Parker, on Portland radio this morning with Nigel Burton, says he doesn’t think the June 1 deadline for Casey is going to be taken seriously by anyone, doesn’t expect an announcement before the Beavs stop playing. (my paraphrase)
Parker is of the opinion that Casey will return, thinks the year off to be a dad was good for him. No further discussion this morning on what Casey’s return would mean for anyone currently on the staff.
I think he’s burned out. He came close to retiring several years ago but didn’t. Seems like it takes a lot out of him keeping the program as a national powerhouse.
Program got a huge boost when madrigal, Grenier and Larnach all came to school instead of going pro. Doesn’t seem like that kind of talent is coming again. Not sure how much that affected him.
Nothing wrong with your logic, thanks for explaining.
But, I’ll go on record thinking he will return. He has said he has no mountains to climb and that he “is” a baseball coach. I believe it is in his blood and that he can’t live entirely happy without it.
Will he coach at OSU though? I think so, but the relationship with Barnes does concern me.
Side issue: I find Eggers recent mentions of how unfairly Barnes is behaving toward Bailey interesting. Eggers has always seemed to have an inside track with Beavs sports…is he working to get rid of Barnes? Or, maybe just miffed at Barnes denying him that interview a few weeks back.
Eugene writer, Austin Meek, puts out some quality stuff. In this piece he touches on the ucks coaching search which could start in Corvallis; there is plenty of other stuff in there too, about the two baseball programs.
He does admit:
Baseball is the one sport where Oregon hasn’t been able to buy its way to success. That has to be satisfying to Beaver fans, just as Oregon State’s baseball dominance must be a pebble in the shoe of Duck fans everywhere.
Meek is worth a moment to read. Maybe less deserving of your attention is our old buddy Sidd who tweets that Casey will coach next season, but not necessarily at OSU.
I saw on the Twitter that Cincinnati’s coach is going to walk Adley ever time he bats. Could just be a rumor, I dunno but man that would suck. You guys think Bailey moves adley up to lead off batter so Beau always has someone on base?
It would be extremely atypical but certainly not the worst idea considering he may not get many pitches to hit. I haven’t seen the lineup yet but I expect it will be posted any minute.
From my layman’s view, Fehmel just looked slow, I know he’s never been a speed baller, but just not much velocity. Cincy has been crushing the ball lately so they have confidence.
I agree Angry. Bailey is not the man for the job. This team just keeps regressing, They don’t make routine plays. He moves them all over the field and they aren’t comfortable. He messed up by playing Mcmahon in center when we have one of the best college centerfielders in Jones. This team shows no fire and intensity. Golly shucks all over again.
Bailey is a fine assistant at this level. If you listen to him you realize that he is a smart student of the game, he is a numbers analyzer and probably gave Casey lots of good/useful advice.
Remember how often outfielders in the past were in the right spot? That was Bailey’s analysis of the opposition.
He lead teams at the G.Fox level, somehow. And I think Bailey is a very good influence on the character of the players he coaches.
Looks to me like the difference between Casey and Bailey boils down to the emotion and intensity of Casey; Bailey, likely, is too cerebral to be the top guy at this level. I keep remembering Casey saying that he only became friends with players after they graduated……maybe Bailey has trouble in that respect.
JMHO
not sure why Preston Jones isn’t out in CF. McMahon is not a CFer. He sucks ass and can’t judge a fly ball for crap. This team is done and it’s probably a good thing. Time to end this charade so Casey can come back and take charge again. What an embarrassing performance tonight as McMahon has misjudged at least three oops in CF.
Team continues to play poor baseball and not to get hits in critical situations.
Needed a great start from Bryce and did not get it. The defensive f ups are inexcusable.
As bad as it has been, these guys are in the game but seemed to lack a killer instinct all year long. It is always tough to follow a championship group, but even more difficult without your internal desire to win it all. These guys are good but not great, and really not disciplined as champions should be. It has been a great year by most standards but a huge step back for OSU, in terms of basics surrounding fielding, pitching, fundamentals and giving away at bats all year.
Many guys should have been leaders, but don’t lead. Coaching strategy, player development, hit and run, aggressiveness have all been suspect. Players never settled into a solid line-up because key guys regressed so much, and it took a while for the coaching to accept the regression as the norm and try someone else. Rutchman has overshadowed the entire team and understandably, but he cannot win the games by himself.
i think all of the guys from last year except Adley are hitting .132. That has been the issue all season. It explains why Adley was walked about 7000 times this year also. No one else is reliable.
Exactly! When I heard he was due up, I’m thinking pinch hit anyone. Nope, Zack Freaking Taylor’s buck 32 batting average was apparently worth giving a shot. I swear if Bailey starts McMahon in CF against Creighton, I’ll root for Creighton to end the Beaver’s season and I might do that anyway. Bailey is not even close to sniffing Casey’s jock strap as a HC. This team made so many mental mistakes all season long and tonight was the culmination of the entire season. What an embarrassment tonight and truly Duck like performance.
I feel bad for the players, because they do work hard in school and on the field to earn whatever financial aid that they can work for. This year they failed because they tried to implement last year’s offensive philosophy with a whole new lineup, as well as defensive breakdowns.
I certainly do not feel bad for our portion of the fanbase that act more as insecure Duck haters than Beaver supporters, spending more time gloating about Horton’s weight than criticizing the flaws in OSU’s play, satisfying themselves with the notion that everything is okay because we lost seven starters last year.
Last year’s title doesn’t mean shit this year, minus the fact that the committee felt sympathetic enough to give us a regional. The time for celebrating last year’s title ended in January.
I’m not sure why you would feel bad for ANY portion of our fanbase. Being a fan is a choice. All of us have our reasons for being a fan, but I doubt any one of us is being forced to be a fan. If you can’t live with the fact that your team is not going to win a championship every year, then you probably should choose to not be a fan. As a fan, I would not say the Beavs shit the bed. The Regional is not over yet, and I’ve seen them power through the loser’s bracket before.
Not sure the Beavs have ever “powered through” the loser’s bracket before, especially after losing the opener, AT GOSS.
Whatever expression one uses to describe it, the performance last night was more reminiscent of the ’14 loss to the Anteaters than anything since.
The Tecolotes Dos Laredos opened their three-game series against Generales de Durango in Nuevo Laredo with a 9-6 victory.
Luke Heimlich got the start on the mound for the Tecolotes but didn’t get the win. Jose Meraz was the winning pitcher in 1.1 perfect innings of relief. Heimlich pitched five innings allowing nine hits and five runs while striking out eight.
Seems to get a lot of K’s while also giving up hits. Maybe a sign of the range of abilities of players in the league.
I think his ERA is in the 5 neighborhood, maybe LA Pine can be more specific.
God that was a mess yesterday, Cincinnati had their bats going and made some great defensive plays. Pair that with our shit defense & lackluster offense and we got what we deserved, a loss. Hopefully it’s a wake up call for them, but I fear it’s a coaching issue and if Casey doesn’t come back, Bailey is not the man for the job…
Watching Ohio State vs McNeese. McNeese doesn’t have a base hit and is winning 2-1 in the 3rd., With the bases loaded and 1 out. Ohio State is just killing themselves…
Not that there weren’t other options, but Preston Jones has been under the weather. According to Lundeberg, who does a very good job covering the team….as an independent!
