Flag inside Reser is up. The multi colored valley football center is ready to be revealed. (Why is the back white, but the sides are tan?)
Other than the funky color palate, I think it will look fine as long as fans show up.
Not sure why they couldn’t bother painting the sides also unless they have something else planned for it. Be like a half day’s job. Apparently the section of concrete near the east side is also a different color because they poured it on a different day. Maybe they’ll paint it tartan!
Per looking out side My window after making Breakfast, clouds are moving in. Game time 2:00 PM (civ) 14:00 (24) the rain chance will be 30%. By half time chances for rain increase to 40%. Just in time for the fire works. Check out the game link they gave us. http://pacmail.em.marketinghq.net/functions/message_view.html?mid=1178999&mlid=10774&siteid=2008000051&uid=e782a1097e&hq_e=el&hq_m=1178999&hq_l=1&hq_v=e782a1097e
I have to ask will the Beavers’ Offence have a 40% of raining down touchdowns today or can the Beavers’ Defense wash the Bangles offence off the field? To me it will be a rain soaked game with tempters ranging in the low 60s.
I’d advice going taking wet wheatear gear.
At any rate “Happy First” home game of the season. You been warned
Now they need to retire cross-eyed/demented raggedy Benny and bring back vintage benny. At least wash that suit. Looks like it’s been under a kid’s bed since ’82.
NDSU’s line was getting handled in the first half. They made some adjustments at half and just kept trying to run the ball. That last drive that should have tied it was just them shoving the ball down Iowa’s throat. It was impressive.
Anyone having trouble with comcast to get the entire pac 12 channel lineup online? I can only find the main pac 12 channel. Did comcast drop the local channels as part of the online streams?
I am not thrilled with the terrace at all. I think this was a huge mistake. I wish they had saved the money and kept it for finishing the west side instead.
My big beef right now is the waste of space. If you are standing (not sitting in the chairbacks), there’s only so much room to be able to see the field – basically you need to be standing right behind the top row of seats.
Mumbles: Garretson is the leading rusher and there’s no backup if he gets dinged. Gulp…. Is it possible that Nall is better at dishing out punishment than he is at taking it?
I’m thinking OSU is in need of an OC….. And more talent.
We barely got the first against idaho st. Not good even though it doesnt matter. Plus 3 turnovers we do not look good. Embarrassing! Garretson good again! I would like to c more hurry up personally.
Terrible play calling, terrible blocking, terrible defense. How did they get worse from the last game? Its like they play to the level of their competition.
Yeah i think that’s why wsu has lost to lower level teams is because they don’t utilize the size advantage in the run game. To me our team overall still looks about 10 lbs too light at most positions.
Hate to say it, but the offense is predictable and lacks an identity and a commitment to the run game.
And either OSU’s WRs are getting separation, or Garretson isn’t seeing them? Even when he rolls out and buys time, there’s really doesn’t seem to be much there. Makes me think perhaps all the WRs are overrated?
Offensive line looks atrocious (we knew that). They should feel embarrassed, and I expect them to have a fun half-time meeting.
Came out energetically flat and overconfident, but Garretson carrying the team emotionally and showing the rest how to just play football (even with his mistakes), hope he stays healthy and that trickles down as the season goes on. But we still look like a glorified JV squad overall.
I wonder if they stockpiled the roster with like 20 talent deficient lineman before bolting for Lincoln on purpose, sure is holding back our rebuild :(.
I will agree that he’s not throwing the ball well. He has a tendency to open his hips and not step into his throwing motion (kinda like Tommy Armstrong) so everything is coming out of his release flat and hot. Needs to calm down and settle in, but easier said than done when he doesn’t trust his o-line to protect him from that fierce Pocatello pass rush.
I feel like he’s showed up and played hard both on the road against a Big Ten school and at home against a FCS “cupcake”. That’s very Sammie Stroughter of him and this team desperately needs that to get through these kinda painful rebuilding years.
I’ve said before that Garretson was a decent QB (not even a starter) on a decent non Power 5 team, a lot of people want to make him out as some kind of savior, understandable given the atrocious QB play last season, but it’s not reality. It’s questionable that he’s even P-12 caliber at all, but he’s by far the best the Beavs have.
The offense is one dimensional like with seth if garretson doesn’t hit his deep ball. He’s done a good job of evading pressure but is missing out on the explosive plays
Wasn’t that impressive a play by Bolden- Villamin had a pretty nice block on two defenders and then Bolden just used his speed to dominate inferior athletes. He put a nice move on the defender about 10 yds out, but more bad defense than anything.
Bolden does things like that on kickoffs. He’s good in open space when he doesn’t have to make a catch with this hands and can use his body to catch (punts/kickoffs). The problem is he doesn’t catch with his hands.
