Despite the loss Sunday, Beavs gals moved up to #9.
Eggers up with a nice piece, some wise quotes from Rueck, including:
What kind of a difference might Aquino have made this season?
“You can only speculate about someone who hasn’t played until you see them in competition,” Rueck said. “I can’t speak to it, because I don’t know.”
“I feel great about where we are at this point in the season,” said Rueck, who always takes a glass-half-full approach. “We’ve adapted to the changes in our roster. We still have huge strides to take with this team. I don’t feel like we’re anywhere near what our potential is yet, which is exciting.”
Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s the announcement of our new CB coach. Also wouldn’t surprise me if he has ties to the Utah State commit I was talking about last week, Akili Arnold. Will have to wait and see I guess, unless somebody give gives me a reply….
And the current safties coach at Utah St(just hired recently) is former Wisconsin all American Mike Caputo, who also has worked for Dave Aranda at LSU. Could be a name to keep an eye on. All speculation on my part though, but the Wisconsin ties make sense given Tibesar is our DC and Arnold has recently started following some of our coaches.
Looks like Utah state hired a new guy meaning Caputo is looking for a job so @Nicebeaver may be on to something:
Utah State: Mark Orphey has been named corners coach. Orphey spent the past two seasons coaching the secondary at Utah State.
I don’t understand why this would be an underwhelming hire. Young guy who had success in college so he knows the position and learned from a great D-coordinator at LSU. I’d have to know who else we were looking at to compare. I like adding a younger staff member for recruiting.
I’m curious if Cravon Rogers Jr, CB coach down at Southern Oregon, is in play for the CB position or a grad assistant spot at OSU. I don’t know anything about the guy other than it looks like he’s Kase Rogers brother and he has only been out of college for 1 year(went to Morgan State)
No inside info, just going with my intuition on this one
Thanks, I knew you would have some insight on what was going on. I was hoping for something bigger, like they are going to start finishing reser, but alas that probably a never going to happen.
Doesn’t necessarily mean that is the big news angie is teasing. But what are the chances our AD blows his wad on the same day we announce a new coach? We only have newsy items a few times per year, so they have to spread these things out
More scrap heap recruiting for the football team. Lower division offers or walk on offers is all most of these kids have and we welcome them with open arms. I understand we’ll need lots of practice players but we are going to still be a long ways away from competing on Saturdays. Better hope the transfer kid is Tom Brady from the pocket and can evade a constant relentless rush like Randall Cunningham. Otherwise, 2-3 wins max…
More scrap heap recruiting for the football team. Lower division offers or walk on offers is all most of these kids have and we welcome them with open arms.
Agree.
But I’d put our wins at 4-5 because I’m high on the QB. Real deal there, and a great player there can win you a game or two each year single handedly.
So if you’re paying monthly, you’re paying too much. The site’s owner agrees.
Is it reasonable to think she wasn’t even aware the team is supposed to announce their new coach today? Or is this just the mandatory advertising before a big reveal?
Did you see him throw the ball or try to throw the ball in the civil war? I personally wouldn’t want him on the team at all. Colletto is similar and he is not the future starter but serves his purpose on short yardage/goal line situations.
Maybe not a “guarantee” but New Orleans would have been at about 97% to win had that call been made.
With a 1st down there they could have ran the clock to 4 seconds and kicked a chip shot FG (one you’d expect to be made at least 97% of the time).
I think you can make a strong argument that anyone that bought a ticket was defrauded if the assumption is that the game will be called accurately. I am not sure that is an assumption you can make though.
I’ve read about other calls that would also have affected the game such as a facemask that kept a rams player from scoring a td that wasn’t called. Where do I put up the billboard and cry about it?
Missed calls happen both ways every game. Some worse than others. Sounds like blatant missed calls happened to both teams in this game however the worst one that happens at the end is always remembered.
The missed facemark had no impact on the outcome of the game. It did not prevent a TD. And it was NOT a blatant missed facemark either. Just to further clarify; since 2008 if the defender does not pull or turn the head of the offensive player it technically is no longer a penalty to get a hold of the facemark. I’d argue the missed call shouldn’t have been called under current NFL rules.
I’d also point out no one saw the facemask until they replayed it. And since the defender did not twist, pull, or turn the runners head rather intentional or by dumb luck the officials were actually correct in not calling it.
I love when you respond. I mean if you look up info about the game you will see that facemask along with some other no calls mentioned but I know you are right as always so disregard the entire internet. You are a treat!
I don’t care what the internet says. I use my own eyes.
The facemask in question was seen by no one until the replay was played.
The facemask in question did not involve the defender pulling, twisting, or turning the head of the player
The facemask in question is a judgement call under the 2008 rule change that got rid of the 5 yard facemask rule and as I already admitted it is usually still called but not always.
Here is the rule:
“No player shall grasp and control, twist, turn, push, or pull the facemask of an opponent in any direction.”
“Note: If a player grasps an opponent’s facemask, he must immediately release it. If he does not immediately release it and controls his opponent, it is a foul.”
Nothing I have said is factually incorrect. You (or anyone writing an article on the subject) is free to disagree but I have made no factually incorrect statements. That is the entire point, since 2008 when they got rid of the 5 yard facemask they have given officials discretion to not call incidental facemasks.
Sorry, you think I think I am always right but nothing I said in my post was incorrect. It is within the officials discretion to determine that the facemask was incidental and not worthy of being called. It is in the rulebook.
The Rule Book describes an approved ruling as it relates to face-mask penalties (page 81).
“A.R. 12.12 – Third-and-10 on A30. Runner A1 runs to the A33, where he is tackled by B1, who incidentally grasps A1’s face mask on the tackle, but it is not a twist, turn or pull. Ruling: A’s ball, fourth-and-seven, on A33. No foul.”
Notice how it specifically says that even grasping the facemask doesn’t have to be called.
But yeah, I am just making stuff up so I can claim I know everything.
The officials missed a face mask that is usually called but by rule probably shouldn’t be against the Rams
They then missed a helmet to helmet hit that was also pass interference against the Saints.
I don’t think those are equivalent misses. Others do.
That is fine.
It’s not like it matters, the Rams are in the Super Bowl either way. But I’m not gonna put down Saints fans that want to lash out, the NFL did them wrong. They should lash out.
Where are you coming up with 4 seconds? There was still 1:45 on the clock after that play occurred and the Rams still had a timeout. The 40 second play clock being run off on two plays from at worst 1:40 does not run the clock down to 4 seconds after the Rams would have used their final timeout. 9:45 mark in the following link.
Be that as it may, fumbled snaps don’t happen? I seem to recall Tony Romo botched a game winning FG snap against the Seahawks. Blocked FG’s don’t happen? Missed FG’s don’t happen. Did you forget the Vikings beat the Saints on the final play vs the Vikings last year on a hail mary TD? Percentages aside, as previously stated there is no guarantee the Saints win that game even if it is called correctly.
And if you have to rectify one missed bad call, then why only that one? Because it happened at the end of the game? One could argue that every bad call has an impact on the outcome of a close game as what didn’t happen could dictate different play calling on the following plays after a bad call.
No offensive holding called that results in a 3rd and short, could turn into calling for play action on the next play for a long pass completion. Instead it’s 2nd and longer if it is called and the play call may be different and more conservative.
So why are they only calling for the last 1:45 of the game to be replayed?
The fact they are saying they got screwed out of going to the SB is an absurd argument. The Saints had a 99% win probability in that game last year vs the Vikings and lost. I’m sure the percentage was less than that on Sunday with that missed call. There are no guarantees in football until the clock hits :00 and someone is ahead (or someone scores in sudden death OT).
I have no dog in this fight as I am not a fan of any of the 4 teams that played on Sunday.
3 yard run, 4 seconds off the clock, Rams call their last timeout with say 1:35 on the clock.
3 yard run, 1:31 on the clock. 40 second play clock gets it down to 52 seconds to avoid delay of game
3 yard run, 48 seconds on the clock, 40 seconds runs it down to 9 seconds.
FG, takes 4 seconds.
Rams have 5 seconds.
Now, of course stuff can happen, which is why I said the Saints would have been about 97% to win. I think the refs jobbing my team from a 97% chance at winning is enough to get a little angry about.
And I don’t think it is absurd to say the Saints got screwed, they clearly did.
Every single football game has tons of penalties that are not called. The refs don’t throw the hankies on every play for holding. They really could. Watch the games but don’t follow the ball, look at what the offensive lineman are doing, look at the wr down field. They are all holding to some degree. The refs miss tons of calls every game that could potentially be a game changer. You can’t pick and choose wich non calls you got beef with. It’s got to be all of them or non of them. New Orleans doesn’t have a leg to stand on…
Look, don’t talk to me like I’m an idiot. Everyone understands refs miss calls all game but when they miss a call like they missed Sunday the fans absolutely gave a leg to stand on.
Saying otherwise is bullshit.
You simply cannot miss that call. It makes your product look dived. There are excuses for missing lots of calls, there is no excuse for missing that call. There just isn’t.
A couple people have told me the message board buzzword with him is “swagger”
Yay, swagger. Coach Smith’s philosophies included west coast recruiting and low ego high output guys. Maybe it’s too early to definitively say, but Coach Adams doesn’t exactly fit those criteria.
Maybe Smith decided to broaden his horizons
Adams is a B hire. He was indeed let go from usf following the reg season. He did not coach in the bowl game. Unsure of the reasons why. That would explain why he would move cross country for a lateral move.
I built a jazzmaster. (Lightweight) Alder body, maple neck, rosewood board. I used a natural finish of water dyes and shellac. Humbucker pickups since it’s for playing live. It came out great! It might be my new #1.
Split coil of humbuckers on the wiring. My thinking is live this will give the most diversity. If it’s a noisy system I can use humbuckers. For single coil tones I can switch to that if it’s quiet.
Cool, did you go with straight splits or did you throw in phase switching too? Seems pretty pickup/setup dependent but I’ve heard some cool tones come from series/parallel switching.
Does the type of wood really make a difference,as long as it’s a hardwood? I remember reading a long time ago about a guy who was pulling up hardwood logs from the bottom of the great lakes that were sunk in the 1800s and milling them into veneer to be used on musical instruments. If I remember right this guy made a fortune selling the veneer. It seemed pretty wild to me that the old wood could fetch so much more than ” new” wood for instruments.
It does make a difference, but it’s all subjective. Different folks want different traits, and the hardest piece of hardwood isn’t usually the answer. The neck wood and fretboard wood are usually different than the body and this can make a huge difference in how warm or bright the guitar sounds.
Then there’s the pickup type/brand/construction/output, type of bridge, gauge of strings, nut material… It all makes a difference, and not all consistently.
That said, I have a shitty ass old as fuck Matao strat copy with a heavy as hell plywood body that sounds pretty fucking good for CCR swamp rock type shit. A decent set of pickups and a set up and I don’t feel the need to change it.
My ’91 Les Paul has a jet black ebony fretboard and I love it. Far and away my favorite fretboard material, followed by maple then rosewood. This is on a mahogany body/maple cap set neck guitar.
I like ebony, too. It falls apart a bit easier than the others.
Maple is my least favorite. Mostly the color, but I don’t like that coating they put on it, either.
Yeah my MIM Tell has a maple board and it seems like Fender always lays that shit on too thick. It was kinda wearing/chipping in spots and it was just kinda funky on the back of the neck. I took some fine scotchbrite to it and polished the whole thing out including the ends of the frets and it’s so much better.
IMO the best reasons for selecting wood are the weight and the finish. If you’re playing long gigs you want a light weight body. And if you’re doing a natural finish you want a pretty grain. As far as tone, each body will have a resonant frequency, and that will depend on density mostly but maybe grain pattern. I personally don’t think species matters too much. Warmoth did a good test on this a few weeks ago (linked below). To my ear, there are slight differences. Those could be due to density/grain or something specific to those pieces of wood. Those guys using reclaimed wood just want to sell very expensive guitars. Acoustic guitars definitely matter because you have the body amplifying the tone. With electric guitars, 95% of your tone is the pickup.
Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars is involved in the sustainability of Ebony (and Koa as well). While it may be more applicable to acoustics, ebony has long been one of the favorite woods for fretboards due to its density. My ear isn’t sophisticated enough to always tell the difference, but I do know that ebony stands up to fingernail wear a lot better than rosewood.
Interesting that the ebony loggers told Bob that they fall 10 trees to get one that had the sought after solid black color. Taylor now uses ebony with lighter streaks and promotes the “personality” given by the unique appearance. Taylor has also pushed other guitar makers to use the streaked pieces of ebony.
In an effort to better utilize the wood, Taylor now makes guitar slides and may start a line of kitchen ware. It is their establishment of an ebony nursery that most impresses me.
My ’91 Les Paul has a jet black ebony fretboard and I love it. Far and away my favorite fretboard material, followed by maple then rosewood. This is on a mahogany body/maple cap set neck guitar.
Gibson got raided by the feds a few years back over some controlled woods. Was a weird situation.
It’s not a kit, but I sourced the body (had to finish sand that) and neck. Everything else I had to do, and I got my parts from all over. I started it in Sept and just finished in January. It’s a lot of research if you don’t know anything, which was where I was at to start. You going to try one? It’s really fun.
Skills you need: sanding, finishing dyes plus top coats, wiring, fret leveling, fret crowning, drilling straight holes without a drill press, proper neck pocket angle, how to center a neck in the pocket, how to install pickups, how to setup a guitar, how to build a bone nut…just to name a few.
I say go for it, but realize you’re going to have a learning curve.
Other than acoustics I don’t own a single natural finish guitar. Not necessarily opposed to them, just always liked solid color painted bodies better. Especially black. Can’t stand those ugly Jimmy Page style burst Les Pauls. I do need a silver burst guitar some day.
Ok so it does make a difference and it’s all subjective to what the builder wants out of the guitar. Folks like me can’t really hear the difference but the experts can I guess.
There are minor differences, but I don’t think anyone has scientifically narrowed it down to the wood. If it is the wood, the differences are extremely minor between all the main building materials. The weird thing is you can get two pieces of alder that sound completely different. That’s due to density/weight, grain, moisture, and random factors we probably don’t even know.
One more thing that’s kind of funny. When we cut trees that grew up in the wind, inevitably we get some boards that have both the dense wood and the softer wood. That causes the board to bow and the is nothing we can do about it. Think rockers on a rocking chair, those boards end up getting chipped and sent to our particle board facility or burned in our powerhouse to generate steam Wich turns the turbines creating electricity to run the machines and sell to the power company. Really there is no waste wood, everything gets used for something. I’ve worked there for 23 years and just watched in amazement as they keep refining the process and increasing production.
