Have at it, guys. I’ll be gone for about 3 weeks on a bikepacking trip/vacation in Arizona. Baseball will be heating up in that time period, so might as well make this a baseball thread in addition to a general thread. I’ll be in Tuscan, so about 2.5hrs from the Beavs…probably won’t be able to make it, but I’m going to keep it in mind. Anyone going?
If anything interesting pops up, admins feel free to start a new thread, but short of that, old down the fort!
Go Beavs.
Finally First, after I don’t know how many years haha kings to me.
Dog catches car.
More at 11.
Hahaha!!!
Persistence!
Men’s baseball well regarded nationally in preseaon, WBB ascending and watch worthy, Bray outperforming off season expectations given conference musical chairs, Go Beavers!
Have you guys heard of gray moving inside? I think that sucks because there’s a pretty big drop off after him. He deserves to if that’s why he came back but I don’t think it’s going to help his draft stock much. Tackle is the harder position and plenty of guys switch in the nfl with no experience. There’s even talk that Fuaga might start out at guard. I personally don’t have any trust in any of the other tackles so far and was hoping to see another transfer added.
Heading down to Surprise for the tournament in my RV on Monday. Go Beavs!
Sounds like fun. Hope the weather cooperates. My wife is a huge NASCAR fan so going the other direction down south for speed week and all the races. I’d rather be in AZ watching the Beavs or down in Mexico on a beach.
On another note I think Pat Casey will be in KC next to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Well done Coach Casey!!! And thank you for the thrills and making Beaver Baseball a national power!
I will be joining BeeG at his tailgate spot. Look for the guys drinking Spotted Cow brews.
Before too many Spotted Cows, how about sending back some detailed reports for the degenerates here who can’t make the trip?
On it!!
You guys must live close to Wisconsin since thats the only place you can buy spotted cow. Yep, asked to bring some home all the time. Enjoy!!!
I live in Minneapolis, but will be in Wisconsin at a friends cabin for a Super Bowl guys weekend/drinking fest this weekend. Have to remember to buy the spotted cow ?. Excellent beer.
I’ll be there! Not sure about Monday’s game but the plan is Fri-Sun for sure.
Drink a cold for me, wish I could go again.
Yeah I figured you lived in the Twin Cities area close to the border. Be safe traveling down to AZ. Hopefully you’ll have an opportunity to bring your “tailgate” vehicle to Omaha in June. Boy, the hotels really gauge you there for the CWS. Maybe you charge a couple to stay with in the motor home. Up the price for excessive snoring, farting or burping!! ;o)
Drive safely!
How’s the starting rotation looking? Are we optimistic with the pitching staff, is it a weakness heading in? Is it still wait and see? I just don’t know much about the pitchers.
The Trib did a part 1 and 2 for fielding and then pitching. Saw another for all-around tools, as well.
Think it’s better than last year if people can stay healthy. Kmatz is healthy and May is supposed to have some really good stuff in he can get his control better. I’d assume Hunter is also in that top 3 rotation. Not sure who the ace will be. I think based on pure tools May might be the best of those 3 but I think he’s got the most control concerns so I could definitely see Kmatz/hunter being the #1 guy but not sure there’s a true #1. Coaching staff is probably fine with any of those 3 being the “ace”. That leaves Lattery and Lawson as the likely 4, 5 guys and potentially Jimenez rounding out that top 6. Will be interesting to see Mundt back and how he might fit into all this if he’s fully recovered and can stay healthy. This staff definitely seems better than last year but I doubt we really see the days of a true 7 inning guy anymore. Not sure it’s the focus of the coaches but also maybe just how the game is now. Regardless, for the Beavs to really take that next step to Supers and ultimately Omaha, they’ll need the starters to give much more than the 3 or 4 innings they averaged last year. Our offense can be scary good but I still think the path to Omaha is built around a solid pitching unit so RD needs to earn his paycheck this season.
A 5-3-1 rotation seems optimal, given Ps should be treated like RBs, in that overuse will take a toll.
“The Beavers on Tuesday debuted at No. 7 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, giving them a coveted spot among the top 10 in all five major college baseball polls.
OSU is ranked as high as No. 5 in the Baseball American Top 25 and as low as No. 9 in the Perfect Game Top 25. It also landed at No. 8 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Top 30 and No. 7 in the D1Baseball Top 25…”
Havent been online today. Did anybody new sign?
It’s tomorrow.
I wont be online much tomorrow either. Hoping some of you would be willing to post signimg day updates here. Twitter feed will he dead most of the day too, but will try to check in around lunch time
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/behind-the-pac-2s-attempt-to-leverage-the-college-football-playoff-amid-final-expansion-negotiations/amp/
I hope they use the leverage for ever last penny.
Margie sums it up best:
https://youtu.be/KDeIV66TFLQ?si=ac-ZMTlkt_XeI8QY
Posted this in the last thread but didn’t know there was a new one. Apple needs to step up there game if they truly want to compete. Not that the Pac2 is the answer to that, but it could create space for us somewhere.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/06/espn-fox-and-warner-bros-discovery-to-launch-joint-sports-streaming-platform-this-year.html
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/cartels-monopolies/1320254/cartels-laws-and-regulations-2023
Maybe true but honestly given the shloky ESPN/fox broadcasts vs apple i wouldn’t bet against Apple. Have you seen the demos of their newest overpriced gadget? Holy balls
Yes.
Stay away from the company that gifts you a large group of consumers willing to part with their disposable incomes at a high rate.
Durant is in I believe
As of 7:41
https://highschool.si.com/washington/2024/02/07/national-signing-day-2024-where-washington-high-school-seniors-have-signed-live-updates
Can OSU schedule a non-con with the Minot State Beavers?!? Battle of the Beavers? The Scissor Bowl?”
Or the Bemidji State Beavers
Didn’t that used to be a feature in Penthouse lol
Damn.
If you didn’t like Hatcher before now….
https://www.sbsun.com/2023/11/09/centennial-footballs-cornell-hatcher-ii-carrying-on-tradition/
I guess! Tough, productive, and smart.
“I don’t think I had every yelled at him before, but I did after that second fumble,” Logan recalled. “He just looked at me and said, ‘I’ve got this, coach.’ He never wavered and picked himself up and pulled through… That’s the type of player he is.”
Hatcher finished the game against Punahou with 263 yards.
“People are relying on me to do my job,” Hatcher said. “I just had to find that inner strength and come through for the team.”
Hatcher has more than a dozen college offers at the moment, many of them from Ivy League schools. Hatcher is a standout in the classroom, too, and hopes to study law and follow in the footsteps of his father, who practices family law in Rancho Cucamonga.
“I’ve always looked up to my father, and I’ve seen what him being a lawyer has done to help provide for me and my family,” Hatcher said. “It would be an honor to follow in those footsteps.”
This kid is impressive when running the ball
After reading that article, can understand why the staff wanted him; seems to be kind of player that just fits the culture est. here— will add to the locker room.
He’s also Armon’s nephew.
Martinez and Bray on loyalty:
“Oregon State star running back Damien Martinez did the unthinkable after Smith bailed for Michigan State.
He stuck around.
As teammates were bolting for the portal and conference realignment was threatening the Beavers’ foundation, the two-time all-Pac-12 first-team selection decided to remain at Oregon State and stay true to a pledge he made before Smith left. The loyalty has been invaluable for Bray and the immediate future of the program.
“It’s unbelievable,” Bray said. “Like, it’s everything. On a professional level, when you’re trying to do a job and a guy like that sticks around. But also on a personal level. It’s refreshing to see a guy not be bought by some other team.
And make no mistake, teams tried to buy Martinez.
A source told The Oregonian/OregonLive in November that programs had been using back channels to try to entice Martinez to leave after the season, dangling lucrative NIL deals in front of him as a carrot. But he ignored the offers — which came even though he never entered the portal — and stayed committed to the school that believed in him when he was a lightly recruited high school player in Texas.
In the end, Martinez had more loyalty than the coach who signed him.
“There were plenty of teams that offered him a bunch to leave,” Bray said. “So it’s just refreshing. He’s a great guy to lean on to show what you want this place to be. That’s the type of guy we want and what this place is all about. It’s been great.”
…
“Martinez said he never judged any of his old teammates for leaving, but he felt like he had to stay with Bray and help the coach continue the momentum “we’ve built the last two years.”
“Everyone had their own reason to leave,” Martinez said. “We were all in different situations, so everyone had their choices. I couldn’t do nothing but support those guys, because we’re chasing a dream and taking the steps — whatever they may be — to reach those dreams and goals.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024/02/oregon-states-trent-bray-on-recruiting-the-transfer-portal-damien-martinezs-loyalty-and-nil.html
Durant and Tuagi have both signed. Only one I haven’t seen officially yet is Freauff but if his visit the other week was any indication, it’s just a formality. Haven’t seen any of the talking heads from other Beav sights mentioning anything out of the ordinary so it would seem anything happening today beyond those 3 players would be a surprise. All the recent offers by coaches I’ve seen on X have been to 2025 and beyond as they were all primarily out recruiting the last few weeks.
Aaaaannnnddd as soon I hit send, Eddie Feauff is officially signed. Lol. That’s the 3 we were expecting.
Eddie Freauff is officially a Beaver!
https://x.com/BeaverFootball/status/1755290899763053046?s=20
Is he a legit 6′ 4″?
Jack, is this the guy you were calling attention to n earlier threads?
Yeah… he plays against terrible competition, but it’s not like his team is all that either. He stands out because he makes some freakish plays, just to compensate for his QB’s inconsistent delivery.
If you remember Herman Moore, he plays a lot like him, with his catch radius and ripping through arm tackles for yac.
Herman Moore, btw, was a K and a 3rd string TE in HS. He was also a 7′ high jumper. Legend is that in his last HS game, a UVA assistant coach was there to watch his son play QB for the other team. Moore only played as K, until the final play of the game. It was a one-score game, and a hail Mary was upcoming. His coach put him in and told him to just out jump everyone and knock the ball down. He easily out jumped everyone, but he decided to just catch the ball, instead. The UVA coach went to talk to his coach, and his coach said something like, “Well, he’s a decent kicker.”
But that UVA coach saw something in that one play, and he offered on the spot.
Chip Kelly apparently interviewing for Seachickens OC…interviewed for LV and WA too…on shakey ground RE job security and maybe not thrilled about going to B10?
We should see several more PWO signings over the next few days as well.
Coach Bray gear on sale, no swoosh…….another reason to like the guy!
https://shop.osubeavers.com/c-14434?_s=EM240207_CLPT_HMT_NON_RSTNWFBC&loc=en-US&cur=USD&cdt=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=CLICKABLE_IMAGE&utm_content=clickable_image&utm_position=0&SFMC=2416914_4009_315_b24020553d8f1cfbc49a7955e8a87b66
The only problem with those shirts is they look way better on the display mannequin then on me.
heh, heh, I’ve always been certain that I look better in person than in the mirror!
Should be some kind of fan reward when Beavs score 44 points?
Sorry Beavs, I’m not buying that shirt
I’d feel gay all day, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Shouldn’t it be “All damn Bray” or something else
You aren’t feeling a lil Brazy?
Ugochukwu Odoemelam signed – defensive back – fun name for Pac 2 announcers.
Seriously, that’s his real name?!?
6′ 1″ 182 lb Safety
https://247sports.com/player/ugochukwu-odoemelam-46131600/
Maybe the kwu is silent?
I assume this is a PWO. Always good to get in-state guys to stay and develop!
Ohh Boom Watch Him says hold my beer
We could have used him this year.
eh… a couple practice runs and it should flow.
It’s not like some of those euro names with six consecutive consonants and a vowel here and there.
Dasxhel has an article on OLive that is titled OSU footbal roster updates and its locked behind the damn pay wall. What I could see before being blocked out is Skyler Thomas should be seeing some light duty this spring and Stover hasn’t decided on whether he’s returning or not.
Try this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/oregon-state-safety-skyler-thomas-could-see-light-duty-this-spring-olb-cory-stover-remains-undecided-on-return/ar-BB1hWA3h
Spring practice dates are March 5, 7, 9, 12, 14 and 16. Then there’s a 2½-week break for finals and spring vacation, with practices resuming April 4. The remaining dates are April 6, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18 and 19. The spring game is Saturday, April 20.
Oregon State’s Pro Day is Monday, March 11. A large group of draft-eligible Beavers are expected to take part.
No Tongue in 2024, but he is “ahead of schedule”
Poor guy must have really destroyed that knee. Hard to imagine coming back from such a horrific injury and having the confidence in your knee to play at full speed again.
I’m 6 years removed from a major knee surgery. It will never be the same as it once was and I will never have the same range of motion again. Ever.
Granted he’s young and I was in my early 40’s when my injury happened. That does make a difference.
I do hope he bounces back. Point being, seriously knee injuries are tough to bounce back from and sometimes it takes longer to heal and more PT than for someone else. Age, genetics, performing surgeon and sometimes just luck all matter.
Excessive napkin consumption may have also played a part lol
That’s be fact
I’ve had knee surgery before and come back to play. It takes a while to not think about it and sometime you get phantom pain. But once you get over that hump, it’s really no longer an issue.
He’s got top notch resources available to him for rehab and he’s an athlete. He’ll make it back in some form.
Has the rehab time shortened over time, or is it still about a year from injury?
His injury will take over a year since he tore all the ligaments and the patella tendon and they’ll all heal at different rates. ACLs are still a minimum of 9 months. He has to be diligent in his rehab and not go too fast.
I’d say if he really wants to play again, the target would be fall 2025. Unlikely for spring ball 2025.
Here’s the non paywall version.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/oregon-state-s-trent-bray-on-recruiting-the-transfer-portal-damien-martinez-s-loyalty-and-nil/ar-BB1hVFhy
That’s a different article, by Joe Freeman, not Daschel.
Some good stuff there too.
Martinez said he never judged any of his old teammates for leaving, but he felt like he had to stay with Bray and help the coach continue the momentum “we’ve built the last two years.”
“Everyone had their own reason to leave,” Martinez said. “We were all in different situations, so everyone had their choices. I couldn’t do nothing but support those guys, because we’re chasing a dream and taking the steps — whatever they may be — to reach those dreams and goals.”
Well I F’ing judged em!
Disney misses revenue, and from what I saw espn/sports eyeballs are down?
Here’s a 5 minute read:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/disney-beats-on-earnings-boosts-dividend-as-streaming-losses-narrow-210518309.html
Some highlights:
Dividend increase, $3 billion buy back plan approved by board.
Announced a firmer timeline for the company’s over-the-top (OTT) ESPN streaming service, revealing the platform will launch fall 2025
The development comes after news broke Disney’s ESPN will team up with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Fox (FOXA) to launch a new sports streaming service, which is expected to debut sometime this fall.
The sports segment generated an operating loss of $103 million but still saw a 37% improvement compared to the $164 million loss it reported in the year-ago period.
Linear networks, meanwhile, continued to struggle. The segment fell 12% year-over-year to $2.8 billion while operating income for linear came in at $1.2 billion, a decline of 7%.
The ESPN “improvement” and some of the price increase is due to layoffs.
was just going to say the same. They laid off a ton of their on air talent to shed salary last year. So of course they didn’t see quite the same level of operating loss.
Not just on-air. There were layoffs across many functions.
Sports are in trouble. It’s almost as if the more they try to force us what to like, care about, or watch, the worse it gets for them. This P4 is going to be a disaster. Lunatics in the SEC country and gambling degenerates are the only ones who are going to watch.
It’s funny because no one has expanded access to smaller teams, smaller sports, smaller markets, etc. than ESPN. The amount of content on ESPN+ is staggering.
But at the end of the day, the serious money lies in getting everyone to watch one thing so you benefit from the network effect and FOMO. That’s the only way media really scales beyond its current size or maintains its current size.
” The amount of content on ESPN+ is staggering.”
“Content.” You’re feeling generous! : )
FloSports
And they already have an operating streaming platform.
Haven’t read yet, but for those interested in streamibg trends:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2024/02/07/nfl-nba-caught-off-guard-espn-fox-warner-streaming-announcement/72516160007/
“Bray said there will be some subtle changes to spring practice, such as a deeper dive into specific situations. There are a lot of new names on the roster, but Bray said that doesn’t mean spring practice will look like 2018, when there was a heavy emphasis on teaching. “There’s going to be a lot of just playing football. That’s the best way to learn,” Bray said.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024/02/oregon-state-safety-skyler-thomas-could-see-light-duty-this-spring-olb-cory-stover-remains-undecided-on-return.html
Interesting since it’s going to be pretty much a new system at least on offense. Guys are going to have to put in a lot of work over the summer with the playbook.
But maybe he’s also trying to weed out guys when the spring transfer portal opens. Beavs still over the 85 limit?
There’s value too in seeing who is individually motivated to put in the work before practice starts.
Seeing some mocks that have Fuaga moving up after senior bowl performance. One has him as high as #7…for reference, Isaac Seumalo was RD 3, pick #79.
Is Fuaga the best OSU linemen in the program’s “modern” era?
And he was a lowly 2-star right? Beaver bump downgrade for an unknown? Shows the value of Coach M, and the flaws of recruitment ranking systems.
He was a 3-star. Might have been a 4-star originally based on SEC offers who was Beaver bumped.
In fairness to Seumalo, OT’s are valued much higher than interior linemen
But he played OT as a Beaver, correct?
I won’t be surprised if Fuaga moves to G in the NFL. Tackles have to be athletic and protect the highest paid player on the team. But I love mean, run blocking guards….
Seumalo played C
And made o-line calls, like he does in the NFL.
It would be awesome to see him direct a line with Fuaga next to him.
If I remember correctly he could play everywhere and moved around a bit
Have to bear in mind the professional career Seumalo had as well.
Fuaga does look promising in this draft.
I’d be shocked if he went in the top 10, and bet he ends up inside in the NFL. I want my tackles to be more athletic and unless he surprises me at the combine, I think he falls late first/early second. This may sound silly, but look at his ankles. Elite NFL linemen are tall but have smaller frames, it is why all these retired linemen lose all this weight, they carry the weight to play the position but have leaner more athletic frames.
Fuaga is thick and would be 300+ regardless if he played football.
Official Bios of signees:
https://osubeavers.com/documents/2024/2/7/240207_Oregon_State_Football_Signing_Day_Biographies.pdf
Those are big lbs, big dbs, and big rbs, not to mention a couple of big OL. Lets hope they are all productive and this is the start of Bray becoming the Pat Casey of the football program at OSU.
I actually think Bray may be the closest coach we have seen in football side that resembles Casey’s perspective and approach to recruiting to Corvallis and having a genuine expectation that you can win in Corvallis, and being able to articulate it passionately.
So is Aiden Sullivan a PWO? He’s not listed on either section.
JUCO… probably has to qualify before signing?
They did include him in their social media posts, though.
For Exodus Ayers, which stat do you all like better?
1. Intercepted 12 passes as a junior
2. Returned six of the 12 interceptions for touchdowns
I saw that too. Amazing.
Six pack of pick-sixes.
Talk about changing momentum….
If the kid has six pack abs, he should tattoo a “6” on each one….talk about a pick-6 celebration in Reser, just pull up the front of your jersey while you hoist the chainsaw in the other hand…
…and the tattoos will look great with s middle age+ belly!!