I’ve never been impressed with him. He’s riding Chip’s coattails and pretending/forcing the aggressive attitude, to the point of stupidity. Chip would never go for all those 2s…probably just once.
Agree doubt he’d get the ball back if he punted. The teles said to punt. Riley knows Oregon well and knew he couldn’t punt. It wasn’t rocket science just a coach who knows the opponent well and knew he’d never see the ball. It’s sad we have to pat Riley on the back for obvious calls.
Garretson looks off, Nall looks slow and hitting the wrong holes. only major bright spot on offense is Bolden and possibly Lucas. Bolden was open on two other touchdown opportunities, garretson just off
Regarding Nall, It looks like there is something wrong with him or else the Ducks defense made him look like the second coming of Franco Harris last season. It might be a little of both, I thought he looked slow on many plays during the Minnesota game and my thought then was either he’s injured or he gained weight. He didn’t look a better today.
Haven’t been impressed with our offensive line this game. Run blocking is horrible. I love Nall but he is for special Nall designed plays. To slow out of the backfield to be an every down runner. Defense looks good outside getting burned on runs a couple times.
Yes, he was nursing an injury. I believe it was Gina who reported that he was actually listed as “probable” on the injury report prior to the game. To my mind he is a big question mark going forward.
Garretson looked good except for the 3 long passes that were over thrown. All 3 should have been td’s. Bolden actually had a good game. Villamin second game now drops a pass right into his arms. Definitely a better team this year but we have been compared a lot to Colorado but Colorado gave Mich. the fight of their lives today until Co’s qb got knocked out. Not sure I see any more for sure wins this year for my beloved beavs.
>Not sure I see any more for sure wins this year for my beloved beavs.
Maybe not, but it’s not like the Pac-12 is looking like world beaters from top to bottom.
Boise State – looked okay, but really untested. Tough after a bye week.
Colorado – looks good, but if the QB is hurt, they’re screwed.
Cal – looks average at best.
Utah – looks very good to me.
Washington – looks very good.
Wazzu – hasn’t impressed me at all.
Stanford – is very good.
UCLA – looks good but vulnerable to losing games they should win.
Arizona – looks fairly poor to me.
Oregon – looks adequate, but frankly, a pale imitation of what they were.
Children of the Corn’s schedule sets up nicely for it all to come crashing down in late October early November with roadies at Wisconsin, tOSU and Iowa.
If ANYONE thinks Nebby makes the CFP this year you are higher than Tommy Chong and Willie Nelson combined.
Certainly not impressed with that performance. They’ll be lucky to win one more game if they don’t improve significantly. Sooo many penalties. I can’t really say I saw improvement since game 1. I think if they played Minn. today they would have been blown out.
Wins against Fresno, Wyoming, and a has-been quack squad, all at home, and suddenly Riley’s a world-beater championship coach. I think someone spiked your butter
If you don’t consider a contract for life some decent support, I don’t know what the hell is. He turned a 9 or 10 win Husker team into a 6 win team last year, there is still plenty of season left. I’d hold your horses until he beats Urban Meyer and then you can crown him champion.
Thoughts for today.
Hogeyes can no longer give the Golden Rodents crap about losing to NDSU.
Riley lucks out with the injury to Freeman. Anti Luck O da Beavs?
Duck QB looked like crap. I have a better throwing motion.
Nebraska will have a false sense of accomplishment.
Beavs looked pretty lousy from what I saw.
Pretty confident in my preseason preditiction of a loss to BSU from what I saw today.
Correction. He shit on us. Twice. The first time for San Diego, the 2nd time when he quit fucking recruiting and started coasting. We still send Shawn Eichorst our deepest thank you
This troll is boring. At least come up with something compelling if you’re gonna troll… like how Riley is at least better than Helfrich.
Did anyone else notice how Nikegon didn’t get away with WR holding in this game? It was such disrespect that their final drive was shut down by a penalty which actually wasn’t a WR hold.
Nebby’s discipline is so bad that the refs had to call as many penalties on them as they did. Nikegon’s D was that bad too. But there were about five really poor calls on their O, one which should have been a completely different penalty on them.
Nfl? Ha, sure, that worked so well in San Diego. Alabam, yeah, they’d rather have him than Saban. USC, shit they hired Kiffin, and Sarkisian, that’s not a glowing record there. Nebraska, fired a coach that HAD a winning record for average guy Mike, hysterical.
Everyone knows that Mike had gotten lazy, and so beholden to his slacker buddies (Banker esp) that he would rather ruin another program (thanks Husker idiots) than actually do the job he was being paid for at OSU.
Mike’s a clown. You should be happy to have him, you’re a clown too.
When did I say he was lucky all the time brainiac? I said he was lucky today. Helfrich being just as big of an idiot and going for 2 on three separate occasions I guess didn’t help at all.