Interesting, an acquaintance of mine is the singer/songwriter/guitar player for a pretty big doom metal band. He plays custom made guitars and his latest couple are walnut. First I’ve ever seen of a walnut guitar body. They are natural finish and they look really nice.
we just cut softwood ( Douglas fir, white fir and hemlock) but some of the variances apply to all species. The core (Heartwood) of softwood is always softer(less dense) than the outside. With hardwood it’s just the opposite. Where a tree grows affects the wood massively. If the tree has constant wind on it the wood on the opposite side of the wind will be more dense( makes it stiffer) to help the tree grow straight up. Basically the actual cells are smaller and packed tight on that side. The moisture content is a big deal too. The more moisture the softer the wood ( across all species)and the more it shrinks when being kiln dried. We actually have fancy scanners that measure both of these things because the drying time is different. I could go on and on about it. Want to know more? Just ask
So, side note, but I played basketball today for the first time in over five years. Decided to shoot 40 free throws just to get a good sample of my %. Made 31. ~78%. There’s no excuse for anyone missing a free throw in college if this is all they do all day.
Honestly, I did once walk in to a gym, and without warming up, hit 9/10. I agree there’s no excuse for college or pro players shooting less than 80%. They’re in shape, conditioned, plus in the pros there’s more stoppage of play for ads and guys often standing around on teams where they prefer to run isolation plays for their star player(s).
Jack up your adrenaline, run 10 killers, and immediately give yourself 30 seconds to hit one shot… about 10-15 seconds for the second. Then run about 10 30 yard sprints before you do the same thing for next two shots.
I feel like that should be OSU’s practice schedule, until further notice. Just break it down to the basics–hustle, conditioning, effort… and making your FTs. It’s easy enough to break into two 20 minute circuits, with a minute break on the 4s… also simulating game conditions. I’d take away the limits on the FTs and just have them shoot from the line while in motion. The practice pace always shows on the floor.
They came out with real confidence against UCLA. It looked like they finally turned the page.
WFO, agree…I think lack of focus is the only excuse. I noticed the few times I had that I missed, and then the other times the ball simply rolled off my hand wrong. Could feel right away it would miss. So that part must be muscle memory or just not getting the right grip to begin with. Seems with practice every day both should be corrected.
Basketball is my worst sport by far, too. No excuse for the players.
This was supposed to be a fun experiment.
I can’t believe all the wet blankets!
I stand by my claim. If I can shoot 78% after five years of not touching a basketball, a college player needs to shoot at least that. I don’t care if he’s running around. He gets paid (scholarship) to run around, and after doing that for a week or two you’re conditioned. I hear a lot of excuses.
Ill steal the neighbor kids basketball and get back to you. How many feet from the backboard to the free throw line? And how high is the rim supposed to be? We keep the adjustable hoop at arout 7-8 feet so i can dunk on the local kids.
I can shoot around 85% free throws during practice. But during game situations with a crowd and fatigue, it falls to about 60%. Can’t simulate the external factors in practice.
I once shot free throws with a pro basketball team. I can say it was much different. Heart rate went up rapidly. Harder to concentrate. People saying stuff to you and it was just a practice. So factor down your rate by about 20%.
Nah, I’m mentally impenetrable. I like taunting and crowds.
You bring up a good point, though. If that stuff is affecting the players the coaches should find a way to simulate it. Maybe bring in some hot chicks and have them star down the players as they shoot. Haha.
Since you’re all talking music, anybody here know a good cheap/free online tutorial for adults who want to learn piano, but don’t have a ton of free time to spend on actual lessons with a live teacher?
I played back in elementary school for about 3 years, then switched up to trumpet all through jr high and highschool, so reading music isn’t really an issue. I mostly want to re-learn how to play chords first, then progress into applying those skills towards adding some basic rhythms and melodies. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve played any instrument, and my past experience with the piano was so long ago it’s like almost starting over from scratch, but I’d like to pick it up again.
I hope we offer the Sio “kid” who looks like a man. After reading that he is up there at the military base school it sheds more light on why he isn’t being talked about. Who knows how he will do against bigger competition but I trust our line coach (not going to attempt to spell his name). We need beef!
Sio’s offer saw will depend on what this weekend’s visitor Paul Matavao does. If PM commits, Sio will get PWO offer. If PM goes somewhere else, Sio will probably get a full offer.
I’m curious if any QB film reviewers here care to comment on this kid’s film.
Jackson Chryst is one of those guys who was relatively unknown going into his senior year, and then dramatically improved as a senior and actually became the Bay Area offensive POY. Beavs have a shot at landing him as a PWO, which could be a steal.
Beavs have a great shot at Jackson Chryst. Brother of Keller Chryst formerly of Stanford. Son of geep, who coached with Riley. Nephew of Paul Chryst who also coached with Riley. Easy to see him taking a pwo offer vs a fcs offer. Money isn’t an issue.
He could think he is a better fit at OSU, I have no idea what the QB depth at Wisconsin looks like but OSU has a 6th Senior, a highly regarded redshirt sophomore that has already transferred once after failing to win the job, a transfer from an FCS school, a guy that is nothing but a wildcat QB, and a guy that has never seen the field.
That is a pretty wide open place to join if you are looking at it from the outside.
Funny, so USC hired Kliff Kingsbury and got 5* WR Bruh McCoy to sign at the early signing period, then Kingsbury ditches a couple weeka later for the NFL and McCoy now wants to transfer to another school, possibly Texas. But under current rules, without an NCAA waiver, he’ll lose a year of eligibility and have to sit his freshman year.
A good example of the early signing period being more to the benefit of the schools than it is the players. Because he signed, he’s locked in, but Kingsbury wasn’t.
I’d argue that if you are a 5* kid you should be pretty damn sure it is the college you want before signing early. Its not like he wouldn’t have still had options.
He made a poor choice, that said he should be granted a waiver in my opinion.
Agree with this. I’d add that committing to a school after a coach that was already likely to leave before Bruh was going to be draft eligible is on him.
There’s some really good reading out there on Les Paul and Leo Fender. It’s always been interesting to me how opposite their guitars ended up being. Les actually wanted to make the whole guitar body out if maple but it was ungodly heavy so they went with mahogany with a thick maple cap.
52-36 at the half. Feels like it should be more but we’ve been a little sloppy on D. Good ball movement and spacing on offense. Vernon really needs to play more. Plays with purpose. Things don’t stagnante when he’s out there.
Chad Ochocinco’s neighbor was arrested by the FBI this morning. Turns out his neighbor is Trump advisor Roger Stone, being arrested for multiple accounts of obstruction of justice. The plot thickens…
What I anticipate the Trump supporter response to this will be:
“This ‘news’ is just further evidence of Trump’s innocence. Everyone around him may be corrupt but that just proves Trump isn’t. Arresting all the people that worked for Trump is not evidence Trump did anything wrong, after all just because he told voters he was hiring the best people how can we reasonably hold a President accountable for what the people that work for him do?
Now that we can all agree this attack on Trump is a witch hunt lets talk about why the real criminal Hillary should be in jail……”
“Mr. Stone, a self-described dirty trickster, began his career as a campaign aide for Richard M. Nixon and has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. He has spent decades plying the political dark arts, including scandal-mongering, to help influence American election campaigns. ”
Hopefully he doesn’t end up commiting suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head a few times.
I can’t stand scumfucks like that guy. Their prevalence is what makes me have so little faith in the government and politics in general.
You have to wonder if his indictment even has anything to do with current events or if it was just one of those opportunities for law enforcement to grab a motherfucker like that and squeeze him.
Note: Without any funding for his stupid wall. So basically he just made 800,000 people incredibly stressed out and made us less safe in order to achieve nothing.
Can’t wait for him to try to declare a national emergency. What I fear is the Supreme Court letting him because if the border is a national emergency than literally anything is. Can’t wait till he cancels the 2020 election because election fraud is a national emergency.
He still has almost $2b ear-marked for the fence, anyway. Maybe he should get it together and actually use what he’s given before tilting at windmills.
Classic Roger Stone today had him comparing his arrest and service of a warrant on his home to Pablo Escobar and Osama Bin Laden, two men who died in military take-downs of their strongholds.
Probably a good chance this is related to Akili Arnold possibly flipping from Utah st to OSU in the near future. Pitre was at a home visit with the Arnold’s yesterday.
The actual count is a bit of a mystery. We don’t know if Gebbia and Roberts get to count back towards the 2018 class, which is possible since we had some guys leave mid year. If they do count back, then we could potentially have 2 more spots than people were predicting. Also, just because you see a scholarship estimate from me or a recruiting site, it doesn’t mean it’s accurate. Smith (and most coaching staffs) keep their scholarship counts pretty close to the vest. It’s usually just the coaches and the compliance department that know the true number they have to work with.
He also already visited OSU for the CAL game. I thought back then we had a good chance to pick him up, but then he ended up verbaling to Utah St. He has a teammate in our current class, Jojo Forest, as well.
It’s actually pretty typical. There’s a limit to how many roster spots they can fill between now and after school starts. They usually come close to maxing that number out with PWO guys, and then add more walkons after the season is under say. I don’t know the exact numbers or dates they have to go by, but it’s in the NCAA rulebook
It is 20, you can have 105 guys prior to school starting after which it is unlimited. Which is why it feels like more but I guess with walk ons earning scholarships or moving on to other opportunities probably means OSU has 5-10 PWO spots each year.
The transfer rules benefit schools on the quarter systems whereas the walk on rules benefit schools on the semester system something people should mention to Scott Frost.
PWOs are half the total of the walk-ons. They don’t have to try out for the team, because of their status. The last ten spots are filled by try-outs, but it’s fairly well known who a handful of them are with a nod and a wink as they enroll and try out. Coaches almost always leave a spot or two open, in case they find that gem (or two) who walks into try-outs in the fall.
Another PWO official visitor will be Sean Harlow’s brother, Jack Harlow. You may have seen me post about him here about a month ago. Has a PWO offer currently. Looks like an under the radar guy with some potential. Good coaching…
Local LB Cade Brownholtz is also a PWO visitor, out of Jesuit HS.
Good that we’re keeping some Jesuit ties. Alfieri would be a really big signing next year if we can keep him focused on OSU.
Two best records is a non-starter unless we have a full round-robin season.
The way they had it set up at home sites for the top seed was fine. Just allow the visiting team ample opportunity to fill in their side of the stands before it’s opened to the GP.
It would only be a non-starter if division championships were determined by division records right now. They aren’t so going with the 2 best records would be just as accurate as the system in place now.
Take last year.
Utah went 6-3 in conference play including a loss to Washington State who went 7-2 in conference play. Both teams lost to Washington at home, WSU lost to USC on the road while Utah beat USC at home. Just looking at that information. How does Utah going to the conference championship make more sense than WSU?
No system is perfect but I’d argue strongly that no divisions would produce a better match up more often and is at least equally fair to the current system.
My system would have produced 3 changes-
2018- WSU at UW instead of a decent Utah team
2015- Oregon at Stanford instead of a bad USC team
2012- Oregon at Stanford instead of a very bad UCLA team
I’m just gonna agree to disagree on the merits but I stand by my position that it would produce better match ups which is what I care about. Tiebreakers can easily be adjusted.
Your method would have likely produced a second crap game. Although, it’s pretty hard to out-crap the 2018 Apple Cup (a decade+ of CWs notwithstanding).
Considering the Pac12 basketball tournament is in Vegas, I could see them moving the football game there too, since the new Raider stadium will be opening there the same year the Pac12 needs a new home
If the Pac gets the same or more from Vegas that they were getting from Santa Clara ($1.75m), they’ll go there in a heartbeat. The hoops tourney is a success. And it’s easier to find accommodations or schedule a quick turnaround through McCarran with a week’s notice.
that stadium is a college football desert. I vote for Vegas. Neutral site that is an attractive destination aside and apart from the game. If Scott were smart (he often isn’t) he would leverage a commitment to LV for a higher profile for the Vegas Bowl so that our second ranked team can entice the 2nd or third best team in the SEC. The Alamo bowl is a nice venue but more worthy of our 3rd best team . Holiday Bowl for the 4th; Sun Bowl 5th. After that, who gives a damn
Tom Evans, now the president of Incarnate Word, is former president (or whatever they call them at catholic universities) at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. I’m not going to check,but I think he left a couple of years ago to go to IW. He likes to shake things up (as it turned out, somewhat expensively for Carroll) with sports being a major focus. He added softball, men’s soccer, and perhaps track and field while he was at Carroll. I don’t follow their program so my take on it all is rather vague but the perception from friends who do is that he is a bit of a flim-flam man as these sports are costing a llot of money when Carroll’s enrollment is declining and money is short. IW’s present mbb coach is Carson Cummingham, who played college ball with Brad Stevens, was hired away from Carroll about a year after Tom Evans left Carroll. That doesn’t tell you much of anything but does, perhaps, lend a little light as to why the Beavs might be vying for mbb with IW.
Cam Sanders, Tanner’s younger brother, is visiting this weekend too.
TE whose recruitment has been unusually quiet given his abilities. Maybe that was be design?
WBB at the half, up 56-17
Anyone who thought Slocum would be pouting after not being on the floor for the end of the ASU game should look at her effort in the last few minutes of the first half tonight.
New fun way to enjoy exciting men’s basketball. Line up ten or twelve of your favorite shots within arms reach. Every time the tv cuts to the Tinkle sisters take a shot. You will be hammered way before half-time. I did it for the WSU game and “accidentally” spent the night in my recliner.
You will surely be disappointed to know that you missed a Mike Parker half-time interview with Joslyn Tinkle at a recent game. Dunno how many shots that might be worth.
Watch the games using something other than televised feeds, and one doesn’t have to worry about what is and isn’t on televised feeds.
They’ve both won games in Gill, so there’s some slight relevance to their presence. I won’t be watching the Super Bowl to see anyone’s kids or family highlighted. But I guarantee that will be the case for some of them. Human interest can be great or as lazy as any other journalistic topic.
I think the only question mark remaining is the OL visiting this weekend, Paul M.
You can count Arnold as a new commit, and then several of these PWO visitors I think are already on board(we’ll hear more on Sunday or shortly after) and then Thomas Sio is a backup in case PM doesn’t come here. Sio visits next weekend.
Personally, I wish we would have added a JC CB
Also, I wouldnt be surprised if we still took advantage of a transfer situation during the offseason.
Just a guess, but I think PM is down to OSU and Baylor, and I have no idea where he’s leaning. Always good to get the last visit, although he could potentially take 1 more if it works out timing wise and another team brings hin in
Be nice just one time for this team to rise up for a test and perform well. Play tough and lose, you live with it. Come out unprepared at home with a chance to make a statement and fall flat, not so much. How many more of these opportunities does WT get?