That has “man amongst boys” written all over it
https://sports.yahoo.com/inside-the-formula-of-oregon-states-surprising-start-154515871.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMd2LBcuav6WSIzSGUW9NvLO2gJVwmIaLcqmTIsEPnO0j8SCRdW42oY_XbF7h4RHAqwI3i0V1k8mkz_b4bN4hKdn6akXgP9mKXHfqb3DAvqIRhYWMCmypUFsVkRtIBs1TVlxxI9KW8IBzD_hfluxBaAdWRS1aNVUNpDh1ONF-nWv
Maybe left out “Freshmen Contributions?”
“Rarely does a player force a bad shot, or carelessly throw the ball away…”
Beavs rank #70 at 14.1 TO’s/game
watching mbb game – beavs scrapping – problem is they always look as tho they are scrapping. Just b4 halftime, Pope scores with one of his beautiful shots, WT does my favorite thing and calls a time out to break up the game flow, with about a minute in the half. Speaking of WT – the unhappiness of the past few seasons shows.
Beavs down by 6 with three minutes left not looking good. Somehow Christian Wright air-balled a layup. WTF? And Ibekwe continues to miss free throws and point-blank shots.
You know it’s bad when Daschel is openly criticizing Ibekwe
masochism
I don’t know how Mike Parker doesn’t blow a gasket during basketball games. He’s seen the same thing over and over. It must be nauseating. I’m sure he’s counting the days until baseball.
That may b true on a mbb level.but MP is a friend of Tinkle and his family.
Mike is required to have blinders and not comment on the obvious. He needs to write a book of his actual thoughts once he retires. He has always been very careful and judicious with criticisms towards any Beav coaches.
Franke has left the program. Wonder if he decided to hang the cleats up after all the injuries? Guy seemed like the weight program had made him into a monster. Might’ve been this last spring game where he looked huge on the edge. Feel sorry for him that he had so many injuries.
Ya it was injuries too bad. At least it opens a scholarship up. I think they’re still 5 or 6 over.
FOOTBALL: Assistants coaches salaries posted by Daschel.
Devan is significantly higher than any other non-coordinator. He is gonna be watched closely by anyone interested in the program. Recognizing that the OL is very, very important doesn’t mean that he is worth that inordinate number. He needs to prove it.
BTW, anyone have his salary history?
A few examples of pay: Coordinators=$750k, Devan=$600k, others range from $250-390k
He gets two years to prove it as that is the length of assistant contracts.
UCLA must just be a terrible environment for football. Chip Kelly jumps ship to Ohio St.
Can’t recall any other instances where a P5 head coach leaves for another P5 job as a coordinator. Kind of a self demotion. Significant pay cut for sure.
That’s nuts. And to add insult to injury, he stayed in the same conference as UCLA.
UCLA in shambles right now.
These mid-western schools are SO vokatike if late….
UO should dominate “B10 West”as they have the best combination of stability and talent. They could be real threats to B10 in first year.
The CA schools should really struggle in that conference next year.
*volatile
(I love referring to UO as a mid-western liberal arts school….somebody on this site coined that characterization a few months back.)
Yikes.
I suppose he’s going to get away from traditional recruiting there, since it’s all just a bidding war any more.
Do players there now get another transfer window because coach left ?
Yes. Hopefully Gundy is working the phones.
Linemen?!?
Yes. All UCLA players now have a month to transfer freely, which means they’ll be aggressive and throw money bags at their guy to make it happen asap. Judas…?
In terms of wins/losses, he hit a Mike Riley-esquesweet spot of mediocrity, 34/34 overall, 26/26 in league, 1/1(?) in bowl games. Turning UCLA into an inert PAC 12 ingredient is not an easy achievement…
Imagine being tOSU and getting bailed out of OC Bill O’Brien, to replace him with OC Chip Kelly. Pretty lucky!
Weird for Ryan Day to be HC over his former boss.
As a coaches kid I can attest that coaching-circle families roll deep and once the old guys have had their big run they LOVE being assistants for their guys. Even my HS coach is back as an “analyst” after several years of being retired because one our teammates from 20 years ago is now the head coach.
Chip is all about X’s and O’s and theory-crafting how to run a program (diet, sleep, training, team-building, etc). He hates the political position of being head coach and all that comes with boosters and recruiting. The fact that he’s been shopping around OC spots in the NFL leads me to believe he’s done chasing HC glory (for now) and just wants to be responsible for the parts he actually enjoys.
At Ohio St, he can pay the players he wants and go from there. He hates the current environment of college football but can probably deal with it from the top of the mountain.
PJ Fleck apparently expected to be a frontrunner at UCLA.
JS crying in his beer right now.
Ha, seriously. First UW then UCLA. Stupid fuck.
Kelly looks like a 45-50 year toddler in this photo, one headed for his halloween candy..
https://www.usatoday.com/sports/
Wait… isn’t this row the boat? XD
There’s a rumor ucla is going after Brennen. Doesn’t seem to have much legs but what a mess and given the state of cfb, it’s somewhat believable!
I’d hire Pet Carroll… and tell him it’s okay if a third party pays his players… now.
His timing was perfect.
It sucks that a lot of the schools in the B10 are down and the ucks just spent a fortune building their roster. All the other former pac schools r going to be easy games and Michigan will be down a lil too.
Pat Chun WSU AD is named to the CFP selection committee. That’s kind of unexpected given the pac2 is holding up some of the changes they want.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/feb/08/wsu-ad-pat-chun-named-to-cfp-selection-committee-g/
Bribery?
Ladies at Utah 6pm Pac 12 network.
If they’re gonna get one on the mountain trip this is probably the game to be had. Colorado on the road might be a taller task.
Neither will be easy
Yup, Colorado ranked 4, Utah 20. And Co is over 1,000 feet higher.
Lol at these announcers after a double dribble call on Utah.
“I didn’t see it. That’s too bad.”
It was CLEAR as day
30-22 good gals at the half.
The last 2-3 minutes was all Beavs with a 7-0 run.
Utah has shot ZERO FT’s, Beavs 5 of 7 and, how ’bout Beers 3-3 at the line.
Another big run, WBB is up 49-32 now. So refreshing to watch after another men’s late-game debacle last night.
Utah scores the last 7 to cut it to 11.
49-38 Beavs after 3.
Beers looks like an ogre out there. Getting called for offensive fouls because she’s so much bigger and easily throwing Utah defenders around like a rag doll lol
3 fouls all offensive
I’ve thought the same thing regarding Beers. You know Rueck has to have said something to the officials this season, but those BS calls continue game after game. Beavs up 12 with 2:30 left.
Utes have only scored a single point in the first 6 minutes of the 4th.
Lead is 17 again. This one is over. Good gals gonna get it done in SLC
58-44 final
The gals are more enjoyable to watch then Stinkle time
100!
without a doubt
Ryan Grubb spurns DeBoer after following him to Tuscaloosa.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39494674/seahawks-hiring-ryan-grubb-offensive-coordinator
Love it!
It’s Deboer’s offense tho right? If so probably not a huge deal as he’ll have pick of the litter for OC.
Hiring a college OC with no NFL experience is a huge risk.
Watching the women’s game yesterday showed why they are much improved over last year. The guard play from the freshman Donovan and Shuler is the difference. TVO can play off the ball a lot more now with less minutes. She’s become more efficient that way. The offense gets into their sets faster now and both guards have good enough handles to bring the ball up court under pressure. Guards playing better lets Beers get more one on ones. It’s a nice spiral upward.
Oddly enough, the team turnovers per game are the same as LY. Looking at the top teams in the land, they all average between 12 to 15 per game.
Not certain, but I believe Rueck has said that 15 TO’s is acceptable, for sure he has said that the goal is to keep opponents shooting under 30%
Recently I’ve noticed that points off of TO’s have been less for the opponent than sometimes in the past.
Example, last night OSU had 12 TO’s leading to only 3 pts for Utah. OTOH Utah had 10 that led to 14 pts for Beavs.
Getting back on D along with ??
There’s only one team in WBB that averages under 10 TOs per game and just 8 total under 12. (men’s has 173 under 12 for perspective).
So TO’s per game are high vs the mens game but not way out of line with the women’s game.
I wonder if it has to do with the size of the ball.
Their ball is way easier to shoot, but its handle is a lot quicker than the bigger ball.
Brennan getting a second interview at UCLA? Things must be really rough at UA.
Fleck turns down UCLA. Kelly bolts. Not a great time for them.
Turns out Bennam never interviewed and USC DC turned them down
I expect the interest level for that job to be very low.
So much for playing better at home. Huskies have doubled the woeful Beavs 34-17 with about two minutes left in the first half. Can Tinks do the honorable thing and “Gary Andersen it” out of Corvallis?
Wishful thinking on our part. Are fans wearing bags over their heads yet, to embarassed to be seen watching that horrible product?
The fan base looks to be at the age where they probably don’t remember what they just watched a couple of hours later.
yeah.. they notice
They were so upset they threw teddy bears on the court.
Maryland’s HC says their RB3 asked for $100k or he was going to transfer. Wow.
Well, if he didn’t have 3 years on his contract, Tinkle would no doubt be gone by now. Getting swept at home to go to 3-10 in conference in year 10? I honestly think they should bite the bullet and can his ass at the end of this year. The product is being damaged and that is a problem.
Ya his contract has been killing us and there’s no reason for optimism and hope until he’s gone. Too bad Nvidia guy won’t just buy him out. It’s like nothing to him.
Yeah, agree. I was thinking how long Tinks has been HC. He has to be one of the longest tenured MBB coach we’ve had. Primarily do to his long term contract that should have never been extended.
looking @ today’s mbb scores – recalling DJ Rodman ditched the Cougs for . . .USC. Oh well.
RIP Bob Moore.
Thankfully baseball season is ready to start. Hopefully the boys can stay healthy and make a deep run this year. Looking down the road, do they lose quite a bit off this current squad where making a deep run next year will be pretty tough?
With the portal, gaps can be filled fairly easily.
Beavs top 2025 commit, ranked #3 by perfect game, unlikely to see campus but if he does…
https://twitter.com/XNeyens?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Thanks Bill! What position will he play at the next level (hopefully for the Beavs)? There recruiting has been very good with at least a couple potential starters as freshman.
Gals at Colorado 11am Pac-12 network
Off to a good start, Good Gals are up 17-8 at the end of one. Buffs are overplaying Hansford and she’s scored her first two 2-point baskets of the year on backdoor cuts. The play so much smarter than the Men’s team.
Looking good so far. 17-8 good gals after 1
44-24 Beavs at the half. 9 of 16 3 pt baskets! (7 of 8 in the 2nd qtr)
Enjoying the elevation….
I think players like Beers and Hunter have no fear, don’t see the Beavers as underdogs…
If they hold on to win, is a move up to 10-12 warranted?
Beers is from Colorado, right?
Littleton, Dad’s been a cop there since ’98
Wow!!! Is Colorado a top five team? The gals are really playing well!
Could the woman beat the mens team coached by Tinkle?
Anybody know how much Tinkle is owed on his contract?
I think it was reported that he would be owed over 8 million. Three years left due to the Elite 8 extension.
Maybe we can pay ‘em Argientinian or Zimbabwe currency!
Zimbabwe uses the US dollar, and Argentina’s new president has promised dollarization.
Horrible officiating in beav women game.
And the women still hold onto win!
I have no idea what’s considered a foul during this game. Beavs getting mauled time after time. 80% of those “jump balls” were blatant foul on Colorado.
yeah, it was pretty obvious on a lot of those. Beavs playing against 8 last quarter!
Sadly, some media pundits are noting this is how you can tell WBB has arrived, whether its physical play with WWF referees or broadcasters like Swoopes criticizing Clark using false information….I remember the Ducks WBB being asked about their physical play at the lack of calls, and the response was “Whatever. I just want to play basketball.”
Good on the women for persevering today. Its not surprising CU would make a desperate run on their home court, it’s disgusting that one can’t even tell what a foul is anymore…
65-59 final
Statement win by the ladies!
Led by as many as 25 against the number 4 ranked team on the road and a road sweep of the mountain schools who are both ranked.
Despite being outscored 21-5 in the 4th, Beavs WIN 65-59
And CU was allowed to turn it into a wrestling match by the refs. That CU player who started screaming at the referee with 6 seconds left should’ve been T’d up.
Despite all that it’s still a huge road win.
b10 or P2 refs?
Why would it be anything other than PAC refs since it’s a conference game?
I thought Colorado was going to the big 12 and I was thinking basketball switched over…guess I should have checked conference standings!
They are. Not until next season.
Good gals are a game out of first place. One game behind Stanford and 1/2 game behind Colorado.
Stanford has a pretty easy remaining schedule. Only ranked opponent? The good gals at Gill in a few weeks.
Buffs next 3 are at Utah, UCLA and USC.
Pair of huge games against the LA schools at Gill next weekend. Win those and set up a showdown with Stanford for 1st place.
Actually, Colorado’s wbb thug identity last season and beginning of this one had officials seeming to think it was quite cute. There might have been some behind the scenes discussions because they get away with significantly fewer crap plays now.
Was also the first road win over a top 5 team in program history
Pretty cool thing is they’re having the team captains from the local high school lahainaluna football team here on Maui at the Super Bowl and they’re doing the coin toss!
This Super Bowl is lesser of two evils for me. I hat the forty whiners and am sick of the chiefs and always seeing and hearing about swift and his brother. All in all I’m pulling for the chiefs.
It’s hilarious/pathetic that even the Super Bowl is apparently democrats vs republicans.
Did you see Kennedy commercial for independent?
I was trying to figure out who that was aimed at. I’m assuming it was a riff on a classic Kennedy commercial… Did it actually resonate with anyone?
Will likely be used as an example of shoe-into-mouth for comms classes in the future; horribly bad decision.
There are no republicans.
There’s a bunch of morons who follow the biggest moron of them all in the Trump Party. He’s so abjectly stupid and fearful, he makes Joe Biden look sane and highly competent. He’s also about as un-American as they come.
But apparently people believe this blood-poisoning propaganda he spews… which keeps food production low and prices high, because when they poison our blood, they also pick our crops and process our foods.
So friggin’ stupid. Amazingly stupid. Stupid is about all there is to it.
lol… and apparently on top of everything else, the orange monkey’s ass is a fucking tankie.
Maybe stupid isn’t a comprehensive enough word, any more.
When you start taking stupid, Jack…you should look in your mirror! There’s the most stupid of them all!
* talking
Rubber and glue is the height of your argument?
Those are some sad anti-American monkey ass noises.
Donald J Trump is an abjectly stupid human who babbles incessantly about things like “they’re going to poison our blood” or something about Nicki Haley having all the power in Congress.
Meanwhile, the very people who can’t find labor on their farms, due to his direct actions, are still voting for him and his wanker fascist propaganda, because why?
It’s not like this country hasn’t survived Know Nothings in the past.
See, you’re making my point!
Your point is rubber and glue.
Your dear leader is an abjectly stupid human who babbles incessantly about the most idiotic things, some which make zero sense whatsoever, most which are just idiotic bastardizations of fascist propaganda, and your point is rubber and glue.
Well done.
Watch out for that there blood poisoning, son.
It’s gonna git you, and you will Nazi it coming.
“He’s as unamerican as they come” and “he’s so abjectly stupid and fearful” but being stupid and fearful is the cornerstone of being an American.
To be fair, fearful nativism has historically proven to be a useful political tool for despots and tyrants for eons.
Didn’t everyone read Machiavelli in HS?
Best half time show EVER!
What year were you born?
I’m guessing 2008.
Bitch please.
The get off my lawn crowd is pretty large here
What do u mean? All of those artists were I. Their prime 20 years or so ago. No one wanted to c their old asses up there. And the song mixes is what really ruined it. Only completed one song.
Agreed! Usher and crew put on a solid show.
It was actually a decent show.
Mahomes didn’t have a great game but he got it done when he needed to. The guys unbelievable! I think he played under the Pirate at Texas Tech.
34-46 for 333 yards and 2 TDs is stellar, considering his offensive line got blown up all game. Carried the ball 9 times for 66 yards too.
Really it shows how great Andy Reid is as a play caller.
He had several key mistakes, but got it done when it mattered. First half was really rough, then he threw a pick on the opening drive of the second half. Turned it on after that.
Agree with the Reid comment. Not much of what he did was Mahomes making great plays. They just did a good job taking advantage of his skill set. Looked like a Bo Nix performance.
Reid is a good example of the long game and having the right players. 4 NFC championships and no super bowl…but he kept on….
Sorry. I stand corrected. It was Kliff Klingsberry.
WBB offering tickets for UCLA/USC at $4
FILL GILL
I’ll be there Sunday. Let go!!!!!!
I know it is corny, but i think the Bray 44 t shirts or jerseys ought to have “Loyal” or “Loyalty” where his name goes, could do the same for Martinez jersey, and others who have chosen to stay with OSU at a challenging time.
While I appreciate what Bray is doing, I don’t really want a “Bray All Day” t-shirt …
Ha! Many SF players didn’t kniw OT rules changed and didn’t understand them…hell, even i knew they changed…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/super-bowl/2024/02/12/49ers-players-say-they-didnt-know-super-bowl-ot-rules/72569082007/
Baseball season is here and I’m going to guess at the lineup. It’ll be a tough lineup for opposing starters to get through as they are talented and experienced. Mistakes will be punished. DH is a bit of a mystery but three solid candidates. Depth behind the starters is unknown. Other than Caraway, rest of the freshman will be competing for scraps of playing time.
1. McDowell – CF
2. Bazzanna – 2B
3. Guerra – 1B
4. Turley – LF
5. Kasper – RF
6. Hainline – SS
7. Caraway 3B
8. Peterson/Krieg/Trosky – DH
9. Smith – C
Other than Caraway, the lineup is veterans. If they go cold, it won’t be for long and if they get hot, 10+ runs a game is likely. Few opposing pitchers will get 5+ innings against this lineup. Better than the 2018 lineup? It has potential
Lol UCLA hires coveted HC candidate Deshaun Foster. Chip really screwed them over.
It has to be a placeholder hire.
Stability hire, for sure. Seven years as a position coach at his alma mater with no promotion or anything. Was on his way out to be an assistant for the Raiders before he was hired.
Good news for them is he has been loyal to his alma mater.
Well, as we have seen as of late, “loyalty” to one’s alma mater is pretty fleeting….
No shit
It doesn’t seem like a bad hire.
UCLA wasn’t exactly very supportive of Chip either. Breakup was inevitable.
This hire is the type of hire we’ll be seeing more and more. Most important head coach coveted skill now is roster management.
UCLA’s AD seems dysfunctional. They’re kind of like Miami in that they have every conceivable advantage in recruiting in so many sports, yet still manage to screw it up time and time again.
They’re going to struggle in the Big”10″ for the foreseeable future….USC too.
https://gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/basketball/osu-womens-basketball-defeat-colorado/article_94b39dd1-72ff-5914-9841-f930e99e406b.html
If it wasn’t mentioned, good gals move up to no 11 in the top 25.
8-11 are all Pac 12. Colorado, UCLA, USC then OSU
Stanford moved back up to no 3.
How is Colorado ranked higher, losing to us at home and both having the same overall record?
Ranked higher than UCONN for possibly the first time ever? Thursday is big as it’s the initial 16 reveal. Wonder how much the weak non con sos hurts them? Their NET ranking only went up by 1 to 17, even after the weekends road sweep. Being a 4 seed or higher is huge as they’ll be hosting the first two tournament games
Breckterfield is now the DL coach at sdsu.
Too bad Bray couldn’t find him a spot.
Question: haven’t had a chance to watch the women’s team this year, how is there athleticism and foot speed? I had a chance to go to the elite 8 versus Louisville years ago and what stood out was Louisville was just so much more athletic than ORST. To steal an angry term, they out athlete’d us.
