They’re talking about Kwan evolving into a five tool star this year. And the clock on Bazzana is about two months, and the fans expect him to be in triple A.
These are lofty expectations, and I hope they all come true.
This means he has a better NIL offer as he “reopens” his recruiting. Lol as he knows exactly where he’s going. Good for him and a negative for the Beavs
Dorman should have been fired immediately but OSU powers that aren ‘t’ are rubbing their chins, trying to look intelligent and speaking blither. It was the players who endured the raucous heckeling – should’ve been Dorman in a stock.
Singer 2-run double off the wall, turley a double, 3 consecutive singles but Reeder thrown out at home trying to score in a shot into left field. 6-6-0 b2.
Singer intentionally walked to load bases to get to Weber previously struck out 2x and looked silly, 0-2 count on 2 ridiculous 64 mph curves and next pitch Weber laces a double to the wall to clear the bases. 9-2 b4
Arquette, Turley, and Weber top of the lineup, Adam Haight dh batting seventh.
Macias and Caraway 8 and 9…..of course.
Talt sits.
interestingly, Macias is the only batter who swings from the left side.
3-2 Beavs as Keljo gets a stroke out with the tying run on second to end the game. The previous batter barely missed a 3 run hr to LF but died at the warning track. Hawaii led the country last year in ERA and is #18 in the nation this year and I had no idea their pitching was that good.
Sad news. Oregon has lost 2 of their top recruiting targets to rivals UW and now Ohio State in recent days. Fans are disgruntled and saying something is “off” with their program’s recruiting after both players were thought to be locks for them.
Hope you’re all able to enjoy the rest of your weekend
t7, down 5-0.
Due up: Reeder, Macias, Caraway………Reeder and Caraway have the only two Beavs hits so far, so naturally Reeder will be ph’d for.
UPDATE: Playing for a matchup, Miiiitch pinch hits for Reeder, but the same thought doesn’t apply to Caraway. Results: Jones flies out for Reeder, Caraway grounds into a dp….
Now, Miiiiitch has shown that he realizes Caraway’s weakness on D by subbing him out late in games, so it’s apparent that Miiiiitch is clinging to the hope that Caraway can get back to his very early season batting performance. How much longer will he cling?
Absolutely pathetic….to shutdown the Beavs is all pitchers need to do is throw off speed breaking stuff and the beavs might as well be swatting at flies while wearing a blind fold. They won’t get out of s regional if they even make the playoffs
“The 73-year-old coaching legend is looking to hire a PR specialist in lieu of Hudson, and has been in talks with former Bears VP of communications Brandon Faber for several months, according to ProFootballTalk.
The PR hire would help manage both Belichick’s new role as head football coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his public image, which was badly bruised by Hudson’s cringeworthy PR moves.
Belichick appeared on CBS Sunday Morning last week to promote his new book, but it went viral for the wrong reasons after Hudson, a former cheerleader, interrupted to shut down a question about how the couple met.”
Death, taxes, and Miiiitch’s teams having a late season fade with multiple batting slumps. The hallmark of great coaching is your team gets better and improves as a season goes on. My memory may not be totally correct, but I don’t remember this ever happening with Canham’s teams.
Let’s be unbiased. Does anyone here genuinely still believe that we are top 10 team at this point? We are still riding the media giving us credit for the Casey years. We’re not being dominant with a very easy schedule. I really think that if this team was in the SEC, they’d be around .500.
I’d put us around 20-25. Possibly one of the first few teams out of the top 25 now.
My postseason prediction continues to be a regional exit currently. This team has no consistency. If they aren’t hitting homers, the offense doesn’t exist. Pitching raises my blood pressure nearly every inning as well.
This schedule is much more difficult than the Pac 12 has been for the last five years.
But no, we’re not top 10 right now. 20-25 is far too low, but about 15 is right. And watching a not top ten UO lose to a Kent State in the Supers again won’t make any of it better.
We could easily beat anyone in the country, yet we choose to do this.
The annual overreaction thread after winning a series. This is clearly a top 10 team talent wise. Consistency is the toughest part of baseball. I don’t mind a slump right now. The key to the CWS is qualifying. Which we look like we are set to do.
Lmao, I guess I am supposed to say them losing one game to a decent Hawaii team means they are the worst team in college baseball, with the worst manager too?
That also means the Dodgers are the worst team in the MLB, because they lost to the Braves last night.
I hope folks realize how much Casey was criticized on here when he was actively coaching. Warts for days! lol
Let the false narratives begin! After all spring football complete, USAToday’s Preseason ranking of NCAA DI football:
Current PAC:
WSU #86
OSU #105
Old PAC 12 Members
UO #8
ASU #23
USC #31
Utah #33
UW # 52
CO #55
UCLA#59
CAL #92
UA #96
Stanford #115
Future PAC Members
BSU #19
Texas State(?) #74
CSU #77
Utah State #93
SDSU #100
Fresno State #102
So, in a (admittedly meaningless poll), the perception is that this coming season OSU will be the worst football program of recent, current, and the upcoming PAC iterations. Ouch. The only meaning in this is perceptions that take hold in popular media and viewers/readers.
It’s interesting to see that UCLA and USC don’t even figure into top 25 relevancy anymore. They actually have to earn it now. Only UO, BSU, and ASU are perceived at this point of being top 25 programs.
I do think Bray could use this as “Bulletin board” material.
The Beavers will surprise IF the OLine can get healthy and play to a solid “B” grade.
On the bright side, OSU would be improving by at least 80 spots in the rankings if they cracked the top 25. Bray could win 9 games if he resurrects the defense, and us any semblance of an offense.
Time to break out the pocket schedule game!
Is 9 wins impossible?
In Hawaii watching the Beavers play. All the do is look for the home run. They all swing for the fences every time. So far this weekend it is either been strikeout or pop up. They don’t look to go opposite field or up the middle they look to go home run. And the wind is blowing directly to right field hard it would take a lot to get one out of here
This is a top 50 team maybe top 40. They don’t get well enough they don’t field all that great and they’re pitching is too inconsistent. I hate the SEC but they could not compete in the top half of the SEC. They Feast on week pitching and struggle against anybody that is decent on the mound
This is what the SEC does too. A couple of teams just do it pretty well consistently. And the hottest bats in the end win.
If you’re complaining that disciplined and balanced teams are more our identity than what baseball has become, I agree. But there aren’t 40 or 50 teams better.
We’ll just have to wait and see if they can put it back together, after the hangover.
And the more I watch this team play I do not believe they’re very well coached. Mitch might be a great guy along with all the other coaches but this team is missing something that I think it is leadership
Wow, Caraway just swing at a pitch that hit 6 ft in front of the plate. He got on first base because it was such a bad pitch to catcher couldn’t handle it
Weber 3 run shot, 7-1 beavers as it looks like they’ve finally have broken out of their slump with 3 big flies tonight. Aube they read some of my comments earlier and got pissed. Lol
Jacob Kreig flashed some leather tonight stealing two hits on scorching line drives that he dove to his right to snatch. AJ closes the door on Hawaii 7-3 as Hawaii used 9 pitchers tonight. Weber had himself a series with three HRs, I think two doubles and like 9 RBIs. 3 out of 4 in Hawaii was a pretty solid outcome against a pretty solid Hawaii team.
USA Today MLB draft projections:
1. Washington Nationals: Ethan Holliday, INF, Stillwater (Okla.) HS
It will be a fascinating home stretch for Holliday, the Nationals and a handful of pitchers bullying their way to the top of draft boards. Washington GM Mike Rizzo’s pitching-first chops will be challenged by the everyday excellence Holliday – bigger and with more projectable power than 2022 1/1 and older brother Jackson – can provide.
2. Los Angeles Angels: Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State
The Angels’ ever-dire need for pitching and GM Perry Minasian’s penchant for quick-to-the-majors guys intersects with Arnold, a 6-foot-1 lefty who has dominated ACC competition with a WHIP of less than 1.00 and just three homers allowed in 55 innings. Not your prototypical top five power pitcher, but a lefty who can pitch off his fastball and has the profile of a rotation anchor.
3. Seattle Mariners: Aiva Arquette, SS, Oregon State
This might already be too far for monster prep right-hander Seth Hernandez to fall, but the Mariners have made their bones drafting and promptly developing college pitchers. This time, they roll with Arquette, a 6-foot-5 shortstop with considerable power (16 homers, 1.173 OPS) and discipline. Recently inspired an opponent to play a four-man outfield against him.”
The 2024 draft lasted eight picks before a high schooler was selected, an unprecedented run of collegians. This year, the teenagers take the power back. Schoolcraft just turned 18 last month and at 6-8, can touch 97 mph on his fastball. He’s an excellent two-way player but his projectability on the mound is obvious and the Marlins swing big here.
Cleveland doesn’t draft until 27…no Beaver projected there:
“27. Cleveland Guardians: Max Belyeu, OF, Texas
A thumb fracture ended his regular season after 22 games, but Belyeu was putting together a strong junior season – hitting .358 with a 1.107 OPS when he went down at the end of March. But teams certainly saw enough of his hit tool – he produced 18 homers a year ago – and a return in the postseason for the No. 1 team in the land could produce some helium prior to draft day.”
D1 baseball has OSU #10 in the RPI rankings that doesn’t include last night’s win. I doubt that’s going to hold up after the road series at Iowa. Beavs are putting on a lot of travel miles from Portland to Hawaii and then to Iowa so I would expect they will have some heavy legs this weekend going into Iowa.
BTW, I just saw tomorrow’s game with Portland has been cancelled. I wonder why? Lol
The entire Iowa series is on big10+ and they have a pretty solid production. Apparently, Iowa has one of the better pitchers in the country so that’s not good news for the on again, off again offense OSU offense.
D1 has OSU #7 RPI, and that does include last nights win.
That surprised me, but playing on the road vs RPI #66 Iowa isn’t, in and of itself, a sure fire serious hit to the ranking.
Sweep the series and bet the Beavs remain in the top 10 RPI; take 2/3 and maybe stay top 15.
Iowa leads their (weak) conference and has an ERA 1 full run better than the Beavs; they also are allowing 1 full hit less per game than Dormans guys.
Yeah, the on again/off again offense of the Beavs is the most obvious story but if D isn’t solid it just makes for a higher hill to climb.
Ducks lost out on the #1 ranked, 5* QB in the 2026 class to Georgia. Ducks fans were certain he was a lock to become a Schmuck QB but not so fast as he ends up a Dawg. Now duck fans be like, well, we didn’t really think he was going to sign with Oregon and we’ll just find another guy to replace him. Lol
The Big Ten Conference had just over $928 million in total revenue and distributed about $63.2 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its 2024 fiscal year, the conference’s newly released federal tax records show.
However, the new records, along with documents and data released by three Big Ten member schools in recent years strongly indicate that the conference’s revenue for its ongoing 2025 fiscal year will increase to somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, with the new TV deals taking full effect and the additions of UCLA, Southern California, Oregon and Washington increasing its membership to 18 schools. The Big Ten’s document was provided by the conference on May 6 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports.
The Big Ten’s per-school distributions for fiscal 2025 seem likely to be around $75 million for all except Oregon and Washington, whose shares are being phased in over seven years.
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All of this keeps – and, at least for now, stands to continue keeping – the Big Ten ahead of the now-16-school Southeastern Conference in terms of total revenue and per-school payouts. The SEC released tax records in February that showed $840 million in total revenue and average per-school distributions of about $52.5 million to the 14 schools other than newcomers Oklahoma and Texas. The SEC also is on a path toward at least $1 billion in total revenue for its 2024-25 fiscal year.
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Iowa state board of regents budget documents from this past July show that the University of Iowa was projecting $75.2 million in “Athletic Conference” revenue for fiscal 2025.
A University of Wisconsin athletics department budget presentation to a university athletic board committee meeting three weeks ago projected “Conference” revenue of $74.7 million for fiscal 2025 and just under $82.6 million for fiscal 2026, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
The Big Ten generally provides its longest standing members with equal amounts. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, respectively, joined the conference, their shares were scaled up to full amounts over a period of years. UCLA and Southern California, however, are scheduled to receive full shares immediately while, according to an Oregon athletics budget document for fiscal 2025, Oregon projects $54 million in “NCAA/Big Ten” revenue. (Another Oregon document from September 2023 said the Big Ten’s “media deal with Fox, NBC and CBS will pay both UO and University of Washington each an average of $32.5 million a year for the first six years and that amount should more than double when the two schools receive a full share of Big Ten media rights revenues beginning in the 7th year.” But that TV revenue will be supplemented by money from other Big Ten sources such as the College Football Playoff and Big Ten championships.)
Even using slightly lower amounts as benchmarks — $70 million to each of 16 schools and $50 million apiece to Oregon and Washington, that projects to a little more than $1.2 billion in total Big Ten distributions for fiscal 2025. And, in recent years, the conference has passed on to its schools about 95% of total revenue. That would put its total revenue for fiscal 2025 at just under $1.3 billion.”
Suck it SEC, you “poor” bastards…
Geezus, what is the PAC shooting for in a television deal? $20-30M per school?!
I got a preview of Teagan Scott,South Salem starting catcher, as he hit a solo shot and think he had another hit vs Sprague. Sawyer Nelson, headed to LMU, blasts 3 hrs, the last one trailing 8-6 in b6 that was the winning 3 run HR 9-8.
I can’t believe Canham didn’t go after Nelson too as this kid really can hit. Well, at least Scott is going to be a beaver.
“The Big Ten Conference had just over $928 million in total revenue and distributed about $63.2 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its 2024 fiscal year, the conference’s newly released federal tax records show.
Those figures represent a 5.5% increase in total revenue and a 4.5% increase in per-school payouts compared to those for fiscal 2023 due to the beginning of new television agreements.
However, the new records, along with documents and data released by three Big Ten member schools in recent years strongly indicate that the conference’s revenue for its ongoing 2025 fiscal year will increase to somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, with the new TV deals taking full effect and the additions of UCLA, Southern California, Oregon and Washington increasing its membership to 18 schools. The Big Ten’s document was provided by the conference on May 6 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports.
The Big Ten’s per-school distributions for fiscal 2025 seem likely to be around $75 million for all except Oregon and Washington, whose shares are being phased in over seven years.
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All of this keeps – and, at least for now, stands to continue keeping – the Big Ten ahead of the now-16-school Southeastern Conference in terms of total revenue and per-school payouts. The SEC released tax records in February that showed $840 million in total revenue and average per-school distributions of about $52.5 million to the 14 schools other than newcomers Oklahoma and Texas. The SEC also is on a path toward at least $1 billion in total revenue for its 2024-25 fiscal year.
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Iowa state board of regents budget documents from this past July show that the University of Iowa was projecting $75.2 million in “Athletic Conference” revenue for fiscal 2025.
A University of Wisconsin athletics department budget presentation to a university athletic board committee meeting three weeks ago projected “Conference” revenue of $74.7 million for fiscal 2025 and just under $82.6 million for fiscal 2026, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
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The Big Ten generally provides its longest standing members with equal amounts. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, respectively, joined the conference, their shares were scaled up to full amounts over a period of years. UCLA and Southern California, however, are scheduled to receive full shares immediately while, according to an Oregon athletics budget document for fiscal 2025, Oregon projects $54 million in “NCAA/Big Ten” revenue. (Another Oregon document from September 2023 said the Big Ten’s “media deal with Fox, NBC and CBS will pay both UO and University of Washington each an average of $32.5 million a year for the first six years and that amount should more than double when the two schools receive a full share of Big Ten media rights revenues beginning in the 7th year.” But that TV revenue will be supplemented by money from other Big Ten sources such as the College Football Playoff and Big Ten championships.)
Even using slightly lower amounts as benchmarks — $70 million to each of 16 schools and $50 million apiece to Oregon and Washington, that projects to a little more than $1.2 billion in total Big Ten distributions for fiscal 2025. And, in recent years, the conference has passed on to its schools about 95% of total revenue. That would put its total revenue for fiscal 2025 at just under $1.3 billion.”
Remember, while the substantial increase in revenue looks impressive, the former PAC12:traitors also have substantially increased travel costs that eats into that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. So it would be interesting to know what their actual net revenue is as opposed to gross revenue after travel costs are deducted from the gross revenues….at least for the first 6 years until they get full shares.
It’s all going to blow up in five years, when everyone but the ACC is up for new media deals. And even they significantly reduce exit fees at that point.
Does anybody know the reason why the Portland Pilots game was canceled?
I’m guessing it’s a bi-product of the jet lag after playing the Hawaii series, but also no reason was listed. Just that it was mutual.
Pilots also had reason to cancel, this from the story in the big zero: “…The Pilots, meanwhile, face an important three-game series this weekend at San Francisco. Portland (20-24, 11-7 WCC) sits in a third place in the West Coast Conference standings,…….The conference series carries more importance to the Pilots’ postseason hopes — which hinge on a WCC tournament championship — than a midweek matchup in Corvallis.”
Makes sense, just surprising it stayed on the schedule so long, since fans plan around their personal schedules around these games too.
OSU traveling to Iowa this week can’t help. That’s a pretty big swing in time zones for the team this week.
Does the fact that the Iowa series is considered “neutral” hurt the Beavs post season positioning? Game is in DeMoines (roughly 2 hours from Iowa’s home field), so it’s not exactly neutral even though technically it is.
I didn’t realize the game wasn’t at Iowa’s home. A road win is a little better than a neutral win, right?
Just Win! Glad Iowa has RPI in 60’s and not 90’s!
Sorry NB. Reading and posting from bottom up and saw you posted the games were in Des Moines. Now if it would only quit raining out here. St Louis averages around 40” of precip every year. Picked up just under 11” in April alone!
Interesting if true and it makes me like Bray’s style even more, don’t give in to prima-donna behavior.
Having committed to Oregon State early in the process, Bell elected to re-open his recruitment Friday, but insisted he was still strongly considering the Beavers and would still be taking his official visit in May.
On Monday, Oregon State removed that option.
“Oregon State (canceled) my visit, so I won’t be visiting anymore,” Bell said.
Reference it? Mike will do the complete history of the song! :) Parker really is an amazing announcer. Having grown up with Bill King in the Bay Area, I haven’t heard another announcer do a better job in all three sports, and he is a lot different in all three. Baseball is his joy obviously, but so solid in hoops and football as well.
Anytime you start taking him for granted turn into a Ducks game. Jerry Allen seems to do zero prep on the opposing teams during football season and the Duck voices that do basketball and baseball sound like frat boys – though I have to think if the Ducks have a college radio station, those students are little more professional.
So Iowa is #1 in the Big 10 at 21-6, and all that gets them is 202 SOS? What a shitty league. The Beavs should be ashamed of their subpar performance against that league so far this year. If they lose this series, they will be under .500 against the Big 10 for the season. Not good.
So Texas Tech NIL collective founder and billionaire Cody Campbell and Nick Saban are going to fix college sports. Perhaps their objective work will inform a Trump Executive Order. Whew! Order and equity are on their way, no more advantages for the richest programs. Looking forward to the Beavers competing on a level playing field!
Any executive order on NILs would be nothing but a meaningless document. President’s don’t have the power to create laws. Not how it works. Trump can write whatever the fuck he wants, it won’t bind anyone to anything.
So the Schmucks have played 33 home games and only 15 on the road? Wow, that’s a pretty loaded home schedule. Uncle Phil doing his best to keep the ducks relevant.
The former Utah Utes quarterback and longtime college football player announced Wednesday he is medically retiring after suffering a hand injury during the 2024 season. He said he was advised by two orthopedic physicians he won’t ever be able to play football and is seeking a third opinion as he will undergo surgery.
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Rising lost the quarterback battle to start the 2021 season, but after a 1-2 start, head coach Kyle Whittingham turned to Rising under center. The Utes found momentum with Rising as the starter, finishing the regular season 8-1 and earning a spot in the Pac-12 championship game. In the contest, Rising led Utah past Oregon for the school’s first Pac-12 title and first Rose Bowl appearance. He was named a Pac-12 first-team selection with 2,493 passing yards with 20 touchdowns and five interceptions, as well as 74 carries for 499 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns.
The quarterback returned to Utah in 2022 and again led Utah back to the Pac-12 championship game. Against College Football Playoff contender Southern California, Rising led the upset against the Trojans to clinch back-to-back conference titles and Rose Bowl appearances. However, in the Rose Bowl game against Penn State, Rising suffered a devastating knee injury.
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If this is in fact the end, Rising finishes his college career with 6,127 passing yards, 53 passing touchdowns, 986 rushing yards and 12 rushing scores. Rising went 20-8 as a starting quarterback, fifth all-time in career wins at Utah.
Beavs add Dez White a 6’2″ guard fro Missouri State who averaged 14 PPG last year. His FR year at Austin Peay, he hit 63 3 pointers. He actually sounds like a pretty talented kid and I will be a junior which means he will be a 1 and done at OSU. It sounds like Tinks is putting together a decent roster again so……
Sounds like Iowa has 3 solid pitchers, two of which are lefties, throwing at the Beavs and two of them are undefeated. Lefties can be very rough and nasty but we have lots of right handed batters that swing for the fences. If those lefties throw junk at the beavers hitters, the Beavs are in for a long a weekend
Most Pac-12 legacy schools leaned hard on campuses to bail athletics out of settlement, growing expenses
But in that fraught final year — with 10 schools preparing to join other leagues and Washington State and Oregon State fighting for survival — all but one athletic department relied heavily on school support.
That support typically takes two forms: 1) direct transfers from central campus; and 2) student fees that are allocated to athletics. In each case, the support is booked as revenue in accordance with the NCAA’s financial reporting rules.
The reasons vary. But clearly, the demise of the conference played a significant role on several fronts:
— The 10 departing schools had $65 million withheld from the conference based on the terms of the negotiated settlement with WSU and OSU.
— Conference distributions were also lower as a result of the Comcast overpayment fiasco that was discovered in 2022. To recoup what it was owed, the company withheld $72 million over the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years.
— Many of the former Pac-12 schools increased their budgets to either build the infrastructure needed for their new conference’s media platforms (e.g., the Big Ten Network) or to increase resources for their sports programs to meet competitive benchmarks in the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC.
The subsidization of athletic departments by central campus is not universally condemned within the college sports space. The process is considered an investment in brand-building, for few facets of campus receive as much media exposure nationwide as the sports teams.
“Oregon State booked $120.3 million in revenue against $112.9 million in expenses for a surplus of $7.4 million. The revenue total includes $11.2 million in campus support. The Beavers recorded $19 million in conference distributions unrelated to media rights or the postseason, reflecting a portion of the cash secured in the settlement agreement with the 10 departed schools. (Washington State reported a similar amount.) OSU’s spending on football was essentially flat year-over-year.
— Washington State booked $89.5 million in revenue against $89.1 million in expenses for a surplus of $400,000. The revenue total includes $6.6 million in campus support. The Cougars were the only Pac-12 legacy school to spend less in FY2024 than the previous year, with the football program’s operating budget dropping 20 percent, from $25.3 million to $20.3 million. Of note: The Cougars spent $6 million less on football than Oregon State did during the first year of the transition phase to the new Pac-12.”
This article originally appeared on Pac-12 Hotline.
— Jon Wilner: jwilner@bayareanewsgroup.com. Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
I’m curious if this actually did any damage to these institutions or if it’s all just being justified as marketing expense. The only way any lessons will be learned will be if someone feels the pain.
https://x.com/pablofindsout/status/1920802680705831163
Sources tell
@PabloTorre
that Bill Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, is now banned from UNC’s football facility.
One Belichick family source adds: “There is deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.”
“University of North Carolina again had to address coach Bill Belichick’s relationship with his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, on Friday after a new report stated Hudson had been banned from the Tar Heels’ football facility.
“While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Football facilities,” the school said in a statement issued to reporters. “Jordon will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina Football and the University.”
What you aren’t certain that it is true love? He’s an octogenarian and she is in a locker room full of peak physical condition D1 athletes all about 10 years younger than her so why could possibly go wrong? I sure she will set an example as the typical coaches wife/mother figure.
At least NC thought this all through.
Luck ‘o the Beavs??
t8 begins tied at 6, ends with Beavs up 9-6, scoring 3 runs on one very questionable 3RBI single and the third error on a hawkeye pitcher. Free bases go in favor of the Beavs this time!
I’m surprised we are that high after the oregon sweep. It seems we’re benefitting quite a bit from playing so many neutral site games at the expense of actual home games.
At 13, we have at 3 times as many neutral site games as any other team toward the upper end of the rankings other than Texas/Auburn which still only have 6.
Road games also impacting RPI
Did y’all hear Josh describe the trip to Iowa? Seems the team gathered at 0300 Thursday am and the bus never showed up to take them to PDX for their commercial flight to Des Moines. So, coaches carpool it was!
Whitney gives up a single and then a double that Macias in LF made a good play on but couldn’t keep the line drive in his glove and Whitney Ks the next guy to get out of the inning. T5 4-0.
Macias robbed of at least a double on a great play by the 1st baseman to take away extra bases. Talt must be 0 and forever in his last 30+ at bats. B6 4-0 beavs
Whitney gets out of a jam after walking back to back hitters but does give up an rbi single to plate a run. 4-1 Beavs t7 and Whitney has 11 Ks at around 82 pitches.
Beavs loaded the bases with no outs with back to back HBP followed by a walk but Weber grounds into a DP and the Beavs scored 1. B7 5-1 Beavs but the Beavs could have really put it out of reach had they taken advantage of the walks. Keljo in to replace Whitney.
Beavs get a couple of hits including leadoff double by Macias but he’s thrown out at third trying to advance on a weak grounded to the pitcher.. 5-1 b9.
Well, it got a little crazy in the b9 as one out and nobody on and a routine pop fly to Kreig and he drops it. Keljo then gives up a hot and a walk with runners at 2nd and 3rd and the gets btob Ks for the win 5-1. I think Beavs pitchers struck out 18 batters.
No team had as much offensive production hit the portal, especially at running back. A potential starter and at minimum a valuable piece of the puzzle for the Sooners, Ott ran for a combined 2,212 yards in his first two years before dipping to 385 yards in 2024. Counting the winter portal, Ott is one of five backs to leave the program; coach Justin Wilcox added three in return, including former North Carolina State backup Kendrick Raphael. Another huge loss this spring was tight end Jack Endries, who transferred to Texas after pulling down a team-high 56 catches last season.”
Lineups posted, Iowa has 5 swinging from the left side vs Beavs none. Both squads facing LH pitchers to start.
Iowa starter is their most used reliever, 3:1 k:bb ratio.
Arquette stays at leadoff, peterson dh, Caraway batting ninth.
I don’t know that we can truly call Arquette an OSU guy, but he’s getting some buzz as a possible #1 overall pick in the upcoming draft. Would be pretty amazing to have 3 #1 picks in a 7 year span come out of the Beavs program.
“Aiva Arquette is squarely in the 1-1 conversation. Now hitting .350 with 17 HRs and 69 RBIs after he punished this hanging SL. Ceiling is immense, advanced athlete who has played well at SS this spring. Bat speed is there, plus power… enticing profile.”
Caraway thrown out on a base running error with our best player and home run threat at the plate! Tell me what he is doing good at this stage?? He can’t hit and gets errors in the field… Why is he still playing?
So he gives up a double and now ur going to give him the hook? Sheesh, like I just posted, should have hooked him before the guy hit it off the wall. I wouldn’t let Mundt near the mound this season. He can’t throw strikes or get outs.
Kiss ur sis?
Tie’s better than a loss for sure……RPI gonna stay in top ten?
Overall I’d say the Iowa pitching staff was a big part of this series. Came in highly rated (vs weak B1G conference) and did practically all they could to give W’s to the Beavs. Even in the tie today they gave more free bases than k’s. Add to that fielding errors aplenty by their staff.
They did 4 hit the Beavs today and only gave up 20 hits in the series…….but a lot of that is on the Beavs bats.
#6 Georgia drops 2 today, #9 Clemson gets 2 L’s this weekend. #2 and #7 got beat yesterday. #1 Texas on the way to a loss today.
Lookin’ good for Beavs to remain in D1’s top 10.
Do you think there’s any way the ducks and beavs could both host super regionals?
Our RPI says we should, but ducks is still pretty suspect. They’re getting dinged for playing so many home games, but also been finishing the season strong
It’s going to be another one of those postseasons where the weather is crappy in Texas and the other SEC home locations, while it’s perfect in the Pacific NW
The only reason I think Dorman pulled Queen was they plan to start him against Portland. If they start someone else and not Queen, then pulling him was even more questionable than I originally thought.
Yes he did after 4 Ks in two innings and one hit. It’s still a mystery to me bc Queen has been pretty much lights out his last few appearances. Like I said, he might have done it bc he intends to start him on Tuesday against Portland and Portland can be a dangerous team.
I didn’t realize Iowa WAS in first place in the Big10. That’s got to count for something. And how in the hell does a school with the resources of Ohio State have such a putrid baseball program?
Zero shot, 4 quad home wins will lower their RPI/SOS not increase it. Iowa being neutral vs road hurts because they take two from Oregon they’ll be top 60, but neutral needs to be top 40 for Q1. But if you want to play the game, Hawaii needs to win out and get in the top 60 RPI currently at 63, that adds 3 Q1 wins. Without a conference tournament we can’t help our resume, so any change of get top 8 would have to be a complete collapse of teams in the 5-8 range.