His tweet this morning:
“Have to think we’ll see Preston Jones in CF today assuming he’s feeling better. Jones has been under the weather.”
Sort of odd………my son told me after his baseball game this morning that the umpire used to play for Creighton. Not sure if that’s a good or bad omen? He was a solid ump, my son’s team won.
I don’t mind Zak there. Ober was not productive hitting yesterday and had a bad negative play in the field. Zak had a big hit last night and he’s got the experience.
Still don’t like the order….Zak should be at best in the 7th slot. And the pitching…. I would have gone with Gambrell last night then Fehmel or Pearce today.
It is still not a “dud of a season” unless your expectations were wildly outside reality. This was always gonna be a rebuilding year. Would’ve been if Casey were in the dugout too.
Like what in the world has happenned? Is this that team down south or the power house in corvallis.. wait that’s right there is no power house in corvallis after bailey got his dirty mits on the team, my word.
No team coached by Pat Casey has lost the first game of a home regional. Or gone 0-2. Do you ever remember one of Casey’s teams looking this bad defensively this late in the season?
No and I am not sold on Bailey by any means. He would not be the coach next year if I were in charge.
I just think some of us have lost perspective. Casey may not have gone 0-2 in a regional (neither has Bailey yet) but he did fail to even get in in 2008 which I’d argue is worse than losing 2 in a row. He also failed to be good enough to host regionals on multiple occasions.
Its baseball, it is unpredictable to begin with (anyone really think if the 2007 season were replayed the Beavs would win the title again?).
I just think we need some perspective here. In what was clearly going to be a rebuilding year Bailey still managed to get them into the regionals and has them hosting too.
It’s not that we’re losing it’s how we’re losing. Clearly the coach sucks.
I haven’t watched a ton of Beaver baseball (because of him — I tuned in early and saw he sucked) but I can see nothing has changed since early in the season with regard to this coach. He doesn’t put the players in the best position to succeed and he doesn’t motivate them.
But you are also basing that on a tiny sample. For all you know the team would be struggling with Casey too. Again, it is not like Casey’s teams were perfect.
As I said, I wouldn’t keep Bailey but all this bitching and moaning makes us come off as whiney entitled children (ie Duck football fans).
And remember he is interim coach for a reason. Casey wanted a year off (maybe more); it isn’t like they were going to get someone great to take the job knowing it might only be for 1 year.
No one with options is taking a job that they know is likely only for 1 year. No matter what the team did the year prior.
You are simply wrong.
Just put yourself in that position. If you are a coveted baseball coach there is a zero percent chance you are taking a job you know is likely only for 1 year. You’d be foolish to do so.
The only options they had were guys who were not coveted. Going with the guy that the players are familiar with and knows how the program has been ran was almost certainly the best option.
It doesn’t have to be a coveted top 10 coach.
I don’t know all the names out there. Someone would have to provide a list, then I could select the best one, even if it’s for one year. All I know is it’s not Bailey.
This is the worst OSU team I’ve seen since the “Krhod” era. But a lot of that falls on the coaching decisions. Losing players is being used as an excuse. We lose players to the draft every year.
Worse than 2008 when they didn’t even make the tournament? You’ve lost it.
As for the list, there wasn’t one. No one is taking a 1 year gig. If you can find a single “great” coach who took a 1 year gig in any college sport I will concede you are right.
That’s my bad. I have had 2 midday drinks, and I never drink.
I didn’t even realize I wrote “great” because in my mind I wasn’t thinking “an established coach from a top 15 program” type of guy. Nor do I think we needed someone like that to win this regional. A competent coach would get the job done.
My main point is Bailey is the lazy hire. The AD is making 850k and went with the lazy hire. The lazy hire is incompetent. Now we’re left pretending that going from a national title to losing a home regional is cool because nobody great wants the job. That’s pathetic on all levels.
When you are in the market for an interim coach you don’t have many options.
I honestly can’t remember a single time any team has ever hired an interim coach from outside the organization.
It is the nature of hiring interim coaches.
Sorry if you don’t like it but until you can find some examples of coaches taking interim jobs from outside the organization I am going to continue to claim you have unrealistic expectations.
If there’s a deal in place to get Bailey a pay bump, and players and fans have to suffer because of it, then I have zero respect for Casey. That’s what you’re implying.
I’m saying you have to view this as Casey doesn’t return. So hire someone competent for the year, and after that you look for a long-term solution. Bailey isn’t competent. Do you honestly think he is? His decisions in the handful of games I’ve watched have been Little League level. The games I didn’t watch, I still read the comments, and everyone seems to question Bailey’s logic. That can’t be the best 1 year guy. Period.
I am saying that if OSU wanted to give Casey the option of returning it meant hiring an interim coach. When you hire an interim coach your options are extremely limited.
I have no idea why Casey decided to walk away. And honestly don’t care to deal in rumors.
I’d agree that if he did it to get Bailey a pay day that is dumb and if that were the case I probably would have told Casey that he either needed to walk away for good or stay but if he was simply burnt out and suggested Bailey get the job (or didn’t suggest it) and the result was having to hire an interim coach than Bailey was likely the only real option. Coaches don’t pack up their family and move for interim jobs.
If we agree Bailey isn’t the right guy, then we agree there must be someone better. Whether you want to call that guy “great”, “competent”, “better than Bailey”, or anything else is fine with me.
Okay but everyone knows Casey has the option to comeback. To a coach with multiple opportunities that is not a job you are going to take. It simply isn’t.
You just can’t ever admit when you are wrong but you are absolutely 100% wrong here.
The only way to get a “great” coach was with a multi-year commitment. Which is fine if that is the way you want to go. So I will ask, would you have told Casey that he couldn’t have the option to come back so that you could go get someone better than Bailey?
You’re absolutely wrong. You can hire someone for 1 year who is better than Bailey. Someone who won’t play that guy in CF and all the other errors he’s made. Who that guy is, I don’t know, but they could have hired me for 100k and I woudln’t have made those moves, so I’m sure there are legit guys out there who want a shot managing the #1 team in the country if even for a year. It’s not my job to make a list of every viable 1 year option. That’s Barnes job, and he gets 850k to do it. You forgive this, and it’s why we’re headed to the basement faster than millennials.
I don’t forgive anything I just live in the real world. Not some fake land where great coaches are jumping at the chance to sign 1 year deals.
You are right, you’d take the job and while I am sure you believe you’d be amazing at it. The fact that as far as I know you aren’t coaching college baseball likely indicates that you probably wouldn’t be.
OSU had a few options:
1) Promote Bailey and leave the option open for Casey to return
2) Hire someone who was just as likely to be terrible and leave the option for Casey to return
3) Tell Casey that if he wants to retire than he needs to retire, have a national search and hire someone who might be great.