Having not watched, I’m assuming it much like prior years were ORST wants to control the tempo, keep it a slow grind it out kind of pace. Beside being on the road guessing the 3 losses to Cali school do to them have superior athletes.
That’s a great point. My impression is that they are collectively more athletic (quick, coordinated, fast twitch) then any of the teams since I started following Beavs women’s basketball (Sydney Weise era).
The two freshman guards are a big part of that.
Another huge factor, is that we have at least 8 different players who immediately come to mind (not looking at the roster at the moment) who can all shoot the three and get hot at various times, so we’re not as reliant on just 2 or 3 players who need to be “on” as it has seemed in the past. We’ve pretty much always had good to great post play, and this year Beers is as good as any we’ve had.
Combine all that with the best on-the-ball defense I’ve seen from a Beavs team, and I’m super excited for where this team could go.
Beers is impressive for her size. She brings the ball up the court on occasion. Probably could shoot even more as she has a nice 12-15 footer. I would say one of the most athletic “big women” the team has had. Hunter is also a very athletic PG.
One thing about Beers that I’ve noticed; she seems to have a better ability to catch the pass than some bigs in the past. Hamlim, Gulich and, I think, others took a long time to stop losing passes out of bounds. Maybe partly due to those around her? Gotta be mainly her better hands though.
A couple of games ago, she took a simple pass at the high post, but the way she just plucked the ball out of the air caused me to take notice that she appeared to have very strong hands.
Imo – more athletic – Hunter really moves. And they can change hands when dribbling!
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2024/02/all-about-the-michigan-state-spartans-an-oregon-ducks-fan-guide-to-the-big-ten-conference.html
Broad overview with really little mention of Smith, the familiarity between Ducks and Smith, how Smith had one foot out the door to MSU at CW, how Ducks were playing MSU’s game on the Autzen screen as Beavers warmed up….or how they’ll be in Autzen next fall. Maybe this will be brought up pre game…
Will be the first time in my life that I’ll be rooting for the ducks to win. Fuck JS
It’s simply a root for the meteor kind of game
It would be optimal to gift their new conference a non-con loss, before they start conference play.
“…four players from last season’s Beavers roster were invited to the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine.
Invited to the combine were receiver Anthony Gould, right tackle Taliese Fuaga, cornerback Ryan Cooper Jr. and safety Kitan Oladapo.”
Kliavkoff reportedly finally relieved of his duties.
Good riddance.
Yep. Hopefully the Beavs and Cougs hire someone that fights for them.
Saw a blurb that said the front runner was a pac12 deputy director under GK. Some gal, I’ve never heard the name before.
https://sports.yahoo.com/with-college-sports-at-key-juncture-what-does-the-future-of-the-ncaa-tournament-and-cfp-look-like-164559682.html
Huge article here about the future of college sports. It’s obvious why SB’s priority is to get into a power conference: the balance is continuing to shift toward winners of big events and giving big conferences more access to the big events. NCAA tourney is likely to add more at-large sports because the big conferences want more teams in. CFP is likely to expand because the big conferences want more teams in.
Funny thing is all of this will be necessary if player compensation comes anywhere close to mandatory, otherwise the small schools will get pushed out and non-revenue sports will disappear. So TPTB will claim it was all inevitable because the greedy players wanted money (and not because they just wanted to grow their own “businesses.”)
Big news day for CFB business…
Schulz expected to vote in favor of a 5+7 playoff because it gives P2 a better chance of making the CFP. He’s also asking for P2 to get CFB payouts equal to the lowest pro-rata (not actual) P4 payout, basically making them de facto power conference teams.
Well the cfp and espn have signed a new deal already even though everyone was in a panic that it wouldn’t happen because Shulz wasn’t voting for the 5-7 change. This makes me think he got something out of them and didn’t just cave to pressure. Time will tell I guess.
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/sec-big-ten-pushing-for-more-as-college-football-playoff-finalizes-expansion-details/
Nothing was signed. Preliminary at best and much lower than what was anticipated. It will be a while before anything is signed or finalized.
He maintains that he didn’t link the 5+7 issue to P2 CFP payout…we’ll see
Does he not realize that all seven at-large spots could simply go to second and third place P4 teams?
It’s unrealistic to expect an auto-bid from the P2. I think the logic is if you can’t finish with a claim on the top 12, you shouldn’t be there anyway.
Or, if a key starter is out due to injury, you shouldn’t be there either…who the hell in America wants to see a second stringer potentially step up and help his team to victory?!? Or a coaching staff scheme and adjust to make the second stringer successful? America hates those stories..
Does anyone know the record for most Beavs invited to the combine? I saw on twitter they tied their best of 7. I feel like one year they had nine but that could just be guys that got signed I can’t really remember.
In 09 they had 7 drafted. Not sure if they all went to the combine though.
Watched the most recent Beavers Edge interview with Trent Caraway and Mitch. First thing, Caraway looks like a 3rd year guy already. Definitely has the build, which hasn’t always been the case with our recruits. Always got guys with lots of talent but often they had some growth to go through physically and he looks like a guy that’s ready. Mentioned he got a call on day 2 for early 3rd round of draft but was an easy decision to say no. He wants to be a day 1 guy and if he didn’t get the day 1 call he wasn’t interested.
May will be day 1 and and Kmatz day 2. Still deciding on 3rd starter. Said he was confident in any of the top 3 or 4 to be the Friday person, which is in-line with how my initial impressions were as well. May seemed to be the guy with the “best” stuff…just needs to work on control but Kmatz or Hunter could easily have been that top spot as well.
Was just reading a Daschel report that baseball lost a potential starting pitcher for the season (Aiden Jimenez), who was injured in practice and is now facing Tommy John surgery
That sucks.
Crap
Luck ‘o da Beavs………
Noooooo!
Maybe one of the freshmen can step in and pick up the pieces. They’ve done that before.
Beavs offered a 2024 JUCO Tight End today. Looks like he has 3 years remaining
https://twitter.com/JaxxonWarren/status/1757871453393891459
6′ 7″?!? 3.8 GPA….Hell yeah…
His film looks good! He really has the ability to high point the ball with good body control and hands.
34 ypc average on 17 receptions (2 per game). Listed as a QB on the team’s website, so he may still be finding a position. Also listed as a QB coming out of HS. Played in the toughest JC league in TX. Offers from USF and ODU. Looks like a development prospect, but TE is probably the best position for those kinds of guys.
From Sports Illustrated:
From Duke Ratanakarn (@sanddune80): Top three players who are rising after the Senior Bowl?
My three, based on conversations I had with scouts after the game: Toledo CB Quinyon Mitchell, Oregon State OT Taliese Fuaga, and Michigan WR Roman Wilson. The first two are probably top-half-of-the-first-round players now, while Wilson may have played his way into the second round.
Kindof cool that a school like Toledo was able to hang onto a first rounder and not lose him to the portal after his first few years there.
He played for them 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and contributed all 4 years. Surprised no other school was able to lure him away.
Becoming a unique story. It might help his draft stock a tiny bit character wise. He might not be a constant holdout and demanding trades and what not.
Where did Jimenez figure into the rotation?
He probably would’ve been a weekday guy but likely top reliever option. I think it’s safe to say that May, Kmatz, Hunter are the top 3. I would’ve put Jimenez in the 4th spot but I’m sure the coaches will have Lattery there and possibly even Lawson as the 5th. Those 2 mostly due to their experience I’d assume. I think Jimenez has much better stuff and if he kept pitching this season like he did towards end of last year and in the summer league, he probably should’ve pushed for even the 3rd spot. Safe to say this is a pretty big blow even if he wasn’t starting out as a top 3 guy.
Georgia State HC resigns to coach TE at South Carolina. Says NIL and player retention are only going to get worse in the coming years.
More and more guys don’t want to be HC in college. Can the dinosaurs in charge figure out how to fix this?
It can be fixed by turning athletes into employees and defining a standard wage and bonus structure. Then money is no longer a factor in where you play. It’s only about playing time, experience, education, and culture.
Welcome to taxes bitches
I don’t know how universities would handle injuries incurred by athletes who happen to be employees… esp. when a significant percentage won’t be residents in the state they are in. :3
They’ll have the same HMO as the academic staff.
Imagine filling out an OSHA 300A every year.
I don’t think any amount of salary structure or standardization can change anything.
As long as NIL exists, the schools with the boosters who are willing to pay NIL contracts are always going to be able to attract the majority of the talent. Whether the players have zero salary or if every player in America were given a flat $100K annual salary. That NIL money is the real bonus and there’s no way to control it now that it exists.
I think BG is right, the tax implications are going to be interesting if they do start paying players.
Pro players have accountants to sort out their state income taxes for the games they play on the road. Do the college athletes have the resources necessary to keep on top of all of that? Because if not, they could be in for a rude awakening if they ever get audited.
Think I recall reading that the *ucks now include tax filing assistance as apart of their athletic offers. Unfortunately was the first university to offer it and then others followed suit
@TDBeav. Is the unfortunate part that tax filing assistance exists, or that Oregon was the first to offer it?
Yeah, you have either eliminate NIL or regulate it.
It’s impossible to regulate because you can’t stop an individual from making a living. And you can’t eliminate it because it’s a business.
And it exists because the US Supreme court ruled in 2021 the NCAA can’t deny players the chance to earn money outside of college. There’s no going back
But is there is a way to create a law where players have to earn the money instead of saying come here and we will give you x amount of dollars without really any strings attached and you can leave anytime you want? Maybe that fine print already exists and we have yet to start hearing about the breach of contracts in NIL deals.
Also the fact that some of these collectives are being ran as non profits when they really aren’t so there’s going to be some backlash at some point. If donors start getting hit with taxes you can guarantee the players receiving the money will feel some of the pain.
I don’t understand the comments about the tax implications? There’s no way these kids’ NIL income isn’t already taxed/taxable. Maybe I’m missing people’s point.
There’s a lot of considerations/unknowns that would benefit from being made more clear, certainly.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I suspect the Big10/SEC will get it all figured out just fine.
I’ll bet they have it all figured out before September. The amount of money at stake for the playoff spots is too much for them to sit back and share it with less than deserving schools. My guess is the ACC will be blown up by June. SEC/Big10 have already negotiated the landing spots for the desirable programs. Brett Yornak responds by bringing any and all schools available into a nationwide conference as a challenge to the ESPN overlords.
Congress, lawyers, anti-trust lawsuits, and dramatic realignment follows.
SEC/Big10 jettison several bottom feeder schools to make room for a couple of bigger brands, (Vandy, Northwestern, Indiana, Miss St,) and pick up Notre Dame into their mix for a 30 school super-conference.
Schultz should hold his vote and understand where it is all going. He has leverage to undermine the whole process. Perhaps the PAC2 will have teams returning to the west with more of a reality check before they can even begin their new conferences.
Didn’t realize how good the MWC is in college hoops. ESPN is projecting 6 teams making the Tourney. And includes Jerrod Lucas and the Nevada Wolfpack. The 6 teams for third most for any conference and is tied with the Big Ten. Good thing they decided to play in the WCC the next couple of years as opposed to the MWC in hoops.
Probably will get more wins that way. Maybe they looked at them and thought we would get our asses handed to us.
Probably because we would.
Maybe make the team look less terrible as they ride out tinkle’s contract. He should take a pay cut to what the average wcc. I know it won’t happen but it should.
Story about Myles Rice –
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/court-report-myles-rice-beat-cancer-and-is-guiding-washington-state-to-its-first-ncaa-tournament-since-2008/
1st pitch today Angry Beavs! Ready for those $15 beers! Lol. Should be in the low 70’s and sunny here today. I’d expect to see a few dingers too!
If my memory is correct, it probably isn’t, at least the domestic beers come in a 24 oz can there. I will investigate tomorrow.
Opening day lineup
Bazzana
Guerra
McDowell
Kasper
Hainline
Turley
Peterson
Smith
Caraway
SP – May
And Josh Worden on the radio call……..thumbs up
Caraway. Wow. Double and a HR in 2 at bats. Guy is legit. No way he’ll stay in the 9 spot. Guerra doesn’t seem super great defensively at 1st but perhaps it’s first game jitters. Was kind of the case last year. So talented offensively but not a great defensive guy at 3rd or outfield.
GK officially canned today.
Agreed to mutually part ways.
I suppose he also doesn’t want discovery. He was probably shown why.
Peterson is having a good game 3-3 with 2 HR and a single.
Right after tanner smith hits a 3 run home run.
My mistake 3-4.
Rumors of power throughout the lineup are true
6 home runs through 6 innings.
Hopefully some backups get some garbage time today. It’ll be valuable for them
Caraway had a bad error that ended up keeping the inning alive and they scored 3 or 4 runs. It was a good time to make an error tho with the game well in hand. Hopefully get those freshman jitters out. He didn’t have any while batting tho!
Will Caraway keep up with this slugging percentage?
Tune in and find out!
He had made a pretty slick play earlier in the game. He’ll be fine. He did primarily play SS in HS so there’s probably a little learning curve there. I think the biggest concern will really be 1st base. If Guerra doesn’t clean it up a bit, he could find himself losing that to Kreig and splitting time at DH. His bat was so good last year but he’s just not that great defensively.
Attended in person. Really good crowd for OSU and the venue is top-notch. All Beav fans should attend at least once.
There were some jitters early but the team was focused and made some really nice defensive plays. Good day for bullpen guys to get the nerves out. Beavs starter was great. Didn’t see any of the freshman arms yet.
The offense is impressive and will score runs in bunches. New Mexico dodged some disaster by only giving up solo shots and the Beavs still scored 15. (Smith had a 3 run dinger but you get the idea.)
Jensen, Bazanna, Carrawy, Turley all impressive. Krieg hit a 425 bomb in his at bat.
Beavs will be in the hunt all year for a super-regional host if they get any pitching at all. I imagine they will average about 7 or 8 runs per game. Just get some good to above average pitching and they are looking at Omaha. This is Mitch’s best shot with the deepest roster of legit talent, the arms are the mystery right now.
Go Beavs and great game.
Yep, well put! Live in AZ so it’s nice to go to this tournament. Sucks it’s down to 4 games now instead. Next weekend will be ridiculous in TX. Great line-up
Gould in?
https://bnnbreaking.com/sports/pac-12-conference-faces-uncertain-future-as-commissioner-george-kliavkoff-steps-down-teresa-gould-takes-the-helm
Sometimes e background on her (other link was worthless but for identifying her as likely successor):
https://sportandsocialjustice.org/team-members/teresa-gould/
Hulk smash! Beavs bash their way to an opening day win.
Hitting thrives in the warm weather which makes me wonder how it will play in the cold and vs better pitching.
Pitching and defense were an issue today. One error leading to 4 unearned runs. 6 walks and a HBP is not good for the pitchers. That’ll get punished real bad in conference play.
May was ok. Could have been more efficient. We’ll see what he really has next week. Slated to start vs Arkansas.
Barring a season long slump by this roster, offense won’t be the issue. Their success seems to hinge in Dorman (God help us) getting these starters to give 5-6 innings of quality starts and the relief to limit their damage to a couple runs. Can’t really judge pitching on 1 game but Lattery seems to be the same he’s been his entire career. Not sure why RD is so high on him. Still a lot of arms to see this weekend. We’ll see who steps up!
It’s early, but agree those issues need to gey cleaned up quickly. If these are still an issue in April/May I’d be worried.
Anyone watching on TV see what just happened to Beers? I’m at the game , no replay.
Possible tough development for WBB. Beers took a hard elbow to the face defending a layup. She was sort of convulsing under the basket in obvious pain. Eventually got up, but was staggering as she went to the locker room with the team doctor. Not sure if it was the nose, face, or mouth. Hopefully, she will be ok. Beavs up 21-18 against UCLA in the 2nd quarter.
Hopefully she’s fine and just shaken up. Might be wearing a face guard.
Helluva game going on. Pac-12 network. Good gals and UCLA tied at 58 after 3
Now they are down 69-63 with about four minutes left. The offense has gone stale. Feels like losing Beers has been a little too much.
Yeah. Might be too tall of a task. I missed the injury to Beers.
Sucks. Cause with her this team can play with anyone imo
7 point deficit now
Hold the phone! 7-0 run by the good gals! Tied at 72 with a minute left
Damn, heartbreaker. That was a fun game.
2 great teams throwing haymakers
@nice check again
Holy shit! I fudged up and tuned out when i saw that UCLA basket and .1 on the clock. Must have added some time back?
Amazing
They added a full second. I thought the clock was slow that last seven seconds, but it’s about time the Beavs get a break.
Wow
Beavs win!!!
Holy Crap! Can hardly believe what I just watched. Beavs win 79-77 on a three with one second left by Talia.
That was amazing!!!! Good gals win 79-77 on a 3 at the buzzer!
Beers had to hospital to get checked out according to sr
You could hear her crying out in pain on the telecast.
Ron Callan said the refs lost control of the game
In the first half. Was the elbow to Beers a cheap shot?
It was called a flagrant, but it was hard to tell if it was intentional. It was on a drive to the basket and I think Beers was also called for a foul. The 2nd quarter was very oddly officiated is the only way I could describe it.
Brief clip of the elbow to Beers’ face. Too short of a clip to tell if it was intentional. Looks incidental to me, but what do i know.
https://twitter.com/PercyAllen206/status/1758697980696408267?t=m9cRq4XPzwC0lJGK19nDig&s=19
I’m honestly not sure why the shooter had to tomahawk the defender’s nose on that play.
It looks like it’s not a normal basketball play.
You can see the elbow go from higher just before contact, doesn’t mean it was intentional, but still… why? Definitely didn’t look like a normal movement to lead with a high elbow straight out in front of her. I thought for sure the game was over then as they often stuggle when she sits againstgood teams, also thought it was over when down 7 late, and when down 1 with a second left… glad to wrong so many times. Most exciting game I’ve watched all year.
Not intentional but reckless. And reckless elbows will be a flagrant every time.
Watched the game in bits and pieces this morning. Unless the seemingly bewildered officials were going to hone in on Beers, I don’t think the game would have been particularly close. I think Raegan could have stymied Betts. I also checked the Colorado Thuggalos game against Utah. Good for the Utes.
Looked like UCLA was trying to do the “thug approach”, but to give the refs some credit, those “jump ball” calls against Colorado were rightly being called fouls on the Bruins for the most part. The Beavs a small advantage from the foul line and 22 fouls in total called on UCLA.
Thx for pointing that out. Kudos to Talia , always – seems like Lily Hansford threaded a perfect pass to her too.
Daschel got it right when he said, “The largest women’s basketball crowd at Gill Coliseum this season ought to pay a little extra for their tickets on the way out of the building after what they saw Friday night.”
Any update on Beers?
Beavers baseball offensively are gonna be the best offense in program history by a ton. The offense has insane depth. They have 7 guys who could hit double digit home runs and 4-5 who could hit 15 even with the cold weather they’ll see in Corvallis early in the year. Under Mitch, they have never had a SS even remotely close to Hainline. It’s gonna be a nightmare for opposing pitchers trying to navigate this offense.
On the pitching side, the starting rotation is gonna be improved. Aiden May has a lot of talent and had a solid debut but hopefully can get more swings and misses moving. Karen Hunter was their best starter until he got hurt in 2023. He was finally putting it together. He could end up being the #1 if he builds off last season. Kmatz is the weak link in the staff. He’s just okay. Allows too much hard contact to ever really be more than just an okay #3. Ideally, it would be nice to see one of the young guys step up and push him for that spot come postseason time.