I think the SEC gets 6 of the top 8 and ACC get the other 2. LSU, Auburn, Vandy, Texas, Georgia and Arkansas from the SEC, NC and FSU from the ACC. I think 6 of the 8 are locks, with only Arkansas and Georgia as a question marks if they lose this weekend follow by first round exits from the SEC tournament. But if Arkansas losses to Tennessee, I think Tennessee would then jump us so… maybe Georgia but they’d have a top 3 RPI and a top 10 SOS, so I again I think we’d lose that comparison.
Oregon State needed to leave no doubt without a conference and going 0-4 against the Dux left plenty of doubt.
Please outline your top 8, because our RPI is great but only because of our unbalanced Home and Away schedule and we have no idea how the committee will treat ORST without a conference. I wish I looked through the word with orange colored glasses.
Remember when the schedule came out, there were some complaints that there were a lot less home games. And then everyone looked again and noted all the travel and how hard that would be.
If you don’t reward travel, half the SEC RPI breaks down.
SEC RPI is all built on 18-24 in-conference games (this year exclude Mizzu, SC and home games against UK, MSST and A&M) and not losing easy non conference games. Dux don’t have the in-conference schedule to get the top 10 RPI with that unbalanced of a schedule.
We found the RPI loop hole, and no one knows how the committee will react to it. If Hawaii sneaks into the top 60, weight of Hawaii and UCI will be the same in the RPI based on location.
These comments are laughable through the entire game. Why is anyone shocked or all of a sudden concerned that Dorman doesn’t handle the staff well? This has been the case for 5 years. Why are you frustrated that the bats are silent against lefties with good off speed stuff? We’ve seen that for several years. Why the angst over needing to win every game as a guarantee to maintain some slim chance at a top 8 national seed? I thought you said it isn’t realistic to expect to win every game. If they had won the games that were blown by bad baseball earlier in the season, they would be fine. But now it is “Just win”? Why wasn’t it “just win” in March or April? Instead it was, “…hey, that’s baseball, you can’t win them all…”
The tie in baseball is something you never see, so I guess “that’s baseball”? Your ‘that’s baseball” nonsense was the crutch to excuse bad baseball mid-season , as well as obvious flaws in this team, and now you are saying this team needs to win every game. Well news flash, this team isn’t that good and the coaching isn’t that good, and the roster is undisciplined, and the coaching philosophy isn’t going to work at this level of baseball. Prepare to not host beyond a regional, and bow out either in an upset at Goss or at an SEC stadium for the super regionals again. Mitch is going to kill this program, and Dorman needs to be fired.
Don’t even lose sleep over the idea of NikeU hosting. Of course they will host, and it will be the Big10 story of the year how “another great midwest team gained enough respect to get a top 8 seed in this field of tremendously talented SEC teams”. OSU will get respect in polls, but will be screwed by any ESPN driven committee.
Thank you. All the #s nonsense, evaluations, what ifs about other teams, discrimination against an independent team, Dorman’ questionable decisions, what is Canham saying?, distill, for me, a sense of “meh.”
What’s the best case scenario, in terms of numbers, regarding B1G endings?
Nikegon takes two of three, and UCLA wins out? That would give UCLA the easiest path in their tourney, with Iowa in second. The numbers seem to favor our losses to the ducks more than our wins over others do. I guess “quality losses” is a thing.
Seems like we want oregon to keep winning as much as we hate to see it.
If Beavs win out, we should be in top 10 in the polls and RPI. But with no Pac12 tournament after we’ll likely lose ground after this week unless the top 10 teams have terrible showings in their conference tourney games.
I don’t think they get dinged for a game away. And we get Iowa one quality win, to go with their quality tie.
I’m assuming UCLA clears the other side of the bracket in my scenario. That would be good for us. What I can’t really tell is who we want to emerge from the 2 side, in terms of winning. It’ll be a neutral site?
Beavs on the bubble for a top 8 seed. Seems strange but it’s true. Beavs did what they needed to do in scheduling and game the RPI system. While most of us know the Beavs have some very serious underlying issues, the committee doesn’t look that close.
Will the committee give the Beavs more credit for having the majority of their schedule on the road? Their road record is better or comparable to all in the top 16 RPI rankings. Probably won’t give that much weight to the neutral site games.
As noted before, it does help if Oregon wins out giving the west at least 3 host sites (with UCLA). Doubt UC Irvine sneaks in as a host, even if they win out.
One note, the committee might use the KPI metric more this year. This ranks wins and losses vs expectation. No idea how the calculation works basically, how bad was that loss and how good was that win. Beavs worst loss, vs Minn. Best win vs UCLA. Losses to Oregon were near net neutral. Beavs rank 14 in those rankings which is closer to what we see with our eyes.
So I think Beavs split the difference. 10-12 seed based on all the metrics plus teams rising and falling from conf tourneys.
As far as the Dorman issue is concerned, he interacts with his pitchers virtually every day. He sees them throwing batting practice, talks to them about how their arm is doing and most likely asks how their studies are going among other issues. Therefore, he has inside information about what’s going on between their ears and sees their performance in practice as well as on the field. Unfortunately, we as fans only see them maybe pitch once a week or maybe twice. So even though I might question some of Dorman’s moves, I think he is in a much better position than any of us as far as decision making is concerned.
It’s always easier from the outside looking in to judge someone else’s decisions. We only get a brief snapshot of the pitchers performance whereas Dorman lives it and breathes it on a daily basis…Does he make mistakes? I’m sure he will admit he does, but he has made many more correct decisions than incorrect ones. After all, the beavers are 37-12-1 so that’s a pretty good indication he’s doing a lot more right than wrong.
There’s always much more going on behind the scenes than we.will ever know or see bc we have a very limited viewpoint and he doesn’t.
I guess we’ll never know although I’d like to think that Dorman knows how to handle his pitching staff better than I think I can or any of us for that matter. That’s not a knock on anyone just pretty much a fact.
For sure. Dorman is all in on spin rates and analytics to increase velocity. He isn’t interested in having his pitcher control the zone, the art of pitching to spots, keeping a hitter off balance and changing speeds etc. I’d say the lack of concern over hbp, walks and no bullpen depth is proof enough.
In case Esucks wants to conjecture otherwise, we already have seen Dorman fixate on velocity every off season, and geek out about how his staff has the most plus 95 mph guys blah blah. He isn’t interested in recruiting anyone remotely like a Maddux or Glavine and it is folly. Dorman is under the impression that if they already throw hard, it means a lot of strikeouts against inferior hitting talent. His problem is the last part of the equation is missing- throwing hard in the actual strike-zone. Nolan Ryan, and Tom Seaver don’t come along every year but Dorman is coaching like he has the 1968 Mets pitching staff, but he is delusional at that point.
Lucy is teeing it up for you again, Chuck.
If you actually think they get a top 8 seed, you are crazy. Not only do they not play like a top 8 seed, they don’t have enough separation from a multitude of SEC teams to get the nod over even one of them. Beavs are competing against a couple of ACC teams or a notorious Big10 team for the 8th spot and that seems generous. Prepare yourself. I think they lost the top 8 on the Nebraska trip and didn’t do anything to redeem themselves by sleepwalking through the series in Eugene. No shot at a top 8.
Like I said, this is all projections by a fairly reputable site so we shall see. Is all the Beavs need to do is win out and let the chips fall where will.
“I think they lost the top 8 on the Nebraska trip and didn’t do anything to redeem themselves by sleepwalking through the series in Eugene.”
So very true.
Google On3 sports and it will take you to Wikipedia that provides a history of the site, provides an overview of their reliability and references their accuracy in recruiting projections in CFB and projection services.
As I stated more than once, their current projections are just that…projections.
D1 didn’t have current CBB tourney projections available, or I would have referenced their projections. As far as I could tell, On3 was the only site that had current projections.
How reliable they are compared to D1 or other CBB baseball services is anyone’s guess. I’d certainly consider D1 a better source if they had projections available but that’s based on name recognition only rather than quantifiable metrics.
Either way, the Beavs have played 65% of their games away from Goss, have a solid RPI, good SOS, a national reputation as a blue blood, 10 and 12 game winning streaks as well as a projected top 5 pick in this MLB draft and those things certainly won’t hurt the Beavs chances when the committee makes their selections.
Will those factors be enough to get a top 8 seed along with a 42-12 record if the beavers win out? We shall see but to suggest they won’t is being somewhat presumptuous bc none of us are on the selection committee and there’s always going to be some subjectivity or bias for or against as we’ve seen in prior years.
D1 had us at 14 behind the Dux at 13 last week. Fringe host, not national seed. Baseball America had us in a similar spot. Projections come out tomorrow, guess we move up 1/2 spots ahead of Clemson and Tennessee.
RPI is the only metric that has us in the top 8, because it heavily weighs away and neutral site games.
I had no idea college kids were gambling on sports so much:
“Following sports betting’s legalization in 2018, 67% of all college students are betting on games, according to a 2023 study from the National Council on Problem Gambling. Gambling experts believe that number is likely even higher now, thanks to the prevalence of apps and a growing market that has captivated more young people. It’s a craze that has swept college campuses, and for some young people, it leads to complex, debilitating addictions. The problem, addiction experts say, is widely misunderstood.
Listened to the D1 podcast on the field of 64.
According to the nerds: Beavs would probably be a solid 8 seed if not for the Oregon series. Unfortunately no one can look past the Beavs going 0-4 against Oregon. They think it confirms the Beavs RPI is being inflated by away game wins against average teams.
Summary:
Seeds 1-7 (Florida State and 6 SEC teams)
Seed 8 (UNC or Oregon in that order)
Seed 10, 11, 12 (UCLA or Coastal Carolina or Oregon State)
Based the conversation, I’d give the Beavs about a 5% chance to be a top 8 seed. Their RPI is keeping them in the conversation. Would probably need UNC, Oregon, and UNC to end on a skid.
I’m guessing if Oregon sweeps Iowa and wins the BIG, they’ll get a top 8 seed in order to add a west coast team. Aside from that it’s probably UNC due to Oregon’s RPI being in the twenties.
Interestingly there was some additional conversation by the D1 baseball staff that implied the system is a bit broken. SEC teams get tons credit due to RPI and strength of schedule but with these super conferences now, more focus needs to be on who you actually beat.
Unfortunately the selection committee will probably use that logic to dock OSU because the Oregon debacle but will move away from that logic and give average SEC teams a bump in the brackets because of their RPI and being in the SEC.
Haven’t had time to listen yet, but I think you are crossing Oregon and UCLA, UCLA is their 9 seed and has a 1 game lead over Oregon in B1G, if Oregon wins the weekend series again Iowa and UCLA sweeps Northwestern at home UCLA wins B1G.
Yah UNC, Oregon and UCLA all seemed pretty interchangeable in the conversation they were having.
I personally don’t think either UCLA or Oregon has a realistic shot at the 8 seed unless they win the BIG. For whatever reason D1 guys talked about Oregon winning the BIG if they swept Iowa, but you’re right, they’d need UCLA to drop a couple.
For those that want to hold on to hope, the only path to a top 8 is a lazy committee that goes straight RPI and given four quad 4 games left on the schedule a top 8 RPI is a guarantee even if we win out.
Agree, very little chance of remaining top 8 in RPI unless there’s some disruption below us.
And the baseball site rankings are already around #10 or worse in most cases.
I hope the Beavs take advantage of the new Hillsboro Hops ballpark in the coming years to put some more quality neutral site games on the schedule. Could be a potential way to draw quality opponents to the PNW and still have the feel of a home game.
Supposed to have a seating capacity of around 6k and should be complete in 2026
Even if it isn’t that high quality of an opponent, it helps and why are RPI is so good this year. Example: beating Washington in Hillsboro is a Q2 win, it would have been a Q3 at Home.
3-3 as Kmatz gives up a 2 run lead. Kmatz out and Edwards in. Lose this game and you leave no doubt or question about the potential of a national seed.
From Freeman: “Canham stopped himself mid-sentence from saying his team didn’t play well, but it was clear he left Goss longing for more from a group that found itself in a dogfight with the Pilots (21-27) well into the late innings Tuesday night.”
“stopped himself”….and that’s the problem right there, Miiiitch won’t call these guys out for poor play. Gotta hope he is more firm in private, but I kinda doubt it, we were spoiled by a straight shooter like Casey.
Freeman called it a “sluggish” win, he’s not wrong. He does point out the decent performances of DeCremer and Palmer which, IMHO, will really be needed over the next few weeks. Also mentions that Singer and Arquette produced more than half of the hits last night. That’s a big concern for sure.
Come on, lol. You think Mitch is Mike Riley? Guaranteed they didn’t go have an ice cream social after this one. Likely they are getting ass chewings daily from coaches and other players.
I like coaches who don’t say shit publicly. As a player Marshawn Lynch was the absolute best at it. I don’t blame them I wouldn’t be putting my team on blast publicly.
“I wouldn’t be putting my team on blast publicly.”
There are different ways of calling out slipshod performance. It’s not necessary to “blast” an individual by name, but calling out specific lapses lets everyone know what’s not acceptable and the offenders will understand exactly who is at fault.
Saying your team didn’t play well (as Mitch wouldn’t do) is hardly “blasting” anyone.
You’re right, there was no ice cream after that “win”, but I think Mitch needs more of Casey’s “I’m not friends with players till they graduate” approach.
Mention of Mike Riley got me thinking, yeah, I do think Mitch is closer to Mike than to Pat in the “hate to lose more than like to win” category.
The one thing I can point to during the season is we were going through a difficult stretch on the road, then came home and got spanked by Irvine. This is similar to that. But the team somehow got right and ran off 12 straight.
Maybe being in their own beds and having a week off helps get them right for another run.
OOB, I know what you mean but that is not Mitch’s style and I don’t find it effective to be the angry coach anyway. Kids are different these days. I do wish he would bench folks sometimes for accountability sake. I think has very professional style which I appreciate.
Jack good point about the fatigue. Baseball is a dang grind and that’s a hell of a stretch of ball to play. Especially that many on the road.
I remember Casey’s teams always having a midseason slump too. Then they turned it on come CWS time. Mitch’s teams are very similar.
Apparently, Uncle Phillip is no longer interested in making a bid for the blazers. I’m not a fan of Phillip but local ownership is important do the blazers remain on Portland..
He offered $2b three years ago. I guess he was hoping for a discount with an open offer. But their valuation is about $3.5b now. He has enough to be a minority partner, but I don’t think he’s the type to take a back seat.
Seems Jody made the right move. Honestly, I am glad to move on from her. Just hope that whoever buys it is different from Stanton who owns the Mariners. Knowing Jody she’ll sell it to some Saudi Prince, which honestly might not be a bad thing, a lot of them are very passionate about sports.
I agree about Paul’s sister selling but I don’t think I’d take $$$ from a country that is ruled by one of, if not the most despicable governments on the planet for human rights violations not to mention 16 of 19 terrorists responsible for 9/11. I don’t let go of grudges especially the 9/11 attack….
Too many qualified domestic buyers will make bids, so League ownership wouldn’t even try to justify foreign money.
Then again, who the hell knows what the NBA ownership won’t do? If Corvallis can tell China to stick it where the sun don’t shine, certainly a bunch of wealthy crust can one up them.
It’s a great investment. If Jensen Huang isn’t going to bankroll the Beavs, it would be a nice consolation for me if he purchased the Blazers.
No idea if he was a Blazer fan at all during his Aloha HS years, but those would have been some good years to be following them.
Was reading he graduate from Aloha in 1981, at the age of 16 after skipping 2 grades, because of course he did.
His infamous Denny’s job started in 1978, so he would have likely been here when Blazermania was at it’s peak, until Walton’s foot gave out
Nope, that change is to stop teams like ASU or Boise St from benefitting from a bye ahead of Ohio St or Texas. They realized that the set-up they had wasn’t fool-proof to build in additional advantages for Big10 and SEC teams, so they did some math and figured out that there are 4 byes and only 2 conference champs between SEC and Big10. This change makes it possible to easily relegate the perceived lesser conference champs behind the 2nd place teams from SEC and Big10. Until they add more teams, I figure the top four teams getting byes will only be from the SEC or Big10, ensuring a better chance that they get to or win the championship.
The more games, more money is coming in the next version, but this is strictly a foil to any future Pac12, ACC, Big12 champs. They will not be allowed another advantage like ASU and BSU had last year. Unfortunately, ASU had their win stolen from them in real time.
So much talk across Beaver sites about whether or not we’ll be a top 8 national seed. Does anyone else think we’re putting the cart before the horse here? I’m not supremely confident this team even makes it to the Super Regionals with how inconsistent they can be.
Just keep winning is all I can say. It’s a whole new season after this week.
Yup, just keep winning; that’s the only thing Beavs can control………NCAA, Ranking sites, ESPN, news media all gonna do what they do and aren’t looking out for OSU.
So, just keep winning.
LBS did split a two game series with UCLA losing 12-1 and winning 4-2. They have two pitchers in the top 14 ERA for their conference so I fully expect the next two games to be just as tight as today’s game.
At 1:31 you can see that 1-4-3 DP which Oaks used to close out the t7. Good move by the ump and, especially, Singer. In two starts at first, no complaints about Peterson’s D.
A couple of swings and missed pitches by beav batters were announced as 85 mph. Apparently they can’t hit slow pitches. There were at least 4 almost homers which became cans of corn. Always swinging for home runs can be in vain. Understated Canon Reeder doesn’t get enough kudos.
The OSU offense is hitting just .220 and averaging 5.3 runs in nine games this month. … With the exception of a late-game blunder that led to a tie against Iowa, the Beavers’ bullpen has been exceptional in May. Oregon State relievers are 3-0 with a 2.45 ERA, 1.07 WHIP in 40 1/3 innings this month, during which they’ve recorded 34 strikeouts and allowed 32 hits. … A win tonight would give the Beavers 40 for the season, marking the fourth consecutive year they’ve won 40 or more. … OSU is 15-2 at home this season. … Oregon State junior outfielder Easton Talt went 0 for 3 in Thursday’s series opener, extending his hitless streak to 14 games. He’s 0 for 34 during the slump. Talt did draw one walk, however, giving him 60 this season
Talt may be coming out of his slump just in time.
How about Caraway not sliding into home? He shoulda been called safe but gotta think Casey is shaking his head. A slide would have removed all doubt and meant another run.
Still, 8-0 Beavs with 2 down in the t4.
Even an 8 run lead in the 7th inning might not be enough. Pitching is the glaring weakness for this team, which will need to improve for this team to win a regional.
#10 Georgia losses at home
#6 Auburn drops another to Ole Miss
Doesn’t hurt to have Auburn slipping, even if it is on the road.
Iowa gonna fool around and give nike the B1G title unless they recover tomorrow.
Just listened to a podcast about the PAC12 expansion and it indicated the mwc teams have until may 30th to officially notify the conference of their intent to leave the Mwc and issue payment of $5M as a DP of their exit fee.
The mediation hearing is scheduled for May 19th so hopefully that will trigger whether or not any other mwc teams decides to leave. Of course this depends on the final agreement for exit and poaching fees.
At issue is whether the Mwc will get the needed money from the mediation to be able to pay UNLV and AF money promised to the to stay. Given the clock is ticking, we should have an ideas before May 30 if the 8th team will be a team from the Mwc.
There is no issue about UNLV and AFA getting their money. The exit fees total $85m. The poaching fees will not be collected, so they are moot.
The May 30 deadline is for paying the $16.5m exit fee, as opposed to double that, if the deadline is missed. And the fee for notice is a $5k money transfer, not $5m.
Weber is a 3-bagger away from the cycle in the third inning…11-0 beavers as I think they are really trying to make a strong case for a top 8 seed to finish the month of May 9-1-1.
OK, we’ve got some time until “the committee” announces the Regional/Super decisions; how about some glass half full analysis here.
What developments over the last few weeks make y’all think the Beavs will make it to Omaha?
Well, I think think starting pitching has been solid, the defense has been solid and some guys appear to be breaking out of their slump.
A recent item about Talt’s adjustments to hit to the opposite field given pitchers are throwing on the corners instead of inside to him might finally be paying off. He is making better contact and fod hit an opposite field HR today.
Caraway seems to be slowly coming out of his slump along with Macias showing signs too.
Weber had been an absolute nightmare for pitchers for the last few weeks.
Arquette has been good all year long and guys like Singer, McIntire, Reeder (really hitting the ball lately) while Turley has been consistent at the plate too.
All said, the offense might be breaking out of it at the right time.
Caraway has been better at third over the past few games and overall defense in the infield and outfield are making plays.
I think Weber has also stepped up in a leadership role that was needed. on and off the field.
This team certainly has the potential to make Omaha but the biggest issue facing them is inconsistent pitching out of the pen. Good news is they get some time off to tighten things up before regionals and given all of their recent travel,that could help going into playoffs.
Like I said, they certainly have the potential to make it but they just need to put it altogether now. Will they do that, I guess we will see bc the quality of opponents will be much stronger than we’ve seen the last two weeks.
I don’t know who it was that said “that’s baseball.” But the reality is the difference between an RBI line drive double and a line drive diving catch by the SS then doubling off the runner is often half an inch. The win in 2018 wouldnt have been a win without a fluke drop by Arkansas. This isn’t to excuse shortcomings with Mitch or Dorman but I’ve always said and I still maintain, get to the postseason, host a regional or hopefully a super and give yourself a chance. I don’t really think this team has what it takes to win it all but I don’t think you can count them out either cause it’s baseball.
Yep, that’s what I’ve been saying…..it’s baseball so expected the unexpected. A game and a season can turn on a dime just like Arky as you pointed out.
Never made a Omaha without hosting a super, so the biggest positive would be Hawaii and Xavier now being q1 wins and having 10 q1 wins helping our case for national seed, and we stayed at 6 RPI, negative from this week would be oregon’s case got stronger with an RPI of 12, 4-0 against OSU, higher SOS, 9-1 versus q1 and a share of the conference title
You understand that only thing keeping ORST RPI in the top 10 is our heavy road schedule, if you invert our schedule, we’d have 3 q1 wins and an RPI in the 30s.
While true, their pitchers will not be as well rested as the Beavs and the Beavs will have intra squad games to keep pitchers and the team ready.
If was Dorman, of have his pitchers throwing beaver hitters a steady diet of off speed breaking pitches in these practice games.
I actually think it’s an advantage for the beavers going into post season bc they can work out some bugs but still get the work in without pressure of playing in a conference tourney. Once you hit the playoffs, you need fresh arms and the beavers will have those.
Segura, Keljo, Whitney, Kleinschmit and Queen have been very good so hopefully the bullpen can pick up the slack going into regionals.
Here’s your chance May 23-25 when the Beavers are off on a baseball bye weekend.
Oregon State will be scrimmaging for approximately four-to-five innings all three days. And Beaver Nation, you are invited.
On Friday, the Beavers get underway at 5:30 p.m. Following the scrimmage, fans will be welcomed to the field to get autographs with the team. Once those are complete, fans are invited to stay and take a seat in the outfield at Goss Stadium for a special screening of The Sandlot.
OSU is back at it again Saturday with a 1 p.m. start. The Beavers will host a home run derby at Goss Stadium following the intrasquad exhibition. Participants and rules for the derby will be available closer to that Saturday.
The team will cap its weekend with another approximate four-to-five inning scrimmage at Goss with a 1 p.m. start.
I need help understanding how UGA has the #7 strength of schedule while OSU has an SOS of 39, but when you comlarw both teams’ Q1/2/3/4 numbers they’re actually very similar. In fact OSU has a much better Q2 resume than UGA.
Is SOS calculated at the beginning of the year and static?
UGA is in the SEC so they automatically have a high SOS. Also then no one questions another SEC team’s eventual super regional host site, and propagandized public perception wins championships for ESPNSEC.
Small School offers, but Yale offer suggests brains, Navy offer good character. Bray et al have a good record with tallish DBs and this guy is not likely done growing.
Baseball America says, “Even with a sparkling record and top 10 RPI, this pick comes with some hesitation. Oregon State simply hasn’t been tested the way it was in the Pac-12, and that leaves questions about how it will respond against postseason-caliber depth. That said, a 33rd-ranked strength of schedule isn’t a red flag—and the Beavers have been consistently dominant all year. Between that and their postseason pedigree, we’re sticking with the pick and projecting Oregon State to Omaha for the first time since its 2018 national title.”
“consistently dominant all year”?…..but there is that postseason pedigree. ummm, OK
USA Today, in a piece last Thursday, has the Beavs at #9. Hosting SacState, Mississippi and Arizona State.
The fact they’ve played so many games away from Goss has probably gained some attention and how difficult it is to win on the road. At the same time, I’ve repeatedly said their history and pedigree plays a factor in their perception as a great team at 41-12-1.
I don’t think they’ve been great this year but having 10 and 12 game winning streaks probably adds to that perception. I certainly think they have the potential to make a run but they have to demonstrate it on the field and put it all together.
So Mick Abel went for Philly today against Paul Skenes and Pittsburgh and Philly won.. Abel went 6 innings and struck out 9 to out duel Skenes and won 1-0 for his first win this season…
“Abel made his major league debut as the starting pitcher for the Phillies against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citizens Bank Park on May 18, 2025.[22] He threw six scoreless innings, and striking out nine batters with no walks. He tied Curt Simmons for the most strikeouts in an MLB debut by a Phillies pitcher since at least 1901.[23”
Monday morning: D1 has Beavs #9 hosting SacState, Okie State, and Northeastern. Down the road in Eugene it’s #8 ducks hosting.
Their top 25 has OSU #7, a couple spots behind nike.
Anyone surprised?
The only metric that OSU is beating the Dux is RPI and that’s because we’ve found a loop hole and played a ton of average teams on the road. If you invert our schedule, home and away and our RPI is in the 25-35 range. They have a better SOS, 9-1 versus Q1, conference title and smoked us head to head.
I missed AKB yesterday and just read about the guy today on OregonLivr. Looking at AKB post from yesterday it is the same guy so forgive the redumbnancy oversight.
“Three-star running back Braylon Toliver announced his commitment to the Beavers on Sunday. Toliver — hailing from Erie, Colorado — is the fourth commit in OSU’s class so far.
Toliver is listed at 5-11, 184 pounds. He also had offers from North Dakota State, Air Force, Army and Ball State. According to the social media post announcing his commitment, he will join the Beavers in January.
Listed as an athlete after having played both running back and safety in high school, Toliver is the No. 151 athlete in the country and No. 26 recruit in Colorado according to 247Sports’ rankings.”
Sounds small for RB or Safety? Surely not done growing though.
In the past he’d probably have more offers from bigger schools but with the transfer portal, programs don’t have to take kids like this anymore. He’ll probably need to RS a year and then work his way up. He’ll be poached after his sophomore year.
Freeman up with a short piece on Wilson Weber being named a semifinalist for the Buster Posey Award mentions this: “Weber has been a rock behind the plate, playing in 52 of the Beavers’ 54 games this season, including 49 starts. He’s committed just two errors, produced a fielding percentage of .996, and thrown out 15 would-be base stealers, anchoring a defense that ranks sixth in college baseball with a .982 fielding percentage.”
How about that, Beavs overall D sixth in the nation!
Cheering guide to conference tournaments this week
Hawaii – Broke into the top 60 in RPI to give the Beavs a winning quad 1 record. Needs to at least win the first game to stay there. Plays into UC Irvine
Cal Poly to make the conf final
UC Irvine to win the tourney
Maybe Nebraska? They sit just outside the top 60. Would push the quad 1 record to even but improves the SOS. Ducks are in their pool, so maybe a double bonus if they win their pool?
Indiana (had they not lost today)
UCLA to win the conf tourney
Virginia – Probably needs to reach the ACC finals to get them into the top 40.
Cheer against all teams ahead of these ones.
Even with the best outcomes, Beavs will only move up a spot but help the case for a top 8 seed as unlikely as that is.
Xavier is the other team that needs to win a game or two, they sit at 39.
Nebraska was the team that creeped back up that surprised me, sitting at 62 after winning yesterday.
We have a ton of games of the fringe of Q1 and could end up with an many as 11 Q1 wins (assuming Nebraska sneaks into the top 60), but as few as 3 if things break wrong. UCLA and Cal Poly are the only firm Q1. Road is top 60, so I don’t see a scenario either drops that far.
Home Q1 Top 25
UC Irvine Current RPI 24
Neutral Site Top 40
Xavier Current RPI 39
Road Top 60
UCLA Current RPI 15
Cal Poly Current RPI 41
Hawaii Current RPI 59
Nebraska Current RPI 62
OT: My youngest is going to be a Beaver. He’s going to be playing Rugby for the Beavs next fall. He turned down some D3 Football offers because he loves Corvallis. If you’ll indulge me, I may post a score or two. They play in the same conference as such hated rivals as the Huskies and Quacks.
Thank you. He plays fullback usually. Sometimes, other backline positions. There’s a solid chance he may get a small scholarship. They call it a “stipend,” I think. Beav recruiters came to his game last Saturday.
So, how’s everyone feel about the fact that the new Pac12 still doesn’t have a media rights deal (beyond the lame duck year next year) or an 8th full member that has a football program?
The lack of messaging around these two offseason goals from the league office can only mean bad things, right?
They are tied up in multiple lawsuits, just started multi-faceted mediation with the MW, still awaiting the final outcome and fallout from the House Settlement and P4 takeover of football governance/enforcement, probably the beginning of the football super-league incoming shortly.
It is such a cluster/shitshow, I’m not sure why people have had any expectation that it was going to be as easy as adding TXST/UNLV, Memphis, Tulane, collect $15m+ per school and everyone moves on happily ever after. There’s so much going on and and in flux at once, and every school has to try to see the forest for the trees based on which domino might fall next.