How’d that national search work out for the football program? I remember you loving the Andersen hire so you are far from infallible.
While I didn’t like the Andersen hire and am 99.9% sure I posted as much on this board so I don’t really need a blog of my own.
My reasoning on this board (99.9% sure) was hiring defensive coordinators to be head coach is almost always a bad idea because most of the time the offense will struggle with a head coach who has a defensive mindset.
It might have been somewhere else that I posted that but either way…..
Doesn’t really matter. I don’t expect anyone to always be right. The bigger issue here is your claim that you can get some coach to uproot their whole family for an interim job in Corvallis Oregon.
I just don’t see that as happening. And my evidence is that nearly every school or pro team that tries an interim coach hires from within. I believe that is strong evidence that few coaches from outside any organization will take an interim job.
I remember you not liking the Andersen hire if you want credit for that.
I think a guy who is better than Bailey and at a George Fox type Uni would love to come in and coach for one year. They can then put “coached national champion OSU” on their resume. Duh. No brainer. Instead they went for the easy, lazy, incompetent hire.
I guess every school and pro team that has ever hired an interim coach is taking the easy, lazy, incompetent route then because I still can’t think of a single example of a coach leaving a job for an interim job (even at a higher level).
My conclusion is that coaches don’t find interim jobs appealing but it is possible you are correct and every school/pro team is just lazy and incompetent.
I don’t have any evidence. As I said, that’s not my job to recruit lower level coaches and find the best one. That’s Scott Barnes’ job.
All I know is that having watched Bailey coach, there are guys out there better than him. The reason I know this:
1. There are coaches out there who have energy and motivate their players.
2. There are coaches out there who put the players in the best position to succeed.
3. There are coaches who can position his defense ideally, even if he doesn’t have ideal players. The fundamentals of the game and coaching.
Etc.
Low level coaches know these basics. That’s how I know there’s a better option out there, even if I can’t name the guy. I’m not in the business of scouting D3 coaches. But I can deduct from Bailey that someone out there is more qualified. Can you not understand that?
I still can’t think of a single example of a coach leaving a job for an interim job (even at a higher level).
I don’t know. I don’t sit around making lists of these types of things.
I do know that there are young, hungry, competent coaches out there who would want OSU on their resume.
Agreed, if Casey doesn’t come back and they make Bailey coach I will be the first one to bitch and moan about it. It would be a bad long term hire but as a 1 year place holder to allow Casey to take a year off that he felt he needed, absolutely 100% worth it.
Retiring to get some loser a salary bump is absolutely pathetic. His #1 obligation is to the players, #2 to the fans, and #3 to his staff. Casey has more than just warts if that rumors has legs.
Fine, as I said. That was a legitimate option for the university. And I won’t argue with you if that is what you think they should have done.
But….
They chose to give him the option to return which meant they were in the market for an interim coach. When you hire an interim coach you pretty much only have the guys on the current staff to choose from. That is the simple reality of hiring interim coaches.
I think they should have hired the best coach for the job, not the consolation prize who would take the job.
Is that hard to understand?
These rumors that Casey wanted to get Bailey a pay bump and then return are sickening. If true, Casey should have zero respect from fans. Let the coach earn a pay bump. There appears to be good reason Bailey didn’t get one. Now we’re paying this dead weight more than he is worth if Casey does return. Sickening nepotism.
Reading all the above I’m reminded of a saying saying my Dad used to use about “beating a dead horse”. Made me think of Jack, although I’ll grant that you’re both far more coherent.
What the hell is wrong with this team? They look like high school kids. Last night they were only marked down for 2 errors and we all know that they committed 5. Today they have already committed 3. I don’t know if it would be better with Casey but I don’t remember one of his team regressing this bad. Bailey has made numerous questionable decisions and this team looks like they are ready for summer break. I think that reflects directly on Bailey.
Well we have the #2 ERA in the nation so somebody is doing his job (Yeskie)
Our batting orders never make any sense this year. Why is Tyler Malone at leadoff?
Half the team has started at 2nd base or 3rd base over the season. And Ober was playing out of position at 1st. McMahon out of position in center.
with all the backward ks this year we have gotten tentative at the plate. And it wasn’t that way the first month of the season. The hitting and defense has been on a downward trajectory through the year. And we lose twice to POrtland after never losing to them for a decade. This is squarely on Bailey.
Wild throws on pick off plays, outfielders setting on the warning track, passed balls, overthrowing the cut-off man, poor relays, base running gaffes, missed bunts in bunting situations, failure to tag-up on fly balls, basic outfield fundamentals, pop-ups instead of line drives- all marks of this team’s short-comings that should have been addressed by the end of non conference schedule.
Things that are not present compared to last year: Lack of team speed, mental toughness, never quit mentality, plate discipline, fundamentals, desire, expectation to win, live arms, contact hitting, power hitting
Talent wins, coaching puts talent in position to win.
Beavers have more errors than hits.
No speed, no power, no fundamentals=early exit
Pleasure to see Adley for a few years, the next Johnny Bench
Maybe we should pause to talk about hot chicks or unicorns or something. Something that is positive and feels good before delving into the 2 win football season.
We could see this coming, but we thought something extra would kick in with being at home in a regional, Didn’t happen, poor hitting team and average fielding at best and it showed. Live and die with pitching and it was mediocore. I wouldn’t mind Nat Yeskie as HC as long as he could find a batting guru for an assistant.
Yeskie is pretty bad but he’d be better than Bailey.
I wonder how many times Casey wondered “What the hell is he thinking?” this season while watching.
So what does the weekend rotation look like next year? I can’t remember a year where we didn’t know who the Friday starter would be going into the next season. Not putting this on Bailey but next year may be rough.
Assuming all the juniors get drafted and no Abel next year, Chamberlain would be the obvious choice. We better hope Verburg can come back. It will be a youthful and inexperienced group next year.
Abel has a good chance to be ready, Chamberlain, Pfennigs, Washburn, Gilbert, Gambrell could really make a lot of money by coming back for another year. We have good options. The cupboard isn’t bare.
Abel will almost certainly not pitch next year. See Drew R. Too much at risk.
Article mentions the two Stillwater, MN pitchers coming in next year. Friends kid played against Gilbert last year and said he felt helpless try to hit him. Hopefully Jace Fry minus the TJ surgery. https://t.co/bCaEadqaVV
Anybody know of a list of Beav player’s destinations for summer ball? Ober’s parents said there were some coming out my direction for the Northwoods League.
Optimistically speaking, I think the football team’s 2 deep on offense is actually the best we’ve had at OSU in the last decade, maybe longer. What was our best offensive team in the last 15 years? Mannion/Vaz with Cooks and Woods? That team was pretty 1 dimensional. This year we have capable playmakers all over the field, especially if Luton/Gebbia show improvement at the QB position.
On the other hand, our defense will still be pretty bad. Mostly due to coaching and lack of talent in the secondary. Will they be good enough to at least give our offense a puncher’s chance in most games? I think so.
Was that Matt Moore’s senior season? I remember that offense starting the season slow and then picking it up towards the back half of the schedule. With Bernard at tailback and Sammy as the #1 receiver, if I remember correctly.
