Hey guys, let’s go general and Utah series all in one thread.
Baseball schedule, and video here.
Apr 1 (Thu) 5:35 PM Home Utah Corvallis, OR
Apr 2 (Fri) 5:35 PM Home Utah Corvallis, OR
Apr 3 (Sat) 12:05 PM Home Utah Corvallis, OR
Hey guys, let’s go general and Utah series all in one thread.
Baseball schedule, and video here.
Apr 1 (Thu) 5:35 PM Home Utah Corvallis, OR
Apr 2 (Fri) 5:35 PM Home Utah Corvallis, OR
Apr 3 (Sat) 12:05 PM Home Utah Corvallis, OR
first
and recruiting is still stale as f…
No worries. LOI day is still 7 months off. We can get it all done in October-November.
We’re still pretty thin at DL, Safety and CB for next year. The lack of progress with transfers is a little concerning
I thought my sarcasm was apparent… apparently not.
My bad, I thought you were being facetious
…Second…
NCAA did not do well today at the supreme court. While not the big case regarding name image and likeness revenue, it’s the first domino in what could redefine collegiate athletics.
Here’s a summary,
https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/03/justices-employ-full-court-press-in-dispute-over-college-athlete-compensation/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/supreme-court-appears-to-favor-college-athletes-in-ncaa-pay-case.html
Best quote – Barrett asked Waxman if it is really his argument that “consumers enjoy watching unpaid people play sports.”
“Yes, that is our line,” Waxman said.
I liked Kavanaugh’s line about it being “a little disturbing” the NCAA is arguing that its consumers don’t want schools to pay their workers.
The NCAA’s argument seems to rest on the assertions that a majority of people don’t want college players to be paid and that the reason people like college sports is because they don’t get paid.
Well the money to pay players has to come from someone, and ultimately it would come from consumers. So in a way, the NCAA is right, the consumers enjoy watching college sports without having to pay ridiculously hight ticket prices like the pros.
Ticket prices are set by supply and demand. Compare ticket prices at Ohio State to a small conference school as an example.
AD’s more often lean on the university to give them more money than they do fans.
I like slaves to make my shoes too, that way the price is ridiculously low, like say, Nike.
Spring football less than a week away. April 6th. Things are slowly getting back to normal…
Given the transfer portal activity, the coaching carousel and the high dollars for college tickets, the NCAA doesn’t still think the thing that sets their games apart from the pros is the sense of “community” the fans have with student-athletes and coaches do they?
And lets be honest, most of the fans in the stands – at least the ones that went to the school, probably would have gone somewhere else if they get a better scholarship offer as well.
Whoa, Texas has hired Wayne Tinkle to replace recently departed mbb coach Shaka Smart. Good for him. Gettin’ paid!
April Fools!
He got the north Carolina job too. First man to coach two teams at once.
For those actually hoping tinkle gets hired away, Chris beard is taking the Texas job. The unc job opened up but that’ll go to someone connected to unc.
Start a poll? I don’t want him to get hired away but an extension for a total of 4 more years would be preferred. Add a year each season he makes the tourney. Wonder if Thompson Sr. leaves if/when ET goes pro somewhere.
I thought it was in his contract already that he gets a year extension for making the tournament. That seems like a reasonable reward.
He does but he had two years left so now 3 years left. Coaches usually need 4 left to say to recruits they’ll be around all 4 years. He’ll definitely want something like 6 years but I would offer a higher pay rate for the 4 years instead of 6 years. Might have to agree to a low buyout as an offset to length. And if anyone wants to hire him away, that means the program is in good shape.
Maybe this was announced somewhere else, but funny that we learn about new turf from the cheer squad Twitter.
Is it orange??
Alternating orange/black/white 5-yard bands with contrasting hash marks…
Maybe it’s just me, but I thought the defense the Beavs played at the end of season and the run in the Tournament is like the D played in Tinkle’s first 2 years as coach. It was awesome to see…
No, not just you. That’s what gave me hope, albeit very little after not seeing anything for the 4 years before this season, that he could coach. Looking more and more like it was a sons issue. During the last broadcast the announcers mentioned chatting with WT and Thompson Sr about coaching their kids and how WT wanted Thompson to be hard on Ethan with WT being the good guy. Thompson said he could only do it for 2 weeks. Imagine what that was like with 3 kids there for 3 years.
This years team was more athletic than what WT inherited and they’re only becoming moreso with the incoming class. Now if we only had a more consistent offense.