I don’t think there is a shortage of 8th football member options, or that there is much difference between any of them that would move the needle as far as media rights one way or another. Of course, we all want some combination of UNLV, TXST, Memphis, Tulane, USF, UConn etc, but at the same time the whole landscape is shifting and it may not make any sense for the new Pac-12 to be a Football league if all of a sudden there’s a football only super-league breakaway and only OSU/WSU/BSU/CSU/USU want to pay $ to play. If that’s what they see happening, it would make more sense to “merge” with the MW to form a regional Olympic-sports centered conference while those that have the $ to buy into the football super-league can do so.
I see the “lack of messaging” as a symptom of the larger disease, but don’t really see it as “no news must mean bad news”. They can’t really do any messaging or marketing if they don’t know what the outcome of the lawsuits and governance changes are going to be, because they don’t want to negatively impact their position in any of those negotiations or narrow their strategic options in navigating all the shifting pieces.
Lawyers will handle the lawsuits. They’re pretty standard. House isn’t standard, but we know what its stipulations are… if it’s accepted. So you’re correct about waiting on that to be finalized.
The Barnes interview with Daschel was interesting. The last time he broke radio silence like this was back in late August. And he talked like expansion would occur sometime in the spring. Two weeks later, we had a bunch of new schools.
My gut tells me it’s just going to be two schools from Texas. And the two that make sense are TXST and UNT… with DBU as a baseball affiliate.
Tenn beating Alabama tonight seems like a positive for the Beavs. Vols move up to #12 RPI while Bama drops to #11.
But who am I kidding, Beavs will get punished for no conference tournament and sitting idle this week
Has Oregon State baseball done enough to host through super regionals? A look at the Beavers’ resume
CORVALLIS — After polishing off another 40-win regular season with a dominant weekend sweep over Long Beach State, the Oregon State baseball team strolled away from Goss Stadium carrying a unanimous and unyielding belief:
They should be a top eight seed in the NCAA baseball tournament, which would deliver home-field advantage on the road to the College World Series.
“We still think we’re the best team in the nation,” OSU junior outfielder Easton Talt said. “And we still think we’re going to host a regional, host a super (regional), and then go to Omaha. We have all the confidence in the world of this team and we’re ready to go.”
But will the selection committee see things the same way?
While every other top 25 team in the country spends the week playing in conference tournaments that could bolster their postseason resumes, the independent Beavers will hunker down in Corvallis, grinding through a week of practices, scrimmages and workouts. Their postseason case has already been sealed.
Has Oregon State (41-12-1) done enough to land a top eight seed? It’s hardly a lock, but we’ll know for sure on Memorial Day, when the 64-team tournament field is announced.
Until then, here’s a look at the good and the bad of the Beavers’ postseason resume:
THE GOOD
The RPI and national rankings
The Beavers have consistently been ranked among the nation’s best in both the college baseball polls and the RPI, an important analytical measuring stick for determining postseason seeding.
Oregon State ended the regular season ranked inside the top 10 in all five major polls, including No. 7 on three ballots. Rankings don’t necessarily weigh heavily into the selection committee’s decision, but perception helps, and the Beavers are widely considered one of the top eight teams in the nation. More importantly, Oregon State also ended the season ranked No. 6 in the RPI, finishing above teams such as North Carolina, Alabama, LSU and Clemson. The Oregon Ducks, who ended the season as hot as any program in the country and swept the Beavers in April, are No. 12 in RPI heading into the Big Ten Conference tournament.
The schedule … and success
When Canham elected to go independent after the Pac-12 Conference imploded, he put an emphasis on playing extra road games and facing the best and most highly-rated competition he could find. It wasn’t easy.
Some conferences feature so many teams, they don’t have regular-season byes — and open weekends — on the schedule. Also, multiple programs, including more than one from the old Pac-12, snubbed Canham and his offer to continue their longtime series. In the end, the Beavers’ coach put together a relentless, road-heavy slate that not only challenged his team, but also prepared it for what lies ahead in the postseason. The Beavers’ nonconference strength of schedule ranked No. 34 in the nation — the highest among the top 10 in the RPI — and they traveled 23,465 miles during the regular season, playing 35 games on the road or at neutral-site venues.
By contrast, Oregon State played just 19 matchups at Goss, finishing as one of four teams in the top 50 of the RPI to play less than 20 home games this season.
And as they accumulated all those frequent flier miles, the Beavers succeeded. Oregon State is one of 18 teams nationally to reach the 40-win mark and they own the most road and neutral-site victories (24) in college baseball. The Beavers played 32 games against Quadrant 1 and 2 opponents, including 28 away from Goss, finishing 20-11-1 in those outings.
Star power
If talent is a tipping point, the Beavers are in good shape. Oregon State’s roster is littered with star power and depth, featuring multiple players in contention for some of college baseball’s most prestigious national awards, including the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy, Buster Posey Award and Brooks Wallace Player of the Year.
Shortstop Aiva Arquette is in the discussion to be the No. 1 overall selection of the 2025 MLB draft. Outfielder Gavin Turley became the Beavers’ Home Run King this season and is expected to be a high MLB draft selection. Saturday starter Dax Whitney is one of the top freshmen in the nation. Catcher Wilson Weber, who earned a national player of the week award this month, is one of the hottest players on the West Coast. Third baseman Trent Caraway has not had as prolific a season as expected, but he’s still considered a Day 2 prospect. And he’s not alone.
Oregon State opened the season with five players listed on MLB.com’s Top 100 draft prospects list and pitching coach Rich Dorman said he thinks the Beavers could have as many as eight pitchers selected in the 2026 draft.
Goss … and history
Location matters. And in this case, location — or at least venue — matters. Goss is widely considered one of the best places to watch a college baseball game. Just last year, in fact, fans ranked it one of the nation’s 16 best stadiums, according to NCAA.com. In addition to atmosphere, the stadium is no stranger to postseason games. The Beavers have hosted 12 regionals, including 10 since 2005, and seven super regionals over the years. They last hosted a super regional in 2022, falling to Auburn 4-3 in the deciding game.
THE BAD
Ducks disaster
The biggest — and most painful — black mark on the Beavers’ resume is a four-game April sweep against the Ducks. Oregon State’s rival tormented it during a three-game weekend series in Eugene, then dispatched it in a midweek matchup in Corvallis, stunning a red-hot team that owned the longest-active winning streak (12 games) in college baseball and had soared to No. 3 in the national polls.
outscored 28-9 in the four-game no-show, recovered in impressive fashion, closing the season with a 9-1-1 record. The solid finish included series victories against Hawaii and Iowa. But the damage had already been done, and that damage was potentially devastating to OSU’s hopes of landing a top eight seed.
The Ducks used the sweep as a late-season springboard, winning 14 of their last 15 games and surging to No. 4 in the national polls. If one of the final top eight seeds comes down to Oregon and Oregon State — and at least one national publication is predicting that it will — it’s hard to imagine that the selection committee wouldn’t reward the Ducks for their rivalry sweep.
SEC bias
The SEC’s grip on college baseball has tightened in recent seasons, as the powerhouse conference has used its considerable wealth to horde talent from the transfer portal, improve facilities and retain coaches. And the selection committee has enabled the stranglehold.
Over the last three seasons, 30 SEC teams have made the tournament field and 17 have been national seeds. A record 11 SEC teams — or 11.2% — made the field in 2024, including the top three seeds and five of the top seven. Whether this indicates an SEC bias or just represents a reflection of the conference’s depth and talent is in the eye of the beholder. But things aren’t likely to change anytime soon.
The SEC boasts the top five teams — and seven of the top nine — in the RPI and features six teams in top 10 of the national rankings. There are only so many host spots to go around and the SEC is seemingly in position to score an oversized number of them.
Not much help
While Canham loaded the schedule with road games and high-caliber opponents, some of the Beavers’ most high-profile victories have not aged well, as their opponents failed to live up expectations or limped to the regular season finish line.
Oregon State’s statement win over then-No. 2 Virginia in February doesn’t look quite as good in hindsight, considering the Cavaliers (32-15) have tumbled outside the top 25 and plummeted all the way to No. 56 in the RPI. Even worse, UC Irvine, which hovered near the top 10 most of the season, has fallen to No. 20 after suffering inexplicable series defeats at home to San Diego and Cal State Fullerton in May.
The Beavers series victory over the Anteaters in April was perhaps their most impressive of the season.
Add in disappointing defeats against Minnesota, Oklahoma and Nebraska, and the Beavers’ resume could take a back seat to others as the selection committee deliberates over the weekend.
The pundits aren’t picking them
Two major national college baseball publications — D1Baseball and Baseball America — are predicting that the Beavers will not land a top eight seed.
That’s a great article but I was wondering if OSU had played just 5 more home games, they’d likely have finished with a 46-7-1 record with a more balanced schedule of 30 away from Goss and 24 at home. That kind is record certainly would have guaranteed a top 8 seed.
Owning the most away and neutral sites wins of 24 should play some kind of factor into the final seedings as well the 32 games against Quadrant 1 and 2 opponents, including 28 away from Goss, finishing 20-11-1 in those outings.
We can only hope the ducks get quacked in the B10 tourney along with some SEC teams.
It’s being reported by SI that it is very likely CFB playoffs will expand to either a 14 or 16 team straight seeding format in 2026. I guess that means we will see more SEC teams in the playoffs. Lol
If we have been paying attention to the messaging coming out of President Murthy, she has consistently said that there will be no merger with the MWC and the ultimate goal is to rebuild the PAC into a viable conference with the hopes of regaining an autonomous 5 status.
In addition, she has also stated their priority is to the student athlete and that does not include lengthy travel in all sports. This suggests the plan is for a western region geographic footprint that will very likely include only schools in this region. Of course these X factor is the ongoing mediation with the MWC on exit and poaching fees as well as the Colorado, Colorado State and Boise State lawsuits against the MWC over exit fees for those schools. Should those exit fees be reduced and poaching fees dropped as part of the mediation, it would potentially open up the door for UNLV to join the PAC despite having signed an MOU with the MWC which is not technically a legal binding contract.
So there are several moving parts that need to play out before an 8th football member is added. If the mediation doesn’t go favorably for the PAC in terms of Mwc exit and poaching fees, it would be extremely hard to see UNLV leave the MWC and would most likely change the PAC’s desire to have just a western regional footprint and, consequently, the PAC could look to Texas State and maybe even UTSA as the 8th and 9th football programs to join. BTW, both schools have baseball programs that could help rebuild the PAC for baseball if the UNLV option is not available.
Bottom line is time is running short and most conferences require a one year advance notice to leave a conference…Given July 1, 2026, is the deadline for the PAC to meet the minimum 8 team requirement, I think we have until June 30, 2025, to announce the 8th school unless there are additional provisions by the other conference in terms of notifications. I think the MWC May 30, 2025, to make a $5K down payment with an official NOI to vacate the conference. I’m not sure what, if any such deadline exists for the AAC or the Sun Belt Conference.
If I was a gambling man, and I’m not, I would bet that UNLV is the most likely to join as the 8th member but again the X factor is mediation.
Probably need to clarify the comment on MOUs not being a legal contract as it depends on whether or not certain conditions are present in the MOU such as: 1) offer/consideration, 2) acceptance, 3) termination clause, and 4) authorized signatures by all parties.
Typically, an MOU is just an agreement to agree and doesn’t consist of binding performance criteria, however, we always had a saying on contract law, of it looked like a duck, quacked like a duck and waddled like a duck, it must be a duck. In other words, if it has all the appearance and legal requirements of a contact, it must be a contract whether it was call an MOU.
I don’t know the ins and outs of it, but what are the chances of getting Cal and Stanford back? Or would that be something further down the road depending on what happens to the ACC?
It depends on the outcome of mediation but Texas State would be a great addition although it’s a little outside of the West footprint but great for recruiting and TV market.
They’re a redundant market with TXST in. And TXST brings the Austin market with it, as well.
But that’s just the OTA market. The streaming market is dependent on alumni engagement. And the larger the school, the more likely a large population of alums will be watching.
UNT is almost 50k in enrollment, and they pump out a lot of professionals, especially medical and business types. Their alumni are active in all metro areas across the nation. They have a great hoops facility in a talent-rich region. And, since they don’t have a baseball team, we’ll just have to ask Dallas Baptist to be an affiliate.
From what I understand based just on alumni/ad staff rumor mills, the new Pac-12 (OSU/WSU primarily) don’t want sign on the dotted line with TXST until they’ve exhausted all options with UNLV. They want the regionality and the Vegas market. But, TXST is an easy (partial share) 9th football member add (helps a lot with scheduling) so long as they have UNLV locked up first.
To them (OSU/WSU admin), TXST expansion only make sense with further future eastern expansion with multiple travel partners that don’t overlap so bad with TV markets. UNT (alumni base) and Rice (academic prestige) are attractive, but again, only if the conf is ready to expand east in the future with UNLV locked up.
They see a stabilized re-born Pac-12 with OSU, WSU, BSU, CSU, FSU, SDSU, USU, UNLV, and Gonzaga, with a healthy new media rights deal through 2031 as being much more attractive and safe for the likes of Memphis, Tulane, USF, UCONN (football only) etc. to jump ship for (don’t think they are wrong there).
I’ve also heard that the situation internally with the MWC is not great. Long standing MWC members New Mexico and Wyoming feel particularly pissed at Gloria for selling out the entire conference to give a exorbitant amounts of $ to UNLV (and Air Force) to get them to stay. So, they are motivated to negotiate with Pac-12 and reach a resolution and the Pac-12 is trying to leverage that in the mediation process.
On the surface, UNLV is in a super leveraged win/win position, but that is contingent on all of the poaching fees holding up in court/mediation, because that’s where all the money that is promised to them is coming from. If the mediator tells the MWC “sorry, you’re not gonna be able to collect an additional $55+ million” on top of the exit fees, then they don’t have the $ to buy off UNLV/Air Force to stay, and their whole strategy falls apart.
OSU/WSU admin wants a resolution where MWC accepts a sizable (but downsized) payout to let go of UNLV (and probably Air Force to the American). UNLV still gets taken care of, but they’ll want an easy out if the B12 comes calling (could be a deal breaker).
So, it all hinges on how things get resolved with the mediation with the MWC.
I’ve heard North Texas as a potential candidate too but not as much as UTSA. Personally, I’m hoping that UNLV is the next one to join and that could also include Nevada but until the family breaks on mediation, it’s anybody’s guess.
I still go back to President Murthy’s statement about a western region based conference to minimize travel in all sports with the emphasis being on the student athlete.
If the mediation goes the wrong direction for the PAC ,the strategy for a western based conference will need to change, ie, Texas schools.
I’d still prefer Tulane or Rice to join with TxSt. Either would expand the market share, would act as a travel partner, and boost the academic prestige of the PACX. and They have baseball pedigrees that most of the PACX sorely lacks.
Well, according to President Murthy, they have set a priority for a regionally based conference and from what I’ve read, those teams are completely off the table. She has also repeatedly said the focus is the student athlete and that does not include lengthy travel for all sports.
As the expansion circus continues, the PAC may very well have to expand their reach but that won’t happen until after 2031 if it happens at all.
I’d never heard of Texas St. until these Pac 12 expansion talks began and I’ve still literally never come across a single reference to a Texas St. sports team or player show up in all of my sports viewing, ever. I’m not convinced this university and athletic department actually exists.
Please fuck no to “Texas St.”.
6-1 Nebraska t5 runner on 1st and nobody out. I wonder if the Schmucks lose this game if they will affect their potential #8 projected seeding? Grinsell is out as he got hit pretty hard and Schmucks defense 3 errors and Nebraska looks solid which could help the Beavs SOS
Doubt a loss today affects nike seeding, but GO Huskers. If Huskers could take the B1G tourney that should surely benefit Beavs. Even just one win after today should move Huskers into Quad 1.
I would think so too. Like I commented a few days ago, not playing in a tourney has some benefits especially testing your pitching staff bc once you get into regionals and potentially deeper, you need fresh arms. I guess we will find out on Monday about seeding, but if Schmucks lose, I agree the Beavs will jump them in the national seeds. The Schmucks played a heavy home schedule and the Beavs didn’t.
I’m not so sure a loss today means Beavs go ahead of ducks in national seeding.
Hearing the committee is likely to pay less attention to RPI than we’d like.
Can’t discount the phil phactor $
There is nothing to talk about, 15- 20 road games with a few neutral site is the norm. There home schedule isn’t unique in college baseball, look at ACC, BIG 12 and SEC teams. Beavs this year had to go on the road, but we always started the year on the road/neutral sites. We are the exception, not the ducks. We can hope we get credit for our heavy road schedule (helps RPI), but the dux won’t get hurt by heavy home schedule except it does hurt there RPI.
I’m probably being myopic here about the Beavs chances to pass up the Schmucks to get a top 8 seed bc of the 0-4 sweep by the turds down south but you never know.
Trying to remember how the 2nd round works.
Lets say a regional winning #1 seed OSU gets matched up with a regional winning #2 seed. Who gets to host?(assuming OSU isnt in the top 8)
Does OSU earn the right to host?
In more important news away from the games people play: OSU rowing coaches involved last month in a river rescue: “Their courageous efforts undoubtedly saved this person’s life and bring great credit to themselves and the OSU rowing team,” Corvallis Chief of Police Jason Harvey said Tuesday.
No indication of whether or not Cord Wood (now Chief in McMinnville) accompanied the Chief to the event.
If Xavier hangs on to the top 40 RPI we should end the season with 11-11 Q1 record given how the games have gone. DUX down to 18 in the RPI helps. Need NC to lose.
Per OregonLive, Taylor Young, one of Oregon’s top players, commits to OSU WBB. Last season she led Crater to their first state title defeating South Albany and scored 25 points. She transferred from South Medford to Crater. So Rueck has got another diamond in the rough that will excel in his system. She graduated in 2026 and will join OSU that summer.
The only argument is RPI, the other metrics driven rankings system (DSR, KPI) don’t treat us very well. I actually think Oregon dropping down to 18 in the RPI may eliminate them from the national seed conversation. Oregon State is better off getting compared to the other options for 6-8 seeds. You can justify Oregon state getting a higher seed than Oregon if the comparison is only Oregon vs ORST. 0-4 is just too big of obstacle to overcome if you’re being unbiased.
Given Oregon lost today, u think I agree that could hurt their chances to be #8 and opens the door for another SEC team.
However, OSU might still sneak in there depending on how teams in front of the do.
OSU SOS, most wins of any school in away games, draws big crowds (factor), solid RPI, projected top 5 player in the upcoming draft., pedigree, etc…..
I don’t think they’ll get a #8 but with Oregon losing today, that could be the justification the committee needs to give it to the Beavs.
Huskers use long ball to go up 6-3 late
FINAL 6-3
Guess we now root for UCLA over Neb tomorrow for B1G title?
Don’t ya just hate leaving the fate of the team to others?
Ughhh, Miiiiitch!……beat nike at home and just one more vs Neb and the Super question would be answered.
Arguments for OSU to be top 8 host:
Let’s compare total Q1/Q2 games, and (losses)
OSU 32 (11)
Arkansas 28 (12)
Auburn 34 (14)
Georgia 34 (12)
LSU 33 (12)
N Carolina 35 (10)
nike 14 (2)
Five top contenders there look a lot like OSU.
Only one stands out as significantly different! Really different!
So, is nike’s RPI elevated by avoiding playing Q1/Q2?
Honestly, the RPI looks about right for the regional hosts. Us at 7 and UCLA at 10 would make for a more compelling Super than shipping either off to the East Coast.
I like how the highest Conference ELO is Independents.
FWIW, D1 is out today with yet another projection of the field.* Beavs still listed as #9 but the possibility of a super vs nike in Eugene is out. Nike fell to #13 in their judgement.
Beavs opposite #8 Coastal Carolina.
I figure there is no shot for top 8 in the present circumstance.
ESPN is in the tank for as many SEC host sites as they can get away with.
Geography will supersede pedigree
Pedigree isn’t as strong after the 0-4 against NikeU.
Arquette as a top 5 pick has no bearing on the committee. Just as easy to hype an SEC kid.
Home/Away record as a major factor seems like wishful thinking. Overall records are an easy sell to justify bumping OSU for casual fans.
RPI is emphasized only when it benefits SEC teams.
Quad 1 wins may be the only legit argument that they can’t spin for OSU.
Based on the last several seasons, the Beavs will host a regional as 9, 10, 11 or 12 seed, and they will for sure be matched up to an SEC for a super regional if they advance. I’ll guess Arkansas, LSU or Vanderbilt without caring to research which might even deserve a top 8.
Lots to agree with there, ohio.
I too am expecting a seeding between 9 and 12.
Quad 1 wins and even lack of any losses in Q2-3-4 won’t likely offset the ESPN – SEC factor.
And Arkansas, Vandy, LSU are good bets IF the Beavs can advance; there is history with those three which makes for ESPN story line opportunities.
Baseball America has OSU as a 15 seed, and Clemson has the 8th. I have a hard time believing Coastal beat us head to head for 8/9, but easy to see an ACC team jumping us. The top 6 SEC teams have been a lock for weeks now.
That’s ridiculous given their RPI and their top 10 national ranking. I guess tomorrow we will see where things stand. I was hoping the Beavs and ducks would be lined up for a potential matchup but doesn’t appear that way..
If UCI, CC are in the Corvallis regional, that won’t be easy either.
If you read D1’s thoughts on UCLA getting the final hosting spot, they believe RPI was the deciding factor over teams like TCU and Georgia Tech, so they applied that logic to the 8/9 debate.
If true heavy weight RPI would help Beavs get a Top 8
Wow…well they get a huge break and need to take advantage of it. The Great Pumpkin is smiling on the Beavs this morning. I am pleasantly surprised for sure. I figured about 5% chance or less they get a top 8.
Go Beavs! Now focus up, and go win to get to Omaha!
Things broke their way for sure. FSU Wins the final weekend versus NC, or a deeper ACC tournament run and they are the 8. Hawaii, Xavier and Nebraska lose open round of conference tournament and we only have 5 q1 wins.
Don’t get me wrong I’m happy about it but, this wasn’t a lock, but that’s baseball
Time for duck fans to start whining about OSU getting #8 after Oregon swept the beavers. I guarantee if Oregon had the national pedigree that OSU has, they would have got #8 if they wouldn’t have lost to Nebraska in the B10 tourney.
Lucy overslept, gotta love it!
Now, which area of the game most concerns you?
Are the bats coming around at just the right time?
Is the bullpen for real?
How ’bout starting pitching?
Maybe the Miiiiitch factor?
Baserunning? Focus? Other?
They’re playing solid defense, even Caraway has played solid the last 2 weeks of the season, great starting pitching, guys are coming out of their batting slumps, WW has emerged as the leader of this team and they are playing about as good as you can this time of year.
Biggest concern is the bullpen so guys like Hutchison, Palmer, Oakes, et al, need to be more consistent.
If Beavs hitting continues to improve and starting pitching continues trending up, this team could get to Omaha. If that happens, anything is possible but can’t have major hiccups during the post season.
My biggest concern is for ESPeeInSux. He may need an ambulance after his extensive self congratulatory pats on the back, must have resulted in a dislocated shoulder, torn labrum or snapped collar bone. All worth it for the sake of a top 8 seed.
Ah, bless your little heart given your obsession with me. I really appreciate it. You were the one sounding like a broken record for all of the reasons why the beavers wouldn’t get a top 8 seed and you were WRONG and I wasn’t. I guess I read the selection committee room correctly and you didn’t do now you’ve got your panties all in a bunch.. You’re welcome Karen.
He seems to have conveniently forgotten about his mens basketball predictions.
On the contrary, we cant be upset about the gift the Beavs were given. I for one dont think they deserved a national seed. As im sure many others would agree.
The path to Omaha is easier playing at home obviously. Hopefully they dont fuck it up like they did a few years ago vs Auburn.
Basketball season is over in case you haven’t noticed or maybe you’ve been chewing on you whiskey soaked napkin too long to stay sober. Try to keep up with current events.
You should man up and tell the baseball team in person they were gifted the #8 seed and see how that works out for you. This team earned it by playing 35 games away from Goss, had 11 and 12 game winning streaks with virtually new position players all over the field and two new starters that were new and inexperienced at the D1 level. Your lack of appreciation and understanding of college baseball is very apparent.
Whole new season now. All of the sketchy relief pitching, offensive droughts, and games closer than they should have been in the regular season no longer matter. Just win when it matters baby.
You are correct. I think finishing the season strong in May at 9-1-1 was a good sign that they are ready for the post season. I’m hopeful they can win their regional but it’s baseball and anything can happen as Arky found out in 2018.
Post selection show the commentary slobbered all over the SEC and probably justifiably so, but under-estimating the beavers could be just what the beavers need. After all, they’re playing with a chip on their shoulder.
Whole new season? Were we in danger of not making it, that’s news to me? It’s amazing folks can be so negative. We just watched a team bounce out of a slump and in a big way. That tells me this team is resilient, and has that focus to step up. That’s the mindset that both players and fans benefit from. That’s the mindset that Casey’s teams had.
I don’t mind dropping games, it’s how you handle the high pressure games, which is where this team is gonna be excellent.
I don’t always agree with his takes, but he is spot on about the pitching, at least from the bullpen, as well as the offensive droughts resulting in closer games. That said, the playoffs are always the start of a new season and the good thing gir the beavers is, they have appeared to improve offensively and their starting pitching has been very, very good. Still, the only question mark is the bullpen, but I have confidence they will get it done in the post season.
College baseball tournament bracket winners and losers starts with SEC
The NCAA baseball tournament bracket is headlined by the SEC, which as a deserving reward for another dominant regular season was assigned half of this week’s regional host sites and placed 13 schools in the tournament’s 64-team field.
This is totally unsurprising: SEC teams rank No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 in the USA TODAY Sports baseball coaches poll entering the tournament while the league has 11 teams in the Top 25.
The league’s regional hosts includes Texas, which will look to rebound from an early exit from the SEC tournament, and Tennessee, the defending national champions. The eight hosts tie the tournament record from one conference previously set by the SEC in 2023 and the 13 teams set a new record.
Three ACC teams will play host for the regionals in North Carolina, Florida State and Clemson. Big Ten newcomers Oregon and UCLA are hosts, as are Coastal Carolina and Southern Mississippi from the Sun Belt and Oregon State, an independent.
Beginning with the SEC, here are the biggest winners and losers from the World Series bracket:
Winners
The SEC
The full list of hosts: No. 1 Vanderbilt, No. 2 Texas, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 4 Auburn, No. 6 LSU, No. 7 Georgia, No. 10 Mississippi and No. 14 Tennessee. Joining this group are Alabama, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Florida and Kentucky. As you can tell, there is simply no conference that’s close to the SEC. As in the NCAA softball tournament, the SEC has so many teams in the field, and so many near the top of the bracket, that the league is the undeniable favorite to bring home the national championship. Of course, the SEC has won the past five crowns and six of the past seven.
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Oregon State
Playing as an independent with the Pac-12 on hiatus, No. 8 Oregon State was able to corral a path toward hosting a super regional thanks in large part to a strong RPI ranking and a very challenging non-conference schedule that was mostly loaded with road games. This is a huge deal for the Beavers, who have gone 30-7 in regional games played at Goss Stadium. Coming out of the weekend against the group of TCU, Southern California and Saint Mary’s would put Oregon State on track to host its super regional. That the Beavers drew a top-eight seed has to be tough for rival Oregon to swallow after the Big Ten regular-season co-champions swept a four-game set in late April.”
LOSERS
The Big 12
Arizona State, Kansas State and Oklahoma State sneaked into the tournament as three of the last teams to be selected, joining TCU, Arizona, Kansas, Cincinnati and West Virginia to give the Big 12 eight teams in the bracket. That a good chunk of these teams just barely cracked the 64-team tournament helps show where the league stands in the national picture, however. None of the Big 12 teams will host a series this weekend. But keep an eye on Arizona in the regional hosted by Oregon; the Wildcats’ pitching heads into the tournament on fire, with starters allowing just one run in the past 22.1 innings.
The all session tix already sold out today.
On the day of each game, any remaining single game tix will also go on sale in the morning, but you’ll likely need to be very quick to snag any.
In my experience, you can usually find games on the Seatgeeks/Stubhubs of the world pretty easily, and sometimes the price can fluctuate dramatically in the hours leading up to the game. I usually drive down to Corvallis and just find a scalper on site if the prices dont drop. After the game starts the prices go down pretty quick.
Texas State’s name continues to pop up as the next addition to the PAC as the 8th member along with St Mary’s for basketball. They both have good baseball programs and basketball too. It sounds like once the mediation deal is finalized (expected by the first week of June), an announcement about the next member(s) will follow shortly after that along with the new media deal.
According to this report, no other MWC school has submitted intention to leave the conference so that could suggest that UNLV is off the table. Finally, it sounds like the PAC already knows who they’re going to add and official announcement is pending the final mediation..
Of course this could all be smoke and mirrors too but it does sound like things are moving toward a final outcome.
St. Mary’s has a solid MBB program and a good baseball programs. We need to rebuild the baseball conference too. While their basketball arena is small, they still add value bc their program has been solid for awhile Whether or not this happens remains to be seen.
Texas State adds value bc they are in Texas and that’s great for recruiting, they have strong boosters with $$$$ and they are investing in facilities. Plus, the cost to bring them in is not millions of $$$$. Given limited options in the West, TX State might be the most reasonable option especially due to deadlines are fast approaching.
