumb tape guy doesn’t glitch the tape for hype.
Both of the Arizona TEs in the portal, Dorian Thomas and Keyan Burnett, withdrew and are staying at Az. Good job Brennan, or collective. Either way I was hoping for one of them. Both had history with Ford and Moala.
Marco Brewer also previously likely committed a sexual assault. I’ve also met the guy in a class before and the guy was a jerk and never did any of his work
Just to put the Brewer impact in perspective, he was really good in 2021, but not in 2022 before he got hurt. Never was a good pass blocker. He’d be coming back from injury. This is a blow, but it’s not that big a blow. We still return 4 veteran OL; we just need one young guy to step up.
“Two charges were filed Monday by Benton County District Attorney, of assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence and harassment. Both are misdemeanors. Brewer is currently being held at Benton County jail.”
“Brewer, 24, is accused of grabbing the arm of a woman during an argument, scratching her skin and causing bruising to her arm, according to the Corvallis police.”
“We were made aware of the alleged incident involving Marco Brewer. We are in the process of gathering more information and will have no further comment at this time,” Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes said in a statement.”
“Brewer is technically out of eligibility, but could apply for a medical redshirt due to his injury history. Brewer is currently listed on Oregon State’s roster, but it is unclear as to whether he’ll be a part of the Beavers’ 2024 team.”
Seems like some chick is being overly dramatic. Definitely shouldn’t have grabbed her but how many times are both men and women grabbed by the arm without incident. Seems really wild to file a police report for being grabbed by the arm. Does this happen if he’s not a football player? I can never imagine me grabbing someone by the arm and it being taken to the police unless I was someone of stature.
That all being said it could’ve been malicious I shouldn’t assume. Let’s not forget he’s been training at basically pushing people around his whole adult life and could’ve easily overused his strength on a much smaller female.
Keirh Heyward started following the former duck OLineman, Jonah Tauanu’u today. He’s the former top 100 recruit who medically retired but is trying to bounce back via the JUCO ranks
Let us know when they start following a decent TE. Kind of wondering if they simply abandon the TE for a year and run 5 wide which would create more space theoretically for Martinez in running situations.
It was several years ago and I think Heyward overlapped. During the Cristobal era. Moala was at OSU then.
Heyward’s not the first OSU coach to follow him, he’s just the most recent after the last time I mentioned him over a week ago. And I take it as a good sign that we’re still pursuing him.
About time getting around to Tauanu’u. He was tweeting about being offered by Texas Southern the other day. How are schools missing on him? His JC highlights consist of Jonah dominating the opponent, which is what they should be showing. Top 10 OT in the 2019 class. Let’s go!!
So sad to hear of Rob Holbrook’s passing. Loved watching him play on those Orange Express team of the early 80’s. That was when sports were a simpler time and more guys were local from the state of Oregon (Holbrook, Blume, Radford, Sitton, Green, Stangel, Stoutt, etc). RIP.
63 years old. His father said it was a cardiac event. Sad. I forgot that he pitched for the baseball team every season after basketball ended. True two-sport college athlete.
I was at OSU during those years–have some great stories from then.
1) Snuck into Gill night before a Saturday day game against the Ducks-on regional TV (big deal then). Hung a frozen duck in the rafters with orange and black crepe paper. When lineups being announced, dropped the duck at half-court to about height of the PA system. Nobody knew what the hell was going on…staff couldn’t get to it until halftime- so during first half the refs would have to towel the blood dripping on the floor.
2) Students would camp out on the ramp overnight to get best seats. Several of us got on the concessionaire’s list and we’d check in about 10 minutes prior to gates opening. Then we’d hide in the bathroom, run out and get front row railing seats when we heard the rumble of the crowd coming in. Got a lot of WTF looks from the guys who were first in line camping.
Yes, I saw an NIT game at Gill (one of Ralph’s down seasons) where Danny came out on fire. I swear they were using a red, white, and blue basketball. Most of his shots would have been three-pointers a few years later. They won the game, but I can’t remember who they played.
Weird, our former OL and DL coaches from the Andersen era are now working for our former DC from that era.
TJ Woods amd Coach Chad were hired this offseason by Sitake
I guess we’ll find out just how much of it was him and if the rest of the staff is any good. Sitake has done decent at byu. I thought the woods did a pretty good job with the Oline while he was here. Everything else was shit but the run game.
Tre Smith the DE from SJSU would be a big get. One more year for him to play for NFL draft stock. You have to think Arizona would have the inside track, though.
At least East Landfill can say they won something this offseason:
Portal Cup (1/23); which P5 schools have had the most scholarship players enter the portal since 8/1:
Alabama: 27
Michigan St: 27
Purdue: 27
Indiana: 24
GA Tech: 23
NC State: 23
Washington: 23
Arizona: 22
Cincy: 22
Florida: 22
Louisville: 21
South Carolina: 21
Just wait until Sparty fan has to hear Lindgren wax poetic about balance, and JS justify his incoherent aggressive play calls that cost them winnable games. Actually glad they are both gone. JS had his moments but his tenure was filled with puzzling decisions that got overlooked or given a pass because the context was “he is better than GA” or “the favored son returns and can do no wrong”.
I give him 3 years at MSU and Bray will win more games than him in that span.
There’s an interview with Chiles on Olive behind a paywall. In the first little bit tho it says Chiles asked smith if he was leaving 2 weeks before the ucks game. I couldn’t read any further but definitely shows that players knew quite a bit prior to him announcing.
Smith told chiles to focus on the games going forward. Chiles alludes to only knowing smith was leaving until after the CW. Chiles is running interference, he also took a shot at our fans,
“Playing in front of 75,000, 80,000 compared to 30,000, and then the love and support you get out here (East Lansing), and how invested everyone just is,” Chiles said. “He didn’t really have to sell me too much”. fuck him too.
I understand that, but the jabs by both Smith and Chiles don’t sit right with me. If they want to leave then leave but don’t use some offhanded comments to justify your decision. It’s a bad look especially to the team and fans you walked away from.
Also sounded like Traitor Smith asked him to go well before he entered the portal too. Clearly some tampering but NCAA cares more about buying a kid a fucking cheeseburger than coaches leaving, gutting a team of players and staff and having illegal conversations with said players. Personally don’t think Smith lasts more than 3-4 years there. Either he has some form of success and goes to a better job or he’ll be mid to lower finishes in B10 and MSU moves on.
Good point. He said smith talked to him about going to Lansing shortly after the CW which was on November 24. Chiles didn’t enter the transfer portal until December 6.
He’s just a manipulated 18 year old. And JS is the ringleader of the group.
Interesting how Chiles was playing off any recruitment to USC and not really wanting to play for Lincoln Riley in USC because it was too glitzy for his personality but he thinks MSU will be low key and less
Pressure…until Michigan kicks them by 40 again and he has no shot at any real
Success over the next 3 years playing in Lindgrens balanced offense in a defensive league where his bag of tricks won’t work more than a couple
Of times.
Nice backhanded comment about MSU caring more. Good luck when you have 80,000 booing you and your moronic coach after another baffling trick play costs you another game.
At least we know he came to OSU for his veterinarian degree…
He’s scooching those numbers a bit Mich st had an average home attendance of 67k and we had an avg home attendance of 37k so a valid point but not accurate numbers. Plus I’ve seen mich states stadium on tv a couple times. it has that 9am feel to it, no energy. Anyways I hope he enjoys going 4-8 or 3-9 next year
Up above I linked to the source of the Olive interview, Olive just linked to the podcast from a MiSt honk and then, after an hour or so, put it behind a paywall.
“I’m physical. I love attacking my opponents, I have great speed so I can cover as well in coverage and my explosion to the tackle. I also have great IQ, I love watching film.” – 2025 ILB Ioane
Remember a month or so ago that MHVer twitter account dropped some teasers about some unknown “TKO” group who was in discussions with the Big12 about buying their rights if they grew their conference and starting a new streaming service for college football?
Today there was news that TKO group, headed by The Rock, is buying the rights to the WWE and moving them to Netflix.
So maybe there were legs to that rumor.
I could go for Pac/Big football streaming on Netflix.
Dwayne Johnson was announced to TKO’s Board of Directors earlier this week. A WWE star who also happens to be an ex-college football player. He’d bring even more eyes to an eventual college football deal.
Streaming is the future, the P12 Presidents were just too dumb and cowardly to be innovative.
Rich Greenfield (on Bloomberg just now talking about this) brings up some great points about this deal and the landscape of streaming.
In 2020, it was fool’s gold for anyone who wanted to provide content for at-home consumption. You could fall down and make money doing it.
But now that all of that has cleared in the wash, the media companies who are not fully committed to streaming platforms (NBC/CBS/Fox) have spent gobs of money on their platforms, only to be shown how to really do it by Netflix with this deal. Investors will “wake up this morning and see that Netflix has added 13m subs and start thinking these other media executives are just wasting time and money on this.”
Key words he used: being fully committed (like Netflix) and building an infrastructure that will perform into the future.
The whole problem with streaming is there are X number of sports with Y number of conferences and Z number of streaming services. Assuming one streaming service doesn’t monopolize all the sports/conferences, then I have to pay for multiple streaming services to watch more than one sport/conference. It sure feels like cord-cutters aren’t going to save any money in the end.
He is a mercenary and a fool to tout the returning guys and making another run like they just did. He has to know they only have 3 returning starters right? UW had the most 6 year players in the country I think, and multiple guys left for the draft early so they are gutted and will get clobbered in the Big10 anyway.
Smart move to threaten to leave in order to force UW alumni to sweeten the NIL deal.
Daschel reports on the contract between OSU/WSU and the WCC, a few items of interest:
-Deadline for adding baseball to the WCC deal is this Friday
-any NCAA men’s basketball tournament credits earned by Oregon State and Washington State go to the WCC
-The contract does not have an option to extend the agreement beyond the 2025-26 school year.
Transforming the network into a regional sports access channel for the West would be the optimal outcome. The NFL and NBA may both be looking for regional producers for non-national games in the near future. And all schools in the footprint could take advantage of it, just as the 10 will likely need to continue doing.
I don’t understand how so many learned administrators could not see opportunities, even in the short term, with an asset which literally grants exposure.
I would go so far as to have a nightly report with highlights of each day for several sports on several levels within the footprint.
I said in the beggining I could draw a straight line from this to The creation of the State Bank and State Granary of North Dakota. Those farmers were fed up with having to do business on the financiers’ terms, so they collectivized and created two co-ops which gave them the tools to do business on their terms.
After watching a few seasons of Pac12 network produced games vs ESPN/Fox/CBS produced games for the Beavs, it was pretty clear that Pac12 had a higher qualitu product than the other networks, they just didnt have the distribution.
Nobody could see the games that didnt have Comcast/Sling, but they were well done.
And the announcers were much better than the lower tier ESPN crews they’d give us
They should go after Matt Campbell. He is as good as Harbaugh, with a very similar system and 20 years younger.
Hilarious that JS will get overlooked with whoever Michigan hires. I can’t imagine they promote from within when they could just as easily get a top notch coach from the Big12 or ACC, maybe Campbell, Leipold or Klineman from KSt. Norvell would be fun too.
Lanning ain’t going anywhere. He’d have to be a complete psychopath to leave any time soon after all his recent posturing about Oregon being his forever job.
I’ve talked to current/former OSU players who have flat out told me Oregon has reached out to them via back channels (agents) to try to poach them from our roster over the past year. It happens everywhere though. The rules are not written well enough to cover all types of tampering, nor is there much the NCAA has shown they will do to police it anyway.
Bray talked about it on Conzano. He didn’t mention the quacks but said players on the roster and not in the portal are getting calls all day everyday. One of these times, coaches are going to start naming names and schools. It’s going to be great.
I’d bet they promote their OC after being the interim during the suspensions and beating Ohio State. Have to give him a year this late in the cycle, but I also thought Washington would promote their OC. All the big names signed extensions with massive buyouts already this offseason.
Bray and Co pulling out all the stops on the OL Jayden Tuia. Not only had a recent visit in Corvo but DeVan, Gundy and Bray were all in Idaho doing a home visit. DeVan was also there at a home visit on Jan 15th. Considering his “best” offers are from Oregon State, Nevada and Fresno State, you’d hope they could land this guy, especially since he seems like a guy that will need some time to grow and fill out.
I don’t necessarily think it means anybody is leaving. The previous staff was planning on bringing in 5 freshmen so it’s not like they’re taking extra lineman at this point.
That’s too bad. Would be really nice to have him on campus to see what he’s got and how he fits in and if they’re comfortable with him starting. If not they could address it in the portal if they’re not comfortable with what they’ve got.
Men’s basketball enters tonight’s game at legendary Gill as 18.5 pt underdogs. If this was a road game I’d throw life savings at it but being at home…not so fast. We’ll still get the L but think we can cover at home.
Travis Bazanna’s draft stock keeps climbing. Now listed as the #3 prospect in the upcoming draft. Amazing to think this program could potentially produce another #1 overall pick if he keeps improving as he has been every season.
He has to show a lot more power to get to #1, like 20+ home runs with no drop in average. He doesn’t play a premium position so he needs to be elite at all around hitting.
Select excerpts From a WSJ interview/podcast in Eugene, Ore:
“When Measure 110 appeared on the ballot, it gave Oregon voters the chance to make the state another first, the first to decriminalize hard drugs. When we say drugs are decriminalized, what exactly does that mean?
Zusha Elinson: That means that if you are in Portland, Oregon, you could go out in the street and do a line of cocaine and you cannot be arrested and brought to jail. What they can do is give you a citation, but essentially drug possession, possessing small amounts of drugs and even using small amounts of drugs is no longer a crime.
…the argument for decriminalizing has been the same for a long time, which is that advocates say that we rely too much on the criminal justice system to deal with what they view as a public health issue, addiction. So their idea was we’re going to take a public health approach to this, provide people with services, and those people will get services instead of going into the criminal justice system, either into jail, prison, or probation.
Jessica Mendoza: Measure 110 passed with nearly 60% of the vote. The law changed the way law enforcement interacts with drug users in Oregon. Instead of arresting people who use drugs, officers are now supposed to point them toward treatment.
….what the framers of this law said, they said, police, what you can do is hand out these citations to people using drugs or possessing drugs in the street. And the idea behind these citations was they carry a $100 fine. But if the person wants to get out of that fine and not pay it, all they have to do is call an 800 number, a helpline, that will assess them, give them an assessment, and then point them towards services that they might need. And I think the people who wrote the law hope that these citations would be a little bit of an incentive for people addicted to drugs to seek out services.
…I think it’s a really fascinating story because in some ways Oregon was bold and brave and went out in front of everyone and said, “We’re going to try out this approach that hasn’t been tried in the US.” That’s fascinating that a state would do that. At the same time, you’ve seen places like Washington say, “No, we’re not going to decriminalize drugs either.” I think especially with the way the fentanyl epidemic has ravaged our country, it’s going to make people think twice about passing this type of law.”
Portugal shifted it to looking at it as a medical problem, and that being the proper intervention, as opposed to a criminal problem. It has less to do with cultural norms, and more about differences in healthcare systems.
They disrespect the flag and everyone who died for it by flying it at a game, they thank you for your service, and they tell you all to fuck off, if you’re an American.
MAGA can lick my asshole after beany bean chili night… and I won’t even get into their Nazi propaganda lip-synchs.
Because they wanted to see how the shift in interventions would work out. The problem is 49 states look at it differently, and it will require a change at the federal level. Also, our healthcare system sucks and it turns out that can’t be relied on as part of the solution.
Neither jailing or whatever OR is doing are solutions. It’s just a matter of hiding the problem or keeping it plain sight. Unfortunately, hiding it helps the economy. Revealing it doesn’t.
Drug abuse is a mental health issue like so many other things. Availability of drugs is the determining factor between drug addiction and some other form of addiction.
The left wanted it the right did not, like anyone would honestly think. Now they want to repeal it but with the amount of activist state judges the druggie apologists will probably sue to block it and win.
They won’t sue legislators they will sue to block anything that changes the law as it is was originally written. One of the original advocates said as much when possible changes to the law were being talked about as early as October.
They can try to challenge it in court after it’s passed, but the law allows for legislators to change ballot measures after the fact, so good luck to them.
It’a pretty sweet. I can go to safeway in my semi-suburban Portland area neighborhood and most days see a bunch of junkies shooting up or piles of discarded needles in plain sight.
The store was getting ripped up left and right too, so now it’a guarded like fort knox and has multiple layers of barriers to get in or out of the store(stuff we never had until the past couple few years)
The money that was supposed to be saved on law enforecement is supposedly going towards treatment. But the majority of street junkies dont want to seek out treatment.
Oh…and since Oregon loosened up their laws, junkies from all over the west coast have flocked here. It’s easier to be a junkie when youre not beeing harrassed by law enforcement, so Oregon gets an influx of junkies and their burned out motorhomes.
I’m a lefty or whatever people want to call me, but I voted no.
I had 2 brothers who battled addicition when they were younger. One was able to recover but the other has permanent brain damage from crystal meth and LSD use primarily. He’ll never function like normal again.
It’s pretty insane that we tolerate some of these substances in our communities and watch people waste away.
It’s a mental health problem(addiction), but like Beav in OH said above, the availability and tolerance of the hardcore substances like meth/fentynal is really what causes the addicts to spiral.
Treatment and counseling are definitely necessary. The stupid part about the new law is making the treatment optional. They need a combination of incarceration and mandatory treatment. But in order for that to be effective at this point you also need to increase the number of police on the street by 5-10x.
Whatever.
It’s like people don’t know what living in a city is like, especially when human support services are, “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps, Munchausen.”
If Portland wasn’t burned to the ground, it would be overrun by immigrant junkies with used needles that will certainly give abortions to all non-gay fetuses.
The ebbs and flows of drug availability and use have nothing to do with the prosecution of the end user.
It never did.
It never will.
If you want to have a frank discussion about gun and human trafficking, then you don’t want to talk about some of the more lenient tax policies we’ve been experiencing for the last 40 years.
Granted, Oregon is really low to start with, compared to places like Indiana or Ohio. And the rate ebbs and flows with the crime rate.
And I would advocate more for the disabled in these instances, since cops seem unable to de-escalate those encounters with more frequency. But they should really be finding the sources of supply, not bothering with dealing with these individuals.
The primary source of failure was obvious when the law was passed–there isn’t enough funding for support services to handle the process.
People want to whine about the problems in society, but they don’t want to pay for some pretty easy solutions that would make life better.
“We expect nothing but bringing a national championship home this year,” sophomore infielder Mason Guerra said.
Some years, that goal seems more realistic than others, and this appears to be one of those years. The Beavers have star power, a loaded lineup, a deep pitching staff, endless experience, a touted freshman class, key transfer additions and a hunger to return to Omaha for the first time since 2018, when Oregon State won its last national championship.
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Hitting coach Ryan Gipson says the Beavers have the potential to be the best offense in the history of the storied program, and Guerra and Turley are predicting that the team will break the home run record again.”
No real discussion RE coaching, Canham’s development or lack thereof(?), and of staff…
Ya they’re definitely going to be one of the tougher opponents on the schedule as expected but these are big time gets that are plug and play. It would be good for the Beavs if Boise had a good season and we beat them. Got to come in and beat Boise the first year to control the narrative that we’re still a P5 team.
MBB hanging in there with Arizona, only down 44-36 at halftime. I haven’t been paying too close attention, but the Beavs haven’t gone on their signature scoring drought yet, so they’re either saving it for the second half or bucking the trend tonight.
You are welcome Beaver Nation. I saw the halftime score, was tempted to listen to the 2nd half but promptly forgot to even find the stream. If I had tuned in it surely would’ve become a 2nd half debacle instead of a miracle win.
Tinkle still needs to gracefully bow out.
Someone on ab was going to place a bet that the beavs wouldn’t lose to Arizona by 18 as the betting sites predicted – thought they’d lose but not by 18 and would bet accordingly. Curious to know if he/it/whatever followed through. If so, let us know how it turned out.
Maybe MBB can use this win as a springboard. Confidence is such a huge factor in basketball and from seeing the trend in scoring differential, it seems like theirs has been drained by getting blown out in conference play.
“OSU guard Jared Cunningham even helped decorate the Beavers’ 76-75 win over the Elite Eight bound Wildcats of 2010-11 with a one-handed, high-flying dunk in which TV play-by-play announcer Kevin Calabro yelled gushingly that “Jared Cunningham kisses the sky!”
I remember that one. Calabro was such a great radio guy, loved him calling the Sonics with Payton, Kemp et al…”Nothing! But crisp! Clean! Cotton!”
In 2000 I was playing in the Rec center with a student ticket in my pocket for the AZ game. I was on a bit of a heater, and decided to keep playing instead of going to the game and watching another beatdown. When I got to my apartment, I turned on Sportcenter just as they were replaying the Deaundra Tanner buzzer beater. I was practically across the street when it happened.
I tuned the TV off at halftime last night and went to bed. Laid there for about 15 minutes and remembered that game 23 years ago…decided to go back downstairs just to make sure Beavers were actually headed towards their expected second half collapse.
i was in the student section for the Dino Tanner buzzer beater. Nearly got crushed by the fans running over each other to get to the court.
Was also in the stands a year or 2 before that where we had #1 Arizona on the ropes, but our center (forgetting his name, Todd something) missed both free throws to ice it and Miles Simon drove the length of the court and finger rolled in the game winner at the buzzer off the rebound. That was such a bummer, Beavs had that one in the bag.
Speaking of getting crushed in a crowd. The 1998 CW overtime field rush was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been a part of. I can easily see how people get trampled to death in crowds like that. I could barely keep my feet underneath me, I was basically getting rag-dolled for a few minutes.
was at that game too. was a nice time to be a student, several fun upsets
That Civil War game was dangerous. I saw people in the student section finish a beer bottles and then just check the empty glass bottle up into the crowd ahead of them. could have easily hit someone in the head with that.
I was also at the game (can’t remember which one it was now?) where the goal posts got knocked down and one of the uprights hit a girl in the head down on the turf. I think that one resulted in a pretty serious injury. It got wild at times.
Since we’re waxing nostalgic on past Beaver great events, I’ll give you mine. We had been ranked fairly high all season (’80-’81) and were #1 in the polls going into the ASU game. I had been able to get tickets (after camping out all night) and was sitting with the rest of guys in some fairly decent good seats in Gill. For whatever reason, the team came out flat and was getting an ass beating by ASU early on and the crowd was having none of it. I couldn’t see what happened, but somebody further down in front threw something onto the court, disrupting play. Ralph stopped the game and grabbed a floor mic, looked up into the stands and pointed to some kid a few rows away that was winding up to toss something out and said, “I’ll have you, Junior” – I had no doubt in my mind that Ralph would’ve jumped into the stands and grab who ever it was.
We may have had an awful football team (attended every home game for five years), but I was there for some legendary
basketball. Ralph Miller was a hell of a coach.
Here’s another you guys might find humorous. Being in a fraternity, it was always a big deal to ‘rush’ an athlete. One year we were lucky and got two, one guy was a football player from Sedro Woolley, WA and the other was a basketball player from Marysville, CA. The basketball player was a 7 footer, believe it or not, and the problem arose of there were no beds long enough to accommodate him in the house, so we had to purchase a longer bed for him. It worked out, but I think he was there for just a year.
The basketball player would tell us about practice with Ralph Miller. Generally, it consisted with Ralph wearing a suit, sitting in a folding chair, with a lit ‘More’ cigarette, observing from center court, while the team went through their basics: lay-ups, passing, etc. The one thing that Ralph abhorred was the bounce-pass; there was hell to pay if you ever made one – if you were going to pass the ball, it better not ever touch the floor. If you look back at videos of those old games, you’ll never see a bounce-pass.
One day at practice, the basketball player was doing a one-on-one with one of the starters and blocked a shot. Ralph looked up at him from the chair and said “good job, monster.” That’s about as good as you ever got in the way of compliments, but Ralph was a great coach and the players would play for him – he got the best out of them.
Beavs baseball is officially Independent for 2025. I believe today was the final date to solidify any sports to be part of the WCC. Gotta be a good indicator that we’ve got some semblance of a tough schedule…if there wasn’t much there I don’t know if you could risk assuming games will materialize vs taking a more guaranteed schedule in WCC regardless of the caliber of teams.
Sounds like Pat Casey is involved in the scheduling effort.
I feel comfortable with him being involved. He knows exactly what is needed and how to get it.
ha, my bad. i was reading the quotes from earlier today and it says “Oregon State Pat Casey Head Baseball Coach Mitch Canham”
They got me with that job title
Last night was the game Oregon State basketball fans have been waiting for the last 3 years. The big question is can they build off this? There is not a lot of hope given Tinkles absolutely abysmal road record the last 3 years. But it’s clear this team has the pieces to be a winning basketball team. It all depends on if Rataj, Bilodeau and Akanno can play like they do at home on the road. If they win on Saturday, they should be carrying some real momentum into next week. If they lose. Well, they might as well pack it in for the season. But they looked fantastic in the second half. 7 of their 9 losses are Q1 or Q2. And many of them are road or neutral site games. Can they find a way to win consistently in conference AND on the road? We’ll see I suppose. ASU is a winnable game though. Especially at home.
Per Bill Oram: In his ninth year at the helm, Tinkle has won a higher percentage of his games than any OSU coach since Jim Anderson and more games total than anyone since Ralph Miller.
Tinkle has won a higher percentage of his games than any OSU coach since Jim Anderson
Ummm… no. This factoid is true, if we replace Jim Anderson with Craig Robinson.
Does this Bill Oram fellow know how to find and read numbers? Tinkle blew past Jim’s win% and is headed for John’s win%.