This offense has all of the pieces to outperform that season, if Gebbia or Luton start to get hot. OL has just enough returning/upper classman talent to compete, plus several young bodies to rotate. WR and RB have the most depth we’re probably ever had and even TE has 3 or 4 guys who should contribute.
2006 was our best team besides the Fiesta Bowl. That was a fun season. Matt Moore was awesome.
Yeah, if we get good QB play we can be good on offense. I’m not sure about our D having potential. I’ll have to look at the roster more closely. Offense has some guys, though. I really want Gebbia to win the job and become what he can be. Enough futzing around from him and time to man up and be the player he can be.
2006 was our best team besides the Fiesta Bowl. That was a fun season. Matt Moore was awesome.
Defense has alot of guys returning, plus some new faces and guys coming back from injury(Gumbs, Roberts via transfer, David Morris from injury) plus we actually have 3 or 4 big bodies to throw out there at DT. We have several linebackers returning and Moore at least hits hard at safety. Our DEs are still a question mark(Gumbs could play there potentially) and our Corners are really the main weakness. Plus we just werent a very smart defensive unit last year. Coaching should improve with a year in the system. We really could have used 1 JC corner to plug and play via grad transfer or JuCo. Still could happen, once players graduate and transfer around. We need a slot to open up before we can sign anybody.
I have no inside information, but I feel Casey will take back his old position next season. I think after a year away from the rigors of the job, he’ll be refreshed and eager to get back at it.
I expect Oregon State to have a press conference early this week — perhaps by Tuesday — to announce Casey’s reappointment.
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Bailey is on board with it, and would return as associate head coach and Casey’s right-hand man.
It’s not a panacea for Oregon State’s weaknesses this season. Casey was going to have trouble getting this year’s crew to the College World Series, anyway. Bailey did a nice job steering the boat through muddy waters all season.
But there’s nobody better than Pat Casey to run the Oregon State program. It’s like Bill Belichick or Gregg Popovich or Bobby Cox at the command. You know you’re in better hands than anybody else.
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Eat my electronic dust………….and GO BEAVS!
Kendall Rogers tweeted the Ducks are taking a strong look at Nevada’s baseball coach.
A coach that has actually beat the Beavs. Once he gets to Eugene, well we know the story.
Parker, on Portland radio this morning with Nigel Burton, says he doesn’t think the June 1 deadline for Casey is going to be taken seriously by anyone, doesn’t expect an announcement before the Beavs stop playing. (my paraphrase)
Parker is of the opinion that Casey will return, thinks the year off to be a dad was good for him. No further discussion this morning on what Casey’s return would mean for anyone currently on the staff.
The easiest thing would be to have Casey return. Keeps the program stable for at least 5 to 6 years before he retires for good.
If he does, I think Bailey retires. Yeskie and Jenkins stay as the paid assistants.
But I still think Casey does not return.
Why do you think he’s not returning?
I think he’s burned out. He came close to retiring several years ago but didn’t. Seems like it takes a lot out of him keeping the program as a national powerhouse.
Program got a huge boost when madrigal, Grenier and Larnach all came to school instead of going pro. Doesn’t seem like that kind of talent is coming again. Not sure how much that affected him.
Nothing wrong with your logic, thanks for explaining.
But, I’ll go on record thinking he will return. He has said he has no mountains to climb and that he “is” a baseball coach. I believe it is in his blood and that he can’t live entirely happy without it.
Will he coach at OSU though? I think so, but the relationship with Barnes does concern me.
Side issue: I find Eggers recent mentions of how unfairly Barnes is behaving toward Bailey interesting. Eggers has always seemed to have an inside track with Beavs sports…is he working to get rid of Barnes? Or, maybe just miffed at Barnes denying him that interview a few weeks back.
Spill the beans Bill, what pushes you to think Casey won’t come back?
Eugene writer, Austin Meek, puts out some quality stuff. In this piece he touches on the ucks coaching search which could start in Corvallis; there is plenty of other stuff in there too, about the two baseball programs.
He does admit:
Baseball is the one sport where Oregon hasn’t been able to buy its way to success. That has to be satisfying to Beaver fans, just as Oregon State’s baseball dominance must be a pebble in the shoe of Duck fans everywhere.
Meek is worth a moment to read. Maybe less deserving of your attention is our old buddy Sidd who tweets that Casey will coach next season, but not necessarily at OSU.
https://www.ducksports.com/sports/20190528/austin-meek-ducks-baseball-search-should-start-close-to-home
You can count the number of times Sidd has correctly predicted anything on 1 finger. Not a great track record
https://www.kptv.com/news/it-s-mind-boggling-grandpa-says-he-s-proud-of/article_9a485e42-8359-11e9-a0db-7f3b9adc6be0.html
Ariz St just gave up 12 runs in one inning to southern miss, at the LSU regional
OT. https://apple.news/A4UZYCkAIQ5Ov06JjbLjXGA UCLA getting sued by formers players
Wow, if it’s true and these players win their cases, there’s gonna be big trouble at UCLA, even though Mora is gone
Don’t shit the bed, Beavs.
Michigan appears to be a handful in waiting if the Beavs get it done tonight.
I’m most worried about Michigan in this regional.
Yeah, Michigan definitely took care of business and could be a problem for the beavs if they get past Cincinnati
I saw on the Twitter that Cincinnati’s coach is going to walk Adley ever time he bats. Could just be a rumor, I dunno but man that would suck. You guys think Bailey moves adley up to lead off batter so Beau always has someone on base?
It would be extremely atypical but certainly not the worst idea considering he may not get many pitches to hit. I haven’t seen the lineup yet but I expect it will be posted any minute.
It’s Malone, McGarry, Adley and then Beau. I do like putting Beau behind Adley.
Heimlich pitching tonight in Laredo. Two shutout innings so far and the Tecos are up 3-0.
Cal bears getting torched by tcu 9-1
WTF is with our outfield?
Can’t believe how bad this team is slumping!
Bailey screwed up starting Mcmahon instead of Jones. With Fehmel on mound you need to have good outfield defense.
Laying a big smelly turd on our home field.
Bad play by McMahon turns into 2 runs and now Fehmel is off his game and way up on his pitch count.
First dong of the year by Malone helps.
4-2
Beavs are huffing eggs.
From my layman’s view, Fehmel just looked slow, I know he’s never been a speed baller, but just not much velocity. Cincy has been crushing the ball lately so they have confidence.
5-2.
No intensity Bailey failing to lead.
I agree Angry. Bailey is not the man for the job. This team just keeps regressing, They don’t make routine plays. He moves them all over the field and they aren’t comfortable. He messed up by playing Mcmahon in center when we have one of the best college centerfielders in Jones. This team shows no fire and intensity. Golly shucks all over again.
Bailey is a fine assistant at this level. If you listen to him you realize that he is a smart student of the game, he is a numbers analyzer and probably gave Casey lots of good/useful advice.
Remember how often outfielders in the past were in the right spot? That was Bailey’s analysis of the opposition.