I would prefer UNLV over TX State but that doesn’t sound like it’s going to happen although the mediation outcome could change that but deadlines are fast approaching for MWC schools to submit notices and a $5k down payment exit fee…..and nobody beyond the 5 schools jumping to the PAC has submitted paperwork.
St Mary’s made the NCAA tourney and are in the Corvallis regional so they were good enough to make the tourney. That’s better than not making the tourney I suppose.
Again, the emphasis is the options aren’t many for the PAC to expand and keep the priority focused on a regional conference with limited travel although TX State would be outside of that but the clock is ticking.
Making the tournament 1 time does not make a good program.
They don’t need St. Mary’s. Honestly, if you are just looking at the WCC for options they’d probably be the last school I’d invite.
But and this is important. Once you add Texas State no more “full members” are needed at all so giving St. Mary’s full membership makes no sense. You can’t just say they do. Where’s the value?
Pepperdine has more value easily if you’re looking for a 10th “full members”
And it’s not close. Pepperdine is the Stanford of non-football schools.
Hey, I’m just passing along what I’ve heard via podcasts so I’m trusting the decision makers know what they’re doing bc they’re in the strategy room.
While Pepperdine would be a better addition, it might take more money to get them than St Mary’s so there’s the money angle that probably a significant consideration. .
Listen to the link above that discussed the latest development based on their best guess…
The problem with adding TXST is their Olympic sports are on an island. That’s okay for one year. But it’s not sustainable for them or the rest of us.
So we would need another in the CST to partner with them. I would ask Wichita State to join. That avoids too many football speculative adds and provides a travel partner.
Optimally, I would want ten football and two Olympics only. That gives us a nine game slate in a round robin for football. Hoops should be 16 games, at least until the major conferences gaming the system go to 18.
Why 10 football? 9 game schedules are dumb. Never agreed with it even in the PAC 10 heyday. 9 football schools allows for a perfect schedule, 4 home conference, 4 away conference, 4 non-conference. I really don’t want more than 9 football schools. And don’t want more than 10 total schools.
9 football plus Gonzaga is perfect (18 game basketball schedule though). I don’t care what other conferences are doing.
And also don’t really think TX St is on on an island. Utah St and Colorado St provide a MST bridge. That said if you want another school in CST add a football one to give you 9 football schools. Take Rice or UTSA as the travel partner and call it good.
That works too. There just aren’t any non-football schools worth adding and I see no reason to go beyond 9 football schools. Unless you’re talking Memphis/Tulane which seems dead every other school beyond 8 is likely diminishing returns so I’d only go to 9 for a travel partner/8 game football schedule.
Stopping at 8 football schools, only because you have no choice, is probably the most valuable on a per school basis.
The 6 programs before Utah State are the value. Everyone else just exists to remain an FBS conference.
Tulane doesn’t add value. My 10-2 would then be an option for only Memphis.
All the Texas schools are speculative, at this point. But some are spending good amounts on their athletics, and a couple are just huge schools now getting a lot of Cali transplant students. UNT has the best facilities, overall. They’re a lot like us, in that they’ve taken a long time to build conservative facilities that will serve them well into the future.
And I really don’t know why Memphis would try and tie that anchor to themselves. They would be better off tying themselves to UTSA, and UTSA ain’t that great.
I think what is getting overlooked in this entire string is what President Murthy has repeatedly stated over the past several months, and that is the priority is on the SA.
That translates into a western regional footprint with minimal travel. So the idea of Memphis, Tulane and even schools in Texas might sound more appealing and higher profile, it doesn’t align with OSU or WSU to keep a regional footprint and minimize travel not just for the SA but bc of athletic budgets. So there’such.more involved in this decision than just higher profile schools.
Some of these schools that continue to appear in podcasts could just be a point of leveraging to negotiate a better deal for a school they really are targeting as the #8 member.
I kind of compare it to draft day in the NFL, NBA, etc, where franchises don’t want to show their cards or strategy on hopes of getting a player or making a trade to improve their draft position. In other words, keep other franchises guessing to throw them off your real prospects.
Same thing here as if the PAC is really focused on say UNLV, but they want leverage in negotiating a share of media rights money with them, put feelers out in the media that you’re looking at other programs too. If UNLV has strong enough interest in the PAC, they might be willing to take a smaller share up front to join with an increase on shares in 2-3 years. Remember, this is about money too so that’s going to drive their ultimate choice and decision.
Lastly, from all accounts, the PAC ,doesn’t appear to have all of the leverage bc the entire CFB world knows they need one more school to join and that options are limited. That’s said, the PAC’s priorities might have to change to a more dynamic reach outside of the western region footprint due to timing and schools real interest in joining. So I think this process is such more complex than just adding an 8th member.
Hopefully, the mediation deal gets resolved quickly and that will get things moving for the addition of an 8th member.
I’ve heard Murthy express that sentiment once, when we stopped talking with the ACC. And that made sense.
The new Wazzu President said a couple weeks ago that everything west of the Mississippi on the table. She even clarified that on the river was good enough.
I’m not buying the narrative that our schools are wanting to go hide in our own corners of the West and just be forgotten.
And the travel burden will fall mostly on the eastern schools. An annual trip to Texas for the other eight schools isn’t all that burdensome. CSU would actually benefit, since Dallas is about as far from them as Boise.
SDSU and Fresno are the schools who have the most to complain about, in terms of current travel and/or any expansion to the east.
That being said, SMC would be a mind-numbingly poor choice for a non-football addition, even without several better candidates existing.
I’m talking all sports across the board for travel not just football.. like I said, they might be playing their cards close to the vest to leverage the best deal they can get. .
I do believe they they want to minimize travel outside the region bc they’ve seen the other former PAC12 costs for travel substantially increase on all sports as well as complaints about the increased travel. Their revenue surplus from the PAC12 lawsuit isn’t unlimited and we don’t know what the new media deal will be so I’m sure budget constraints are certainly in play and how travel could impact resources.
I think expansion into other timezones will be in the next phase of realignment bc there’s just too much uncertainty about the current situation and how it plays out.
With all the talk about super conferences, conferences will need to position themselves for the next phase but it’s too soon for the PAC to do that until they stabilize the conference in all sports and get their media deal done. Once the PAC is completed and has an established track record, they can make a bid for teams outside the western region bc they’ll have some actual proof they are a legitimate conference that compete. Right now,bots too risky for teams outside the region to jump IMHO.
First: the “western regional conference” talk is mostly just post hoc rationalization. We know they wanted Memphis.
Second: floating St Mary’s does nothing to tempt UNLV
Third: they’ve butchered this since nearly the moment the PAC collapsed so why would we pretend they’re playing 5d chess now?
My read: They didn’t want Utah State, they botched the rollout by announcing the first 4 early and ever since have been scrambling. But really have no plan. Just wishes and hopes.
Your first and second are fair. Your third is simply your emotions making shit up. Your fourth is somewhat apt, in that one of the newbies leaked the adds early, and the Pac 12 has to get out in front of it.
Since that episode, it’s pretty much been radio silence.
The only thing you have to dislike, at this moment, is your inability to wait or your inability to ignore the rumors created by those who are too irrational to wait.
A beaver fan coworker of mine made a interesting comment about the 8th seed selection. Beaver baseball has entered elite-tier privilege statues similar to Ohio state and Alabama in football. Whether it was deserved or not, we got the benefit of the doubt.
Im not a rabid baseball fan but definitely follow the beavs, it seemed we were more of a 9 or 10ish kind of team. Wins at Nebraska and Oregon would make me feel better about the placement. On the plus side, Oregon doesn’t win their tournament or host a super which is hilarious, sucks to be them.
Oregon is a solid squad but they clearly benefited from playing like 70% of their games at home and they didn’t fair that well vs the lower quadrant teams. Part of the reason why losing all 4 games to them this year stings so much. I don’t think their regional is easy either. There’s always a few hosts that don’t progress and they easily could be one of them
How’re we feeling about post-season gang? Im still a believer that pitching depth is still the primary component to prolonged success in the post-season. On the plus side, the staff seems reasonably healthy when that hadn’t been the case in previous seasons. However, I don’t think the bullpen is as strong as it’s been in previous years so it might be a bit of a wash. There’s probably 3-4 guys you can reliably count on from the bullpen but after that, I feel it’s a crap shoot. Definitely some arm talent but the consistency hasn’t always been there. Keljo might be the x-factor in that he could possibly pitch multiple times over the weekend, especially if we end up playing a Monday game.
We also need a little more consistency from the bats. If Talt and Carraway can continue to trend upwards like they had the last week or 2 of the season that would be huge. A kreig long ball or two would be super nice as well. Defensively he’s been so much better this season than in the past but he’s proven that he’s not a guy to get hits. Strike out or home run. Its unfortunate that a guy with his size and power is hitting in the 7 or 8 spot in the line-up.
I think those 2 items are the biggest factors for the Beavs and making a run to Omaha. Can bullpen deliver and can we get 2 more guys to be contributers at the plate to help Turley, Arquette and Weber. It’ll also be interesting to see how the time off impacts them. Getting a little R&R is nice, but it’s also disruptive to the routine they’ve been in since Feb. Bye week performances have always been an issue for football, curious how that looks for the baseball team.
All good points, Creek, I do hope the resurgence of Talt and Caraway at the plate is for real.
Only other factor to add to your list is related to coaching decisions.
Will Mitch call enough small ball? He seems to be trending that way a bit.
And, the big one, will Dorman make good decisions in his use of the bullpen, both timing and personnel.
Yeah, coaching decisions will play a part for sure. Great point. I’m sure I’m like most people, Beavs should be fine vs Saint Mary’s or USC if we have to play them at any point. TCU was playing well in conf tourney and I think if they had won it, they’re probably a top 16 host themselves. If their Ace goes vs USC that would be huge for us. He’s been very good for them and facing their 2 or 3 starter would be ideal.
Listening in on some of the shows folks were talking like tcu could’ve hosted a regional with winning conf tourney. Maybe it’s opinion of a few peeps vs the committee themselves. Perhaps being the overall conf tourney champ weighs more heavily than just a 1 off neutral site game. Regardless, I think they’re a very solid 2 and Beavs could have their hands full.
The R&R is needed, after that schedule. They now know how to travel and win, and that routine won’t be necessary for at least two weeks. They just need to take advantage of being at home.
Have we had two weekends in a row at home? I think we got two solid weeks at home with a bunch of games, then headed off on a lot of travel. Then it was Irvine, Zags, and Long Beach spaced out by more travel.
At least one pitcher considers heat and doesn’t select black jerseys for hot day games. The issue has been brought up in here regarding Beaver football wearing black and having its players sit in the sun on game day….
Happy May Day(ish), comrades
Guardians fans are hype for Beavs.
They’re talking about Kwan evolving into a five tool star this year. And the clock on Bazzana is about two months, and the fans expect him to be in triple A.
These are lofty expectations, and I hope they all come true.
3rd! Bring on the bronze!!!
4th! i will move up when one the three of you fails the drug tests
Four or five panel?
Lamarcus Bell backs out of verbal to OSU.
This means he has a better NIL offer as he “reopens” his recruiting. Lol as he knows exactly where he’s going. Good for him and a negative for the Beavs
Is he a football recruit?
RB from LO.
Nice add as a homegrown recruit. But not a position where we have trouble finding good or great players.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sports/college-football/breaking-news/article/president-trump-reportedly-considering-executive-order-limiting-nil-after-meeting-with-nick-saban-012129625.html
“Hopefully we’ll get to sit down with Coach Saban. President Trump wants to help on this NIL. I don’t know how he can do it through an executive order. But possibly we can sit down and talk some insight of what Coach Saban thinks about it, what I think about it and we can come up with some sort of agreement because right now it’s in a tailspin.”
He can withhold federal funding from those schools that don’t comply with is EO…ha!
Not legally he can’t. Not that legality matters in this country anymore.
King Trump and another pathetic EO.
Pope?
Ducks baseball is shut out 2-0 by MI State. Lol
Too languid, enjoying a smoke after pounding the beavers four times?
and ducks should be enjoying it!
Dorman should have been fired immediately but OSU powers that aren ‘t’ are rubbing their chins, trying to look intelligent and speaking blither. It was the players who endured the raucous heckeling – should’ve been Dorman in a stock.
Beavs up 2-0 B1 as Turley gets a double.
Clean inning by Segura t2.
Caraway makes superb play on hard hit ball but errant throw to 1st leads to an unearned run on a WP. 6-2 T4. SEGURA @ 49 pitches.
Singer 2-run double off the wall, turley a double, 3 consecutive singles but Reeder thrown out at home trying to score in a shot into left field. 6-6-0 b2.
Walk, single, sacrifice bunt, runs scored on, strike out and ground out. 6-1 T3.
B3 6-1 as Beavs go down on order but Macias hits a hard liner to 2nd base for third out.
Singer intentionally walked to load bases to get to Weber previously struck out 2x and looked silly, 0-2 count on 2 ridiculous 64 mph curves and next pitch Weber laces a double to the wall to clear the bases. 9-2 b4
Weber a 3 RBI double on a 0-2 count after two k’s earlier in the game.
9-2 Good Guys
Segura through 5: 86 pitches, 5 k’s, 3 bb, 1 hbp, 1 wp, 3 hits, 2 er
t6, 10-4 Beavs
Noga headed to, get this, WSU!
It’ll be interesting to watch Wazzu run a pro-style offense. Their D should benefit a lot, which could be scary.
Weird. I wonder what that was all about.
One more year to play, and he’s buried on our depth chart.
I’ll cheer for him.
Arquette, Turley, and Weber top of the lineup, Adam Haight dh batting seventh.
Macias and Caraway 8 and 9…..of course.
Talt sits.
interestingly, Macias is the only batter who swings from the left side.
t6, Weber a 3 RBI HR makes it 3-2. Only the third hit for the Beavs, comes off the second pitcher for Hawaii who came in to face Weber.
3-2 Beavs as Keljo gets a stroke out with the tying run on second to end the game. The previous batter barely missed a 3 run hr to LF but died at the warning track. Hawaii led the country last year in ERA and is #18 in the nation this year and I had no idea their pitching was that good.
…..a strike out…. I suppose he could stroke it out too. Lol
Very friendly park for pitchers.
Because of the dimensions and trade winds?
Sad news. Oregon has lost 2 of their top recruiting targets to rivals UW and now Ohio State in recent days. Fans are disgruntled and saying something is “off” with their program’s recruiting after both players were thought to be locks for them.
Hope you’re all able to enjoy the rest of your weekend
https://x.com/kdamp/status/1918851061198065790
Texas state president
He’s wearing a p12 polo in one
Oh those sneaky university president’s!
It’s just horseplay.
I’ve been posting for the past several weeks that Texas State will be the next to join the conference and that’s a really good addition IMO.
Watch, he’ll “take his talents” to another conference…
*swaps polo at press conference*
Except that the guy wearing the Pac12 polo in that picture isn’t the Texas State president…
Beavs down 4-0 and getting no hit through 4 innings. I have no words for their lack of offense again nst a good Hawaii team but it’s freaking Hawaii!
t7, down 5-0.
Due up: Reeder, Macias, Caraway………Reeder and Caraway have the only two Beavs hits so far, so naturally Reeder will be ph’d for.
UPDATE: Playing for a matchup, Miiiitch pinch hits for Reeder, but the same thought doesn’t apply to Caraway. Results: Jones flies out for Reeder, Caraway grounds into a dp….
Now, Miiiiitch has shown that he realizes Caraway’s weakness on D by subbing him out late in games, so it’s apparent that Miiiiitch is clinging to the hope that Caraway can get back to his very early season batting performance. How much longer will he cling?
Absolutely pathetic….to shutdown the Beavs is all pitchers need to do is throw off speed breaking stuff and the beavs might as well be swatting at flies while wearing a blind fold. They won’t get out of s regional if they even make the playoffs
Better put some butter and jam on this team bc they are toast.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sports/article/bill-belichick-benches-24-old-192014825.html
“The 73-year-old coaching legend is looking to hire a PR specialist in lieu of Hudson, and has been in talks with former Bears VP of communications Brandon Faber for several months, according to ProFootballTalk.
The PR hire would help manage both Belichick’s new role as head football coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his public image, which was badly bruised by Hudson’s cringeworthy PR moves.
Belichick appeared on CBS Sunday Morning last week to promote his new book, but it went viral for the wrong reasons after Hudson, a former cheerleader, interrupted to shut down a question about how the couple met.”
Pathetic soap opera and terrible judgement on Belichik’s part. NC should cut ties ASAP.
You can’t explain true love… Just let those crazy kids be happy!
Right?! Who ever said you can’t buy love?
Um… the Beatles.
But they specifically said you can’t buy it with money. So maybe they had a bartering system in mind.
Um… the Beatles.
But they specifically said you can’t buy it with money. So maybe they had a bartering system in mind.
Day #1, Lanning #4, Smith #12 in this ranking of B10 coaches…still no comment on the conference’s ability to count…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/04/29/big-ten-college-football-coaches-rankings/83217490007/
Death, taxes, and Miiiitch’s teams having a late season fade with multiple batting slumps. The hallmark of great coaching is your team gets better and improves as a season goes on. My memory may not be totally correct, but I don’t remember this ever happening with Canham’s teams.
NCAA Baseball Top 25:
Oregon State falls to #10
(Oregon moves up to #5 to make this worse)
Let’s be unbiased. Does anyone here genuinely still believe that we are top 10 team at this point? We are still riding the media giving us credit for the Casey years. We’re not being dominant with a very easy schedule. I really think that if this team was in the SEC, they’d be around .500.
I’d put us around 20-25. Possibly one of the first few teams out of the top 25 now.
My postseason prediction continues to be a regional exit currently. This team has no consistency. If they aren’t hitting homers, the offense doesn’t exist. Pitching raises my blood pressure nearly every inning as well.
This schedule is much more difficult than the Pac 12 has been for the last five years.
But no, we’re not top 10 right now. 20-25 is far too low, but about 15 is right. And watching a not top ten UO lose to a Kent State in the Supers again won’t make any of it better.
We could easily beat anyone in the country, yet we choose to do this.
The annual overreaction thread after winning a series. This is clearly a top 10 team talent wise. Consistency is the toughest part of baseball. I don’t mind a slump right now. The key to the CWS is qualifying. Which we look like we are set to do.
They didn’t win anything. There’s one more game tonight
Lmao, I guess I am supposed to say them losing one game to a decent Hawaii team means they are the worst team in college baseball, with the worst manager too?
That also means the Dodgers are the worst team in the MLB, because they lost to the Braves last night.
I hope folks realize how much Casey was criticized on here when he was actively coaching. Warts for days! lol
From a baseball nerd perspective, the “Last 10 games” stat is going to read 5-5 for at least three more games.
It was just deflating to open the newspaper and see your team in struggle mode.
No. Im correcting your false premise that they won the series. No amount of lol’s or any of the rest of your post that was meaningless, fixes that.
The only thing that does is a W tonight
Hey Semantics Boy, they ended up winning the series that they couldn’t lose last night. Talk about meaningless comments lol.
Let the false narratives begin! After all spring football complete, USAToday’s Preseason ranking of NCAA DI football:
Current PAC:
WSU #86
OSU #105
Old PAC 12 Members
UO #8
ASU #23
USC #31
Utah #33
UW # 52
CO #55
UCLA#59
CAL #92
UA #96
Stanford #115
Future PAC Members
BSU #19
Texas State(?) #74
CSU #77
Utah State #93
SDSU #100
Fresno State #102
So, in a (admittedly meaningless poll), the perception is that this coming season OSU will be the worst football program of recent, current, and the upcoming PAC iterations. Ouch. The only meaning in this is perceptions that take hold in popular media and viewers/readers.
It’s interesting to see that UCLA and USC don’t even figure into top 25 relevancy anymore. They actually have to earn it now. Only UO, BSU, and ASU are perceived at this point of being top 25 programs.
I do think Bray could use this as “Bulletin board” material.
The Beavers will surprise IF the OLine can get healthy and play to a solid “B” grade.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/05/05/college-football-ncaa-re-rank-spring-practice-texas/83370355007/?tbref=hp
Oh, and in its last full season, the PAC had 5-6 teams in the top 25, including the Beavers.
*second worst , Stanford viewed as worse.
On the bright side, OSU would be improving by at least 80 spots in the rankings if they cracked the top 25. Bray could win 9 games if he resurrects the defense, and us any semblance of an offense.
Time to break out the pocket schedule game!
Is 9 wins impossible?
I agree, if the o-line can play, the rest could come together for 8 wins.
Murphy has experience winning close games, there’s size at WR and TE, proven production at RB…
And if the young DLine stays healthy, they’ll surprise. I tend to forget how many FR played..
Beavs pick up a new RB transfer today from LaTech.
https://x.com/MarquisTCrosby/status/1919448417547231524?t=WdZ-jM7-qyeIqt_QIoj_jg&s=19
Wonder who’s gone?
LaMarcus Bell just reopened his recruitment but other than that I haven’t heard or read about any defections.
I think he just rounds out the room, with Hank, Allah, Reichle, and Hatcher. Him and Hank are gone after the season.
It sounds like he has a solid FR year with over 900 yards rushing. https://youtu.be/PksHxRgNu1M?si=WICLjIwIemP97OHZ
An all right handed lineup: Adam Haight starts in the 9 hole, McEntire 8th.
Of course, Caraway starts, tonight batting 7th.
Like I said yesterday, feed this team a steady diet of off speed breaking stuff and they look completely overwhelmed.
This team can’t hit worth a crap!
In Hawaii watching the Beavers play. All the do is look for the home run. They all swing for the fences every time. So far this weekend it is either been strikeout or pop up. They don’t look to go opposite field or up the middle they look to go home run. And the wind is blowing directly to right field hard it would take a lot to get one out of here
Singer is one player that looks the best at the plate. Aiva has looked awful this whole weekend I think coming home put too much pressure on him
This is a top 50 team maybe top 40. They don’t get well enough they don’t field all that great and they’re pitching is too inconsistent. I hate the SEC but they could not compete in the top half of the SEC. They Feast on week pitching and struggle against anybody that is decent on the mound
This is what the SEC does too. A couple of teams just do it pretty well consistently. And the hottest bats in the end win.
If you’re complaining that disciplined and balanced teams are more our identity than what baseball has become, I agree. But there aren’t 40 or 50 teams better.
We’ll just have to wait and see if they can put it back together, after the hangover.
Hit
And the more I watch this team play I do not believe they’re very well coached. Mitch might be a great guy along with all the other coaches but this team is missing something that I think it is leadership
13 consecutive innings without scoring although I can’t remember the last score in game 1 but this team just can’t hit!
What a relay from Reeder in CF to Arquette to Caraway to mail the runner trying to stretch a double into a triple.
Pop up, strikeout ,pop up , strikeout. Rinse and repeat over and over. We seldom even groundout. We look for home run or nothing
Wow, Caraway just swing at a pitch that hit 6 ft in front of the plate. He got on first base because it was such a bad pitch to catcher couldn’t handle it
2-0 Beavs b6
Big fly Weber 3-0 t7 runner on 1st no outs.
Last inning great DP on 3-1 count to get out of a potential jam or jelly.
3-1 t8
McEntire solo shot in the 8th, 4-1 runners on 1st and 3rd two outs.
Weber 3 run shot, 7-1 beavers as it looks like they’ve finally have broken out of their slump with 3 big flies tonight. Aube they read some of my comments earlier and got pissed. Lol
Oakes walks two, a single, another single and bases loaded NO outs 7-2 as Hutcheson comes in with bases juiced.
AJ puts out the fire and allows only 1 run 7-3 T9.
7-3 b9
Jacob Kreig flashed some leather tonight stealing two hits on scorching line drives that he dove to his right to snatch. AJ closes the door on Hawaii 7-3 as Hawaii used 9 pitchers tonight. Weber had himself a series with three HRs, I think two doubles and like 9 RBIs. 3 out of 4 in Hawaii was a pretty solid outcome against a pretty solid Hawaii team.
Maybe road trips to Hawaii arent a great idea.
Was there any tv? And games ending at 1:30am?
ESPN+
TV only for 2 of the 4 games…go figure
Go Beavs, winning where it really matters.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/where-oregon-state-university-of-oregon-rank-in-sustainable-dining-practices/ar-AA1Dg6JE?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=a138a00235e84088bbddabb844329be7&ei=91
Lol
USA Today MLB draft projections:
1. Washington Nationals: Ethan Holliday, INF, Stillwater (Okla.) HS
It will be a fascinating home stretch for Holliday, the Nationals and a handful of pitchers bullying their way to the top of draft boards. Washington GM Mike Rizzo’s pitching-first chops will be challenged by the everyday excellence Holliday – bigger and with more projectable power than 2022 1/1 and older brother Jackson – can provide.
2. Los Angeles Angels: Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State
The Angels’ ever-dire need for pitching and GM Perry Minasian’s penchant for quick-to-the-majors guys intersects with Arnold, a 6-foot-1 lefty who has dominated ACC competition with a WHIP of less than 1.00 and just three homers allowed in 55 innings. Not your prototypical top five power pitcher, but a lefty who can pitch off his fastball and has the profile of a rotation anchor.
3. Seattle Mariners: Aiva Arquette, SS, Oregon State
This might already be too far for monster prep right-hander Seth Hernandez to fall, but the Mariners have made their bones drafting and promptly developing college pitchers. This time, they roll with Arquette, a 6-foot-5 shortstop with considerable power (16 homers, 1.173 OPS) and discipline. Recently inspired an opponent to play a four-man outfield against him.”
An Oregon HS player projected at 7:
7. Miami Marlins: Kruz Schoolcraft, LHP, Sunset (Ore.) HS
The 2024 draft lasted eight picks before a high schooler was selected, an unprecedented run of collegians. This year, the teenagers take the power back. Schoolcraft just turned 18 last month and at 6-8, can touch 97 mph on his fastball. He’s an excellent two-way player but his projectability on the mound is obvious and the Marlins swing big here.
Cleveland doesn’t draft until 27…no Beaver projected there:
“27. Cleveland Guardians: Max Belyeu, OF, Texas
A thumb fracture ended his regular season after 22 games, but Belyeu was putting together a strong junior season – hitting .358 with a 1.107 OPS when he went down at the end of March. But teams certainly saw enough of his hit tool – he produced 18 homers a year ago – and a return in the postseason for the No. 1 team in the land could produce some helium prior to draft day.”
D1 baseball has OSU #10 in the RPI rankings that doesn’t include last night’s win. I doubt that’s going to hold up after the road series at Iowa. Beavs are putting on a lot of travel miles from Portland to Hawaii and then to Iowa so I would expect they will have some heavy legs this weekend going into Iowa.
BTW, I just saw tomorrow’s game with Portland has been cancelled. I wonder why? Lol
The entire Iowa series is on big10+ and they have a pretty solid production. Apparently, Iowa has one of the better pitchers in the country so that’s not good news for the on again, off again offense OSU offense.
D1 has OSU #7 RPI, and that does include last nights win.
That surprised me, but playing on the road vs RPI #66 Iowa isn’t, in and of itself, a sure fire serious hit to the ranking.
Sweep the series and bet the Beavs remain in the top 10 RPI; take 2/3 and maybe stay top 15.
Iowa leads their (weak) conference and has an ERA 1 full run better than the Beavs; they also are allowing 1 full hit less per game than Dormans guys.
Yeah, the on again/off again offense of the Beavs is the most obvious story but if D isn’t solid it just makes for a higher hill to climb.
Ducks lost out on the #1 ranked, 5* QB in the 2026 class to Georgia. Ducks fans were certain he was a lock to become a Schmuck QB but not so fast as he ends up a Dawg. Now duck fans be like, well, we didn’t really think he was going to sign with Oregon and we’ll just find another guy to replace him. Lol
And he could transfer at the first opportunity…to Oregon, to Ohio State, Texas, Tennessee…whoever has the best one year cash deal…
the guy was playing all -maybe, just maybe, not that Oregon couldn’t afford i but, that they were just tired of playing the game.
Can’t recruits get paid to take campus visits now? Don’t blame the guy. They are onto Lyons now but hopefully usc can hold them off.
Oregon just lost put on a 4* can I’m head to head with USC of all teams. It’s an open bidding war now that players can take offers before signing
I can’t handle autocorrect anymore so I’m turning it off.
The edit function here is handy if you are on a laptop, not certain it’ll work on phone.
I’m on my phone but thx for the tip.
The Big Ten Conference had just over $928 million in total revenue and distributed about $63.2 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its 2024 fiscal year, the conference’s newly released federal tax records show.
However, the new records, along with documents and data released by three Big Ten member schools in recent years strongly indicate that the conference’s revenue for its ongoing 2025 fiscal year will increase to somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, with the new TV deals taking full effect and the additions of UCLA, Southern California, Oregon and Washington increasing its membership to 18 schools. The Big Ten’s document was provided by the conference on May 6 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports.
The Big Ten’s per-school distributions for fiscal 2025 seem likely to be around $75 million for all except Oregon and Washington, whose shares are being phased in over seven years.
…
All of this keeps – and, at least for now, stands to continue keeping – the Big Ten ahead of the now-16-school Southeastern Conference in terms of total revenue and per-school payouts. The SEC released tax records in February that showed $840 million in total revenue and average per-school distributions of about $52.5 million to the 14 schools other than newcomers Oklahoma and Texas. The SEC also is on a path toward at least $1 billion in total revenue for its 2024-25 fiscal year.