Fun fact:
Jim Anderson and Jay John both coached for 169 games. 169 is two more games than Wayne Tinkle has losses at OSU.
Good Lord, is Tinks some kind of Voo-Doo Oracle who has cast a spell over the Oregon media? What a bunch of slanted bullshit. Tinkle is responsible for two of the worst seasons in Beav hoops history. Going for an elite eight team to a 3-28 record should say enough about his coaching and recruiting abilities. Is there any other Power 5 coach out there who would still have a job with this record? He has two seasons with a combined 8-55 record, think about that!
Sorry Bro but you are delusional if you actually think anything good comes from that game. It is a definite outlier and the trend is not good. Tinkle destroys the fundamentals of any talented players and messes up the rest mentally because he doesn’t have a clue how to put guys in good situations.
I like seeing the big win and the upset victories but that is kind of the point. Tinkle will never be leading the pac and the hunted, his teams are always in the underdog role trying to pull off the upset.
Tinkle hasn’t even sniffed a PAC12 championship except for the Elite 8 run. He has the 3 worst season records in school history. He has an extension that was foolhardy by Barnes and handcuffs any effort to move on from him. This is why OSU basketball has been reduced to: hoping for the big upset once in a while and watching dreadful basketball the other 90% of the time.
I’ll pass on any talk of Tinkle being carved next to Ralph and Slats on the OSU Mount Rushmore of great coaches. Don’t even float it. He is a disaster and has reduced OSU to a shadow of what it once was.
Same here, Tinks isn’t fit to carry Ralph’s cigarette smellin’ jock.
From the statistics can be misleading file:
–He has the 3 worst season records in school history.
–Tinkle has won a higher percentage of his games than any OSU coach since Jim Anderson and more games total than anyone since Ralph Miller.
hmmm
At the half, Hunter doing her Paurova act, hasn’t missed yet. Leads good gals with 12 pts.
32-30 Beavs.
Beers, again, misses 2 FT’s, the only FT’s so far tonight.
I doubt he’s the one responsible for some of its design.
Ftr, don’t put crown molding on cabinets that aren’t full uppers. Don’t put horizontal tile on a vertical axis in wet areas… because it’s different.
And try to keep roof cuts to a minimum.
Also, if you’re going to take pics of the house for promos, you probably don’t want to include a shoe tree and a rack of hangers. One of the bedrooms looks like there should be a closet where there isn’t one.
Who knew Jack was not just a philosopher but also an architect, interior designer, cabinet maker, floor tile man, and realtor?
Very informative post Jack. I might guess you just have a lot of opinions to share but on these you seem to have a more specific interest.
FYI real estate listings can come in all shapes and sizes depending on your market. Shoe racks, Knick knacks, messy bedrooms, dishes in the sink, toiletries all over the bathroom can be the norm the norm in some markets.
FYI… never actually did realty.
But turnkey design-builds are a thing, believe it or not.
The landscape design can’t really be criticized too much. People rarely spend what they should on utility (slope remediation) and design function. And HOA’s or local governments are loathe to either spend the money on it or force developers to do so.
Not to throw cold water on MBB’s big win against AZ, but I don’t think the Pac 12 is very good this year in hoops and think AZ is over rated. Still a good win for the guys.
Yawn. No more MBB talk for me. It’s always the same like Groundhog Day every season and nothing will change with Tinkle.
I’m looking forward to baseball season, not going to waste anymore energy on Big Tinks and his merry band of young players…
Beavs get a late commitment for 202r with edge/TE Kai Richardson. Don’t know much about him aside he’s from WA and I suspect has ties to Tracy Ford. Saw a post of his from July 2023 where he was ranked a 2* TE. I assume he’s gotta be a PWO with how our current scholarship numbers are.
I think the announcers said they swept the Washington schools in February 2021. Horrendous foul shooting or they would be winning by 25. I think about 20 for 40 at the line. Up 14 with about 90 seconds left, but Tinks took Pope out for some reason and they are struggling to get the ball inbounds.
East explanation when you understand Tinkles approach. Now that Pope is the undisputed best player on the team, Tinkle will begin messing with his mind and “toughen” him up mentally by benching him periodically for no apparent reason. Thus Pope is a cinch to depart in the off-season and Tinkle gets to start over with a new nucleus and new guards. Built in excuses and textbook strategy for journalists to buy into and write about Tinkle as a program builder.
Hopefully Iaone’s brother continues to grow quite a bit. He looks like a beast but is only 5’10 240 as a DL. If he can get to the height of his brother the weight will come and hopefully we can see them playing together.
EGGERS with an extensive piece on Pat Casey. Hadn’t heard that he retired from his position as senior associate athletic director and special assistant to athletic director Scott Barnes. He is, however, helping Canham raise funds for a $6 million hitting facility that has begun construction beyond centerfield at Goss.
If I had to guess, I think sharing the RB room with some kid named Jackson might be what is instilling this love.
Jon Ioane didn’t actually play here, though (academics, Juco, then couldn’t enroll again due to academics). So I’m not sure that can be a legacy call. Maybe he knows Devan, since he was in the same class?
A big win is only as good as the next game. Beavs followed through with a nice win. Is this a turning point? History says no with the massive road woes.
Thats the key. ROAD WINS. UCLA and USC having down seasons to date. If there was ever a chance for OSU to end the road streak this is it. Need AT LEAST one win on the LA trip then I think things could start to get interesting going forward.
The Pac is extremely bipolar. Utah got crushed in Seattle tonight. Buffs lost in Pullman. Arizona won in Eugene. 6 teams are within one game of 1st place.
I’m delighted for the players. There seems to be camerarderie unseen for a couple of years. Anyone know where those hideous guys that refused to play landed? – if they did.
Joel Valsez dropped another YouTube video on throwing session. There’s a new addition to the WR room. Jhae Drummer has been moved from DB to WR. Perhaps one to keep an eye on for spring portal? If they’re trying a new role, doesn’t catch on, perhaps he decides to xfer out.
Lol. Valdez was a xfer last year from Linfield where he put up some awesome numbers but was injured for most this season. Still going thru PT on his knee injury actually. I wasn’t very familiar with Drummer either. RS-FR from state of alabama i believe.
I would hope so. Didn’t see Clemons but it was hard for me to recognize a lot of them and their nicknames. Didn’t realize Valdez has 2 more years. He looks like he works really hard so hopefully he can get healthy and earn some playing time.
That’s no reason in a wide open receiver room he can’t show he’s a D1 athlete and earn playing time. So was Mike Hass. I’m not saying he’s Mike but I could see him as being a reliable target as a role player. Probably blocks extra hard. Noga was a walk on too until he earned a scholly. He’s looked good in his limited opportunities.
Seeing one NFL scout/talent guy thinking Gould could have one of the top 40 times in the draft. All I cam think about is how the fuck could we not take better advantage of a guy who will likely post a top 40 time? Same with Bolden. Rarely saw any crossing routes, more motion or fly sweeps, etc. Criminal what Lindgren did with that group.
Beav gals up by 17 at the half. How ’bout points off of TO’s………..8-0 Beavs! a seldom seen stat for these gals!
Rees leads Beavs vs her old school with 12 pts in 15 minutes.
There’s a video floating around X of Gould making some nice plays at some kind of nfl draft thing. It would be great if he had success but be a kind of wtf about him not being more productive here. If he’s so fast how come they could never get him deep over the top of the defense? Especially with Martinez and the running game and them bringing safeties into the box.
Because he was easy to bump off stride and couldn’t fight through physical corners. Everyone played it the same, and refs don’t look for those calls to help OSU.
Speed isn’t everything for a WR. There are plenty of WR’s with good 40 times out there, even at the FCS level. You see lots of obscure names pop up at the NFL Combine every year with good measurements that might get drafted in the late rounds, but never make it.
There’s too many variables to judge on why he didn’t break out. Large part is the play calling and play design. Looking at pre draft one on one videos is not a good comparison to actual play.
I’d be more interested in it than KC/Kelce/Swift love fest people are going to suffer through…the Kelce Bros and Swift probably top my list of annoying celebrities..
And think of the consolation bowl tagline: “Someone has to win!”
If the women’s teams keeps it up, they could lock up a top 16 seed. Beavs are hosting the Portland site this year. Half of the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 will be played there. Possible the Beavs don’t leave the state if they get on that side of the bracket. Big home court advantage.
The ESPN comment got me to thinking about the PTN and its future and the whole streaming landscape of the future.
The only thing that disturbed me with the Apple deal was the comment by the Apple exec (maybe even Cook himself?) about them owning the product, once produced and distributed. That just never sounded kosher.
I briefly wondered about what other streaming entities were out there, and I was frustrated to think ESPN or Amazon might be the only alternatives. Then I decided I just wanted to check baseball news and see when (2/16) our first game was. No surprise… it’s in Surprise. But it’s available on a site we’re all familiar with–FloSports.
What if Pac 12 Network production was available on FloSports?
It could start as just third-tier rights, meaning it would be all the Olympic sports that fit in with their method–vertical sports access, not regional sports access. And I know the Big 12 has no third-tier deal, which is why some of the 10 will need to find the same kind of deals on their own. Many teams in that conference and others already have some deals in place with them, and they’ve been making bigger investments in college sports in recent years.
As linear dies, it would become home to all sports streaming, and it could just be a standalone app.
Partnering with a platform that still has a lot of room to grow but is highly experienced in the field could make the sum worth more than the parts.
Sort of. There are plenty of coaches that will explicitly say “we want to run x, y, and z.” JS/BL did when they came in and WT is infamously married to his style.
There are pluses and minuses to both approaches, but especially when you’re rebuilding a roster, you need to be flexible.
I like the approach of tailoring the offense to the talent available especially in the first couple of years when you don’t necessarily have your recruits yet. Also the part of playing a receiver or TE based on talent and getting the RB the ball on the run game. It’s cool to hear he was very involved in the game planning of the offense.
Yes, getting the ball in space to the RBs other than a hand-off would be nice. Hopefully that’s one area that we can improve on with a better ball from the QB and better hands by the RB. Definitely was a trouble area last season for sure. We weren’t super accurate on the swings and screens and when we did have a good toss we dropped them. Getting Jam back will help and perhaps Hankerson(?), xfer from Colorado, has better utility in that regard.
“We might have to throw it 50 times. We
Might not. We will take what the defense gives us and go from there”
Paraphrasing obviously. But I didn’t like that comment. If you HAD to throw it 50 times in a non run and shoot offense it’s probably because you fell so far behind you had to completely abandon the run.
What ever offense they utilize it SHOULD be run first based.
Coach speak & short summary aside, I feel like he has an idea of what he would like to do, but has not fully explored his roster yet on the field.
That won’t be until later.
Re: running game. Without reading too deeply, he seems aware of where the offensive strengths of the roster are:
“…We’re going to pull some things maybe look the same in the run game…”
“…Do I want to throw the ball? Yes, I do. But I’m not going to be silly about it. We’re going to be efficient and smart and try to keep things as simple for our guys as possible. And I think if we can keep things simple for our players, that gives you the ability to reduce turnovers. If we can be multiple and create issues for the defense, while still making our process simple, then we can create explosive plays…”
“…It could be spread triple option, like you’ve seen Chip Kelly do. It could be passes with run options…”
“…Obviously we know what he’s good at, and we’ve got to develop some other areas to get him the football. I’m really excited about Damien…”
“… I believe in getting the running back out when you can get them out of protection. I believe in free releasing the running back, getting them the ball. Maybe it’s first in a progression, whereas if they’re blocking or involved in the protection they might be fifth in the progression. In the screen game, I think that’s another way that we can get them the ball some. I am all for it…”
IDK, he could’ve easily gone somewhere else this year even for more $. I’d hate for him to go but I think from his perspective, if he wants to cash out and perhaps get a better chance to thrive in an actual offensive system, he should xfer. Although, if Akano isn’t hogging the ball, Pope could toss up as many shots as he wants to since we have no actual plays to call. Watching a WT offensive scheme is just ever so slightly more put together than pick-up games we used to play as kids with a bunch of random bodies on the court.
I guess I don’t understand the role assistant coaches play. Does Tinkle keep his because they don’t challenge him? They all should know basketball well enough to formulate plays. Canzano interview with Pope (before the Arizona State game): What were you thinking in those late seconds? Pope, “I hoped he wouldn’t call a time-out.” Hilarious! Maybe, maybe, if the team starts to do well, Tinkle will feel he can retire on a good note. If the team continues to continue to do well, I hope Barnes isn’t inspired to extend his contract.
You’d hope. Tinkle has always been acutely aware of his detractors (maybe he reads AB!) Part of me thinks the reason he’s continuing on here is he wants to be vindicated that his approach works. After last week, the temptation will be there to say “we can beat anyone in this league when we execute how we want to.”
In a loooooooong shot scenario where resumes matter, one silver lining is we escaped the non-con schedule with no Q4 losses.
“14. New Orleans Saints: OL Taliese Fuaga, Oregon State
There used to be fewer higher priorities in the Big Easy than O-line, especially the interior. Massive Fuaga (6-6, 334) could bolster the inside blocking immediately and perhaps shift out to his more familiar right tackle post over time.”
Another week, another story about an NCAA football program(Tennessee) being “investigated” for alleged NIL violations and committing major recruiting violations.
And nothing will come of it. This story could be written about any blue blood team. The NCAA has already shown they will do nothing to offenders, and the teams will keep breaking the rules. And also, nobody knows what the rules are.
Yeah the NCAA is a joke! A few years ago Mizzou self reported to the NCAA about tutors doing homework and taking tests for a few football players. Mizzou got the book thrown at them with loss of some scholarships and not being bowl eligible. North Carlolina’s mens basketball was caught doing the same thing. They denied it multiple times until evidence came out proving that it did happen. What punishment did Roy Williams Tar Heels get? Loss of scholarships? Nope! Not eligible for the tourney? Nope! The proverbial slap on the wrist!
What kind of hire is this? Here is an excerpt from an article on why he was fired from New Mexico in November. You are telling me there wasn’t any other candidates who were above this guy?
“Christian, 51, was hired in January 2020 as a member of Gonzales’ inaugural staff. Over his first three seasons, he oversaw special teams units that were rated 65th (2020), 104th, (2021) and 67th (2022) in the country, per Pro Football Focus’ grading system.
Now graded as PFF’s 128th overall unit, UNM’s special teams have struggled in 2023. The Lobos gave up three 40-plus yard punt returns in a 56-14 loss to UNLV on Saturday and have now allowed eight 20-plus yard returns – the most of any team in the country”
According to Idaho State web site, a Junior in 2023, played in all 11 games but accumulated zero stats. No stats the year before either. So a guy with one maybe two years of eligibility left who didn’t accumulate any stats on the FCS level? Who’s he related to?
Unless Throckmorton, BG and Montiel all xfer, I don’t necessarily see this guy being on the roster for QB depth. Makes more sense he’s here for Special Teams and I guess in the event of an emergency situation with a bunch of injuries you have someone who’s played QB on the roster.
Nothing too exciting. Laif Palmer is out for a while which is a bummer as he was hyped a bit. Kmatz seems to be on track to start the year.
Both coaches and players said Segura could be an impact freshman pitcher. All are confident in the offense. Lots of power but they’ll need to get on base to make those really hurt the other teams. Pitching seems like they have a lot of talent, and a lot of options. But no lights out Friday night guy.
I think May might have the best “stuff” of the potential 3-4 starters but has had control issues. I think Jimenez showed last year he could have the true Friday Ace that we’ve typically had up until last year. Sellars was so frustrating last year. Had like 3 really amazing starts but then the rest of the year was lit of the game after the 3rd. Really need our starters to give those quality starts again. Perhaps the days of a starter going 7+ innings are no longer the norm but we need to have our starters go longer than 3 or 4 innings…which most of them struggled to do last year.
Billionaire megadonor $$$$$$ incoming for BeaverNation?!!? Uncle Phil will be remembered as Uncle Festus if the Nvidia guy jumps into OSU sports and tech.
One day, maybe the Phighting Phils will be a preferred client of Nvidia, the largest sponsor of collegiate ethletics. But everyone will drool over our facilities.
Interesting development on the Portland Diamond Project. Appears they may have some agreement to purchase RedTail golf course and its property if they do get selected as an expansion/destination city. Not that many of the proposed locations were amazing to get to but dam, that I-5/217 interchange area was awful to navigate when I lived there 13 years ago. RedTail was a fun course but so fucking busy. It’d take 5-6 hours to play a round of golf there.
it isn’t just that if a team moved to Portland they would be Oakland A’s level bad, or that a stadium would require a roof, or that the Mariners could probably quash the idea like a bug if it ever came close to reality – but I don’t understand the concept of local people trying to find a place to build a stadium without a team on the hook.
I have to think those who have donated tens of thousands of dollars on this deal have some other way of making it “pay off” for them – both on the long term and the short term – real estate pump and dump I’m guessing. it just seems pointless. They’d be better off focusing their time on making sure the Hillsboro Hops don’t leave. https://ballparkdigest.com/2023/10/27/deadline-for-new-hillsboro-hops-ballpark-financing-pushed-to-next-march/
I read that UO only has 3 games in the midwest next year? UW, UCLA, USC should all be either rebuilding or mediocre next year, right? Pretty favorable schedule for UO?
Michigan could be a little down too with coaching change and exiting players. They obviously have a deep talented team tho and the coach should be a fairly easy transition.
Too bad the lame PAC12 officials would throw the flag on Fuaga for unnecessary roughness and probably holding. How many times did they kill drives with penalties because he was that much better and it just looked bad to their eyes.
Yeah, I remember a holding call replay or two where the announcers had nothing to say, but didn’t point out how ridiculous the call was either…like they were almost embarrassed. Probably PAC network and PAC refs…
Question for those of you that follow Beaver baseball how the pitching is looking for this year? I know that they don’t have many lefties which is unfortunate but curious to how it stacks up. The lineup is supposed to be really good so I’m hoping they’ll have the pitching to back it up.
Nix struggling so far at Senior Bowl practices…nit just throwing 0-5 yard bubble screens…Herbert surprised me with how quickly he adapted to NFL…maybe Nix will too. Only a few days of practice…
Interesting offer yesterday, to a former Okalahoma player who has a somewhat checkered past.
2022 4* Edge rusher Kevontae Henry. Left Oklahoma without ever playing. Had some situation where he refused to accept discipline doled out to him by the team and decided to just leave the team instead. No idea what the discipline was for though.
I’m wondering if he qualifies as a bounce-back, or if he actually has to get a the two-year degree before moving on. Because if it’s the former, then OSU isn’t done with this current class.
According to his twitter, looks like he entered the transfer portal in early December and just now received his second offer. Either he’s very under the radar or a folks are worried about his time at OU. Anyone know who his other offer is?
Arizona’s president, Marty Robbins, was interviewed recently. Says the $240M he lost track of because of a spreadsheet error, is actually more like $140M now. Genius level stuff going on at Arizona.
There’s been a lot written lately about OSU and WSU maintaining support for their athletics programs at a “P5/P4” level. It got me curious how we compare to the Mountain West.
Generally speaking:
The Mountain West ranges between $40M to about $65M per year of athletic expenditures depending on the school. SJSU being an outlier at about $25M or so.
OSU and WSU are at about $85M per year. OSU just above that number and WSU just below.
What I found most surprising was the gap between the Pac 2 and the other 10
The schools going to the Big 12 are in the $120M range (Outlier CU at around $95M)
The schools going to the BIG are in the $145M range (Exception UCLA at around $130M, USC doesn’t report but I’d guess its on the high end)
Pac 2 provides just a little over half the funding Oregon and Washington provide. I looked at this about a decade ago and it was much close, the gap is widening by leaps and bounds.
The numbers make it pretty clear who and why each school ended up where. If OSU and WSU want to get back into a P4 conference it feels like they need to increase athletic expenditures to the $110-$120M range.
Just for further info, I looked at the big 12, they range from $100M to $110M per school. (Outlier is K-state in the $90M range). Even Iowa State is over $100M. I’d think the dollars there would go farther than they would in Corvallis as well.
The schools going to the SEC, Texas and OU in the $200M range
Sounds unsustainable and should continue divorcing sports from university missions. Universities will provide the infrastructure and “manage” the labor pool of another pro league….the American viewer appetite for football is great, but that should decrease over time with the bogus playoffs, market saturation, and changing viewing preferences of up and coming audiences?
Mark, you able to employ your gap-cancellation defense to make-up for the difference in expenditures? Need to get you involved somehow….keep that channel of forward thinking coming!!!!
My gap cancellation scheme is undefeated. I just needed better players. That said, I’m available right now, I can coach corners to never look back at the ball. It’s my trade mark.
“The 6-foot-3, 180-pound quarterback completed 208-of-321 passing attempts for 3,482 yards and 53 touchdowns while throwing just nine interceptions. In three seasons for Wilsonville, Gutridge posted a 58.4% completion percentage while passing for over 5,500 yards and 84 touchdowns with just 17 interceptions thrown. He also rushed for an additional 1,246 yards and 15 touchdowns on the ground.
In his senior season, he led Wilsonville to a 12-1 overall record and a 5A state championship defeating Mountain View 33-31 in the state championship game.”
A lot might depend on if the Beavs have a concrete quality destination and or conference. It’s a good sign he’s interested with everything going on right now.
Ibekwe is just brutal sometimes. Bricks two free throws and then missed a point-blank shot. Gave UCLA a ton of momentum, Bruins up 8 with about 10 minutes left. They’re swarming Pope, someone needs to step up.
He’s brutal most of the time. He’s a liability and Wayne refuses to see it. He’s a disaster in pick and roll defense and has such a low motor. He’s always so passive. There was one play where a guard lost the ball and the ball was at his feet and if he dived for it, it could save the possession but instead he just gave a passive reach and UCLA got the ball. If you’re gonna win a game on the road in a toss up game, you need guys who want it and will fight for it and he isn’t that guy. I’d much rather see Ndong play and experience growing pains than seeing them trot out Ibekwe in crunch time when we know what player he is
Ibekwe missed another front end of a 1 and-1 and then somehow missed a tip right at the rim. Beavs down 6 with 50 seconds left. UCLA was there for the taking in both games.
Ibekwe finished with 0 points and 3 rebounds. Wayne’s inability to find a starting caliber C has been the difference in at least 3 of their losses in conference play. When Pope is trapped like he is tonight, having a big man that can’t finish in the paint or make a half decent pass is just handcuffing your team.
Well, it’s a road game. WT has won like 20 of them in 10 years. Great home stand but people need to come back down to earth and realize that WT usually grabs 1 win each year that are improbable. Can’t win with 6 assists. That’s awful. Shot 57% from the stripe.
When Wayne Tinkle has a successful weekend like last week it is viewed as a new course and good fortune just around the corner by novice observers, or those too hopeful to reflect upon his tenure honestly.
Tinkle success must never be confused with building a program into a long term contender because he simply isn’t a good tactician nor is he program builder.
His successful stretches/weekends/seasons must always be viewed no differently than the following:
-Even a Blind squirrel can find a nut
-A broken clock is right twice a day
And explained by the same factors:
-his own players overcome his weaknesses periodically
-opponents overlook the Beavs as an easy win
-home court advantage at Gill is worth more than we realize
-PAC12 is not the basketball conference it used to be
Tinkle may be a nice guy but he is a fraud as a D1/P5 coach. No way he should still be coaching at OSU, and anyone that still believes he can build a winner is being played for a fool.
See last week’s article: “Is Oregon State not the worst team in the conference anymore???”
I think he’s underrated as a recruiter, but terrible as a tactician. That would explain his relative success at Montana and creates a good analogy of a FCS football coach that wins with superior talent at lower levels, but isn’t able to make the jump to the next level.
I get it’s social media, but Dam, there were some awful takes happening after those 2 wins. “If the Beavs win out, would that get them in the tournament”? WHAT?!! Win out?!! I want what that person was on. Lol.
Especially with relegation to a lesser conference, any good or even decent player will enter the portal. I think some will feel disappointed for having to do so. Jordan Pope will be able to carry his POW, conference and national with him wherever he goes.
“Yawn. No more MBB talk for me. It’s always the same like Groundhog Day every season and nothing will change with Tinkle.
I’m looking forward to baseball season, not going to waste anymore energy on Big Tinks and his merry band of young players…”
Even the top teams in the PAC have been terrible on the road. Let’s face it, anybody playing at home can beat anybody. It’s just bad basketball and the 2-3 teams invited to March madness will flame out early
Thankful to know that the wolves have eliminated the foxes and are now guarding the henhouse for the sake of everyone’s sports enjoyment.
Just released by the advisory committee: “We advise all conferences, athletes, school presidents, administrators, lawyers and government officials to back off of all current and future litigation or we will take matters into our own hands by ending our highly valued affiliation with the NCAA. Our goal is to simply coexist peacefully and make sure that SEC and Big10 interests are at the forefront of any and all decisions in terms of markets share, financial deals, school publicity and player promotion. There will not be anymore questions regarding SEC or Big10 schools “cheating” or “buying” players. Any comments to that effect in the media will be met with immediate action by our publicity arm at ESPN. You will be ridiculed over the nation’s podcast realm by 1000 different voices saying the exact same thing. Any concerns about this joint venture becoming some type of move towards an eventual separate college football product outside of NCAA boundaries, more of an NFL lite product can be dismissed as mere conspiracy theories. Loser conferences and loser programs only entertain such conspiracy theories to distract from their own failures and shortcomings as football losers unlike those of us in the mighty SEC and Big10. We are here to simply preserve all that is good about college football and to avoid any disruptions from well meaning but uninformed lawyers and government officials poking into our storied sport. Any correspondence can be directed to our media offices at ESPN and FOX, they will be happy to set you straight on the current situation and how important SEC and Big10 are to all of college sports.”
Last visit weekend before the late signing period.