He lead teams at the G.Fox level, somehow. And I think Bailey is a very good influence on the character of the players he coaches.
Looks to me like the difference between Casey and Bailey boils down to the emotion and intensity of Casey; Bailey, likely, is too cerebral to be the top guy at this level. I keep remembering Casey saying that he only became friends with players after they graduated……maybe Bailey has trouble in that respect.
JMHO
Jesus titties these deep balls of the outfielders’ gloves are killers.
not sure why Preston Jones isn’t out in CF. McMahon is not a CFer. He sucks ass and can’t judge a fly ball for crap. This team is done and it’s probably a good thing. Time to end this charade so Casey can come back and take charge again. What an embarrassing performance tonight as McMahon has misjudged at least three oops in CF.
What he said*^^^
Bad coach.
How do we match up against Creighton?
Team continues to play poor baseball and not to get hits in critical situations.
Needed a great start from Bryce and did not get it. The defensive f ups are inexcusable.
Beavs are playing baseball this year? :-)
Anyone else struck by how often the seventh is a good inning for the Beavs?
I’m struck with how often they f up after getting a lead recently.
#refusetowin
Hey, I just got a hashtag notification on my Twitter
#ComeBackCasey
#ByeByeBailey
I’m struck by how often they screw up routine plays.
^^^^^^
This
And that is on the coaching
I struck with that as well.
I’m struck at how ineffective Jake M has been.
What a disaster.
Kevin Youkalis appears to be a better coach than Bailey.
As bad as it has been, these guys are in the game but seemed to lack a killer instinct all year long. It is always tough to follow a championship group, but even more difficult without your internal desire to win it all. These guys are good but not great, and really not disciplined as champions should be. It has been a great year by most standards but a huge step back for OSU, in terms of basics surrounding fielding, pitching, fundamentals and giving away at bats all year.
Many guys should have been leaders, but don’t lead. Coaching strategy, player development, hit and run, aggressiveness have all been suspect. Players never settled into a solid line-up because key guys regressed so much, and it took a while for the coaching to accept the regression as the norm and try someone else. Rutchman has overshadowed the entire team and understandably, but he cannot win the games by himself.
You put up a .132 batter with your final out?
Neat deal.
Imagine what a neat deal it would have been, if he had hit a hum-dinger over that right field wall though.
That would have been an In-N-Out Burger level neat deal.
i think all of the guys from last year except Adley are hitting .132. That has been the issue all season. It explains why Adley was walked about 7000 times this year also. No one else is reliable.
Exactly! When I heard he was due up, I’m thinking pinch hit anyone. Nope, Zack Freaking Taylor’s buck 32 batting average was apparently worth giving a shot. I swear if Bailey starts McMahon in CF against Creighton, I’ll root for Creighton to end the Beaver’s season and I might do that anyway. Bailey is not even close to sniffing Casey’s jock strap as a HC. This team made so many mental mistakes all season long and tonight was the culmination of the entire season. What an embarrassment tonight and truly Duck like performance.
This is just so so sad Paul Casey would’ve never lost to there bums!!!
Bearcats played great D and did not beat themselves. I remember those days…..
Beavers shit the bed. lol
I feel bad for the players, because they do work hard in school and on the field to earn whatever financial aid that they can work for. This year they failed because they tried to implement last year’s offensive philosophy with a whole new lineup, as well as defensive breakdowns.
I certainly do not feel bad for our portion of the fanbase that act more as insecure Duck haters than Beaver supporters, spending more time gloating about Horton’s weight than criticizing the flaws in OSU’s play, satisfying themselves with the notion that everything is okay because we lost seven starters last year.
Last year’s title doesn’t mean shit this year, minus the fact that the committee felt sympathetic enough to give us a regional. The time for celebrating last year’s title ended in January.
I’m not sure why you would feel bad for ANY portion of our fanbase. Being a fan is a choice. All of us have our reasons for being a fan, but I doubt any one of us is being forced to be a fan. If you can’t live with the fact that your team is not going to win a championship every year, then you probably should choose to not be a fan. As a fan, I would not say the Beavs shit the bed. The Regional is not over yet, and I’ve seen them power through the loser’s bracket before.
Not sure the Beavs have ever “powered through” the loser’s bracket before, especially after losing the opener, AT GOSS.
Whatever expression one uses to describe it, the performance last night was more reminiscent of the ’14 loss to the Anteaters than anything since.
How about this description?: the Beavs were the only regional host to lose yesterday.
From the Laredo paper Saturday morning:
It’s good to see Luke getting starts but man he’s gotta stop giving up runs
Seems to get a lot of K’s while also giving up hits. Maybe a sign of the range of abilities of players in the league.
I think his ERA is in the 5 neighborhood, maybe LA Pine can be more specific.
His ERA is up to 5.09 but he’s 4th in the whole league with 57 strikeouts
http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=l_pit&lid=125
Regarding Heimlich, I try to keep in mind that he went from college to AAA baseball and sat out a season. I don’t think that’s an easy feat.
“I need an estimate for a small dry wall repair.” Please call P. Casey, Corvallis
PS: Wife says we also need at least one new dining room chair.
Also does the liquor store deliver?
God that was a mess yesterday, Cincinnati had their bats going and made some great defensive plays. Pair that with our shit defense & lackluster offense and we got what we deserved, a loss. Hopefully it’s a wake up call for them, but I fear it’s a coaching issue and if Casey doesn’t come back, Bailey is not the man for the job…
Watching Ohio State vs McNeese. McNeese doesn’t have a base hit and is winning 2-1 in the 3rd., With the bases loaded and 1 out. Ohio State is just killing themselves…
Not that there weren’t other options, but Preston Jones has been under the weather. According to Lundeberg, who does a very good job covering the team….as an independent!
His tweet this morning:
Sort of odd………my son told me after his baseball game this morning that the umpire used to play for Creighton. Not sure if that’s a good or bad omen? He was a solid ump, my son’s team won.
Zak Taylor and George Mendazona replace Ober and Dukart today.
And Gambrell is pitching instead of Pearce
Is Adley the leadoff hitter? He won’t get pitches anyway
What channel is the game on and/or link?
ESPN2
Thanks.
Our worst hitter hitting 5th!?!?
I don’t mind Zak there. Ober was not productive hitting yesterday and had a bad negative play in the field. Zak had a big hit last night and he’s got the experience.
Still don’t like the order….Zak should be at best in the 7th slot. And the pitching…. I would have gone with Gambrell last night then Fehmel or Pearce today.
I’ll probably listen only to postgame since I’m curious how MP will wrap up what I hear has been a dud of a season.
Yeah losing 6 guys in the top 10 rounds of the draft plus Heimlich yet still hosting a regional, such a dud of a season….
Bailey barely inspired me to watch games. Think I watched two all year. Soooo boring. Can’t imagine playing for such a wet noodle.
Neat….
It is still not a “dud of a season” unless your expectations were wildly outside reality. This was always gonna be a rebuilding year. Would’ve been if Casey were in the dugout too.
McMahon misreads a lot of fly balls.