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Iowa state board of regents budget documents from this past July show that the University of Iowa was projecting $75.2 million in “Athletic Conference” revenue for fiscal 2025.
A University of Wisconsin athletics department budget presentation to a university athletic board committee meeting three weeks ago projected “Conference” revenue of $74.7 million for fiscal 2025 and just under $82.6 million for fiscal 2026, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
The Big Ten generally provides its longest standing members with equal amounts. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, respectively, joined the conference, their shares were scaled up to full amounts over a period of years. UCLA and Southern California, however, are scheduled to receive full shares immediately while, according to an Oregon athletics budget document for fiscal 2025, Oregon projects $54 million in “NCAA/Big Ten” revenue. (Another Oregon document from September 2023 said the Big Ten’s “media deal with Fox, NBC and CBS will pay both UO and University of Washington each an average of $32.5 million a year for the first six years and that amount should more than double when the two schools receive a full share of Big Ten media rights revenues beginning in the 7th year.” But that TV revenue will be supplemented by money from other Big Ten sources such as the College Football Playoff and Big Ten championships.)
Even using slightly lower amounts as benchmarks — $70 million to each of 16 schools and $50 million apiece to Oregon and Washington, that projects to a little more than $1.2 billion in total Big Ten distributions for fiscal 2025. And, in recent years, the conference has passed on to its schools about 95% of total revenue. That would put its total revenue for fiscal 2025 at just under $1.3 billion.”
Suck it SEC, you “poor” bastards…
Geezus, what is the PAC shooting for in a television deal? $20-30M per school?!
I got a preview of Teagan Scott,South Salem starting catcher, as he hit a solo shot and think he had another hit vs Sprague. Sawyer Nelson, headed to LMU, blasts 3 hrs, the last one trailing 8-6 in b6 that was the winning 3 run HR 9-8.
I can’t believe Canham didn’t go after Nelson too as this kid really can hit. Well, at least Scott is going to be a beaver.
I forgot to say the SS won and is still undefeated. Another game tomorrow night at Sprague and the finale at South again this Friday.
“The Big Ten Conference had just over $928 million in total revenue and distributed about $63.2 million to each of its 12 longest-standing schools during its 2024 fiscal year, the conference’s newly released federal tax records show.
Those figures represent a 5.5% increase in total revenue and a 4.5% increase in per-school payouts compared to those for fiscal 2023 due to the beginning of new television agreements.
However, the new records, along with documents and data released by three Big Ten member schools in recent years strongly indicate that the conference’s revenue for its ongoing 2025 fiscal year will increase to somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion, with the new TV deals taking full effect and the additions of UCLA, Southern California, Oregon and Washington increasing its membership to 18 schools. The Big Ten’s document was provided by the conference on May 6 in response to a request from USA TODAY Sports.
The Big Ten’s per-school distributions for fiscal 2025 seem likely to be around $75 million for all except Oregon and Washington, whose shares are being phased in over seven years.
…
All of this keeps – and, at least for now, stands to continue keeping – the Big Ten ahead of the now-16-school Southeastern Conference in terms of total revenue and per-school payouts. The SEC released tax records in February that showed $840 million in total revenue and average per-school distributions of about $52.5 million to the 14 schools other than newcomers Oklahoma and Texas. The SEC also is on a path toward at least $1 billion in total revenue for its 2024-25 fiscal year.
…
Iowa state board of regents budget documents from this past July show that the University of Iowa was projecting $75.2 million in “Athletic Conference” revenue for fiscal 2025.
A University of Wisconsin athletics department budget presentation to a university athletic board committee meeting three weeks ago projected “Conference” revenue of $74.7 million for fiscal 2025 and just under $82.6 million for fiscal 2026, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
…
The Big Ten generally provides its longest standing members with equal amounts. When Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers, respectively, joined the conference, their shares were scaled up to full amounts over a period of years. UCLA and Southern California, however, are scheduled to receive full shares immediately while, according to an Oregon athletics budget document for fiscal 2025, Oregon projects $54 million in “NCAA/Big Ten” revenue. (Another Oregon document from September 2023 said the Big Ten’s “media deal with Fox, NBC and CBS will pay both UO and University of Washington each an average of $32.5 million a year for the first six years and that amount should more than double when the two schools receive a full share of Big Ten media rights revenues beginning in the 7th year.” But that TV revenue will be supplemented by money from other Big Ten sources such as the College Football Playoff and Big Ten championships.)
Even using slightly lower amounts as benchmarks — $70 million to each of 16 schools and $50 million apiece to Oregon and Washington, that projects to a little more than $1.2 billion in total Big Ten distributions for fiscal 2025. And, in recent years, the conference has passed on to its schools about 95% of total revenue. That would put its total revenue for fiscal 2025 at just under $1.3 billion.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/05/06/big-ten-conference-revenue-kevin-warren-bonus/83471735007/
Suck it SEC, you “poor” bastards….you can’t buy all the talent now.
And the PAC is hoping for $20-30 per school in a television deal?!?
Ha! “$20M-30M” per PAC school
Remember, while the substantial increase in revenue looks impressive, the former PAC12:traitors also have substantially increased travel costs that eats into that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. So it would be interesting to know what their actual net revenue is as opposed to gross revenue after travel costs are deducted from the gross revenues….at least for the first 6 years until they get full shares.
It’s all going to blow up in five years, when everyone but the ACC is up for new media deals. And even they significantly reduce exit fees at that point.
Apologies for the duplicate posts…I thought I had inadvertently closed the browser tab before posting.
Does anybody know the reason why the Portland Pilots game was canceled?
I’m guessing it’s a bi-product of the jet lag after playing the Hawaii series, but also no reason was listed. Just that it was mutual.
https://osubeavers.com/news/2025/5/6/baseball-wednesdays-oregon-state-portland-game-canceled
The travel is probably just that bad.
It takes a couple days to decompress (maybe literally?) from long plane trips.
Pilots also had reason to cancel, this from the story in the big zero:
“…The Pilots, meanwhile, face an important three-game series this weekend at San Francisco. Portland (20-24, 11-7 WCC) sits in a third place in the West Coast Conference standings,…….The conference series carries more importance to the Pilots’ postseason hopes — which hinge on a WCC tournament championship — than a midweek matchup in Corvallis.”
Makes sense, just surprising it stayed on the schedule so long, since fans plan around their personal schedules around these games too.
OSU traveling to Iowa this week can’t help. That’s a pretty big swing in time zones for the team this week.
Does the fact that the Iowa series is considered “neutral” hurt the Beavs post season positioning? Game is in DeMoines (roughly 2 hours from Iowa’s home field), so it’s not exactly neutral even though technically it is.
I didn’t realize the game wasn’t at Iowa’s home. A road win is a little better than a neutral win, right?
Just Win! Glad Iowa has RPI in 60’s and not 90’s!
much better than getting to Iowa City – which has a “municipal” airport –
I think they are playing in Des Moines at the Cubs triple A park. Nice facility! Saw a game there last summer.
Sorry NB. Reading and posting from bottom up and saw you posted the games were in Des Moines. Now if it would only quit raining out here. St Louis averages around 40” of precip every year. Picked up just under 11” in April alone!
Interesting if true and it makes me like Bray’s style even more, don’t give in to prima-donna behavior.
Having committed to Oregon State early in the process, Bell elected to re-open his recruitment Friday, but insisted he was still strongly considering the Beavers and would still be taking his official visit in May.
On Monday, Oregon State removed that option.
“Oregon State (canceled) my visit, so I won’t be visiting anymore,” Bell said.
https://www.si.com/high-school/recruiting/oregon-state-beavers-not-lamarcus-bell-cancel-crucial-in-state-official-visit-01jthksf6ct0#:~:text=Having%20committed%20to%20Oregon%20State,Oregon%20State%20removed%20that%20option.
Beavs MBB sign Australian big man, 6’11”, Yak Yak, who played one year at New Mexico State and another year at a smaller division. Let’s go Yak Yak!
“Yak Yak attacks the rack! And the Beavers deficit is cut to twelve! Portland Pilots bringing the ball up court…”
Beavs finally responding to the ducks signing Bol Bol!
Now we can cheer for Yak Yak. Must be a joke and can’t be real
I said the same thing about Bol Bol reference to a duck fan/friend of mine just earlier tonight.
At least his name isn’t Yuk Yuk or Fuk Fuk……
If they had a child, it would be Yak Boi…
Yak off the glass… gets his own miss… YAK with the flush!
How about Yak jacks up a 4 pointer.
3 pointer.
I wonder if Mike Parker will reference the old Coasters song “Yakity Yak” sometime during the season?
And Yaak Yaak could do the Dikembo Mutumbo finger wag…
He will probably do that.
Reference it? Mike will do the complete history of the song! :) Parker really is an amazing announcer. Having grown up with Bill King in the Bay Area, I haven’t heard another announcer do a better job in all three sports, and he is a lot different in all three. Baseball is his joy obviously, but so solid in hoops and football as well.
Anytime you start taking him for granted turn into a Ducks game. Jerry Allen seems to do zero prep on the opposing teams during football season and the Duck voices that do basketball and baseball sound like frat boys – though I have to think if the Ducks have a college radio station, those students are little more professional.
How about, Yak’s off the bench.
Just noticed, Iowa SOS per D1 is 202!
Beavs 37
Just Win
Beavers putting on a lot of miles in the last few days so hopefully they’re not suffering from jet lag…
So Iowa is #1 in the Big 10 at 21-6, and all that gets them is 202 SOS? What a shitty league. The Beavs should be ashamed of their subpar performance against that league so far this year. If they lose this series, they will be under .500 against the Big 10 for the season. Not good.
They have two undefeated lefties they’re throwing at the Beavs and if their predominantly off speed guys, we are in trouble.
So Texas Tech NIL collective founder and billionaire Cody Campbell and Nick Saban are going to fix college sports. Perhaps their objective work will inform a Trump Executive Order. Whew! Order and equity are on their way, no more advantages for the richest programs. Looking forward to the Beavers competing on a level playing field!
Any executive order on NILs would be nothing but a meaningless document. President’s don’t have the power to create laws. Not how it works. Trump can write whatever the fuck he wants, it won’t bind anyone to anything.
Trump just wants some Equity and Inclusion in these NIL deals.
So the Schmucks have played 33 home games and only 15 on the road? Wow, that’s a pretty loaded home schedule. Uncle Phil doing his best to keep the ducks relevant.
7 seasons of college football;
“Cam Rising is calling it career.
The former Utah Utes quarterback and longtime college football player announced Wednesday he is medically retiring after suffering a hand injury during the 2024 season. He said he was advised by two orthopedic physicians he won’t ever be able to play football and is seeking a third opinion as he will undergo surgery.
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Rising lost the quarterback battle to start the 2021 season, but after a 1-2 start, head coach Kyle Whittingham turned to Rising under center. The Utes found momentum with Rising as the starter, finishing the regular season 8-1 and earning a spot in the Pac-12 championship game. In the contest, Rising led Utah past Oregon for the school’s first Pac-12 title and first Rose Bowl appearance. He was named a Pac-12 first-team selection with 2,493 passing yards with 20 touchdowns and five interceptions, as well as 74 carries for 499 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns.
The quarterback returned to Utah in 2022 and again led Utah back to the Pac-12 championship game. Against College Football Playoff contender Southern California, Rising led the upset against the Trojans to clinch back-to-back conference titles and Rose Bowl appearances. However, in the Rose Bowl game against Penn State, Rising suffered a devastating knee injury.
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If this is in fact the end, Rising finishes his college career with 6,127 passing yards, 53 passing touchdowns, 986 rushing yards and 12 rushing scores. Rising went 20-8 as a starting quarterback, fifth all-time in career wins at Utah.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/05/07/cam-rising-medically-retires-seven-year-college-football-career/83499464007/?tbref=hp
“1 more year! 1 more year!”
He’s as old as some of his linemen teammates now….
Beavs add Dez White a 6’2″ guard fro Missouri State who averaged 14 PPG last year. His FR year at Austin Peay, he hit 63 3 pointers. He actually sounds like a pretty talented kid and I will be a junior which means he will be a 1 and done at OSU. It sounds like Tinks is putting together a decent roster again so……
How soon until Parker retires due to learning 150 new names every year for all the sports he calls games for.
Reading up on these transfers, all of them are bouncing after one year. It’s happening everywhere at every level.
Yep. Take it to the bank this guy will do the same if he had a solid season. It’s making CBB unwatchable.
Sounds like Iowa has 3 solid pitchers, two of which are lefties, throwing at the Beavs and two of them are undefeated. Lefties can be very rough and nasty but we have lots of right handed batters that swing for the fences. If those lefties throw junk at the beavers hitters, the Beavs are in for a long a weekend
Schmucks women’s softball upset 5-0 by Michigan in the B10 tourney and are one and done. Lol
Most Pac-12 legacy schools leaned hard on campuses to bail athletics out of settlement, growing expenses
But in that fraught final year — with 10 schools preparing to join other leagues and Washington State and Oregon State fighting for survival — all but one athletic department relied heavily on school support.
That support typically takes two forms: 1) direct transfers from central campus; and 2) student fees that are allocated to athletics. In each case, the support is booked as revenue in accordance with the NCAA’s financial reporting rules.
The reasons vary. But clearly, the demise of the conference played a significant role on several fronts:
— The 10 departing schools had $65 million withheld from the conference based on the terms of the negotiated settlement with WSU and OSU.
— Conference distributions were also lower as a result of the Comcast overpayment fiasco that was discovered in 2022. To recoup what it was owed, the company withheld $72 million over the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years.
— Many of the former Pac-12 schools increased their budgets to either build the infrastructure needed for their new conference’s media platforms (e.g., the Big Ten Network) or to increase resources for their sports programs to meet competitive benchmarks in the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC.
The subsidization of athletic departments by central campus is not universally condemned within the college sports space. The process is considered an investment in brand-building, for few facets of campus receive as much media exposure nationwide as the sports teams.
“Oregon State booked $120.3 million in revenue against $112.9 million in expenses for a surplus of $7.4 million. The revenue total includes $11.2 million in campus support. The Beavers recorded $19 million in conference distributions unrelated to media rights or the postseason, reflecting a portion of the cash secured in the settlement agreement with the 10 departed schools. (Washington State reported a similar amount.) OSU’s spending on football was essentially flat year-over-year.
— Washington State booked $89.5 million in revenue against $89.1 million in expenses for a surplus of $400,000. The revenue total includes $6.6 million in campus support. The Cougars were the only Pac-12 legacy school to spend less in FY2024 than the previous year, with the football program’s operating budget dropping 20 percent, from $25.3 million to $20.3 million. Of note: The Cougars spent $6 million less on football than Oregon State did during the first year of the transition phase to the new Pac-12.”
This article originally appeared on Pac-12 Hotline.
— Jon Wilner: jwilner@bayareanewsgroup.com. Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
https://www.oregonlive.com/collegefootball/2025/05/most-pac-12-legacy-schools-leaned-hard-on-campuses-to-bail-athletics-out-of-settlement-growing-expenses.html
I’m curious if this actually did any damage to these institutions or if it’s all just being justified as marketing expense. The only way any lessons will be learned will be if someone feels the pain.
“….just being justified as marketing expense. ”
Seems most likely. Institutions of higher learning seem slow to learn on this topic.
https://x.com/pablofindsout/status/1920802680705831163
Sources tell
@PabloTorre
that Bill Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, is now banned from UNC’s football facility.
One Belichick family source adds: “There is deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.”
“Hudson, is now banned from UNC’s football facility.” Bill doesn’t want her around athletes her own age…ha!
“Honey, please stop handing out towels in the showers! And we do not need a “hot tub lifeguard and settings manager!”
Geezus, imagine dating someone 50 years younger and being surrounded by people her age…but, grifters gonna grift!
“University of North Carolina again had to address coach Bill Belichick’s relationship with his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, on Friday after a new report stated Hudson had been banned from the Tar Heels’ football facility.
“While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Football facilities,” the school said in a statement issued to reporters. “Jordon will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina Football and the University.”
What you aren’t certain that it is true love? He’s an octogenarian and she is in a locker room full of peak physical condition D1 athletes all about 10 years younger than her so why could possibly go wrong? I sure she will set an example as the typical coaches wife/mother figure.
At least NC thought this all through.
BB will put her on the payroll as a scout (for her OF page)
Good point. Only true love could bridge those age AND financial disparities. It is heartening and gives one hope.
Correction on spelling as it is Yaak Yaak and I have no idea how it is pronounced.
UTSA RPI at 20. Get them in the PAC!
How in the world is Nike ranked #5 in Baseball America??? Ahead of Arkansas who swept #1 Texas last weekend!
Correction: it was the D1 Baseball.com rankings, not Baseball America.
I think the top 25 in college football should be chosen by a conclave sequestered away and releasing smoke signals based on team colors!
Oh wait, that’s how they’ve been doing it…
Would that be orange smoke?
Luck ‘o the Beavs??
t8 begins tied at 6, ends with Beavs up 9-6, scoring 3 runs on one very questionable 3RBI single and the third error on a hawkeye pitcher. Free bases go in favor of the Beavs this time!
Final 9-6 Beavs
Iowa uses 5 pitchers
Weber goes 4/5 with 4 RBI’s
Beavs leave 9 on base
Krieg, Talt, Caraway, and McEntire go hitless.
Beavs now #6 RPI, Iowa 68
I’m surprised we are that high after the oregon sweep. It seems we’re benefitting quite a bit from playing so many neutral site games at the expense of actual home games.
At 13, we have at 3 times as many neutral site games as any other team toward the upper end of the rankings other than Texas/Auburn which still only have 6.
Stuck in neutral seems like the Canham/Dorman theme…lotsa revving though!
Road games also impacting RPI
Did y’all hear Josh describe the trip to Iowa? Seems the team gathered at 0300 Thursday am and the bus never showed up to take them to PDX for their commercial flight to Des Moines. So, coaches carpool it was!
Unacceptable. Some intern is going to lose their unpaid job
Budget cuts and all
Arquette a 2 run shot in T3, 2-0.
2 out, 2 run double by Reeder, 4-0 Beavs. B3.
Whitney perfect after 3 with 5 or 6 K’s and is overwhelming Iowa hitters so far. T4 4-0
I’m watching the game streaming so…..
Arquette Ks with runner on 3rd to end the inning. Still 4-0 B4.
Whitney gives up a single and then a double that Macias in LF made a good play on but couldn’t keep the line drive in his glove and Whitney Ks the next guy to get out of the inning. T5 4-0.
Weber singles to center but Beavs go quietly after that. B5 still 4-0 Beavs
Whitney is just throwing smoke at Iowa with 9Ks on mostly fastballs. He’s at 65 pitches thru 5 innings. T6 5-0 Beavs
Macias robbed of at least a double on a great play by the 1st baseman to take away extra bases. Talt must be 0 and forever in his last 30+ at bats. B6 4-0 beavs
Whitney gets out of a jam after walking back to back hitters but does give up an rbi single to plate a run. 4-1 Beavs t7 and Whitney has 11 Ks at around 82 pitches.
Beavs loaded the bases with no outs with back to back HBP followed by a walk but Weber grounds into a DP and the Beavs scored 1. B7 5-1 Beavs but the Beavs could have really put it out of reach had they taken advantage of the walks. Keljo in to replace Whitney.
Keljo strikes out the side heading to t8 5-1 Beavs.
Beavs go 1-2-3 in order t8. 5-1 b8.
Keljo gives up back to back singles with one out runners on 2nd and 3rd but ends threat with btob Ks. T9, 5-1 Beavs…
Beavs get a couple of hits including leadoff double by Macias but he’s thrown out at third trying to advance on a weak grounded to the pitcher.. 5-1 b9.
Well, it got a little crazy in the b9 as one out and nobody on and a routine pop fly to Kreig and he drops it. Keljo then gives up a hot and a walk with runners at 2nd and 3rd and the gets btob Ks for the win 5-1. I think Beavs pitchers struck out 18 batters.
Hey Beaver Gopher, did you make it down to Des Moines? Would have seen a couple good wins.
Made it down for yesterday’s game!
Beavers better win that CAL opener:
“California
No team had as much offensive production hit the portal, especially at running back. A potential starter and at minimum a valuable piece of the puzzle for the Sooners, Ott ran for a combined 2,212 yards in his first two years before dipping to 385 yards in 2024. Counting the winter portal, Ott is one of five backs to leave the program; coach Justin Wilcox added three in return, including former North Carolina State backup Kendrick Raphael. Another huge loss this spring was tight end Jack Endries, who transferred to Texas after pulling down a team-high 56 catches last season.”
Qb transferred as well ya?
Good wins, let’s get that’s sweep tomorrow.
So the SD Padres brat the Rockies 21-0…..wow, the Rockies are now 6-33 and their team ERA must be through the roof.
Lineups posted, Iowa has 5 swinging from the left side vs Beavs none. Both squads facing LH pitchers to start.
Iowa starter is their most used reliever, 3:1 k:bb ratio.
Arquette stays at leadoff, peterson dh, Caraway batting ninth.
Iowa pitcher looks pretty darn good.
Kleinschmidt’s pitches are up in the zone and getting behind in the count. I suspect he’s not gonna last more than another inning.
And Dorman does not have anybody throwing yet he clearly does not have it today
I don’t know that we can truly call Arquette an OSU guy, but he’s getting some buzz as a possible #1 overall pick in the upcoming draft. Would be pretty amazing to have 3 #1 picks in a 7 year span come out of the Beavs program.
“Aiva Arquette is squarely in the 1-1 conversation. Now hitting .350 with 17 HRs and 69 RBIs after he punished this hanging SL. Ceiling is immense, advanced athlete who has played well at SS this spring. Bat speed is there, plus power… enticing profile.”
https://x.com/PeterGFlaherty/status/1921319807376322831?t=bFKXXzoJgx7e-yufyvBnDg&s=19
And should not be batting leadoff!!
Saw they walked him on 5 pitches to open the game, haha.
3-0 Iowa
In a shocking development… Our first baseman has struck out again.
The dreaded kryptonite of beaver baseball under Mitch Canham the crafty lefty is kicking our ass
Caraway thrown out on a base running error with our best player and home run threat at the plate! Tell me what he is doing good at this stage?? He can’t hit and gets errors in the field… Why is he still playing?
He’s good at getting put in the starting lineup by Mitch.
Ava Arquette, fumbles what should’ve been the third out of the inning and now they have base runner.
Joey Mundt coming into pitch… Wasn’t he in the same recruiting class as Mitch Canham?
And can’t throw a strike… a walk, and now two batters on base.
Just turned on the game to see WW hit a grand slam…
Mundt should just retire as he’s never been the same since to arm surgeries. Give him the hook now but nope
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So he gives up a double and now ur going to give him the hook? Sheesh, like I just posted, should have hooked him before the guy hit it off the wall. I wouldn’t let Mundt near the mound this season. He can’t throw strikes or get outs.
Wyatt Queen has looked very good his last few times on the mound so I don’t know why they continue to give the ball to Mundt.
Not sure why queen was pulled unless they’re looking to start him vs Portland but Queen has been so sharp and I would have left him in…
Like I said, shouldn’t have pulled Queen. This one is on dorman.
AJ needs only 6 pitches to close out the b9, 5-5 tie Singer, Reeder, McEntire due up to start the 10th
Singer/Reeder have 2 of the 3 Beav hits today.
Luck ‘o the Beavs?
Santana a HBP RBI makes it 6-5 Beavs
Tail end of the Hawks order due up (6-7-8)
Go figure as AJ gives it up.. should have stuck with Queen
We just French kissed our sister thanks to Dorman!
ugh!! you had to add “French”
Kiss ur sis?
Tie’s better than a loss for sure……RPI gonna stay in top ten?
Overall I’d say the Iowa pitching staff was a big part of this series. Came in highly rated (vs weak B1G conference) and did practically all they could to give W’s to the Beavs. Even in the tie today they gave more free bases than k’s. Add to that fielding errors aplenty by their staff.
They did 4 hit the Beavs today and only gave up 20 hits in the series…….but a lot of that is on the Beavs bats.
#6 Georgia drops 2 today, #9 Clemson gets 2 L’s this weekend. #2 and #7 got beat yesterday. #1 Texas on the way to a loss today.
Lookin’ good for Beavs to remain in D1’s top 10.
Do you think there’s any way the ducks and beavs could both host super regionals?
Our RPI says we should, but ducks is still pretty suspect. They’re getting dinged for playing so many home games, but also been finishing the season strong
No way they both get supers. Better than 50/50 one doesn’t even get a regional.
Ducks head to Iowa for 3 now…….is Iowa “due”?
Just Win.
It’s going to be another one of those postseasons where the weather is crappy in Texas and the other SEC home locations, while it’s perfect in the Pacific NW
The only reason I think Dorman pulled Queen was they plan to start him against Portland. If they start someone else and not Queen, then pulling him was even more questionable than I originally thought.
Did Dorman pull Queen? I can’t tell from the 20+ comments about it. lol
Yes he did after 4 Ks in two innings and one hit. It’s still a mystery to me bc Queen has been pretty much lights out his last few appearances. Like I said, he might have done it bc he intends to start him on Tuesday against Portland and Portland can be a dangerous team.
I didn’t realize Iowa WAS in first place in the Big10. That’s got to count for something. And how in the hell does a school with the resources of Ohio State have such a putrid baseball program?
Still #1, a game ahead of UCLA and 2 ahead of nike
Bc they put all of their resources into football.
Tie? That’s not baseball
But is it French Kissin’ ??
Tongue tied?
When you have to catch your flight back to Portland, that’s the rule so it is like French kissing your sister.
Warren Nolan has OSU RPI at #6 and shows the 37-12-1 record but D1 hasn’t updated their rankings yet. Georgia is ranked #1 so……
If the Beavs win out, I think they have an excellent chance to be a national top 8 seed but they can’t afford to loose another game imo.
…….to lose…..
Zero shot, 4 quad home wins will lower their RPI/SOS not increase it. Iowa being neutral vs road hurts because they take two from Oregon they’ll be top 60, but neutral needs to be top 40 for Q1. But if you want to play the game, Hawaii needs to win out and get in the top 60 RPI currently at 63, that adds 3 Q1 wins. Without a conference tournament we can’t help our resume, so any change of get top 8 would have to be a complete collapse of teams in the 5-8 range.
I think the SEC gets 6 of the top 8 and ACC get the other 2. LSU, Auburn, Vandy, Texas, Georgia and Arkansas from the SEC, NC and FSU from the ACC. I think 6 of the 8 are locks, with only Arkansas and Georgia as a question marks if they lose this weekend follow by first round exits from the SEC tournament. But if Arkansas losses to Tennessee, I think Tennessee would then jump us so… maybe Georgia but they’d have a top 3 RPI and a top 10 SOS, so I again I think we’d lose that comparison.
Oregon State needed to leave no doubt without a conference and going 0-4 against the Dux left plenty of doubt.
Please outline your top 8, because our RPI is great but only because of our unbalanced Home and Away schedule and we have no idea how the committee will treat ORST without a conference. I wish I looked through the word with orange colored glasses.
Travel is a real liability, though.
Why dismiss it?
Remember when the schedule came out, there were some complaints that there were a lot less home games. And then everyone looked again and noted all the travel and how hard that would be.
If you don’t reward travel, half the SEC RPI breaks down.
And the ducks have played 36 home games and only 15 on the road as opposed to the Beavs 35 away from Goss and only 19 at home……
SEC RPI is all built on 18-24 in-conference games (this year exclude Mizzu, SC and home games against UK, MSST and A&M) and not losing easy non conference games. Dux don’t have the in-conference schedule to get the top 10 RPI with that unbalanced of a schedule.
We found the RPI loop hole, and no one knows how the committee will react to it. If Hawaii sneaks into the top 60, weight of Hawaii and UCI will be the same in the RPI based on location.
These comments are laughable through the entire game. Why is anyone shocked or all of a sudden concerned that Dorman doesn’t handle the staff well? This has been the case for 5 years. Why are you frustrated that the bats are silent against lefties with good off speed stuff? We’ve seen that for several years. Why the angst over needing to win every game as a guarantee to maintain some slim chance at a top 8 national seed? I thought you said it isn’t realistic to expect to win every game. If they had won the games that were blown by bad baseball earlier in the season, they would be fine. But now it is “Just win”? Why wasn’t it “just win” in March or April? Instead it was, “…hey, that’s baseball, you can’t win them all…”
The tie in baseball is something you never see, so I guess “that’s baseball”? Your ‘that’s baseball” nonsense was the crutch to excuse bad baseball mid-season , as well as obvious flaws in this team, and now you are saying this team needs to win every game. Well news flash, this team isn’t that good and the coaching isn’t that good, and the roster is undisciplined, and the coaching philosophy isn’t going to work at this level of baseball. Prepare to not host beyond a regional, and bow out either in an upset at Goss or at an SEC stadium for the super regionals again. Mitch is going to kill this program, and Dorman needs to be fired.
Don’t even lose sleep over the idea of NikeU hosting. Of course they will host, and it will be the Big10 story of the year how “another great midwest team gained enough respect to get a top 8 seed in this field of tremendously talented SEC teams”. OSU will get respect in polls, but will be screwed by any ESPN driven committee.
Thank you. All the #s nonsense, evaluations, what ifs about other teams, discrimination against an independent team, Dorman’ questionable decisions, what is Canham saying?, distill, for me, a sense of “meh.”