And I don’t coach because much like Simple Jack and his merry band of misfit idiots, I’m lazy.
ya’ll never did deserve him…28 years of loserville trumps any other loser football story…he took ya’ll out of it…you fucks could not back him up..sad sad story…
He didn’t do shit, he didn’t start the winning at OSU. Yah he beat oregon in 1998…..Big deal so did every loser coach that came before him. He couldnt win the important games. Then took the school to new lows and he’ll do it with nebraska, just give him time.
and nutbutter proves he isn’t a beaver fan. Color us all shocked. Maybe after Helfrich gets fired in a couple years Uncle Fill can convince Smilin Simple Jack to come to the glitz and glamour.
this is the attitude i’m talking about..he didn’t do shit? really man? who could drag your ass out of 28 years of losing?…only a great coach like Mike Riley…why don’t you get that..28 years man..what a mountain he overcame at corvallis
So what winning season did he have before Erickson showed up? What bowl games did he make? That’s right he didn’t. Oh please tell me Erickson used Rileys players as a rebuttal pretty please. And I can’t figure out if your a Riley nut hugger, a fucking duck loser or a delusional huskers fan……….maybe all three.
It doesn’t even matter. The Riley hating losers here will eventually turn on GA as well. Most of the guys on here never successfully coached and I wouldn’t be surprised many of you even played the game outside of madden football.
You’ve never done 99.9% of things in life, yet you have opinions about all of them, including this blog. Go start a blog, then have an opinion about a blog.
#dumbLogic
Awwww, did your feels get hurt cuz we said naughty things about Riley? The fact is Riley wouldn’t have had the time he got at any top program in the country. Did he help with the climb out of the hole….sure. the problem is he couldn’t finish games, beat teams that should have been easy or even get a 10 win season. He had the rose bowl in his grasp twice and couldn’t do it.
The other problem is fans like you (if you even are one, which I doubt) who are just happy with just mediocre teams winning a few games and playing in the Vegas or Emerald or idaho potato bowl every three years. You are an enabler, enabling a mediocre coach to get off the hook.
It’s laughable that you clowns show up and spout off about how good Riley is……like the guy just won the National Championship. He beat a mediocre at best, Oregon team. Congratulations, maybe you can take his nuts out of your mouth long enough to tell all the nebraska fans about the faux “giant killer” teams Riley coached, hell you might be able to get those fans to start a hashtag…….#giantkillercornhole.
Teams play to win, Riley didn’t know how to win. Just like the current team…..they don’t know how to win…….yet.
this is the attitude i’m talking about..he didn’t do shit? really man? who could drag your ass out of 28 years of losing?…only a great coach like Mike Riley…why don’t you get that..28 years man..what a mountain he overcame at corvallis
*fail*
When Riley first came to OSU, it was 26 years. When he ditched OSU a couple weeks before signing day it was 28 years.
I love watching that plump bastard turn on his assistant coaches and bitch them out when things are going bad for the Irish. ND is another delusional program living in the past just like Nebraska.
it is difficult to discuss football with a fan base that has suffered the trauma of 28 years…nothing about winning is really clear when you suffer thru that…i really don’t know how it was accepted in the first place…it is quite the study if you want to dig down and discover the effect of it all…all i know is a good man dug you fuckers out of that hole…why he would be attacked is another study all together.
And came across as being really concerned about his players “family” but it took an expose in the Oregonian about how little OSU and Riley cared about the graduation rate of his players to show what a lying piece of shit he really was.
Yeah I don’t get it either; even if Mike Riley won a national championship, people on here still would never give him credit. Its a pointless battle. I think they’re just jealous a man from Corvallis went on to be successful in life and the naggers on here just want to hate on him bc they’re unhappy with themselves.
But it will never happen. So the exact same thing could be said of you or me.
Nobody’s talking about his life. The topic being trolled is that of his being the best coach in college football. You write nothing in support of that.
Mike Riley had an overall positive impact on the Oregon State football program, and I’m kinda surprised that so many people on this website are denying that. I’ll chuckle at any time he mismanages the clock and Banker’s inability to defend the read option or a Hail Mary pass, but at the end of the day, Riley isn’t a terrible coach. His last few years at Oregon State just made it clear that we needed to go a different direction with the program to revitalize the program. I’m glad Mike Riley is no longer coaching at OSU, but I have no ill will towards him or any success he finds at Nebraska.
I don’t hate him either and much like you laugh at the same mistakes he repeatedly makes. At this point in his career, he is what he is. Is he a decent coach? Yes. Great coach? Not even close.