Reichle shot .308 from the floor last year and now has improved dramatically to .333 this year. If he can’t shot, he has no value. Hollins is a D1 body who has psyched himself out this season.
Whole lotta useless passes feet away from each other at the top of the arch, UW just sits back and waits for the turnover. Tinkle out-coached big time.
And we run… because we can’t pass while standing still.
Ethan needs to be the pace change at 6th man right now. Bigs in foul trouble… Stevie or Tres not on…. There are a number of reasons to have a bench leader come in and change the game early.
What we lacked early in the season was bench contribution. I think half of it was poor rotations. But I think the other half was that we didn’t have anyone come off the bench and guarantee us a high level of participation. That player shows the bench how to prepare for that situation.
And having players out of position just so they can say they’re starting is bad for the team and the player. Sometimes a coach has to hold himself to proper rotations despite his belief that “you just put the best talent on the floor” belief that so many seem to have.
When Stevie comes out hot on the D end, his game always catches up to his effort. But if he’s loose on D, he lets the chatter get in his head. Maybe it’s just “idle hands” with him. But he doesn’t seem focused if he’s not exerting max effort on D. He can get beat and hack someone every now and then. But he has a knack for getting his man’s handle loose when he’s aggressive, more often than not.
Hollins and Reichle are fine. They’re just sophs, so we’re just starting to see who they really are. And what I see is players who can grind on D and find their shots and boards by moving with purpose. By the end of the year, they should be draining said shots, and we won’t be complaining about them so much. If the other soph was coming off the bench with them, we would probably have the highest bench contribution in the conference.
Scouting us would suck.
The inconsistency we’re seeing now is what we should have seen at the beginning of the year. We’re drifting between great and meh. Back then it was between getting reps and blech. The big 3 were always going to show up for conference play if handled well. It was the bench that didn’t provide the backbone of the team early that was discouraging… and is paying itself back right now.
Next week will be telling. It’s a notoriously bad trip for everyone, so two losses should be expected. But a split provides momentum. And a sweep could propel them to lightning in a bottle. We’re fortunate this year to play at Boulder first. Grind on them, and a win is possible. Play loose, and they’ll eat us alive.
Joanna Grymek’s hands seem to be made of stone. She has trouble holding onto the ball, catching it, and passing if off after a rebound. She’s been helpful in some situations but it would be ever-so-nice if she didn’t let the ball escape so often.
Not a fan of jo’s. May be spoiled because of Hamlin and Marie but ugh. Maddie gets more done, she should get the bulk of the minutes. Rueck has put in Morris in for mop up duty, she has so much length it’s crazy. I’d actually prefer to see her get more of Jo’s work too.
Jo playing this much is just due to Aquino being out. Would only be seeing around 5-10 min per game and only vs the other teams backup.
She’s good vs the other teams backup but lacks the physicality vs top teams post players.
Morris is very much a work in progress. Potential to be a good one but not for a couple years. She will likely redshirt next year when the two new posts come and hopefully Aquino can play.
Back story on this. It really happened and, after a year or so of trying to get kind of help from United on this, he threatened to make a video about it. They said “good luck with that.” After the video had a few million hits, United approached him with an offer if he would take the video down. His reply was along the lines of “good luck with that.” Taylor gave him two new guitars, as their sales went up sharply because of the video.
How many minutes has Tres played per game since his ankle injury? WHy is he on the point of a 1-3-1 when he is a one-legged liability? How can WT expect to compete against 3 of the 4 best teams in the conference playing 4.5 against 5? Because WT wasn’t willing to sit Tres for a weekend after the injury, it now has become a lingering liability and affects the entire team/strategy. Tres isn’t hitting wide open 3/big shots and everyone is still deferring to him. Yet he isn’t physically capable to compete with actual D1 athleticism that he faced from ASU, UA, UW. He has been hobbling around the court at half speed and hiding on the defensive end. Tinkle may believe that a 50-70% Tres is better than anyone else at full speed, but if that is true, he should blame himself for either not recruiting guys or not preparing guys. Personally, I think the talent is there, but Tinkle doesn’t trust them. What I’ve seen over the last few games is a team unprepared fro any kind of pressure, inability to hit big shots, guys deferring to Tres and Stevie to take key shots. This is a reflection of coaching and stunts the growth of the team to believe that any guy is capable and a threat to score. UW has a lot of athletic guys, and each guy contributed. They didn’t need to run set plays continually for Nowell or Thybell. Guys took shots without hesitation on UW. OSU however, guys are wide-open for shots and multiple times passed them up to let Stevie take another horse shot, or Tinkle fell down and made another turnover.
I bet if you watched the tape of the last 4 games, Tinkles combined points would be slightly less than his total of turnovers+falling down+missed wide open 3s. He is a different style of player and has a knack of drawing fouls and hitting the deck, but he has no balance or explosiveness right now. He looks like we all do at the city league games: our mind says we can get there, but our body refuses to cooperate. This was a critical 3 week stretch and its unfortunate that Tres is hurt once again during a key stretch of the season. Is he frail?
I actually bought into some of the excitement after a 4-0 start, but I now see the error of my ways. WT holds this team back because he tends to give too much leash to Stevie and Tres, but hooks all others too quickly. Different year, same story. Rinse repeat. I’ll check the scores but I’m not sure I need to waste anymore time watching these guys.
Austin Meek puts out some thoughtful stuff for the RG down in eugene.
Here he talks coaches pay and points out the dollar differences between baseball at Texas and at phil’s club. Texas: +$1.6 mil, ucks:-$2.3 mil.
He says:
…Rather than comparing sports in absolute monetary terms, it makes sense to compare them in terms of efficiency, both financially and competitively. And when you do that, one sport at Oregon sticks out as a chronic underperformer.
Baseball.
Is it time for all angry beavs to come to Horton’s defense? We could use some of the “nice guy” , “well respected” stuff the conference used to prop up our own smiley gum chewer.
I dont pay attention to the star ratings, aside from when somebody else says “player x just got moved up/down”
It doesnt really mean much to me. It’s not like Musgrave has played a football game since November, so I’m not sure why he suddenly make a leap in relative ratings, unless they just never bothered to evaluate him in the first place and then suddenly in January they saw his film and said “oh snap, he’s pretty good”
Two leg breaks, not surprising. I always thought that kid was too skinny for the NFL. He was fast as fu**, but running fast into brick walls is tough on those skinny kids.
FOOTBALL: Sounds like Okie State’s new OC works to the skills of his players; he has had two QB’s win Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year…….one a dual threat guy and the other a pro style passer. Lots for Tibesar to study here:
Considering they already have Warren Washington at a similar size, I’m curious if this is an insurance type signing for Tinkle possibly declaring for the NBA draft?
No inside info, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he declared early.
I’ve confirmed he is being viewed as a replacement for Tres. I haven’t directly been told Tres is declaring yet, but reading between the lines, it sounds like that’s the plan.
I really don’t understand the declare early thinking of many basketball players. I haven’t seen anyone predicting Tres will even be drafted much less be a high pick.
Tres isn’t listed anywhere on potential draft picks. But hey neither was Eubanks and he made it.
Don’t think tres is turning pro after this year. Maybe declare and get feedback but that’s it. Don’t think he’s declared before so he’ll likely do it after the season to see if he can get invited to the draft combine.
I would’ve too but 21 year olds are dumb. That money would have still been there a year later and an additional year of education has more long term value.
Austin Meek continues his thoughtful look at coaches salaries, uck baseball/softball, and market forces.
He says, “…Sometimes you’ve got to be smarter than the market. Oregon failed to see that the cost of stonewalling White would far outweigh the cost of giving him a raise. Meanwhile, the Ducks have continued to pay for a successful baseball program without actually demanding one in return….
This isn’t a shot at Horton. He’s doing what any coach would do, continuing to work as long as Oregon is willing to employ him…”
In case anybody is wondering about scholarship limits and all of that stuff, football teams are limited to signing 25 scholarship athletes per calendar year. So if we can assume we met the 25 limit in 2018(since Joshua Gray had to wait until the following year to sign) then we need to also look at some exceptions. Teams are allowed to replace ineligible athletes(ineligible for whatever reason) in the following academic term after it’s deemed the athlete is ineligible. This would apply to Audette and Francois, who signed in the 2018 class, but then changed their mind and didn’t stick around. Because of this, they counted against the 25 for 2018, but then could be replaced in the following term. I believe Gebbia and Roberts could then be moved into those 2018 vacancies, giving us more wiggle room in the 2019 class to sign 25 more.
15.5.2.7 Replacement of an Ineligible Student-Athlete. An institution may replace a counter whose
aid is canceled because the student-athlete rendered himself or herself ineligible for intercollegiate competition
during a particular academic term (e.g., fall semester, winter quarter) by providing the financial aid to another
student in the ensuing term (e.g., spring semester, spring quarter). (Adopted: 4/26/17 effective 8/1/17)
I believe this also means scholarships opened up by the transfers of guys like Justin Gardner, Conor Blount and Christian Wallace will allow us to replace them with guys like Lindsey/Gumbs/Eldridge, without the 2019 class 25 limit taking that hit, given we sign(ed) those guys to scholarships in the following academic term. This would explain why Gumbs and Lindsey were walkons for Fall term, but Gebbia and Roberts weren’t. It’s all related to the timing of exits and replacing guys the next term.
Read this morning Arizona has lost two more players to the transfer portal. I looked at the Oregon State page. Obviously we have the 5 transfers coming in. Seeing only 3 players leaving says a lot about Smith. I know some of the guys on the team weren’t highly recruited etc but the fact that most players want to stick around the program through the coaching change and losing says something about Smith and co. He seems to be building the program the right way and getting buy in.
An interesting name just re-popped onto my radar from the transfer database. Former USC CB, who is a grad transfer, has been fairly quiet about his plans, but I noticed our coaches are still in contact with him. Could be another top50(according to 247) potential transfer target and immediate 4* talent for OSU if we land him too.
Don’t sleep on Michael Eletise either
I was told something interesting this afternoon regarding Eletise. Sounds like he actually was interested in transferring to Oregon State from Arizona, but he’s been blocked from being able to transfer to any other Pac12 schools.
Seems to conflict with the new transfer rules that went into effect in Oct 2018, but the new rules gave conferences the ability to create their own transfer criteria, rather than allowing the player’s coach to make up arbitrary rules. I’m wondering if the Pac12 conference has adopted some type of new rules that would disallow transfer between member schools?
Or maybe the person telling me this is speaking of an attempted transfer from before the Oct2018 rules went into effect? Will let you know if I learn more.
Don’t ever recall so much transfer action in an off-season. Makes me wonder if the staff will focus on 22-20 recruits/year with room for transfers. The early signing period really seems to have helped schools like OSU.
Getting Eletise would really solidify the line with experience and size for Gebbia. Kids should be able to go wherever. I hope you are listening Mr. Frost.
Schools can still refuse to let other schools contact athletes in the portal but the students can appeal the decision.
Eletise would be a one year player since he’ll be a junior in 2019. He’ll have to sit a year and then only have 1 to play. Waste of a scholarship if he were to transfer to osu.
The rule change ends the controversial practice in which some coaches or administrators would prevent students from having contact with specific schools. Conferences, however, still can make rules that are more restrictive than the national rule.
Also, Eletise may be on pace to graduate by year end. If that’s the case, he could be considered a grad transfer and avoid the sitting period. I still haven’t heard specifically when he is supposed to graduate though.
Steve “Snapper” Jones
Snapper lawn mowers
Red snapper
Snappers [One’ies (from the urban dictionary… never heard of it)]
Human baby (If you’re Irish)
Kind of turtle
String bean
Nothing he has done hasn’t been done by the previous POTUSs. He’s as establishment as they come. He can’t help it. He’s just that dumb.
I’m grateful for his exposing how calloused the establishment can be by removing the filter. Colorism is alive and well in America. There can be no doubt about it now. Those people have proudly segmented themselves from the rest of America, whining the whole way.
So much fucking whining.
The funniest whines are the ones about how hard work and what not is the way to prosperity. How can you claim hard work when you’re constantly whining?
Maybe Plato is just spinning so fast in his grave that it seems like there is equilibrium in the world for those whiney colorists.
If you weren’t willfully blind to anything negative for your “side,” you would realize your “side” is nothing but a bunch of whiny colorists whining about nothing really important… and supporting a pretend man who hasn’t successfully managed anything in his life… except getting born with a gold spoon up his ass and selling that condition to stupids as him not being an entitled elite.
The bulb burns brightest just prior to burning out. Football is a dying sport. One day people will look back and wonder why parents ever let their kids play.
It’s coldest before the dawn is infinitely more apropos than this really poor maxim. It’s as if we’re supposed to not know how light bulbs work… or something… as if we don’t know why it’s cold when the sun don’t shine.
At what level of derp should I set my “figure of speech” meter?
Mailing it in using Dumbshit as a point of reference is massively disrespectful to even Dumbshit. He can out-intelligence the intelligence community, don’tcha know?
He knows more about the Middle East than all the generals and diplomats combined.
The Chinese are his pawns.
Kim sun or ill or whatshisname finally got international leverage as a recognized diplomat by Dumbshit because the little guy knew missiles got Dumbshit off.
When America declares bankruptcy, wake me up. That will be the end-cycle of anything Dumbshit does.
At this point, you have a decision to make. Is Dumbshit an intelligent person who directs a corrupt management team? Or is he just that stupid, oblivious to the corruption around him always?
Those are your choices. There is no history of him being successful at anything but selling himself. .. and making an ice rink… and then overselling himself about that. We hired a POTUS who can’t even bank in the United States, he’s that bad at managing anything.
If we put his resume in a blind stack with just about anyone, his would be the one you set aside just to re-read and wonder how someone could continue to make so many bad decisions… and why anyone would be willing to do business with him consistently… and then wonder what is wrong with your own business that someone with that resume thinks he’s a viable candidate to work at it.
You apparently don’t know where you heard that “figure of speech,” because it doesn’t exist as a figure of speech.
It’s probably because it’s so ignorant. Why would anyone think it made enough sense to create it? I don’t think you created it, since you seem to think it actually is a figure of speech. Wherever you got it should be culled from your list of sources for wisdom. I’ve seen bad quotes and mis-quotes and mis-attributed quotes. But I’ve not seen something this bad.
It’s really bad.
Consider this. A bulb will become dimmer over time. There’s actually such a thing as lumen depreciation. A bulb will be dimmest before it fails. After the tungsten coats the inside of the bulb unevenly, it will fail. After it fails, it will emit the amount of energy seen in any given short-circuit in a semi-controlled space. You can duplicate this flash by pouring water on a hot bulb. Same difference.
It’s not a figure of speech. Lose the link to wherever you found it.
I havent watched much of the game. Anybody know why Kelly isn’t playing?