Thought i posted this earlier but i must not have hit send.
Apologies if i double post.
D1 baseball has Beavs at #7 and ducks at #5
What’s the best case scenario, in terms of numbers, regarding B1G endings?
Nikegon takes two of three, and UCLA wins out? That would give UCLA the easiest path in their tourney, with Iowa in second. The numbers seem to favor our losses to the ducks more than our wins over others do. I guess “quality losses” is a thing.
Seems like we want oregon to keep winning as much as we hate to see it.
If Beavs win out, we should be in top 10 in the polls and RPI. But with no Pac12 tournament after we’ll likely lose ground after this week unless the top 10 teams have terrible showings in their conference tourney games.
I don’t think they get dinged for a game away. And we get Iowa one quality win, to go with their quality tie.
I’m assuming UCLA clears the other side of the bracket in my scenario. That would be good for us. What I can’t really tell is who we want to emerge from the 2 side, in terms of winning. It’ll be a neutral site?
Baseball America has Beavs at #11 and ducks at #9.
SEC has 6 of the top 10 spots
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/college-baseball-top-25-rankings/
Beavs on the bubble for a top 8 seed. Seems strange but it’s true. Beavs did what they needed to do in scheduling and game the RPI system. While most of us know the Beavs have some very serious underlying issues, the committee doesn’t look that close.
Will the committee give the Beavs more credit for having the majority of their schedule on the road? Their road record is better or comparable to all in the top 16 RPI rankings. Probably won’t give that much weight to the neutral site games.
As noted before, it does help if Oregon wins out giving the west at least 3 host sites (with UCLA). Doubt UC Irvine sneaks in as a host, even if they win out.
One note, the committee might use the KPI metric more this year. This ranks wins and losses vs expectation. No idea how the calculation works basically, how bad was that loss and how good was that win. Beavs worst loss, vs Minn. Best win vs UCLA. Losses to Oregon were near net neutral. Beavs rank 14 in those rankings which is closer to what we see with our eyes.
So I think Beavs split the difference. 10-12 seed based on all the metrics plus teams rising and falling from conf tourneys.
We’ll need a 2 seed to step up in the other regional to get a super.
Agreed. Even if the beavs win out the last 4? Being a top 8 national seed looks dicey.
No bad losses but that 5-8 quad 1 record is suspect
As far as the Dorman issue is concerned, he interacts with his pitchers virtually every day. He sees them throwing batting practice, talks to them about how their arm is doing and most likely asks how their studies are going among other issues. Therefore, he has inside information about what’s going on between their ears and sees their performance in practice as well as on the field. Unfortunately, we as fans only see them maybe pitch once a week or maybe twice. So even though I might question some of Dorman’s moves, I think he is in a much better position than any of us as far as decision making is concerned.
It’s always easier from the outside looking in to judge someone else’s decisions. We only get a brief snapshot of the pitchers performance whereas Dorman lives it and breathes it on a daily basis…Does he make mistakes? I’m sure he will admit he does, but he has made many more correct decisions than incorrect ones. After all, the beavers are 37-12-1 so that’s a pretty good indication he’s doing a lot more right than wrong.
There’s always much more going on behind the scenes than we.will ever know or see bc we have a very limited viewpoint and he doesn’t.
I get the feeling Dorman would have changed Greg Maddux mechanics to try and get more velocity
I guess we’ll never know although I’d like to think that Dorman knows how to handle his pitching staff better than I think I can or any of us for that matter. That’s not a knock on anyone just pretty much a fact.
For sure. Dorman is all in on spin rates and analytics to increase velocity. He isn’t interested in having his pitcher control the zone, the art of pitching to spots, keeping a hitter off balance and changing speeds etc. I’d say the lack of concern over hbp, walks and no bullpen depth is proof enough.
In case Esucks wants to conjecture otherwise, we already have seen Dorman fixate on velocity every off season, and geek out about how his staff has the most plus 95 mph guys blah blah. He isn’t interested in recruiting anyone remotely like a Maddux or Glavine and it is folly. Dorman is under the impression that if they already throw hard, it means a lot of strikeouts against inferior hitting talent. His problem is the last part of the equation is missing- throwing hard in the actual strike-zone. Nolan Ryan, and Tom Seaver don’t come along every year but Dorman is coaching like he has the 1968 Mets pitching staff, but he is delusional at that point.
On3.com currently has the Beavs as a projected #7 seed…..
Projected pairings includes Kentucky, TCU and Nevada so it’s a tough regional if it ends up that way.
Oregon is projected as a #13 seed paired with Cal poly, Oklahoma and Murray State.
Again, this is just a projection.. I would imagine OSU gains some points for playing several away games and their national pedigree so we shall see.
Just win out going 4-0 and see where the chips fall.
Lucy is teeing it up for you again, Chuck.
If you actually think they get a top 8 seed, you are crazy. Not only do they not play like a top 8 seed, they don’t have enough separation from a multitude of SEC teams to get the nod over even one of them. Beavs are competing against a couple of ACC teams or a notorious Big10 team for the 8th spot and that seems generous. Prepare yourself. I think they lost the top 8 on the Nebraska trip and didn’t do anything to redeem themselves by sleepwalking through the series in Eugene. No shot at a top 8.
Like I said, this is all projections by a fairly reputable site so we shall see. Is all the Beavs need to do is win out and let the chips fall where will.
….fall where they will.
“I think they lost the top 8 on the Nebraska trip and didn’t do anything to redeem themselves by sleepwalking through the series in Eugene.”
So very true.
From what I just read, On3 is considered a pretty reliable source but it really depends on how the final week and conference tourney play out.
Did On3 say they’re a reputable source?
Or somebody else?
I always thought On3 was basically the equivalent to Barstool sports
Google On3 sports and it will take you to Wikipedia that provides a history of the site, provides an overview of their reliability and references their accuracy in recruiting projections in CFB and projection services.
As I stated more than once, their current projections are just that…projections.
D1 didn’t have current CBB tourney projections available, or I would have referenced their projections. As far as I could tell, On3 was the only site that had current projections.
How reliable they are compared to D1 or other CBB baseball services is anyone’s guess. I’d certainly consider D1 a better source if they had projections available but that’s based on name recognition only rather than quantifiable metrics.
Either way, the Beavs have played 65% of their games away from Goss, have a solid RPI, good SOS, a national reputation as a blue blood, 10 and 12 game winning streaks as well as a projected top 5 pick in this MLB draft and those things certainly won’t hurt the Beavs chances when the committee makes their selections.
Will those factors be enough to get a top 8 seed along with a 42-12 record if the beavers win out? We shall see but to suggest they won’t is being somewhat presumptuous bc none of us are on the selection committee and there’s always going to be some subjectivity or bias for or against as we’ve seen in prior years.
D1 had us at 14 behind the Dux at 13 last week. Fringe host, not national seed. Baseball America had us in a similar spot. Projections come out tomorrow, guess we move up 1/2 spots ahead of Clemson and Tennessee.
RPI is the only metric that has us in the top 8, because it heavily weighs away and neutral site games.
Was that tourney pairing projections bc I looked earlier and couldn’t find anything current by D1 projected tourney pairings?
Got it. Thx
https://brobible.com/sports/article/washington-huskies-baseball-stadium-lights-warner-pacific/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKPgtpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoIVQfy1zPn1EdZM1fbk-8bopM32xlUaq4fzN_U-MPeeIc0zJBLFJgaqCzFL_aem_dU2BTAS7dFpSOcg30yOkBw
Loler
5 innings is official, why would this game not count?
I have no idea.
I had no idea college kids were gambling on sports so much:
“Following sports betting’s legalization in 2018, 67% of all college students are betting on games, according to a 2023 study from the National Council on Problem Gambling. Gambling experts believe that number is likely even higher now, thanks to the prevalence of apps and a growing market that has captivated more young people. It’s a craze that has swept college campuses, and for some young people, it leads to complex, debilitating addictions. The problem, addiction experts say, is widely misunderstood.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/05/13/sports-betting-college-kids-teens-health/83391628007/
Reminds me of when I was in college and students would be playing certain video games for days in a row. No one to really check on them.
Listened to the D1 podcast on the field of 64.
According to the nerds: Beavs would probably be a solid 8 seed if not for the Oregon series. Unfortunately no one can look past the Beavs going 0-4 against Oregon. They think it confirms the Beavs RPI is being inflated by away game wins against average teams.
Summary:
Seeds 1-7 (Florida State and 6 SEC teams)
Seed 8 (UNC or Oregon in that order)
Seed 10, 11, 12 (UCLA or Coastal Carolina or Oregon State)
Based the conversation, I’d give the Beavs about a 5% chance to be a top 8 seed. Their RPI is keeping them in the conversation. Would probably need UNC, Oregon, and UNC to end on a skid.
I’m guessing if Oregon sweeps Iowa and wins the BIG, they’ll get a top 8 seed in order to add a west coast team. Aside from that it’s probably UNC due to Oregon’s RPI being in the twenties.
Interestingly there was some additional conversation by the D1 baseball staff that implied the system is a bit broken. SEC teams get tons credit due to RPI and strength of schedule but with these super conferences now, more focus needs to be on who you actually beat.
Unfortunately the selection committee will probably use that logic to dock OSU because the Oregon debacle but will move away from that logic and give average SEC teams a bump in the brackets because of their RPI and being in the SEC.
Haven’t had time to listen yet, but I think you are crossing Oregon and UCLA, UCLA is their 9 seed and has a 1 game lead over Oregon in B1G, if Oregon wins the weekend series again Iowa and UCLA sweeps Northwestern at home UCLA wins B1G.
Yah UNC, Oregon and UCLA all seemed pretty interchangeable in the conversation they were having.
I personally don’t think either UCLA or Oregon has a realistic shot at the 8 seed unless they win the BIG. For whatever reason D1 guys talked about Oregon winning the BIG if they swept Iowa, but you’re right, they’d need UCLA to drop a couple.
Also UNC is on the road against FSU, so I believe they control their own destiny, but if they lose the series it opens the conversation.
Not Beavers related but the blazers are for sale.
Anyone want to go in and buy them as I’ll use my Amazon credit card for a down payment.
For those that want to hold on to hope, the only path to a top 8 is a lazy committee that goes straight RPI and given four quad 4 games left on the schedule a top 8 RPI is a guarantee even if we win out.
*isn’t a guarantee even if we win out.
Agree, very little chance of remaining top 8 in RPI unless there’s some disruption below us.
And the baseball site rankings are already around #10 or worse in most cases.
I hope the Beavs take advantage of the new Hillsboro Hops ballpark in the coming years to put some more quality neutral site games on the schedule. Could be a potential way to draw quality opponents to the PNW and still have the feel of a home game.
Supposed to have a seating capacity of around 6k and should be complete in 2026
Even if it isn’t that high quality of an opponent, it helps and why are RPI is so good this year. Example: beating Washington in Hillsboro is a Q2 win, it would have been a Q3 at Home.
It looks like we schedule up there to stay in a hotel before travel out of PDX.
Otherwise, they would need to meet at 3 am to bus it up there.
Dollars to donuts the cancelled game was why nobody called a bus. Transportation had already been taken care of… from a hotel in Portland.
Surprise, Miiiiitch finally sits Krieg. Petersen plays first and gets double in his first ab.
1-1 mid 5th inning
And he swings at ball four on a 3-1 count and then backwards Ks. 3-1 Beavs T6.
We’ve seen plenty of backwards K’s when Krieg was at the plate, still, ya gotta wonder.
3-3 as Kmatz gives up a 2 run lead. Kmatz out and Edwards in. Lose this game and you leave no doubt or question about the potential of a national seed.
This team cannot hit….
This team will get stomped in their own regional, so probably best if they don’t host and avoid embarrassment.
Bases loaded. Gotta capitalize
Walk and a hit batter. Not ideal way to score runs but better than nothing.
Portland catcher muffs catching a foul ball resulting in the go ahead run on the walk with bases loaded.
12 LOB and can’t get a key hit with runners in scoring position.. This team can’t even make contact when needed to get a runner home..
It’s a poorly coached team that won’t make it past a regional. Accept it and move on.
I don’t accept it until the season is over and the final out is made.
Agreed – and I assume the players are aware of that.
From Freeman:
“Canham stopped himself mid-sentence from saying his team didn’t play well, but it was clear he left Goss longing for more from a group that found itself in a dogfight with the Pilots (21-27) well into the late innings Tuesday night.”
“stopped himself”….and that’s the problem right there, Miiiitch won’t call these guys out for poor play. Gotta hope he is more firm in private, but I kinda doubt it, we were spoiled by a straight shooter like Casey.
Freeman called it a “sluggish” win, he’s not wrong. He does point out the decent performances of DeCremer and Palmer which, IMHO, will really be needed over the next few weeks. Also mentions that Singer and Arquette produced more than half of the hits last night. That’s a big concern for sure.
https://archive.ph/9fwwc#selection-189.0-189.232
Come on, lol. You think Mitch is Mike Riley? Guaranteed they didn’t go have an ice cream social after this one. Likely they are getting ass chewings daily from coaches and other players.
I like coaches who don’t say shit publicly. As a player Marshawn Lynch was the absolute best at it. I don’t blame them I wouldn’t be putting my team on blast publicly.
I doubt they are. If they were we wouldn’t see them lose 4 in a row to the ducks.
“I wouldn’t be putting my team on blast publicly.”
There are different ways of calling out slipshod performance. It’s not necessary to “blast” an individual by name, but calling out specific lapses lets everyone know what’s not acceptable and the offenders will understand exactly who is at fault.
Saying your team didn’t play well (as Mitch wouldn’t do) is hardly “blasting” anyone.
You’re right, there was no ice cream after that “win”, but I think Mitch needs more of Casey’s “I’m not friends with players till they graduate” approach.
Mention of Mike Riley got me thinking, yeah, I do think Mitch is closer to Mike than to Pat in the “hate to lose more than like to win” category.
Totally agree as you don’t call players out publicly. You do it behind closed doors… Management 101.
Isn’t there reason to be sluggish, though?
In the last 37 days, we’ve played 22 games, and this was the fifth we played at home.
If we go back 57 days, that’s 32 games with eight at home.
The one thing I can point to during the season is we were going through a difficult stretch on the road, then came home and got spanked by Irvine. This is similar to that. But the team somehow got right and ran off 12 straight.
Maybe being in their own beds and having a week off helps get them right for another run.
OOB, I know what you mean but that is not Mitch’s style and I don’t find it effective to be the angry coach anyway. Kids are different these days. I do wish he would bench folks sometimes for accountability sake. I think has very professional style which I appreciate.
Jack good point about the fatigue. Baseball is a dang grind and that’s a hell of a stretch of ball to play. Especially that many on the road.
I remember Casey’s teams always having a midseason slump too. Then they turned it on come CWS time. Mitch’s teams are very similar.
Apparently, Uncle Phillip is no longer interested in making a bid for the blazers. I’m not a fan of Phillip but local ownership is important do the blazers remain on Portland..
He offered $2b three years ago. I guess he was hoping for a discount with an open offer. But their valuation is about $3.5b now. He has enough to be a minority partner, but I don’t think he’s the type to take a back seat.
Seems Jody made the right move. Honestly, I am glad to move on from her. Just hope that whoever buys it is different from Stanton who owns the Mariners. Knowing Jody she’ll sell it to some Saudi Prince, which honestly might not be a bad thing, a lot of them are very passionate about sports.
I agree about Paul’s sister selling but I don’t think I’d take $$$ from a country that is ruled by one of, if not the most despicable governments on the planet for human rights violations not to mention 16 of 19 terrorists responsible for 9/11. I don’t let go of grudges especially the 9/11 attack….
Too many qualified domestic buyers will make bids, so League ownership wouldn’t even try to justify foreign money.
Then again, who the hell knows what the NBA ownership won’t do? If Corvallis can tell China to stick it where the sun don’t shine, certainly a bunch of wealthy crust can one up them.
I think the NBA does allow passive funding up to some limit. And that can be foreign money. But it can also be PE funding and pension investments.
I was about to comment re: Saudi princes but no politics . . .
It’s a great investment. If Jensen Huang isn’t going to bankroll the Beavs, it would be a nice consolation for me if he purchased the Blazers.
No idea if he was a Blazer fan at all during his Aloha HS years, but those would have been some good years to be following them.
If I had $3.5b in disposable income, I would buy an NBA team.
Was reading he graduate from Aloha in 1981, at the age of 16 after skipping 2 grades, because of course he did.
His infamous Denny’s job started in 1978, so he would have likely been here when Blazermania was at it’s peak, until Walton’s foot gave out
D1 Baseball project a Corvallis Regional with “#7 Beavers,” TCU, Kentucky, and Nevada.
Eugene regional w/ “#13 Oregon,” Oklahoma, Cal Poly, Murray State.
Their May 13 projection shows:
OSU #12 vs Kentucky, USC, and Sac State
nike #9 vs Wake, Kansas St, and Nevada
https://d1baseball.com/stories/2025-d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-may-13/
CFB playoff committee is apparently going to eliminate 1st round byes for conference champions in the CFB playoffs……more games, more money.
Nope, that change is to stop teams like ASU or Boise St from benefitting from a bye ahead of Ohio St or Texas. They realized that the set-up they had wasn’t fool-proof to build in additional advantages for Big10 and SEC teams, so they did some math and figured out that there are 4 byes and only 2 conference champs between SEC and Big10. This change makes it possible to easily relegate the perceived lesser conference champs behind the 2nd place teams from SEC and Big10. Until they add more teams, I figure the top four teams getting byes will only be from the SEC or Big10, ensuring a better chance that they get to or win the championship.
The more games, more money is coming in the next version, but this is strictly a foil to any future Pac12, ACC, Big12 champs. They will not be allowed another advantage like ASU and BSU had last year. Unfortunately, ASU had their win stolen from them in real time.
USAToday projection:
Corvallis region
Oregon State (9)
Mississippi
Arizona State
Sacramento State*
Eugene region
Oregon (14)
UC Irvine*
Xavier
Nevada*
(* denotes teams that are automatic qualifiers based on current conference standings.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/baseball/2025/05/15/college-baseball-tournament-bracket-projection/83644838007/
That’s a potentially better matchup for the beavers than previous ones I’ve seen although the way the Beavs aren’t hitting the ball right now……
Second game in a row Peterson starts at 1b, batting 7th.
Macias dh
Segura 43 pitches through 4.
Beavs up 2-0 mid 4th
Segura gives up first hit with 2 down a bb, hbp, then a single makes it 2-1 Beavs. Oaks on to stop the damage.
t6 Beavs have 2 hits, Dirtbags 1
ADDED: Oaks closes out the t7 with a very nice 1-4-3 DP
I don’t know of a better name for a college baseball program than the Dirtbags.
Ducks beat Iowa 10-0.
#6 Auburn goes down to Ole Miss
#4 North Carolina gets a road win vs Fla State
#8 Arkansas in trouble vs Tenn
Freeman seems to think the best dirtbag arm is on the mound tomorrow. Hmmmm
With our hot hitting, that spells trouble.
So much talk across Beaver sites about whether or not we’ll be a top 8 national seed. Does anyone else think we’re putting the cart before the horse here? I’m not supremely confident this team even makes it to the Super Regionals with how inconsistent they can be.
Just keep winning is all I can say. It’s a whole new season after this week.
That’s pretty much been the theme of the last 2 threads. We’re not a top 8 team.
OOB has been saying “Just keep winning” pretty much daily all season.
Yup, just keep winning; that’s the only thing Beavs can control………NCAA, Ranking sites, ESPN, news media all gonna do what they do and aren’t looking out for OSU.
So, just keep winning.
LBS did split a two game series with UCLA losing 12-1 and winning 4-2. They have two pitchers in the top 14 ERA for their conference so I fully expect the next two games to be just as tight as today’s game.
At 1:31 you can see that 1-4-3 DP which Oaks used to close out the t7. Good move by the ump and, especially, Singer. In two starts at first, no complaints about Peterson’s D.
https://youtu.be/fm70xftMDcM
A couple of swings and missed pitches by beav batters were announced as 85 mph. Apparently they can’t hit slow pitches. There were at least 4 almost homers which became cans of corn. Always swinging for home runs can be in vain. Understated Canon Reeder doesn’t get enough kudos.
Something positive from the NIL world of things:
https://athlonsports.com/college/nil-daily/usc-star-recruit-stands-out-for-donation-to-high-school-program
Pac 12 expansion with Bob Lundeberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEYNx3MYsYc
https://youtu.be/SArqvkgkYU4?feature=shared
Wow, that’s not going to get it done:
The OSU offense is hitting just .220 and averaging 5.3 runs in nine games this month. … With the exception of a late-game blunder that led to a tie against Iowa, the Beavers’ bullpen has been exceptional in May. Oregon State relievers are 3-0 with a 2.45 ERA, 1.07 WHIP in 40 1/3 innings this month, during which they’ve recorded 34 strikeouts and allowed 32 hits. … A win tonight would give the Beavers 40 for the season, marking the fourth consecutive year they’ve won 40 or more. … OSU is 15-2 at home this season. … Oregon State junior outfielder Easton Talt went 0 for 3 in Thursday’s series opener, extending his hitless streak to 14 games. He’s 0 for 34 during the slump. Talt did draw one walk, however, giving him 60 this season
Understated or underrated?
3 run bomb and a grand slam in the 3rd. Beavs are halfway to the home run cycle.
Talt may be coming out of his slump just in time.
How about Caraway not sliding into home? He shoulda been called safe but gotta think Casey is shaking his head. A slide would have removed all doubt and meant another run.
Still, 8-0 Beavs with 2 down in the t4.
I think the beavers must have read my above comments and it motivated them…lol
AJ is stinking it up again!
Do we have to get behind before they yank him??
Remember, pitching doesn’t always have to be great but just good enough to get a win…
Kmatz with a nice outing
Even an 8 run lead in the 7th inning might not be enough. Pitching is the glaring weakness for this team, which will need to improve for this team to win a regional.
A 3 run home run followed by another home run is not bad at all! I spoke too soon.
The pitching has been solid over the last 9 games.
#10 Georgia losses at home
#6 Auburn drops another to Ole Miss
Doesn’t hurt to have Auburn slipping, even if it is on the road.
Iowa gonna fool around and give nike the B1G title unless they recover tomorrow.
Hawaii now top 60, so +3 q1 wins is probably thing that help OSU the most. Xavier is 44, if they get to 40 that would give us double digit q1 wins.
SOS has dropped into the 30’s, so that hurts.
Oregon and UCLA shared the B1G title. Oregon is the no 1 seed due to their series win over the Bruins
Just listened to a podcast about the PAC12 expansion and it indicated the mwc teams have until may 30th to officially notify the conference of their intent to leave the Mwc and issue payment of $5M as a DP of their exit fee.
The mediation hearing is scheduled for May 19th so hopefully that will trigger whether or not any other mwc teams decides to leave. Of course this depends on the final agreement for exit and poaching fees.
At issue is whether the Mwc will get the needed money from the mediation to be able to pay UNLV and AF money promised to the to stay. Given the clock is ticking, we should have an ideas before May 30 if the 8th team will be a team from the Mwc.
There is no issue about UNLV and AFA getting their money. The exit fees total $85m. The poaching fees will not be collected, so they are moot.
The May 30 deadline is for paying the $16.5m exit fee, as opposed to double that, if the deadline is missed. And the fee for notice is a $5k money transfer, not $5m.
Thx for the clarification and correction….
Anyone find a vid of the play last night where the Dirtbag second baseman charged the plate to handle a bunt?
This game is getting out of hand but that’s good for the Beavs as keep the pressure on and leave no doubt!
Weber is a 3-bagger away from the cycle in the third inning…11-0 beavers as I think they are really trying to make a strong case for a top 8 seed to finish the month of May 9-1-1.
Easton Talt a 2-run shot to the opposite field 13-0 T7, 15 hits to 1 for LBS. 10 run rule in effect.
Added bonus….ducks softball losing to Furd 3-1 in Eugene regional.
OK, we’ve got some time until “the committee” announces the Regional/Super decisions; how about some glass half full analysis here.
What developments over the last few weeks make y’all think the Beavs will make it to Omaha?
Well, I think think starting pitching has been solid, the defense has been solid and some guys appear to be breaking out of their slump.
A recent item about Talt’s adjustments to hit to the opposite field given pitchers are throwing on the corners instead of inside to him might finally be paying off. He is making better contact and fod hit an opposite field HR today.
Caraway seems to be slowly coming out of his slump along with Macias showing signs too.
Weber had been an absolute nightmare for pitchers for the last few weeks.
Arquette has been good all year long and guys like Singer, McIntire, Reeder (really hitting the ball lately) while Turley has been consistent at the plate too.
All said, the offense might be breaking out of it at the right time.
Caraway has been better at third over the past few games and overall defense in the infield and outfield are making plays.
I think Weber has also stepped up in a leadership role that was needed. on and off the field.
This team certainly has the potential to make Omaha but the biggest issue facing them is inconsistent pitching out of the pen. Good news is they get some time off to tighten things up before regionals and given all of their recent travel,that could help going into playoffs.
Like I said, they certainly have the potential to make it but they just need to put it altogether now. Will they do that, I guess we will see bc the quality of opponents will be much stronger than we’ve seen the last two weeks.
Also a change at first.
Also a change at first.
Yes, especially at the plate as Petersen as done a solid job defensively at 1st base too.
I don’t know who it was that said “that’s baseball.” But the reality is the difference between an RBI line drive double and a line drive diving catch by the SS then doubling off the runner is often half an inch. The win in 2018 wouldnt have been a win without a fluke drop by Arkansas. This isn’t to excuse shortcomings with Mitch or Dorman but I’ve always said and I still maintain, get to the postseason, host a regional or hopefully a super and give yourself a chance. I don’t really think this team has what it takes to win it all but I don’t think you can count them out either cause it’s baseball.
Yep, that’s what I’ve been saying…..it’s baseball so expected the unexpected. A game and a season can turn on a dime just like Arky as you pointed out.
Never made a Omaha without hosting a super, so the biggest positive would be Hawaii and Xavier now being q1 wins and having 10 q1 wins helping our case for national seed, and we stayed at 6 RPI, negative from this week would be oregon’s case got stronger with an RPI of 12, 4-0 against OSU, higher SOS, 9-1 versus q1 and a share of the conference title
True but the ducks played a very heavy home schedule and the Beavs played the opposite.
You understand that only thing keeping ORST RPI in the top 10 is our heavy road schedule, if you invert our schedule, we’d have 3 q1 wins and an RPI in the 30s.
I really worry about a two week break between games. Everyone else in the NCAA tournament will be playing conference tournaments next week.
While true, their pitchers will not be as well rested as the Beavs and the Beavs will have intra squad games to keep pitchers and the team ready.
If was Dorman, of have his pitchers throwing beaver hitters a steady diet of off speed breaking pitches in these practice games.
I actually think it’s an advantage for the beavers going into post season bc they can work out some bugs but still get the work in without pressure of playing in a conference tourney. Once you hit the playoffs, you need fresh arms and the beavers will have those.
Segura, Keljo, Whitney, Kleinschmit and Queen have been very good so hopefully the bullpen can pick up the slack going into regionals.
https://osubeavers.com/news/2025/5/15/baseball-triple-play-weekend-coming-to-goss-stadium-may-23-25
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Interested in watching a movie on the field at Goss Stadium? How about checking out who can hit the most home runs? Or maybe you’d like to get autographs from your favorite Beavers, or maybe the whole team?
Here’s your chance May 23-25 when the Beavers are off on a baseball bye weekend.
Oregon State will be scrimmaging for approximately four-to-five innings all three days. And Beaver Nation, you are invited.
On Friday, the Beavers get underway at 5:30 p.m. Following the scrimmage, fans will be welcomed to the field to get autographs with the team. Once those are complete, fans are invited to stay and take a seat in the outfield at Goss Stadium for a special screening of The Sandlot.
OSU is back at it again Saturday with a 1 p.m. start. The Beavers will host a home run derby at Goss Stadium following the intrasquad exhibition. Participants and rules for the derby will be available closer to that Saturday.
The team will cap its weekend with another approximate four-to-five inning scrimmage at Goss with a 1 p.m. start.
In addition to the home run derby, they should have a contest on hit placement, not just swinging for the fences. They’re good enough at that already.
And suddenly, baseball is a relevant sport for duck fans except when the beavers won 3 titles it was an irrelevant sport. Lol
I need help understanding how UGA has the #7 strength of schedule while OSU has an SOS of 39, but when you comlarw both teams’ Q1/2/3/4 numbers they’re actually very similar. In fact OSU has a much better Q2 resume than UGA.
Is SOS calculated at the beginning of the year and static?
https://x.com/KendallRogers/status/1924134672411365734?t=bR40bi7otcnLo8Wl3P3sOQ&s=19
comlarw = compare
https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2025/sos-rpi
Also note 5 of 10 Q1 wins are barely Q1 with Xavier and Hawaii on the fringe and could swing to q2 when selections are made
UGA is in the SEC so they automatically have a high SOS. Also then no one questions another SEC team’s eventual super regional host site, and propagandized public perception wins championships for ESPNSEC.
Beaver signal is up from Bray. Any guesses as to who committed?
https://247sports.com/player/braylon-toliver-46152402/
Small School offers, but Yale offer suggests brains, Navy offer good character. Bray et al have a good record with tallish DBs and this guy is not likely done growing.