Beavs will have unsigned 2024 commit Eddie Freauff on campus for his official visit, and then several PWO guys will be visiting as well.
There should be a few unofficial visitors from the 2025/2026 class too.
Yahoo sports has an article with a new perspective on the Fox guarding the henhouse SEC/Big10 advisory board.
It goes something like this:
They have to do something before the Supreme Court steps in and destroys all college athletics! The old booster rules of amateur athletics has gone by the wayside and NCAA hasn’t kept up with the times and doesn’t even punish cheaters with any consistency so this board will not replace the NCAA but is championing a proactive approach to the present conditions and seeks new solutions. It isn’t really about SEC/Big10 but somebody had to take the lead…
My view is the whole thing is spin for a bunch of self serving administrators and universities seeking to corner the revenue into their limited chosen programs.
It is a ruse and the super conference is within 1-2 years.
Big12 commish Brett Yornak can’t be sleeping well after this and he needs to begin the process of either joining them or breaking it up. Big12 will be on the outside of the advisory board interests.
I fully expect this will trigger several big swings by BY to expand and stabilize the Big12 as a national footprint partnership with most of the big time mens bball programs and a football conference of 30-40 schools becoming its own lower tier competitive brand and less “NFL-lite” than the SEC/Big10 will become.
PAC2/OSU has its war chest, tv network and plenty of leverage to become a major factor in what is coming. Hopefully President Murthy was at Nvidia last week and actually was engaging in talks regarding tech, and bonafide funding for a Nvidia/OSU partnership.
What if OSU partnered with Nvidia and created an expansive top of the line Esports arena and complimented it with full streaming and production capabilities as a content filler through the PAC2 network and streaming rights, sold advertising, rights merchandise related to it as an OSU linked product?
OSU could be at the front end of a new type of viewing demographic. I’d guess there are many times more
Kids interested in video gaming tournaments than major college football.
It would make sense that college football is shrinking as the boomer generation ages.
Video games are the new national
Pasttime and also a worldwide
Market.
Reser could easily host drone races, with the concourses set up the way they are. For gamers, any number of set-ups could do for an arena setting. Major tournaments get ridiculous numbers approaching 100 million unique streamers.
And we can start off with some JUCO players, while the first couple recruiting classes develop. https://esccl.com
Fuaga has solidified his first round grade at the senior bowl. With a good workout at the combine, he could move into consideration for the 1st or 2nd tackle off the board. Best fit is for teams that want to run the ball.
If Tinks is such a big man guru, why the hell does Ibekwe continue to get minutes? First three minutes, Ibekwe badly mistimes the center jump, barely reaches for a loose ball in the lane that USC gets, and then gets stuffed on a point-blank layup and the ball goes out of bounce off his body. Beavs already down 12-5, I’m thinking zero road wins. I have to laugh at all the stupid hype of the Arizona schools sweep.
When Eubanks spent his time not developing, with the skills he did have, it was pretty obvious neither Tinks nor Rupp were going to do anything worth anything with the bigs.
Beavs are down by 25 to USC in the second half. USC hasn’t beaten a high major opponent by more than 14 all season and had lost 11 of 14 and 6 in a row. This is the Wayne Tinkle special. Anywhere else and he wouldn’t be employed tomorrow morning
So 3 out of 4 road games are +25 pt losses in the last 3 weeks?
Extensions are delusional and near criminal at this point. Tinkle is just stealing money from OSU. Such a poor product. Get out already. Need a big donor to just buy the guy out. Trying any number of high school coaches at a much lower salary would be better than why Tinkle is selling.
I was a little surprised to see The Oregonian reporting that Tinkle still has three years on his contract and if I was understanding correctly the buyout would be 8.7 million. I guess I was wishfully thinking that it was fewer years and money!
We’ve lost all our road games by an avg of 16.5 pts a game heading into today’s match-up. Anyone expecting a different performance is delusional at this point.
In the latest “news of the [sports media] world” segment, the WSJ has a story about Charter cable eclipsing Comcast as the leading cable TV provider. A few excerpts worthy of attention:
“About 55 million US households still pay for traditional television, down from a peak of about 100 million a decade ago. Part of that decline was caused by the rise of web-based alternatives such as YouTube TV, FUBO TV and others, which have about 18 million subscribers combined.”
Comcast lost “nearly 13% [of its subscribers] in the past year.” It is also “working to grow its Peacock streaming service, where it is moving more content” [like Big 10 football]. The recent NFL playoff game was seemingly a successful experiment, to wit: the addition 2.8 million Peacock subscribers “over a three day period made it the single biggest subscriber-acquisition moment.”
That, of course, is the kicker, (and I don’t mean Sappington): “Sports had long remained the biggest–and one of the last–draws of traditional television. But many sporting events have moved exclusively to streaming in recent years.”
Unless I read that report wrong, it said baseball lost money. How does are baseball program lose money with the crowds they draw and deep runs into the playoffs?
Daschel (not behind paywall, yet) discusses the NCAA Financial Report for OSU. The report can probably be found elsewhere too.
A couple notes:
– football and men’s basketball were the only sports to produce a net profit. Football’s surplus was $16.51 million, while men’s basketball’s profit was $754,033. The sport with the largest deficit was women’s basketball at $3.18 million, followed by women’s rowing at $1.84 million and baseball at $1.82 million.
-Ticket revenue for Baseball was No. 2 at $1.44 million, more than men’s and women’s basketball ($1.28 million) combined.
-Sports camps generated $1.5 million for the school. The top producing sport was volleyball at $274,584, baseball was a close second at $268,691.
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Highlights look a lot like Johnson’s. Less arm strength and maybe less explosive as an athlete. Little guy who does almost all his damage on the run. There’s very little true pocket passing in his highlight film (which is really fun, for the record).
Here’s the scouting report – As a QB he’s not a FBS college prospect. Main thing, he is small and lacks arm strength. Very few of his throws would work at the FBS level. He would not be able to fit throws into tight windows.
What he is a great PWO offer candidate. I’d switch him to WR and let him develop for a couple years. He is elusive running with the ball and maybe he can develop more speed. QB’s generally have good hands too. Slot, scatback type of player.
Grubb must have a really good agent. He squeezed UW last year for a raise when he was rumored as Sabans choice for OC. Then he delays for a few days before joining DeBoer at Bama this year and now he is floating rumors that he never sold his Seattle home and may jump to Seahawks. I’m sBama boosters are cutting checks right now to keep him. He needs to hit the jackpot now because Milroe throwing 50 passes per game will get him run out of Tuscaloosa
Bama doesn’t need him, there’s no shortage of guys who want to be the Bama OC and will do it just as well and for less money. Lot of former NFL OCs are looking for work right now
Didn’t realize quite how big our WR 2024 signees will be this week. Durant is 6’2″ and Freauff is 6’4″.
Freauff’s a bit of a mystery because he missed almost his entire senior year with an injury. And his older tape basically shows a guys who i just bigger and faster than the other kids in his league out in central Oregon.
Could be one of those hidden gem type athletes we’ve been hoping for
I kind of agree. I didn’t realize he played at such a low level. He has good hands and size but it’s hard to tell how fast he is because the other talent is so poor. The kids look very small.
His tape is impressive, no matter the talent he’s going against, mostly because he was making great adjustments to throws that just weren’t great.
Then he would manage to catch it with sticky fingers and keep his feet. He’s just sort of a freak.
Eddie Freauff visit appears to be going well. Dad posted that corvallis is special and program is building strong. Sounds like the 2 remaining targets are good to go for the next signing period.
WBB playing with fire on the road against the Quacks. Were up 13 in the 2nd quarter. Now only lead 41-39 heading into the 4th. Need to avoid this loss. Oregon is way down this season.
Re the duck center making Beers look small, in post game radio she said it reminded her of playing against her brothers. She didn’t sound intimidated at all.
tough next couple of weeks for the ladies. All ranked opponents. At Colorado and Utah, then UCLA and USC at home. 3-1 in those games would be ideal. Need to split with the mountain schools and sweep the LA schools at home. Thought I read UCLA lost their star player to a knee injury and USC just beat Stanford in Palo Alto on Friday. None of these games will be easy.
Don’t usually follow much womens hoops but they are a lot easier to watch than the shitshow on the mens side.
It’s amazing how you can watch like 2 min of the women’s team and see legitimate plays being ran. Screens. Great passing and creating assists for each other. Then you watch the men’s team and they have 5 assists in the entire game. WT should watch a few of the women’s games.
were the Beavs picked to win the Pac-12 at media days? I never saw anything other than the interviews. D1 baseball picked the Beavs to win the conference
Don’t recall the media days but every publication has the Beavs ranked the highest P12 to start the season so unless there’s home cooking involved, they should’ve been. P12 could be very competitive again this year but I believe most publications only have 3 of them to start in top 25. Beavs, Stanford and Yucks are the 3 I typically see. Might even be a few that left the Yucks out of the top 25 leaving mostly Beavs and Tree.
Yeah, that ship sailed at least a week ago when the Beavs announced their ST coordinator. Interesting he went to Seahawks when there were some people reporting him to San Diego and perhaps even 1 other team as well..not the Seahawks.
Yeah, I knew the ship had sailed, just thought it was interesting. Jay coached with MacDonald at Michigan so the connection is there. The Chargers already had one of the best ST coaches in the NFL so it is a surprise that John stuck with him.
Which is why the offer would have included more responsibility with a title like AHC. Can’t justify paying a ST coach that much. Jay was a S coach last year, btw. But same difference.
If he did land here, my full expectation would be that he would be gone in a couple years.
Thanks I thought guys like Bloomfield, levendgood, cooper, Oladapo, and mccartan, Rawls might have shot in the late rounds but I hadn’t heard anything.
I’d expect a lot of UDFA but seems unlikely to have too many actually drafted. Although, Gould did get the invite to the combine right? Between his punt return in Senior Bowl and potential to show his speed in the combine, he might get himself a late round flyer as well.
Sean Mannions playing days are over. Took a job with Green Bay coaching. Doesn’t say his exact title in the article I read but said he will be working with QBs.
UW 6’3″ TE Curvas enters transfer portal, I don’t think he’d want to move to OSU with its lack if a conference, but curious if anyone thinks Bray and staff might pursue him?
While I’m sure they’d love to grab a TE, I’m curious just how hard they’re going after one. While Gundy didn’t outright say the TE wouldn’t be involved, the offense definitely won’t be nearly as involved with 2 TE sets, etc. Ideally, you’d want a TE with several years left as I think we have some decent talent still despite losing Velling. Would’ve been fun to see Velling stay and see how he could thrive in the new scheme where it would seem to highlight his route and pass catching skillet more than being a blocking TE first.
This seems newsworthy. The National Labor Review Board ruled today that Dartmouth’s Men’s basketball team are considered employees of Darthmouth college, which also gives the men’s team the ability to form a union.
Slippery slope type decision that could end up affecting all of college athletics.
If they are considered employees because they receive scholarships to play a sport, they should have to pay income tax on the value of the scholarship including tuition, room, board, books, and anything else that it covers just like the rest of us. Guess who is working on his income taxes right now.
We funnel debt to overseas interests, and the banksters here make money off the interest and return the principle plus a gated return.
A big part of our national debt is basically us being a credit card for other countries. As long as they keep paying the monthly minimum, our debt looks solid. So if we lose one or some of those payments–due to something like a war of aggression–that will create instability in our markets.
lol… your hair is on fire, because an abjectly stupid trust-fund brat wants that dysfunction to scare the feeble-minded into having their hair on fire.
If you insist on trying to weirdly turn illegal into a subject, 15k doesn’t come close to that number, given inanimate objects would also qualify. You’ll also have to go after the ports, especially the privately controlled ones.
They primarily help with room, books and food. This would’ve been consistent with my brief recruiting experience out of high school to places like Willamette. Not pay for school but give you food and books. Not sure how this equates differently when considering the scholarships kids receive other places. Perhaps there’s some sort of clause in that paperwork that makes the employment aspect of it harder to implement vs what the Ivy League does. Definitely interesting to see what ramifications this has moving forward.
Dartmouth, well known for turning out real blue collar, working class, man on the street types. I hope their trust funds don’t dry up before they are able to form their union
So many new parts between coaches and players. We should start to see what the offense will looks like a week in. With everything going on and so many positions up for grabs should be exciting.
Hopefully just occasionally or last 20 minutes kind of thing. As much as I like getting better practice reports it’s foolish to think teams don’t steal plays and signals. Spring might be more open than fall or weekly prep.
I may be a biased Beaver, but I can get behind a coach who says stuff like this:
“With the talent we have and the schedule we’re going to put together, we have a real opportunity to make an at-large bid in the College Football Playoff,” Bray told his team. “If we win 11, 12 games — which we can do — that’s a reality. I’m excited about things because we have a real, tangible path to get to where we want to go. We have an opportunity to go where this program has never been.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/trent-bray-brings-hope-and-optimism-as-oregon-state-football-charts-new-course/ar-BB1hS0ga
That’s how I always felt about it. Got chastised on Reddit for saying JS will have a harder time making the playoffs with the Spartans than he would have if he stayed with the Beavs. We got talent but last season it seemed like we didn’t get much out of it. Hopefully this new staff can get them going especially QB play
“I’ve got no desire to be USC and Oregon and flip a roster every single year,” Bray said. “I want this place to continue to be a place of development and substance and be about taking high school guys. I think that’s what’s going to separate us. And we know, too, we’re going to develop a guy into an all-conference player, All-American and USC is going to come poaching. But we’re hoping that next guy will be ready then because we’ve developed him. And so that’s how we’re going to be unique and differentiate ourselves from the other schools in this area.”
And:
““I just couldn’t get on the plane,” Bray said. “I felt for the players in our locker room and the players that I’ve recruited and sat in their living rooms and told them why this place was so great. It didn’t feel right to leave them. I had a responsibility to this place that has taken such good care of me. Between playing and coaching, I’ve probably been here around 15 to 16 years of my life. I love the community. My quality of life here is great. Why would I leave? We have a great opportunity in front of us and we have the potential to do some great things.”
With all of the b.s. associated with college sports, people Bray and Rueck make me continue to follow some college sports. Hell, i’ll have to go to a few football games next year …i enjoyed the new Reser and with a functioning sound system and a hungry team of Rogue Beavers, college football should be fun. I respect a guy like Bray who believes in and practices reciprocity.
…the defense will look largely the same, even though he won’t be directing it any more (Bray plans to take on more of a CEO role and will not call plays).
CEO……with his background and attitude that seems like a positive. A big positive, he knows what a HC needs to do.
Martinez sez:
“… he just wants to bring more of a dawg mentality to the team, because everyone who knows Bray knows he’s all about that,”
“What I hope jumps off to the film and when people watch us is how hard and physical we play,” Bray said. “The effort that’s given and the physicality on both sides of the ball. Those are the two big things, because that’s unique in college football. There’s a lot of finesse in college football. That will be a separator for us.”
Man, if Turley can avoid a major slump like last season, he’s going to have a monster year. Dude hit 14hr and 46 rbi in 44 games. Considering he really struggled for about a 2 month period, for him to still do those #’s is crazy. Ready for Surprise! Beer, baseball and sunshine.
Have you guys heard of gray moving inside? I think that sucks because there’s a pretty big drop off after him. He deserves to if that’s why he came back but I don’t think it’s going to help his draft stock much. Tackle is the harder position and plenty of guys switch in the nfl with no experience. There’s even talk that Fuaga might start out at guard. I personally don’t have any trust in any of the other tackles so far and was hoping to see another transfer added.
First ya dirty ho.
Starting to see the football coaches recruiting areas as they come out of the dead period and high schools send out their “thank you for visiting” tweets.
Coach Ford – Tacoma/Seattle area (of course)
Coach Cooper – San Diego
Coach DeVan – Arizona
Coach Boyer – Central Valley (CA)
How did we not know Steven Jackson has a kid who is a class of 2025 RB?
https://twitter.com/Bigucetv/status/1747986124684042433?t=fGr1BlmC2JZeP__02QnDuA&s=19
I did. You never asked.
Can you tell us more?
Well he runs a lot like his dad, is big and physical but also elusive, has great speed and vision. Also from Las Vegas area.
Likes to truck safeties and dbs in the open field and will outrun lbs who take bad angles. Doesn’t get arm tackled, but can sometimes dance a bit too much after the handoff so he will get gang tackled for loss of 3 yards periodically.
Is loyal and may play his entire career with one team.
Spitballing the last few lines…but if he is reminiscent of his dad, all are true.
He didn’t start playing until his freshman year due to his parents’ safety concerns. Already a big producer at RB. Similar height to his dad.
We know SJ is a hardcore Beaver for life, so we’ll at least have a chance with him if he ends up as a big recruit. Doesn’t look like he’s had much recruiting attention yet, but he’s starting to get it.
I’d take him based purely on being the kid of S Jax.
Also intertesting tid bit- he is HS teammates with MLB prospect we’ve been on for a year or so with huge upside. Who is also officially visiting this weekend- class of 25′ kid. We have a great shot at getting the verbal commit soon from
Wonder if that visit will actually happen if the weather stays icy out? Portland airport is getting freezing rain throughout the night tonight. Not really worth it to ask a kid to make an unnecessary visit.
Sorry, site went down. One of the plugins is causing issues. Might be hit and miss with downtime until I figure this out.
From comment in previous thread:
Dansen, Beav in OH re: Ephesians & Exodus
Also, Salahadin Allah.
Announcers this coming season will need to brush up on their Abrahamic religions as well as medieval history XD
Speaking of MONEY, this from MLive via a FOIA request:
As part of Smith’s seven-year, $52.85 million contract, only coordinators and the head strength and conditioning coach can receive three-year deals …
Noteworthy that the S/C coach is up there with coordinators (who both make at least $1 million).
BTW, Offensive line coach and run game coordinator Jim Michalczik will make $1 million in 2024 and receive a $100,000 raise the following season. He made $775,000 last season at Oregon State, according to USA TODAY.
https://www.mlive.com/spartans/2024/01/three-michigan-state-football-assistants-will-make-at-least-1-million-this-year.html
25% more pay to go to Lansing? Wouldn’t be enough for me.
He pissed off his wife, too.
Clearly it wasn’t just about the money for him. There’s something to be said for having new experiences, especially close to retirement.
Makes you wonder how bright thee coaches are after all. So precise and specific in one part of life doesn’t guarantee good decision making in other areas.
And JS would have been totally screwed if Coach M had stayed at OSU, in the eyes of MSU faithful.
We all know JS leaned on Coach M more than everyone else just to run his system.
Bray might disagree with that last statement.
We could’ve afforded that with a first time head coach and coordinators.
Looks like we’re poised to lose our main graphics guy, Jake Namisnak, to TCU soon. Bummer
That does suck because Jake puts out some great content imo.
I’d do it for a fee
This is nuts. TheTE who used to play for Willie Taggart and was part of that group of athlete who sued oregon for unhealthy workout conditions, Cam McCormick. Played for Cristobal at oregon too, then followed him to Miami. Had gotten mulitple extra redshirt years. Well….he got one more.
Guy is coming back for a 9th season of college football!
https://twitter.com/247Sports/status/1748046215738982475
time to retire
He’s not eligible for Social Security until next year.
Out of control…..
That’s Dr. Cam McCormick to you good sir.
He will playing with kids who were NINE his freshman year.
Jerry Sandusky’s dream
And he’s still only caught 26 passes in his entire damn college career!
@mckalk – you know anything about the kid? How many seasons he lost to injury? The role he has played in offenses at both Oregon and Miami? My guess is no. You just want to be snarky because you think it’s funny. Cam is a kid who has worked his ass off to overcome setbacks most of us couldn’t imagine. You, on the other hand, are a clown.
Lighten up, Francis.
You’ve made a lot of pathetic assumptions about one person based on an accurate and outlying stat.
How is it even snarky?
This is worse than Pankey’s mom.
and I think most people here remember that those kids were put in the icu for a week or more.
I still wonder what the relationship between the Brennan family and uo is, after that.
Beavs offer Jackson Kollock. 2025 QB who decommited from UW. Think we had brought him up earlier but wasn’t an official offer that I’m aware of. He just posted it about 30 min ago. Believe Gundy was in on him at UCLA. Don’t know much about him. 3* big frame. 6’4″ and 215 lbs.
324 rushing yards. 7 rushing tds. 41 passing tds. 3174 passing. 58% compl rate
Colletto package with a passing threat?
Maybe once he puts on 35 pounds
Think of his passes as splotches on a canvas.
Will Heck from Linfield has joined the staff as an offensive analyst. He’s from Corvallis.
https://golinfieldwildcats.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/will-heck/1527
What the Heck??
Lots of talk around these stupid congressional hearings about players being deemed employees instead of students. Anyone think this will actually happen? Seems like a stretch for anyone that doesn’t play a revenue sport, and the death knell for non-revenue sports if it does happen.
I don’t know how they don’t deem them employees. The courts have boxed Congress in.
I have no idea what it would look like but it is the natural read on what the courts are saying. Any attempt to empower the NCAA to enforce rules over recruiting/transferring seems doomed to be overturned by the Courts.
Adopt the Pirate Plan ™
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/sec-football-matt-hayes-mike-leach-has-plan-to-fix-college-football/
Gunderson named as one of the potential San Jose head coach candidates, per The Athletic
well that would be a kick in the nuts, lol
Can Inoke Brekterfield coach offense?
That would be a crazy step up from being basically assistant OC to Chip straight to HC
I guess Brennan was a WR coach before he got hired there. Anything is possible!
Lame
What?
Bray’s coaching tree has begun!
We’re going to be so good, we already have coordinators getting poached.
Speaking of Steven Jackson’s son.
I see Al Afalava has a kid name Darius that looks to be a pretty good D Line recruit, ton of offers anyway. Anybody know where we stand with him?
Twitter says he’s an OL. Looks like he’s connected to Moala somehow. I think we’ll have a chance with him.
Beavs going over 9 min without scoring. Was a close game but down 10 now. Nice showing on national tv
Last second 3 breaks the drought. Utes went on an 18-0 run during that 10 minute, 45 seconds.
Over half of the first half they didn’t score a single point. And that’s not the first time it’s happened this season.
Let that sink in.
I’m only watching for the lol factor and sheer boredom.
These players deserve better than this.
Stinkle ball. Barf. Maybe we need to start spam emailing the AD to get rid of this ass clown.
Yup, how long is Barnes going to put up with this bullshit? I bet Pope doesn’t come back, why would he? I noticed he took a three while he was being triple-teamed, that says frustration to me.
Only down 25 with 13 to go. We got this! Lol. WT is so fucking bad
60-33 with 10 minutes left. Since they led 19-15 and then proceeded to go almost the rest of the half without scoring they’ve been outscored 45-14 lol
can we start a gofundme for his buyout?
if we link it to articles and boxscores, we can probably get some sympathetic national attention.
I’ll be a Dons fan, until Tinkle leaves… or until Gerlufsen leaves.
You guys need to remember this is a young team still trying to gel together and learn the system. It is pretty unrealistic to expect a team with so much youth to play like 4 year veterans. We know how unstable the sport is and the great difficulty of keeping a roster together for several seasons. And we are still trying to overcome a fractured lockerroom from 2 years ago. This group will probably start figuring some things out around June and we should be playing our best ball by then. Coach Tinkle.
LOL
That’s been WT built in excuse for years now. Works on a lot of people. Hey new roster. Young team. Just need time to grow and develop. Rinse and repeat.
I thought I read where the Wazzu head coach, Kyle Smith has an almost completely new roster, and look at the impressive start they are off to.
I can guarantee that if I took over our hoops team as coach we would win some road games.
I absolutely guarantee that. There are zero questions in my mind that it would not happen.
I will not watch them now, because it’s a given loss.
Seems like transfer activity is pretty much wrapped up for the time being. Did everyone make it on campus and enrolled? If not, they aren’t likely to be here for spring ball. Last year’s spring practice started first week of March with the last scrimmage in mid April. I’d expect similar timing.
Spring portal is Apr 15th to 30th.
Does Scotty have an updated scholarship count? or maybe scotty doesn’t know
Blitz said it’s at 91.
Removed all the seniors listed in the Beaver Football Senior Day tweet, added back Jaden Robinson since he announced he was coming back, and added all transfers through this week and that puts my count exactly at 85:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14aiO9DPZKktzHAsY7xi5wN_lGUMBwZ33mCC-xJsz3FQ/edit?usp=sharing
Add two scholarships to your count for punter and kicker. Everett Hayes is on scholarship. AJ Winsor will be taking Josh Green’s scholarship spot.
Horrible situation for Zach Card, his girlfriend, and Thomas Collins.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/osu-students-lose-everything-in-devastating-fire?utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp%2Bshare-sheet
Yes it is. No insurance?
New 2025 QB offer to Robert McDaniel from CA: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/16375551/64ef6e492aa65307703e9db6
Looks like a prolific small school kid. Several offers from a lot of the better G5 teams (App State, Liberty, Toledo, etc.). Looks like UCLA had been recruiting him previously. I think we’re his first P5 offer (yes, I still consider the PAC2 a P5). Really quick release and good mobility.
Is this Gundy’s first HS QB offer? We had a bunch of 2025 offers earlier to higher-ranked guys that it doesn’t look like we’ve had much traction with (unsurprising, given JS/BL track record).
We offered Jackson Hollock who decommitted from UW with the coaching change. Other than that, not aware of any other 2025 than those 2
There’s also Gutridge, who’s already signed. And, I’m tellin ya, this guy might eventually make us say, Aiden who?
I like gutridge for the future. he looks a lot like a young Russell Wilson.
Good call. Forgot we already brought in a HS QB.