Tuned in to watch 3 out of 4 possessions where Colorado used a 1 man full court press to basically shut down the Beavs offense. Resulted in 3 prayer 3’s that all missed badly.
Tanner Miller | 6-2 | 295 | Valencia (Calif.)
Due to injuries on his team, Miller was forced to offensive tackle. His coach Larry Muir believes Miller is a natural center or guard. “He’s a D1 center or guard, no question,” Muir said. “He is athletic and physical and a stud in the weight room. He’s a bulldozer on the offensive line. He has been unfairly overlooked because he is 6-2.”
PWO Correct? His Coach’s tweet says scholarshiped.
It’s a PWO offer. I think the coach who mentioned that isn’t really his coach, he’s a QB coach who works outside of school with Weston Eget, who played for the same team as Miller.
Eggers goes in depth with Kevin Abel in this piece. He has gained 13 lbs and a mature view of his role, saying:
“”Luke was Mr. Consistent for two years, if not the best pitcher in college baseball,” Abel says. “He was a guy who showed up, day in and day out. He had eight or nine starts with 10-plus strikeouts. When he pitched, you knew what you were getting.
“I aspire to do that…
Some good quotes from Yeskie and Bailey in there too.
Does anybody know what Heimlich isn’t up to these days?
He must be doing something other than playing for a pro-team, and it must be something Brenda Tracy and John Canzano approve a person with his legal history to be doing, because I haven’t heard a peep out of them lately.
Men’s team with a good win last night. Could have easily gone the other way but they made plays in crunch time.
Should match up pretty well vs utah. Beavs will struggle vs teams.who have good posts. Kelley just can’t hang physically and big g isn’t effective for longer periods of time. Utah isn’t that type of team.
The Thompsons could have tossed less bricks from the line, for my taste. G and Tres did their parts, when in. The best stretch we had was from about 10 minutes left for a good six or so minutes of grinding D. An ugly win at Boulder is almost worth as much as one at McKale.
Just watched Sio’s film. it’s not a surprise he has no offers. Two star prospect. Should be a pwo.
Can’t see justifying a scholarship offer right now. He’s pretty raw and he’d get beat up pretty good. Maybe if he’s a good student, he could get some academic money to help with finances.
For the most part. You can count on Akili Arnold, but probably not till signing day next week. And PM, the OL from last week is still up in the air but said he was announcing on signing day too. But those are the only 2 real scholarship guys we will possibly sign on Tuesday. Sio would be a backup option for PM.
The rest are PWO possibilities.
And then we should have a couple more spots available to take transfers throughout the offseason, especially if Wallace gets picked up or we dont honor his scholarship or anybody else transfers(the sooner they leave, the better)
I agree nice beaver, pm not coming to the Beavs. His Twitter is all about Baylor recently. I think to get him he had to commit on his trip here. Seems like smiths montra of if you commit no more trips is working unless I’ve missed something. When guys commit to the Beavs they don’t waiver. Maybe I’m jinxing it for signing day ?.
Goodman and Slocum with hot shooting the other night, back-to-back blocks apparently brought the crowd to its feet. Sounds like a fun game, anyone there?
Hope I’m wrong but Jay Irvine transferring out is going to hurt. He was one of those developmental guys that should have finally been a contributor this season if healthy.
Despite the loss Sunday, Beavs gals moved up to #9.
Eggers up with a nice piece, some wise quotes from Rueck, including:
https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/12-sports/417572-320650-beavers-rueck-huge-strides-still-ahead
Machado hinted that something big was going down for the beavs tomorrow. Anyone know what she’s talking about? She posted it on the Twitter machine…
Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s the announcement of our new CB coach. Also wouldn’t surprise me if he has ties to the Utah State commit I was talking about last week, Akili Arnold. Will have to wait and see I guess, unless somebody give gives me a reply….
And the current safties coach at Utah St(just hired recently) is former Wisconsin all American Mike Caputo, who also has worked for Dave Aranda at LSU. Could be a name to keep an eye on. All speculation on my part though, but the Wisconsin ties make sense given Tibesar is our DC and Arnold has recently started following some of our coaches.
Anybody else hearing any realistic names?
Caputo’s bio is below.
https://utahstateaggies.com/coaches.aspx?rc=363&path=football
That would be an underwhelming hire.
Looks like Utah state hired a new guy meaning Caputo is looking for a job so @Nicebeaver may be on to something:
Utah State: Mark Orphey has been named corners coach. Orphey spent the past two seasons coaching the secondary at Utah State.
I don’t understand why this would be an underwhelming hire. Young guy who had success in college so he knows the position and learned from a great D-coordinator at LSU. I’d have to know who else we were looking at to compare. I like adding a younger staff member for recruiting.
I’m curious if Cravon Rogers Jr, CB coach down at Southern Oregon, is in play for the CB position or a grad assistant spot at OSU. I don’t know anything about the guy other than it looks like he’s Kase Rogers brother and he has only been out of college for 1 year(went to Morgan State)
No inside info, just going with my intuition on this one
Grad assistant would make most sense given his age and lack of experience
I have had two people close to the team tell me they will meet the new coach tomorrow, but they don’t know who it is yet.
FlightAware is your friend.
Thanks, I knew you would have some insight on what was going on. I was hoping for something bigger, like they are going to start finishing reser, but alas that probably a never going to happen.
Doesn’t necessarily mean that is the big news angie is teasing. But what are the chances our AD blows his wad on the same day we announce a new coach? We only have newsy items a few times per year, so they have to spread these things out
firing the AD would be better news
The AD would have to bring his A+ game to blow his wad.
More scrap heap recruiting for the football team. Lower division offers or walk on offers is all most of these kids have and we welcome them with open arms. I understand we’ll need lots of practice players but we are going to still be a long ways away from competing on Saturdays. Better hope the transfer kid is Tom Brady from the pocket and can evade a constant relentless rush like Randall Cunningham. Otherwise, 2-3 wins max…
Agree.
But I’d put our wins at 4-5 because I’m high on the QB. Real deal there, and a great player there can win you a game or two each year single handedly.
It’s college football. That kind of certainty is ridiculous on its face.
Middle of the road with extreme variances toward either extreme, with the lows outweighing the highs, is a more realistic scope.
It looks like Angie’s “big news” is six months of Blitz for the price of one. Yay?
So if you’re paying monthly, you’re paying too much. The site’s owner agrees.
Is it reasonable to think she wasn’t even aware the team is supposed to announce their new coach today? Or is this just the mandatory advertising before a big reveal?
I don’t know, but that’s some self-serving teaser last night. People were probably excited, only to wake up to this…
Any chance the Beavers would be in on Braxton Burmesiter’s possible transfer from Oregon?
Did you see him throw the ball or try to throw the ball in the civil war? I personally wouldn’t want him on the team at all. Colletto is similar and he is not the future starter but serves his purpose on short yardage/goal line situations.
I’m all for accountability but this is ridiculous. Even if the call was correctly made there is NO GUARANTEE the Saints win that game.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25824920/angry-new-orleans-saints-fans-file-lawsuits-put-billboards
Maybe not a “guarantee” but New Orleans would have been at about 97% to win had that call been made.
With a 1st down there they could have ran the clock to 4 seconds and kicked a chip shot FG (one you’d expect to be made at least 97% of the time).
I think you can make a strong argument that anyone that bought a ticket was defrauded if the assumption is that the game will be called accurately. I am not sure that is an assumption you can make though.
I’ve read about other calls that would also have affected the game such as a facemask that kept a rams player from scoring a td that wasn’t called. Where do I put up the billboard and cry about it?
Missed calls happen both ways every game. Some worse than others. Sounds like blatant missed calls happened to both teams in this game however the worst one that happens at the end is always remembered.
The missed facemark had no impact on the outcome of the game. It did not prevent a TD. And it was NOT a blatant missed facemark either. Just to further clarify; since 2008 if the defender does not pull or turn the head of the offensive player it technically is no longer a penalty to get a hold of the facemark. I’d argue the missed call shouldn’t have been called under current NFL rules.
I’d also point out no one saw the facemask until they replayed it. And since the defender did not twist, pull, or turn the runners head rather intentional or by dumb luck the officials were actually correct in not calling it.
I love when you respond. I mean if you look up info about the game you will see that facemask along with some other no calls mentioned but I know you are right as always so disregard the entire internet. You are a treat!
I don’t care what the internet says. I use my own eyes.
The facemask in question was seen by no one until the replay was played.
The facemask in question did not involve the defender pulling, twisting, or turning the head of the player
The facemask in question is a judgement call under the 2008 rule change that got rid of the 5 yard facemask rule and as I already admitted it is usually still called but not always.
Here is the rule:
“No player shall grasp and control, twist, turn, push, or pull the facemask of an opponent in any direction.”
“Note: If a player grasps an opponent’s facemask, he must immediately release it. If he does not immediately release it and controls his opponent, it is a foul.”
https://www.sbnation.com/2016/11/13/13516494/facemask-foul-rule-nfl-college-football
Nothing I have said is factually incorrect. You (or anyone writing an article on the subject) is free to disagree but I have made no factually incorrect statements. That is the entire point, since 2008 when they got rid of the 5 yard facemask they have given officials discretion to not call incidental facemasks.
Sorry, you think I think I am always right but nothing I said in my post was incorrect. It is within the officials discretion to determine that the facemask was incidental and not worthy of being called. It is in the rulebook.
A 2nd article one the subject if you actually want to learn and be able to see things for yourself instead of just listening to talking heads.
https://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/when-is-grabbing-the-facemask-not-a-facemask-penalty/?module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Sports&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=Blogs
The Rule Book describes an approved ruling as it relates to face-mask penalties (page 81).
“A.R. 12.12 – Third-and-10 on A30. Runner A1 runs to the A33, where he is tackled by B1, who incidentally grasps A1’s face mask on the tackle, but it is not a twist, turn or pull. Ruling: A’s ball, fourth-and-seven, on A33. No foul.”
Notice how it specifically says that even grasping the facemask doesn’t have to be called.
But yeah, I am just making stuff up so I can claim I know everything.
Damn, YoungORST is even authoritarian about face masks. Next he will be shaming you for your opinion on the call.
Nope, you are welcome to think it should have been called, it usually is.
I am just providing actual NFL rulebook definitions of a face mask.
And apparently being insulted for posting the actual definitions.
Sorry, it was the worst call in history and the refs did the right thing by making up for it and not calling the PI to end the game.
Better?
Me? I don’t even know what call you’re talking about. Didn’t watch the game except for the final minutes.
I was building a guitar.
My basic point is:
The officials missed a face mask that is usually called but by rule probably shouldn’t be against the Rams
They then missed a helmet to helmet hit that was also pass interference against the Saints.
I don’t think those are equivalent misses. Others do.
That is fine.
It’s not like it matters, the Rams are in the Super Bowl either way. But I’m not gonna put down Saints fans that want to lash out, the NFL did them wrong. They should lash out.
As long as you don’t throw snowballs at Santa, I’m good.
Where are you coming up with 4 seconds? There was still 1:45 on the clock after that play occurred and the Rams still had a timeout. The 40 second play clock being run off on two plays from at worst 1:40 does not run the clock down to 4 seconds after the Rams would have used their final timeout. 9:45 mark in the following link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO0KutqWhtw
Be that as it may, fumbled snaps don’t happen? I seem to recall Tony Romo botched a game winning FG snap against the Seahawks. Blocked FG’s don’t happen? Missed FG’s don’t happen. Did you forget the Vikings beat the Saints on the final play vs the Vikings last year on a hail mary TD? Percentages aside, as previously stated there is no guarantee the Saints win that game even if it is called correctly.
And if you have to rectify one missed bad call, then why only that one? Because it happened at the end of the game? One could argue that every bad call has an impact on the outcome of a close game as what didn’t happen could dictate different play calling on the following plays after a bad call.
No offensive holding called that results in a 3rd and short, could turn into calling for play action on the next play for a long pass completion. Instead it’s 2nd and longer if it is called and the play call may be different and more conservative.
So why are they only calling for the last 1:45 of the game to be replayed?
The fact they are saying they got screwed out of going to the SB is an absurd argument. The Saints had a 99% win probability in that game last year vs the Vikings and lost. I’m sure the percentage was less than that on Sunday with that missed call. There are no guarantees in football until the clock hits :00 and someone is ahead (or someone scores in sudden death OT).
I have no dog in this fight as I am not a fan of any of the 4 teams that played on Sunday.
1:40 on the clock
3 yard run, 4 seconds off the clock, Rams call their last timeout with say 1:35 on the clock.
3 yard run, 1:31 on the clock. 40 second play clock gets it down to 52 seconds to avoid delay of game
3 yard run, 48 seconds on the clock, 40 seconds runs it down to 9 seconds.
FG, takes 4 seconds.
Rams have 5 seconds.
Now, of course stuff can happen, which is why I said the Saints would have been about 97% to win. I think the refs jobbing my team from a 97% chance at winning is enough to get a little angry about.
And I don’t think it is absurd to say the Saints got screwed, they clearly did.
Just an FYI but the official win probability of the Saints if they get the DPI call is 98%.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/01/21/biggest-swings-win-probability-afc-nfc-championship-games/?utm_term=.756842bdefd6
Using the same matrix they were 96% to win vs. the Vikings before the Diggs catch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fancy-stats/wp/2018/01/14/stefon-diggss-game-winning-td-for-the-vikings-was-as-improbable-as-youd-think/?utm_term=.3efe3d651b98
Those are the numbers.
Every single football game has tons of penalties that are not called. The refs don’t throw the hankies on every play for holding. They really could. Watch the games but don’t follow the ball, look at what the offensive lineman are doing, look at the wr down field. They are all holding to some degree. The refs miss tons of calls every game that could potentially be a game changer. You can’t pick and choose wich non calls you got beef with. It’s got to be all of them or non of them. New Orleans doesn’t have a leg to stand on…
Look, don’t talk to me like I’m an idiot. Everyone understands refs miss calls all game but when they miss a call like they missed Sunday the fans absolutely gave a leg to stand on.
Saying otherwise is bullshit.
You simply cannot miss that call. It makes your product look dived. There are excuses for missing lots of calls, there is no excuse for missing that call. There just isn’t.
Blue Adams is a solid hire.
Per Sedge and 247, Blue Adams is our new DB coach.
You’re my boy, Blue!
Had to read up on the guy. Here is one article I found about him losing his son.
https://www.timeswv.com/sports/wvu-coach-adams-son-dies-of-cancer/article_bf33aefc-4bd8-11e6-97d9-0b6d9e559d5d.html
Seems like a great family guy.
Can this guy recruit, and will he bring any game changers with him?
Was let go by USF after last season. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing that he isn’t USF material.