SEA Times details PAC Tourney earnings:
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/college/heres-how-much-money-the-pac-12-will-get-for-its-success-in-mens-ncaa-tournament/
I think the OSU pro day was today. Anyone hear about it?
See the twitter feed for measurables. Somebody tweeted about them and tagged the beavrecruiting account just now
JJ with the Ryan Nall speed. That’s going to hurt his draft stock.
Wright’s height and speed are going to get him drafted somewhere.
Dunn with a 4.39 40. Wow.
There’s a DT I’m keeping an eye on as a potential JC transfer. Demeco Roland, out of Hutchnson CC in Kansas.(same school Latrell Bankston went to) Rivals lists him as 6’3″ 306lbs, but I’ve seen him listed as closer to 320lbs on another site(see links)
He was a Texas Tech commit this cycle but never committed. Not sure if they didnt have room or if he was just exploring his options.
Anyway, could be a guy we hear more about in the near future, but as with all DT recruiting at OSU, I’m not counting on anything.
https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/demeco-roland-267886
http://www.stakingtheplains.com/2020/07/13/recruiting-on-the-plains-juco-dt-demeco-roland-commits-to-texas-tech/
*never signed*
JJ definitely showed he had breakaway speed last season. Maybe he just runs faster during games (when guys are chasing him)?
Could carry the weight of the pads better than other players which is likely the case.
They should run the combine in full pads
Lot of righty’s to face Utah RHP……made me look at roster, Beavs don’t have many left handed hitters.
3 guys in today’s lineup with average over .300
Refreshing change to hear Parker calling the game, no ill effects from his scuffle in Indianapolis.
Abel set to start tomorrow, maintaining his Friday night cycle.
Washburn K’s the side and issues two BB’s as well, on to the b1.
Jake Dukart rbi double gives the beavs a 1-0 lead
Correction Forrester with the RBI double
Through 3 innings Washburn 57 pitches, has 4 K’s, 2HBP and 2 BB.
1-0 Good Guys who have left 4 on base so far.
Dukart knocks in McDowell 2-2 bases loaded with no outs
Claunch Sac Fly gives Beavs 3-2 lead
Forrester scores on a wild pitch, melton leaves 2 on 4-2 good guys T6
Beavs hang on for a 4-3 win
Beavs 4-3
More of a battle than it should have been.
Mulholland gets save despite giving up 2BB, 1 hit, 1run while facing 6 batters in the 9th.
Combined pitching stats: 6 hits, 11K, 7BB, 1WP, 3HBP…………BB/WP/HBP still a concern.
Didn’t see the game. Did those result in any runs?
Yes, two of the three Ute runs were the result of BB.
Just for comparison, the Utes gave up 3BB and 2 WP……Beavs 7 and 1.
Oh, and the Beavs hit 3 batters while Utes didn’t hit any.
Again, more of a battle than it should have been against a team from the lower portion of the conference,
Dang, forgot about the game.
Ya missed a 4/4 day at the plate for Dukart and some nice baserunning by Melton (he went 3/4 too).
Claunch and Casey quiet at the plate.
That’s an interesting ooening line by OLuve about the baseball game.
“Oregon State baseball beats Utah Utes 4-3 for 6th straight win, but sloppy Beavers leave unsatisfied”
https://twitter.com/OregonianSports/status/1377859973804388352?s=20
Haha
Sounds as if Canham was growling at several aspects of the Beavs play last night; it’ll be interesting to see if there is a noticeable reaction or any obvious lineup changes. Could tell a lot………….or not.
Before last night the Beavers were 4th in the nation in fielding percentage. Starting to look like a classic down year Pat Casey team. Great pitching and D combined with inconsistent bats. Hopefully there will be the occasional year or two when the bats are popping. Gives you hope though that Canham is growing into the role.
19-5 and 6-1 in conference would be a “down year Pat Casey team”. Tough crowd.
I really more meant it as a compliment. Casey in a down year was still getting to regionals. The pitching and D was almost always there with Casey.
Kind of a down year is real though. Baseball america projections for regionals have the Beavs on the road.
SASHA GOFORTH
From a well thought out set of tweets from Sasha’s dad:
“To everyone in the Oregon State Women’s basketball program who supported Sasha including coaches, trainers, and other staff, thank you! She learned so much from you all. We remain big supporters of the program…To the many Beaver fans who have sincerely wished her well in her new journey, thank you! …The Beavers women’s basketball fan base is truly second to none. Sasha and I both wish that she had had the chance to play in front of a packed Gill.”