I just watched his highlights again. Dude is a state champ, top 5 in the state all time in multiple stats, can sling it 60 yards easily, his coach let him call plays from the LOS and he hurdles people. How do guys like this still get underrecruited in this day and age?
He’s definitely not as fast as Chiles in the open field, but he extends the play really well in the backfield.
https://www.hudl.com/profile/15100880/Kallen-Gutridge
look at how compact his motion is.
it’s like he’s throwing darts. and he can do it in yoga positions with big people on him. he can flick the ball further than a lot of qbs I’ve seen.
and then he drops it in the bucket.
Good point but he was 2024 class so still need that 2025.
Everything working fine? Yesterday the site crashed due to a plugin. I think all is good?
Good for me in firefox.
I do get a new message at the start asking if I want to subscribe, no problem just closing it and going ahead as usual.
I get that message as well. It’s a bit annoying because when I click continue, it brings me to the top of the page and I lose my place. Not anything to lose sleep over but should be filed in the “it might be nice” category.
Oh, that’s been happening to me. Never really gave it any thought. I just hit the go to bottom button.
I use my phone and just click anywhere on the screen that is not part of the message and it goes away and stays in that place on the screen.
I can remove that.
Should be gone. If not, let me know.
Thanks to Daschel for doing the math but Beavs basketball is 1-25 on the road the last 3 years. Lol. That’s just such an incredibly bad number. 1 fucking win?!
Wow
Man, Tinkle needs to go. I’m all for Jack’s idea of a go fund me or something. Last night was horrible. Saw a write up about the game online and the writer said the Beavs had jet lag because of a long flight delay in Eugene because of weather. No quotes from WT but its not that long of a flight.
The flight’s not long but what they threw up on TV was an 8:00am arrival at the airport and they didn’t land until after midnight.
Sounds like Sports Illustrated just folded. Laid off their entire staff. The ceo was fired recently for publishing articles written by AI with fake authors. Interesting.
That’s a group that absolutely failed to adapt to the changing media landscape. The brand still has some cachet, I’m sure someone will buy it and resurrect it.
But, but……..what about the swimsuits??
have you looked at a swimsuit issue lately?
They’ve gone so overboard with the whole diversity of body types/genders/etc. it’s nothing like the old days( I think that used to be their best selling issue?)
There’s a decent chance that model on the pages used to be a 300lb man. Just a different world and there’s not much of a market for it.
Yeah, the Tyra Banks cover was lit. Then last year it was a Trans woman. Doubt that went over too well.
That’s enough for me to start drinking over-priced cheap beer, just so I can angrily boycott my new choice of over-priced cheap beer.
Do what you want with your money.
I never drank bud light or read sports illustrated, but apparently the people that did weren’t interested in the direction those companies went so they voted with their wallets.
I don’t see the problem.
The direction SI went is that it’s printed on paper.
They were stupid enough to be drinking over-priced cheap beer.
There is no surprise, when they stupidly shoot cases of it on social media.
Absolutely none.
It’s just stupidity on parade.
Geez, how come somebody that has never posted on the forum before hasn’t come out and castigated you for youir comment…
tbh, he could have just asked the first question and saved the sllly rant.
pretty sure all the answers would have been, “No.”
But there are teenage boys remaining in some of us.
The rest of us realize we were able to buy porn at a certain age, and SI became irrelevant..
stupidity on parade
there’s zero surprise that anyone doesn’t know that “america first” isn’t just a Nazi slogan adopted by possibly the most abjectly stupid trust fund baby that ever existed.
Seriously, the man speaks in stupid. The stupid is his lexicon. He is stupid.
He is possibly the stupidest person I’ve ever been forced to listen to, simply because his stupid ass was put in charge of stuff.
The.Stupidest.Person.Ever.
And that all his campaign slogans are Nazi doesn’t help.
A great political cartoon once featured hugh hefner with the S-I swimsuit issue, and he was saying “I only get it for the articles.”
The AI part was wrong. Apparently they used AI for fake author photos not writing articles.
Malachi Durant posted on X that’s he’s in Corvallis. WR room looking dam good
Most recruiting stars ever in one room
Fuck yes
Kind of wild. Brand new coach and staff in 2-team shell of a conference pulling in this recruiting class. Let’s go.
To wide receivers: “We are going to go 5 and sometimes 6 wide receivers , no TEs so we can just sling that rock all over the yard and you can go make plays!”
To qbs : “We will go with a 2 qb set, with rpo and zone read, and a lot of downfield passing out of scramble situations, so you can just sling it.”
To running backs: “We will keep running backs in I formation, or lots of motion and misdirection, add the triple option, a wing T and even a multiple set zone read package featuring a lot of run emphasis!”
To OL: we’re running a revolutionary big man offense where everyone is over 275. You’ll get plenty of pancakes AND plenty of TD’s.
To TE: you’ll get to both block and catch. You’re a TE.
To Kickers: We’ll actually run a fake where you can be the hero! How fast can you run 25 yards?
Too soon ?
Except we’ll run it from the 40
This is the real winner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-tqLG__Al4
After the game:
“Coach, your kicker ran that fake 25 yards in 2.2 seconds. You ever think of putting him in at wide receiver?”
“Every day, but he can’t catch. He’s a kicker.”
Per BeaversEdge reporter, Durant’s in Corvallis for a visit, not enrolling. But with Gabarri Johnson and Coach Thomas Ford, he should be a lock to arrive by summer. https://x.com/RivalsDylanCC/status/1748512412221821058?s=20
the new Reser is trend-setting. Northwestern is demolishing their old stadium, capacity 47,000, and replacing it with a new facility, capacity 35,000. Almost spot on the Reser number. in the Big 10. In Chicago.
If TV rules, what the hell does stadium size have to do with anything?
There’s a field, and your team can play on it, or they can’t.
How many fans are there to witness it does not matter in any way, these days.
Beers misses two FT in a row; she has shown to be pretty streaky in that aspect
4 min into the 2nd qtr and Cal gets its first lead.
UPDATE: Beavs down by 10 with 3:20 left in the 3rd. Beers 0 of 6 FT’s
Nall signs with UFL’s Houston Roughnecks. I now have a favorite UFL team!
That reminds me, Smilin’ Mike is out of a job again, right? No more New Jersey Generals.
If Gundy goes to SJSU…
WBB now up by one with 5 minutes left. Beers is now 1-10 from the line. Weird, they wouldn’t be in the game if it wasn’t for her, but you can’t miss that many free throws. Playing on the road is tough, but Lady Beavs need this game. They are better than Cal.
How ’bout Paurova! 14pts and hasn’t missed yet.
Impressive, really was one of the keys to the win. Good Girls 71-64 with a furious fourth-quarter rally.
Give the ball to the hot hand.
It’s hoops.
Big comeback vs Cal, 71-64 after being down 14 at one point.
Beers after going 1 of 10 hits 2 FT’s near the end.
Paurova 16 pts and never missed, added a nice assist to Gardiner for a 3 with 1:15 to go in the game.
T. Gardiner 18 pts, 4 of 4 FT late
They needed that W. The next 4 weeks is brutal as 7 of the 8 games are vs ranked opponents.
Top to bottom the Pac is by far the toughest conference this year.
I will be surprised if. on Sunday, against the Beavs, the Stanford wbb coach doesn’t get her whatever the number is to tie the Duke mbb coach most wins#.
That record was tied last night with their win over Oregon
I forgot Stanford played Oregon.ystrday. So the big hoopla will b tomorrow in their.home court.
Joshua Gray is coming back. That’s huge for the OL.
Signs were pointing that way but glad it’s official. OT was one of my big concerns so this is very welcome news. I’m sure next year’s starting quarterback is happy as well.
Will have to wonder what the status of Brewer is. Not sure he meets the criteria to get a 6th year. Typically he would have needed to miss two years due to injury.
His path is a little different than most.
2019 played JUCO at Laney(Last Chance U)
2020 – redshirt year but also Covid year
2021 – played redshirt Soph
2022 – played redshirt Junior
2023 – Injured all season
If that’s all accurate, then I dont think he technically used his redshirt year yet since it was 2020.
So either he could use his redshirt year still, or he would be a candidate for a medical hardship for an extra season.
Originally was class of 2018 but legal trouble in HS caused a delayed start to college. I don’t think he played in 2018 at all, but I’m not 100% certain.
2018 could have been considered his redshirt year I guess, if he was enrolled but didnt play more than a few games for Laney.
Just think of it as if 2020 doesn’t count in any way toward eligibility, because it doesn’t.
There were several athletes in all sports who simply sat out for a year, and the NCAA wasn’t going to question the best decision for each individually. So it’s where the “extra year” comes from. It just benefits football players in this way.
I didnt count it. Just wrote out what the OSU profile page for Brewer says.
But they also say he played for Laney in 2019, as a freshman, but helped them to a state title in 2018. So it almost sounds like he played a short season in 2018, but it’s not clearly written.
I think the only difference would be whether or not he had to apply for a medical hardship, which he would probably easily get, if he hasn’t done so already.
Brewer is coming back.
Somebody is telling me Angie doesn’t think he’s coming back to play any more football.
It’s Electric Eye vs Angie, for all the marbles
Marco and my son were both on the football team at chs and socialize a bit…he was in my store a month or so ago, told me he planned on playing next year. Although Akili Arnold told me he needed surgery and was coming back next year a week before he left too though so who knows for sure I guess
If that TE can get a 9th year I would think brewer can get a 6th if he was out all season.
I know his uncle and he told me at the UCLA game that he is definitely coming back next year and is already fully healthy.
It is insane that the 5* OL would
Transfer from Alabama to Iowa. He must not watch any game film of the Iowa offense over the last 20 years.
He’s probably pretty impressed with how many OL they’ve sent to the NFL
Lots of guys blocking for a terrible qb and terrible oc year after year does prepare you for the NFL I guess.
so true, BiOH. It seems like every NFL game in which NBC does the player intros there’s at least 1 guy per team that played at Iowa.
It’s an O line and tight end factory
He was planning to go there before Bama made the late push for him when he was coming out of high school. He is from Iowa. Weren’t we expecting Tufaga to give the Beavs a look? Didn’t we expect DA to be a Beav?
Does he realize how man snaps he’s going to play with all the three and outs?
It sucks we don’t have anymore scholarships right now. Especially with the Washington and zona coaching changes.
I doubt that is going to stop us from offering if its a big upgradein in an area of need. Based off of Beav Blitz reporting, we’re already over scholarships…sitting at 91. So anyone that’s committed recently was already given a scholly we didn’t have. Have to drop at least 6 but Blitz was also thinking we’d have around 10 guys move on that are still on the team. Would also seem likely that they’ll want to wait until spring camp as another round of xfers or juco guys come available. They’re all out on the trail recruiting the HS kids now.
They’re recruiting everyone always.
That’s the new football.
Brennan getting some big wins down in Tuscon. Fifita and the top WR are staying.
I actually really like Brennan, I think he would have been a home run hire.
I really like Bray so this isn’t an anti-Bray thing. I probably hire Bray given the situation also. But I expect Brennan to be very successful at Arizona whom I follow a bit since I actually started college there.
ex Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo looks to to be the guy at SJSU. Gundy will stay for now.
Great hire for them if it happens.
Beavs already down 15 in Boulder. MBB is ground hog day! Same poor result game after game. How much longer do we have to put up with Tinks! Obviously he’s not going to step down as he should have a number of years ago. Sad thing the program is in such poor shape who would want to come in and clean up this train wreck?
Crazy thing is the talent level isn’t bad. Pope and Bilodeau are studs. Rataj always looks better when he’s not surrounded by this garbage coaching staff. Ndong looks like a future solid big. An actual coach worth a damn could face some real pieces if they don’t transfer. They just got to find the money to get Tinks out. I can’t remember a time when the program had such overwhelming lack of interest and I remember them going winless in conference play. So glad they “got their culture back” tho.
Tinkle needs to do the honorable thing and realize this ship has sunk. Let someone else come in and raise it.
Maybe he’ll fire himself on the tarmac in Denver tonight.
Hahaha!!! Wishful thinking.
To be honest I don’t watch much college hoops too much anymore primarily because the Beavs have stunk it up for so many years less their final 8 run. Even Mizzou stinks this year!
It’s sort of men against boys tonight. Outmatched in every facet. Of course, the numbnuts announcers were praising Tinkle and his “system”. I have to hand it to WT, he must be a great guy, he has built an abundance of goodwill around the league. The other coaches probably want him to stay so they keep having sure wins.
I don’t know anything about him or if he’d even have interest, but maybe the USF Dons coach? They seem to be decent and near the top of the WCC every year.
Unfortunately we are WCC now (for the time being). That would kind of be a lateral move.
Gerlufsen
His offense is fun to watch.
St Mary’s is at USF tonight. It’s a lot more fun than Pac hoops, at the moment.
Mgongo and Williams work well together. And when they get going, they share the wealth.
and they got rolled.
USF would still likely destroy Stinkle’s team
It’s the Beaver curse.
Williams with 2 points in 31 minutes is not normal.
I also like the autocorrect for Mogbo’s name above. I didn’t catch that.
Can they get to 20 by halftime?
Last Beaver MBB game I watched, Tinkle had Craig Robinson energy, like towards the end of CR’s tenure. He just seemed done with it. Signaled to me there’s no point in tuning in as a fan till he’s gone.
Yeah pretty sad. Seems like he’s been coaching for 20 years. I remember the 70’s and 80’s undet Ralph, when I think we were top MBB in all time wins!
I think the Beavs had the most wins of any team in the league in the decade of the 80’s. Dominating at times.
Meant top 10.
The Orange Express has been derailed. Need a new up and coming HC, like someone mentioned above.
Dude where have you been, it was derailed years ago.
We could have had Eric Musselman…
We do need to admit that we screwed that up, because Howland.
The negative of having Howland would have subsided, because he would have been gone by now. Buyt we could have had worse than Tinkle.
Trailed by as many as 37
LOLOLOLOL
FIRE STINKLE!
The remaining fans that can stomach attending at Gill need to bring signs for Scott Barnes to “Fire Tinkle”
Tinkle has mailed it in for several years now and needs to just move on. He is the biggest fraud at OSU since Craig Robinson, Jay John, Ritchie Mackay, Eddie Payne…
Any Beaver fan who attends a men’s basketball game under the current coach is a fucking idiot. Sorry not Sorry.
Paper bags would suffice and easier to sneak in
per the boregonian……
“The Beavers completed a two-game road trip that is among the worst in program history. OSU lost by 33 to Colorado and 27 at Utah on Thursday. Not even the 3-28 (2021-22) and 5-27 (2016-17) teams had a two-game road trip where it lost by a combined 60 points.”
Arizona and ASU come to Gill next week. See any wins there? Dry January continues
OSU needs to just flush the Tinkle era and start over. Now is the time for Barnes to appeal to the alumni base to donate to a buyout campaign because a once great basketball school is being embarrassed by Tinkle’s train wreck.
I do wish he’d agree to just defer the rest of the money he’s owed out, say 10 years or so. He has another $10mil left on the deal. I don’t see the Beavs doing any better in the WCC where hoops is pretty much the whole ball game. Right now if you use Sagarin, they are 11th in the Pac-12, and 9th in the the 10 team WCC (12 with the Beavs and Cougars).
Tinkle would have to agree to that and why would he? I do think Barnes has to pull the trigger even if it means finding someone on the cheap and hoping for the best, can’t be any worse.
Spaces on “X” if anyone wants to listen. Damien Martinez joins about 25 or 30 min. Talks a bit about Gundy and how he’s going to open up and create space. Def sounds like we could be in for much more of the 3 and 4 wide sets. He also mentioned that the offense didn’t seem to change at all and now teams had several years of film and the offense was the same.
https://x.com/i/spaces/1mrGmyLwmDnGy
The Niners are so successful on offense because they have a QB that can identify a zone and receivers that can find holes in that zone, and tight ends that can beat man. They go 3 or 4 wide then come back with a zone run in a tight formation which forces the defense to adjust how many down linemen to play.
We effectively saw that in 2018 and 2019 under Smith but afterwards we didn’t have the receivers who could beat man coverage consistently, so teams would play press man and we shifted to throwing more fades.
Wanna shake things up?
Fire Stinkle. And hire Gary Payton to lead this program. This is exactly what this program needs right now. Just like Prime with CU. Could things really get any worse?
That would be great or some other former Beaver great (AC Green?) whose heart would be in it to take on the task. One caveat though, is I think of Patrick Ewing going back to Georgetown didn’t work out that great. Couldn’t do any worse than Stinkle. How many years does he have left on his contract. Apparently the man has no shame. He needs to do what’s best for OSU and step down.
Whatever happened to Payton coaching Lincoln University in Oakland? They have a new coach now.
They do? A news report a month ago said he coached Lincoln in an exhibition:
https://www.riograndesun.com/sports/gary-payton-comes-to-espa-ola/article_581bf86e-9937-11ee-bcfd-d769238ae11b.html
Nevermind, disregard my previous comment. Did not know he was coaching. Bring him in.
Yeah, disregard mine too – apparently there are about a dozen Lincoln University basketball teams out there.
Payton would be able to recruit I’m guessing
I don’t know anything about Payton’s administrative or off court skills and abilities, though I’m sure he could fund raise and recruit.
One thing pretty sure, he’d bring the attitude of one of Casey’s last teams: “We’re coming and Hell’s coming with us!”
I don’t think Gary has shown any interest in coaching at the college level has he? I mean, I am a hard yes but gotta think there are other options.
Wasn’t there a former Beav player coaching in the NBA during the last cycle but he couldn’t apply because he hadn’t graduated? Who was that? Maybe he has finished by now or you could make finishing a condition of the job? Head basketball coach attending classes with his players?
Lester Conner
I don’t think Payton has the patience for player development, strategy…conditioning..today’s athletes ..coaching…course he’s hopefully grown.
?? just posted via X (Twitter)
Bray never sleeps! Beaver lock baby!
We have 3 visitors this weekend. Durant is already committed. Ione is class of 2025. Jay Tuia(2024 OLineman Devan visited in Idaho last week) is the only one who would make sense as a Beaver/Lock tweet (unless we’re using that for 2025 guys too?)
Seemed like Smith only used Dam Right for guys committing to the current year’s class. But I giess the same rules dont have to apply anymore.
I’m a little suspicious that Terrell Kim might have visited this weekend. I dont know anything, just based on the fact that he and Jay Tuia started following each other in the past few days, which seemed a little odd because Tuia doesnt have an ASU offer
Is Terrell Kim an early enrollee at ASU?
Don’t know, havent followed his recruitment since he decommitted from OSU
He signed with ASU in the early period
Maybe he’s trying to recruit Tuia as a late add for ASU then? Seems off
Maybe he wants to come home.
In my wholly unbiased opinion, that’s what I would want.
Tuia is a recruit you’d like to see greyshirt.
Think he used DAM Right for a few years. Just took a few years to find the coin phrase
Jeremiah has Fuaga as a top 10 pick in the upcoming draft:
https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-2024-nfl-mock-draft-1-0
Not bad for a very low three-star (5.5 on Rivals, 82 on 247 and 74 on ESPN).
The impact of Coach M can never be understated. DeVan has his work cut out for him
He had tons of big offers early in the cycle that all backed off for some reason. I never understood why his rating ended up how it did.
Beaver Bump
Rivals retroactively bumped him to a low 2 star.
Sounds like Camerson Brink is a game time decision for today’s WBB game at Stanford, because of a leg injury that cased her to miss the 2nd half vs oregon
We’ll need all the help we can get. We lose and their coach breaks the all time win total set by Coach K. Would suck to be forever linked as the loser for that record but it would be the luck of the Beavs.
whatever
Lane Kiffin shared an article that reports, based on CFB Focus info, that Ohio State has spent $13 mill on their 2024 roster so far. Still in the running for a top WR xfer from Bama and looking for some OL help. So that # will likely go up. This is incredible. Really emphasizes what Bray and Co have been able to do with nowhere near those resources.
Still an incredible number to hear, even if not unexpected. =\
Ioane commits
Teammate with S Jax kid if I’m not mistaken.
https://twitter.com/JEREMIAH_IOANE/status/1749165029952454990/photo/2
To the university of oregon state….
I hear it’s a good school
Someone at tOSU opened up the checkbook. They just got a commitment from Bama transfer QB Sayin, who was also the #1 QB in last year’s class.
I think I saw somewhere that they’ve spent 13 million on the portal.
The stupidity writes itself.
Wanky wank.
Ducks were predicted to have spent 15 mil to on signing day. These players really love their university and want to play for these coaches. Haha
Tara gets #1203 at the expense of a senior-less Beavs squad; 65-56.
Points off of TO’s favored the winners by 16-5, Beavs shot 25% from 3, rebounds nearly even.
Rematch coming at Gill, 2-29……..Cameron Brink likely to return, ugh.
Goddamnit Bills, come on. Poyer needs a ring…course they’re probably not stout enough to beat the 49ers…
Poyer makes a huge play in 4th forces a fumble at the goal line for a Bills touchback
Bills are gripping a bit in the 4th quarter, starting to feel the pressure
Love Poyer, but go Chiefs
Bill’s blew it
https://sheriff.bentoncountyor.gov/adult-in-custody-roster/
Jan 20, 2024 – BREWER, MARCO ISAIAH [BENTON]
Arresting Agy.: CORVALLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT
Location: Benton Co Jail
Charge: 043 APA ASSAULT
Oh great!
Oh crap!
A little concerning to have two arrests in two months since the Bray announcement. Hopefully this isn’t a sign of program discipline under TB.
We’ll see what the details are but this is bad for Brewer. His history will work pretty hard against him
He already had a history? O.o
Yeah felony coercion
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2020/08/marco-brewer-ex-ucla-commit-who-pleaded-guilty-to-felony-coercion-appears-bound-for-oregon-state-football.html?outputType=amp
I don’t think this stuff flies with Bray. In the X Spaces the other night D Mart mentioned the team was already starting workouts but that he wasn’t able to participate yet since he was still dealing with his earlier issue. Since his case was dismissed, this would likely mean he’s dealing with internal repercussions. Will be interesting to see what happens with Brewer.
That’s one way to answer whether you want to come back for another year or not
I’m picturing a football player at a college party and somebody says something he disagrees with and a gaggle of college kids surround them with cell phone cameras on, waiting for the first shove
Anybody look for videos on twitstagram?
Maybe frat guy insisted to Brewer that JS was a loyal guy and Brewer took exception?
As a frat guy during my time at osu, i object to the notion we’d say JS was loyal. No way!
Anybody hear or read Jayden Tuia’s impressions about Oregon State following his visit?
Funny, saw Caitlin Clark was trending and figured it was because of some crazy half court shot she made or something, but instead it was because Ohio State beat Iowa. But in the aftermath, the fans stormed the court and Clark and a fan collided, which cause Clark to be helped limping off the court.
Then this video comes out that pretty clearly shows she initiated the contact and flopped. Which in a way is pretty smart because now Ohio State is going to get fined for not protecting the court better and lack of player safety
https://twitter.com/crassiux/status/1749198992422908243
It was just out of habit. She is a soccer player on the court when it comes to contact and flips more than LeBronda James.
Clark is one of the more skilled and likable women’s bb athletes but ESPN makes it tough to like anyone they hype for ratings constantly.
Never had a knee-knock?
Frankly, I thought Clark earned the blocking call with that flop.
Frankly, the slo-mo and glitch-action is bullshit.
Play the tape at a real speed, and it will probably show how violent it actually was–unintentional, of course. But two blind runners colliding, with one looking like a knee-knock and possible hyperextension is easily seen, if dumb tape guy doesn’t glitch the tape for hype.
Both of the Arizona TEs in the portal, Dorian Thomas and Keyan Burnett, withdrew and are staying at Az. Good job Brennan, or collective. Either way I was hoping for one of them. Both had history with Ford and Moala.
Connington makes it official to MSU. Assumption was he would go there but nothing official until today.
Marco Brewer also previously likely committed a sexual assault. I’ve also met the guy in a class before and the guy was a jerk and never did any of his work
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2018/12/star-prep-football-player-accused-of-rape-at-party-pleads-to-less-serious-crime-in-oregon.html
He never went to u of Nike, you never took a class with him
Just to put the Brewer impact in perspective, he was really good in 2021, but not in 2022 before he got hurt. Never was a good pass blocker. He’d be coming back from injury. This is a blow, but it’s not that big a blow. We still return 4 veteran OL; we just need one young guy to step up.
PFF Grades
2021
OVR: 89
PBL: 58
RBL: 93
2022
OVR: 61
PBL: 55
RBL: 62
Thanks for the perspective. Looking at those numbers provides big picture.
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024/01/oregon-state-offensive-lineman-marco-brewer-charged-with-assault-after-a-domestic-violence-incident.html
Daschel with an update on the Brewer arrest.
“Two charges were filed Monday by Benton County District Attorney, of assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence and harassment. Both are misdemeanors. Brewer is currently being held at Benton County jail.”
“Brewer, 24, is accused of grabbing the arm of a woman during an argument, scratching her skin and causing bruising to her arm, according to the Corvallis police.”
“We were made aware of the alleged incident involving Marco Brewer. We are in the process of gathering more information and will have no further comment at this time,” Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes said in a statement.”
“Brewer is technically out of eligibility, but could apply for a medical redshirt due to his injury history. Brewer is currently listed on Oregon State’s roster, but it is unclear as to whether he’ll be a part of the Beavers’ 2024 team.”
Time to cut him loose
It seems so.
See ya meat head.
Seems like some chick is being overly dramatic. Definitely shouldn’t have grabbed her but how many times are both men and women grabbed by the arm without incident. Seems really wild to file a police report for being grabbed by the arm. Does this happen if he’s not a football player? I can never imagine me grabbing someone by the arm and it being taken to the police unless I was someone of stature.