Is a sick Preston Jones worse than a healthy McMahon out there?
He has looked nervous and shakey on every ball, no matter the degree of difficulty.
Mendazona?
More like Mendoza.
We are the fucking bad news bears. Gotta get McMahon outta there
What the hell was that?
Bailey thinks that guy belongs in CF?
On the plus side, my June Summer weekends are wide open now
Same.
Having a cocktail to get through this one!
Cue the clown music. This is hilarious!
https://twitter.com/angrybeavs/status/1134928334117203968
Turns a routine pop fly into a diving catch, McMahan is so bad
Can’t totally blame the player the coach put him there as the best option to win the game. The ultimate result is more on Bailey.
thats what I posted last night. He’s horrible and can’t figure out why Preston Jones isn’t in.
Like what in the world has happenned? Is this that team down south or the power house in corvallis.. wait that’s right there is no power house in corvallis after bailey got his dirty mits on the team, my word.
Powerhouses rebuild too.
Some of you act like they went to Omaha every year under Casey, he lost in the regionals multiple times including as the #1 seed.
It happens.
For the most part I agree with you.
However,
No team coached by Pat Casey has lost the first game of a home regional. Or gone 0-2. Do you ever remember one of Casey’s teams looking this bad defensively this late in the season?
There is cause for concern with Bailes.
Or the decisions…lineup and defensive decisions seem terrible.
Agreed. This late in the season, and he is still experimenting?!?! Your positions and lineup should be relatively locked in.
No and I am not sold on Bailey by any means. He would not be the coach next year if I were in charge.
I just think some of us have lost perspective. Casey may not have gone 0-2 in a regional (neither has Bailey yet) but he did fail to even get in in 2008 which I’d argue is worse than losing 2 in a row. He also failed to be good enough to host regionals on multiple occasions.
Its baseball, it is unpredictable to begin with (anyone really think if the 2007 season were replayed the Beavs would win the title again?).
I just think we need some perspective here. In what was clearly going to be a rebuilding year Bailey still managed to get them into the regionals and has them hosting too.
That is not a dud of a season.
It’s not that we’re losing it’s how we’re losing. Clearly the coach sucks.
I haven’t watched a ton of Beaver baseball (because of him — I tuned in early and saw he sucked) but I can see nothing has changed since early in the season with regard to this coach. He doesn’t put the players in the best position to succeed and he doesn’t motivate them.
But you are also basing that on a tiny sample. For all you know the team would be struggling with Casey too. Again, it is not like Casey’s teams were perfect.
As I said, I wouldn’t keep Bailey but all this bitching and moaning makes us come off as whiney entitled children (ie Duck football fans).
We are better than that.
And remember he is interim coach for a reason. Casey wanted a year off (maybe more); it isn’t like they were going to get someone great to take the job knowing it might only be for 1 year.
Casey had warts, Bailey has tumors.
Okay, what was the alternative?
A leader/better coach?
We just won the CWS. I’m sure someone great would want the job.
They took the easy route of nominating a doofus on staff, and now they look like jackasses. That’s collegiate nepotism for you.
Why? Because they won the CWS last year?
No one with options is taking a job that they know is likely only for 1 year. No matter what the team did the year prior.
You are simply wrong.
Just put yourself in that position. If you are a coveted baseball coach there is a zero percent chance you are taking a job you know is likely only for 1 year. You’d be foolish to do so.
The only options they had were guys who were not coveted. Going with the guy that the players are familiar with and knows how the program has been ran was almost certainly the best option.
It doesn’t have to be a coveted top 10 coach.
I don’t know all the names out there. Someone would have to provide a list, then I could select the best one, even if it’s for one year. All I know is it’s not Bailey.
This is the worst OSU team I’ve seen since the “Krhod” era. But a lot of that falls on the coaching decisions. Losing players is being used as an excuse. We lose players to the draft every year.
Worst team? Come on man.
Worse than 2008 when they didn’t even make the tournament? You’ve lost it.
As for the list, there wasn’t one. No one is taking a 1 year gig. If you can find a single “great” coach who took a 1 year gig in any college sport I will concede you are right.
Where are you getting “great coach” from? I never said that. That’s a you problem.
A coach who is competent for one year is very realistic.
“We just won the CWS. I’m sure someone great would want the job.”
Direct quote from you.
So when you typed that you weren’t saying a “great coach”
Fair enough, could you explain why you used the word “great”?
That’s my bad. I have had 2 midday drinks, and I never drink.
I didn’t even realize I wrote “great” because in my mind I wasn’t thinking “an established coach from a top 15 program” type of guy. Nor do I think we needed someone like that to win this regional. A competent coach would get the job done.
My main point is Bailey is the lazy hire. The AD is making 850k and went with the lazy hire. The lazy hire is incompetent. Now we’re left pretending that going from a national title to losing a home regional is cool because nobody great wants the job. That’s pathetic on all levels.
When you are in the market for an interim coach you don’t have many options.
I honestly can’t remember a single time any team has ever hired an interim coach from outside the organization.
It is the nature of hiring interim coaches.
Sorry if you don’t like it but until you can find some examples of coaches taking interim jobs from outside the organization I am going to continue to claim you have unrealistic expectations.
If there’s a deal in place to get Bailey a pay bump, and players and fans have to suffer because of it, then I have zero respect for Casey. That’s what you’re implying.
I’m saying you have to view this as Casey doesn’t return. So hire someone competent for the year, and after that you look for a long-term solution. Bailey isn’t competent. Do you honestly think he is? His decisions in the handful of games I’ve watched have been Little League level. The games I didn’t watch, I still read the comments, and everyone seems to question Bailey’s logic. That can’t be the best 1 year guy. Period.
That is not what I am implying.
I am saying that if OSU wanted to give Casey the option of returning it meant hiring an interim coach. When you hire an interim coach your options are extremely limited.
I have no idea why Casey decided to walk away. And honestly don’t care to deal in rumors.
I’d agree that if he did it to get Bailey a pay day that is dumb and if that were the case I probably would have told Casey that he either needed to walk away for good or stay but if he was simply burnt out and suggested Bailey get the job (or didn’t suggest it) and the result was having to hire an interim coach than Bailey was likely the only real option. Coaches don’t pack up their family and move for interim jobs.
Your claim that they could just hire someone for a year is what I have a problem with.
No, I don’t think Bailey is the right guy but I also don’t think the “right guy” existed for what was being advertised as an “interim” job.
Like it or not, that is what it was. Coaches don’t jump at interim jobs no matter how great the program is.
If we agree Bailey isn’t the right guy, then we agree there must be someone better. Whether you want to call that guy “great”, “competent”, “better than Bailey”, or anything else is fine with me.
Someone better on a long term deal? Absolutely
Someone better who would take the interim job? Nope.
So I don’t think we agree.
2 hits thru 4 innings and 1 run. Bases loaded 1 out and can’t crap. I’m ready for this crapfest to end the season.
Pat Bailey: Great number 2 TO a head coach. Number 2 AS a head coach.