Ummm no? He’s still listed as an active coach….
https://gousfbulls.com/staff.aspx
Meh.
https://247sports.com/Coach/Blue-Adams-3807/
He’ll fit right in.
A couple people have told me the message board buzzword with him is “swagger”
Yay, swagger. Coach Smith’s philosophies included west coast recruiting and low ego high output guys. Maybe it’s too early to definitively say, but Coach Adams doesn’t exactly fit those criteria.
Maybe Smith decided to broaden his horizons
The way I read that: he needs someone to recruit inner city black kids. The snowmen on staff aren’t cutting it.
The way I read that: should have retained Hall.
^ Yes.
Adams is a B hire. He was indeed let go from usf following the reg season. He did not coach in the bowl game. Unsure of the reasons why. That would explain why he would move cross country for a lateral move.
I have no real expectations for the guy.
This hire feels very Gary Underpants.
I don’t really give a shit about the Saints, so what else is going on?
We landed a 0 star recruit and a UCF reject coach. How do we feel today?
Feels like Groundhog Day, in January
247sports had the kid at 3*
What kind of guitar are you building Angry? Acoustic? Electric? What materials did you select?
I built a jazzmaster. (Lightweight) Alder body, maple neck, rosewood board. I used a natural finish of water dyes and shellac. Humbucker pickups since it’s for playing live. It came out great! It might be my new #1.
What did you go with for pickups and switching?
Split coil of humbuckers on the wiring. My thinking is live this will give the most diversity. If it’s a noisy system I can use humbuckers. For single coil tones I can switch to that if it’s quiet.
Cool, did you go with straight splits or did you throw in phase switching too? Seems pretty pickup/setup dependent but I’ve heard some cool tones come from series/parallel switching.
What brand/model humbuckers?
The humbuckers are gold foils made by a guy in the UK. Really sweet highs and thick lows. Just a great pickup. Email me if you’re interested.
They’re just wired standard no phase switching. I don’t like out of phase (never cared for the strat type sound).
Does the type of wood really make a difference,as long as it’s a hardwood? I remember reading a long time ago about a guy who was pulling up hardwood logs from the bottom of the great lakes that were sunk in the 1800s and milling them into veneer to be used on musical instruments. If I remember right this guy made a fortune selling the veneer. It seemed pretty wild to me that the old wood could fetch so much more than ” new” wood for instruments.
It does make a difference, but it’s all subjective. Different folks want different traits, and the hardest piece of hardwood isn’t usually the answer. The neck wood and fretboard wood are usually different than the body and this can make a huge difference in how warm or bright the guitar sounds.
Then there’s the pickup type/brand/construction/output, type of bridge, gauge of strings, nut material… It all makes a difference, and not all consistently.
That said, I have a shitty ass old as fuck Matao strat copy with a heavy as hell plywood body that sounds pretty fucking good for CCR swamp rock type shit. A decent set of pickups and a set up and I don’t feel the need to change it.
My ’91 Les Paul has a jet black ebony fretboard and I love it. Far and away my favorite fretboard material, followed by maple then rosewood. This is on a mahogany body/maple cap set neck guitar.
I like ebony, too. It falls apart a bit easier than the others.
Maple is my least favorite. Mostly the color, but I don’t like that coating they put on it, either.
Yeah my MIM Tell has a maple board and it seems like Fender always lays that shit on too thick. It was kinda wearing/chipping in spots and it was just kinda funky on the back of the neck. I took some fine scotchbrite to it and polished the whole thing out including the ends of the frets and it’s so much better.
*Tele
IMO the best reasons for selecting wood are the weight and the finish. If you’re playing long gigs you want a light weight body. And if you’re doing a natural finish you want a pretty grain. As far as tone, each body will have a resonant frequency, and that will depend on density mostly but maybe grain pattern. I personally don’t think species matters too much. Warmoth did a good test on this a few weeks ago (linked below). To my ear, there are slight differences. Those could be due to density/grain or something specific to those pieces of wood. Those guys using reclaimed wood just want to sell very expensive guitars. Acoustic guitars definitely matter because you have the body amplifying the tone. With electric guitars, 95% of your tone is the pickup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k_A8GhN0L8
Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars is involved in the sustainability of Ebony (and Koa as well). While it may be more applicable to acoustics, ebony has long been one of the favorite woods for fretboards due to its density. My ear isn’t sophisticated enough to always tell the difference, but I do know that ebony stands up to fingernail wear a lot better than rosewood.
Interesting that the ebony loggers told Bob that they fall 10 trees to get one that had the sought after solid black color. Taylor now uses ebony with lighter streaks and promotes the “personality” given by the unique appearance. Taylor has also pushed other guitar makers to use the streaked pieces of ebony.
In an effort to better utilize the wood, Taylor now makes guitar slides and may start a line of kitchen ware. It is their establishment of an ebony nursery that most impresses me.
Lots more here:
https://www.taylorguitars.com/ebonyproject/
My ’91 Les Paul has a jet black ebony fretboard and I love it. Far and away my favorite fretboard material, followed by maple then rosewood. This is on a mahogany body/maple cap set neck guitar.
Gibson got raided by the feds a few years back over some controlled woods. Was a weird situation.
Curious was this a kit, or were you doing woodworking as well? Love humbuckers.
Sounds like a cool project.
It’s not a kit, but I sourced the body (had to finish sand that) and neck. Everything else I had to do, and I got my parts from all over. I started it in Sept and just finished in January. It’s a lot of research if you don’t know anything, which was where I was at to start. You going to try one? It’s really fun.
Skills you need: sanding, finishing dyes plus top coats, wiring, fret leveling, fret crowning, drilling straight holes without a drill press, proper neck pocket angle, how to center a neck in the pocket, how to install pickups, how to setup a guitar, how to build a bone nut…just to name a few.
I say go for it, but realize you’re going to have a learning curve.
Other than acoustics I don’t own a single natural finish guitar. Not necessarily opposed to them, just always liked solid color painted bodies better. Especially black. Can’t stand those ugly Jimmy Page style burst Les Pauls. I do need a silver burst guitar some day.
Oh, then you’d hate my guitar…it’s a sunburst!
Ok so it does make a difference and it’s all subjective to what the builder wants out of the guitar. Folks like me can’t really hear the difference but the experts can I guess.
There are minor differences, but I don’t think anyone has scientifically narrowed it down to the wood. If it is the wood, the differences are extremely minor between all the main building materials. The weird thing is you can get two pieces of alder that sound completely different. That’s due to density/weight, grain, moisture, and random factors we probably don’t even know.
Yes there are a lot a variances in each species of wood. I work in a sawmill and see it every day.
Nice, do you have any observations?
One more thing that’s kind of funny. When we cut trees that grew up in the wind, inevitably we get some boards that have both the dense wood and the softer wood. That causes the board to bow and the is nothing we can do about it. Think rockers on a rocking chair, those boards end up getting chipped and sent to our particle board facility or burned in our powerhouse to generate steam Wich turns the turbines creating electricity to run the machines and sell to the power company. Really there is no waste wood, everything gets used for something. I’ve worked there for 23 years and just watched in amazement as they keep refining the process and increasing production.
Interesting, an acquaintance of mine is the singer/songwriter/guitar player for a pretty big doom metal band. He plays custom made guitars and his latest couple are walnut. First I’ve ever seen of a walnut guitar body. They are natural finish and they look really nice.
http://monsonguitars.com/guitars/nomad.html
This is the model Mike plays. They make some really nice body wood combinations. Never seen madrone as a top cap before.
we just cut softwood ( Douglas fir, white fir and hemlock) but some of the variances apply to all species. The core (Heartwood) of softwood is always softer(less dense) than the outside. With hardwood it’s just the opposite. Where a tree grows affects the wood massively. If the tree has constant wind on it the wood on the opposite side of the wind will be more dense( makes it stiffer) to help the tree grow straight up. Basically the actual cells are smaller and packed tight on that side. The moisture content is a big deal too. The more moisture the softer the wood ( across all species)and the more it shrinks when being kiln dried. We actually have fancy scanners that measure both of these things because the drying time is different. I could go on and on about it. Want to know more? Just ask
There used to be(might still be) a plywood plant in the Portland area that made madrone plywood. Pretty stuff that’s for sure.
That’s good stuff. Wood is fascinating.
Edgar, Mariano, Halladay, and Mussina all make the HOF today. Mariano is the 1st player with 100% of the vote. Super pumped for Edgar.
Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner are my all time favorite baseball players.
So, side note, but I played basketball today for the first time in over five years. Decided to shoot 40 free throws just to get a good sample of my %. Made 31. ~78%. There’s no excuse for anyone missing a free throw in college if this is all they do all day.
Ya’ll should shoot 40 and compare. Honor system.
I can understand how someone who has never played under real game circumstances would think that.
Let’s see you run the court 2 times between every 2 shots. How many can you hit then?
Or, do 10 jump squats and 10 pushups, then do 2 free throws. How many can you hit then?
Oh, and be 19 years old again. And a scholarship D-1 athlete.
Cry me a fucking river. As a 19 year old Jarhead I could have done all that shit still drunk on 45 minutes of sleep.
Wow, you’re a tough dude
I haven’t been 19 for a long time.
U sound like a jarhead.
Imagine that.
The point is that nothing they are being asked to do is physically out of the ordinary for a 19-20 year old kid.
One of your dumber statements.
And in fact, that not all they do all day…
Bunch of killjoys.
Honestly, I did once walk in to a gym, and without warming up, hit 9/10. I agree there’s no excuse for college or pro players shooting less than 80%. They’re in shape, conditioned, plus in the pros there’s more stoppage of play for ads and guys often standing around on teams where they prefer to run isolation plays for their star player(s).
70% is the demarcation between good and bad.
Jack up your adrenaline, run 10 killers, and immediately give yourself 30 seconds to hit one shot… about 10-15 seconds for the second. Then run about 10 30 yard sprints before you do the same thing for next two shots.
Keep doing that until you reach 50 FTs.
Then report your %.
I feel like that should be OSU’s practice schedule, until further notice. Just break it down to the basics–hustle, conditioning, effort… and making your FTs. It’s easy enough to break into two 20 minute circuits, with a minute break on the 4s… also simulating game conditions. I’d take away the limits on the FTs and just have them shoot from the line while in motion. The practice pace always shows on the floor.
They came out with real confidence against UCLA. It looked like they finally turned the page.
And then we had a typical swing through Zony.
Free throws seem like a 60/40 split of quality muscle memory and mental focus. Split could go either way depending on the individual.
WFO, agree…I think lack of focus is the only excuse. I noticed the few times I had that I missed, and then the other times the ball simply rolled off my hand wrong. Could feel right away it would miss. So that part must be muscle memory or just not getting the right grip to begin with. Seems with practice every day both should be corrected.
Basketball is my worst sport by far, too. No excuse for the players.
http://basketballtrainingaid.com/image/Basketball_Training_Shooting_Practice_Ball_Return_System_Game_Court_Hoop_Sklz_01_wc.jpg
Set up a couple of these, side by side, with the set-up for the smaller super-shot arcade games hooked up… with all the lights and noises.
You would never have to tell your players to practice FTs again. They’d spend all their spare time trying to get high score.
You didn’t have to deal with the curtain of distraction…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdQ50oeVsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgfLrUGh2A
This was supposed to be a fun experiment.
I can’t believe all the wet blankets!
I stand by my claim. If I can shoot 78% after five years of not touching a basketball, a college player needs to shoot at least that. I don’t care if he’s running around. He gets paid (scholarship) to run around, and after doing that for a week or two you’re conditioned. I hear a lot of excuses.
No… you’re just ignoring the data.
Your analogy can just be added to 120 years of it. Then we’ll look at the mean and median over rolling periods and go from there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/sports/basketball/04freethrow.html
What are you talking about?
It was a fun challenge to other to go shoot free throws and report back.
Ill steal the neighbor kids basketball and get back to you. How many feet from the backboard to the free throw line? And how high is the rim supposed to be? We keep the adjustable hoop at arout 7-8 feet so i can dunk on the local kids.
Well… sure… that’s fun without the challenge.
But that there’s no excuse for game performance being lower than your tiny sample?
The numbers are well known.
10ft, man.
I can shoot around 85% free throws during practice. But during game situations with a crowd and fatigue, it falls to about 60%. Can’t simulate the external factors in practice.
I once shot free throws with a pro basketball team. I can say it was much different. Heart rate went up rapidly. Harder to concentrate. People saying stuff to you and it was just a practice. So factor down your rate by about 20%.
Nah, I’m mentally impenetrable. I like taunting and crowds.
You bring up a good point, though. If that stuff is affecting the players the coaches should find a way to simulate it. Maybe bring in some hot chicks and have them star down the players as they shoot. Haha.
Might make the FT% worse as the players work to keep the ladies around ;-)
Since you’re all talking music, anybody here know a good cheap/free online tutorial for adults who want to learn piano, but don’t have a ton of free time to spend on actual lessons with a live teacher?
I played back in elementary school for about 3 years, then switched up to trumpet all through jr high and highschool, so reading music isn’t really an issue. I mostly want to re-learn how to play chords first, then progress into applying those skills towards adding some basic rhythms and melodies. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve played any instrument, and my past experience with the piano was so long ago it’s like almost starting over from scratch, but I’d like to pick it up again.
There are a lot of great piano channels on youtube.
I like Piano TV. The chick is entertaining and not bad looking.
If you watch a few videos they’ll start recommending other channels like that, so you can check them all out and decide.
Cool, thanks. I’ll have to check her out.
Her site…I mean.
Hmm.. #1 team in the country just went 29-32 from the line and won a road game in which they didn’t play there best.
I hope we offer the Sio “kid” who looks like a man. After reading that he is up there at the military base school it sheds more light on why he isn’t being talked about. Who knows how he will do against bigger competition but I trust our line coach (not going to attempt to spell his name). We need beef!
Sio’s offer saw will depend on what this weekend’s visitor Paul Matavao does. If PM commits, Sio will get PWO offer. If PM goes somewhere else, Sio will probably get a full offer.
I’m curious if any QB film reviewers here care to comment on this kid’s film.
Jackson Chryst is one of those guys who was relatively unknown going into his senior year, and then dramatically improved as a senior and actually became the Bay Area offensive POY. Beavs have a shot at landing him as a PWO, which could be a steal.
https://www.hudl.com/video/3/6270582/5bad09b37bd2a30ce805e73d
He looks pretty good. 62% completion rate, too.
additional film:
https://www.hudl.com/team/v2/44700/Boys-Varsity-Football
Edit.
I like the idea of adding him on as pwo. He looks solid and if he is he could easily grab Luton’ s scholarship after this season.
Must win for mens team tonight. Can’t lose to wsu.
Game vs uw this weekend will show if the beavs are in it to the end.