That all being said it could’ve been malicious I shouldn’t assume. Let’s not forget he’s been training at basically pushing people around his whole adult life and could’ve easily overused his strength on a much smaller female.
Domestic call
Someone has to leave the scene with the police in most calls. If alcohol was involved, he also needs to dry up.
Definitely don’t need this kind of guy on the team if this is how he’s acting.
Released on own recognizance as of this afternoon.
Pretty telling that he wasn’t able to post bail and had to hang out in Benton County Jail for a couple days.
ASU fires AD for cause for basically really sucking at his job.
I can only imagine Robbins is next.
I’d argue Arizona’s AD has sucked quite a bit more at his job.
How do you list track of $240M because of a spreadsheet error and keep your job?
Robbins is probably responsible for most of it. Heeke is just this week’s scapegoat.
Robbins was instrumental in destroying the Pac Conference as we now know it, as well as selling his org to debt
You mean Arizona? ASU AD resigned in November
They’re all ass.
When do they schedule spring camp?
Keirh Heyward started following the former duck OLineman, Jonah Tauanu’u today. He’s the former top 100 recruit who medically retired but is trying to bounce back via the JUCO ranks
Also started following SJSU DE Tre Smith, a first team MW defender as a soph.
https://247sports.com/Player/Tre-Smith-46085764/
Let us know when they start following a decent TE. Kind of wondering if they simply abandon the TE for a year and run 5 wide which would create more space theoretically for Martinez in running situations.
Dorian Thomas and Yurosek would fit that description, but Thomas stayed put and Yurosek is visiting GA and schools in that tier
Did he coach while he was there? Kind of odd that Hayward would follow an OL. Moala is connected with him right?
It was several years ago and I think Heyward overlapped. During the Cristobal era. Moala was at OSU then.
Heyward’s not the first OSU coach to follow him, he’s just the most recent after the last time I mentioned him over a week ago. And I take it as a good sign that we’re still pursuing him.
About time getting around to Tauanu’u. He was tweeting about being offered by Texas Southern the other day. How are schools missing on him? His JC highlights consist of Jonah dominating the opponent, which is what they should be showing. Top 10 OT in the 2019 class. Let’s go!!
Ya it must be his injury history scaring guys off. He’s definitely worth a shot to me.
So sad to hear of Rob Holbrook’s passing. Loved watching him play on those Orange Express team of the early 80’s. That was when sports were a simpler time and more guys were local from the state of Oregon (Holbrook, Blume, Radford, Sitton, Green, Stangel, Stoutt, etc). RIP.
Wow! Couldn’t have been very old. Had he been sick?
63 years old. His father said it was a cardiac event. Sad. I forgot that he pitched for the baseball team every season after basketball ended. True two-sport college athlete.
Thank you mckalk! Those players names bring back a lot great memories. Remember Danny Evans bombing away from the perimeter?!
RIP Rob…
I was at OSU during those years–have some great stories from then.
1) Snuck into Gill night before a Saturday day game against the Ducks-on regional TV (big deal then). Hung a frozen duck in the rafters with orange and black crepe paper. When lineups being announced, dropped the duck at half-court to about height of the PA system. Nobody knew what the hell was going on…staff couldn’t get to it until halftime- so during first half the refs would have to towel the blood dripping on the floor.
2) Students would camp out on the ramp overnight to get best seats. Several of us got on the concessionaire’s list and we’d check in about 10 minutes prior to gates opening. Then we’d hide in the bathroom, run out and get front row railing seats when we heard the rumble of the crowd coming in. Got a lot of WTF looks from the guys who were first in line camping.
Good times~
Hahaha!!! Great stories and fun times!
Yes, I saw an NIT game at Gill (one of Ralph’s down seasons) where Danny came out on fire. I swear they were using a red, white, and blue basketball. Most of his shots would have been three-pointers a few years later. They won the game, but I can’t remember who they played.
Sounds like might be Fresno State…
Talking to myself–have to get a life…just looked up that season and they played Idaho, New Orleans and Fresno State at Gill in the NIT tourney…
Maybe New Orleans? Did they lose to Fresno St? I know they didn’t make it to NYC.
Who the hell would downvote Rob Holbrook passing away?
I have had a beer, maybe Rob Holbrook?
Weird, our former OL and DL coaches from the Andersen era are now working for our former DC from that era.
TJ Woods amd Coach Chad were hired this offseason by Sitake
I guess we’ll find out just how much of it was him and if the rest of the staff is any good. Sitake has done decent at byu. I thought the woods did a pretty good job with the Oline while he was here. Everything else was shit but the run game.
Woods was great. I wish we had hired him back here. We’ll see how KD works out.
I think I saw yogi Roth had an interview with Bray today and is supposed to be on his podcast tomorrow.
Tre Smith the DE from SJSU would be a big get. One more year for him to play for NFL draft stock. You have to think Arizona would have the inside track, though.
I think Ioane is excited to be a Beav. I’ve never seen so many post-commitment posts from one player. He’s posting multiple per day right now.
What kind of Beaver juice is Bray mixing up?
Built not bought.
Has a younger brother too that’s showing promise. Get the family involved and continue to build that Poly pipeline.
At least East Landfill can say they won something this offseason:
Portal Cup (1/23); which P5 schools have had the most scholarship players enter the portal since 8/1:
Alabama: 27
Michigan St: 27
Purdue: 27
Indiana: 24
GA Tech: 23
NC State: 23
Washington: 23
Arizona: 22
Cincy: 22
Florida: 22
Louisville: 21
South Carolina: 21
https://x.com/farrellportal/status/1749789803166515503?s=20
Wow. O.o
Shouldn’t we call it the Primetime Cup after the inventor of the portal mass exodus?
40 minute interview from MichSt honk with Aiden Chiles, if you care.
Some stuff about JS departure beginning around 19:10.
No actual bombshell stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/c/SpiroAvenue
Just wait until Sparty fan has to hear Lindgren wax poetic about balance, and JS justify his incoherent aggressive play calls that cost them winnable games. Actually glad they are both gone. JS had his moments but his tenure was filled with puzzling decisions that got overlooked or given a pass because the context was “he is better than GA” or “the favored son returns and can do no wrong”.
I give him 3 years at MSU and Bray will win more games than him in that span.
There’s an interview with Chiles on Olive behind a paywall. In the first little bit tho it says Chiles asked smith if he was leaving 2 weeks before the ucks game. I couldn’t read any further but definitely shows that players knew quite a bit prior to him announcing.
Smith told chiles to focus on the games going forward. Chiles alludes to only knowing smith was leaving until after the CW. Chiles is running interference, he also took a shot at our fans,
“Playing in front of 75,000, 80,000 compared to 30,000, and then the love and support you get out here (East Lansing), and how invested everyone just is,” Chiles said. “He didn’t really have to sell me too much”. fuck him too.
They’re the past.
We don’t have to deal with them anymore.
buh bye to them. good lord split them, and all that.
I understand that, but the jabs by both Smith and Chiles don’t sit right with me. If they want to leave then leave but don’t use some offhanded comments to justify your decision. It’s a bad look especially to the team and fans you walked away from.
They deserve my apathy.
Too much effort for anything more, and I’m too lazy to get worked up over some other school’s nonsense.
Also sounded like Traitor Smith asked him to go well before he entered the portal too. Clearly some tampering but NCAA cares more about buying a kid a fucking cheeseburger than coaches leaving, gutting a team of players and staff and having illegal conversations with said players. Personally don’t think Smith lasts more than 3-4 years there. Either he has some form of success and goes to a better job or he’ll be mid to lower finishes in B10 and MSU moves on.
Good point. He said smith talked to him about going to Lansing shortly after the CW which was on November 24. Chiles didn’t enter the transfer portal until December 6.
He’s just a manipulated 18 year old. And JS is the ringleader of the group.
Interesting how Chiles was playing off any recruitment to USC and not really wanting to play for Lincoln Riley in USC because it was too glitzy for his personality but he thinks MSU will be low key and less
Pressure…until Michigan kicks them by 40 again and he has no shot at any real
Success over the next 3 years playing in Lindgrens balanced offense in a defensive league where his bag of tricks won’t work more than a couple
Of times.
Nice backhanded comment about MSU caring more. Good luck when you have 80,000 booing you and your moronic coach after another baffling trick play costs you another game.
At least we know he came to OSU for his veterinarian degree…
He’s scooching those numbers a bit Mich st had an average home attendance of 67k and we had an avg home attendance of 37k so a valid point but not accurate numbers. Plus I’ve seen mich states stadium on tv a couple times. it has that 9am feel to it, no energy. Anyways I hope he enjoys going 4-8 or 3-9 next year
I’m sure he’ll do fine.
And if he makes it to the NFL, I might see him play again.
I’m not going to lose sleep over the coach formerly known as Niner or any of the claptrap from its direction.
We have more important things to worry about.
They have 9am energy because their team is terrible
“and then the love and support you get out here (East Lansing), and how invested everyone just is,” Chiles said. “
Translation: big fucking bag of money.
Smith and Chiles may get a big dose of 80,000 boos and have trouble keeping the “love and support you get out here.”
Yuck. I thought Chiles was cool…
I mean, he is right, but you don’t say that.
He’s a kid. Give him a break.
He’s an snake.
Whoops meant “a” but had it originally as “he’s an adult” then realized better
It’s funnier the original way.
Up above I linked to the source of the Olive interview, Olive just linked to the podcast from a MiSt honk and then, after an hour or so, put it behind a paywall.
Gotta love confidence:
“I’m physical. I love attacking my opponents, I have great speed so I can cover as well in coverage and my explosion to the tackle. I also have great IQ, I love watching film.” – 2025 ILB Ioane
He posted on twitter he already has schools trying to flip him.
https://twitter.com/JaydenT_50/status/1749507908214382719/photo/1
Remember a month or so ago that MHVer twitter account dropped some teasers about some unknown “TKO” group who was in discussions with the Big12 about buying their rights if they grew their conference and starting a new streaming service for college football?
Today there was news that TKO group, headed by The Rock, is buying the rights to the WWE and moving them to Netflix.
So maybe there were legs to that rumor.
I could go for Pac/Big football streaming on Netflix.
https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1749791736879054957?t=RCVoEReANdyMojTmKUXXbQ&s=19
TKO isn’t unknown, it’s the UFC/WWE group
TKO is backed by Saudi oil money fyi.
If they are willing to throw billions of dollars into golf, what’s a few hundred million for college football?
What? It’s a public company that was founded by and is managed by Americans
Yes Americans using oil money from saudi investors.
Business as usual
You’re right, it was TKO along with an unknown private equity firm.
So Saudi money and college football are
Dwayne Johnson was announced to TKO’s Board of Directors earlier this week. A WWE star who also happens to be an ex-college football player. He’d bring even more eyes to an eventual college football deal.
Streaming is the future, the P12 Presidents were just too dumb and cowardly to be innovative.
https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/39368338/the-rock-appointed-ufc-wwe-tko-group-board-directors
Rich Greenfield (on Bloomberg just now talking about this) brings up some great points about this deal and the landscape of streaming.
In 2020, it was fool’s gold for anyone who wanted to provide content for at-home consumption. You could fall down and make money doing it.
But now that all of that has cleared in the wash, the media companies who are not fully committed to streaming platforms (NBC/CBS/Fox) have spent gobs of money on their platforms, only to be shown how to really do it by Netflix with this deal. Investors will “wake up this morning and see that Netflix has added 13m subs and start thinking these other media executives are just wasting time and money on this.”
Key words he used: being fully committed (like Netflix) and building an infrastructure that will perform into the future.
The whole problem with streaming is there are X number of sports with Y number of conferences and Z number of streaming services. Assuming one streaming service doesn’t monopolize all the sports/conferences, then I have to pay for multiple streaming services to watch more than one sport/conference. It sure feels like cord-cutters aren’t going to save any money in the end.
Seeing as the cable/sat bill is the biggest money-suck we have, it will be fun to just cut it.
It will take $150 a month for “numerous” subscriptions to total what cable/sat totaled. And that’s if we keep each one for every sports season.
Not the same interview I saw, but similar.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/rich-greenfield-on-nflx-earnings-and-wwe-deal-this-is-a-watershed-moment/vi-BB1h9UA5
Translation: UW offered more money than they initially did for me to transfer here and the check finally cleared
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39373409/will-rogers-exits-transfer-portal-stay-washington
He is a mercenary and a fool to tout the returning guys and making another run like they just did. He has to know they only have 3 returning starters right? UW had the most 6 year players in the country I think, and multiple guys left for the draft early so they are gutted and will get clobbered in the Big10 anyway.
Smart move to threaten to leave in order to force UW alumni to sweeten the NIL deal.
More like, there was no where else to go. All the chairs got filled already.
Ha! MusicalNIL chairs!
If he’s looking for sympathy he’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.
Daschel reports on the contract between OSU/WSU and the WCC, a few items of interest:
-Deadline for adding baseball to the WCC deal is this Friday
-any NCAA men’s basketball tournament credits earned by Oregon State and Washington State go to the WCC
-The contract does not have an option to extend the agreement beyond the 2025-26 school year.
Men’s basketball credits – now that’s funny
Wazzu has potential.
There could be some fun games up in Eastern Washington for the next couple years.
WT is looking forward to winning every conference game in OT
Wilner has a new article up.
https://sports360az.com/as-the-ncaa-landscape-evolves-oregon-state-and-washington-state-stay-flexible-and-play-their-cards-perfectly/
Transforming the network into a regional sports access channel for the West would be the optimal outcome. The NFL and NBA may both be looking for regional producers for non-national games in the near future. And all schools in the footprint could take advantage of it, just as the 10 will likely need to continue doing.
I don’t understand how so many learned administrators could not see opportunities, even in the short term, with an asset which literally grants exposure.
I would go so far as to have a nightly report with highlights of each day for several sports on several levels within the footprint.
I said in the beggining I could draw a straight line from this to The creation of the State Bank and State Granary of North Dakota. Those farmers were fed up with having to do business on the financiers’ terms, so they collectivized and created two co-ops which gave them the tools to do business on their terms.
Those who are not leaders are followers.
After watching a few seasons of Pac12 network produced games vs ESPN/Fox/CBS produced games for the Beavs, it was pretty clear that Pac12 had a higher qualitu product than the other networks, they just didnt have the distribution.
Nobody could see the games that didnt have Comcast/Sling, but they were well done.
And the announcers were much better than the lower tier ESPN crews they’d give us
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2024/01/24/nbc-sports-shared-reality-college-football/72339802007/
Sounds like Harbaugh to Michigan is a go
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1750303420454477993
San Diego ; )
ha, right. that other place
You spelled San Diego wrong.
You both spelled Los Angeles wrong
Taking M coaches too, which should result in more players into the transfer portal…
They’ll probably promote Sherrone Moore and keep most of the current roster
Or maybe this is the cycle Matt Campbell finally jumps ship?
If Chip Kelly also leaves UCLA, this 2024 coaching carousal may never stop
Initial reports make it sound like Jay Harbaugh is following to coach ST for SanDiego
They should go after Matt Campbell. He is as good as Harbaugh, with a very similar system and 20 years younger.
Hilarious that JS will get overlooked with whoever Michigan hires. I can’t imagine they promote from within when they could just as easily get a top notch coach from the Big12 or ACC, maybe Campbell, Leipold or Klineman from KSt. Norvell would be fun too.
i hope Michigan hires lanning
Lanning ain’t going anywhere. He’d have to be a complete psychopath to leave any time soon after all his recent posturing about Oregon being his forever job.
Weird. At some point the kid needs to step out from daddy’s shadow and learn some other perspectives.
Oregon accused of tampering:
https://youtu.be/82dK-aZkvVk?si=hdZpVKYL4Lv1URpw
Everyone should put this on blast. Throw it out there on X and start the fire. Where there’s smoke…
Been saying it for years
I’ve talked to current/former OSU players who have flat out told me Oregon has reached out to them via back channels (agents) to try to poach them from our roster over the past year. It happens everywhere though. The rules are not written well enough to cover all types of tampering, nor is there much the NCAA has shown they will do to police it anyway.
It’s going to keep happening until a school tries to do something about it. Would be nice if a big case could kind of reel this in.
It would be so easy to prove, too
Bray talked about it on Conzano. He didn’t mention the quacks but said players on the roster and not in the portal are getting calls all day everyday. One of these times, coaches are going to start naming names and schools. It’s going to be great.
I’d bet they promote their OC after being the interim during the suspensions and beating Ohio State. Have to give him a year this late in the cycle, but I also thought Washington would promote their OC. All the big names signed extensions with massive buyouts already this offseason.
Riley is rested and ready!
Canham breaking down the roster etc.
https://youtu.be/jhrVuTMEACc?si=vV86vj1OiC6PlGe9
Early on he really shows his analytics side.
Around 26:00 you get an idea of his feelings re: Coach Bray and how he handled the upheaval in FB.
Mason Guerra, Gavin Turley, and Aiden May face the press here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf4xXupXVT4
He’s fuckin’ great.
got all of angrys warts! ha
His daughter is a true beav. Hates that Mitch has green eyes.
Bray and Co pulling out all the stops on the OL Jayden Tuia. Not only had a recent visit in Corvo but DeVan, Gundy and Bray were all in Idaho doing a home visit. DeVan was also there at a home visit on Jan 15th. Considering his “best” offers are from Oregon State, Nevada and Fresno State, you’d hope they could land this guy, especially since he seems like a guy that will need some time to grow and fill out.
Love to see the emphasis on OL. It’s a numbers game: get in as many prospects as you can because there are 5 starters.
This also makes me think some of the younger guys on the depth chart might be leaving.
I don’t necessarily think it means anybody is leaving. The previous staff was planning on bringing in 5 freshmen so it’s not like they’re taking extra lineman at this point.
Has anybody seen if the tall colorado transfer tackle is actually at osu?
Last i heard he wasnt enrolled
He’s not showing up until after he graduates from Colorado in May. That’s his own words from like six weeks ago.
That’s too bad. Would be really nice to have him on campus to see what he’s got and how he fits in and if they’re comfortable with him starting. If not they could address it in the portal if they’re not comfortable with what they’ve got.
Men’s basketball enters tonight’s game at legendary Gill as 18.5 pt underdogs. If this was a road game I’d throw life savings at it but being at home…not so fast. We’ll still get the L but think we can cover at home.
Solid take.
Coach Cooper hitting the Houston area hard with offers today
Travis Bazanna’s draft stock keeps climbing. Now listed as the #3 prospect in the upcoming draft. Amazing to think this program could potentially produce another #1 overall pick if he keeps improving as he has been every season.
https://www.mlb.com/prospects/2024/draft/
He has to show a lot more power to get to #1, like 20+ home runs with no drop in average. He doesn’t play a premium position so he needs to be elite at all around hitting.
Didn’t he steal like 30-40 bases last year? He was unstoppable in the base paths!
Did Oregon really decriminalize cocaine? I missed that. Can ya’ll fill me in? Like the logic/reality of that decision not political ranting…
Select excerpts From a WSJ interview/podcast in Eugene, Ore:
“When Measure 110 appeared on the ballot, it gave Oregon voters the chance to make the state another first, the first to decriminalize hard drugs. When we say drugs are decriminalized, what exactly does that mean?
Zusha Elinson: That means that if you are in Portland, Oregon, you could go out in the street and do a line of cocaine and you cannot be arrested and brought to jail. What they can do is give you a citation, but essentially drug possession, possessing small amounts of drugs and even using small amounts of drugs is no longer a crime.
…the argument for decriminalizing has been the same for a long time, which is that advocates say that we rely too much on the criminal justice system to deal with what they view as a public health issue, addiction. So their idea was we’re going to take a public health approach to this, provide people with services, and those people will get services instead of going into the criminal justice system, either into jail, prison, or probation.
Jessica Mendoza: Measure 110 passed with nearly 60% of the vote. The law changed the way law enforcement interacts with drug users in Oregon. Instead of arresting people who use drugs, officers are now supposed to point them toward treatment.
….what the framers of this law said, they said, police, what you can do is hand out these citations to people using drugs or possessing drugs in the street. And the idea behind these citations was they carry a $100 fine. But if the person wants to get out of that fine and not pay it, all they have to do is call an 800 number, a helpline, that will assess them, give them an assessment, and then point them towards services that they might need. And I think the people who wrote the law hope that these citations would be a little bit of an incentive for people addicted to drugs to seek out services.
…I think it’s a really fascinating story because in some ways Oregon was bold and brave and went out in front of everyone and said, “We’re going to try out this approach that hasn’t been tried in the US.” That’s fascinating that a state would do that. At the same time, you’ve seen places like Washington say, “No, we’re not going to decriminalize drugs either.” I think especially with the way the fentanyl epidemic has ravaged our country, it’s going to make people think twice about passing this type of law.”
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/oregonians-decriminalized-hard-drugs-now-many-regret-it/978cadff-a484-4baf-b43a-cec440418a25#:~:text=Public%20drug%20use%20has%20skyrocketed,effectively%20made%20all%20drugs%20legal.
And how is this all working out, especially in places like Portland? I imagine the results are much like Seattle’s….
And exactly like Eugene .
Washington didn’t decriminalize drugs.
They looked at Portugal and thought it would be a great idea.
Problem is Portugal actually has a viable culture that discourages abuse, and Oregon doesn’t.
Portugal shifted it to looking at it as a medical problem, and that being the proper intervention, as opposed to a criminal problem. It has less to do with cultural norms, and more about differences in healthcare systems.
Sure it is.
Portugal planned out a solution. Americans don’t.
That’s a culture problem.
This is a fair point.
“Americans” don’t really care about Americans.
They disrespect the flag and everyone who died for it by flying it at a game, they thank you for your service, and they tell you all to fuck off, if you’re an American.
MAGA can lick my asshole after beany bean chili night… and I won’t even get into their Nazi propaganda lip-synchs.
Go Google Stabbin Wagon. Tax dollars hard at work. I’m all for treatment / re-Hab but making it easy to get into can’t help.
It seems very stupid, and I’m just trying to understand the logic on any level. Why did Oregonians vote yes on this?
Because they wanted to see how the shift in interventions would work out. The problem is 49 states look at it differently, and it will require a change at the federal level. Also, our healthcare system sucks and it turns out that can’t be relied on as part of the solution.
The timing with the fentanyl crisis was also bad.
Neither jailing or whatever OR is doing are solutions. It’s just a matter of hiding the problem or keeping it plain sight. Unfortunately, hiding it helps the economy. Revealing it doesn’t.
Drug abuse is a mental health issue like so many other things. Availability of drugs is the determining factor between drug addiction and some other form of addiction.
They legalized hard drugs and now property crimes are through the roof. Surprise surprise.
Property crime is up nationwide as well, so there’s also other factors at play.
Okay, so this is in fact very stupid. Both left and right agree?
Any chance it gets reversed and soon?
The left wanted it the right did not, like anyone would honestly think. Now they want to repeal it but with the amount of activist state judges the druggie apologists will probably sue to block it and win.
How does one go about suing legislators to block the legislative process?
They won’t sue legislators they will sue to block anything that changes the law as it is was originally written. One of the original advocates said as much when possible changes to the law were being talked about as early as October.
They can try to challenge it in court after it’s passed, but the law allows for legislators to change ballot measures after the fact, so good luck to them.
On Tuesday legislators said they were going to introduce a bill to make changes to it.
Since it’s a Libertarian policy, I’m waiting to see some support of measure 110 from them, because so far I’ve seen zero.
Libertarians voted for this?
Libertarians certainly should have since it aligns with their ideology and policy.
Does it though? It seems like the “do all the drugs you want” aligns, but tax payer dollars used for free detox treatment doesn’t.
I’m sure Jo Jorgensen is advocating that Oregon keep drugs legal and just cut out the drug treatment funding part.
It’a pretty sweet. I can go to safeway in my semi-suburban Portland area neighborhood and most days see a bunch of junkies shooting up or piles of discarded needles in plain sight.
The store was getting ripped up left and right too, so now it’a guarded like fort knox and has multiple layers of barriers to get in or out of the store(stuff we never had until the past couple few years)
The money that was supposed to be saved on law enforecement is supposedly going towards treatment. But the majority of street junkies dont want to seek out treatment.
Oh…and since Oregon loosened up their laws, junkies from all over the west coast have flocked here. It’s easier to be a junkie when youre not beeing harrassed by law enforcement, so Oregon gets an influx of junkies and their burned out motorhomes.
I’m a lefty or whatever people want to call me, but I voted no.
Yeah seems insane.
Seems? It is insane.
What a mess. It will take years to recover.
I had 2 brothers who battled addicition when they were younger. One was able to recover but the other has permanent brain damage from crystal meth and LSD use primarily. He’ll never function like normal again.
It’s pretty insane that we tolerate some of these substances in our communities and watch people waste away.
It’s a mental health problem(addiction), but like Beav in OH said above, the availability and tolerance of the hardcore substances like meth/fentynal is really what causes the addicts to spiral.
Treatment and counseling are definitely necessary. The stupid part about the new law is making the treatment optional. They need a combination of incarceration and mandatory treatment. But in order for that to be effective at this point you also need to increase the number of police on the street by 5-10x.
its the walking dead
Move farther out like everyone else
Whatever.
It’s like people don’t know what living in a city is like, especially when human support services are, “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps, Munchausen.”
If Portland wasn’t burned to the ground, it would be overrun by immigrant junkies with used needles that will certainly give abortions to all non-gay fetuses.
The ebbs and flows of drug availability and use have nothing to do with the prosecution of the end user.
It never did.
It never will.
If you want to have a frank discussion about gun and human trafficking, then you don’t want to talk about some of the more lenient tax policies we’ve been experiencing for the last 40 years.
But that’s just you.