Mike Riley should have been an OC. Bailey should be a fatherly bench coach.
Not seeing this stuff is why Ed Ray and everyone in charge of those decisions needs to go. We better not have a big ceremony for Ray when he leaves.
You complain a lot but who would you have hired for the job? What hot shot is taking the job knowing it is likely only for one year?
No clue who the options are, but that’s not my job. We have an AD making 850k per year and all the minions under him to decide that. All failed.
Do you honestly believe there were a bunch of options? Honestly? What kind of coach is taking a 1 year gig?
The only guys you are going to get are guys who are over the hill and weren’t any good to begin with (basically Bailey).
I think you are being wildly unrealistic to believe OSU had a bunch of options.
Casey might not come back. No clue where you’re getting this 1 year gig thing from.
Okay but everyone knows Casey has the option to comeback. To a coach with multiple opportunities that is not a job you are going to take. It simply isn’t.
You just can’t ever admit when you are wrong but you are absolutely 100% wrong here.
The only way to get a “great” coach was with a multi-year commitment. Which is fine if that is the way you want to go. So I will ask, would you have told Casey that he couldn’t have the option to come back so that you could go get someone better than Bailey?
You’re absolutely wrong. You can hire someone for 1 year who is better than Bailey. Someone who won’t play that guy in CF and all the other errors he’s made. Who that guy is, I don’t know, but they could have hired me for 100k and I woudln’t have made those moves, so I’m sure there are legit guys out there who want a shot managing the #1 team in the country if even for a year. It’s not my job to make a list of every viable 1 year option. That’s Barnes job, and he gets 850k to do it. You forgive this, and it’s why we’re headed to the basement faster than millennials.
I don’t forgive anything I just live in the real world. Not some fake land where great coaches are jumping at the chance to sign 1 year deals.
You are right, you’d take the job and while I am sure you believe you’d be amazing at it. The fact that as far as I know you aren’t coaching college baseball likely indicates that you probably wouldn’t be.
OSU had a few options:
1) Promote Bailey and leave the option open for Casey to return
2) Hire someone who was just as likely to be terrible and leave the option for Casey to return
3) Tell Casey that if he wants to retire than he needs to retire, have a national search and hire someone who might be great.
How’d that national search work out for the football program? I remember you loving the Andersen hire so you are far from infallible.
I sure did love the Andersen hire, and I was totally wrong. Batting 95% or so is nothing to be ashamed of, though. Start a blog and see what you bat.
I don’t know why people argue over Anderson/Andersen, when the correct spelling is Anderpants.
Haha.
While I didn’t like the Andersen hire and am 99.9% sure I posted as much on this board so I don’t really need a blog of my own.
My reasoning on this board (99.9% sure) was hiring defensive coordinators to be head coach is almost always a bad idea because most of the time the offense will struggle with a head coach who has a defensive mindset.
It might have been somewhere else that I posted that but either way…..
Doesn’t really matter. I don’t expect anyone to always be right. The bigger issue here is your claim that you can get some coach to uproot their whole family for an interim job in Corvallis Oregon.
I just don’t see that as happening. And my evidence is that nearly every school or pro team that tries an interim coach hires from within. I believe that is strong evidence that few coaches from outside any organization will take an interim job.
I remember you not liking the Andersen hire if you want credit for that.
I think a guy who is better than Bailey and at a George Fox type Uni would love to come in and coach for one year. They can then put “coached national champion OSU” on their resume. Duh. No brainer. Instead they went for the easy, lazy, incompetent hire.
Okay, let’s say that is true. What evidence do you have to suggest they’d be any better than Bailey?
That remains a tiny pool of options. And I am not sure even a coach at George Fox would leave for a 1 year gig at OSU.
I guess every school and pro team that has ever hired an interim coach is taking the easy, lazy, incompetent route then because I still can’t think of a single example of a coach leaving a job for an interim job (even at a higher level).
My conclusion is that coaches don’t find interim jobs appealing but it is possible you are correct and every school/pro team is just lazy and incompetent.
I don’t have any evidence. As I said, that’s not my job to recruit lower level coaches and find the best one. That’s Scott Barnes’ job.
All I know is that having watched Bailey coach, there are guys out there better than him. The reason I know this:
1. There are coaches out there who have energy and motivate their players.
2. There are coaches out there who put the players in the best position to succeed.
3. There are coaches who can position his defense ideally, even if he doesn’t have ideal players. The fundamentals of the game and coaching.
Etc.
Low level coaches know these basics. That’s how I know there’s a better option out there, even if I can’t name the guy. I’m not in the business of scouting D3 coaches. But I can deduct from Bailey that someone out there is more qualified. Can you not understand that?
I still can’t think of a single example of a coach leaving a job for an interim job (even at a higher level).
I don’t know. I don’t sit around making lists of these types of things.
I do know that there are young, hungry, competent coaches out there who would want OSU on their resume.
Of course you do. No evidence but you just know. Got it.
You have no evidence except your thoughts. So, good one.
If anything you should be upset at Casey for putting OSU in a position where they really didn’t have other options.
Casey didn’t do them any favors. Pretty selfish move.
Yeah how dare he do something for himself or to help his staff. You don’t know the whole story and you never will. Don’t be a jerk.
Agreed, if Casey doesn’t come back and they make Bailey coach I will be the first one to bitch and moan about it. It would be a bad long term hire but as a 1 year place holder to allow Casey to take a year off that he felt he needed, absolutely 100% worth it.
Retiring to get some loser a salary bump is absolutely pathetic. His #1 obligation is to the players, #2 to the fans, and #3 to his staff. Casey has more than just warts if that rumors has legs.
Maybe Casey was legitimately burnt out and needed a year off. There is nothing wrong with that. His #1 obligation is to himself.
Then he shouldn’t put in a clause to come back.
If he wants to focus on himself, leave for good and tell the Uni to hire a top 15 coach.
Fine, as I said. That was a legitimate option for the university. And I won’t argue with you if that is what you think they should have done.
But….
They chose to give him the option to return which meant they were in the market for an interim coach. When you hire an interim coach you pretty much only have the guys on the current staff to choose from. That is the simple reality of hiring interim coaches.
I think they should have hired the best coach for the job, not the consolation prize who would take the job.
Is that hard to understand?
These rumors that Casey wanted to get Bailey a pay bump and then return are sickening. If true, Casey should have zero respect from fans. Let the coach earn a pay bump. There appears to be good reason Bailey didn’t get one. Now we’re paying this dead weight more than he is worth if Casey does return. Sickening nepotism.
Reading all the above I’m reminded of a saying saying my Dad used to use about “beating a dead horse”. Made me think of Jack, although I’ll grant that you’re both far more coherent.
Don’t speak ill of the dead.
The best coach for the job isn’t taking an interim job
Got it?
I’m done now, believe whatever nonsense you want.
The fuck up at third is the wooden stake through the heart.
What the hell is wrong with this team? They look like high school kids. Last night they were only marked down for 2 errors and we all know that they committed 5. Today they have already committed 3. I don’t know if it would be better with Casey but I don’t remember one of his team regressing this bad. Bailey has made numerous questionable decisions and this team looks like they are ready for summer break. I think that reflects directly on Bailey.