Bullpen has some legit power arms. That has been a bit of an issue in previous years. They relied more on finesse arms but they’ve upgraded in arm talent. If they can get reliable arms in the pen, this team is gonna be in good shape for a Omaha run. Starting pitching will be solid but not great but the offense is gonna be elite of the elite. They don’t need great pitching, just need it to be solid.
I’d say the 2017 offense will be hard to beat. This team is legit but I’ll reserve judgement to see how they execute in the clutch. This team’s starting pitching is good not great. Bullpen is suspect with a lot to prove. I’m worried this team may not be a good as the hype but we’ll see.
Kmatz seems rusty. Couple leade off doubles. Walks. Several well hit balls. Props to him for getting in some slight trouble in 1st and getting out of it. Tanner Smith gunned a guy out at 2nd that went too far towards 3rd and saved that runner from going to 3rd on the next at bat with a sack fly. His 2nd throw out of the tourney.
Smith carrying on a tradition of decent catcher D
Kmatz ends the t2 with 54 pitches, only 26 strikes…..less than 1/2 not often gonna do the job.
Did y’all degererates down in Surprise catch Rueck’s crew last night on TV?
Weber is catching today.
Just realized that as he came up to bat. Lol
ooops, remembering yesterday.
Both of them seemed to have played good D, so far?
It’s possible Dorman makes these guys worse pitchers. Kmatz was much better as a freshman, regressed last year, and might be lucky to get out of the 2nd inning. Several walks, bases juiced. Gets a fly out. His day might be done. Have to imagine he’s on a smaller pitch count coming back from injury but he’s had no control thru 2 innings. Pitch count has to be up there with 4 walks in 2 innings. Would’ve been a good spot for Jimenez to come in at the 3rd and work to 7th or so.
Props to MN pitcher. He’s got this lineup confused. Swinging at pitches down and away. Some in the dirt. 1 hit for the Beavs and not much contact at all. Need to make this guy throw some pitches to get to bullpen. Tall lefty but doesn’t have much heat. FB around 89.
Caraway bomb! Move him up. Holy shit he crushed it to left. It was mashed and left in a hurry
Word from wannabeav is that Bazzana got his right hand stepped on on the “weird toss to first”. He kept looking at it and shaking it afterwards.
Creek, BG, what did ya see?
Don’t recall seeing anything of note. Seems fine
Well, defense kinds stinks. Pitching has control issues. Gotta fire up the fire RD train again.
Mitch has to have other options from his major league contacts for pitching coaches who really know how to develop top line pitchers
Two games in and the RD hate begins? We had one of the best staffs in the country last year and they made huge strides from the previous year. It’s the second game of the season. Give it time.
This team will win a bunch of games and clearly has Omaha upside. The talent is evident. The doomsday takes are way too early.
In my defense, I’ve been anti-RD for years. Top staff is a bit of a stretch, particularly last season. What player has he helped develop? Someone like Kmatz has seemingly regressed. Much better his freshman year compared to last year. 1st outing of the year, hard to judge plus he’s off an injury but he didn’t look particularly great today. This staff issued 12 walks and luckily stranded 17 runners. Watching this game in person, Beavs were lucky to hold on to the win.
2-0? Nice.
On a side note but somewhat related, Tuscan Arizona suuuux for cycling. Holy cow this city has terrible infrastructure.
T-U-C-S-O-N Tucson is known for great cycling but you have to go the foothills around town. The city itself is a pain in the ass to navigate in a car so I can’t imagine being on a bike unless you’re on the outskirts.
I went to Catalina State Park today off one of the spurs. That’s an amazing ride. But “the loop” was disappointing. Oro Valley is nice cycling. Tucson is ranked #2 worst/deadliest city for cyclists on several lists so I’m not sure where you’re getting that it’s great.
“The loop” sucks as hard as the city does.
You need to be on the desert trails, not in the city. The city absolutely sucks, unless you’re going to the base.
Yeah it’s not a good place.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/you-have-to-see-the-absurd-final-69-seconds-of-oregon-state-s-win-over-ucla/ar-BB1irhxz
Nice
Two games in, the pitching staff has walked 18 batters and hit 2.
Record?!?
They have a bunch of dudes who can throw 94+ but struggle to throw in in the zone.
The scouting report for opposing batters will be take until they find the strike zone. And Dorman will respond by leaving guys in until the bases are loaded before bringing in another arm.
We’ve seen Dorman’s approach for 3-4 years right? Strikeouts are paramount at the expense of walks, hit by pitch, and wild pitches. This staff has more guys who can throw upper 90s than we’ve ever seen. The obvious conclusion to expect is some type of saber metrics that values the possibility of another strikeout over the caution of a control pitcher who doesn’t walk anyone.
Dorman=Lindgren/Langsdorf
Analytics, system and metrics trump all sensible game strategy.
What ever happened to throwing low in the zone and forcing the opposing team to hit for contact?
Jade Carey with her 100th individual event win today.
MBB playing like shit at home against the Quacks. Getting killed on the boards. Trailing 36-24. Is it 18 league games? 3-15? Can Barnes really retain Tinlke with those results?
Oh yeah… them.
Is there any doubt? Haven’t we been wondering why Tinkle is still coach for years? Rinse repeat etc…
You would think they could use the money from smiths buyout and all that was saved with bray and assistants. Idk what money can be used where but they got all of that war chest money too. It’s the one sport that is dragging compared to others and there is just no hope right now with tinkle.
You see this?
https://sports.yahoo.com/sacramento-states-matt-masciangelo-hit-by-pitch-7-times-in-8-at-bats-to-open-ncaa-season-160246665.html
He must have dated numerous sisters of the opposing team
LOL Marial with a 3 for the win???……….nope and another loss, nice play drawn up by the Maestro of Gill Coliseum. Tinkle is so clutch in those situations. His guys show incredible heart to tie the game and he pulls out his “let’s trick them by having our 7′ 5″ center shoot a 3 for the win, because they won’t expect it.”
Lead Tinkle to the Corvallis airport and fire him on the tarmac already. No coach has had so many moral victories and used the same excuses yearly for his team’s losses.
You are obsessed with Tinkle
He does have the enviable job of doing nothing for a couple million dollars a year.
Beavs made a nice comeback but gave the Quacks three attempts on their last possession and N’Dante slammed it home with one second left for the 60-58 win. Interestingly, the Beavs made their rally with Ibekwe on the bench. Marial was shaky at times but played a lot better than Ibekwe.
Have there been any Beers updates?
Closest thing I’ve heard is that they haven’t heard anything lol. Said that they think she’s fine. Probably going to wear a mask if anything was broke.
If only you had a Blitz membership….so many unconfirmed rumors on there full of speculation.
read beers has broken nose, all 2nd hand info
She took a pretty good shot. Could be broken nose, broken teeth, both.
Here’s the WBB presser from Friday (it’s kind of long, but at least watch the last 3-4 minutes). TVO may go down as one of the greatest Oregon State athletes of all time. She’s definitely one of my favorites. She has so much passion for OSU and the WBB program. Just a very stand-up person in general.
https://youtu.be/BP3TaAsfJ2U?si=Vm0zNd7wElWiFMsu
Just moved from Bend after 19 years to Catalina near Tucson two weeks ago. Flew up to get the second car and on drive back timed it nicely to grab a couple of innings yesterday in Surprise. Nice park, good OSU turnout…seemed like a home game! Couldn’t tell you anything about the game, but nice to have a $15 beer and watch baseball to break up hour 17 of a 19 hour drive…
Nice, I’m hoping to get out of Bend soon as well.
True Freshman Eric Segura is on the bump today. Wonder if that means Hunter is slated for tomorrow?
Got thru the 1st pretty well. Had 1 error, 4th on the season already for the Beavs, but didn’t phase him!
Beers not playing, Beavs struggling early. Down 8-3 bout 5 minutes in. P-12 announcers not making much of an issue about Beers being out which I thought was a little odd.
Thankful that I don’t have to listen to P12 announcers after this year for the women’s games. They provide little to no meaningful analysis.
They did just say on the broadcast Beers has a broken nose.
Yeah, finally.
Grand slam for Turley! 9-2 Beavs
Probably not happening for WBB today. Down 44-32 start of the 4th. It’s too bad, they’ve completely stuffed Watkins, but the offense is discombobulated without Beers.
I don’t count lady’s out until buzzer
14 homers in 24 innings for the Beavs!
Mundt pitched the last inning and retired three straight. Two were strikeouts.
WBB could never quite get over the hump. SC pounded them on the offensive boards without Beers. Final 58-50.
Too bad, first home loss this season.
Beavs hung in there, keeping Ju Ju to her second-lowest scoring total and worst field-goal percentage of the season.
Held SC to 31% shooting, usually enough to come out with a W; but not when you only shoot 33%.
TO’s ?……..not a factor, in fact the Good Gals got 11 pts off of TO’s while SC got only 1.
First game in awhile hunter has looked like a freshman. I’m not sure she attempted a shot. Didn’t put much pressure on SCs point guard and missed a key block out that led to a put back late in the game. Gardner with a great game.
Baseball making an early season statement. These guys will hit the ball and it will tough to keep the entire lineup quiet for 9 innings.
If Turkey is now going to get in that groove, it amplifies how tough the rest of the lineup will be. Not very many east at bats for a pitchers to relax means a lot of pressure pitches every game. Beavs can begin to build the reputation early in the year so it brings pressure onto opposing pitchers leading into the game and adds to the pressure as the game goes on.
Should be a fun year. Some of the young arms look pretty good and Munster has a year to prove his draft value, motivation.
Good point about the pressure a strong reputation at the plate will put upon opposing pitchers as the season rolls along.
Hunter on the mound today for part 2 against Minnesota. Interested to see if he’s progressed since last year’s mixed results.
Whelp had reservations about Hunter coming into today and looks like they were valid. Looks like he still lacks consistent control and is walking a bunch of hitters today. Bases loaded Top of 3rd 3-0 Beavs.
Managed to escape the bases loaded and no outs with a timely double play which did score 1 Gopher. Bottom of the inning went in order for the Beavs. To the top of the 4th 3-1 beavs.
Was good to see him work around trouble. Will definitely need better control from Kmatz, Hunter and several in the bullpen next weekend. Defense needs to clean up a bit. Caraway had 2 errors this weekend but he also made a ridiculous barehand play on a bunt. He’s still learning to play 3rd after playing SS in HS so I assume he’ll get better as the season goes on, however, Beavs had at least 5 errors in 4 games which is definitely not the level of defense we’ve been accustomed to over the last 20 years.
WBB moved up to 9th in the AP poll. Would’ve loved to have had Beers at full strength versus USC
Well earned! “Earned not bought!”
Will be tough to hold onto though if Beees misses several games.
TVO bringing character and fight:
“The Beavers trailed by 12 points near the end of the third quarter, and von Oelhoffen created a moment that foreshadowed just how hard the Beavers would scrap to get back in the game in the fourth.
“I was thinking going into it, just control what I can control,” von Oelhoffen said. “That’s defense, effort, leadership, communication.”
Watkins pulled up for a deep-range jumper and von Oelhoffen extended to deflect it. Watkins grabbed the ball and kicked to Kaitlyn Davis. Von Oelhoffen recovered and blocked her shot too. Von Oelhoffen ended up in a scramble for the ball, diving after it as time expired.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024/02/bill-oram-from-the-spotlight-to-the-trenches-oregon-states-talia-von-oelhoffen-is-a-leader-in-both-victory-and-defeat.html
If she’s putting out that kind of defensive effort, she and the team should get a timely visit from Payton before the tournament is over…
Crazy to think that Bazzana could give Adley a run for his money as best beaver baseball player of all time.
I thought Adley was untouchable
If Bazzana manages to carry us to Omaha and win the title, I think that comparison would hold some water but Adley is safe for now
Bazzana will have the better career as a Beav. Adley was well below average as a freshman hitter as he was more of a project than Travis. Bazzana as a freshman had an OPS almost 280 points higher than him. It will be hard to match Adley’s junior season offensive numbers but Bazzana will be close and has enormous impact on the base paths as well. If Bazzana has the year he’s capable of, he’ll be the best Beavers player in history
It’ll be a fun discussion to have at the end of the year
Theresa Gould officially announced today:
https://pac-12.com/article/2024/02/19/pac-12-appoints-teresa-gould-commissioner-lead-future-success-conference
I found this part interesting:
“Going forward, the Pac-12 will continue to sponsor select sports, sign media rights partnerships, and produce live events and content from the Pac-12 Enterprises studio in San Ramon, Calif.”
I’m not sure what to think about this hire. It seems logical that we’d want someone that’s been here with familiarity of the situation and whatnot, but, at the same time, she’s also been a part of both Scott and GK teams and they were clearly incompetent.
As far as the job she oversaw was concerned, she basically ran operations and compliance on the sports side. If anything other than refereeing has been a problem on that side, I’m not aware of it.
She still doesn’t have the same chops Navarez has. But she’ll get a chance to prove her mettle.
The plan is clearly for this conference to
not exist in a few years. She was probably the best they could do and that’s a scenario where you want someone with familiarity, not a fresh new thinker.
Why wouldn’t the conference exist?
That sounds like a lousy use of the resources available.
That’s like winning the lottery then blowing your wad. Invest in the future.
But familiarity doesn’t hurt.
I’d think that the Pac12 is a better brand than the Mountain West even if made up of mostly the same members. Even if there’s other P5 members that end up back in the P12, Stanford, Cal I imagine it’ll be hard to stay as a Power school. With all the shakeup happening, it’s gonna be then Power 2. Seems most likely that MWC disolves into P12 and maybe some of those lower tier schools maybe end up somewhere else. Seems highly unlikely that P12 would be completely gone and fold into MWC.
I think it is good to have an Athletic Administrator with lots of college sports experience and not a pro tennis egomaniac or a casino guy. Maybe if we had this skill set with a media rights specialist under them, there would still be a Pac 12.
Beavs with a Surprise sweep, but not a surprise sweep. They look legit so far. We’ll see how they do against tougher opposition.
Well, this sucks –
https://pac-12.com/videos/uscs-juju-watkins-earns-third-sweep-pac-12-weekly-awards-presented-nextiva
Geezus. NBA all-star “game” final was 211-186? Apparently the commissioner handed over the trophy to the winners and said: “well, congratulations. I guess.”
Lillard the “MVP”and 3 pt contest winner.
Curry won 3pt contest
Curry won the boys against girls contest.
Can the Pac 12 Network hire Worden for baseball coverage?
He calls a good game.
He is doing the Beavs, and Beaver fans a favor to even call the Surprise games. He will get bigger opportunities very soon.
Last year he was calling games for the Frisco Roughriders. Did that gig end?
So when are we going to get some transparency on how exactly the DamNation fund is being spent? Over a million dollars of Beaver Nation’s personal funds put into it, and we still have no idea how it is being spent, not to mention the additional anonymous 1 million dollar private donation. At this point it wouldn’t surprise me if Martinez alone accounts for half of the spending, but I feel the fan base is entitled to itemized spending reports.
How much money did you give them?
That’s just silly. If you gave some dough and want to know where it went, you should have considered that before you gave. If you didn’t then don’t worry about it you don’t get to know.
is there any collective in college athletics that reports that info?
(Spoiler: the answer is “No”)
My gramps gave me some advice that I think you should hear.
Don’t piss into the wind.
Don’t pull on Superman’s cape.
A late report from wannabeav, not sure if these items were mentioned by Worden:
-Talavs threw the fastest ball of the week at 94
-Both Talavs and AJ Hutcheson looked sharp
Anyone notice that Casey’s old buddy Mark Buchanan was behind the plate today? Both BG and wanna missed it………too many spotted cows??
I missed the last game how many homers did they hit?
Bazanna with a triple. Though no homers today.
That was our only extra base hit.
I wonder how many teams have the 9 hole batting .500.
I am starting to get conspiratorial. Interested to see a recap from USA Today on the week of college baseball that came across my phone. Guess how many mentions of the Beavs and their power barrage? Zero! Plenty of babble about LSU beating up on VMI.
And how about them Razorbacks(who we play next week). Went 2-1 on the week vs James Madison and moved UP from #3 to #2
ESPN app only listed SEC scores throughout the weekend too. Beavs will need to obliterate the schedule an still may get another 2017 experience at Omaha because ESPN controls the whole thing through their rights and control who gets promoted as usual.
In the end it doesn’t matter. We’re already top ten. Just keep winning, and then they’ll have to talk about us at some point, ideally where it actually matters such as at Omaha. As much as it sucks to never get as much attention as we deserve sometimes, those other teams simply have much bigger dedicated fanbases than OSU that drive clicks. Check out the main LSU forum, tiger droppings. That site has nearly constant activity (like one or more every 2 minutes or less) posts and comments being made all year round.
Did you just ask people to go check out one the most notoriously toxic sports forums on the interwebs?
I’d rather have a discussion with Softy and Clownzano.
I have a number of tin foil hats. Would you like one?
I think a big part of it is lazy journalism particularly when there is already a narative out there ie…. Nobody is better than the SEC. Another smaller part could be lack of funds, but it does not take a lot of time or money to search the internet for scores and stats.
The national college baseball writers poll moved the Beavs up from #8 to #4 so somebody is paying attention.
If Aaron fitt had his way the top 25 would be all the SEC schools plus all schools with the word Carolina in them. I noticed that D1 Baseball now has half their site separately devoted to the SEC. Maybe there are more SEC folks subscribing to that paywall fortress.
Weird that people are downvoting wanting some accountability about where 2 million dollars of crowdfunded money is going. In any other context, it would be pretty much expected that the money is kept track of. DamNation was seemingly absent during the transfer portal disaster, and I’m sorry, I don’t think we should be throwing money at FBS unproven JUCO or FCS transfers
At this point, the most practical use of it would be to throw a few hundred thousand Dame’s way, and then put the rest towards trying to make affording Tinkle’s buyout a little bit more affordable for the school. (Only half joking).
Can someone also explain how it got to this point where college coaches coaching amateurs at even the most irrelevant schools have so much contract leverage? Not many jobs out there where you get paid millions for being fired for being atrocious at said job, and then likely get another high salary job offer shortly after.
“Not many jobs out there where you get paid millions for being fired for being atrocious at said job, and then likely get another high salary job offer shortly after.”
There are a lot of high paying jobs like this. Usually it’s just that people aren’t explicitly fired, they’re told to resign.
Yup…”separations-of-employment” where a settlement is involved because its deemed cheaper than potential litigation.
In the kong term, I’m not sure its more cost effective because standards are effectively lowered and performance folliws.
I miss the days when a manager could fire someone fir nit doing their job and not achieving progress and results.
Dude, get over it. I don’t need to see an itemized sheet of their expenditures. The “transfer portal disaster” is because 2 mil is nothing compared to the NIL funds of bigger schools. It’s simply not enough to keep everybody happy.
Yogi Roth has a 30 min interview with Bray up on his podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trent-bray-bra-y-nd-new-beavs/id1097508442?i=1000645968226
Good interview. Yogi thinks we can go 11-1 next year
That’s incredibly optimistic with a new HC, new OC, new QB (probably) and WRs, new DC inheriting the worst tackling team in the country, and an OLine down some serious talent.
I hope Bray’s mantra on “physicality” doesn’t become a bunch of shoulder hits for impact instead of wrapping and form tackling. Tackling really dropped off last year.
Reasons for optimism- Martinez/Griffen/Newell, a fleet of taller WRs, more heft on the DLine…Reser home field advantage, lighter schedule with 8 home games…toughest foes (Ducks, Purdue, WSU) all at home.
I would put Boise on there too. They made some big moves and are picked by a lot of people to make the playoffs.