Beavs have a great shot at Jackson Chryst. Brother of Keller Chryst formerly of Stanford. Son of geep, who coached with Riley. Nephew of Paul Chryst who also coached with Riley. Easy to see him taking a pwo offer vs a fcs offer. Money isn’t an issue.
Any chance we could get the old gum chewer back for pep talk to bring Chryst on-board….get the excitement for the program going again?
Why not take a walkon offer at Wisconsin then? Is uncle not impressed?
He could think he is a better fit at OSU, I have no idea what the QB depth at Wisconsin looks like but OSU has a 6th Senior, a highly regarded redshirt sophomore that has already transferred once after failing to win the job, a transfer from an FCS school, a guy that is nothing but a wildcat QB, and a guy that has never seen the field.
That is a pretty wide open place to join if you are looking at it from the outside.
‘Nuff said
Funny, so USC hired Kliff Kingsbury and got 5* WR Bruh McCoy to sign at the early signing period, then Kingsbury ditches a couple weeka later for the NFL and McCoy now wants to transfer to another school, possibly Texas. But under current rules, without an NCAA waiver, he’ll lose a year of eligibility and have to sit his freshman year.
A good example of the early signing period being more to the benefit of the schools than it is the players. Because he signed, he’s locked in, but Kingsbury wasn’t.
I’d argue that if you are a 5* kid you should be pretty damn sure it is the college you want before signing early. Its not like he wouldn’t have still had options.
He made a poor choice, that said he should be granted a waiver in my opinion.
Agree with this. I’d add that committing to a school after a coach that was already likely to leave before Bruh was going to be draft eligible is on him.
More guitar talk:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/how-electric-guitar-was-born/580969/
My favorite line from the reviewer, ” He even made me like Eric Clapton for a minute.”
There’s some really good reading out there on Les Paul and Leo Fender. It’s always been interesting to me how opposite their guitars ended up being. Les actually wanted to make the whole guitar body out if maple but it was ungodly heavy so they went with mahogany with a thick maple cap.
Cucks lose, again.
52-36 at the half. Feels like it should be more but we’ve been a little sloppy on D. Good ball movement and spacing on offense. Vernon really needs to play more. Plays with purpose. Things don’t stagnante when he’s out there.
This ^^^^^^^^
And, how about a 22 to 9 advantage in Rebs?
WSU keeping it from a blow out with some threes.
We need better jerseys for home games. How does “Bitin’ Beavers” instead of the generic “OSU” on the front….?
Strikes me as…really bad! :-)
Dick Fosbury with the “old white guy, inadvertantly sounding racist” tweet of the day, haha.
https://twitter.com/DickFosbury1/status/1088593080171687936?s=19
Yikes.
Goddamn it Dick…
I Tweeted that at him. Let’s see how many followers I lose.
Just the old racist ones….which I guess could be a large number
Old for sure. Probably 90%.
Way to think it through. Dick.
An alumni making the school look good…
You guys are getting like the MSM around here. He was alluding to Oregon State’s OTHER COLOR, dimwits!
Um, I believe that’s why they said “inadvertently”…
Interwebz wurdz hurt and “make” cj do things.
You just don’t understand.
I tried to make it obvious.
LETS GO BEAVS. Way to get the job done last night at home. Sets up a massive game on Saturday. Go support the Beavs and get Gill rocking!
Chad Ochocinco’s neighbor was arrested by the FBI this morning. Turns out his neighbor is Trump advisor Roger Stone, being arrested for multiple accounts of obstruction of justice. The plot thickens…
https://twitter.com/ochocinco/status/1088791420511678466?s=19
What I anticipate the Trump supporter response to this will be:
“This ‘news’ is just further evidence of Trump’s innocence. Everyone around him may be corrupt but that just proves Trump isn’t. Arresting all the people that worked for Trump is not evidence Trump did anything wrong, after all just because he told voters he was hiring the best people how can we reasonably hold a President accountable for what the people that work for him do?
Now that we can all agree this attack on Trump is a witch hunt lets talk about why the real criminal Hillary should be in jail……”
He sounds like a swell guy:
“Mr. Stone, a self-described dirty trickster, began his career as a campaign aide for Richard M. Nixon and has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. He has spent decades plying the political dark arts, including scandal-mongering, to help influence American election campaigns. ”
Hopefully he doesn’t end up commiting suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head a few times.
Have you seen “Get me Roger Stone”? It’s on Netflix.
He might be the worst human I’ve ever seen…
I can’t stand scumfucks like that guy. Their prevalence is what makes me have so little faith in the government and politics in general.
You have to wonder if his indictment even has anything to do with current events or if it was just one of those opportunities for law enforcement to grab a motherfucker like that and squeeze him.
Honest question: How is Trump any less of a scumfuck than Stone?
And I’d say his indictment definitely has to do with current events.
Considering DT is planning an impromptu news conference right now to re-open the partially closed government, I’d say it’s…….Squirrel!!
Note: Without any funding for his stupid wall. So basically he just made 800,000 people incredibly stressed out and made us less safe in order to achieve nothing.
Can’t wait for him to try to declare a national emergency. What I fear is the Supreme Court letting him because if the border is a national emergency than literally anything is. Can’t wait till he cancels the 2020 election because election fraud is a national emergency.
‘Merica!!!!!
He still has almost $2b ear-marked for the fence, anyway. Maybe he should get it together and actually use what he’s given before tilting at windmills.
Classic Roger Stone today had him comparing his arrest and service of a warrant on his home to Pablo Escobar and Osama Bin Laden, two men who died in military take-downs of their strongholds.
His take was that his arrest was worse than both.
And there are people out there who believe him.
Now, sadly, that’s just another day in America.
Sis, you need to slow down…
It is adorable that you think I give a damn about what someone who claims Trump doesn’t lie calls me.
Seriously, you claimed Trump doesn’t lie. I mean, that kind of stupid is actually impressive.
Is it also cute that he disrespects his family repeatedly in this way?
Beavs offered Akili Arnold’s younger brother today.
https://twitter.com/EastonM_1/status/1088818906708373504
Also saw Coach Pitre tweet this little cryptic message this morning, shortly after.
https://twitter.com/CoachPitre/status/1088820205776556032
Probably a good chance this is related to Akili Arnold possibly flipping from Utah st to OSU in the near future. Pitre was at a home visit with the Arnold’s yesterday.
They have to be about out of scholarships right?
The actual count is a bit of a mystery. We don’t know if Gebbia and Roberts get to count back towards the 2018 class, which is possible since we had some guys leave mid year. If they do count back, then we could potentially have 2 more spots than people were predicting. Also, just because you see a scholarship estimate from me or a recruiting site, it doesn’t mean it’s accurate. Smith (and most coaching staffs) keep their scholarship counts pretty close to the vest. It’s usually just the coaches and the compliance department that know the true number they have to work with.
It would be great to get a HS safety recruit this cycle. Looks like he had offers from ASU and BC as well.
He also already visited OSU for the CAL game. I thought back then we had a good chance to pick him up, but then he ended up verbaling to Utah St. He has a teammate in our current class, Jojo Forest, as well.
Men’s team with a good win last night. Kept a comfortable lead throughout the game. Wsu just doesn’t have the talent.
It’s obvious the team is much more relaxed at home. Expecting a hard fought game vs UW. Won 2 of 3 last year. All games decided by 1 bucket.
Beavs actually play fine vs the 2-3 Syracuse zone. Expecting tres to be posted up at the free throw line most of the game to get the offense moving.
Kelley is going to have a tough job, uws bigs are physical and Kelley really isn’t.
Obviously handling the zone, it comes down to the Thompson bros being able to make 3’s. If they can’t, it’ll be tough.
Washington really struggled against the UO press because they lack quickness and PG play.
Another official visitor for this weekend is Jackson Simmons out of Glastone (Portland suburb)
He’s a 2019 DT/DE with a PWO offer.
https://twitter.com/jsimmons9914/status/1064962189784567808
https://www.hudl.com/video/3/6067590/5bf45bcb0660fe083c7dbe5b
They seem to be focusing on adding more PWO’s than I’ve ever seen.
It’s actually pretty typical. There’s a limit to how many roster spots they can fill between now and after school starts. They usually come close to maxing that number out with PWO guys, and then add more walkons after the season is under say. I don’t know the exact numbers or dates they have to go by, but it’s in the NCAA rulebook
It is 20, you can have 105 guys prior to school starting after which it is unlimited. Which is why it feels like more but I guess with walk ons earning scholarships or moving on to other opportunities probably means OSU has 5-10 PWO spots each year.
The transfer rules benefit schools on the quarter systems whereas the walk on rules benefit schools on the semester system something people should mention to Scott Frost.
PWOs are half the total of the walk-ons. They don’t have to try out for the team, because of their status. The last ten spots are filled by try-outs, but it’s fairly well known who a handful of them are with a nod and a wink as they enroll and try out. Coaches almost always leave a spot or two open, in case they find that gem (or two) who walks into try-outs in the fall.
Another PWO official visitor will be Sean Harlow’s brother, Jack Harlow. You may have seen me post about him here about a month ago. Has a PWO offer currently. Looks like an under the radar guy with some potential. Good coaching…
https://twitter.com/jackharlow77/status/1088854933862936576
And then of course, PWO kicker Jeff Nelson is visiting too.
Local LB Cade Brownholtz is also a PWO visitor, out of Jesuit HS.
Good that we’re keeping some Jesuit ties. Alfieri would be a really big signing next year if we can keep him focused on OSU.
https://twitter.com/CadeBrownholtz/status/1088861444794273792?s=19
Oops. Except Brownholtz’ Jesuit is down in Sacramento, not the local Jesuit.
Carry on. My bad
That’ll go on your permanent record, nicebeaver. Won’t be forgotten come salary review time!
LOL
Smith and Cookus were at Jesuit High in Portland today, though not sure who they were talking to.
TE Musgrave got a bump up to 4*
What the heck is “Incarnate Word”?
It’s apparently the only other offer for one of our recruits, Sandberg.
Another PWO official visitor, Brian Espinoza, OL out of Clackamas.
https://twitter.com/_brian_espinoza/status/1088918666026971136?s=19
Pac12 opts out of Levi’s stadium deal to host pac12 title game after 2019.
Lots of suggestions being thrown around,
Back to best record to be host,
New raiders stadium in Vegas,
New Rams stadium in la.
Sounds like the game will remain on Fridays.
Leaving it on Friday is dumb.
Best choice is home field advantage, Las Vegas is the only other viable option. LA is a bad idea.
In addition to going with HFA the conference should also get rid of divisions and just let the top 2 records meet.
Two best records is a non-starter unless we have a full round-robin season.
The way they had it set up at home sites for the top seed was fine. Just allow the visiting team ample opportunity to fill in their side of the stands before it’s opened to the GP.
It would only be a non-starter if division championships were determined by division records right now. They aren’t so going with the 2 best records would be just as accurate as the system in place now.
Take last year.
Utah went 6-3 in conference play including a loss to Washington State who went 7-2 in conference play. Both teams lost to Washington at home, WSU lost to USC on the road while Utah beat USC at home. Just looking at that information. How does Utah going to the conference championship make more sense than WSU?
No system is perfect but I’d argue strongly that no divisions would produce a better match up more often and is at least equally fair to the current system.
My system would have produced 3 changes-
2018- WSU at UW instead of a decent Utah team
2015- Oregon at Stanford instead of a bad USC team
2012- Oregon at Stanford instead of a very bad UCLA team
Both teams didn’t play team X or Y. Therefore, there can be no valid tie-break–only one with arbitrarily insufficient information.
Division winners won something. Divisional records are also the first tie-break.
Also-rans didn’t win squat. Wazzu had their chance, and they coug’d it. why would anyone want to reward that?
Don’t like it?
Petition to move to the other division, or do better next time.
Besides, it’s not like the CFP doesn’t have a spot for you, with their wacky non-metrics.
Utah had their chance too.
I’m just gonna agree to disagree on the merits but I stand by my position that it would produce better match ups which is what I care about. Tiebreakers can easily be adjusted.
Your method would have likely produced a second crap game. Although, it’s pretty hard to out-crap the 2018 Apple Cup (a decade+ of CWs notwithstanding).
Considering the Pac12 basketball tournament is in Vegas, I could see them moving the football game there too, since the new Raider stadium will be opening there the same year the Pac12 needs a new home
Wilner says LV too along with pac12 hoops that same weekend. Makes too much sense so it probably won’t ever happen.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/25/on-the-move-pac-12-football-championship-game-needs-a-new-home-las-vegas-and-los-angeles-are-prime-options/
If the Pac gets the same or more from Vegas that they were getting from Santa Clara ($1.75m), they’ll go there in a heartbeat. The hoops tourney is a success. And it’s easier to find accommodations or schedule a quick turnaround through McCarran with a week’s notice.
Based on past attendance, Bishop Gorman High School would work.
that stadium is a college football desert. I vote for Vegas. Neutral site that is an attractive destination aside and apart from the game. If Scott were smart (he often isn’t) he would leverage a commitment to LV for a higher profile for the Vegas Bowl so that our second ranked team can entice the 2nd or third best team in the SEC. The Alamo bowl is a nice venue but more worthy of our 3rd best team . Holiday Bowl for the 4th; Sun Bowl 5th. After that, who gives a damn
Why are we fighting ‘Incarnate Word’ for recruits? What the hell is that? It sounds made up.
At least we didn’t lose the battle to Incarnate Word. That would have sucked
Tom Evans, now the president of Incarnate Word, is former president (or whatever they call them at catholic universities) at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. I’m not going to check,but I think he left a couple of years ago to go to IW. He likes to shake things up (as it turned out, somewhat expensively for Carroll) with sports being a major focus. He added softball, men’s soccer, and perhaps track and field while he was at Carroll. I don’t follow their program so my take on it all is rather vague but the perception from friends who do is that he is a bit of a flim-flam man as these sports are costing a llot of money when Carroll’s enrollment is declining and money is short. IW’s present mbb coach is Carson Cummingham, who played college ball with Brad Stevens, was hired away from Carroll about a year after Tom Evans left Carroll. That doesn’t tell you much of anything but does, perhaps, lend a little light as to why the Beavs might be vying for mbb with IW.
Surprised you didn’t mention Cunningham was all pac 10 freshman for OSU before transferring to Purdue.
If I ever knew that, I didn’t remember or I surely would have mentioned it.
Only because I didn’t know he was all pac-10 and that he transferred from OSU to Purdue.
He was at OSU while I was in school. He was a dam good PG.
Cam Sanders, Tanner’s younger brother, is visiting this weekend too.