This^^^*
Well we have the #2 ERA in the nation so somebody is doing his job (Yeskie)
Our batting orders never make any sense this year. Why is Tyler Malone at leadoff?
Half the team has started at 2nd base or 3rd base over the season. And Ober was playing out of position at 1st. McMahon out of position in center.
with all the backward ks this year we have gotten tentative at the plate. And it wasn’t that way the first month of the season. The hitting and defense has been on a downward trajectory through the year. And we lose twice to POrtland after never losing to them for a decade. This is squarely on Bailey.
Team takes on the personality of the HC. Bailey has been indecisive and the team plays that way.
This is a succinct way to put it.
Wild throws on pick off plays, outfielders setting on the warning track, passed balls, overthrowing the cut-off man, poor relays, base running gaffes, missed bunts in bunting situations, failure to tag-up on fly balls, basic outfield fundamentals, pop-ups instead of line drives- all marks of this team’s short-comings that should have been addressed by the end of non conference schedule.
Things that are not present compared to last year: Lack of team speed, mental toughness, never quit mentality, plate discipline, fundamentals, desire, expectation to win, live arms, contact hitting, power hitting
Talent wins, coaching puts talent in position to win.
Beavers have more errors than hits.
No speed, no power, no fundamentals=early exit
Pleasure to see Adley for a few years, the next Johnny Bench
Another dropped ball.
The only positive is this should motivate Casey to come back
Football thread?
Do we really want a thread about a team that’s going to win 2 or 3 games right after losing a home regional in our best sport?
Just want to move on past this baseball season as quickly as possible.
Maybe we should pause to talk about hot chicks or unicorns or something. Something that is positive and feels good before delving into the 2 win football season.
Good call.
Hot chicks? Here’s one of angry’s favs, Marie:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7qY_muWkAANiEo.jpg
Sorry, I don’t know how to embed the pic, just the link from the WBB twitter.
She’s awesome
We could see this coming, but we thought something extra would kick in with being at home in a regional, Didn’t happen, poor hitting team and average fielding at best and it showed. Live and die with pitching and it was mediocore. I wouldn’t mind Nat Yeskie as HC as long as he could find a batting guru for an assistant.
Yeskie is pretty bad but he’d be better than Bailey.
I wonder how many times Casey wondered “What the hell is he thinking?” this season while watching.
“Yeskie is pretty bad” Nail in the coffin on your credibility.
Nope. Known as “too late Nate” for good reason.
He’s average. Better than Bailey.
Casey is the only real talent, and these other bozos are riding his coattails.
I had a hot shower.
A really hot shower.
Man, we lost a home regional with an incompetent lameduck coach, and Jack died, all in the same few weeks. Bad year to be a Beav.
Do we know for a fact Jack has passed? Seems like the board after midnight should be dedicated in his honor.
For whatever it’s worth a commits Dad strongly believes Casey will be back next year.
Does that mean they bolt when Bailey is given a Rileyesque lifetime achievement contract?
No we don’t know it as a fact I was making a joke.
He is
So what does the weekend rotation look like next year? I can’t remember a year where we didn’t know who the Friday starter would be going into the next season. Not putting this on Bailey but next year may be rough.
The NCAA will grant Sam Tweedt a seventh year of eligibility…….
Assuming all the juniors get drafted and no Abel next year, Chamberlain would be the obvious choice. We better hope Verburg can come back. It will be a youthful and inexperienced group next year.
Abel has a good chance to be ready, Chamberlain, Pfennigs, Washburn, Gilbert, Gambrell could really make a lot of money by coming back for another year. We have good options. The cupboard isn’t bare.
And Casey will be back.
Abel will almost certainly not pitch next year. See Drew R. Too much at risk.
Article mentions the two Stillwater, MN pitchers coming in next year. Friends kid played against Gilbert last year and said he felt helpless try to hit him. Hopefully Jace Fry minus the TJ surgery.
https://t.co/bCaEadqaVV
I wonder if Abel will pitch again for osu. I sure hope so but for him, getting drafted after junior year at a good enough round is very possible.
Whatever Abel wants to do, I’m behind the dude. He’s done more than plenty for OSU.
Talk about the poster boy for regression (Tweedt). After his first two years, I thought he would become a weekend starter.
Anybody know of a list of Beav player’s destinations for summer ball? Ober’s parents said there were some coming out my direction for the Northwoods League.
Optimistically speaking, I think the football team’s 2 deep on offense is actually the best we’ve had at OSU in the last decade, maybe longer. What was our best offensive team in the last 15 years? Mannion/Vaz with Cooks and Woods? That team was pretty 1 dimensional. This year we have capable playmakers all over the field, especially if Luton/Gebbia show improvement at the QB position.
On the other hand, our defense will still be pretty bad. Mostly due to coaching and lack of talent in the secondary. Will they be good enough to at least give our offense a puncher’s chance in most games? I think so.
The 2012 offense was pretty solid, but I think this year’s offense can outperform them.
As for the best offense in the last 15 years, I’d have to say that the 2006 one was the best the Beavs have had.
2000 team? Fiesta bowl champs
Sure, if we’re asking for the best offense in the last 20 years.
Was that Matt Moore’s senior season? I remember that offense starting the season slow and then picking it up towards the back half of the schedule. With Bernard at tailback and Sammy as the #1 receiver, if I remember correctly.
This offense has all of the pieces to outperform that season, if Gebbia or Luton start to get hot. OL has just enough returning/upper classman talent to compete, plus several young bodies to rotate. WR and RB have the most depth we’re probably ever had and even TE has 3 or 4 guys who should contribute.
2006 was our best team besides the Fiesta Bowl. That was a fun season. Matt Moore was awesome.
Yeah, if we get good QB play we can be good on offense. I’m not sure about our D having potential. I’ll have to look at the roster more closely. Offense has some guys, though. I really want Gebbia to win the job and become what he can be. Enough futzing around from him and time to man up and be the player he can be.
2006 was our best team besides the Fiesta Bowl. That was a fun season. Matt Moore was awesome.
Defense has alot of guys returning, plus some new faces and guys coming back from injury(Gumbs, Roberts via transfer, David Morris from injury) plus we actually have 3 or 4 big bodies to throw out there at DT. We have several linebackers returning and Moore at least hits hard at safety. Our DEs are still a question mark(Gumbs could play there potentially) and our Corners are really the main weakness. Plus we just werent a very smart defensive unit last year. Coaching should improve with a year in the system. We really could have used 1 JC corner to plug and play via grad transfer or JuCo. Still could happen, once players graduate and transfer around. We need a slot to open up before we can sign anybody.
Yeah, I’m not as bearish as mentioned above. That was for laughs mostly.
If we get QB play I can see a path to 6 wins. I’m not a fan of the first two games. We should be scheduling cup cakes and pencil in 3 wins.
Eggers weighs in on Casey and OSU.
https://twitter.com/kerryeggers/status/1135271657809952768?s=19