Mhver3 on twitter says VAtech and NC State are inquiring about joining the Big 12. Anticipating an ACC breakup.
I think our best hand is to watch the ACC eat itself. Invite Stanford and Cal back to the PAC. Then invite Boise SDSU UNLV and Colorado State for 2026.
What’s the cost to take 4 schools from the mtn west, like $80 mil?
Imo, join the big12 if possible
Replace Boise and Colorado State with Tulane and Memphis, add SMU also. 9 schools.
Football wise, which is the big money maker, what does Stanford and Cal have to offer?
More access to California and some baseball SoS.
Also, Stanford being private grants us cover from FOIA, which seems important in today’s journalistic environment.
oh… wbb
Easy travel, mostly empty stadiums with no loud crowds…no home field advantage…hot coeds….recruiting footprint…
CFP unanimously approves 5+7 format. That means Schulz voted ‘yes.’ Hopefully that also means he is getting good vibes on the P2 payout level.
Top 5 highest ranked conference winners are guaranteed a spot.
If ACC is imploded by this August and no one remains to fight like PAC2 did, PAC2 winner is all but guaranteed a spot.
The catch is whether the CFP agrees with NCAA as to whether PAC2 is still a “conference” for the 2 year grace period stipulated by NCAA rules.
It should also be a guarantee that all conference winners get home field for their first game
As per the ESPN article: “Neither school (WSU/OSU) can qualify for an automatic bid as a conference champion in each of the next two seasons, so Schulz conceded the seven at-large bids would be more beneficial to them than the original proposal of six conference champions and six at-large teams.”
NCAA rules don’t impact it. CFP has already said they won’t consider P2 “champ” a conference champ.
what did he get in return for his vote?
In return for your vote, we assure you that you are no longer going to be fitted for our concrete shoes, and I exchange for your continued silence, we won’t threaten you behind closed doors anymore.
Not that it really matters, but conference champs are guaranteed seeds 1-4. So an independent or P2 member cannot be one of the top 4 seeds under any circumstance.
Oh and #5. Liberty would have been the #5 seed this year under new conference alignment.
It won’t be long until SEC and Big10 convince themselves that the top 12 teams consist of only teams from their conferences. The assurance of conference champs means they can only expect to get 8/12 teams each year between them.
1) SEC Champ- Georgia
2) BIG10 champ-Ohio St
3) ACC Champ- Clemson
4) Big 12 champs- Utah
5) MWC champ- Boise St
At large bids:
6) Independent- Notre Dame
7) SEC #2
8) Big10 #2
9) SEC #3
10) Big10 #3
11) coin flip for SEC/Big10 #4
12) Oregon St at 11-1 over any 3 loss SEC #4 or Big 10 #4?? So the Beavs realistically have a chance at 1 spot if ND is great and maybe 2 spots if ND loses 3 or 4 games.
Even after this new development, I think the fix is in and the tv ratings will still be the driving factor for even a 12 team playoff. I don’t see the Beavs getting the chance to be in it unless they are destroying teams and make the argument become more than can be ignored. There is way too much revsionist history over the course of a 12 week season to overcome the built in propaganda and pro-SEC bias of ESPN. SEC looked horrible in non conference games early in the year but their soft schedules allow the entire conference to look really good after a couple of months to reignite the talk of Alabama as the best team in the country.
Our game @Boise could be for a playoff spot
Eesh…they still have that blue turf….
It won’t matter for them because it isn’t a conference game
Fighting fir second to last place:
https://www.oregonlive.com/collegebasketball/2024/02/watch-wild-brawl-erupts-during-handshake-line-after-game-between-incarnate-word-and-texas-am-commerce.html
Good news! The P2 will receive power conference CFP distributions ($5-6M) for the next two years.
So the clock is ticking. How different will college football be two years from now?
Baseball America saying everything already said here on football….from a baseball perspective.
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/is-college-baseball-heading-toward-a-precarious-position/
It’s probably even more screwed because the less established programs have less booster interest than less established football programs.
Not to mention the key baseball media people are enamored with SEC baseball stadiums and crowds. Baseball, football, WBB, all have been coopted by ESPN/SEC.
ESPN has an inherent conflict of interest as they own rights and benefit from SEC success over the long term and therefore promote them in the short term at the expense of other conferences and schools.
The beginning point was ESPN buying into conferences and owning TV rights rather than being an impartial broadcast/news channel.
I suspect it’s because the key baseball people are all from the south
After the Schultz vote to allow the 5+7 CFP model yesterday(meaning less conference champ auto bids and more “highest ranking team” spots, writers are making it sound like today will see several more changes to the college football model.
I’m fully expecting to see them expand the max number of teams a conference can send to the CFP.
then expect to see SEC and Big10 teams always voted as the top ranking teams in the country throughout the year, where quality losses will outweigh wins by an Oregon State or WSU.
Oregon State and WSU will continue to have little to no shot at making the playoffs.
But it does sound like Schultz traded his vote to at least get the Pac2 teams a cut of the overall CFP money pool each year.
So yay, we get paid to remain irrelevant. (by we, i mean our school, not us fans who will continually need to donate to collectives and the school if we want to pretend we’ll have a shot at a playoff spot some day)
Being paid to remain irrelevant is better than not being paid to be irrelevant.
Let’s be honest: this doesn’t really affect us that much. Winning is what matters at the end of the day. If OSU becomes a consistent winner, everything else will follow. If not, the best we can hope for is to hang on for a slim chance at playing for something meaningful at some point. That’s what we had before (because we weren’t consistently top 10) and it’s what we still have, for now.
The NIL free-for-all and terrible portal rules are what hurt us the most, by far.
I know a lot of people here are rooting for the SEC and Big 10 to just go away so they can have their regional competition utopia in some sort of PAC-10 Lite, but that will decimate interest in OSU football. Once we’re no longer playing at the highest level, our roster turnover every year will look like 2023 Idaho, where they have a good season and every player immediately leaves, probably for UW or Nike. Interest will drop to FCS levels when we’re just seen as a minor league feeder team. Money will follow.
One scenario that would be an exception is a BIG/SEC direct relationship to the NFL. That would kill any pretense of collegiate/amateur status around those programs and people would still see the remaining teams as “college football.”
at least in the past we had the hope that we’d someday make a rose bowl in our lifetimes. Now, bowl games are even more meaningless than ever before. there really is no prize for a good season in our setup, other than “new Pac12 conference champs” with an invite to the Idaho Potato Bowl or some shit like that
I was amazed this last season to discover how many football “bowl games” that are held; as a one off I started counting from a list that was in a sports article I was reading.
I stopped when I reached forty. There were still more. >.<
It’s called colonialism.
Grab control of all the resources, then pit a minority of the majority who should be obviously against your actions against each other.
It usually ends well.
“…then expect to see SEC and Big10 teams always voted as the top ranking teams in the country throughout the year, where quality losses will outweigh wins by an Oregon State or WSU.”
Yup. “Alabama has 2 quality losses, so you GOTTA slot them somewhere between #3-5, and I guarantee you, no one wants to play them in Tuscaloosa this time of year!” Yadda yadda yadda….
Imagine if the NFL used “power rankings” to invite and slot teams for their playoffs. Then say a starting QB gets injured, so their team, even if undefeated, is not selected for the playoffs…
Florida State agrees.
BASEBALL
Beavs get an unearned run in the t2 to lead TT 1:0. TT ranked #21 by some.
Is it really “unearned” if your basepath antics result in a poorly executed pick off……hmm
apparently they’re up to #19 somewhere too, because the live stats lists them at that.
https://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=520682&_gl=1*1429r4*_ga*NTg2NDc1NzIyLjE3MDg1Mzg4MjI.*_ga_2ZWVK1X7BJ*MTcwODUzODgyMS4xLjAuMTcwODUzODgyMS4wLjAuMA..
Beavs jumped out to a 6-0 lead and it’s now 6-4 in the 5th thanks in part to a Hainline error. He was really good last season for Wazzu but it has been a rough start. 1/13 at the plate and some so-so defense are times. He really was supposed to be that SS to really take the team to a level offensively but he has really struggled so far. Hopefully he gets it going this weekend
6-3 Beavs bottom 4th. 6 walks and an error so far. 3 run and counting 4th inning for TT
TT ends with 4 runs. Walks and the error hurt. Been the only real issues with the team this year. Tough opponent though.
Reynolds walks half the batters he faces; AJL giving out bb at a 20% rate.
Been the issue last few years. Lots of walks. Hit batters. Huge 2 out rally in the 6th gives us 10-4 lead.
Is it just me or does Canham seem to lose every challenge?
Yes. His record is not good in challenges. Lol
Even his players are terrible with what they deem is challenge-worthy.
Beavs dodge a huge bullet. Based loaded with 1 out. Double play ends the threat in 8th. 10-4 good guys
McDowell’s career turnaround has been so impressive. His first few seasons he was just completely lost at the plate. The perseverance to fight through that and become a consistent hitter the last few years is really admirable.
It’s also a reminder these are young people who often have growth potential and needs.
The truly unique ones may go straight to the pros, others need development time.
Beavs pitching thru 8 innings have 8 walks and 6 k’s. Gotten timely outs though. 12 runners stranded with the 9th inning to go.
Winner with a new article up about our media needs.
Anyone able to read it?
His articles usually hit the Seattle Times Sports page a little after they show up on the San Jose Mercury site. And Seattle times usually lets you read a handful a free articles after you clear your cookies.
https://twitter.com/SeaTimesSports/status/1760405843701321756
I like this part about Kliavkoff:
“I appreciate that he took the high road. He could have made this difficult for everybody.”
It would seem that he made it quite difficult for everybody all along. His only redeeming act could have been to publicly call for an all conference meeting with enough lead time for the PAC2 to sue and take them to court for the restraining order. He was either very foolish to think he could pull it off, or knew it would be best if OSU/WSU at least had a fighting chance to respond before it was too late. I lean towards the former and have a hard time believing he is some form of honorable knight in shining armor after the debacle we have just endured.
When a former employer is so magnanimous to someone (who clearly has been acting in his own interest) about simply leaving potential millions on the table, it’s pretty much a, “He could have wasted money and time trying what the others tried, but he knows what’s up. Have some HR-speak.”
Him and GA have a lot in common hahahahahah
autocorrect…wilner
Supposedly the CFP discussed granting every conference champion a spot during their meeting today (power and otherwise), and adding two teams to make it a 14 team field.
Not sure why they keep landing on these uneven bracket sizes where some teams get a bye while others dont.
Well, i do know, because they know the path for the top SEC/Big10 teams will be easier while the other teams beat each other up.
14 teams is better than 12 at least. Would still rather see a nice even 16 and cut out the conference championship games alltogether.
Conferences should be small enough that each team plays head to head vs every other conference foe and a conference champion can be determine in the regular season.
Beavs pitchers continue to not throw strikes. Can’t really say it’s too early in the season since the walks/hbp is now at 34 through 5 games. That’s consistency now. Beavs got lucky to get out of the jams they did vs Texas Tech and that they were deep into their bullpen too.
This is a rapidly spreading disease that is afflicting most of the staff. This is a major problem.
Did the batters just beat the confidence out of the pitchers in fall ball?
Dorman must figure that high 90s Wild fastball is always better than low 90s control fastball. He will play the percentages that over time players at this level cannot hit a high 90s fastball, or process that it is a ball/strike often enough to win the battles regularly.
It is a form of saber metrics at the college level where most guys getting at bats aren’t the LSU 2023 lineup. But when you face that type of lineup, you likely get beat by seasoned hitters.
I’d guess Dorman and Mitch are expecting the staff to settle down and throw strikes as the season moves forward. But even if they don’t see improvement out of the staff, the offense will be good enough to bail them out in half of the bad pitching games.
Beavs should sail through the regular season but the run to Omaha, facing better pitching and needing consistency from the staff will be the Achilles, unless the offense in postseason is locked in and special.
Limiting free passes doesn’t seem as prized as strikeouts for Dorman. Not ideal.
We are in last place in the Pac with walks. We have played the most innings but the next closest team is 9 walks away with 9 less innings. We’re 5th in k’s and that position is inflated as we have pitched the most innings. If you look at k’s per 9 innings, we’re 8th in the conf. We’re also 8th in hits given up. What is really encouraging is we have the lowest ERA at 2.0 and that’s even more impressive since we do have 9+ more innings under our belt than the rest of the Pac.
I’ve been on the fire Dorman train for nearly as long as he’s been with the Beavs but I will say that it is still early. I get that 5 games is a little bit larger sample size, but that’s still only the 2nd opportunity for a lot of these guys and for some, yesterday was the 1st action they’ve seen. However, walks have been an issue for RD squads the last few seasons…last season we were last or close to last the entire season in that category. The strike outs have also decreased last year, and so far this year. I believe it was Hjerpe’s last season where we set the strike out record (props to RD) but since then, k’s have been on a decline and the walks have as well. Interestingly, many on that squad were still recruits from the Casey/Yeskie era and the true RD recruits are the freshman/sophomore guys on the team now.
While there’s plenty of time to correct some of these numbers, recent history isn’t on our side for that to happen. We just have to recognize that this isn’t the Casey recipe of success. Strong defense, top pitching and doing the little things right to win games. This is the complete opposite. It’s hit the long ball, score runs and let’s just hang on for dear life that our pitching can be good enough to hang on. The major problem with that approach is I don’t think it’s the recipe for post-season success. Strong pitching will always be a premium over high offense. In a 3 game series, having a mini slump offensively is catastrophic. Over the regular season, not as impactful.
Agree. Baseball, I think, is the one sport where a high octane offense can be totally shut down – do to great pitching. I’m not a big fan of baseball anymore because it’s like you said above. Everything at bat is a homerun or strike out. Yawn. So boring. I’ve always preferred small ball, where you bunt runners over, hit and run and steal bases. Puts more pressure on the defense and can be effective to score against stout pitching.
There were times last year where small ball would’ve really helped. We had that 3 week period where the team BA was like .200 and yet we weren’t doing some of the small ball stuff to generate a spark. They actually did a little of it in Surprise, which was nice to see. However, with this lineup there really only appears to be 3 guys that even know how to bunt. Bazzana, McDowell and Hainline. So I doubt we will see a ton of that this year unless 1 of those 3 happen to be in the right spot at the right time. In years past, just about everyone in the lineup was a threat to bunt and execute on it. Just another one of the shifts in philosophy. I know I say it a lot, but the MC teams are really a direct opposite of what Casey built. We’ll see if the MC model can do the trick for post-season success. It definitely can be successful during the season, but will it be effective for post-season runs is the question.
I’ve always thought WHIP is a more helpful pitching stat. Good measure of how many negative outcomes your pitching staff is generating. We’re 9th out of 11 in the conference in WHIP right now.
The stats that have stuck out to me is the walks, low number of strikeouts to walks, and it seem like our batters are striking out a lot too. Idk what’s usual for college baseball but I think they’re close to 10 a game.
There were some numbers posted for the matchup between Arkansas and the Beavs lead in everything but walks. Granted they’ve had one more game but the walk differential is the Beavs 30 to 13 for Arkansas. Giving up free bases is going to bite this team in the ass against better teams if they don’t clean it up!
Maybe they better go jowling now?
*bowling
Nothing wrong with throwing in the zone, especially low in the zone. Force the batters to make good contact and beat the defense.
Go Beavs!
MBB blows an 11-point lead second-half lead and loses to Cal. Road woes continue. Is it 1-40 away from home over the last three years? Barnes has to eat Tinkle’s contract.
Yep he’s really dragging down the momentum of the athletics at OSU.
Tinkle is the antithesis of what OU needs to be presenting in athletics right now. He is an anchor on the program when it cannot have any anchors. Each program must have at least parity with competitors but he is a bottom feeder.
Now BeaversEdge is saying the locker-room is beginning to resemble the dysfunctional lockerroom the year after the elite 8 run. So Tinkle will have a bunch of young guys frustrated, old guys moving on and any starters likely transferring out exactly like we have seen before. His built in excuse continues and OSU suffers a degrading downward spiral of a once great and proud basketball legacy.
OSU*
This plays right into Tinkle’s strategy and what so many people seem to gobble up. Every year he turns the roster over so he can play the “new players, young players, need time to gel” excuse and many people fall for it hook, lime and sinker every year. We’re not even competitive in our losses. We’ve lost by an avg of 16pts a game this year! 16 fucking points! That’s not competitive, that’s an asskicking. I don’t know what progress has been made this year. Same win total, keep in mind that required us to win like 4 games in OT vs Div 3 opponents, offense isn’t any better. Handfuls of 20+ point losses. 3 road wins in 3 years and 20ish for his entire tenure at OSU. It’s a travesty.
You just came up with a country song about drinkin’ and fishin’:
“hook, lime and sinker”
Well done!
Sounds about right
Beavers would probably be a tournament team if games ended at the half. Don’t know how many halftime leads they’ve blown, but I wouldn’t be surprised if its in double digits this year.
After today’s rally by Nvidia, Jensen Huang’s net worth climbed by around $9B today. Bringing his total net worth to about $70B and 21st wealthiest person on the planet.
For reference, Phil Knight and Family have a net worth of $42.7B. (Suck it, Phil)
If only he cared even a tiny bit about athletics at OSU….
Hopefully Murthy had a good meeting with him a couple weeks ago.
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#ff36b173d788
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jayathi-murthy_it-was-wonderful-to-visit-the-bustling-nvidia-activity-7156754967825969152–S_8
Do we think he was one of the anonymous donors for the stadium?
I would settle for a Tinkle buyout
How about around $8B endowment for research, and about $2B for athletics to give OSU a shot in the arm and encourage donations…Existing endowment apparently around $819M.
Stanford apparently at $36.5B.
Surely he could subsist on $60B?
I know I said Nvidia was a long term hold a couple of years ago, when it was at about $120.
I did not expect this. And it’s only trading at about 25 times earnings right now. I think I’ll keep holding and wait for it to start distributing yields.
It’s going to take a haircut in the short term, because a lot of people will take profits at this point.
love’d the basket interference waived off, clearly a foul, that refs don’t call. Also no call while KC gets a bloody nose from an elbow. WTF
Interview with DC Heyward:
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2024/02/oregon-state-defensive-coordinator-keith-heyward-wants-to-force-the-issue-q-and-a.html
He will coach the DB position group w/Perkins….sounds like he is emphasizing competition, with everyone having a clean slate and veterans having to earn their starting spots.
Yeah, they always say that but do we really think Robinson and the xfer from Liberty are not going to be the starting corners? Safety I could see being a little more open with 2 guys I’d assume would/should start coming off significant injuries. Other than Robinson, there aren’t any previous starters from last year on the defensive side of the ball so it could be a free for all. Although, you’d have to assume middle LB is all but wrapped up too. OLB, DL and safety would be the 3 spots that stand out to me.
Ivy is still in the mix at CB, too. Wasn’t there another frosh that played last year?
Incoming FR Exodus sure sounds promising. Wonder if he’ll gets reps as a returner this year?
https://osubeavers.com/sports/football/roster/exodus-ayers/10337
I thought Ivy was moving to safety? Didn’t he struggle at CB last year?
Didn’t they get some heftier DL in the 300+ lb range?
Ya like 3.
Arkansas ace Hagen Smith started their opener last Friday vs James Madison where he walked the lead off batter, hit the second batter, and gave up a 3-run bomb to the third batter. He lasted one inning and 42 pitches. He’s starting tonight, at least he’ll be fresh.