Mostly to stop the cops from shooting users, for whatever reason they were doing so at such a ridiculous rate.
It was obvious the law had flaws, but the cops were just a bigger flaw. And this law dialed them back.
If only the death toll at the hands of cops is concerned, it is a huge success.
So cops were shooting users just minding their own business? Yeah you’re going to have to post some proof.
Granted, Oregon is really low to start with, compared to places like Indiana or Ohio. And the rate ebbs and flows with the crime rate.
And I would advocate more for the disabled in these instances, since cops seem unable to de-escalate those encounters with more frequency. But they should really be finding the sources of supply, not bothering with dealing with these individuals.
The primary source of failure was obvious when the law was passed–there isn’t enough funding for support services to handle the process.
People want to whine about the problems in society, but they don’t want to pay for some pretty easy solutions that would make life better.
Beaver baseball excerpts:
“We expect nothing but bringing a national championship home this year,” sophomore infielder Mason Guerra said.
Some years, that goal seems more realistic than others, and this appears to be one of those years. The Beavers have star power, a loaded lineup, a deep pitching staff, endless experience, a touted freshman class, key transfer additions and a hunger to return to Omaha for the first time since 2018, when Oregon State won its last national championship.
…
Hitting coach Ryan Gipson says the Beavers have the potential to be the best offense in the history of the storied program, and Guerra and Turley are predicting that the team will break the home run record again.”
No real discussion RE coaching, Canham’s development or lack thereof(?), and of staff…
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024/01/oregon-state-baseball-chasing-a-national-championship-in-final-year-of-pac-12-theres-a-chip-on-our-shoulder.html
More of Mitch on the Beaver Sports podcast here:
23 minutes with Mitch starting at 3:50.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/274-beaver-sports-podcast-28578515/episode/beaver-sports-podcast-mitch-canham-145358191/
“House has been fully cleaned to remove the traitorous stink”
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2830-NW-Silktassel-Ct-Corvallis-OR-97330/102397006_zpid/
I know Katie, I didn’t know she had the listing, i’ll ask if it’s been deloused
Boise State gets a former 5* wr. Solid gets for them this off-season with malachi Nelson at qb and now a highly rated wr.
Ya they’re definitely going to be one of the tougher opponents on the schedule as expected but these are big time gets that are plug and play. It would be good for the Beavs if Boise had a good season and we beat them. Got to come in and beat Boise the first year to control the narrative that we’re still a P5 team.
We appesr to have a new special teams quality control coach.
At least I think he’s new.
Michael Frisina
Twitter.com/michael_frisina
Here comes Angie!
Former BSU kicker and Stanford recruiting intern
Anyone hear what Cookus is doing? He’s still listed on the directory and his Twitter still has osu ST coach.
No idea. It’s weird he’s still listed
He hasn’t listed their house yet
He’s lead recruiter for msu at OSU.
He is finishing up his online classes for “Special Teams coaching for Dummies” before he heads to East Landfill.
MBB hanging in there with Arizona, only down 44-36 at halftime. I haven’t been paying too close attention, but the Beavs haven’t gone on their signature scoring drought yet, so they’re either saving it for the second half or bucking the trend tonight.
You might want to check in again
Parker gonna lose his voice, Beavs win 83-80 on last second 3.
You are welcome Beaver Nation. I saw the halftime score, was tempted to listen to the 2nd half but promptly forgot to even find the stream. If I had tuned in it surely would’ve become a 2nd half debacle instead of a miracle win.
Tinkle still needs to gracefully bow out.
Bow out?
He just earned a 3 year extension tonight!
-Barnes(probably)
WOW. Arizona comes back from down 9 to tie in the last two minutes of the game, then Jordan Pope hits a buzzer-beating 3 to win 83-80.
Travel for the win!!!
Stinkle time tried to give it away up 9, but Pope with the game winner at the buzzer to beat UA.
Stinkle back in good graces despite losing by 60
To CU and Utah. All is forgiven.
I was wrong. No dry January
Anyone seeing a pattern?
Lets give Stinkle a 10 yr extension!
That’s why you gotta watch all the games.
no
Someone on ab was going to place a bet that the beavs wouldn’t lose to Arizona by 18 as the betting sites predicted – thought they’d lose but not by 18 and would bet accordingly. Curious to know if he/it/whatever followed through. If so, let us know how it turned out.
Happy for the players and the fans (seemed like a decent crowd), and to have Bill Walton on the call was a nice swan song.
As annoying as Bill has been to listen to over the years he will be one of those national treasures that will be missed.
A stretch, but I get the sentiment
I learn something from Bill every time I listen to him call game!
Is it “what drugs to you”?
For example, I didn’t know that the Snake River flow rate is around 70,000 CFS, or that the Willamette River averages 33,000 CFS.
Thank you, Bill.
Maybe MBB can use this win as a springboard. Confidence is such a huge factor in basketball and from seeing the trend in scoring differential, it seems like theirs has been drained by getting blown out in conference play.
Doubt it.
Final Four, here we come!
Lol I was going to post this yesterday after it came across my feed but didn’t. UA honks giving some respect to Gill/OSU before their last game at Gill.
https://tucson.com/sports/college/basketball/wildcats/men/pascoe/arizona-basketball-oregon-state-beavers-corvallis-last-time-2024/article_3c63e1a2-bb0d-11ee-ba1b-8bf3d037e687.html
Haha, perfect!
It’s all true.
Jared’s dunk was possibly the loudest that place has ever been, and there were ony about six or seven thousand in the stands that day.
Nice article!
“OSU guard Jared Cunningham even helped decorate the Beavers’ 76-75 win over the Elite Eight bound Wildcats of 2010-11 with a one-handed, high-flying dunk in which TV play-by-play announcer Kevin Calabro yelled gushingly that “Jared Cunningham kisses the sky!”
I remember that one. Calabro was such a great radio guy, loved him calling the Sonics with Payton, Kemp et al…”Nothing! But crisp! Clean! Cotton!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_yAi_M1Y8
The shorts! Glad they did not last as a style
In 2000 I was playing in the Rec center with a student ticket in my pocket for the AZ game. I was on a bit of a heater, and decided to keep playing instead of going to the game and watching another beatdown. When I got to my apartment, I turned on Sportcenter just as they were replaying the Deaundra Tanner buzzer beater. I was practically across the street when it happened.
I tuned the TV off at halftime last night and went to bed. Laid there for about 15 minutes and remembered that game 23 years ago…decided to go back downstairs just to make sure Beavers were actually headed towards their expected second half collapse.
Was happy with my decision.
i was in the student section for the Dino Tanner buzzer beater. Nearly got crushed by the fans running over each other to get to the court.
Was also in the stands a year or 2 before that where we had #1 Arizona on the ropes, but our center (forgetting his name, Todd something) missed both free throws to ice it and Miles Simon drove the length of the court and finger rolled in the game winner at the buzzer off the rebound. That was such a bummer, Beavs had that one in the bag.
Speaking of getting crushed in a crowd. The 1998 CW overtime field rush was one of the scariest things I’ve ever been a part of. I can easily see how people get trampled to death in crowds like that. I could barely keep my feet underneath me, I was basically getting rag-dolled for a few minutes.
was at that game too. was a nice time to be a student, several fun upsets
That Civil War game was dangerous. I saw people in the student section finish a beer bottles and then just check the empty glass bottle up into the crowd ahead of them. could have easily hit someone in the head with that.
I was also at the game (can’t remember which one it was now?) where the goal posts got knocked down and one of the uprights hit a girl in the head down on the turf. I think that one resulted in a pretty serious injury. It got wild at times.
Since we’re waxing nostalgic on past Beaver great events, I’ll give you mine. We had been ranked fairly high all season (’80-’81) and were #1 in the polls going into the ASU game. I had been able to get tickets (after camping out all night) and was sitting with the rest of guys in some fairly decent good seats in Gill. For whatever reason, the team came out flat and was getting an ass beating by ASU early on and the crowd was having none of it. I couldn’t see what happened, but somebody further down in front threw something onto the court, disrupting play. Ralph stopped the game and grabbed a floor mic, looked up into the stands and pointed to some kid a few rows away that was winding up to toss something out and said, “I’ll have you, Junior” – I had no doubt in my mind that Ralph would’ve jumped into the stands and grab who ever it was.
We may have had an awful football team (attended every home game for five years), but I was there for some legendary
basketball. Ralph Miller was a hell of a coach.
Here’s another you guys might find humorous. Being in a fraternity, it was always a big deal to ‘rush’ an athlete. One year we were lucky and got two, one guy was a football player from Sedro Woolley, WA and the other was a basketball player from Marysville, CA. The basketball player was a 7 footer, believe it or not, and the problem arose of there were no beds long enough to accommodate him in the house, so we had to purchase a longer bed for him. It worked out, but I think he was there for just a year.
The basketball player would tell us about practice with Ralph Miller. Generally, it consisted with Ralph wearing a suit, sitting in a folding chair, with a lit ‘More’ cigarette, observing from center court, while the team went through their basics: lay-ups, passing, etc. The one thing that Ralph abhorred was the bounce-pass; there was hell to pay if you ever made one – if you were going to pass the ball, it better not ever touch the floor. If you look back at videos of those old games, you’ll never see a bounce-pass.
One day at practice, the basketball player was doing a one-on-one with one of the starters and blocked a shot. Ralph looked up at him from the chair and said “good job, monster.” That’s about as good as you ever got in the way of compliments, but Ralph was a great coach and the players would play for him – he got the best out of them.
My dad took me to some of those games in the AC Green and Charlie Sitton era.
Payton respected him…but he did unnecessary bounce passes in NBA…
Maybe we should send Tinkle some “More” cigarettes …a many layered message …
I might pay to see Big Tinks in a plaid sports coat with a lit More 100 Menthol in his mouth on “Ralph Miller Tribute” night.
Nice nut for the Blind Squirrel (Scirius tinkleus) last night..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/tamperpalooza-multiple-programs-are-violating-ncaa-bylaws-on-transfer-portal-tampering/ar-BB1hi5ss?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ce6239e1cb26414988f31dabab8089b4&ei=17
Next headline. NCAA toothless, the “awe, come on guys stoooop” approach not working as intended.
Bad week for Arizona sports
Beavs likely to be a young team again next year. Pope is going to get some very serious offers.
Everyone will stick around and they will bring in top level transfers. Tinkle is going to build a super team.
For anyone who hasn’t seen the final play from last night’s game.
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Freel%2FC2kwu8bvh4M%2F&h=AT0giEeuZgEqEOM_kVaqinN2GxI9l4tfgh-pCj7O4N2JYK2lezwCmUkMuJ36ufZu3eKn1GjX0hNPTyom6P6kOWp8SQZJ3wIsLXIQFRAKjpfogE8V7SX8mF-WiwjV10n0jQB4C9EZ2EWM7qY3rQ&s=1
Wow.
Under 10, tied, and your D is a soft man?
Beavs baseball is officially Independent for 2025. I believe today was the final date to solidify any sports to be part of the WCC. Gotta be a good indicator that we’ve got some semblance of a tough schedule…if there wasn’t much there I don’t know if you could risk assuming games will materialize vs taking a more guaranteed schedule in WCC regardless of the caliber of teams.
Sounds like Pat Casey is involved in the scheduling effort.
I feel comfortable with him being involved. He knows exactly what is needed and how to get it.
Got a source for the Casey mention? I don’t doubt it, in fact would be surprised if he wasn’t, just lookin’ for reading material.
ha, my bad. i was reading the quotes from earlier today and it says “Oregon State Pat Casey Head Baseball Coach Mitch Canham”
They got me with that job title
https://twitter.com/KendallRogers/status/1750943392693882972/photo/1
Gotta wonder if Tinkle’s full job title includes something like:
“The OSU coach up them younguns and GO HARD basketball Head Coach”
Top hoops teams in the West are:
USU, UA, CSU, UNM, SDSU, and BYU.
And now I wonder if UA is even legit, given their road woes.
So basically the Mountain West conference is holding things down in the west
Last night was the game Oregon State basketball fans have been waiting for the last 3 years. The big question is can they build off this? There is not a lot of hope given Tinkles absolutely abysmal road record the last 3 years. But it’s clear this team has the pieces to be a winning basketball team. It all depends on if Rataj, Bilodeau and Akanno can play like they do at home on the road. If they win on Saturday, they should be carrying some real momentum into next week. If they lose. Well, they might as well pack it in for the season. But they looked fantastic in the second half. 7 of their 9 losses are Q1 or Q2. And many of them are road or neutral site games. Can they find a way to win consistently in conference AND on the road? We’ll see I suppose. ASU is a winnable game though. Especially at home.
Per Bill Oram:
In his ninth year at the helm, Tinkle has won a higher percentage of his games than any OSU coach since Jim Anderson and more games total than anyone since Ralph Miller.
Put that in your pipe, WCC………..lol
“and more games total than anyone since Ralph Miller”
Don’t blow smoke up my ass, Bill. He’s been here 9 fucking years. Longer than any of the previous failed experiments.
Tinkle has won a higher percentage of his games than any OSU coach since Jim Anderson
Ummm… no. This factoid is true, if we replace Jim Anderson with Craig Robinson.
Does this Bill Oram fellow know how to find and read numbers? Tinkle blew past Jim’s win% and is headed for John’s win%.
Fun fact:
Jim Anderson and Jay John both coached for 169 games. 169 is two more games than Wayne Tinkle has losses at OSU.
Good Lord, is Tinks some kind of Voo-Doo Oracle who has cast a spell over the Oregon media? What a bunch of slanted bullshit. Tinkle is responsible for two of the worst seasons in Beav hoops history. Going for an elite eight team to a 3-28 record should say enough about his coaching and recruiting abilities. Is there any other Power 5 coach out there who would still have a job with this record? He has two seasons with a combined 8-55 record, think about that!
Sorry Bro but you are delusional if you actually think anything good comes from that game. It is a definite outlier and the trend is not good. Tinkle destroys the fundamentals of any talented players and messes up the rest mentally because he doesn’t have a clue how to put guys in good situations.
I like seeing the big win and the upset victories but that is kind of the point. Tinkle will never be leading the pac and the hunted, his teams are always in the underdog role trying to pull off the upset.
Tinkle hasn’t even sniffed a PAC12 championship except for the Elite 8 run. He has the 3 worst season records in school history. He has an extension that was foolhardy by Barnes and handcuffs any effort to move on from him. This is why OSU basketball has been reduced to: hoping for the big upset once in a while and watching dreadful basketball the other 90% of the time.
I’ll pass on any talk of Tinkle being carved next to Ralph and Slats on the OSU Mount Rushmore of great coaches. Don’t even float it. He is a disaster and has reduced OSU to a shadow of what it once was.
Same here, Tinks isn’t fit to carry Ralph’s cigarette smellin’ jock.
From the statistics can be misleading file:
–He has the 3 worst season records in school history.
–Tinkle has won a higher percentage of his games than any OSU coach since Jim Anderson and more games total than anyone since Ralph Miller.
hmmm
What’s he got an average of 10-11 wins a season?
Finishing this year, it will be about 14 per year over ten years.
9.67 years in at OSU, and he has 21 less wins than he had in eight years at Montana.
Baseball with sick new unis
https://twitter.com/BeaverBaseball/status/1751047828070355004?t=4PmDuM_u3ihTTwA42AgJqg&s=19
On the way to Gill…let’s go Beavs…
I’ll look for your sign student beav
Let us know if the mens team shows up to support the gals as the gals did for them last night. FAMILY
Someone else said it, but it seems like MBB’s success depends entirely on if the 3’s they chuck up go in or not. Last night’s 3% was pretty dang good.
Live and die by the three isn’t a recipe for sustainable success.
Unless you are the Warriors with Curry and Thompson in their prime.
It’s really the role players that make or break the games for the men. Hot three point shooting can get them by vs higher level teams.
If you look at the splits for home/away for everyone but Pope and Bilodeau, there’s a dramatic dropoff in points and efficiency.
At the half, Hunter doing her Paurova act, hasn’t missed yet. Leads good gals with 12 pts.
32-30 Beavs.
Beers, again, misses 2 FT’s, the only FT’s so far tonight.
Knowing Barnes, big Tinks might have just earned himself another contract extension with that Arizona win!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2830-NW-Silktassel-Ct-Corvallis-OR-97330/102397006_zpid/
The king of East Lansing has his Corvallis house up on Zillow. Selling for 1.9 million.
Already been posted on here keep up young one. Doesn’t seem like JS style of house. He must have a secret identity.
What do you think is style is?
His?
1990s ranch style.
A hobbit hole in The Shire
Technically, I would call this one a ranch with a finished basement.
Same as yours
I doubt he’s the one responsible for some of its design.
Ftr, don’t put crown molding on cabinets that aren’t full uppers. Don’t put horizontal tile on a vertical axis in wet areas… because it’s different.
And try to keep roof cuts to a minimum.
Also, if you’re going to take pics of the house for promos, you probably don’t want to include a shoe tree and a rack of hangers. One of the bedrooms looks like there should be a closet where there isn’t one.
Also, are those uneven bars in the backyard?
Who knew Jack was not just a philosopher but also an architect, interior designer, cabinet maker, floor tile man, and realtor?
Very informative post Jack. I might guess you just have a lot of opinions to share but on these you seem to have a more specific interest.
FYI real estate listings can come in all shapes and sizes depending on your market. Shoe racks, Knick knacks, messy bedrooms, dishes in the sink, toiletries all over the bathroom can be the norm the norm in some markets.
FYI… never actually did realty.
But turnkey design-builds are a thing, believe it or not.
The landscape design can’t really be criticized too much. People rarely spend what they should on utility (slope remediation) and design function. And HOA’s or local governments are loathe to either spend the money on it or force developers to do so.
Also, I’ve said many times before that I was a builder.
So many people either knew, or they were intentionally ignorant.
TVO goes 9 for 9 FT, Beavs win 68-62
Points off of TO pretty close: only +2 for CO
The Goodman effect is real
What does that mean? They haven’t been beating top ranked teams until tonight.
Not to throw cold water on MBB’s big win against AZ, but I don’t think the Pac 12 is very good this year in hoops and think AZ is over rated. Still a good win for the guys.
I believe that AZ has beat Duke, Michigan State, Wisconsin, and Alabama.
I heard Duke’s not good and Cameron is not a difficult place to play.
Bama and Wisconsin… yippee? MSU isn’t even that good.
The win at CIA is a good one, but it was last year. Purdue just owned them… but not like perennial power Stanford did.
Yawn. No more MBB talk for me. It’s always the same like Groundhog Day every season and nothing will change with Tinkle.
I’m looking forward to baseball season, not going to waste anymore energy on Big Tinks and his merry band of young players…
This didn’t age well at all
Jeremiah Ioane commitment post train rolls on…he may be the most committed Beav ever.
Pretty amazing that his brother was top 20 in Nevada in sacks as a freshman defensive lineman, too.
Beavs get a late commitment for 202r with edge/TE Kai Richardson. Don’t know much about him aside he’s from WA and I suspect has ties to Tracy Ford. Saw a post of his from July 2023 where he was ranked a 2* TE. I assume he’s gotta be a PWO with how our current scholarship numbers are.
And yes, it is a PWO commitment.
Looks like a quality player for a PWO. Hopefully he can turn into one of the next greats that started as a walk on.
Wow, MBB leads ASU by 15 at the half. Pope sure looks like he has the skill set for today’s NBA.
Holy momentum Batman. Can they pull off a two-game conference winning streak?
When’s the last time that happened? Not counting the conference tournament.
I think the announcers said they swept the Washington schools in February 2021. Horrendous foul shooting or they would be winning by 25. I think about 20 for 40 at the line. Up 14 with about 90 seconds left, but Tinks took Pope out for some reason and they are struggling to get the ball inbounds.
East explanation when you understand Tinkles approach. Now that Pope is the undisputed best player on the team, Tinkle will begin messing with his mind and “toughen” him up mentally by benching him periodically for no apparent reason. Thus Pope is a cinch to depart in the off-season and Tinkle gets to start over with a new nucleus and new guards. Built in excuses and textbook strategy for journalists to buy into and write about Tinkle as a program builder.
I’d guess that if he leaves it will be for a big bag of money.
Game was over,
Pope averages like 36 mins a game. Any chance you can to give him some extra rest should be taken.
They’re winning without hitting three’s, too. Cool.
Good Guys 84-71. Asshole Hurley played foul ball for the last four minutes, but then again Beavs missed 20 foul shots.
Beavs outrebound Sun Devils 47-26. That’s a stat for ya!
Hopefully Iaone’s brother continues to grow quite a bit. He looks like a beast but is only 5’10 240 as a DL. If he can get to the height of his brother the weight will come and hopefully we can see them playing together.
I grew 5 inches from freshman to senior year. He should be fine.
Ya hopefully he should. He’s only a sophomore right now I think. 3-5 inches would be ideal for the DT range or could even grow into more of a DE.
I grew 5 inches from freshman to senior year.
How you doin?
EGGERS with an extensive piece on Pat Casey. Hadn’t heard that he retired from his position as senior associate athletic director and special assistant to athletic director Scott Barnes. He is, however, helping Canham raise funds for a $6 million hitting facility that has begun construction beyond centerfield at Goss.
https://www.kerryeggers.com/stories/pat-casey-my-hall-of-fame-is-the-dugout
Helps the expense flow if he’s not being paid anymore and helps raise funds. Plus plus for the athletic dept
Great article! Thanks for sharing oob.
Does anyone know if the new 25 commit is a legacy player? I think the Beavs had an OL named Jon Ioane from 04-08.
Haven’t heard any mention of it, but that’s not to say he isn’t.
Common name, but a good reminder for the near future:
https://247sports.com/Player/Jon-Ioane-46140157/
Probably should offer him now, just because he is a legacy. But he has the size to be a good get on his own.
If I had to guess, I think sharing the RB room with some kid named Jackson might be what is instilling this love.
Jon Ioane didn’t actually play here, though (academics, Juco, then couldn’t enroll again due to academics). So I’m not sure that can be a legacy call. Maybe he knows Devan, since he was in the same class?
A big win is only as good as the next game. Beavs followed through with a nice win. Is this a turning point? History says no with the massive road woes.
Thats the key. ROAD WINS. UCLA and USC having down seasons to date. If there was ever a chance for OSU to end the road streak this is it. Need AT LEAST one win on the LA trip then I think things could start to get interesting going forward.
The Pac is extremely bipolar. Utah got crushed in Seattle tonight. Buffs lost in Pullman. Arizona won in Eugene. 6 teams are within one game of 1st place.
I’m delighted for the players. There seems to be camerarderie unseen for a couple of years. Anyone know where those hideous guys that refused to play landed? – if they did.
Yeah… playing in more March Madness.
In basketball being hot is a thing. They might be hot right now. If they win at UCLA we can officially say they are hot!
Joel Valsez dropped another YouTube video on throwing session. There’s a new addition to the WR room. Jhae Drummer has been moved from DB to WR. Perhaps one to keep an eye on for spring portal? If they’re trying a new role, doesn’t catch on, perhaps he decides to xfer out.
None of those names mean anything to me and I actually follow this stuff
Lol. Valdez was a xfer last year from Linfield where he put up some awesome numbers but was injured for most this season. Still going thru PT on his knee injury actually. I wasn’t very familiar with Drummer either. RS-FR from state of alabama i believe.
Nice to see some behind the scenes. Looks like GB and the new QBs are there.
I would hope so. Didn’t see Clemons but it was hard for me to recognize a lot of them and their nicknames. Didn’t realize Valdez has 2 more years. He looks like he works really hard so hopefully he can get healthy and earn some playing time.
He’s a walk on for a reason
That’s no reason in a wide open receiver room he can’t show he’s a D1 athlete and earn playing time. So was Mike Hass. I’m not saying he’s Mike but I could see him as being a reliable target as a role player. Probably blocks extra hard. Noga was a walk on too until he earned a scholly. He’s looked good in his limited opportunities.
BWB lead Utah 28-19 after one at Gill
Seeing one NFL scout/talent guy thinking Gould could have one of the top 40 times in the draft. All I cam think about is how the fuck could we not take better advantage of a guy who will likely post a top 40 time? Same with Bolden. Rarely saw any crossing routes, more motion or fly sweeps, etc. Criminal what Lindgren did with that group.
Criminal and even worse that a bunch of guys on a blog called it out early and often but it never changed. Lindgren leaving is a net gain for OSU.
Irish and Bolden had similar 40 times.
Yeah, Irish was the speed guy of his class if I recall.
Beav gals up by 17 at the half. How ’bout points off of TO’s………..8-0 Beavs! a seldom seen stat for these gals!
Rees leads Beavs vs her old school with 12 pts in 15 minutes.
Men and women sweep, great weekend at Gill
Won 91-66. Were up by almost 40 at one point.
That was a beat down..damn
Beat #3 & #16 same weekend. should move them up significantly in the poll.
Was so hoping for the c note…ladies were on fire.
They seem to be finding their stride, this could be a special team
Did ya see any guys from the men’s team in the stands today?
I didn’t, but I didn’t look and I didn’t see them flashed on the big screen
Hunter turning it on!
Hope her growth continues! She seems very cool and composed for a FR
Just got home…good to see we get to watch tay tay at the Superbowl, yuck. As a raider fan to have kc at allegiant is gross
Go Chiefs
Speaking of Las Vegas, going to see U2 at the sphere next weekend , anyone been there? Tips?
A friend went. Said there wasn’t a bad seat and concessions were self serve and very efficient.
Self serve concessions…wooo-boy!
Women’s team is a tough out if they’re hitting the 3 ball. 65% against Utah today. Wow!
WBB to Utah:
“GetOuttaGill!”