TE whose recruitment has been unusually quiet given his abilities. Maybe that was be design?
https://twitter.com/bucknasty_15/status/1088953071416176640?s=19
Will he also bounce from sport to sport over 4 years at OSU?
And another PWO visitor…
https://twitter.com/King_Beall/status/1088953552167264262?s=19
And on cue he commits to ‘Incarnate Word.’
WBB at the half, up 56-17
Anyone who thought Slocum would be pouting after not being on the floor for the end of the ASU game should look at her effort in the last few minutes of the first half tonight.
New fun way to enjoy exciting men’s basketball. Line up ten or twelve of your favorite shots within arms reach. Every time the tv cuts to the Tinkle sisters take a shot. You will be hammered way before half-time. I did it for the WSU game and “accidentally” spent the night in my recliner.
You will surely be disappointed to know that you missed a Mike Parker half-time interview with Joslyn Tinkle at a recent game. Dunno how many shots that might be worth.
I have no issue with the Tinkle sisters being on camera at any time.
Watch the games using something other than televised feeds, and one doesn’t have to worry about what is and isn’t on televised feeds.
They’ve both won games in Gill, so there’s some slight relevance to their presence. I won’t be watching the Super Bowl to see anyone’s kids or family highlighted. But I guarantee that will be the case for some of them. Human interest can be great or as lazy as any other journalistic topic.
Baseball’s “Diamond Dinner” last night. Anyone here able to attend? wannabeav? afghan? anyone?
Hey nicebeav do you have kind of a wish list to fill the last few roster spots? Or the coaches top targets?
I think the only question mark remaining is the OL visiting this weekend, Paul M.
You can count Arnold as a new commit, and then several of these PWO visitors I think are already on board(we’ll hear more on Sunday or shortly after) and then Thomas Sio is a backup in case PM doesn’t come here. Sio visits next weekend.
Personally, I wish we would have added a JC CB
Also, I wouldnt be surprised if we still took advantage of a transfer situation during the offseason.
It would be nice to get that qb you mentioned and the kicker as PWO . What do you think the chances are with Paul m?
Just a guess, but I think PM is down to OSU and Baylor, and I have no idea where he’s leaning. Always good to get the last visit, although he could potentially take 1 more if it works out timing wise and another team brings hin in
Women’s team with a blowout win vs UW. Looks like the floor is #3 in conference which should be good for a 3 seed in the NCAAs.
Would like to point out that the one of the regional sites is in Portland, hosted by OSU.
Finishing 1st or 2nd in the conference could get them into that regional which would mean they wouldn’t have to leave the state until the final four.
They look lost against UW. 6 turnovers in the first 8 mins.
Be nice just one time for this team to rise up for a test and perform well. Play tough and lose, you live with it. Come out unprepared at home with a chance to make a statement and fall flat, not so much. How many more of these opportunities does WT get?
Reichle and Hollins should never see the floor. Neither are D1 players
Disagree on Hollins, agree on Reichle
Reichle shot .308 from the floor last year and now has improved dramatically to .333 this year. If he can’t shot, he has no value. Hollins is a D1 body who has psyched himself out this season.
The traveling calls need to go both ways. WTF!
This team is garbage. That was one of the worst defensive attempts I’ve ever seen on the and one. Tinkle can’t adjust to a simple zone defense.
I take your point, Corey, but there is nothing simple about UDUBs zone — it’s damn good.
Whole lotta useless passes feet away from each other at the top of the arch, UW just sits back and waits for the turnover. Tinkle out-coached big time.
We. Need. A. Point. Guard.
Vernon should be on the floor more often than Reichle.
Problem is that they play through Ethan even when Vernon is on the floor. Shame as it seems like he can run the team.
New starting line-up….. Vernon-1 Stevie-2 Ethan-3 Tres-4 Kelly-5
Vernon-Stevie-Tres-Kelley-G
And we run… because we can’t pass while standing still.
Ethan needs to be the pace change at 6th man right now. Bigs in foul trouble… Stevie or Tres not on…. There are a number of reasons to have a bench leader come in and change the game early.
What we lacked early in the season was bench contribution. I think half of it was poor rotations. But I think the other half was that we didn’t have anyone come off the bench and guarantee us a high level of participation. That player shows the bench how to prepare for that situation.
And having players out of position just so they can say they’re starting is bad for the team and the player. Sometimes a coach has to hold himself to proper rotations despite his belief that “you just put the best talent on the floor” belief that so many seem to have.
When Stevie comes out hot on the D end, his game always catches up to his effort. But if he’s loose on D, he lets the chatter get in his head. Maybe it’s just “idle hands” with him. But he doesn’t seem focused if he’s not exerting max effort on D. He can get beat and hack someone every now and then. But he has a knack for getting his man’s handle loose when he’s aggressive, more often than not.
Hollins and Reichle are fine. They’re just sophs, so we’re just starting to see who they really are. And what I see is players who can grind on D and find their shots and boards by moving with purpose. By the end of the year, they should be draining said shots, and we won’t be complaining about them so much. If the other soph was coming off the bench with them, we would probably have the highest bench contribution in the conference.
Scouting us would suck.
The inconsistency we’re seeing now is what we should have seen at the beginning of the year. We’re drifting between great and meh. Back then it was between getting reps and blech. The big 3 were always going to show up for conference play if handled well. It was the bench that didn’t provide the backbone of the team early that was discouraging… and is paying itself back right now.
Next week will be telling. It’s a notoriously bad trip for everyone, so two losses should be expected. But a split provides momentum. And a sweep could propel them to lightning in a bottle. We’re fortunate this year to play at Boulder first. Grind on them, and a win is possible. Play loose, and they’ll eat us alive.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/mississippi-state/2019/01/26/mississippi-state-bulldogs-joe-moorhead-coaching-hire-michael-johnson-wide-receivers-sec-football/2689312002/
Looks like the beavs might be getting a kicker/punter as a PWO. That sounds good to me. Hopefully he can develop well.
WBB: Beavs up 23-15 at the half over the Cougs.
Cold shooting for both teams EXCEPT Pivec! She has not missed a shot, has 13 pts (and 5 reb).
Oh, and Stanford just fell to Utah.
Wow, UGLY WBB game
Joanna Grymek’s hands seem to be made of stone. She has trouble holding onto the ball, catching it, and passing if off after a rebound. She’s been helpful in some situations but it would be ever-so-nice if she didn’t let the ball escape so often.
Not a fan of jo’s. May be spoiled because of Hamlin and Marie but ugh. Maddie gets more done, she should get the bulk of the minutes. Rueck has put in Morris in for mop up duty, she has so much length it’s crazy. I’d actually prefer to see her get more of Jo’s work too.
Jo playing this much is just due to Aquino being out. Would only be seeing around 5-10 min per game and only vs the other teams backup.
She’s good vs the other teams backup but lacks the physicality vs top teams post players.
Morris is very much a work in progress. Potential to be a good one but not for a couple years. She will likely redshirt next year when the two new posts come and hopefully Aquino can play.
For all you guitar lovers out there — you’ve got to see this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RD5YGc4zOqozo&v=5YGc4zOqozo
Back story on this. It really happened and, after a year or so of trying to get kind of help from United on this, he threatened to make a video about it. They said “good luck with that.” After the video had a few million hits, United approached him with an offer if he would take the video down. His reply was along the lines of “good luck with that.” Taylor gave him two new guitars, as their sales went up sharply because of the video.
Avoid o’hare at all costs.
How many minutes has Tres played per game since his ankle injury? WHy is he on the point of a 1-3-1 when he is a one-legged liability? How can WT expect to compete against 3 of the 4 best teams in the conference playing 4.5 against 5? Because WT wasn’t willing to sit Tres for a weekend after the injury, it now has become a lingering liability and affects the entire team/strategy. Tres isn’t hitting wide open 3/big shots and everyone is still deferring to him. Yet he isn’t physically capable to compete with actual D1 athleticism that he faced from ASU, UA, UW. He has been hobbling around the court at half speed and hiding on the defensive end. Tinkle may believe that a 50-70% Tres is better than anyone else at full speed, but if that is true, he should blame himself for either not recruiting guys or not preparing guys. Personally, I think the talent is there, but Tinkle doesn’t trust them. What I’ve seen over the last few games is a team unprepared fro any kind of pressure, inability to hit big shots, guys deferring to Tres and Stevie to take key shots. This is a reflection of coaching and stunts the growth of the team to believe that any guy is capable and a threat to score. UW has a lot of athletic guys, and each guy contributed. They didn’t need to run set plays continually for Nowell or Thybell. Guys took shots without hesitation on UW. OSU however, guys are wide-open for shots and multiple times passed them up to let Stevie take another horse shot, or Tinkle fell down and made another turnover.
I bet if you watched the tape of the last 4 games, Tinkles combined points would be slightly less than his total of turnovers+falling down+missed wide open 3s. He is a different style of player and has a knack of drawing fouls and hitting the deck, but he has no balance or explosiveness right now. He looks like we all do at the city league games: our mind says we can get there, but our body refuses to cooperate. This was a critical 3 week stretch and its unfortunate that Tres is hurt once again during a key stretch of the season. Is he frail?
I actually bought into some of the excitement after a 4-0 start, but I now see the error of my ways. WT holds this team back because he tends to give too much leash to Stevie and Tres, but hooks all others too quickly. Different year, same story. Rinse repeat. I’ll check the scores but I’m not sure I need to waste anymore time watching these guys.
Austin Meek puts out some thoughtful stuff for the RG down in eugene.
Here he talks coaches pay and points out the dollar differences between baseball at Texas and at phil’s club. Texas: +$1.6 mil, ucks:-$2.3 mil.
He says:
Is it time for all angry beavs to come to Horton’s defense? We could use some of the “nice guy” , “well respected” stuff the conference used to prop up our own smiley gum chewer.
https://www.ducksports.com/sports/20190126/austin-meek-ducks-caught-in-numbers-crunch
Most of you provably already saw, Cam Sanders has committed to play football at OSU
What position?
Is he a PWO
Tight end, and PWO(although I’m just assuming, but pretty sure it is a PWO offer)
In an effort to outdo his brother, he will also be trying out for basketball, baseball, rowing, women’s volleyball, and having dance-offs in the quad
NiceBeav, besides Musgrave getting the 4* bump. Anyone else getting bumped up possibly?
I dont pay attention to the star ratings, aside from when somebody else says “player x just got moved up/down”
It doesnt really mean much to me. It’s not like Musgrave has played a football game since November, so I’m not sure why he suddenly make a leap in relative ratings, unless they just never bothered to evaluate him in the first place and then suddenly in January they saw his film and said “oh snap, he’s pretty good”
True just what’s feels good from a fan perspective when we land 4*as opposed to 2* guys with offers from incarnate wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7_IZPHHb0
Another duck bites the dust…
Another softball transfer?
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2019/01/kansas-citys-deanthony-thomas-arrested-on-marijuana-charges.html
Dude needs to learn to spend his off-season in the states where you don’t get a mug shot for smoking. Pretty ridiculous arrest in current times.
Arrested for weed. That’s just fucking stupid.
Two leg breaks, not surprising. I always thought that kid was too skinny for the NFL. He was fast as fu**, but running fast into brick walls is tough on those skinny kids.
Says he plays special teams and leads the group in tackles. I’m actually impressed.
That makes sense, he’s probably the first one there every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhraiPTORhI
FOOTBALL: Sounds like Okie State’s new OC works to the skills of his players; he has had two QB’s win Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year…….one a dual threat guy and the other a pro style passer. Lots for Tibesar to study here:
http://footballscoop.com/news/oklahoma-state-hires-princetons-sean-gleeson-offensive-coordinator/
Beavs hoops team offered a JuCo Forward today, James Jean-Marie.
https://twitter.com/Hooper_J24/status/1090311879623356416
Considering they already have Warren Washington at a similar size, I’m curious if this is an insurance type signing for Tinkle possibly declaring for the NBA draft?
No inside info, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he declared early.
I’ve confirmed he is being viewed as a replacement for Tres. I haven’t directly been told Tres is declaring yet, but reading between the lines, it sounds like that’s the plan.
I really don’t understand the declare early thinking of many basketball players. I haven’t seen anyone predicting Tres will even be drafted much less be a high pick.
Tres isn’t listed anywhere on potential draft picks. But hey neither was Eubanks and he made it.
Don’t think tres is turning pro after this year. Maybe declare and get feedback but that’s it. Don’t think he’s declared before so he’ll likely do it after the season to see if he can get invited to the draft combine.
I wouldn’t exactly call playing in the G-League for 70K making it.
Its not a bad salary for playing a game but it is not “making it”
I would have taken that when I was 21.
Hell… a lot of NBA players would have taken that when I was 21.
I would’ve too but 21 year olds are dumb. That money would have still been there a year later and an additional year of education has more long term value.
Praying he’s not Keondre Dew v2. Wonder if this means we’re out on Kenyon Martin Jr in addition to Tres possibly declaring.
Tinkle is too one-dimensional. OK – if you need a lefty.
Beavs pick up a PWO commitment, Nick Suing. That’s all I’ve got.
https://www.hudl.com/profile/6228327/Nick-Suing
Positions: T, DT
Height & Weight: 6’3″ 275lbs
Class of: 2019
Bringing in the beef with PWO’s is not a bad thing for sure.
Austin Meek continues his thoughtful look at coaches salaries, uck baseball/softball, and market forces.
He says, “…Sometimes you’ve got to be smarter than the market. Oregon failed to see that the cost of stonewalling White would far outweigh the cost of giving him a raise. Meanwhile, the Ducks have continued to pay for a successful baseball program without actually demanding one in return….
This isn’t a shot at Horton. He’s doing what any coach would do, continuing to work as long as Oregon is willing to employ him…”
https://www.ducksports.com/sports/20190128/austin-meek-if-oregon-softball-could-win-big-why-not-baseball
BTW: uck softball now down to 12 players
In case anybody is wondering about scholarship limits and all of that stuff, football teams are limited to signing 25 scholarship athletes per calendar year. So if we can assume we met the 25 limit in 2018(since Joshua Gray had to wait until the following year to sign) then we need to also look at some exceptions. Teams are allowed to replace ineligible athletes(ineligible for whatever reason) in the following academic term after it’s deemed the athlete is ineligible. This would apply to Audette and Francois, who signed in the 2018 class, but then changed their mind and didn’t stick around. Because of this, they counted against the 25 for 2018, but then could be replaced in the following term. I believe Gebbia and Roberts could then be moved into those 2018 vacancies, giving us more wiggle room in the 2019 class to sign 25 more.
I believe this also means scholarships opened up by the transfers of guys like Justin Gardner, Conor Blount and Christian Wallace will allow us to replace them with guys like Lindsey/Gumbs/Eldridge, without the 2019 class 25 limit taking that hit, given we sign(ed) those guys to scholarships in the following academic term. This would explain why Gumbs and Lindsey were walkons for Fall term, but Gebbia and Roberts weren’t. It’s all related to the timing of exits and replacing guys the next term.