The Tinkle Irony- he has taken the program to some of its best finishes and its worst finishes in his tenure. He is a Jekyl/Hyde conundrum. Is Barnes just hoping for another year of the lightning in a bottle success? I don’t understand how Tinkle can be excused for sinking the men’s basketball program. We are witnessing a debacle with no way out of it for 4 years. He can’t recruit kids now with a 4 year extension as security, how will he recruit kids when they know he isn’t getting anything beyond 2027!??! Is that even possible he has such an extension? A clear dereliction of duty for Barnes to ever give such an extension to a mediocre coach like Tinkle. He isn’t a winner at this level and it has been proven beyond doubt. Leave already. Nobody wants to watch your product. Fans are voting with their time and money. Somehow the Tinkle era has destroyed the fan interest in mens bball.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom(nope), it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
And is taking much longer to finish than a Dickens novel….
This is going on 6 years I have railed on Tinkle needing to be fired. Craig Robinson was just as bad and his teams were just more athletic overall. Tinkle needs to move on. So sad for a proud fan base who witnessed the greats like GP to be subjected to Tinkle’s offense-less, micro-managed underclassmen and hodge podge lineups every year. OSU fans must have a greater basketball IQ than Tinkle but none of the big donors are demanding he go? Where are the voices demanding some action and knocking down Barnes door to get rid of this cancerous situation? More guys will transfer and we are back to another young group getting their lumps and watching 25 point losses at home with Tinkle calling timeouts after meaningless baskets to appear to be a strategist. So hokey and ridiculous.
Craig Robinson’s last year the Beavers won more games away from Gill than Tinkle has won the last 3 years combined. Craig sucked but Tinkle has produced some of the worst seasons in Oregon State history. He got them 2 NcAA tournaments but the 2015-16 team easily could have missed if not for a GW 3 and GW free throws by ST cause they got routinely smacked on the road. They have 8 wins on the road in the last 5 years. Insane ineptitude. The elite 8 run is gonna be one of the most inexplicable runs in recent sports history. Still have no idea how that happened
Craig just didn’t seem to know much beyond the Princeton. When he had Shaftanaar running the point center and a long rangy athlete backing up the 1-3-1 they did ok and caught a few teams by surprise. Then he said he wanted to get better athletes and play a more modern offense and man D but didn’t seem to know how to coach to that besides stomping and yelling “move”.
yeah, but he brought dictionaries to practice.
Good news! Court order just prohibited the NCAA from
Enforcing NIL rules in any state.
Lambo stock is soaring on the news.
“College recruits and transfers can now negotiate and sign NIL contracts before enrolling at a university with no fear of breaking NCAA rules. Or, at least, they can until the case concludes, likely months from now.
But considering the NCAA already was under scrutiny involving antitrust laws, some NIL rules could be off the books permanently.”
Capitalism wins again!
Laissez-faire is not capitalism.
That’s why it has its own name.
The only thing that can save this sport is revenue sharing, across the entire league.
The more winning teams take in all the money, the less teams we’ll have as they keep killing the poorer programs off.
If a school has to decide how to spend their donor dollars more carefully, less will go to NIL and or less will go to facilities, because someone has to make up for the lost excess revenue. Might start leading to more fiscal responsibility.
Baseball: Stony Brook 10 – LSU 2 final
Correction: Northern Illinois 10 – LSU 2
Corrected correction: LSU lost to somebody
LSU lost 5-2 to Stony Brook today if anyone wanted to know
Texas Tech decided to hit today. Won 32-5.
No!!! 32-5?!? Really?
Has anybody found any of the games online from our foreign friends?
Arkansas ace, looking sharp. 3 k’s but he did overthrow on a bunt by McDowell. 2 were 3 pitch strike outs to Bazzana and Turley. Got Guerra swinging too
Ya this team seems to struggle with strikeouts. Pretty ugly first inning offensively.
May with 2 strike outs and a hit batter. Gets a ground out for out #3 stranding a guy on 1st. Going to the 2nd. 0-0.
Definitely looks like we’ll need a good outing from him early on.
Yep. 2 more k’s so far for Arkansas. Their ace is dealing.
2 hits in 2 innings by the Beavs and struck out 6 times. Not really working the count either. Many if these are 0-3 strike outs. Gotta hope May can keep up
Nice double play there!
May needs to avoid the walks. 1 hit batter and 1 walk in 2 innings.
You could say that by the whole staff. Been the Achilles heel the last couple years.
Man Bazanna twice! This guys stuff is nasty. The slider is killing them.
Wow. 9 strike outs by the Beavs. Arkansas ace is dealing. This is a prime example of why pitching is still king in the post-season. Lots of game left but holy shit, this guy is mowing them down.
May works out of a jam and it’s still scoreless going to the 4th. Man, this guy is killing with the slider. Gotta make him work. Only 36 pitches in 3 innings. He’s legit.
Wow. Arkansas pitcher has 12 k’s. All their outs have been via strikeout. Unfortunate that its happening vs the Beavs. Really incredible
Dude lasted 1 inning versus James Madison in the season opener
Watch more baseball. Going undefeated does not happen. We’re fine.
Luckily May has been pretty good so far.
He’s new to the program and Dorman hasn’t taught him to walk hitters yet?
He’s plunked a couple guys tonight but otherwise been great.
This is pathetic.
Brutal! Need to get to the bullpen badly.
15 k’s. That’s insane. And he’s barely working. He could go all 9 easy at this rate
Is it a “pitcher’s zone”? Or does he just have a lot of movement on that slider?
Maybe Mitch should send someone out to check for illegal substance on the guys hat/glove…just break the rhythm with a little mind game.
Uh oh. Wheels falling off? 2 on and no outs. Mya has been great so far but a hit batter and a base knock are spelling trouble.
Uh oh. May with an arm
Injury and pulled mid count in the 5th?
Here we go again with a major arm injury. Hopefully I’m wrong.
God I hope not for his sake. That’d be 2 of them already this year too.
Well, bases juiced. 1 down. Really unfortunate. Hopefully Keljo can escape but he thrown 4 straight balls. Would be poetic to walk home the 1st run. Walks will kill this team.
Whelp, feels like game. 3 rbi double and bases are cleared. Considering we’ve struck out 15 times and dude only has like 63 pitches so far, not looking good.
This reminds me of when I was young and our team facing a pitcher that had an epic curveball that no one could hit.
So much for being such an offensive juggernaut. This guys really good but 17ks thru 6 innings is ridiculous.
Where is the gamesmanship in the batters box? Why not back out and break up the pace? Why not try a drag bunt or square up to hunt just to show him something different?
Guys are too proud to show the reality that what they are doing is t working? So what you’re getting embarrassed by this guy!
Dam, now an error and guy winds up at 2nd. Base knock and that run scores. Beavs have folded. 17 k’s will do that to you. What an awful outcome. Crowned in the 1st meaningful game with an absolute tank job by the offense, May is injured. Couldn’t get much worse unless someone else gets hurt.
Good test for the last 3 innings or see what this team
Is made of…
Are you ok???
Hairline is 1/17 so far in the season! Can Trotsky get a shot please?
Really surprising considering he hit well above .300 last season. But yeah, id like to see Trotsky get in the lineup for sure. He was a great spark as a freshman before the injury.
Now Kasper tweaked his knee in that collision with Bazanna. Hopefully he just bumped knees and didn’t do something worse
Guerra! Ties it up with a 2 run bomb! Wow. Still can’t believe they took the starter out when they did. Has to be a pitch count thing early in season.
Let’s go Beavs!!! Not done yet.
Guerra 2 run blast to tie it up!
Saw the replay of it. Hit off the 2nd deck partition.
Dam, Kasper limping still. Had a slight collision on the fly out he caught and doesn’t seem to have been able to shake it off. Seemed like he knocked shins with Bazzana. Hope it’s not anything serious but 2 key injuries this game for the Beavs
What is with these guys and hitting batters?
Fuck. Bullpen chokes. Triple of centerfield wall and Hogs lead 5-4
Last chance at bat. This offense had to redeem itself from its early start.
Interesting mov3 with the last at bat. MC brings in true freshman who hasn’t played at all. Had 2 outs and runner at 3rd. Really an odd move.
Ya he was a lefty but pretty much of a biggest stakes at bat you can get especially for your first career at bat.
You gotta at least bring in someone who’s played before. They have 0 intel on how that matchup goes with a guy who’s never even played. Sure it’s an early season game and doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things, but goddamn, what an awful call to make.
Beavers got a major problem at SS. Hainline has been an absolute disaster so far. Getting pinch hit for with the game on the line and with a guy that was completely overmatched shows how the coaching staff is feeling about Hainline.
Also pretty concerning how few adjustments seem to be made by hitters against upper tier pitchers. Saw it against LSU in the first matchup and tonight. So many fastballs right down the pipe taken for strikes. Coaching staff needs to get a few things figured out. Luckily, the Pac-12 behind Oregon State doesn’t look especially impressive, so they won’t face any teams in the conference who are as good as Arkansas, especially on the mound
I think the staff have faith that Hainline will turn it around. He batted over 300 last year in pac 12 play and is in a slump. But I think it was a good move because he was in that slump but the batter picked was very suspect.
Agree how not adjustments seemed to be made from their first at bats.
Well a lot of things we’ve been saying but us finally. Too many free bases. Our lineup did not looks at all like a top ncaa baseball lineup. The guy was obviously really good tho. Bazanna struck out 3 times from him and the guy looked like a golden spikes front runner. Nonetheless there shouldn’t be any other college team that you strike out a record setting 24 times or something like that.
Bit not but.
Yeah. This guy was lights out and could possibly be the best we face until a post-season game. I think the offense will carry for this staff during the season but the relief guys have really got to step it up if they want to advance at all in post-season. I still say it’s early, but walks and hit batters have been a huge issue for RD staff the last 2 seasons so it doesn’t instill a ton of confidence that it is just going to be an early season thing. It is interesting how there doesn’t appear to be any change to plate aapproaches with 2 strikes. Dudes are still taking huge hacks like it’s a fresh count. Doesn’t look like they’re trying to protect up there to extend the count. Guess it’s just not how things are done anymore. We lucked out in not playing vs this pitcher a month or so from now. I can’t imagine he’d be pulled that early with that low of a pitch count in April. We had zero answers for him.
We’re going to find out a lot about this team tomorrow and Sunday.
Credit to the Beavs for clawing back in the game but seeing them get mowed down and make few adjustments was embarrassing.
Beers out again. WBB is in a tight game against the Cougs. Up just 45-40, about thirty seconds left in the 3rd quarter.
How have we struck out at SS since Grenier left? I remember thinking Armstrong was awful at the plate but compared to the last 2 years with Dernedde and now Hainline (at least so far), he’s looking like Tony Gwynn! Armstrong was a magician on defense but definitely a down grade from Grenier offensively but Holy shit, he’s head and shoulders above our last 2 guys. Hainline being 1-18 so far this season is worse than bad. If his slump continues and Trotsky still doesn’t get opportunities, it’ll be a crime. If MC doesn’t want to give Trotsky playing time, they could probably move Caraway to SS, which was his position in HS, Guerra goes back to 3rd, then Kreig could take over at 1st. Hainline has been ok defensively but I don’t think he’s been any better than what I remember Trotsky being as a true freshman. Can’t afford to have such a pivotal position be hampered by awful plate appearances.
I would think he bounces back. You don’t just go from being a good hitter to a bad one but agree that Mitch should look long and hard at replacing him if it continues or at least try it for a game and give him a rest and let him watch. Maybe light a fire under him.
Seems unlikely that it’ll last but man, he hasn’t even been close. Not like he’s ripping the ball and guys hav3 been making great plays or just hitting to where they’re at…hasn’t really had much good contact at all. Sucks for Trotsky. As a freshman he was a far better hitter than Dernedde and just as good, or better, defensively. No reason he should’ve been behind Dernedde. Now he sits behind Hainline. Maybe he’s not showing well in practice or something but damn, from what we got to see him do as a freshman before the injury last year, he shouldn’t be on the bench unless the guy in front is head and shoulders better. Have yet to see that from Hainline
MIIIIIIIITTTTCHHH!!!!!
Looks like we’re in for another year of mediocre close but no cigar
Stupid comment. 5-1 with a 1 run loss to #2 team in the country.
Sounds mediocre to me.
If you’re not hitting pop flies against Arkansas, you’re not trying.
Good Gals apply the clamps in the fourth and win going away 65-52.
Arizona beats Stanford tonight. Beavs and USC 1 game back in the standings.
They’ll beat UW on Sunday and Cal next weekend. But if they’re gonna beat Stanford? They need Reagan Beers
Might also need USC to drop a game. Idk all the tiebreakers but the good gals lost both games to USC
Kasper out for today’s game. Probably see Macias in replacement? Haven’t seen official lineup yet
Lineup was just released. Trosky is in for Hainline, Krieg at DH and Macias in RF. Macias looks much improved from last year and Trosky in for Hainline is good to see. If Trosky can hit for a little pop with his plate discipline, he could really push Hainline for that SS spot. I think last year if Kasper was to miss time, it would really hurt a lot but there’s a little more depth and Macias looks more ready for a significant role now than last year.
Kmatz gives up a solo shot in the 2nd. No 0uts. Beavs down 1-0
Trosky! 2 RBI double puts OSU ahead 3-1.
Trosky with an rbi double. In 1 start he done more than Hainline has in 6 games. Want Hainline to succeed but MC needs to play the guys who are are producing. 2 years he held onto Dernedde despite plenty of better talent behind him.
Turley smokes a 2 run hr. 438 ft!
In my quest to get my money’s worth out of Sling TV, I do have the Beav/Stanford game on. First four minutes they had six turnovers and 3 points. Trail Tree 9-3.
Beavers on an 15-2 run. Look forward to seeing them go up 15 and then start the second half on a 9 minute scoring drought and lose by 10
Having Derenedee in the opposing dugout has been good for the Beavs today.
Hopefully Aiden May’s injury isn’t serious but it’s been notable how much better the pitching staff has looked this weekend. Aiden May looked like an ace last night and Kmatz is having one of the best starts of his career today with 9 strikeouts through 5. Best he’s looked in his career for me. Michigan has rarely generated much hard contact aside from the HR and line drive to left for an out. If this is the Kmatz they get for most of the season, that definitely raises the ceiling for this team. Just hope May is alright.
Offense has really responded well and Turley is an absolute superstar.
The control was much better from Kmatz and Mejia for sure. Good things happen when you don’t give free bases. 11-1 Beavs. If they can maintain the 10 run lead after 7th inning, this game will be called. 10 run rule in effect.
And what do they start doing?
MBB winning at the half, so of course they’re going to lose
Yes, but they aren’t ahead by 10-11 points. Besides, it’s the Jordan Pope show. He can’t carry the team for another half. Barnes simply has to have a plan for taking out WT at season’s end. I hope someone has been filming Tinkle’s actions on the sideline. I’m convinced he is off the wall. As in last season, he grabs at the players, they don’t look at him. He is ruining any promise they might have had.
They have the dreaded 11-point second-half lead.
Nice double play from Bazanna!
That’s game Beavs win 11-1!
Yup, 11-point lead is evaporating. Akanno misses a wide-open three that could have given them a 12-point lead. Ibekwe misses a point-blank tip-in and then fouls a guard on a drive to the basket who of course scores as Ibekwe doesn’t come close to at least blocking the shot. Stanford can cut the lead to five. Will there ever come a time when the Beavs add to a lead on the road? Everything is just so difficult for this team.
It seems to me Ibekwe isn’t the sharpest knife in the rack. Did WT call the post 27th Jordan Pope point time-out?
I stepped away, but Tinks is usually adept at calling momentum-killing time-outs or taking someone out of the game after they make a nice bucket.
Blind squirrel nut…….MBB wins and yes they gave up an 11-point lead again, but Pope went off for 30 and Rataj had a career-high. 85-73.
So we will be told to call off the dogs who are yelling for Tinkle to get fired?
Tinkle accomplished the impossible again by getting a road win against a bottom half conference for on the road. He has such a bad trend that anything decent appears to be groundbreaking momentum upward.
Fire him tonight on the tarmac, in the locker room, off the team bus, outside of Tommy’s Bar and Grill, wherever but fire the guy. He is a cancer to the athletic department because he is killing the program. He may be a nice guy but he is a demonstrably horrible coach and definitely not a program builder.
Eat the $10mil and let him go now.
Maybe this game will be enough evidence for Stanford to poach Tinkle, when they fire Haase.
I guess Pope could carry the team. And Rataj with him. After the fight, I was waiting for the refs to call everything against the beavs but they called offsetting penalties. It seemed to give the guys a lift.
Tinkle road win alert!
You can tell the talent is there for this team and the coaching is abysmal. It’s unfortunate there’s going to be major roster turnover after this season for one reason or another.
Pope, Bilodeau and Rataj is a really good top 3 and it has taken abysmal coaching and role players to drag them down to a bottom of the conference team. Ibekwe and Christian Wright playing significant roles easily could be the difference between being 12-16 and being 16-12/17-11 and poor coaching as well. A better coach with this core could win big but we’re stuck with Tinks
Not to take away from Catlin Clark’s scoring record but who has heard about this? I would assume she’s doing this in less games over-all also. Pretty impressive.
https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/basketball/broken-record-grace-beyer-tops-3-855-points-to-surpass-all-women-naia-ncaa-scorers/article_dc4d0064-d344-11ee-9420-874242fae603.html
There was also a NAIA player that had a quintuple-double a few days ago
She’s basically the Pistol Pete of women’s hoops.
Big game today vs the Pokes.
Lady beavs Vs Washington today. Beers is out again. Hopefully she’s back on Thursday at home vs Stanford….
Really struggling so far. Down 16-7 with about 6 minutes left in the half.
TVO and Hunter a big donut so far…
Not getting better. Down 34-22 with about 6 minutes left in the 3rd. May not be the Beavs day.
I just tuned in, and the Beavs look sluggish. UW players look faster/more athletic and able to easily blow by defenders towards the basket.
Beavs down 44-33 heading into the 4th. No Beers is catching up with them. Announcers said something early about Beers being fitted for a mask, they were probably waiting for the swelling to go down first.
Gals lose by 10. Too bad because Utah just pinned a loss on USC
And Stanford lost the other day…perfect time to move up
Hainline back in the lineup. Trosky on the bench. Hope Hainline can get it figured out but mam, Trosky has done more in the 1 start than Hainline has thru 6. True freshman Segura back on the mound. Kasper still sitting.
WBB can’t get it done against a mediocre Washington squad just when USC and Stanford take recent losses. Beavs can’t have nice things!
Of course we can.
This is the tired legs portion of the season. Beers getting a rest may be the difference in who she becomes in the post-season.
And maybe this will teach her to wear safety equipment, if she’s going to play at a level others get frustrated with her presence.
Segura struggling a bit. Gave up 1 run in first. Has 3 walks including a hit batter.
Beavs with 2 massive hr from Smith and Bazanna. 4-1 beavs. Also have 2 errors.
Beavs 8-1 top of the 9th. Time to close out the Cowboys.
Good weekend for the baseball team. But could have been great. Nice to see a very solid bounce back after the Arkansas game.
My observations,
Pitching is not going to be great this year but as long as they are a little above average, team can make a run.
Sat, Sun and weekday starters for opposing teams are going to have a lot of rough days.
Cold bats should go to the 9 hole and get protection from Bazzana.
Caraway has a hit in every game. Wonder what the longest freshman consecutive hit record is? Defense really needs to get cleaned up.
Turley is probably hitting the ball harder than he was last year but still has a hole in there that results in Ks. Might want to talk to Adley about how he retooled his swing bc if Turley reduces his K rate, he’s a top 5 pick.