There is more in the string of tweets, boils down to being the right move for a homesick young lady. Her hustle will certainly be missed.
https://twitter.com/calvin_goforth/status/1377645611739152386
Second to Arkansas, obviously….
A tie?
Julien Franklin has entered the transfer portal
https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status/1378075539190202372?s=19
Not unexpected. Got more than a few guys ahead of him. He should get some decent offers from mid majors and now with some tourney experience, he’ll be setup to do well.
Don’t see anyone else transferring unless they were really unhappy with their role. Plenty of opportunity with minutes from Thompson and Reichle now available.
I never really remember him playing. Probably not a huge loss but 6’7” shooting guards are kind of nice to have.
The buzz on him when he came in was that he was more of a defensive specialist. With the guards we have transferring in, there wouldn’t be many minutes for him.
Nick Daschel must have some inside information. He’s alluded to a “couple” of players transferring in his Beaver Q&A column. I thought Franklin might be one of them, not sure who the other would be if it’s really more than one.
Isaiah Johnson?
Maybe one of the forwards as their playing time was kind of up and down through the year and we saw Andela not play vs Ok St and then Tucker not play in the others.
So strange. I was looking up a list of potential 2022 QBs who I thought might ne next for OSU to pursue after Houser chose Boise.
I landed on 2 different players, and as I was looking over one of their profiles, he tweets out that he just got an offer from OSU. Good timing.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BraydenNicolosi
74% completion, plays for a winner (13-1), pretty good offer sheet with Arizona and Pitt. Looks like a typical Lindgren QB target.
Stanford WBB beats S.Carolina and moves onto the finals. Will be so sad for UofO that they were so close to being the conference darlings last year before Covid struck, and now Stanford could be the first Pac12 wbb team to win a title in a pretty long time.(stanford in the early 90’s was the last Pac team to win it all)
Bill Moos reportedly in the running for P12 commissioner.
Not a bad choice, even if he was a duck. Wasn’t he one of the more vocal opponents of Scott?
Didnt he leave the WSU athletic department with a mountain of debt? And then thought hiring Scott Frost was a good move?
He has not set the world on fire at Nebraska, so please god let him stay.
The world my not be on fire, but the dumpster is.
He’s claiming he hasn’t been contacted, but we know that sometimes does not mean anything. Who would want Moos? Husker athletics is not impressive under his watch.
Nebbie payback for Riley
Utes up 1-0 in the t1
Abel, pressing with no run support yet (?), tosses 2 BB and 1 WP. He did not allow a hit and did get one K.
I just turned on the game and noticed a Utah run with no hits and was going to ask how many batters Abel has hit!
Someone needs to teach this guy how to slide. Wow
https://twitter.com/BeaverBaseball/status/1378159133585678337?s=19
Preston Jones with his second nice throw tonight gets credit for cutting down the runner from second at home, close play….sometimes the ump sees it our way.
Abel went 6 full and still is not as sharp as we’d hoped, hopefully he’ll make abrupt improvement next week vs quackers. In addition to knocking down the ump, his line: 98 pitches, 4 K’s, 3 hits, 5 BB, 2 HBP, 1 WP………still giving at least 1 free runner per inning….and the toughest part of the schedule is yet to come.
NOTE: Per Parker, Dorman says he’s not concerned with Abel’s HBP’s…..ummm, OK, he’s the one getting paid.
Just now a beautiful bunt single by Casey to load bases with no outs b7, Beavs up 8-3
And Melton clears the bases. 2nd HR tonight with 6 RBI. 12-3
https://twitter.com/BeaverBaseball/status/1378180635496308744?s=19
OT: Saw Porter Miser is leaving Loyola-Chicago to coach Oklahoma.
“Moser”
Both of them!
Burns channels his inner Mulholland, K’s the side in the t8.
Beavs now up 15-3.
Is it spelled Laffer, or Laugher??
Uh, Melton’s third homer?! Wow…17-3 bottom eight
1st 3 HR game for the Beavers since Andy Jarvis did it in 2001
And, among others, BIG JIM did it in 1982!
When did Melton become Mark McGuire? Saw a tweet that his 3 HRs covered something like 1254ft of distance combined.
Who had Arizona and Stanford in the finals in their bracket? Not sad to see UConn lose. Didn’t watch a second of the game. Go Pac 12!
That’s great.
Wow, the state Arizona is going to be a tough trip next season.