I think he’s a RB. Likes to play downhill a lot. Plays bigger than his weight. He can still put on 20-30 pounds and probably increase his speed.
Hatcher, btw is 15 pounds bigger than when he arrived.
Baseball America says, “Even with a sparkling record and top 10 RPI, this pick comes with some hesitation. Oregon State simply hasn’t been tested the way it was in the Pac-12, and that leaves questions about how it will respond against postseason-caliber depth. That said, a 33rd-ranked strength of schedule isn’t a red flag—and the Beavers have been consistently dominant all year. Between that and their postseason pedigree, we’re sticking with the pick and projecting Oregon State to Omaha for the first time since its 2018 national title.”
“consistently dominant all year”?…..but there is that postseason pedigree. ummm, OK
USA Today, in a piece last Thursday, has the Beavs at #9. Hosting SacState, Mississippi and Arizona State.
Sounds about right. Good team but great? maybe. Top 8 seems unlikely even if there are some massive upsets.
I still think they’ll be slotted around 10-12 and have to go on the road to get to the CWS.
The fact they’ve played so many games away from Goss has probably gained some attention and how difficult it is to win on the road. At the same time, I’ve repeatedly said their history and pedigree plays a factor in their perception as a great team at 41-12-1.
I don’t think they’ve been great this year but having 10 and 12 game winning streaks probably adds to that perception. I certainly think they have the potential to make a run but they have to demonstrate it on the field and put it all together.
“Oregon State simply hasn’t been tested the way it was in the Pac-12”
Um… wait a second. So we were tested last year in the Pac 12, but this year… we’re not?
“That said, a 33rd-ranked strength of schedule isn’t a red flag”
Especially when we compare it to last year’s SoS of 55… you know… when we were being tested in the Pac 12.
So Mick Abel went for Philly today against Paul Skenes and Pittsburgh and Philly won.. Abel went 6 innings and struck out 9 to out duel Skenes and won 1-0 for his first win this season…
Abel from the CWS?
Nope. That was Kevin, but:
“Abel made his major league debut as the starting pitcher for the Phillies against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citizens Bank Park on May 18, 2025.[22] He threw six scoreless innings, and striking out nine batters with no walks. He tied Curt Simmons for the most strikeouts in an MLB debut by a Phillies pitcher since at least 1901.[23”
Mick Abel committed to OSU after his freshman year in hs but never played college ball. Went in the first round of the mlb draft.
Monday morning: D1 has Beavs #9 hosting SacState, Okie State, and Northeastern. Down the road in Eugene it’s #8 ducks hosting.
Their top 25 has OSU #7, a couple spots behind nike.
Anyone surprised?
Nope. A SR matchup in Eugene is the most likely outcome.
RPI, pedigree or whatever. That 0-4 vs the ducks would get them the nod over OSU.
Barring some fucky shit happening in the next 2 weeks, I expect that to stay the same. 8 vs 9
It might actually benefit us. That’s not a swampy super in the South with SEC homer umps.
And our fans can travel.
Selfishly I hope the are paired with Vandy because I live in Nashville.
But the whistles…
If the ducks fail in the B10 conference tourney, that could change.
can you post the link? the most recent one I’m seen from D1 is dated 5/14.
https://d1baseball.com/stories/2025-d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-may-18/
The only metric that OSU is beating the Dux is RPI and that’s because we’ve found a loop hole and played a ton of average teams on the road. If you invert our schedule, home and away and our RPI is in the 25-35 range. They have a better SOS, 9-1 versus Q1, conference title and smoked us head to head.
Bazzana injured with what they call side discomfort. Sounds like an intercostal muscle strain.
FWIW….Beavs get a 3* RB commitment for 2026 from state of Colorado. He didn’t have a great offer sheet either.and it’s just a verbal so……
Same guy AKBeaver posted about yesterday or another one?
I missed AKB yesterday and just read about the guy today on OregonLivr. Looking at AKB post from yesterday it is the same guy so forgive the redumbnancy oversight.
“Three-star running back Braylon Toliver announced his commitment to the Beavers on Sunday. Toliver — hailing from Erie, Colorado — is the fourth commit in OSU’s class so far.
Toliver is listed at 5-11, 184 pounds. He also had offers from North Dakota State, Air Force, Army and Ball State. According to the social media post announcing his commitment, he will join the Beavers in January.
Listed as an athlete after having played both running back and safety in high school, Toliver is the No. 151 athlete in the country and No. 26 recruit in Colorado according to 247Sports’ rankings.”
Sounds small for RB or Safety? Surely not done growing though.
Thx for the update. He sounds like he’s got some pretty good credentials being #151:,in the country so I wonder why his offers were so underwhelming?
In the past he’d probably have more offers from bigger schools but with the transfer portal, programs don’t have to take kids like this anymore. He’ll probably need to RS a year and then work his way up. He’ll be poached after his sophomore year.
Yep, one and dones are so awesome for building program continuity……thx for the additional information.
Freeman up with a short piece on Wilson Weber being named a semifinalist for the Buster Posey Award mentions this:
“Weber has been a rock behind the plate, playing in 52 of the Beavers’ 54 games this season, including 49 starts. He’s committed just two errors, produced a fielding percentage of .996, and thrown out 15 would-be base stealers, anchoring a defense that ranks sixth in college baseball with a .982 fielding percentage.”
How about that, Beavs overall D sixth in the nation!
Just saw a post that showed the beavers baseball team traveled just under 23.5k miles this season. That’s a lot of miles……
Who knew beavers could fly?
The back to back weekends in Hawaii and Iowa added 10k miles alone
Another 1500 miles will surpass the circumference of the earth.
Omaha is 1536 miles from Corvallis.
didn’t even know this guy was on the team last year, but he has transferred to UAB
https://x.com/Jholmes_2/status/1924160221876039904
Cheering guide to conference tournaments this week
Hawaii – Broke into the top 60 in RPI to give the Beavs a winning quad 1 record. Needs to at least win the first game to stay there. Plays into UC Irvine
Cal Poly to make the conf final
UC Irvine to win the tourney
Maybe Nebraska? They sit just outside the top 60. Would push the quad 1 record to even but improves the SOS. Ducks are in their pool, so maybe a double bonus if they win their pool?
Indiana (had they not lost today)
UCLA to win the conf tourney
Virginia – Probably needs to reach the ACC finals to get them into the top 40.
Cheer against all teams ahead of these ones.
Even with the best outcomes, Beavs will only move up a spot but help the case for a top 8 seed as unlikely as that is.
Xavier is the other team that needs to win a game or two, they sit at 39.
Nebraska was the team that creeped back up that surprised me, sitting at 62 after winning yesterday.
We have a ton of games of the fringe of Q1 and could end up with an many as 11 Q1 wins (assuming Nebraska sneaks into the top 60), but as few as 3 if things break wrong. UCLA and Cal Poly are the only firm Q1. Road is top 60, so I don’t see a scenario either drops that far.
Home Q1 Top 25
UC Irvine Current RPI 24
Neutral Site Top 40
Xavier Current RPI 39
Road Top 60
UCLA Current RPI 15
Cal Poly Current RPI 41
Hawaii Current RPI 59
Nebraska Current RPI 62
OT: My youngest is going to be a Beaver. He’s going to be playing Rugby for the Beavs next fall. He turned down some D3 Football offers because he loves Corvallis. If you’ll indulge me, I may post a score or two. They play in the same conference as such hated rivals as the Huskies and Quacks.
Congrats! What position(s)?
Thank you. He plays fullback usually. Sometimes, other backline positions. There’s a solid chance he may get a small scholarship. They call it a “stipend,” I think. Beav recruiters came to his game last Saturday.
Which team does he play for? I have a guess in my head based on the fullbacks we’ve played against this year.
Eastside Tsunami
My son if the Flyhalf for Linn-Benton Lions
Cool. Your son’s team had a solid offense this year. That was the first time in about 20 games that Tsunami gave up five tries.
That is not “off topic” at all by the way!
Congratulations to him, and good on him for pursuing an opportunity in a place he wants to be. Sounds simple, but not always so in practice.
Congrats to you for getting him to this stage, I hope it works out well for all of you!
His dream is still to play football for the Beavs. Who knows, if he excels on the pitch, maybe it gets a walk-on tryout down the road.
So, how’s everyone feel about the fact that the new Pac12 still doesn’t have a media rights deal (beyond the lame duck year next year) or an 8th full member that has a football program?
The lack of messaging around these two offseason goals from the league office can only mean bad things, right?
They are tied up in multiple lawsuits, just started multi-faceted mediation with the MW, still awaiting the final outcome and fallout from the House Settlement and P4 takeover of football governance/enforcement, probably the beginning of the football super-league incoming shortly.
It is such a cluster/shitshow, I’m not sure why people have had any expectation that it was going to be as easy as adding TXST/UNLV, Memphis, Tulane, collect $15m+ per school and everyone moves on happily ever after. There’s so much going on and and in flux at once, and every school has to try to see the forest for the trees based on which domino might fall next.
I don’t think there is a shortage of 8th football member options, or that there is much difference between any of them that would move the needle as far as media rights one way or another. Of course, we all want some combination of UNLV, TXST, Memphis, Tulane, USF, UConn etc, but at the same time the whole landscape is shifting and it may not make any sense for the new Pac-12 to be a Football league if all of a sudden there’s a football only super-league breakaway and only OSU/WSU/BSU/CSU/USU want to pay $ to play. If that’s what they see happening, it would make more sense to “merge” with the MW to form a regional Olympic-sports centered conference while those that have the $ to buy into the football super-league can do so.
I see the “lack of messaging” as a symptom of the larger disease, but don’t really see it as “no news must mean bad news”. They can’t really do any messaging or marketing if they don’t know what the outcome of the lawsuits and governance changes are going to be, because they don’t want to negatively impact their position in any of those negotiations or narrow their strategic options in navigating all the shifting pieces.
Lawyers will handle the lawsuits. They’re pretty standard. House isn’t standard, but we know what its stipulations are… if it’s accepted. So you’re correct about waiting on that to be finalized.
The Barnes interview with Daschel was interesting. The last time he broke radio silence like this was back in late August. And he talked like expansion would occur sometime in the spring. Two weeks later, we had a bunch of new schools.
My gut tells me it’s just going to be two schools from Texas. And the two that make sense are TXST and UNT… with DBU as a baseball affiliate.
Money will decide everything else.
Beavs just re-offered a 5* RB from Richmond, TX and he runs a10.57 100 meter and is 5’8″. I’ll give you one guess who his cousin is. ….
James Rodgers?
Bingo and don’t forget the Quizzard of Corvallis!
Landeb Williams-Callis
Tenn beating Alabama tonight seems like a positive for the Beavs. Vols move up to #12 RPI while Bama drops to #11.
But who am I kidding, Beavs will get punished for no conference tournament and sitting idle this week
Has Oregon State baseball done enough to host through super regionals? A look at the Beavers’ resume
CORVALLIS — After polishing off another 40-win regular season with a dominant weekend sweep over Long Beach State, the Oregon State baseball team strolled away from Goss Stadium carrying a unanimous and unyielding belief:
They should be a top eight seed in the NCAA baseball tournament, which would deliver home-field advantage on the road to the College World Series.
“We still think we’re the best team in the nation,” OSU junior outfielder Easton Talt said. “And we still think we’re going to host a regional, host a super (regional), and then go to Omaha. We have all the confidence in the world of this team and we’re ready to go.”
But will the selection committee see things the same way?
While every other top 25 team in the country spends the week playing in conference tournaments that could bolster their postseason resumes, the independent Beavers will hunker down in Corvallis, grinding through a week of practices, scrimmages and workouts. Their postseason case has already been sealed.
Has Oregon State (41-12-1) done enough to land a top eight seed? It’s hardly a lock, but we’ll know for sure on Memorial Day, when the 64-team tournament field is announced.
Until then, here’s a look at the good and the bad of the Beavers’ postseason resume:
THE GOOD
The RPI and national rankings
The Beavers have consistently been ranked among the nation’s best in both the college baseball polls and the RPI, an important analytical measuring stick for determining postseason seeding.
Oregon State ended the regular season ranked inside the top 10 in all five major polls, including No. 7 on three ballots. Rankings don’t necessarily weigh heavily into the selection committee’s decision, but perception helps, and the Beavers are widely considered one of the top eight teams in the nation. More importantly, Oregon State also ended the season ranked No. 6 in the RPI, finishing above teams such as North Carolina, Alabama, LSU and Clemson. The Oregon Ducks, who ended the season as hot as any program in the country and swept the Beavers in April, are No. 12 in RPI heading into the Big Ten Conference tournament.
The schedule … and success
When Canham elected to go independent after the Pac-12 Conference imploded, he put an emphasis on playing extra road games and facing the best and most highly-rated competition he could find. It wasn’t easy.
Some conferences feature so many teams, they don’t have regular-season byes — and open weekends — on the schedule. Also, multiple programs, including more than one from the old Pac-12, snubbed Canham and his offer to continue their longtime series. In the end, the Beavers’ coach put together a relentless, road-heavy slate that not only challenged his team, but also prepared it for what lies ahead in the postseason. The Beavers’ nonconference strength of schedule ranked No. 34 in the nation — the highest among the top 10 in the RPI — and they traveled 23,465 miles during the regular season, playing 35 games on the road or at neutral-site venues.
By contrast, Oregon State played just 19 matchups at Goss, finishing as one of four teams in the top 50 of the RPI to play less than 20 home games this season.
And as they accumulated all those frequent flier miles, the Beavers succeeded. Oregon State is one of 18 teams nationally to reach the 40-win mark and they own the most road and neutral-site victories (24) in college baseball. The Beavers played 32 games against Quadrant 1 and 2 opponents, including 28 away from Goss, finishing 20-11-1 in those outings.
Star power
If talent is a tipping point, the Beavers are in good shape. Oregon State’s roster is littered with star power and depth, featuring multiple players in contention for some of college baseball’s most prestigious national awards, including the Golden Spikes Award, Dick Howser Trophy, Buster Posey Award and Brooks Wallace Player of the Year.
Shortstop Aiva Arquette is in the discussion to be the No. 1 overall selection of the 2025 MLB draft. Outfielder Gavin Turley became the Beavers’ Home Run King this season and is expected to be a high MLB draft selection. Saturday starter Dax Whitney is one of the top freshmen in the nation. Catcher Wilson Weber, who earned a national player of the week award this month, is one of the hottest players on the West Coast. Third baseman Trent Caraway has not had as prolific a season as expected, but he’s still considered a Day 2 prospect. And he’s not alone.
Oregon State opened the season with five players listed on MLB.com’s Top 100 draft prospects list and pitching coach Rich Dorman said he thinks the Beavers could have as many as eight pitchers selected in the 2026 draft.
Goss … and history
Location matters. And in this case, location — or at least venue — matters. Goss is widely considered one of the best places to watch a college baseball game. Just last year, in fact, fans ranked it one of the nation’s 16 best stadiums, according to NCAA.com. In addition to atmosphere, the stadium is no stranger to postseason games. The Beavers have hosted 12 regionals, including 10 since 2005, and seven super regionals over the years. They last hosted a super regional in 2022, falling to Auburn 4-3 in the deciding game.
THE BAD
Ducks disaster
The biggest — and most painful — black mark on the Beavers’ resume is a four-game April sweep against the Ducks. Oregon State’s rival tormented it during a three-game weekend series in Eugene, then dispatched it in a midweek matchup in Corvallis, stunning a red-hot team that owned the longest-active winning streak (12 games) in college baseball and had soared to No. 3 in the national polls.
outscored 28-9 in the four-game no-show, recovered in impressive fashion, closing the season with a 9-1-1 record. The solid finish included series victories against Hawaii and Iowa. But the damage had already been done, and that damage was potentially devastating to OSU’s hopes of landing a top eight seed.
The Ducks used the sweep as a late-season springboard, winning 14 of their last 15 games and surging to No. 4 in the national polls. If one of the final top eight seeds comes down to Oregon and Oregon State — and at least one national publication is predicting that it will — it’s hard to imagine that the selection committee wouldn’t reward the Ducks for their rivalry sweep.
SEC bias
The SEC’s grip on college baseball has tightened in recent seasons, as the powerhouse conference has used its considerable wealth to horde talent from the transfer portal, improve facilities and retain coaches. And the selection committee has enabled the stranglehold.
Over the last three seasons, 30 SEC teams have made the tournament field and 17 have been national seeds. A record 11 SEC teams — or 11.2% — made the field in 2024, including the top three seeds and five of the top seven. Whether this indicates an SEC bias or just represents a reflection of the conference’s depth and talent is in the eye of the beholder. But things aren’t likely to change anytime soon.
The SEC boasts the top five teams — and seven of the top nine — in the RPI and features six teams in top 10 of the national rankings. There are only so many host spots to go around and the SEC is seemingly in position to score an oversized number of them.
Not much help
While Canham loaded the schedule with road games and high-caliber opponents, some of the Beavers’ most high-profile victories have not aged well, as their opponents failed to live up expectations or limped to the regular season finish line.
Oregon State’s statement win over then-No. 2 Virginia in February doesn’t look quite as good in hindsight, considering the Cavaliers (32-15) have tumbled outside the top 25 and plummeted all the way to No. 56 in the RPI. Even worse, UC Irvine, which hovered near the top 10 most of the season, has fallen to No. 20 after suffering inexplicable series defeats at home to San Diego and Cal State Fullerton in May.
The Beavers series victory over the Anteaters in April was perhaps their most impressive of the season.
Add in disappointing defeats against Minnesota, Oklahoma and Nebraska, and the Beavers’ resume could take a back seat to others as the selection committee deliberates over the weekend.
The pundits aren’t picking them
Two major national college baseball publications — D1Baseball and Baseball America — are predicting that the Beavers will not land a top eight seed.
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2025/05/has-oregon-state-baseball-done-enough-to-host-through-super-regionals-a-look-at-the-beavers-resume.html
That’s a great article but I was wondering if OSU had played just 5 more home games, they’d likely have finished with a 46-7-1 record with a more balanced schedule of 30 away from Goss and 24 at home. That kind is record certainly would have guaranteed a top 8 seed.
Owning the most away and neutral sites wins of 24 should play some kind of factor into the final seedings as well the 32 games against Quadrant 1 and 2 opponents, including 28 away from Goss, finishing 20-11-1 in those outings.
We can only hope the ducks get quacked in the B10 tourney along with some SEC teams.
It’s being reported by SI that it is very likely CFB playoffs will expand to either a 14 or 16 team straight seeding format in 2026. I guess that means we will see more SEC teams in the playoffs. Lol
Clownzo reported his source saying “I can’t tell u shit”.
Context? About what?
If we have been paying attention to the messaging coming out of President Murthy, she has consistently said that there will be no merger with the MWC and the ultimate goal is to rebuild the PAC into a viable conference with the hopes of regaining an autonomous 5 status.
In addition, she has also stated their priority is to the student athlete and that does not include lengthy travel in all sports. This suggests the plan is for a western region geographic footprint that will very likely include only schools in this region. Of course these X factor is the ongoing mediation with the MWC on exit and poaching fees as well as the Colorado, Colorado State and Boise State lawsuits against the MWC over exit fees for those schools. Should those exit fees be reduced and poaching fees dropped as part of the mediation, it would potentially open up the door for UNLV to join the PAC despite having signed an MOU with the MWC which is not technically a legal binding contract.
So there are several moving parts that need to play out before an 8th football member is added. If the mediation doesn’t go favorably for the PAC in terms of Mwc exit and poaching fees, it would be extremely hard to see UNLV leave the MWC and would most likely change the PAC’s desire to have just a western regional footprint and, consequently, the PAC could look to Texas State and maybe even UTSA as the 8th and 9th football programs to join. BTW, both schools have baseball programs that could help rebuild the PAC for baseball if the UNLV option is not available.
Bottom line is time is running short and most conferences require a one year advance notice to leave a conference…Given July 1, 2026, is the deadline for the PAC to meet the minimum 8 team requirement, I think we have until June 30, 2025, to announce the 8th school unless there are additional provisions by the other conference in terms of notifications. I think the MWC May 30, 2025, to make a $5K down payment with an official NOI to vacate the conference. I’m not sure what, if any such deadline exists for the AAC or the Sun Belt Conference.
If I was a gambling man, and I’m not, I would bet that UNLV is the most likely to join as the 8th member but again the X factor is mediation.
Probably need to clarify the comment on MOUs not being a legal contract as it depends on whether or not certain conditions are present in the MOU such as: 1) offer/consideration, 2) acceptance, 3) termination clause, and 4) authorized signatures by all parties.
Typically, an MOU is just an agreement to agree and doesn’t consist of binding performance criteria, however, we always had a saying on contract law, of it looked like a duck, quacked like a duck and waddled like a duck, it must be a duck. In other words, if it has all the appearance and legal requirements of a contact, it must be a contract whether it was call an MOU.
I don’t know the ins and outs of it, but what are the chances of getting Cal and Stanford back? Or would that be something further down the road depending on what happens to the ACC?
That’s down the road. Cal has guaranteed revenues up to 2036, and that’s all they’re sure of, if they’re sure of it. They just need the money.
My guess is Texas state joining pac
It depends on the outcome of mediation but Texas State would be a great addition although it’s a little outside of the West footprint but great for recruiting and TV market.
Need a travel partner.
UTSA is a potential partner so we will see.
They’re a redundant market with TXST in. And TXST brings the Austin market with it, as well.
But that’s just the OTA market. The streaming market is dependent on alumni engagement. And the larger the school, the more likely a large population of alums will be watching.
UNT is almost 50k in enrollment, and they pump out a lot of professionals, especially medical and business types. Their alumni are active in all metro areas across the nation. They have a great hoops facility in a talent-rich region. And, since they don’t have a baseball team, we’ll just have to ask Dallas Baptist to be an affiliate.
From what I understand based just on alumni/ad staff rumor mills, the new Pac-12 (OSU/WSU primarily) don’t want sign on the dotted line with TXST until they’ve exhausted all options with UNLV. They want the regionality and the Vegas market. But, TXST is an easy (partial share) 9th football member add (helps a lot with scheduling) so long as they have UNLV locked up first.
To them (OSU/WSU admin), TXST expansion only make sense with further future eastern expansion with multiple travel partners that don’t overlap so bad with TV markets. UNT (alumni base) and Rice (academic prestige) are attractive, but again, only if the conf is ready to expand east in the future with UNLV locked up.
They see a stabilized re-born Pac-12 with OSU, WSU, BSU, CSU, FSU, SDSU, USU, UNLV, and Gonzaga, with a healthy new media rights deal through 2031 as being much more attractive and safe for the likes of Memphis, Tulane, USF, UCONN (football only) etc. to jump ship for (don’t think they are wrong there).
I’ve also heard that the situation internally with the MWC is not great. Long standing MWC members New Mexico and Wyoming feel particularly pissed at Gloria for selling out the entire conference to give a exorbitant amounts of $ to UNLV (and Air Force) to get them to stay. So, they are motivated to negotiate with Pac-12 and reach a resolution and the Pac-12 is trying to leverage that in the mediation process.
On the surface, UNLV is in a super leveraged win/win position, but that is contingent on all of the poaching fees holding up in court/mediation, because that’s where all the money that is promised to them is coming from. If the mediator tells the MWC “sorry, you’re not gonna be able to collect an additional $55+ million” on top of the exit fees, then they don’t have the $ to buy off UNLV/Air Force to stay, and their whole strategy falls apart.
OSU/WSU admin wants a resolution where MWC accepts a sizable (but downsized) payout to let go of UNLV (and probably Air Force to the American). UNLV still gets taken care of, but they’ll want an easy out if the B12 comes calling (could be a deal breaker).
So, it all hinges on how things get resolved with the mediation with the MWC.
Ive been reading and hearing essentially the same thing but the x factor is the mediation so hopefully that gets resolved very soon.
I’ve heard North Texas as a potential candidate too but not as much as UTSA. Personally, I’m hoping that UNLV is the next one to join and that could also include Nevada but until the family breaks on mediation, it’s anybody’s guess.
I still go back to President Murthy’s statement about a western region based conference to minimize travel in all sports with the emphasis being on the student athlete.
If the mediation goes the wrong direction for the PAC ,the strategy for a western based conference will need to change, ie, Texas schools.
the dam breaks on mediation….
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I’d still prefer Tulane or Rice to join with TxSt. Either would expand the market share, would act as a travel partner, and boost the academic prestige of the PACX. and They have baseball pedigrees that most of the PACX sorely lacks.
Well, according to President Murthy, they have set a priority for a regionally based conference and from what I’ve read, those teams are completely off the table. She has also repeatedly said the focus is the student athlete and that does not include lengthy travel for all sports.
As the expansion circus continues, the PAC may very well have to expand their reach but that won’t happen until after 2031 if it happens at all.
Think you’d want/take Baptist as a baseball affiliate either way if Baptist is interested.
Dallas Baptist would be a great addition for baseball.
I’d never heard of Texas St. until these Pac 12 expansion talks began and I’ve still literally never come across a single reference to a Texas St. sports team or player show up in all of my sports viewing, ever. I’m not convinced this university and athletic department actually exists.
Please fuck no to “Texas St.”.
Jabin Trosky has hit the portal, per OLive
Just read that and that’s too bad as he has had tough luck but hopefully he finds a good landing spot.
Nebraska beating the Schmucks 3-1 T3.
4-1 Nebraska B4. Ducks defense not playing error free ball and Grinsell not looking that good. 75 pitches 4 innings.
So far 2 e’s committed by nike, and 2 inning ending GDP’s by nike batters.
Make that 3 e’s, third e leads to 6-1 lead for Huskers, t5. Grinsell gone.
6-1 Nebraska t5 runner on 1st and nobody out. I wonder if the Schmucks lose this game if they will affect their potential #8 projected seeding? Grinsell is out as he got hit pretty hard and Schmucks defense 3 errors and Nebraska looks solid which could help the Beavs SOS
Doubt a loss today affects nike seeding, but GO Huskers. If Huskers could take the B1G tourney that should surely benefit Beavs. Even just one win after today should move Huskers into Quad 1.
I would think so too. Like I commented a few days ago, not playing in a tourney has some benefits especially testing your pitching staff bc once you get into regionals and potentially deeper, you need fresh arms. I guess we will find out on Monday about seeding, but if Schmucks lose, I agree the Beavs will jump them in the national seeds. The Schmucks played a heavy home schedule and the Beavs didn’t.
I’m not so sure a loss today means Beavs go ahead of ducks in national seeding.
Hearing the committee is likely to pay less attention to RPI than we’d like.
Can’t discount the phil phactor $
Ducks line into a DP to end the 7th, still 6-1 Huskers. Third inning ending DP today!
Great double play by Nebraska, 3rd of the game. 6-1 T8 and Schmucks are going down which could be very favorable for the beavers
The announcers are sure slobbering all over the Schmucks but fail to mention zero about their home heavy schedule.
phil phactor $
Yep, that’s true…..
There is nothing to talk about, 15- 20 road games with a few neutral site is the norm. There home schedule isn’t unique in college baseball, look at ACC, BIG 12 and SEC teams. Beavs this year had to go on the road, but we always started the year on the road/neutral sites. We are the exception, not the ducks. We can hope we get credit for our heavy road schedule (helps RPI), but the dux won’t get hurt by heavy home schedule except it does hurt there RPI.
The eyeball test the announcers have referred to isn’t looking 20/20 for the Schmucks today. Now 7-1 b8.
I’m probably being myopic here about the Beavs chances to pass up the Schmucks to get a top 8 seed bc of the 0-4 sweep by the turds down south but you never know.
Easy to see both not hosting Super.
Trying to remember how the 2nd round works.
Lets say a regional winning #1 seed OSU gets matched up with a regional winning #2 seed. Who gets to host?(assuming OSU isnt in the top 8)
Does OSU earn the right to host?
I think it’s the higher national seed but I don’t know for certain.
A winning one seed will always host. #1 seed implies top 16, and there are 16 super regionals.
Nope
Only 8 Supers, 16 regionals with 4 teams each.
Top eight guaranteed to host a super IF they win their regional.
Oops duh my math failed me. But still a #1 seed will always host over a #2 seed (unless there’s a facilities/logistics issue).
ducks throwing in the towel? Bring on a pitcher who has 2.1 innings so far this season? 3 er, 3 bb, 1 k
7-3 final so the Schmucks aren’t invincible especially on the road….
In more important news away from the games people play: OSU rowing coaches involved last month in a river rescue:
“Their courageous efforts undoubtedly saved this person’s life and bring great credit to themselves and the OSU rowing team,” Corvallis Chief of Police Jason Harvey said Tuesday.
No indication of whether or not Cord Wood (now Chief in McMinnville) accompanied the Chief to the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ3gYpgRPDI
If Xavier hangs on to the top 40 RPI we should end the season with 11-11 Q1 record given how the games have gone. DUX down to 18 in the RPI helps. Need NC to lose.
Think you meant Nebby
Per OregonLive, Taylor Young, one of Oregon’s top players, commits to OSU WBB. Last season she led Crater to their first state title defeating South Albany and scored 25 points. She transferred from South Medford to Crater. So Rueck has got another diamond in the rough that will excel in his system. She graduated in 2026 and will join OSU that summer.
Her mother was on the Crater team that made the school’s first State Final
So, what arguments would you make to the committee to vote OSU as a national #8 seed over Oregon? I know the argument I would make.
No losses vs quad 2,3, or 4.