Beavs are clearly a top 16 team but shaky as a top 8 as of right now.
The only real challenge the next two weeks is getting the weather to cooperate. Does not look like fun weather this week.
Ya caraway has done well on offense but he’s made quite a few errors already. Hopefully he can settle down a bit and get that cleaned up. Have the Beavs had a game without an error yet?
I don’t believe so. Definitely not the defensive team we’ve become accustomed to. I’m hoping Caraway gets it figured out as season goes on. It seems the move to 3rd is a bigger adjustment than he was expecting. Wonder if there’s any discussions about moving him back to SS. Perhaps Trosky or Hainline could move to 3rd…or even Guerra and then Kreig to 1st.
Overall, pitching was really good outside of the relievers vs Arkansas. Hit batters still an issue for everyone this tournament and the free bases were the catalyst for the scoring that did take place. Segura has some nasty stuff. I know it’s only 2 starts, but he looks like the best freshman pitcher we’ve had since Abel. Worked his way out of some jams which shows some great mental fortitude for a youngster. It does seem like they’re playing with fire on the free bases, and while they’ve been able to limit the runs from those situations, it seems unlikely that can continue over the season and definitely a concern for post-season play.
All this talk of Walks, HBP and Errors. Facts, the Beavers have played only 8 games. 6 have been against Power 5 teams. The Beavers opponents have walked more batters (38-37), the Beavers have hit two more batters (12-10) and the only players with more than 1 error are Guerra (2) and Caraway (4).
One is a freshman at the beginning of his college career and both are playing new positions.
Oh and for those who say starting pitching is our weakness, two starts each the weekend starters ERA, are 3.72, 1.08, and 2.70 with WHIPs of 1.14, 1.08 and 1.30. They have also combined for 32 K’s and 11 BB, a 3/1 ratio. Way early but I will take that all day thank you.
Save your snap judgements until the end of March after we have a little Pac 12 play. Too early to nit pick and search for your warts. This team has a strong chance to host a Super.
Ah yes. Don’t formulate or articulate any observations…especially not on a message board. The insanity! I don’t think anyone has questioned this teams’ ability to be great, host thru post-season and be a final 8 team. May, Kmatz and Segura have been very solid. Hunter, been ok but has the highest WHIP at 1.50 of the 4 primary guys. Bullpen is where more of the struggles have been, and yes, it’s early so there’s plenty of time to iron some of the control issues out. Lattery and Lawson, 2 of RD’s favorite guys to use, have WHIP of 1.91 and 2.0. To his credit, Lattery hasn’t given up an earned run yet but that’s the kind of fire we’re playing with in the early season that will come to bite you as the season progresses. If you look at walks at a team level, we’re like 8th or 9th in the Pac.
As for the errors, it’s definitely something to be keeping an eye on. We’ve got 11 thru 8 games and that’s last place in the Pac. We’ve had teams in recent history that went weeks between errors much less 11 in an 8 game span. All that said, it is early and being 7-1 after playing TT, OK St and Arkansas is really a testiment to how good this team is. The point I’m making, and some others, is that the few issues this team does show in the early season are issue that will limit how far a team can go in the post-season.
Bullpen struggles have been a little overblown. First 2 games of the season there were some struggles but aside from that, it’s mostly just been Chase Reynolds. Everyone else in the pen was nails against TTU/Michigan/Ok State and the Arkansas game wasn’t good but it also wasn’t terrible. Have to factor in the quality of the competition as well. Texas Tech’s offense is loaded and the bullpen beyond Reynolds largely shut them down. Last year’s pen was rough and had very few guys that could be relied on for even an inning let alone multiple innings. This year’s bullpen has significantly more talent and depth. If May isn’t seriously hurt, I think there should be quite a bit of optimism around the pitching on this team
While pitching only gave up 4 runs vs TT, they walked 8 batters. If the box score is accurate, we also plunked 6 batters. Pitchers had 7 k’s. Reynolds was definitely a part of that, but he’s not the only reliever that’s struggled. We’re 9th in the Pac with 40 walks plus however many HBP we’ve given up. We have played the most innings so that should be taken into consideration along with the competition level of 3 teams this weekend. Michigan isn’t a good team and projected middle of B1G. Team ERA is ridiculously low and one would expect that to definitely go up. A lot of these pitchers have done an admirable job in limiting the damage when faced with trouble. Obviously it’s early, but you can’t deny errors (most in the Pac and 9th in fielding percentage) and free bases aren’t an issue so far this season. Ask yourself when the last time the Beavs were 9th in fielding percentage in the Pac? I can assure you, the coaches are certainly emphasizing the errors and free bases so why would fans not discuss these things?
In the TTU game, they hit zero hitters and Lawson, Morrell and Ferguson went 6 IP and gave 2 free passes. That’s pretty good against a big time offense. Overall, they gotta get better and cleaning up free passes but they did a pretty solid job of it over the weekend with room to get better. Defense definitely could use some work. It feels like overall most of the guys have been good but Hainline and Caraway have had some issues. That is the biggest concern right now and a legitimate issue for sure.
Does it feel better to type out the words free passes, instead of walks?
I’m lazy and get tired reading three syllables in my head, let alone having to type out extra letters.
Just give him a free pass, Jack, and let it go
It bothers me less than seeing some serial crime drama and hearing, “Gee Ess Double You” for a gun shot wound.
Acronyms aren’t created to make more work for the speaker/writer/reader. This one at least is a slang term for base on balls, not walks.
I’ll be waiting for OC Beaver to let me know when it is appropriate to post snap judgments about OSU sports. Until then I’m signing off….
Perhaps I will make sure I have a rational and factually supported observation that is bolstered by reality before I post.
Such as:
Beaver defense isn’t as strong as in years past.
Beaver pitching does seems to give up walks.
Relief pitching is suspect for now.
Beaver offense makes few adjustments at the plate.
Mitch sounds like he is doing a Norm McDonald impression in interviews.
Pitching will decide how far this team can advance.
Ya I never get fans that get mad at you for being a FAN! No one is saying it’s doomsday and we suck. People have just noticed some issues early on that need to be fixed if this team wants to make a deep run. The whole similar numbers of walks and hit batters is nonsense. If we’re a top 10 team than we should be better than these unranked teams. It’s fine that caraway is a freshman at a new position and Guerra is playing a new spot as well but it nonetheless needs to get better. 4 errors thru 9 games by one player is pretty bad. I expect he’ll settle in eventually as he’s out of position and a freshman but he needs to get it figured out soon hopefully before it starts costing them.
How dare you for being observant
Has Tinkle been fired yet?
Ya right he just got his second road win! Extension!
Each road win is another year extension
I was serious. And you guys crack jokes. No fun allowed here. No one can have fun. Not until justice is served and Tinkle is fired and thrown in jail for wrongful coaching.
Preach!
meh
Anyone heard anything official on May? I know the last word was that they didn’t think it was anything of concern but it seems like that’s the standard response. Hoping he’s healthy.
Did Kasper play the rest of the trip?
No.
WBB drops slightly from #9 to #11, and are still in line to get a Top 4 seed as long as they don’t lose to CAL. They play #4 Stanford on Thursday @7:00PM, CAL on Saturday @12:00PM. Despite the #4 vs. #11 matchup, there’s no national TV broadcast for it. The game’s on PAC-12 Oregon. Not even the main PAC-12 channel, just the regional one. Anyone know Beer’s status?
Supposedly she has been fitted for a mask, I would assume that means the swelling has subsided and she will play with a mask.
She’s always played without being intimidated hopefully she is able to have the same mindset when she is able to play.
I haven’t heard is Brinks supposed to play? Interesting teams with questions regarding their best players.
Can’t make Saturdays game if anyone is looking for a pair of tickets let me know
People on this forum have seemed to diminish it when I’ve brought it up in the past, but I don’t care. Especially if we aren’t making it to Omaha, I kind of expect as a fan that we, at a minimum win the PAC 12 regular season title for the first time since 2017 nonetheless.
Might just be a personal pet peeve but I’ve always felt it weird to be a national champion without even winning your own conference, which is overall a greater measurement of sustained success and performance rather than just being able to get hot in the post season
That’s not to poopoo a national championship by any means, but what I guess I mean is that I still value conference championships despite what some people on here feel and honestly I’d rather win the last PAC 12 regular season title and not make it to the supers then lose in the supers with no PAC 12 title flag to hoist at Goss
National championship > conference championship.
I see reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit…
Dude your advocating for a meaningless championship just to hang a fucking banner in the stadium. Omaha is all that matters. Fuck the pac12, you think Arkansas, LSU, Miami, FSU, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, Texas Tech and other elite programs give two flying fucks about conference championships or conference tournaments? They don’t, they care about national championship the only thing that matters in baseball.
General comprehension isn’t yours
UCONN last year:
Golly. Winning the championship in dominating fashion was neat. But it sure would have been nice not to have placed 4th in the Big East. Oh, what could have been….
Where did I say that conference championships are better than national titles? No where. I just said that I’d prefer to win a conference title and get eliminated in the regional rather than go to the supers with no conference title
Which is quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve read on this site in the last 10 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0
“just being able to get hot in the post season”
The college baseball postseason is nearly a month long. you don’t just “get hot” for a month and win the whole thing.
Studentbeaver thinks Jade Carey’s gold medal is tainted because she didnt win the NCAA All around and she just got hot at the Olympics
He’s just jealous
He is a duck troll. I’ll never believe he is an actual enrolled student at OSU. Way too many off the wall comments for him to be serious. Who would try to argue that not winning your conference diminishes a national championship in Omaha? Such drivel, go back to Eugene where you’ll never need to worry about national championships.
2007 Beavs finished 6th in the Pac10 before going on to the Natty
Last team selected in the field of 64, too
Do not ever use that word again please
Truth, If he had been to Goss he’d know the dates up for CWS/super regional are larger than conference/divisional titles.
I don’t care abt the user name or where he goes to college, if at all. If he wants to post on AB, fine.
Idk what your guys deals are but if your away from cable internet in a rural area or something starlink is really good. I live off grid in Maui and had previously had viasat as it was my only option. It would be decent but you would hate it compared to cable. Viasat was expensive and throttle your data speeds back after a certain amount used (not much). Starlink got pushed forward out here because of the fires and people not having phone or internet service. Anyways I’m stoked and just thought I’d mention it be great for getting a game while camping or something too.
That was my only concern with if the Beavs games were streaming as I would have to go somewhere to watch them but was still down for the deal. Now I can if it becomes a thing.
Is it true all of the porn sites on Starkink are Elon Musk themed?
Why do u think I got it?
https://i.gifer.com/V7CF.gif
Holy crap, is anyone watching the Nevada/CSU game? Jarod Lucas missed three of four shots foul shots in the final 20 seconds to let CSU tie it up with two seconds left and then he hits a half-court shot with no time to win the game on the road.
Yeah… head-scratcher on him missing FTs.
He’s always been a streaky shooter. He had one year with an amazing FT%, but I think that was a one-off.
It’s crazy that he still has eligibilty!
He was shooting 90% on the season before last night. He’s always been a high 80’s foul shooter.
Jon Wilner story on the future of CFP with WSU president Schultz:
“….Washington State’s president pitched the College Football Playoff’s governing board last week on granting permanent Power Five status to the Pac-12 even though the conference will consist of just two schools, Oregon State and WSU, as of next season.
Schulz made his case along with OSU’s president Jayathi Murthy — a joint proposal that received the CFP board’s full attention.
“There wasn’t a great deal of support,” Schulz told the Hotline. “One of the reasons given was the (future revenue model) hasn’t been determined yet. It’s hard to discuss distributions beyond the next couple years. But we appreciated the opportunity to make the pitch.”
…
…starting with the 2026 season, there is no playoff. No format. No governance structure. No revenue distribution plan. No media contract.
The expanded Big Ten and SEC, which will claim 12 of the 15 biggest brands in the sport next season — all the heavyweights except Notre Dame, Clemson and Florida State — are pushing for an outsized role in the next iteration of the playoff.
They want more money, more automatic bids and more votes in the boardroom. And the other conferences are powerless to stop them.”
…
Good to see Schultz and Murthy are still at it.
https://www.oregonlive.com/collegefootball/2024/02/college-football-playoff-the-pitch-for-oregon-state-and-wsu-big-ten-and-sec-muscle-murky-future.html
This should get ya past the paywall:
https://archive.ph/Ab0L5
“Several presidents are committed to Oregon State and Washington State being an integrated part of the (CFP) conversations going forward,” Schulz said. “But what does that really mean? The situation could change.
“There is a profound sense of regret about the situation we’re in. A lot of presidents have told me, ‘That could have been us’ or ‘That could be us.’
Several presidents “committed”… yeah, sure!
More press BS, signifying nothing.
Well, maybe. But the guy held the deciding vote that could have collapsed the whole CFP/media rights deal. I have to think (and pray) he changed his vote for something more then 2 years of payouts that don’t really help us beyond that.
“The other conferences” aren’t powerless to stop them. They are just able to give the ACC and Big XII enough table scraps to buy them off.
If not for that, the other conferences would tell the SEC/B1G to take a hike.
SEC and B10 continue to swirl down the drain…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2024/02/29/14-team-college-football-playoff-proposal-big-ten-sec-want-it-all/72786426007/
It would be better for everyone if the SEC and Big Ten laid their cards on the table and took whatever spoils they want from college sports in one fell swoop as opposed to the craven way they’re going to spend the next decade rigging the game while pretending what they’re doing isn’t a choice.
…
Locking in six of the 14 playoff spots every year without even playing a game is just the beginning. You can be sure the SEC and Big Ten will argue for at least two and sometimes all three of the at-large spots as well because recent expansion has made their leagues too big and powerful to be judged against the peons.”
Dirk Koetter returning to BSU as OC. Looks like OSU @ BSU is schedule is TBD, but Oct or Nov?
Anyone need tix to Thursday, Friday or Sunday baseball games? I have two front row seats (yes, they really are) available. Either respond here or look for them at Seat Geek.
Interview with May today. Said he felt some tightness in the forearm area and being early season not wanting to risk anything. He’s not pitching this weekend. Probably a good idea to not have him pi5ch even if he is healthy but man, if he’s going to be out multiple weeks because of “arm tightness” it smells of something worse. Truly hope not for his sake.
Even without May this weekend should be a 4 game sweep.
NDSU is not good
So in typical luck o the Beavs fashion, he’a likely done for the year and will likely miss the following season too.
Let’s hope not but you’d have to assume that multiple missed starts means more. I get that they don’t want to release info and it’s obviously up to the athletes what they want to disclose but I don’t remember too many situations where a pitcher leaves a hand for arm tightness and it ends up being nothing. Hopefully for his sake it was just a weird tweak but history had not been kind to pitchers.
*leaves a game. Dam swipe text
Fangraphs did a story on Travis Bazzana
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/bazzana-comes-from-a-land-down-under-you-better-run-you-better-take-cover/
Watched the MC interview and I wouldn’t be surprised if May might be held back for multiple weeks. Said everything is precautionary but depending on how May feels, if the weather is colder and raining that can be hard on arms so that type of stuff would be taken into consideration. So, after all the interviews I’ve come to the conclusion that we don’t know anything. Lol.
Also, rumors that Anthony Perkins might be leaving to coach with the GB Packers.
Sounds like he’s gone..
Who replaces him? Is that much of a loss?
I’d say it’s a loss. Not sure if he was responsible for S or CB, but safety has been a position of strength for us and we had green CB’s admirably fill in all season due to the revolving door of injuries.
KHJ was a DB…maybe he helps fill in?
KHJ had already said he was going to help coach d backs. I assume he’ll still hire another coach.
We can always poach the Seahawks ST coach.
I hear he has had success coaching DBs.
Can’t make Saturday’s game against Cal if anyone would like a decent pair of WBB tix w/parking pass
Football schedule is finally out.
https://twitter.com/BeaverFootball/status/1763294226349965819?t=2BD3Xq7ly63BVg-zFK3wgg&s=19
11-1 should be the worst case scenario but too many unknowns to book that just yet.
Let’s be real: we aren’t beating Nike early in the season when we have new everything.
@AFA, Wazzu, @Boise to finish the season sounds brutal.
Hard to say if WSU will be a tough game or not.
Until the game is played, I choose to believe they can be down to their walk-on freshman QB and still play lights out against us, especially at Martin.
Think OSU will try to recruit former UW 3*QB commit Jackson Kollock? He is apparently going to look at SDSU, Cal, Minnesota, CSU and Colorado….
I don’t know if OSU even has room for another scholarship?
Is beers goin to play tonight? Beavs host Stanford. Excited to see it live! Gill will be rockin
Kollock is a 2025 recruit.
I’ll begrudgingly watch…this looks like awful football in 2024, though.
SDSU, UO, Purdue, CAL, WSU, BSU seem like a reasonably respectable games….
I like that there is two bye weeks built in… time to heal and practice.
Well, I hope the bats stay lively in this weather. So far Lawson has faced 6 batters in the Top 1st, 4BB and 1HBP, 3-0 NDSU with no outs.
5 runs on one hit so far. Beavs have their work cut out for them. I can’t get the stream, did they decide not to do one?
The OSU Baseball Twitter page posted they’re having technical difficulties. Not necessarily a bad thing right now.
Now it’s up.
Lawson giving up 4 walks, a hit batter, 1 hit and 5 runs. Not even sure if he recorded an out. Hutcherson has been much better in 3 innings of relief. 1 walk, a few hits and only 1 run. Luckily Beavs have scored 9 and lead it 9-6 to start the 4th. But hey, I’ve been told walks aren’t an issue for this squad. Ferguson to start the 4th.
Whelp, Ferguson’s 1st pitch hit the batter in the helmet on a breaking ball. Lol. Yeah, nothing to see here.
It may not have been your comment but I thought the initial complaints were about Dorman after the first weekend. I do see the team ERA is 6th best in the country. Less walks would of course be better but the Beavs are better than average in that category. I’m most concerned about the loss of Aiden May. He looked like a legit Friday night guy.
12-6 now. Banzanna with a two-run triple. They seem to have things in hand after a shakey start.
Part of that “in hand” is a result of the Bison not playing solid D. Poor throw to 1st on Hainline’s bunt and then the RF misplays Bazzana and give up a 2 RBI triple where a smart player would have limited it to a 1 RBI single.
OTOH, you have Tanner Smith making smart move to nail the runner from first for the final out in the t5.
Well…that’s college baseball for you. Quite often you just have to make fewer mistakes.
That’s college sports, in general.
Barnes says several AD’s have told him they regret leaving. Also that Bray is way more committed to recruiting than Smith.
Several AD’s…..
Kinda like the “several presidents committed to Oregon State and Washington State being an integrated part of the (CFP) conversations going forward…” mentioned above in the piece from the big zero.
It’s not that much of a stretch to think Cal and Stanford regret being part of the ACC, which is going to be the next conference to collapse. I’m sure Arizona’s broke AD isn’t loving the extra travel cost from being in the Big 12 either.
This is like the girl who dumped you later saying she never should have dumped you. I get it – these schools (all of the Pac12 schools) were asleep at the wheel figuring some TV entity would be willing to fork over $30m of TV revenue once UCLA and USC left – the rest of college football knew they wouldn’t (they already had deals with networks that told them this) and just waited until the Pac 12 realized this and offered a life raft (at a reduced TV money cut).
Ron Callan in pre game radio says Beers not likely for tonight vs Stanford.
I’m curious what OC Beaver thinks about this game by the Beaver pitchers.
I’m not.