Riley Sharp needs to be accounted for as well
Read this morning Arizona has lost two more players to the transfer portal. I looked at the Oregon State page. Obviously we have the 5 transfers coming in. Seeing only 3 players leaving says a lot about Smith. I know some of the guys on the team weren’t highly recruited etc but the fact that most players want to stick around the program through the coaching change and losing says something about Smith and co. He seems to be building the program the right way and getting buy in.
Blount commited to Eastern Kentucky
Good for him.
And good luck to him.
An interesting name just re-popped onto my radar from the transfer database. Former USC CB, who is a grad transfer, has been fairly quiet about his plans, but I noticed our coaches are still in contact with him. Could be another top50(according to 247) potential transfer target and immediate 4* talent for OSU if we land him too.
Don’t sleep on Michael Eletise either
I was told something interesting this afternoon regarding Eletise. Sounds like he actually was interested in transferring to Oregon State from Arizona, but he’s been blocked from being able to transfer to any other Pac12 schools.
Seems to conflict with the new transfer rules that went into effect in Oct 2018, but the new rules gave conferences the ability to create their own transfer criteria, rather than allowing the player’s coach to make up arbitrary rules. I’m wondering if the Pac12 conference has adopted some type of new rules that would disallow transfer between member schools?
Or maybe the person telling me this is speaking of an attempted transfer from before the Oct2018 rules went into effect? Will let you know if I learn more.
As always, appreciate the info Nicebeaver.
Don’t ever recall so much transfer action in an off-season. Makes me wonder if the staff will focus on 22-20 recruits/year with room for transfers. The early signing period really seems to have helped schools like OSU.
Getting Eletise would really solidify the line with experience and size for Gebbia. Kids should be able to go wherever. I hope you are listening Mr. Frost.
Schools can still refuse to let other schools contact athletes in the portal but the students can appeal the decision.
Eletise would be a one year player since he’ll be a junior in 2019. He’ll have to sit a year and then only have 1 to play. Waste of a scholarship if he were to transfer to osu.
It is not a waste of a scholarship, it is the same as taking a 2020 grad transfer.
Wouldn’t he have to be on scholarship in 2019 as well?
Not sure where you’re reading that interpretation of the rule? From the NCAA website:
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/new-transfer-rule-eliminates-permission-contact-process
Also, Eletise may be on pace to graduate by year end. If that’s the case, he could be considered a grad transfer and avoid the sitting period. I still haven’t heard specifically when he is supposed to graduate though.
Sorry that was the old rule. Got bad info. Schools can’t block anymore. I don’t believe the pac12 have made any more restrictive rules than the NCAA.
Beavs pick up a new PWO Long Snapper. The best type of snapper there is.
https://twitter.com/Dylan_Black4/status/1090759440817516544?s=19
Steve “Snapper” Jones
Snapper lawn mowers
Red snapper
Snappers [One’ies (from the urban dictionary… never heard of it)]
Human baby (If you’re Irish)
Kind of turtle
String bean
Beavs picked up that PWO commitment from QB Jackson Chryst. He’s the guy I rumored on Monday, but I had to retract my message about him visiting.
https://twitter.com/ChrystJackson/status/1090809712533110784?s=19
Great pickup as a PWO imo. I would like to see a solid kicker walk on as well. Thx nicebeav.
Nelson, the kicker, will likely be the next verbal commit. You should get your wish soon
https://twitter.com/Coach_JBoyer?s=09
Another pro football league?
The Fan Controlled Football League, backed by Joe Montana and Marshawn Lynch.
Mike Riley’s next stop??
http://footballscoop.com/news/yet-another-pro-football-league-gearing-launch-one-different/
We’re reached peak football.
We have a POTUS who couldn’t cash in on it 27 years ago… so… whatever.
Greatest president in my 40-year lifetime
I agree. Absolutely fantastic. Poor Jack.
In what way?
Nothing he has done hasn’t been done by the previous POTUSs. He’s as establishment as they come. He can’t help it. He’s just that dumb.
I’m grateful for his exposing how calloused the establishment can be by removing the filter. Colorism is alive and well in America. There can be no doubt about it now. Those people have proudly segmented themselves from the rest of America, whining the whole way.
So much fucking whining.
The funniest whines are the ones about how hard work and what not is the way to prosperity. How can you claim hard work when you’re constantly whining?
Maybe Plato is just spinning so fast in his grave that it seems like there is equilibrium in the world for those whiney colorists.
Your dear leader is a punk-ass bitch.
If you weren’t willfully blind to anything negative for your “side,” you would realize your “side” is nothing but a bunch of whiny colorists whining about nothing really important… and supporting a pretend man who hasn’t successfully managed anything in his life… except getting born with a gold spoon up his ass and selling that condition to stupids as him not being an entitled elite.
3000+ dead Americans due to Dumbshit’s mismanagement says otherwise.
The bulb burns brightest just prior to burning out. Football is a dying sport. One day people will look back and wonder why parents ever let their kids play.
I suggest you lose this maxim. It’s just ridiculous on so many levels.
Just a figure of speech Jack.
It’s coldest before the dawn is infinitely more apropos than this really poor maxim. It’s as if we’re supposed to not know how light bulbs work… or something… as if we don’t know why it’s cold when the sun don’t shine.
At what level of derp should I set my “figure of speech” meter?
How much of a narcissist is Jack? I am leaning more toward psychopath though. Ramblings that make me appear well spoken and humble.
The last isn’t a sentence, you humble moron.
Mailing it in using Dumbshit as a point of reference is massively disrespectful to even Dumbshit. He can out-intelligence the intelligence community, don’tcha know?
He knows more about the Middle East than all the generals and diplomats combined.
The Chinese are his pawns.
Kim sun or ill or whatshisname finally got international leverage as a recognized diplomat by Dumbshit because the little guy knew missiles got Dumbshit off.
When America declares bankruptcy, wake me up. That will be the end-cycle of anything Dumbshit does.
It always is.
heh heh…
At this point, you have a decision to make. Is Dumbshit an intelligent person who directs a corrupt management team? Or is he just that stupid, oblivious to the corruption around him always?
Those are your choices. There is no history of him being successful at anything but selling himself. .. and making an ice rink… and then overselling himself about that. We hired a POTUS who can’t even bank in the United States, he’s that bad at managing anything.
If we put his resume in a blind stack with just about anyone, his would be the one you set aside just to re-read and wonder how someone could continue to make so many bad decisions… and why anyone would be willing to do business with him consistently… and then wonder what is wrong with your own business that someone with that resume thinks he’s a viable candidate to work at it.
You apparently don’t know where you heard that “figure of speech,” because it doesn’t exist as a figure of speech.
It’s probably because it’s so ignorant. Why would anyone think it made enough sense to create it? I don’t think you created it, since you seem to think it actually is a figure of speech. Wherever you got it should be culled from your list of sources for wisdom. I’ve seen bad quotes and mis-quotes and mis-attributed quotes. But I’ve not seen something this bad.
It’s really bad.
Consider this. A bulb will become dimmer over time. There’s actually such a thing as lumen depreciation. A bulb will be dimmest before it fails. After the tungsten coats the inside of the bulb unevenly, it will fail. After it fails, it will emit the amount of energy seen in any given short-circuit in a semi-controlled space. You can duplicate this flash by pouring water on a hot bulb. Same difference.
It’s not a figure of speech. Lose the link to wherever you found it.
Baseball America projecting beavs to finish 3rd in conference. Sounds about right with all the question marks around the offense.
Anyone go to Salem event yesterday where pat casey spoke?
Anyone listen to the Doug Gottlieb show? Saw a tweet that he stated OSU turned down Mike Hopkins. Not sure when exactly but if true,this is sad.
And Ben Howland
Beavs down 5 to Colorado at half. Could be worse, but Stevie drained a 3 just before intermission
Little Tinks drained the three not Stevie…
Surely there must be some record of these things….oh wait, there is.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/playbyplay?gameId=401087090
That’s just your opinion.
We’ll have to agree to disagree… or something silly like that.
Mmmmm so true. I read a report right after end of game (i think on espn) that attributed that to Tinkle (I couldn’t remember).
Thanks for the update.
What’s wrong with Kelley
You must have missed the first half. A cardboard cut out of Punky Brewster would’ve provided better defensive resistance than Kelley did.
Pretty sure his ass got benched for that reason
Wind.
I havent watched much of the game. Anybody know why Kelly isn’t playing?
Tuned in to watch 3 out of 4 possessions where Colorado used a 1 man full court press to basically shut down the Beavs offense. Resulted in 3 prayer 3’s that all missed badly.
If they keep stats on dribbles per game, we have to be near the top. Geez noone likes to pass.
Where the hell is Vernon?
Had a bad possession in the first half and Tinkle pulled him. Hasn’t been back in since. Only the sons have a long leash.
I swear, if your last name isn’t Thompson, you dont touch the ball on offense, unless you grab an offensive rebound
Sorry, meant to thumbs up this
Beavs up 2. Colorado ball after the timeout. 57 seconds left
Could we get the elusive road win?
Did I just jinx it?
Angry gets to make a mew thread. Beavs sneak out with the road win at Colorado.
Also, Beavs football has another OL PWO commit. He’ll probably announce later tonight or tomorrow. From Valencia, Ca
OL? Good…we need all we can get.
Another PWO OL will be visiting this weekend(other than Thomas Sio)
Just waiting for permission to share the name.
Oops, he’s not an OL, he’s a highschool OLB/TE, but i dont know what we’re recruiting him as
http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/tanner-miller/oS4KWiCJEeWrOKA2nzwY6g/default.htm
Tanner Miller has committed. You must be sleeping in this morning @Nicebeaver :)
Friday is often a “work from home” day for me, so I was up late.
He’s the new commit i mentioned yesterday.
And the 4 visitors I’ve confirmed so far this weekend are:
Thomas Sio-OL
Darius Kubalanza-CB
Jackson Cloyd- OLB/TE
Clayton Ingram-OT
None currently have a scholarship offer, although Sio might get one eventually.
I dont think we will land the OL who visited last week
Uh, very Rileyesque low hanging fruit.
Golly, angry, I know I’m not a spring chicken anymore and it’s not as firm as in my heyday, but I wouldn’t say I have “low hanging fruit!
That sux about matavao. I was hoping they could land him. He looks like he could possibly start at RG from day one.
From an article on Miller’s maxpreps page
Tanner Miller | 6-2 | 295 | Valencia (Calif.)
Due to injuries on his team, Miller was forced to offensive tackle. His coach Larry Muir believes Miller is a natural center or guard. “He’s a D1 center or guard, no question,” Muir said. “He is athletic and physical and a stud in the weight room. He’s a bulldozer on the offensive line. He has been unfairly overlooked because he is 6-2.”
PWO Correct? His Coach’s tweet says scholarshiped.
It’s a PWO offer. I think the coach who mentioned that isn’t really his coach, he’s a QB coach who works outside of school with Weston Eget, who played for the same team as Miller.
Apologies if already mentioned but FootballScoop is reporting Kyle DeVan will be the new O line coach at the U of Arizona.
Eggers goes in depth with Kevin Abel in this piece. He has gained 13 lbs and a mature view of his role, saying:
Some good quotes from Yeskie and Bailey in there too.
https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/12-sports/418511-315599-beavers-abel-ready-to-strike-out-competition-on-the-mound
Does anybody know what Heimlich isn’t up to these days?
He must be doing something other than playing for a pro-team, and it must be something Brenda Tracy and John Canzano approve a person with his legal history to be doing, because I haven’t heard a peep out of them lately.
If he’s not signed this year, he’s finished as he’ll be too
He’ll be too old to be a prospect.
He won’t be lacking any of that “Good Christian” treatment in Oregon. That’s for sure.
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20190106/living-with-label
Men’s team with a good win last night. Could have easily gone the other way but they made plays in crunch time.
Should match up pretty well vs utah. Beavs will struggle vs teams.who have good posts. Kelley just can’t hang physically and big g isn’t effective for longer periods of time. Utah isn’t that type of team.
Kelley should be able to play more Sunday.
The Thompsons could have tossed less bricks from the line, for my taste. G and Tres did their parts, when in. The best stretch we had was from about 10 minutes left for a good six or so minutes of grinding D. An ugly win at Boulder is almost worth as much as one at McKale.
Just watched Sio’s film. it’s not a surprise he has no offers. Two star prospect. Should be a pwo.
Can’t see justifying a scholarship offer right now. He’s pretty raw and he’d get beat up pretty good. Maybe if he’s a good student, he could get some academic money to help with finances.
Afraid to look…
I got the sense everyone coming in is PWO material right now, leaving a couple slots for any stragglers that might be enticing on the waiver wire.
For the most part. You can count on Akili Arnold, but probably not till signing day next week. And PM, the OL from last week is still up in the air but said he was announcing on signing day too. But those are the only 2 real scholarship guys we will possibly sign on Tuesday. Sio would be a backup option for PM.
The rest are PWO possibilities.
And then we should have a couple more spots available to take transfers throughout the offseason, especially if Wallace gets picked up or we dont honor his scholarship or anybody else transfers(the sooner they leave, the better)
I agree nice beaver, pm not coming to the Beavs. His Twitter is all about Baylor recently. I think to get him he had to commit on his trip here. Seems like smiths montra of if you commit no more trips is working unless I’ve missed something. When guys commit to the Beavs they don’t waiver. Maybe I’m jinxing it for signing day ?.
Maybe he can do the ROTC program coming from a military academy?!
Roman Sopalu leaving Idaho St to join Jeff Tedford’s staff at Fresno St. Two former Beav o lineman rising the ranks today.
Goodman and Slocum with hot shooting the other night, back-to-back blocks apparently brought the crowd to its feet. Sounds like a fun game, anyone there?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/basketball/osu-women-s-basketball-lineup-change-no-problem-as-beavers/article_e040493f-a29e-513c-9ed5-85365136adf9.amp.html
NC State scored 24 points in their loss today.
Wow!
Are you sure some of them weren’t own-goals?
Here are some stats for NC State:
9-54 on FG’s (2-28 from 3);
2 (!) assists
Highest Wolfpack scorer had 7 points
UNC@Louisville… my two favorite programs ever. Louisville is getting jobbed… and are just cold.
Tulsa@Wichita is messy, but at least it’s compelling.
UT@ISU has been entertaining.
UCLA gymnastics only has Olympic medalists on the floor at Gill.
No biggie.
Hope I’m wrong but Jay Irvine transferring out is going to hurt. He was one of those developmental guys that should have finally been a contributor this season if healthy.