The only argument is RPI, the other metrics driven rankings system (DSR, KPI) don’t treat us very well. I actually think Oregon dropping down to 18 in the RPI may eliminate them from the national seed conversation. Oregon State is better off getting compared to the other options for 6-8 seeds. You can justify Oregon state getting a higher seed than Oregon if the comparison is only Oregon vs ORST. 0-4 is just too big of obstacle to overcome if you’re being unbiased.
Given Oregon lost today, u think I agree that could hurt their chances to be #8 and opens the door for another SEC team.
However, OSU might still sneak in there depending on how teams in front of the do.
OSU SOS, most wins of any school in away games, draws big crowds (factor), solid RPI, projected top 5 player in the upcoming draft., pedigree, etc…..
I don’t think they’ll get a #8 but with Oregon losing today, that could be the justification the committee needs to give it to the Beavs.
I guess we will find out in two days.
Huskers use small ball to go up 2-zip on PSU after 2.
Intra squad scrimmage was and is a lot of fun
How did Krieg look?
Okay. Dallas hit a rocket shot hr. Weber also had hr.
Huskers use long ball to go up 6-3 late
FINAL 6-3
Guess we now root for UCLA over Neb tomorrow for B1G title?
Don’t ya just hate leaving the fate of the team to others?
Ughhh, Miiiiitch!……beat nike at home and just one more vs Neb and the Super question would be answered.
have the beavs learned how to stop base-stealing?
Can’t say for sure, but there has been a noticeable focus improvement in the last couple games.
Arguments for OSU to be top 8 host:
Let’s compare total Q1/Q2 games, and (losses)
OSU 32 (11)
Arkansas 28 (12)
Auburn 34 (14)
Georgia 34 (12)
LSU 33 (12)
N Carolina 35 (10)
nike 14 (2)
Five top contenders there look a lot like OSU.
Only one stands out as significantly different! Really different!
So, is nike’s RPI elevated by avoiding playing Q1/Q2?
https://www.warrennolan.com/baseball/2025/rpi-live
Honestly, the RPI looks about right for the regional hosts. Us at 7 and UCLA at 10 would make for a more compelling Super than shipping either off to the East Coast.
I like how the highest Conference ELO is Independents.
And Coastal and Clemson being paired makes too much sense.
So what was I thinking? An NCAA Selection Committee won’t deal in sense.
When do they announce the field? It would be cool if they did it at the conclusion of tomorrows scrimmage.
Need an early start for that to happen!
From NCAA: “Selection show: Monday, May 26 at 12 p.m. ET (tentative)| ESPN2 or ESPNU “
regional host sites will be announced tomorrow evening. Full tournament pairings Monday morning at 9am pacific time
FWIW, D1 is out today with yet another projection of the field.* Beavs still listed as #9 but the possibility of a super vs nike in Eugene is out. Nike fell to #13 in their judgement.
Beavs opposite #8 Coastal Carolina.
https://d1baseball.com/stories/2025-d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-may-25/
*several comments on the D1 piece favor the Good Guys, pointing out the east coast bias in ranking Coastal above the Beavs.
I figure there is no shot for top 8 in the present circumstance.
ESPN is in the tank for as many SEC host sites as they can get away with.
Geography will supersede pedigree
Pedigree isn’t as strong after the 0-4 against NikeU.
Arquette as a top 5 pick has no bearing on the committee. Just as easy to hype an SEC kid.
Home/Away record as a major factor seems like wishful thinking. Overall records are an easy sell to justify bumping OSU for casual fans.
RPI is emphasized only when it benefits SEC teams.
Quad 1 wins may be the only legit argument that they can’t spin for OSU.
Based on the last several seasons, the Beavs will host a regional as 9, 10, 11 or 12 seed, and they will for sure be matched up to an SEC for a super regional if they advance. I’ll guess Arkansas, LSU or Vanderbilt without caring to research which might even deserve a top 8.
Lots to agree with there, ohio.
I too am expecting a seeding between 9 and 12.
Quad 1 wins and even lack of any losses in Q2-3-4 won’t likely offset the ESPN – SEC factor.
And Arkansas, Vandy, LSU are good bets IF the Beavs can advance; there is history with those three which makes for ESPN story line opportunities.
Baseball America has OSU as a 15 seed, and Clemson has the 8th. I have a hard time believing Coastal beat us head to head for 8/9, but easy to see an ACC team jumping us. The top 6 SEC teams have been a lock for weeks now.
That’s ridiculous given their RPI and their top 10 national ranking. I guess tomorrow we will see where things stand. I was hoping the Beavs and ducks would be lined up for a potential matchup but doesn’t appear that way..
If UCI, CC are in the Corvallis regional, that won’t be easy either.
So Nebraska beats UCLA 5-0 for the B10 tourney title…..
And CalPoly beats the Anteaters for their conference championship.
Corvallis is one of the 16 regional host sites. Eugene and LA as well. Nothing unexpected
https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/article/2025-05-25/sixteen-regional-sites-selected-2025-ncaa-division-i-baseball-championship
Of all the potential super-regional locations outside of Corvallis – Eugene would clearly be the most favorable.
I doubt that UCI and USC both end up in Corvallis. I think one of them end up at the UCLA regional.
D1 out with a fresh and final field projection, has Beavs at #8 opposite Coastal Carolina at #9.
Never disregard the Lucy factor!
https://d1baseball.com/stories/2025-d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-final-edition/
If you read D1’s thoughts on UCLA getting the final hosting spot, they believe RPI was the deciding factor over teams like TCU and Georgia Tech, so they applied that logic to the 8/9 debate.
If true heavy weight RPI would help Beavs get a Top 8
Michael Conforto knows the rules, some announcers do not. Interesting quick read for while you’re waiting for announcement.
https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/mlb-announcers-stunned-baseball-rule-live-broadcast-dodgers-mets
Beavs #8
As I’ve been saying for the last week or so….beavers get #8 seed!
Number eight, wow
As I thought they would! Their 9-1-1 record in May, their 11 and 12 game winning streaks, national pedigree, RPI, potential top 5 draft pick, etc.
Wow, NCAA screwed up and gave the Beavs #8
Nope, they deserved it bc they played a very heavy road schedule, had two long winning streaks, national pedigree, sellout crowds, etc.
FSU is 9
Saint Mary #4, USC #3, TCU # 2
It’s a tough regional so we shall see. Getting tested early will either make this team stronger or it won’t. I think this team is ready to go!
TCU is a tough # 2
Wow…well they get a huge break and need to take advantage of it. The Great Pumpkin is smiling on the Beavs this morning. I am pleasantly surprised for sure. I figured about 5% chance or less they get a top 8.
Go Beavs! Now focus up, and go win to get to Omaha!
They deserved it as I said they would get a #8!
Things broke their way for sure. FSU Wins the final weekend versus NC, or a deeper ACC tournament run and they are the 8. Hawaii, Xavier and Nebraska lose open round of conference tournament and we only have 5 q1 wins.
Don’t get me wrong I’m happy about it but, this wasn’t a lock, but that’s baseball
I agree it wasn’t a lock but I thought they had a great shot bc of their national pedigree, the sellout crowds at Goss, heavy road schedule, etc.
RPI, ranking……..
I also predicted that USC and UCI would not both end up in Corvallis but one would go to UCLA regional.
Time for duck fans to start whining about OSU getting #8 after Oregon swept the beavers. I guarantee if Oregon had the national pedigree that OSU has, they would have got #8 if they wouldn’t have lost to Nebraska in the B10 tourney.
It’s unfortunate that the Quacks swept the Beavs this year, but they play in a shitty baseball conference and ultimately paid the price.
Lucy overslept, gotta love it!
Now, which area of the game most concerns you?
Are the bats coming around at just the right time?
Is the bullpen for real?
How ’bout starting pitching?
Maybe the Miiiiitch factor?
Baserunning? Focus? Other?
They’re playing solid defense, even Caraway has played solid the last 2 weeks of the season, great starting pitching, guys are coming out of their batting slumps, WW has emerged as the leader of this team and they are playing about as good as you can this time of year.
Biggest concern is the bullpen so guys like Hutchison, Palmer, Oakes, et al, need to be more consistent.
If Beavs hitting continues to improve and starting pitching continues trending up, this team could get to Omaha. If that happens, anything is possible but can’t have major hiccups during the post season.
Caraway at 3rd, hold your breath any time a ball is hit his way.
Hold your breath if he’s involved in a close play at the plate……bet he’ll slide next time!
My biggest concern is for ESPeeInSux. He may need an ambulance after his extensive self congratulatory pats on the back, must have resulted in a dislocated shoulder, torn labrum or snapped collar bone. All worth it for the sake of a top 8 seed.
Ah, bless your little heart given your obsession with me. I really appreciate it. You were the one sounding like a broken record for all of the reasons why the beavers wouldn’t get a top 8 seed and you were WRONG and I wasn’t. I guess I read the selection committee room correctly and you didn’t do now you’ve got your panties all in a bunch.. You’re welcome Karen.
BTW, you took the bait as I knew you would. You’re very predictable. Lol
He seems to have conveniently forgotten about his mens basketball predictions.
On the contrary, we cant be upset about the gift the Beavs were given. I for one dont think they deserved a national seed. As im sure many others would agree.
The path to Omaha is easier playing at home obviously. Hopefully they dont fuck it up like they did a few years ago vs Auburn.
As someone else stated, just win when it matters.
Basketball season is over in case you haven’t noticed or maybe you’ve been chewing on you whiskey soaked napkin too long to stay sober. Try to keep up with current events.
You should man up and tell the baseball team in person they were gifted the #8 seed and see how that works out for you. This team earned it by playing 35 games away from Goss, had 11 and 12 game winning streaks with virtually new position players all over the field and two new starters that were new and inexperienced at the D1 level. Your lack of appreciation and understanding of college baseball is very apparent.
A few years ago? How about the failure vs Anteaters, at Goss, no less!
Oh, a pissing contest! Just what we all come here for.
I prefer to call it an exchange of differing opinions
BTW, I think OB squats to pee so I’d win that match with my eyes closed.
Whole new season now. All of the sketchy relief pitching, offensive droughts, and games closer than they should have been in the regular season no longer matter. Just win when it matters baby.
You are correct. I think finishing the season strong in May at 9-1-1 was a good sign that they are ready for the post season. I’m hopeful they can win their regional but it’s baseball and anything can happen as Arky found out in 2018.
Post selection show the commentary slobbered all over the SEC and probably justifiably so, but under-estimating the beavers could be just what the beavers need. After all, they’re playing with a chip on their shoulder.
Whole new season? Were we in danger of not making it, that’s news to me? It’s amazing folks can be so negative. We just watched a team bounce out of a slump and in a big way. That tells me this team is resilient, and has that focus to step up. That’s the mindset that both players and fans benefit from. That’s the mindset that Casey’s teams had.
I don’t mind dropping games, it’s how you handle the high pressure games, which is where this team is gonna be excellent.
I don’t always agree with his takes, but he is spot on about the pitching, at least from the bullpen, as well as the offensive droughts resulting in closer games. That said, the playoffs are always the start of a new season and the good thing gir the beavers is, they have appeared to improve offensively and their starting pitching has been very, very good. Still, the only question mark is the bullpen, but I have confidence they will get it done in the post season.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16qU7PMzP7/
OSU baseball pitcher commit
17 Ks and a no hitter in the semifinals……
College baseball tournament bracket winners and losers starts with SEC
The NCAA baseball tournament bracket is headlined by the SEC, which as a deserving reward for another dominant regular season was assigned half of this week’s regional host sites and placed 13 schools in the tournament’s 64-team field.
This is totally unsurprising: SEC teams rank No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 in the USA TODAY Sports baseball coaches poll entering the tournament while the league has 11 teams in the Top 25.
The league’s regional hosts includes Texas, which will look to rebound from an early exit from the SEC tournament, and Tennessee, the defending national champions. The eight hosts tie the tournament record from one conference previously set by the SEC in 2023 and the 13 teams set a new record.
Three ACC teams will play host for the regionals in North Carolina, Florida State and Clemson. Big Ten newcomers Oregon and UCLA are hosts, as are Coastal Carolina and Southern Mississippi from the Sun Belt and Oregon State, an independent.
Beginning with the SEC, here are the biggest winners and losers from the World Series bracket:
Winners
The SEC
The full list of hosts: No. 1 Vanderbilt, No. 2 Texas, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 4 Auburn, No. 6 LSU, No. 7 Georgia, No. 10 Mississippi and No. 14 Tennessee. Joining this group are Alabama, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Florida and Kentucky. As you can tell, there is simply no conference that’s close to the SEC. As in the NCAA softball tournament, the SEC has so many teams in the field, and so many near the top of the bracket, that the league is the undeniable favorite to bring home the national championship. Of course, the SEC has won the past five crowns and six of the past seven.
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Oregon State
Playing as an independent with the Pac-12 on hiatus, No. 8 Oregon State was able to corral a path toward hosting a super regional thanks in large part to a strong RPI ranking and a very challenging non-conference schedule that was mostly loaded with road games. This is a huge deal for the Beavers, who have gone 30-7 in regional games played at Goss Stadium. Coming out of the weekend against the group of TCU, Southern California and Saint Mary’s would put Oregon State on track to host its super regional. That the Beavers drew a top-eight seed has to be tough for rival Oregon to swallow after the Big Ten regular-season co-champions swept a four-game set in late April.”
LOSERS
The Big 12
Arizona State, Kansas State and Oklahoma State sneaked into the tournament as three of the last teams to be selected, joining TCU, Arizona, Kansas, Cincinnati and West Virginia to give the Big 12 eight teams in the bracket. That a good chunk of these teams just barely cracked the 64-team tournament helps show where the league stands in the national picture, however. None of the Big 12 teams will host a series this weekend. But keep an eye on Arizona in the regional hosted by Oregon; the Wildcats’ pitching heads into the tournament on fire, with starters allowing just one run in the past 22.1 innings.
Georgia: fuck them. Not copying and pasting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/baseball/2025/05/26/college-baseball-tournament-bracket-winners-losers/83864379007/?tbref=hp
I mean, the reason we got a national seed is because the players proved over the season that they are winners.
So… duh?
Arizona starting pitchers giving up one run in the last 22.1 innings is an interesting stat. Are they this year’s Cinderella?
Will the regional games be on Koin/CW since they are home games?
ESPN owns it all so no.
ESPN+
When can we buy tickets for this weekend games and where?
The all session tix already sold out today.
On the day of each game, any remaining single game tix will also go on sale in the morning, but you’ll likely need to be very quick to snag any.
https://osubeavers.evenue.net/events/BBR
In my experience, you can usually find games on the Seatgeeks/Stubhubs of the world pretty easily, and sometimes the price can fluctuate dramatically in the hours leading up to the game. I usually drive down to Corvallis and just find a scalper on site if the prices dont drop. After the game starts the prices go down pretty quick.
If you havent used seatgeek or stubhub before, be prepared to get gouged by fees.
Seat geek
FWIW
Texas State’s name continues to pop up as the next addition to the PAC as the 8th member along with St Mary’s for basketball. They both have good baseball programs and basketball too. It sounds like once the mediation deal is finalized (expected by the first week of June), an announcement about the next member(s) will follow shortly after that along with the new media deal.
According to this report, no other MWC school has submitted intention to leave the conference so that could suggest that UNLV is off the table. Finally, it sounds like the PAC already knows who they’re going to add and official announcement is pending the final mediation..
Of course this could all be smoke and mirrors too but it does sound like things are moving toward a final outcome.
Gotta link?
Just tried posting it and it didn’t post so I tried again and got a message about being a duplicate. I’ll try to post her:
https://youtu.be/uKY2BSSIwPM?si=jBPLLxy7UavvDguq
St Mary’s adds nothing, I refuse to believe they’re going add them. And if they do it will be the most confusing move I’ve ever seen.
St. Mary’s has a solid MBB program and a good baseball programs. We need to rebuild the baseball conference too. While their basketball arena is small, they still add value bc their program has been solid for awhile Whether or not this happens remains to be seen.
None of that adds value. None of it.
And no, they don’t have a good baseball program. Making the regionals in 2025 does not make for a good program. That’s only their 2nd such bid.
OSU went Independent to avoid programs like St. Mary’s.
Texas State adds value bc they are in Texas and that’s great for recruiting, they have strong boosters with $$$$ and they are investing in facilities. Plus, the cost to bring them in is not millions of $$$$. Given limited options in the West, TX State might be the most reasonable option especially due to deadlines are fast approaching.
I would prefer UNLV over TX State but that doesn’t sound like it’s going to happen although the mediation outcome could change that but deadlines are fast approaching for MWC schools to submit notices and a $5k down payment exit fee…..and nobody beyond the 5 schools jumping to the PAC has submitted paperwork.
St Mary’s made the NCAA tourney and are in the Corvallis regional so they were good enough to make the tourney. That’s better than not making the tourney I suppose.
Again, the emphasis is the options aren’t many for the PAC to expand and keep the priority focused on a regional conference with limited travel although TX State would be outside of that but the clock is ticking.
Making the tournament 1 time does not make a good program.
They don’t need St. Mary’s. Honestly, if you are just looking at the WCC for options they’d probably be the last school I’d invite.
But and this is important. Once you add Texas State no more “full members” are needed at all so giving St. Mary’s full membership makes no sense. You can’t just say they do. Where’s the value?
Pepperdine has more value easily if you’re looking for a 10th “full members”
And it’s not close. Pepperdine is the Stanford of non-football schools.
Hey, I’m just passing along what I’ve heard via podcasts so I’m trusting the decision makers know what they’re doing bc they’re in the strategy room.
While Pepperdine would be a better addition, it might take more money to get them than St Mary’s so there’s the money angle that probably a significant consideration. .
Listen to the link above that discussed the latest development based on their best guess…
You don’t need either. Like I said.
I refuse to believe they’ll invite St. Mary’s and if they do it will be the most confusing move ever.
And I see no reason to trust they know what they’re doing. It’s been a clusterfuck already. Add 1 more football school and stop.
I’m guessing st. mary’s gets a partial share invite. No insider info,
PAC-12 & Mountain West Mediation Continues, Is a Settlement Close? Plus UNLV & TXST Membership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKY2BSSIwPM&t=37s.
What Is Happening In The Pac 12 Conference Rebuild? | Primetime W/ Isaac & Suke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bpHFvXLQf8
Unless the “partial share” is like 5% it makes no sense.
I feel like you guys are doing a lot of heavy lifting to pre-justify a move that adds nothing and benefits no one but a small private school in CA.
The problem with adding TXST is their Olympic sports are on an island. That’s okay for one year. But it’s not sustainable for them or the rest of us.
So we would need another in the CST to partner with them. I would ask Wichita State to join. That avoids too many football speculative adds and provides a travel partner.
Optimally, I would want ten football and two Olympics only. That gives us a nine game slate in a round robin for football. Hoops should be 16 games, at least until the major conferences gaming the system go to 18.
Why 10 football? 9 game schedules are dumb. Never agreed with it even in the PAC 10 heyday. 9 football schools allows for a perfect schedule, 4 home conference, 4 away conference, 4 non-conference. I really don’t want more than 9 football schools. And don’t want more than 10 total schools.
9 football plus Gonzaga is perfect (18 game basketball schedule though). I don’t care what other conferences are doing.
And also don’t really think TX St is on on an island. Utah St and Colorado St provide a MST bridge. That said if you want another school in CST add a football one to give you 9 football schools. Take Rice or UTSA as the travel partner and call it good.
If it was just two Texas teams, I would take UNT and DBU as a baseball affiliate, in addition to TXST.
That works too. There just aren’t any non-football schools worth adding and I see no reason to go beyond 9 football schools. Unless you’re talking Memphis/Tulane which seems dead every other school beyond 8 is likely diminishing returns so I’d only go to 9 for a travel partner/8 game football schedule.
Stopping at 8 football schools, only because you have no choice, is probably the most valuable on a per school basis.
The 6 programs before Utah State are the value. Everyone else just exists to remain an FBS conference.
Tulane doesn’t add value. My 10-2 would then be an option for only Memphis.
All the Texas schools are speculative, at this point. But some are spending good amounts on their athletics, and a couple are just huge schools now getting a lot of Cali transplant students. UNT has the best facilities, overall. They’re a lot like us, in that they’ve taken a long time to build conservative facilities that will serve them well into the future.
My assumption is Tulane only comes with Memphis so if Tulane gets you Memphis that is their main value. But as I said I think that ship has sailed.
Tulane is committed to spending nothing on athletics. They’ve run off two good HCs, because they won’t do it.
For comparison, Wichita State spends as much on athletics as Tulane does.
Wichita doesn’t have a football team.
Okay, they don’t have football though.
And one more time, Tulane is worth it IF it gets you Memphis. I don’t see how you can disagree with that.
They wouldn’t be worth it.
And I really don’t know why Memphis would try and tie that anchor to themselves. They would be better off tying themselves to UTSA, and UTSA ain’t that great.
Thayer floated football and basketball for Memphis and Tulane on Joe beaver show today. Podcast is up on 1240 website
Your conference is where your basketball team plays–no exception.
Anyone floating that idea knows less about college sports than both my grandmothers, combined… may they rest in peace.
Yeah… they don’t make sense.
There are several much larger non-football schools with a bigger following in a bigger market in California, if we wanted to add one.
I think what is getting overlooked in this entire string is what President Murthy has repeatedly stated over the past several months, and that is the priority is on the SA.
That translates into a western regional footprint with minimal travel. So the idea of Memphis, Tulane and even schools in Texas might sound more appealing and higher profile, it doesn’t align with OSU or WSU to keep a regional footprint and minimize travel not just for the SA but bc of athletic budgets. So there’such.more involved in this decision than just higher profile schools.
Some of these schools that continue to appear in podcasts could just be a point of leveraging to negotiate a better deal for a school they really are targeting as the #8 member.
I kind of compare it to draft day in the NFL, NBA, etc, where franchises don’t want to show their cards or strategy on hopes of getting a player or making a trade to improve their draft position. In other words, keep other franchises guessing to throw them off your real prospects.
Same thing here as if the PAC is really focused on say UNLV, but they want leverage in negotiating a share of media rights money with them, put feelers out in the media that you’re looking at other programs too. If UNLV has strong enough interest in the PAC, they might be willing to take a smaller share up front to join with an increase on shares in 2-3 years. Remember, this is about money too so that’s going to drive their ultimate choice and decision.
Lastly, from all accounts, the PAC ,doesn’t appear to have all of the leverage bc the entire CFB world knows they need one more school to join and that options are limited. That’s said, the PAC’s priorities might have to change to a more dynamic reach outside of the western region footprint due to timing and schools real interest in joining. So I think this process is such more complex than just adding an 8th member.
Hopefully, the mediation deal gets resolved quickly and that will get things moving for the addition of an 8th member.
I’ve heard Murthy express that sentiment once, when we stopped talking with the ACC. And that made sense.
The new Wazzu President said a couple weeks ago that everything west of the Mississippi on the table. She even clarified that on the river was good enough.
I’m not buying the narrative that our schools are wanting to go hide in our own corners of the West and just be forgotten.
And the travel burden will fall mostly on the eastern schools. An annual trip to Texas for the other eight schools isn’t all that burdensome. CSU would actually benefit, since Dallas is about as far from them as Boise.
SDSU and Fresno are the schools who have the most to complain about, in terms of current travel and/or any expansion to the east.
That being said, SMC would be a mind-numbingly poor choice for a non-football addition, even without several better candidates existing.
I’m talking all sports across the board for travel not just football.. like I said, they might be playing their cards close to the vest to leverage the best deal they can get. .
I do believe they they want to minimize travel outside the region bc they’ve seen the other former PAC12 costs for travel substantially increase on all sports as well as complaints about the increased travel. Their revenue surplus from the PAC12 lawsuit isn’t unlimited and we don’t know what the new media deal will be so I’m sure budget constraints are certainly in play and how travel could impact resources.
I think expansion into other timezones will be in the next phase of realignment bc there’s just too much uncertainty about the current situation and how it plays out.
With all the talk about super conferences, conferences will need to position themselves for the next phase but it’s too soon for the PAC to do that until they stabilize the conference in all sports and get their media deal done. Once the PAC is completed and has an established track record, they can make a bid for teams outside the western region bc they’ll have some actual proof they are a legitimate conference that compete. Right now,bots too risky for teams outside the region to jump IMHO.
First: the “western regional conference” talk is mostly just post hoc rationalization. We know they wanted Memphis.
Second: floating St Mary’s does nothing to tempt UNLV
Third: they’ve butchered this since nearly the moment the PAC collapsed so why would we pretend they’re playing 5d chess now?
My read: They didn’t want Utah State, they botched the rollout by announcing the first 4 early and ever since have been scrambling. But really have no plan. Just wishes and hopes.
Your first and second are fair. Your third is simply your emotions making shit up. Your fourth is somewhat apt, in that one of the newbies leaked the adds early, and the Pac 12 has to get out in front of it.
Since that episode, it’s pretty much been radio silence.
The only thing you have to dislike, at this moment, is your inability to wait or your inability to ignore the rumors created by those who are too irrational to wait.
A beaver fan coworker of mine made a interesting comment about the 8th seed selection. Beaver baseball has entered elite-tier privilege statues similar to Ohio state and Alabama in football. Whether it was deserved or not, we got the benefit of the doubt.
Im not a rabid baseball fan but definitely follow the beavs, it seemed we were more of a 9 or 10ish kind of team. Wins at Nebraska and Oregon would make me feel better about the placement. On the plus side, Oregon doesn’t win their tournament or host a super which is hilarious, sucks to be them.
Oregon is a solid squad but they clearly benefited from playing like 70% of their games at home and they didn’t fair that well vs the lower quadrant teams. Part of the reason why losing all 4 games to them this year stings so much. I don’t think their regional is easy either. There’s always a few hosts that don’t progress and they easily could be one of them
“Oregon is a solid squad…” Hurts me to admit that you are correct.
How’re we feeling about post-season gang? Im still a believer that pitching depth is still the primary component to prolonged success in the post-season. On the plus side, the staff seems reasonably healthy when that hadn’t been the case in previous seasons. However, I don’t think the bullpen is as strong as it’s been in previous years so it might be a bit of a wash. There’s probably 3-4 guys you can reliably count on from the bullpen but after that, I feel it’s a crap shoot. Definitely some arm talent but the consistency hasn’t always been there. Keljo might be the x-factor in that he could possibly pitch multiple times over the weekend, especially if we end up playing a Monday game.
We also need a little more consistency from the bats. If Talt and Carraway can continue to trend upwards like they had the last week or 2 of the season that would be huge. A kreig long ball or two would be super nice as well. Defensively he’s been so much better this season than in the past but he’s proven that he’s not a guy to get hits. Strike out or home run. Its unfortunate that a guy with his size and power is hitting in the 7 or 8 spot in the line-up.
I think those 2 items are the biggest factors for the Beavs and making a run to Omaha. Can bullpen deliver and can we get 2 more guys to be contributers at the plate to help Turley, Arquette and Weber. It’ll also be interesting to see how the time off impacts them. Getting a little R&R is nice, but it’s also disruptive to the routine they’ve been in since Feb. Bye week performances have always been an issue for football, curious how that looks for the baseball team.
All good points, Creek, I do hope the resurgence of Talt and Caraway at the plate is for real.
Only other factor to add to your list is related to coaching decisions.
Will Mitch call enough small ball? He seems to be trending that way a bit.
And, the big one, will Dorman make good decisions in his use of the bullpen, both timing and personnel.
BTW: How do you size up the regional competition?
Yeah, coaching decisions will play a part for sure. Great point. I’m sure I’m like most people, Beavs should be fine vs Saint Mary’s or USC if we have to play them at any point. TCU was playing well in conf tourney and I think if they had won it, they’re probably a top 16 host themselves. If their Ace goes vs USC that would be huge for us. He’s been very good for them and facing their 2 or 3 starter would be ideal.
The Committee valued them as the ninth 2 seed. I don’t think beating UA in a one-off neutral gets them in the top 16.
It was sort of funny watching Florida State fall in the last week. But now we have to worry about how that motivates them.
Listening in on some of the shows folks were talking like tcu could’ve hosted a regional with winning conf tourney. Maybe it’s opinion of a few peeps vs the committee themselves. Perhaps being the overall conf tourney champ weighs more heavily than just a 1 off neutral site game. Regardless, I think they’re a very solid 2 and Beavs could have their hands full.
I think it’s safe to assume most teams we face from here on out will have at least two capable starting pitchers. Just need to take care of business.
Where’s Bill? Serious baseball discussions often benefit from his input.
The R&R is needed, after that schedule. They now know how to travel and win, and that routine won’t be necessary for at least two weeks. They just need to take advantage of being at home.
Have we had two weekends in a row at home? I think we got two solid weeks at home with a bunch of games, then headed off on a lot of travel. Then it was Irvine, Zags, and Long Beach spaced out by more travel.
They could win the regional or.lose it. Neither would surprise me. But they aren’t winning a super regional barring an upset in Tallahassee.
I dont see Omaha in the cards. Don’t have the horses to get there
OSU baseball uniform selection process….
At least one pitcher considers heat and doesn’t select black jerseys for hot day games. The issue has been brought up in here regarding Beaver football wearing black and having its players sit in the sun on game day….
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2025/05/gritty-grays-to-creamsicles-a-look-at-the-secret-behind-who-picks-oregon-state-baseball-uniforms.html
Baseball teams should wear white at home and gray on the road, no other options should even be considered.
Pinstripes are allowed.