Traveling on business, didn’t follow game. Behind paywall of both Oregonian and GT. After seeing comments above, my first thought was Lawson sucked and bullpen got the job done.
Obviously it’s too early to make judgments, maybe next month or mid way through conference play.
Nice to see Hainline’s bat come to life finally.
The 9 hole gets a lot of protection from Bazzana. Anyone who is struggling should be slotted there
about the cfp for u guys u best thing for 2026 is A keep the pac name add Stan cal smu mem boise unly sdsu uconn for football only if ACC fails add BC PITT Cuse if not add tulane Gonzaza B Ball only
or B will have to go into the MWest in 2026 which is what the NCAA SEC B10 want
unfortany for anyone not name ND as a indy u will have to go 12-0 in football Maybe 11-1 can do it if the ducks win the big ten and u only lose to them close by 7 or less the only way u can make change i e get into a top 4 conf is banned tother with the other g5 schools and say unlees u make the 12 team payoff in 2026 for all 10 conf champs auto bids we will refuse to play march madness and spit march madness into P4 let say 32 bids maybe 40 and every other conf 64 bids
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Did you have any words or sentences that were underlined in red??
He used that new gibberish to text app.
sereval but i have cerebal palsy and i see words diffent than most which is why i type like a 6-year old
Don’t let the jabs discourage you. Your effort and input as a fan are appreciated anyway.
thanks the razorbacks has had a awful football and basketball season i guess we are a baseball school as well and i doubt football will get much better with texas and okie comeing in hopefully u guys will get a beatter basketball coach by the way u shouild had beat n c state in 1983
???
We had a down year and couldn’t beat Fresneck in 83.
I say down year, but that is a relative term, given what we’ve had to endure for the last couple decades.
thank u i am kinda of pissed at USC UCLA are ORegon and wash for breaking up the pac 10 u guys if u keep pac 2 staius shouild invite arizona St back they never wanted to leave arizona made them leave for the big 12
Keep posting man, We can read it just fine.
Is a 6 year old typing this?
No its “Chat GPT” AI I think.
Somebody asked OpenAI, “how does Oregon State football remain relevant the next several years in a hunt for a CFP spot?”
Somebody call 911, I think he had a stroke.
wHy for not english writing?
WBB struggling again on offense. 15-7 end of the first Stanford. This team sure needs Beers.
33-26 Stanford at halftime
35-26.
Both teams shooting 35% or less, story remains offense and the lack of Beers. Maybe Saturday.
Oh yeah, second chance points favor tree 16-3…….again, missin’ Beers.
They’ve hung tough. 62-60 Stanford three minutes left.
Brink with 4 fouls; Beavs in bonus………hmmmm
23 rebounds…crazy.
Fuck Brinks and the favoritism refs allow her…she ended with 5 fouls and 50 elbows to the face of beavs along with multiple over the back and grabbing no calls.
Maybe the patented flying elbow is why Beers was held out
Brinks a good player but refs allow way too much shenanigans
Do they usually let girls go over the back on rebounds like this? Knocking our players to the ground.
TVO with 27, sounds lije she stepped up her effort.
Are signs not allowed in Gill?
CAL coming to Gill after handing Ducks a record 12th consecutive loss.
Is this the game to try and get Beers going?
Football starts next Tuesday?!?
Football starts the 5th this coming Tuesday.
Regarding Beers, they said they were hopeful for a Saturday start according to the radio.
Another rough performance from the pitching staff so far, only this time with no offense to make up for it. Beavs with only 1 hit, NDSU leads 5-0 in Top 5th.
Yeah, 2 hit batters, couple walks. Given up 8 hits. Not a good look to be giving up 11 runs in essentially 11 innings vs North Dakota State. This is our day 3 staff too. Hunter and then Keljo.
Off night so far for the Beavs. Defensively, missed a few cutoffs and then had 3 or 4 guys all going for a shallow fly ball, Macias ends up having to dive for it and it results in a double as nobody covered 2nd base. Add in the pitching woes and it really feels like an off night for the Beavs. Down 5-1 going to the bottom of 6th. Good news is we’ve now made it to the bullpen after being stymied by the starter.
The one concern I have is how often they let the lead off batter get on base, and not via hits. Pitchers almost always seem to be pitching out of the stretch and can’t get into a rhythm.
Yeah, it’s early but these were the same issues last season and it’s some of the same guys too. Lawson wasn’t great last year and for some reason is one of RD’s top guys he likes to use. Lattery has some good stuff, but he has control issues and can’t go longer than 3 innings since he throws 25-30 pitches an inning. Losing Jimenez was definitely unfortunate and I sure hope May isn’t seriously injured as well. Thank God Segura has been so good.
Bridger Holmes faces 2 batters…hits both of them. 4th hit batter on the day. Bases juiced.
Bazzana with a huge 3 run hr. Beavs down 1
Thank goodness for relief pitching. Bases loaded walk and we’ve got a tie game. 5-5. Bases still juiced. 2 down. Kreig up to the plate.
Only 3 hits in seven innings. The kid from Arkansas and, now, Johnson for the Bisons; those two can’t be the only tough arms to be faced this year. Beav bats will need help from pitching and D to be elite over the entire season.
Beavs up 6-5 going into the top of the 9th. The new umpire looks like he wants to get the game over. All three Beavs struck out looking in the 8th.
Yeahhhhhhh I don’t think we’re a top 10 baseball team anymore.
It was like 35 degrees and raining throughout the game. And a win is still a win. Plenty of problems to improve though.
Your sky is falling commentary is up there with the Ducks WBB team…. Bottom 10 for sure.
You all lose to one Big West team, and the world ends?
That’s baseball good games and rough games. We will see if they go into a slump. I think it was a cold game and they just couldn’t get going .
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Is there a youtube stream for today’s CAL Bears @ OSU WBB? I haven’t found one….thanks!
Beers in 15 minutes finishes first half with 5pts, 2 rebs.
At the half, Beavs up 1. Cal has hit 5 3pt shots.
No stream that I’m aware of, anyone got one?
Yeah, Beavers FG% creeping up and improving, but CAL hitting some threes. Looks like Hunter is having a decent game? TVO seems quiet?
Beavers FG% now at 49%, CAL at 31….41-33 good gals.
TVO in 18 mins has taken no shots, has 2 RBs, 3 assists, and 4 TOS….weird.
Good gals up by 19 with 4:52 left….timeout.
Ant Gould currently tied for 4th with a 4.40 SEC 40 time. 17 guys have ran. Not sure how many there are but a pretty solid showing. Faster than Troy Franklin of the Yucks by .01
Just looked…Brandin Cooks ran 4.3 two times in a row…shows just how unique this kind of speed is.
Must’ve ran a 3rd attempt as he’s now at 4.39 but still tied for 4th I believe
These DL and LB times are absurd…Gould ties for 3rd among WRs
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2024/02/29/nfl-40-yard-dash-tracker-fastest-draft-prospects-2024/72786345007/
Apparently Tom Brady ran a 5.28 forty yard dash at the 2000 combine….now, at 46, he ran it in 5.18 and 5.12…
All slower than I ran it in HS in pads…but, I’ll be honest, or football careers took slightly divergent paths… : )
Good Gals have blown it open up 74-52 with about two minutes left. They secure a first-round bye in the tourney next week. Beers impactful with 14/6 for the day.
79-58 final….Hunter 13 pts/9 A, and Gardner 19 pts/8 RBS, with good games too…nearly double doubles.
Nice to see a true point guard in Hunter. Look forward to her continued development. This team should be good the next two seasons at least too…
Nice also to see AJ get 12 in 19 minutes.
Yeah, nice contributions across the board.
Weird TVO had NO shot attempts in 25 minutes. Finishes with 4 RBS and 4 Assists…seems like some of the RBs at the end were timely and aided the run.
Glad to hear Beers is back. I hope she plays agressive and does not shy away from inside play.
With a first round by PAC 12 tourney, she should have a bit more time to continue healing, get comfortable, and get comfortable in her game.
Any surprise at the load she carried today? 29 minutes was only second to Gardiner’s 31.
Callan said she was a bit gassed at the end; I didn’t expect Rueck to use her as much as he did. Seems she’s ready to resume her usual role.
And Beers with some great block outs allowing others to collect easy boards. Huge difference.
First pitch and we’re underway. Kmatz on the bump. McDowell resting today. Cannon Reeder is in his spot.
5-0 Beavs at the stretch.
Beavs run-rule NDSU in the 8th, 10-0.
Dang, it sucks that we are out of the top 10. Just kidding student beav… nothing but love. People matter more than message board comments.
Was this meant in reply to something else, or do you think I’m studentbeav?
Great outing by Kmatz. Hes put together 2 very good starts! Beavs been scoring runs even without the amount of long-ball they were getting earlier in season. Macias hits his 1st hr as a Beav. He’s actually been very decent for Kasper who’s been out still with an injury. Beavs a little banged up between Kasper, Wilson and May. Saw Smith mightve gotten hurt too? Didn’t see if he came out but I know they paused the game a bit to have him looked at for something.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Kmatz. There’s a noticeable increase in velocity on his pitches and he’s shown greater command through 2 games so far. I’m thinking the explosive power we saw through the first few games was largely a product of the dry Arizona air. The power hasn’t really been there since. Didn’t realize Weber was out with injury. I was wondering why he hasn’t been getting more chances in the lineup, considering Smith has been so-so offensively.
Can’t forget the conditions at Goss have been miserable and the ball doesn’t carry well in the alleys when it’s warm, let alone when it’s in the 30’s. They’re also without Kasper and he’s one of their better power hitters. A lot of factors limiting some of the pop we had been seeing in Texas and Arizona
True. The weather is most likely also a reason why the last 2 games the Beavs have kind of struggled against NDSU pitching, despite hitting well against Texas Tech, Michigan, and Oklahoma State.
Kmatz has been absolutely locked in his last 2 outings. 0.64 ERA will definitely play. Huge news for the team if Kmatz can take a big step forward. Most of the pitching staff has been very good. Ian Lawson, Chase Reynolds and Nelson Keljo look like the clear cut weak links in the pen. With improved talent, I think these 3 are in real danger of getting buried when it comes time for Pac-12 play in 2 weeks. Keljo hasn’t taken a step forward like I thought he would and seems to have been surpassed by quite a few young arms.
Offensively, Macias has been fantastic. He needs to be their starting RF going forward. Use DH spot for Kasper/Turley when Kasper is back healthy. Hainline continues to be a mess at the plate. Not sure how much longer Mitch can keep him at SS. Trosky got 1 start, doubled and then hasn’t started since. They clearly want Hainline to have the job but at some point, you gotta make a change when the production just isn’t there. They need Mason Guerra to pick it up. He’s underperformed and if he’s gonna hit in the 2-3 hole, you need a lot more from him or he needs to be moved down the order.
Travis Bazzana right now is on pace to shatter every Oregon State offensive stat this season. He currently has an OPS over 300 points higher than Adley had as a junior and they haven’t even started intentionally walking him much yet. Incredibly special talent.
Side note: Oregon State’s stream is so bad this season. Compare it to Washington State with a vastly superior stream. Part of increasing exposure of college baseball is accessibility. Oregon State is arguably the best college program in the 21st century and it’s stream is well below what should be the standard.
We need Keljo to be on. One of the 2 lefties on the team. He’s got gas but clearly control still an issue. Lawson, Reynolds, Mejia definitely struggling so far. Still not super impressed with Lattery. Has a whip of 1.91 but showing a 0 ERA. He’s generally been good for limiting runs but he throws so many pitches each inning he can’t go more than 2 or 3 innings. I’d assume if May is indeed going to miss more time that Lattery will be that next guy in the rotation and we’ll need him to go more than 3 innings. 1st 2 games this series weren’t very pretty but today was the dominant performance we’d expect for the level of NDSU.
Hainline seems to be making better contact these last few games but batting .188 is pretty rough. Hell, even Dernedde was at least right around .200. I feel bad for Trosky. Should’ve been in front of Dernedde his freshman year and to still not be getting any playing time with Hainline struggling has to be frustrating. I’m not confident in MC making a change at SS even if Hainline continues to struggle…he didn’t for 2 years with Dernedde.
It’s funny we haven’t seen Levi Jones again. Had MC’s confidence vs Arkansas but yet can’t get a swing in vs NDSU with two 10 run rule wins.
Great to be sitting at 10 wins! Even on nights where the bats aren’t super lively, we’ll draw some walks and score in ways that don’t require the long ball, great to see.
Can’t believe Texas walked 6 batters yesterday and those dumbasses think they are going to Omaha.
“Gould, a 5-foot-8, 174-pound receiver from Leavenworth, Kansas, earned an estimated athleticism score of 93, second highest among this year’s receivers at the combine.
Gould leaped 39.5 inches in the vertical jump and 10 feet, 9 inches in the broad jump.”
There’s got to be a team out there that can get more out of Gould than Lindgren could. Clearly his speed and athleticism are elite enough and yet we couldn’t find ways to get him the ball consistently. Too bad.
Watch Bolden light it up for Texas. The lack of QB development under the Spartan crew was appalling
I am kind of rooting for them both to do well if only to prove it wasn’t the talent, but the coaching and playcalling that was always the issue.
Gould will be in an offense where he can run slants and actually be able to catch the ball in stride with space, rather than running another 8 sec route to the opposite sideline.
Bolden will either be a revelation of unknown talent to most of the nation or he will get buried just like Jam and not see the field. Sark probably knows how to use his receivers better than we saw with the last staff.
He needs to have that kind of athleticism to even be considered to be drafted.
Looking at the number of WRs drafted in the last few years, he’s somewhere in the late rounds. He’ll need to be drafted on a passing heavy team to have a career.
I don’t expect him to go early by any means and he very likely could even be UDFA. However, I do think a team will pick him up based on speed and athleticism. My thoughts are that he was clearly not utilized by the prior staff and that an NFL team should be able to find a way to make use of that. Whether it’s punt/kick returns or slot in 3 or 4 wide sets. What’s interesting is that I could actually see him or Bolden doing well under Gundy’s offense where you’ll see more 3 wide sets and those 2 spending more time in the slot.
Go Beavs!
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Beaver restoration in Scotland is also dramatic.
Is that the same as not shaving??
Well, Trosky does get the start at SS but Hainline starts at DH. Macias in center and Talt in right.
2 quick outs by Segura then a short throw by Caraway that should’ve been scooped by Guerra at first. Oof. Definitely the 2 biggest defensive liabilities out there. Then next batter Caraway has a second error…unable to field cleanly. However, grounder to 2nd ends the inning. Fundamentals lacking so far this season.
Trosky with a bases loaded triple. Right field kind of got a bad read and had to dive for the ball…missed and went to the wall. 4-0 Beavs going to the second inning.
Hainline delivers a 2 RBI double. Trosky with 4 rbi so far and a nice double play where he stepped on bag and tossed to 1st. I hope Hainline can get on track and be what he was last season but man, Trotsky has just looked better and deserves playing time.
Rumor of the day. https://flywareagle.com/posts/rumor-memphis-tulane-wazzu-oregon-state-uconn-usf-join-acc-fsu-clemson-unc-louisville-leave
I’m not sure we’d want that travel…tough call over the prestige. I guess to be relevant you’d have to begrudgingly do it.
If the rumored ‘leaving teams’ go, wd the ACC be any better than any of the west coast conferences? I hope the Beavs knock the crap out of Cal fb, and send them on to New Jersey or wherever. I wonder if Condoleezza Rice and gwbush will be watching Stanford in the ACC games in the east. They will have 12 years to do it. For people who are so smart, that’s pretty dumb.
@helmsley. Yeah, I think they’ll watch Stanford games in the east. It’s really not that hard. Let’s say, for example, the Cardinal are
playing a 1:00 game in the east. Condolezza and W will simply turn their tv’s on at 10:00. Now, let’s go nuts and say they want to attend a game in person. Fly out on Friday and enjoy a great dinner that evening wherever the Cardinal are playing. Next morning maybe workout, have a nice breakfast, then tailgate with some alum before kickoff. That night, with any luck, celebrate a victory over another nice dinner, then fly home Sunday with three hours in hand. The great thing about it is this. You don’t really have to be all that smart to pull it off.
From what OSU has been saying, they don’t want their athletes to travel to the east coast. I would rather bring in the MW and add a few others from the Midwest. BIG, SEC, and Big 12 all have teams on par with MWC. OK State’s Stillwater is smaller than Corvallis and though they are fairly near the OK City, that town has a team. I say take the MWC and whatever falls out of the ACC. PAC whatever is more prestigious than the ACC.
Def wouldn’t be ideal. They’d be smart to try and add a couple more west coast teams, like an SDSU, so you could play most the games in the coast nearest to you to limit that travel. If the B1G had added Beavs and WSU, that’s 6 west coast teams that could play most their games vs each other. Still not ideal but less x-country trips during the year would go a long way.
Beavs sweep the series with a 13-7 win.
Atticus Sappington has deleted every last Oregon State picture from his Instagram and is now hilariously already peddling “Once a Duck, Always a Duck” merchandise before he’s even made it through his first spring camp as if he’s been forged by UO.
It’s things like this that make one have to step back and reflect on the fact that these players and coaches may have been on the team, but it’s truly just business to all of them and most of them truly don’t have the care and passion about OSU and Corvallis that we do as fans. Most of our players and coaches don’t have OSU family history. Most didn’t grow up in Oregon surrounded by OSU vs UO spirit. We’re a stepping stone to them. Even for former players like Smith.
Now I know Sappington is Oregon born and raised so with how quickly he jumped ship, popped up at UO, and erased all traces of OSU from his online profile, one has to think he probably grew up a Duck and wanted to play there his entire life but ended up settling for OSU, then jumped over there at the first opportunity. Absolutely brutal. Most players don’t delete their old team photos when they transfer. Maybe there was drama?
Come to think of it, do you all think Mike Parker has done enough to redeem himself for being a Duck alumni? It had to have felt so weird for him early on to call our games.
You should consider drinking a bottle of Drano, it would do you good
He’s probably still bitter about all the running plays that were called for him
Nobody here cares or is concerned about the Ducks as much as you are. Every time you open your mouth , you sound more and more like an idiot Duck troll. Let it go!!!!
Also this is my last read/response of your drivel….will skip over your rants going forward since they add nothing to a realistic argument.
Lane CC’s biggest duck homer get grounded to his room again?
What are you talking about? People talk about the Ducks all the time. Also, what part of this post would imply I’m a duck fan?
I am so sorry this happened to you, and I hope it doesn’t emotionally scar you for life.
Tl;dr more whining
Damn, OSU WBB down to #13 in final AP poll. Strong finish w/Beers back though.
Time for new threat with Bray kicking off Spring Football starting tomorrow and WBB post season?
I’d be open to a new thread based purely on the fact that getting near 1k comments starts to be a bit much to navigate through. Lol
Done
Spring Football roster is out:
https://osubeavers.com/sports/football/roster
Listing Isaiah Newell at 230 lbs. I can believe it after how much he beefed up last season but curious to see if he’s really bulked up that much.
Gabarri Johnson at 5’11 seems like a stretch.
Hayes the only kicker listed. Terry still listed as a TE. Might have had a change of heart after the transfers
Green still has eligibility. Didn’t recall that.
Martinez at 237 lbs sounds exaggerated too…
Exodus Ayers is listed as 6’0″. He was 6’3″ on the recruiting sites, so I expected him to be at least 6’2″. Was his height really exaggerated by 3 inches? There’s also a RS FR DL named Tiger Black. I hope he’s good enough to get playing time.
New thread up now