#GillGotEm
Angry loving the Lions coaching decisions
Maybe JS can join Dan Campbell’s staff after he gets fired. They seem to have the same philosophy.
What a bonehead decision to go for that on fourth and two. Take your points… the game was in the pocket.
But the data suggests you go for it…
Had the “look” they wanted!
Losing is so deep in their souls, they had to do it…
Hey now… the Detroit Lions have risen to the level that we can now say they Couged it.
Detroit (Mountain) Lions?
They want to be aggressive!
There’s a video floating around X of Gould making some nice plays at some kind of nfl draft thing. It would be great if he had success but be a kind of wtf about him not being more productive here. If he’s so fast how come they could never get him deep over the top of the defense? Especially with Martinez and the running game and them bringing safeties into the box.
Because he was easy to bump off stride and couldn’t fight through physical corners. Everyone played it the same, and refs don’t look for those calls to help OSU.
Speed isn’t everything for a WR. There are plenty of WR’s with good 40 times out there, even at the FCS level. You see lots of obscure names pop up at the NFL Combine every year with good measurements that might get drafted in the late rounds, but never make it.
There’s too many variables to judge on why he didn’t break out. Large part is the play calling and play design. Looking at pre draft one on one videos is not a good comparison to actual play.
Just have to hope he is used strategically and has success at next level if ge gets a deal. That’s the best outcome for him and the Beavers..
Poor QB play
https://x.com/RealD_Jackson/status/1751694250817773894?t=4TcVk1KptaW0L-2DIvljKQ&s=09
https://twitter.com/JoeJHoyt/status/1751647172280340872?t=58OPN4QHUWWEbDhAT6I0uQ&s=19
They should have a “Consolation Bowl” this coming weekend, Buffalo and Detroit…wonder who would piss away the victory?
Wonder how many people would watch compared to the Super Bowl this year.
I’d be more interested in it than KC/Kelce/Swift love fest people are going to suffer through…the Kelce Bros and Swift probably top my list of annoying celebrities..
And think of the consolation bowl tagline: “Someone has to win!”
Don’t allow for a tie…
You know the easy way to avoid the love fest of a celebrity couple? Don’t pay attention to it.
Yeah, agreed. I don’t read the articles, put they regularly have photos/titles relating to Swift and Kelce.
Only those two cities would watch. When there’s nothing on the line, no one cares.
FWIW, ESPN (I know…) WBB power rankings has OSU WBB debuting at #14, and identifies them as the “Team if the Week.”
They’re at UO next Sunday….
If the women’s teams keeps it up, they could lock up a top 16 seed. Beavs are hosting the Portland site this year. Half of the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 will be played there. Possible the Beavs don’t leave the state if they get on that side of the bracket. Big home court advantage.
The ESPN comment got me to thinking about the PTN and its future and the whole streaming landscape of the future.
The only thing that disturbed me with the Apple deal was the comment by the Apple exec (maybe even Cook himself?) about them owning the product, once produced and distributed. That just never sounded kosher.
I briefly wondered about what other streaming entities were out there, and I was frustrated to think ESPN or Amazon might be the only alternatives. Then I decided I just wanted to check baseball news and see when (2/16) our first game was. No surprise… it’s in Surprise. But it’s available on a site we’re all familiar with–FloSports.
What if Pac 12 Network production was available on FloSports?
It could start as just third-tier rights, meaning it would be all the Olympic sports that fit in with their method–vertical sports access, not regional sports access. And I know the Big 12 has no third-tier deal, which is why some of the 10 will need to find the same kind of deals on their own. Many teams in that conference and others already have some deals in place with them, and they’ve been making bigger investments in college sports in recent years.
As linear dies, it would become home to all sports streaming, and it could just be a standalone app.
Partnering with a platform that still has a lot of room to grow but is highly experienced in the field could make the sum worth more than the parts.
Daschel with an article on Gundy and the offense.
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024/01/oregon-states-offense-for-2024-itll-look-different-q-and-a-with-offensive-coordinator-ryan-gunderson.html
I love the comments about planning around players’ strengths. Much better than being married to a system.
That’s just good coach speak. Says a lot of words but really didn’t say anything
Sort of. There are plenty of coaches that will explicitly say “we want to run x, y, and z.” JS/BL did when they came in and WT is infamously married to his style.
There are pluses and minuses to both approaches, but especially when you’re rebuilding a roster, you need to be flexible.
Thanks!
I like that Bray gets the call on whether or not to go for it on 4th downs…did Smith defer to Lindgren, or did Smith let lindgren call it?
No smith called them and would let lindgren know on 3rd down that they were going to go so Lindgren could call a play accordingly.
Does “accordingly” translate to, “Oh goody! Let’s pass the ball!”
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I like the approach of tailoring the offense to the talent available especially in the first couple of years when you don’t necessarily have your recruits yet. Also the part of playing a receiver or TE based on talent and getting the RB the ball on the run game. It’s cool to hear he was very involved in the game planning of the offense.
Yes, getting the ball in space to the RBs other than a hand-off would be nice. Hopefully that’s one area that we can improve on with a better ball from the QB and better hands by the RB. Definitely was a trouble area last season for sure. We weren’t super accurate on the swings and screens and when we did have a good toss we dropped them. Getting Jam back will help and perhaps Hankerson(?), xfer from Colorado, has better utility in that regard.
non paywall link. Cause fuck the oregonian
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/oregon-state-s-offense-for-2024-it-ll-look-different-q-and-a-with-offensive-coordinator-ryan-gunderson/ar-BB1hrj0z
That article was all coach speak. I could sum it up by saying, he intends to play the best players and will do a lot of different things on offense.
Agreed.
“We might have to throw it 50 times. We
Might not. We will take what the defense gives us and go from there”
Paraphrasing obviously. But I didn’t like that comment. If you HAD to throw it 50 times in a non run and shoot offense it’s probably because you fell so far behind you had to completely abandon the run.
What ever offense they utilize it SHOULD be run first based.
That was informative lol
Coach speak & short summary aside, I feel like he has an idea of what he would like to do, but has not fully explored his roster yet on the field.
That won’t be until later.
Re: running game. Without reading too deeply, he seems aware of where the offensive strengths of the roster are:
“…We’re going to pull some things maybe look the same in the run game…”
“…Do I want to throw the ball? Yes, I do. But I’m not going to be silly about it. We’re going to be efficient and smart and try to keep things as simple for our guys as possible. And I think if we can keep things simple for our players, that gives you the ability to reduce turnovers. If we can be multiple and create issues for the defense, while still making our process simple, then we can create explosive plays…”
“…It could be spread triple option, like you’ve seen Chip Kelly do. It could be passes with run options…”
“…Obviously we know what he’s good at, and we’ve got to develop some other areas to get him the football. I’m really excited about Damien…”
“… I believe in getting the running back out when you can get them out of protection. I believe in free releasing the running back, getting them the ball. Maybe it’s first in a progression, whereas if they’re blocking or involved in the protection they might be fifth in the progression. In the screen game, I think that’s another way that we can get them the ball some. I am all for it…”
What if… stay with me here… we have two RBs who can do various things like blocking or catching the ball in space?
Have we ever seen anything like that on the west coast?
Jordan Pope named ESPN’s national player of the week.
Who wants to bet he transfers after this season?
IDK, he could’ve easily gone somewhere else this year even for more $. I’d hate for him to go but I think from his perspective, if he wants to cash out and perhaps get a better chance to thrive in an actual offensive system, he should xfer. Although, if Akano isn’t hogging the ball, Pope could toss up as many shots as he wants to since we have no actual plays to call. Watching a WT offensive scheme is just ever so slightly more put together than pick-up games we used to play as kids with a bunch of random bodies on the court.
I guess I don’t understand the role assistant coaches play. Does Tinkle keep his because they don’t challenge him? They all should know basketball well enough to formulate plays. Canzano interview with Pope (before the Arizona State game): What were you thinking in those late seconds? Pope, “I hoped he wouldn’t call a time-out.” Hilarious! Maybe, maybe, if the team starts to do well, Tinkle will feel he can retire on a good note. If the team continues to continue to do well, I hope Barnes isn’t inspired to extend his contract.
You’d hope. Tinkle has always been acutely aware of his detractors (maybe he reads AB!) Part of me thinks the reason he’s continuing on here is he wants to be vindicated that his approach works. After last week, the temptation will be there to say “we can beat anyone in this league when we execute how we want to.”
In a loooooooong shot scenario where resumes matter, one silver lining is we escaped the non-con schedule with no Q4 losses.
Sounds like Gundy sees the QB race as McCoy vs BG, with Johnson being a less developed wild card that has “leadership potential.”
Jordan Pope earns Pac-12 POW honor
https://pac-12.com/article/2024/01/29/pac-12-mens-basketball-performance-awards-presented-nextiva-january-29-2024
Too bad Brian Cardinal is out of eligibility
Jordan Bishop would have gotten along well with them
And 2 national pow awards. Coug mbb player wins freshman pow the week award. Pac-2 rules.
Beaver lock signal a few minutes ago. Pretty sure it will be Tuia
It was!
“14. New Orleans Saints: OL Taliese Fuaga, Oregon State
There used to be fewer higher priorities in the Big Easy than O-line, especially the interior. Massive Fuaga (6-6, 334) could bolster the inside blocking immediately and perhaps shift out to his more familiar right tackle post over time.”
Second OL in this mock…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/draft/2024/01/29/nfl-mock-draft-2024-caleb-williams-jayden-daniels-quarterbacks/72398714007/
https://www.spokesman.com/sports/team/wsu-football/
How Dickert kept assistants, most players, etc., etc.
More likely because they were a sub 500 team.
Another week, another story about an NCAA football program(Tennessee) being “investigated” for alleged NIL violations and committing major recruiting violations.
And nothing will come of it. This story could be written about any blue blood team. The NCAA has already shown they will do nothing to offenders, and the teams will keep breaking the rules. And also, nobody knows what the rules are.
https://247sports.com/Article/tennessee-under-ncaa-investigation-for-nil-violations-involving-nico-iamaleava-per-reports-226382065/
Yeah the NCAA is a joke! A few years ago Mizzou self reported to the NCAA about tutors doing homework and taking tests for a few football players. Mizzou got the book thrown at them with loss of some scholarships and not being bowl eligible. North Carlolina’s mens basketball was caught doing the same thing. They denied it multiple times until evidence came out proving that it did happen. What punishment did Roy Williams Tar Heels get? Loss of scholarships? Nope! Not eligible for the tourney? Nope! The proverbial slap on the wrist!
Jamie Christian is officially the Spec Team coach. Was brought up by Nice Beav weeks ago and now official
https://x.com/BeaverFootball/status/1752417647700914491
Weird it took so long, unless they really were waiting on Harbaugh’s decision.
Also not a very exciting hire.
What kind of hire is this? Here is an excerpt from an article on why he was fired from New Mexico in November. You are telling me there wasn’t any other candidates who were above this guy?
“Christian, 51, was hired in January 2020 as a member of Gonzales’ inaugural staff. Over his first three seasons, he oversaw special teams units that were rated 65th (2020), 104th, (2021) and 67th (2022) in the country, per Pro Football Focus’ grading system.
Now graded as PFF’s 128th overall unit, UNM’s special teams have struggled in 2023. The Lobos gave up three 40-plus yard punt returns in a 56-14 loss to UNLV on Saturday and have now allowed eight 20-plus yard returns – the most of any team in the country”
Chadron State and New Mexico. Sweet. As I said, we’re a glorified high school team now.
Why don’t you just say Flag Football Team and make it dramatic?
Because flag football is fun.
Another QB commit. Jake Sanders. Idaho State via Chadron State.
Didn’t actually play a snap at QB for ISU. Only served as holder.
That’s a head scratcher.
According to Idaho State web site, a Junior in 2023, played in all 11 games but accumulated zero stats. No stats the year before either. So a guy with one maybe two years of eligibility left who didn’t accumulate any stats on the FCS level? Who’s he related to?
Hmmm… a ST player probably walking on, just after we name a ST coach.
I don’t get it, either.
This tells me we are no longer running on the fake fg attempts but we’re now throwing the ball. This move was made because Sappington left.
HaHa. Makes more sense if he’s a holder on ST.
He’s related to Scott Sanders. Jake Sanders dad is Bruce Sanders, Scott’s brother. Both obviously played at OSU.
Today’s additions were brough to you by Nepotism. Find it at your local Walmart.
I’m all for it. Hopefully it gets us Steven Jackson’s kid too. Lol
Is it a scholarship? If he’s a walk on, I see no issue.
The fact that he didnt get the whole Beaver Lock announcement must mean he’s a walk on.
Maybe a good enough athlete to switch positions?
Unless Throckmorton, BG and Montiel all xfer, I don’t necessarily see this guy being on the roster for QB depth. Makes more sense he’s here for Special Teams and I guess in the event of an emergency situation with a bunch of injuries you have someone who’s played QB on the roster.
Nothing like landing that elite Chadron State talent.
Danny Woodhead and Don Beebe.
A pretty good video about football recruiting and its accuracy. Pretty decent if you have the time.
https://youtu.be/eVXWCnfLnQM?si=fcEc-EVydUehajbq
Couple baseball press conferences,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYd8C8zQQBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtzZPOj5UwI
Nothing too exciting. Laif Palmer is out for a while which is a bummer as he was hyped a bit. Kmatz seems to be on track to start the year.
Both coaches and players said Segura could be an impact freshman pitcher. All are confident in the offense. Lots of power but they’ll need to get on base to make those really hurt the other teams. Pitching seems like they have a lot of talent, and a lot of options. But no lights out Friday night guy.
I think May might have the best “stuff” of the potential 3-4 starters but has had control issues. I think Jimenez showed last year he could have the true Friday Ace that we’ve typically had up until last year. Sellars was so frustrating last year. Had like 3 really amazing starts but then the rest of the year was lit of the game after the 3rd. Really need our starters to give those quality starts again. Perhaps the days of a starter going 7+ innings are no longer the norm but we need to have our starters go longer than 3 or 4 innings…which most of them struggled to do last year.
President Murthy visited Nvidia last week. I doubt sports was a topic though
Dare to dream!
Billionaire megadonor $$$$$$ incoming for BeaverNation?!!? Uncle Phil will be remembered as Uncle Festus if the Nvidia guy jumps into OSU sports and tech.
esports!
Make that money.
One day, maybe the Phighting Phils will be a preferred client of Nvidia, the largest sponsor of collegiate ethletics. But everyone will drool over our facilities.
Interesting development on the Portland Diamond Project. Appears they may have some agreement to purchase RedTail golf course and its property if they do get selected as an expansion/destination city. Not that many of the proposed locations were amazing to get to but dam, that I-5/217 interchange area was awful to navigate when I lived there 13 years ago. RedTail was a fun course but so fucking busy. It’d take 5-6 hours to play a round of golf there.
it isn’t just that if a team moved to Portland they would be Oakland A’s level bad, or that a stadium would require a roof, or that the Mariners could probably quash the idea like a bug if it ever came close to reality – but I don’t understand the concept of local people trying to find a place to build a stadium without a team on the hook.
I have to think those who have donated tens of thousands of dollars on this deal have some other way of making it “pay off” for them – both on the long term and the short term – real estate pump and dump I’m guessing. it just seems pointless. They’d be better off focusing their time on making sure the Hillsboro Hops don’t leave.
https://ballparkdigest.com/2023/10/27/deadline-for-new-hillsboro-hops-ballpark-financing-pushed-to-next-march/
Yep. Portland couldn’t even support AAA baseball. This is a pipe dream and will never happen
Top 25 DI football coaching hires ranked. A former Beaver is #1, two Beavers in the top 10, three in the top 22! Who are they?!?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2024/01/31/college-football-coaching-hires-grades/72411189007/
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#1 Mendenhall, New Mexico
#8 Smith, MSU
#22 Bray, OSU
I missed that New Mexico hired Mendenhall. That’s going to be the biggest challenge of his career. UNM has absolutely no recruiting advantages.
Smith gonna get exposed. Need defense to win games
I read that UO only has 3 games in the midwest next year? UW, UCLA, USC should all be either rebuilding or mediocre next year, right? Pretty favorable schedule for UO?
Purdue, Michigan and Wisconsin on the road
Michigan could be a little down too with coaching change and exiting players. They obviously have a deep talented team tho and the coach should be a fairly easy transition.
Supposedly the DC they hired is well thought of
Fuaga v UCLA’s Latu….geezus Fuaga
https://twitter.com/BillyM_91/status/1752368795098771619/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1752368795098771619¤tTweetUser=BillyM_91
Too bad the lame PAC12 officials would throw the flag on Fuaga for unnecessary roughness and probably holding. How many times did they kill drives with penalties because he was that much better and it just looked bad to their eyes.
Yeah, I remember a holding call replay or two where the announcers had nothing to say, but didn’t point out how ridiculous the call was either…like they were almost embarrassed. Probably PAC network and PAC refs…
https://twitter.com/BillyM_91/status/1752368795098771619/
Didn’t see this posted, not used to seeing positive MBB stories.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/pac-12-basketball-notes-pac-2-rises-road-issues-at-the-top/ar-BB1hrE4K
Pretty telling when the positive story we get is “Are they not the worst team in the conference anymore?”
Question for those of you that follow Beaver baseball how the pitching is looking for this year? I know that they don’t have many lefties which is unfortunate but curious to how it stacks up. The lineup is supposed to be really good so I’m hoping they’ll have the pitching to back it up.
Lots of talent, lots of inexperience, lots of opportunities to step up and lots of room for guys to improve over last year
Nix struggling so far at Senior Bowl practices…nit just throwing 0-5 yard bubble screens…Herbert surprised me with how quickly he adapted to NFL…maybe Nix will too. Only a few days of practice…
https://www.yardbarker.com/college_football/articles/amp/record_breaking_qbs_stock_plummets_and_other_top_takeaways_from_the_second_day_of_the_reeses_senior_bowl/s1_13132_39898920
Yeah, I hear a blurb on NFL radio about his poor showing and how he’s going to fall in the draft.
Herbert has always had a live arm. The best thing Cristobal did for him was to under-utilize him.
Interesting offer yesterday, to a former Okalahoma player who has a somewhat checkered past.
2022 4* Edge rusher Kevontae Henry. Left Oklahoma without ever playing. Had some situation where he refused to accept discipline doled out to him by the team and decided to just leave the team instead. No idea what the discipline was for though.
https://twitter.com/FatutoaH/status/1752856694160568549?t=iOGLQ5c8iBADU9ZEKxrsSA&s=19
I’m wondering if he qualifies as a bounce-back, or if he actually has to get a the two-year degree before moving on. Because if it’s the former, then OSU isn’t done with this current class.
According to his twitter, looks like he entered the transfer portal in early December and just now received his second offer. Either he’s very under the radar or a folks are worried about his time at OU. Anyone know who his other offer is?
Is this the same player? I don’t see #1 on their roster though so maybe he was a late addition to the team?
https://www.cerritosfalcons.com/sports/fball/2023-24/players/kevontehenryxfyp
He played for Cerritos.
This is his mom’s account and she retweets most news about him.
Looks like Utah State offered in mid January.
https://twitter.com/YanaParker9
Arizona’s president, Marty Robbins, was interviewed recently. Says the $240M he lost track of because of a spreadsheet error, is actually more like $140M now. Genius level stuff going on at Arizona.
https://twitter.com/elliew0lfe/status/1752823880128016609
Just numbers on a computer screen…easy to find $100M here and there.
There’s been a lot written lately about OSU and WSU maintaining support for their athletics programs at a “P5/P4” level. It got me curious how we compare to the Mountain West.
Generally speaking:
The Mountain West ranges between $40M to about $65M per year of athletic expenditures depending on the school. SJSU being an outlier at about $25M or so.
OSU and WSU are at about $85M per year. OSU just above that number and WSU just below.
What I found most surprising was the gap between the Pac 2 and the other 10
The schools going to the Big 12 are in the $120M range (Outlier CU at around $95M)
The schools going to the BIG are in the $145M range (Exception UCLA at around $130M, USC doesn’t report but I’d guess its on the high end)
Pac 2 provides just a little over half the funding Oregon and Washington provide. I looked at this about a decade ago and it was much close, the gap is widening by leaps and bounds.
The numbers make it pretty clear who and why each school ended up where. If OSU and WSU want to get back into a P4 conference it feels like they need to increase athletic expenditures to the $110-$120M range.
https://knightnewhousedata.org/fbs/pac-12
Just for further info, I looked at the big 12, they range from $100M to $110M per school. (Outlier is K-state in the $90M range). Even Iowa State is over $100M. I’d think the dollars there would go farther than they would in Corvallis as well.
The schools going to the SEC, Texas and OU in the $200M range
Sounds unsustainable and should continue divorcing sports from university missions. Universities will provide the infrastructure and “manage” the labor pool of another pro league….the American viewer appetite for football is great, but that should decrease over time with the bogus playoffs, market saturation, and changing viewing preferences of up and coming audiences?
Mark, you able to employ your gap-cancellation defense to make-up for the difference in expenditures? Need to get you involved somehow….keep that channel of forward thinking coming!!!!
Whoooops!! Forgot for a moment that the expenditures keep changing, going up and “mobile” so-to-speak, so forget it….what was I thinking!?!?!?
My gap cancellation scheme is undefeated. I just needed better players. That said, I’m available right now, I can coach corners to never look back at the ball. It’s my trade mark.
Mark Banker: Gap Cancellator
OSU commit QB Kallen Gutridge 5A offensive player of the year, #1 5A QB…
https://www.oregonlive.com/highschoolsports/2024/02/all-state-football-2023-oregons-top-5a-stars.html
“The 6-foot-3, 180-pound quarterback completed 208-of-321 passing attempts for 3,482 yards and 53 touchdowns while throwing just nine interceptions. In three seasons for Wilsonville, Gutridge posted a 58.4% completion percentage while passing for over 5,500 yards and 84 touchdowns with just 17 interceptions thrown. He also rushed for an additional 1,246 yards and 15 touchdowns on the ground.
In his senior season, he led Wilsonville to a 12-1 overall record and a 5A state championship defeating Mountain View 33-31 in the state championship game.”
Beavs have a crystal ball to land 4-star ATH who is the top recruit in Oregon. Has offers from Georgia, Tennessee, Nike, and others.
It’s super early and we’ll probably lose him, but the TB era feels like an alternate reality so far in recruiting.
Does he have a name?
2026 Lake Oswego ATH recruit, Ansu Sanoe.
We offered him shortly after Bray took over and he seemed very interested in OSU at the time.
But he’s in the middle of his Sophomore year….so hold tight for a bit.
A lot might depend on if the Beavs have a concrete quality destination and or conference. It’s a good sign he’s interested with everything going on right now.
As long as he doesn’t own any orange polos, I think we’re good.
Ibekwe is just brutal sometimes. Bricks two free throws and then missed a point-blank shot. Gave UCLA a ton of momentum, Bruins up 8 with about 10 minutes left. They’re swarming Pope, someone needs to step up.
He’s brutal most of the time. He’s a liability and Wayne refuses to see it. He’s a disaster in pick and roll defense and has such a low motor. He’s always so passive. There was one play where a guard lost the ball and the ball was at his feet and if he dived for it, it could save the possession but instead he just gave a passive reach and UCLA got the ball. If you’re gonna win a game on the road in a toss up game, you need guys who want it and will fight for it and he isn’t that guy. I’d much rather see Ndong play and experience growing pains than seeing them trot out Ibekwe in crunch time when we know what player he is
Ibekwe missed another front end of a 1 and-1 and then somehow missed a tip right at the rim. Beavs down 6 with 50 seconds left. UCLA was there for the taking in both games.
Ibekwe finished with 0 points and 3 rebounds. Wayne’s inability to find a starting caliber C has been the difference in at least 3 of their losses in conference play. When Pope is trapped like he is tonight, having a big man that can’t finish in the paint or make a half decent pass is just handcuffing your team.
Well, it’s a road game. WT has won like 20 of them in 10 years. Great home stand but people need to come back down to earth and realize that WT usually grabs 1 win each year that are improbable. Can’t win with 6 assists. That’s awful. Shot 57% from the stripe.
When Wayne Tinkle has a successful weekend like last week it is viewed as a new course and good fortune just around the corner by novice observers, or those too hopeful to reflect upon his tenure honestly.
Tinkle success must never be confused with building a program into a long term contender because he simply isn’t a good tactician nor is he program builder.
His successful stretches/weekends/seasons must always be viewed no differently than the following:
-Even a Blind squirrel can find a nut
-A broken clock is right twice a day
And explained by the same factors:
-his own players overcome his weaknesses periodically
-opponents overlook the Beavs as an easy win
-home court advantage at Gill is worth more than we realize
-PAC12 is not the basketball conference it used to be
Tinkle may be a nice guy but he is a fraud as a D1/P5 coach. No way he should still be coaching at OSU, and anyone that still believes he can build a winner is being played for a fool.
Some of us have 24-hour dials.
See last week’s article: “Is Oregon State not the worst team in the conference anymore???”
I think he’s underrated as a recruiter, but terrible as a tactician. That would explain his relative success at Montana and creates a good analogy of a FCS football coach that wins with superior talent at lower levels, but isn’t able to make the jump to the next level.
I get it’s social media, but Dam, there were some awful takes happening after those 2 wins. “If the Beavs win out, would that get them in the tournament”? WHAT?!! Win out?!! I want what that person was on. Lol.
Especially with relegation to a lesser conference, any good or even decent player will enter the portal. I think some will feel disappointed for having to do so. Jordan Pope will be able to carry his POW, conference and national with him wherever he goes.
“Yawn. No more MBB talk for me. It’s always the same like Groundhog Day every season and nothing will change with Tinkle.