Particularly with our two best guards no longer on the team. :(
My cousin in law, a UConn fan, used to tell me the pac 12 didn’t play basketball. Wbb landscape has changed for the better
Same landscape change applies to MBB as well. Walton called it!
Almost hard to fathom, but with a little better free-throw shooting and tighter execution in the last four minutes of the game, we could be discussing MBB’s upcoming Final Four appearance against Baylor this afternoon. Mind blown!
Down the stretch was poor execution. Ethan tripped, hunt lost the ball out of bounds, and two bad 3s taken by lucas and hunt. But poor free throw shooting also hurt the team. Of course the rebounding was atrocious. It was an impressive comeback tho.
Or, getting like two or three defensive rebounds at any point in the game.
But kind of glad they broke my heart. Shows the fight they have in them and hope they can carry that over into next year.
https://mtstandard.com/sports/the-love-was-unconditional-houstons-kelvin-sampson-reflects-on-butte-before-final-four/article_adc54eb9-89c0-56f6-8ca4-1b4e042c0daa.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1ww
I’d not heard of Kelvin Sampson before the Beavs played Houston. I trust he has financially remembered his days at Montana Tech.
Excellent coach, but a shady character.
I haven’t done much research, but I remember him almost being run out of the game for recruiting violations, but the media narrative now is that the things he did back 12-15 years ago are basically legal with today’s recruiting. I never liked him, thought he was smug and a courtside whiner at Wazzu. I wouldn’t mind seeing Baylor win.
He was run out of the game for years. Got a show cause penalty for 5 years.
Of course, the NBA is always ready and willing to take guys like Sampson keeping them employed.
RPI
Sure, it’s early and the important thing is to be playing your best at the end of regular season. With that in mind I still thought a look at RPI would be informative.
Quackers are #2 in RPI with a SOS rating at #4; Ariz RPI 4/SOS 5. For comparison, OSU and Stanford hold RPI’s of 31 and 30 and SOS in mid 90’s.
First things first, gotta sweep Utes and Gonzaga (RPI 32), but next weekends CW looks to be a real test. Quack pitchers did really well vs Beavs in that non-con series. Pitching is supposed to be a Beavs strength, it’s time to show it, I don’t see quack pitching allowing 8.6 runs/game (that’s the Beavs avg for last 6 games). But, half that could do the job if Beav arms are at their best
Anyone expect a CW sweep?………….(by the Beavs)
Sweep no, but they need to win the series. The oregon games are the start of the schedule where nearly every team is likely making the postseason. Only Cal, Loyola and Portland won’t make it. The rest all have good chances.
Best case scenario, they win the majority of the remaining games, win conference, host regionals and supers. RPI would be near the top if this happened.
Middle scenario, go 500 rest of the way, host regionals.
Low scenario – win the series they are supposed to, lose the 50/50 series. Make regionals.
horrible scenario – lose series they aren’t supposed to, lose the 50/50 series. don’t make tourney.
Well, after today’s showing, I’m expecting 0 or 1 wins against the Ducks next weekend.
I doubt they sweep. They have made a lot of pitchers look good. Very inconsistent to non existent at the plate so far this season. Should Dorman change his approach to pitching inside? Could possibly help with putting guys on base unintentionally but will it increase hits is the question?
Beavs have some work to do. Down 4-1 top of 6. This is one of those series where a sweep would be nice against an inferior opponent.
Ouch. Not a game they could afford to lose.
Bold statement.
How so?
I wrote it in bold font
Today seems like more an issue with the bats (which went off to the tune of 17 runs last night) than the pitching. Only 1 out of 5 runs was earned? Hjerpe got unlucky giving up 4 runs on 2H/2BB.
Offense is just inconsistent. The lineup is full of decent hitters, but no one that really stands out.
Agree 100%
After giving away free baserunners at a maddening clip, the guys on the mound today gave up a total of 3BB and 1HBP….a far cry from the 1+/inning lately.
Several batters have had decent “mini streaks”, but inconsistent is an apt description for them so far.
Go Beavs!
New thread set for 8pm.
Hey BG……….just saw that Mikayla Pived signed with the Minnesota Lynx. And, no surprise, Aleah has declared for the WNBA draft.
Good pics of smiles in the link ;)
https://www.gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/basketball/osu-womens-basketball-pivec-signs-with-minnesota-lynx-goodman-declares/article_6c87201b-35a4-5889-8b6b-644d1122b802.html