I’m looking forward to baseball season, not going to waste anymore energy on Big Tinks and his merry band of young players…”
I’m anxious for baseball too, meanwhile WBB is worth following. Civil War down south Sunday at 4…….or 1600 Jack.
That is a great quote.
It ages like a fine wine
Hahaha!!! Yep it does!
Even the top teams in the PAC have been terrible on the road. Let’s face it, anybody playing at home can beat anybody. It’s just bad basketball and the 2-3 teams invited to March madness will flame out early
Maybe two teams, because someone has to win some games, with as bad as the field is.
But three?
A third team comes in and wins the Pac-12 tournament due to teams 1-2 being lousy.
Could happen.
Wildcard bitches! Yeeeeeeeehaw
Alex Grinch, who stole the defense, ends up at the University of Wisconsin as Co-DC.
He’s had short, unsuccessful stints at some great programs.
Grinch is still getting paid for what he did/the perception created after 2019 at WSU because he hasn’t really done anything since then.
I remember thinking that he was good when he got poached from wsu. Fools gold.
Nothing to see here folks.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-big-ten-unite-to-form-advisory-group-aimed-at-tackling-issues-amid-changing-landscape-in-college-sports/amp/
“Foxes form advisory committee to decide how to guard henhouse.’
Thankful to know that the wolves have eliminated the foxes and are now guarding the henhouse for the sake of everyone’s sports enjoyment.
Just released by the advisory committee: “We advise all conferences, athletes, school presidents, administrators, lawyers and government officials to back off of all current and future litigation or we will take matters into our own hands by ending our highly valued affiliation with the NCAA. Our goal is to simply coexist peacefully and make sure that SEC and Big10 interests are at the forefront of any and all decisions in terms of markets share, financial deals, school publicity and player promotion. There will not be anymore questions regarding SEC or Big10 schools “cheating” or “buying” players. Any comments to that effect in the media will be met with immediate action by our publicity arm at ESPN. You will be ridiculed over the nation’s podcast realm by 1000 different voices saying the exact same thing. Any concerns about this joint venture becoming some type of move towards an eventual separate college football product outside of NCAA boundaries, more of an NFL lite product can be dismissed as mere conspiracy theories. Loser conferences and loser programs only entertain such conspiracy theories to distract from their own failures and shortcomings as football losers unlike those of us in the mighty SEC and Big10. We are here to simply preserve all that is good about college football and to avoid any disruptions from well meaning but uninformed lawyers and government officials poking into our storied sport. Any correspondence can be directed to our media offices at ESPN and FOX, they will be happy to set you straight on the current situation and how important SEC and Big10 are to all of college sports.”
Are the wolves dressed in woolen fleeces with their various logos?
Last visit weekend before the late signing period.
Beavs will have unsigned 2024 commit Eddie Freauff on campus for his official visit, and then several PWO guys will be visiting as well.
There should be a few unofficial visitors from the 2025/2026 class too.
Hopefully they can get some hidden/overlooked gems and can develop into contributors.
Special teams quality control assistant Michael Frisina no longer listed on OSU website.
Dang, noone told him. That’s rough
https://x.com/michael_frisina?t=El5lnWZA08Uq3OHCq1j1ww&s=09
Seems like a cost cutting move. All the quality control guys or offensive/defensive analyst positions are likely gone for a while.
I saw Luton trending on Twitter, and thought…oh, never mind….haha.
Yahoo sports has an article with a new perspective on the Fox guarding the henhouse SEC/Big10 advisory board.
It goes something like this:
They have to do something before the Supreme Court steps in and destroys all college athletics! The old booster rules of amateur athletics has gone by the wayside and NCAA hasn’t kept up with the times and doesn’t even punish cheaters with any consistency so this board will not replace the NCAA but is championing a proactive approach to the present conditions and seeks new solutions. It isn’t really about SEC/Big10 but somebody had to take the lead…
My view is the whole thing is spin for a bunch of self serving administrators and universities seeking to corner the revenue into their limited chosen programs.
It is a ruse and the super conference is within 1-2 years.
Big12 commish Brett Yornak can’t be sleeping well after this and he needs to begin the process of either joining them or breaking it up. Big12 will be on the outside of the advisory board interests.
I fully expect this will trigger several big swings by BY to expand and stabilize the Big12 as a national footprint partnership with most of the big time mens bball programs and a football conference of 30-40 schools becoming its own lower tier competitive brand and less “NFL-lite” than the SEC/Big10 will become.
PAC2/OSU has its war chest, tv network and plenty of leverage to become a major factor in what is coming. Hopefully President Murthy was at Nvidia last week and actually was engaging in talks regarding tech, and bonafide funding for a Nvidia/OSU partnership.
What if OSU partnered with Nvidia and created an expansive top of the line Esports arena and complimented it with full streaming and production capabilities as a content filler through the PAC2 network and streaming rights, sold advertising, rights merchandise related to it as an OSU linked product?
OSU could be at the front end of a new type of viewing demographic. I’d guess there are many times more
Kids interested in video gaming tournaments than major college football.
It would make sense that college football is shrinking as the boomer generation ages.
Video games are the new national
Pasttime and also a worldwide
Market.
This is a real good “outside the box” level thought. At least warrants some due diligence
The CIC will have a “drone playground” in it.
Reser could easily host drone races, with the concourses set up the way they are. For gamers, any number of set-ups could do for an arena setting. Major tournaments get ridiculous numbers approaching 100 million unique streamers.
And we can start off with some JUCO players, while the first couple recruiting classes develop.
https://esccl.com
Fuaga has solidified his first round grade at the senior bowl. With a good workout at the combine, he could move into consideration for the 1st or 2nd tackle off the board. Best fit is for teams that want to run the ball.
https://twitter.com/bradyhenderson/status/1753875566611329181
Mannion retiring and will coach with Packers next season.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/seattle-seahawks/sean-mannion-16813/cash-earnings/
Stars never aligned for him to have a real shot at being a starter but a great career as a backup.
There are worse jobs.
His father was (is?) a coach, so it’s likely this has always what he wanted, after playing.
Weren’t there rumors he was interested in joining Bray’s staff?
Those were as real as Gruden being on campus
He was probably never the best QB on the Rams, Seachickens, or Vikings(?).
Great career in terms of earnings and learning opportunities. I bet he was very professional and prepared.
If Tinks is such a big man guru, why the hell does Ibekwe continue to get minutes? First three minutes, Ibekwe badly mistimes the center jump, barely reaches for a loose ball in the lane that USC gets, and then gets stuffed on a point-blank layup and the ball goes out of bounce off his body. Beavs already down 12-5, I’m thinking zero road wins. I have to laugh at all the stupid hype of the Arizona schools sweep.
Because our other centers are 10x worse
I don’t know Marial tries harder and is good for a block or two a game, but yes that position is a huge liability.
I can’t figure out how Chol at 7’2″ can never get a rebound. Tonight was big for him with 2 rebounds in 16 minutes and 0 points.
When has anyone called him a big man guru?
When Eubanks spent his time not developing, with the skills he did have, it was pretty obvious neither Tinks nor Rupp were going to do anything worth anything with the bigs.
Beavs are down by 25 to USC in the second half. USC hasn’t beaten a high major opponent by more than 14 all season and had lost 11 of 14 and 6 in a row. This is the Wayne Tinkle special. Anywhere else and he wouldn’t be employed tomorrow morning
So 3 out of 4 road games are +25 pt losses in the last 3 weeks?
Extensions are delusional and near criminal at this point. Tinkle is just stealing money from OSU. Such a poor product. Get out already. Need a big donor to just buy the guy out. Trying any number of high school coaches at a much lower salary would be better than why Tinkle is selling.
I was a little surprised to see The Oregonian reporting that Tinkle still has three years on his contract and if I was understanding correctly the buyout would be 8.7 million. I guess I was wishfully thinking that it was fewer years and money!
Three years!?!?!? Wow! I guess I’m hopeful the Tinks would do the honorable thing and step down for the good of the school.
I wonder if he’d be open to an even $10m payout, but deferred over a longer timespan.
But but but they swept the Arizona schools last weekend?
ASSU sucks balls and got blown out by Cal at home. Bobby Hurley is a little whiny bitch who’s gonna get ripped apart by the rest of the Big 12.
Arizona? Average at best
We’ve lost all our road games by an avg of 16.5 pts a game heading into today’s match-up. Anyone expecting a different performance is delusional at this point.
In the latest “news of the [sports media] world” segment, the WSJ has a story about Charter cable eclipsing Comcast as the leading cable TV provider. A few excerpts worthy of attention:
“About 55 million US households still pay for traditional television, down from a peak of about 100 million a decade ago. Part of that decline was caused by the rise of web-based alternatives such as YouTube TV, FUBO TV and others, which have about 18 million subscribers combined.”
Comcast lost “nearly 13% [of its subscribers] in the past year.” It is also “working to grow its Peacock streaming service, where it is moving more content” [like Big 10 football]. The recent NFL playoff game was seemingly a successful experiment, to wit: the addition 2.8 million Peacock subscribers “over a three day period made it the single biggest subscriber-acquisition moment.”
That, of course, is the kicker, (and I don’t mean Sappington): “Sports had long remained the biggest–and one of the last–draws of traditional television. But many sporting events have moved exclusively to streaming in recent years.”
Unless I read that report wrong, it said baseball lost money. How does are baseball program lose money with the crowds they draw and deep runs into the playoffs?
I was surprised women’s hoops runs such a big deficit – though the pre-season tourneys they go to are all over the place.
I wonder who pays for those summer trips to Europe to play D league teams? That certainly can’t be cheap.
Daschel (not behind paywall, yet) discusses the NCAA Financial Report for OSU. The report can probably be found elsewhere too.
A couple notes:
– football and men’s basketball were the only sports to produce a net profit. Football’s surplus was $16.51 million, while men’s basketball’s profit was $754,033. The sport with the largest deficit was women’s basketball at $3.18 million, followed by women’s rowing at $1.84 million and baseball at $1.82 million.
-Ticket revenue for Baseball was No. 2 at $1.44 million, more than men’s and women’s basketball ($1.28 million) combined.
-Sports camps generated $1.5 million for the school. The top producing sport was volleyball at $274,584, baseball was a close second at $268,691.
–
Shockingly, when teams are good they generate more revenue
Also, the only way MBB can be profitable is the conference tournament money
Anyone have info on why Oregon State has no interest in Oregon 6A Offensive Player of the Year and First Team QB Cru Newman?
https://highschool.si.com/oregon/2024/02/02/all-state-football-2023-oregons-top-6a-stars
https://247sports.com/Player/cru-newman-46128019/
Looks like most teams don’t
I’m guessing they see Gutridge as a better prospect. They might offer Newman a PWO spot.
Beavers did offer:
https://247sports.com/player/cru-newman-46128019/
Minot State Beavers…Portland State only other offer.
Also listed at 6′ 178 lbs compared to Gutridge 6’3″ 180 listing….so he’s probably 5′ 11″ o Gutridges 6’1″…not that either are likely done growing…
Gutridge was listed as 6’4″ as a first-team 5A all-state hoops player last year.
Highlights look a lot like Johnson’s. Less arm strength and maybe less explosive as an athlete. Little guy who does almost all his damage on the run. There’s very little true pocket passing in his highlight film (which is really fun, for the record).
Here’s the scouting report – As a QB he’s not a FBS college prospect. Main thing, he is small and lacks arm strength. Very few of his throws would work at the FBS level. He would not be able to fit throws into tight windows.
What he is a great PWO offer candidate. I’d switch him to WR and let him develop for a couple years. He is elusive running with the ball and maybe he can develop more speed. QB’s generally have good hands too. Slot, scatback type of player.
He certainly has skills with the ball in his hands. He could run the Wild Beaver, as well.
And he is a winner.
Jay Harbaugh may end up on SEA Seachickens staff, rumors they may pursue UW OC Ryan Grubb as well…
Former UW OC. Grubb followed DeBoer to Alabama
Grubb must have a really good agent. He squeezed UW last year for a raise when he was rumored as Sabans choice for OC. Then he delays for a few days before joining DeBoer at Bama this year and now he is floating rumors that he never sold his Seattle home and may jump to Seahawks. I’m sBama boosters are cutting checks right now to keep him. He needs to hit the jackpot now because Milroe throwing 50 passes per game will get him run out of Tuscaloosa
Bama doesn’t need him, there’s no shortage of guys who want to be the Bama OC and will do it just as well and for less money. Lot of former NFL OCs are looking for work right now
Didn’t realize quite how big our WR 2024 signees will be this week. Durant is 6’2″ and Freauff is 6’4″.
Freauff’s a bit of a mystery because he missed almost his entire senior year with an injury. And his older tape basically shows a guys who i just bigger and faster than the other kids in his league out in central Oregon.
Could be one of those hidden gem type athletes we’ve been hoping for
Freauff is a PWO?
Late signee
Hmm..his tape and injury history scream PWO
I kind of agree. I didn’t realize he played at such a low level. He has good hands and size but it’s hard to tell how fast he is because the other talent is so poor. The kids look very small.
Its about time! Hopefully they are quick and fast and can catch the ball.
His tape is impressive, no matter the talent he’s going against, mostly because he was making great adjustments to throws that just weren’t great.
Then he would manage to catch it with sticky fingers and keep his feet. He’s just sort of a freak.
He reminds me a lot of Herman Moore.
Maybe DJ should have stayed…many of the WRs are likely to be 6’1″+….
Freuaff runs an 11.5 100. He’s not going to outrun most DB’s at the FBS level.
Good news is he’s got a big frame.
Maybe he can move to TE or linebacker.
What year did he clock that?
Junior
Damn I clocked an 11.4 as a freshman. That’s not that fast for a junior. Sure as hell isn’t breakaway speed.
Eddie Freauff visit appears to be going well. Dad posted that corvallis is special and program is building strong. Sounds like the 2 remaining targets are good to go for the next signing period.
Sounds like Eddie is a Beaver lock. WR room will look very different the next few years.
BWB at Oregon 4pm on PAC-12 network
Didn’t realize USC won at Stanford Friday night with a 51 point performance by one of their gals. Damn
Angry did you see that the jets are one of the teams targeting Fuaga?
WBB playing with fire on the road against the Quacks. Were up 13 in the 2nd quarter. Now only lead 41-39 heading into the 4th. Need to avoid this loss. Oregon is way down this season.
54-53 BWB. 3-1/2 minutes left
Good Gals pull it out in the last two minutes 64-60!
Ladies hang on and win 64-60
All alone in 3rd place now
Just watched part of game replay. The duck center made Reagan Beers look very small.
Re the duck center making Beers look small, in post game radio she said it reminded her of playing against her brothers. She didn’t sound intimidated at all.
Amazing what you can see in one minute of viewing?
tough next couple of weeks for the ladies. All ranked opponents. At Colorado and Utah, then UCLA and USC at home. 3-1 in those games would be ideal. Need to split with the mountain schools and sweep the LA schools at home. Thought I read UCLA lost their star player to a knee injury and USC just beat Stanford in Palo Alto on Friday. None of these games will be easy.
Don’t usually follow much womens hoops but they are a lot easier to watch than the shitshow on the mens side.
It’s amazing how you can watch like 2 min of the women’s team and see legitimate plays being ran. Screens. Great passing and creating assists for each other. Then you watch the men’s team and they have 5 assists in the entire game. WT should watch a few of the women’s games.
Preferably from his house in Idaho.
Amen
Looking at OLive articles and selected photographs, you’d think the Ducks won….very lops-sided image count.
Nice road win!
were the Beavs picked to win the Pac-12 at media days? I never saw anything other than the interviews. D1 baseball picked the Beavs to win the conference
Don’t recall the media days but every publication has the Beavs ranked the highest P12 to start the season so unless there’s home cooking involved, they should’ve been. P12 could be very competitive again this year but I believe most publications only have 3 of them to start in top 25. Beavs, Stanford and Yucks are the 3 I typically see. Might even be a few that left the Yucks out of the top 25 leaving mostly Beavs and Tree.
Huskies hire Belichick’s son for D-coordinator.
Solid hire
He’s probably really good at cheating.
If he is, his dad will find proof of it when he watches tapes of their practices.
Winning is all that matters
Since many of us, me included, hoped to get him. Jay Harbaugh is the Seahawks Special Teams coach
Yeah, that ship sailed at least a week ago when the Beavs announced their ST coordinator. Interesting he went to Seahawks when there were some people reporting him to San Diego and perhaps even 1 other team as well..not the Seahawks.
Yeah, I knew the ship had sailed, just thought it was interesting. Jay coached with MacDonald at Michigan so the connection is there. The Chargers already had one of the best ST coaches in the NFL so it is a surprise that John stuck with him.
Jay made $600K last year at Michigan, Cookus was paid $370K for the same job. NFL pays a lot more. So there was no chance.
Which is why the offer would have included more responsibility with a title like AHC. Can’t justify paying a ST coach that much. Jay was a S coach last year, btw. But same difference.
If he did land here, my full expectation would be that he would be gone in a couple years.
Is there any report out or anything that says which OSU players are supposed to be drafted and where? Just curious.
Just Fuaga but Oladapo has a late round shot. The rest are UDFA guys.
Thanks I thought guys like Bloomfield, levendgood, cooper, Oladapo, and mccartan, Rawls might have shot in the late rounds but I hadn’t heard anything.
For most of those guys, injury history is what is holding them down.
I’d expect a lot of UDFA but seems unlikely to have too many actually drafted. Although, Gould did get the invite to the combine right? Between his punt return in Senior Bowl and potential to show his speed in the combine, he might get himself a late round flyer as well.
Sean Mannions playing days are over. Took a job with Green Bay coaching. Doesn’t say his exact title in the article I read but said he will be working with QBs.
Future Beavs OC or head coach
If Gundy doesn’t work out…
Or better yet Gundy leaves for a HC job
‘Statue Offense’ coming to town?
UW 6’3″ TE Curvas enters transfer portal, I don’t think he’d want to move to OSU with its lack if a conference, but curious if anyone thinks Bray and staff might pursue him?
our recruiting staff followed him this afternoon. He’s a Cal Poly transfer from before his UW time
While I’m sure they’d love to grab a TE, I’m curious just how hard they’re going after one. While Gundy didn’t outright say the TE wouldn’t be involved, the offense definitely won’t be nearly as involved with 2 TE sets, etc. Ideally, you’d want a TE with several years left as I think we have some decent talent still despite losing Velling. Would’ve been fun to see Velling stay and see how he could thrive in the new scheme where it would seem to highlight his route and pass catching skillet more than being a blocking TE first.
If anyone thinks the big10/sec advisory committee thing is anything other then a power grab they need there heads examined. It’s going to be an interesting couple of years for college sports.
https://www.on3.com/news/report-washington-state-pac-2-proposal-leads-to-delay-on-college-football-playoff-format-change/
I love how many people are acting like the PAC2 are the ones being unreasonable. They really believed we’d just tuck our tails between our legs.
From the no shit Sherlock files…..
“I think they’re probably going to try to create a system that works for them, which might not work for everyone else.”
Some of us already saw this coming. And you didn’t have to be Nostradamus.
This seems newsworthy. The National Labor Review Board ruled today that Dartmouth’s Men’s basketball team are considered employees of Darthmouth college, which also gives the men’s team the ability to form a union.
Slippery slope type decision that could end up affecting all of college athletics.
https://twitter.com/achristovichh/status/1754624940374901198
If they are considered employees because they receive scholarships to play a sport, they should have to pay income tax on the value of the scholarship including tuition, room, board, books, and anything else that it covers just like the rest of us. Guess who is working on his income taxes right now.
Yep. That free edumacation and NIL is now TAXABLE.
Why on earth would the gov say no to that?
For fucks sake don’t simp for the federal government.
If they can get out of paying taxes then good for them, every one of us should pay as little taxes as possible.
Imagine being for taxation
Imagine thinking we’ll function better without it.
Dominos has potholes covered.
I don’t understand the sardonic tone.
Imagine thinking we function now
Who doesn’t love funneling taxes to overseas interests when everything is going great on the domestic front?
That’s not how it works.
We funnel debt to overseas interests, and the banksters here make money off the interest and return the principle plus a gated return.
A big part of our national debt is basically us being a credit card for other countries. As long as they keep paying the monthly minimum, our debt looks solid. So if we lose one or some of those payments–due to something like a war of aggression–that will create instability in our markets.
Imagine thinking things aren’t functioning as the country goes through another day of functioning.
With 15,000 illegals pouring across our wide open border every day.
fuNcTioNinG
lol… your hair is on fire, because an abjectly stupid trust-fund brat wants that dysfunction to scare the feeble-minded into having their hair on fire.
If you insist on trying to weirdly turn illegal into a subject, 15k doesn’t come close to that number, given inanimate objects would also qualify. You’ll also have to go after the ports, especially the privately controlled ones.
Unless I’m mistaken, Ivy league schools don’t offer athletic scholarships. I wonder what type of compensation is being referred to in this case
They primarily help with room, books and food. This would’ve been consistent with my brief recruiting experience out of high school to places like Willamette. Not pay for school but give you food and books. Not sure how this equates differently when considering the scholarships kids receive other places. Perhaps there’s some sort of clause in that paperwork that makes the employment aspect of it harder to implement vs what the Ivy League does. Definitely interesting to see what ramifications this has moving forward.
Dartmouth, well known for turning out real blue collar, working class, man on the street types. I hope their trust funds don’t dry up before they are able to form their union
Did Durant sign yet?
I think signing day is tomorrow, and technically lasts through April 1st
https://x.com/BeaverFootball/status/1754674317978456080
Spring Practice schedule released.
So many new parts between coaches and players. We should start to see what the offense will looks like a week in. With everything going on and so many positions up for grabs should be exciting.
‘offense will look like a week in’ They’ll probably still be reading the name tags.
I wonder if Bray allows media at practices
Hopefully just occasionally or last 20 minutes kind of thing. As much as I like getting better practice reports it’s foolish to think teams don’t steal plays and signals. Spring might be more open than fall or weekly prep.
I may be a biased Beaver, but I can get behind a coach who says stuff like this:
“With the talent we have and the schedule we’re going to put together, we have a real opportunity to make an at-large bid in the College Football Playoff,” Bray told his team. “If we win 11, 12 games — which we can do — that’s a reality. I’m excited about things because we have a real, tangible path to get to where we want to go. We have an opportunity to go where this program has never been.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/trent-bray-brings-hope-and-optimism-as-oregon-state-football-charts-new-course/ar-BB1hS0ga
That’s how I always felt about it. Got chastised on Reddit for saying JS will have a harder time making the playoffs with the Spartans than he would have if he stayed with the Beavs. We got talent but last season it seemed like we didn’t get much out of it. Hopefully this new staff can get them going especially QB play
Wish we could get MSU at Reser soon…
“I’ve got no desire to be USC and Oregon and flip a roster every single year,” Bray said. “I want this place to continue to be a place of development and substance and be about taking high school guys. I think that’s what’s going to separate us. And we know, too, we’re going to develop a guy into an all-conference player, All-American and USC is going to come poaching. But we’re hoping that next guy will be ready then because we’ve developed him. And so that’s how we’re going to be unique and differentiate ourselves from the other schools in this area.”
And:
““I just couldn’t get on the plane,” Bray said. “I felt for the players in our locker room and the players that I’ve recruited and sat in their living rooms and told them why this place was so great. It didn’t feel right to leave them. I had a responsibility to this place that has taken such good care of me. Between playing and coaching, I’ve probably been here around 15 to 16 years of my life. I love the community. My quality of life here is great. Why would I leave? We have a great opportunity in front of us and we have the potential to do some great things.”
With all of the b.s. associated with college sports, people Bray and Rueck make me continue to follow some college sports. Hell, i’ll have to go to a few football games next year …i enjoyed the new Reser and with a functioning sound system and a hungry team of Rogue Beavers, college football should be fun. I respect a guy like Bray who believes in and practices reciprocity.
…the defense will look largely the same, even though he won’t be directing it any more (Bray plans to take on more of a CEO role and will not call plays).
CEO……with his background and attitude that seems like a positive. A big positive, he knows what a HC needs to do.
Martinez sez:
“… he just wants to bring more of a dawg mentality to the team, because everyone who knows Bray knows he’s all about that,”
Mr. CEO, please require functional, effective tackling.
“What I hope jumps off to the film and when people watch us is how hard and physical we play,” Bray said. “The effort that’s given and the physicality on both sides of the ball. Those are the two big things, because that’s unique in college football. There’s a lot of finesse in college football. That will be a separator for us.”
Man, if Turley can avoid a major slump like last season, he’s going to have a monster year. Dude hit 14hr and 46 rbi in 44 games. Considering he really struggled for about a 2 month period, for him to still do those #’s is crazy. Ready for Surprise! Beer, baseball and sunshine.
I’m headed on a 17 day bike packing trip/vacation…you guys want a new thread? If so, any specific topic or general?
Well, baseball kicks off next weekend.
I.Want.Your.Job…..
Have you guys heard of gray moving inside? I think that sucks because there’s a pretty big drop off after him. He deserves to if that’s why he came back but I don’t think it’s going to help his draft stock much. Tackle is the harder position and plenty of guys switch in the nfl with no experience. There’s even talk that Fuaga might start out at guard. I personally don’t have any trust in any of the other tackles so far and was hoping to see another transfer added.
You would think this would get Apple to start getting more serious about their sports offerings.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/06/espn-fox-and-warner-bros-discovery-to-launch-joint-sports-streaming-platform-this-year.html
You would think regulators would sit up and say, “Yeah… um… no. What are you even thinking?”
I mean… it’s not even surreptitious, let alone passive cartelization, at this point.
They made an official public announcement they are going to form a cartel.
Durant and Tuia officially signed this morning. Think we’re waiting on Eddie Freauff unless I missed his official announcement