Much like you I am glad he left and both parties went different directions. But what you are seeing on the field at OSU is a byproduct of his and his hired friends laziness in recruiting towards the end. He may have helped build up the OSU football program, but he also failed to maintain it and let the boat take on so much water that it needs a complete rebuild. THAT is on him. He’s also went 6-7 last year and 3-0 so far this year with Bo Pelini’s recruits, not his. Let’s just see where both of these programs are after 5 years have passed since the coaching changes happened.
Riley was driving the program into the ground and was pouting like a baby when BDC finally called him out on it. Riley is incredibly lucky that Bo Pelini was the coach at NU, they were looking for someone who had at least had the perception of competency in coaching AND the perception of being a class act on and off the field. Pelini’s antics really had NU on pins and needles, Riley was the antidote, but he won’t be for too long. NU has a history of firing coaches, even after multiple winning seasons.
Wait until Husker fans see him and Banker standing at the end of the sideline giggling at each other… away from the team… as the team gets blown out… yet again.
Mike Riley has done more to address the issue of campus rape that any other coach that i have heard from….but we degress don’t we angry..you know from football results..lets talk about RAPE RAPE RAPE..THEY RAPING EVERYBODY AROUND HERE..this is a social issuse way beyoud football.
Do you realize how full of shit you are? Or are you just setting naked at your computer, playing with yourself as you try to come with things to yank our chains, while you’re yanking on your wee-wee?
Let’s examine how “great” of a college football coach smilin Mike really is………….
in 15+ seasons
102-87 overall record
61-68 Conference record (Pac-10/12, B1G)
Conference championships: Zero
Conference championship game appearances: Zero
BCS bowl game appearances: Zero
New Years Day bowl game appearances: Zero
Best conference finish: Tied for 2nd (twice in 15 years)
Losses to FCS teams: 2
And his best bowl game was in 2012 losing the Alamo Bowl to a weak sauce Texas team.
Yep, that’s a great coach alright. Children of the corn got themselves a real winner. GA has proven nothing yet. I’ll concede that. But the fact remains Riley is NOT a great coach.
But but but he beat the ducks this year! So what if it was with Pelini’s recruits and it was at home and the ducks are trending down and were only ranked 22? And he didn’t piss himself against an FCS team! HE ACTUALLY BEAT THE DUCKS FINALLY OMG ALL HAIL RILEY THE CHAMPIONNNNNN
You’re 0 for 3. Both years they finished tied for 2nd. A civil war win would have meant a co conference championship. 2008 with USC, 2009 with Oregon. Both times OSU would have won the tie breaker and Rose Bowl berth. 2008 was tie for 2nd with Oregon, 2009 was a 3-way tie with Arizona and Stanford. There was no conference championship game in the Pac-10 so where you get the idea they finished 3rd in the standings after losing the civil war is between you and the voices in your head.
Yeah… in the land where everyone gets a trophy and nobody keeps score, we don’t delineate?
Is that it?
We should have given all your info to the bowl system that had to abide by those tie-breaks in order to place teams in order for invites. I enjoyed watching us in the Holiday bowl those two years.
And I don’t know about you, but I would have rather beaten a different Indiana team in a different BCS Bowl on 1-1-01.
I’ll give you 2000, but only because it was a three-way tie for first. If it was only us and UW, we’re a clear 2nd place. As it was, a crap non-con schedule cost us a RB invite.
You’re right on 2000. I wasn’t 100% correct. It was a 3-way tie for first. Oregon had also lost a non conference game to someone. I don’t remember who. As for the others? I don’t/didn’t make the rules when it comes to bowl game picks. They’re weren’t slotted then and they aren’t slotted now. For right now in the Pac-12 bowl selection committee’s may choose among tied teams or go one spot below in the standings to make their pick after the Rose Bowl participant. Be that as it may, Oregon St STILL finished tied for 2nd in 2008 and 2009 (yes you are and were wrong) and yes due to those rules in place OSU got the shaft in 2009 and fell all the way to the Vegas Bowl. 2008 they got it right as the Holiday was the 2nd to choose (they choose Oregon over OSU), which dropped the Beavs to Hell Paso. 2009 was the clusterfuck that saw a team play for a chance at the rose bowl drop and all the way to Vegas.
They were slotted then. The only out a bowl had was to be able to pass on a team if they had them play recently. That’s how we play a fourth and fifth place bowl in that string of four third place finishes. If it was a hard lock, we would have played four Sun Bowls in a row.
That’s the way it is. We were playing for first and ended up third both years. Manufactured ties for this or that position are just whimpers of lost hope held together by baling wire and chewing gum… staring sadly at a scoreboard as the supposed tie is thrust into reality.
That’s an average of 5.5 in a 10 team league, 7.5 in a 12 team league… and 8 in the B1G
Fact 1: A Riley team finished tied for 2nd twice. 2008 and 2009. And is recognized as such. Again I didn’t make those rules just stated them and linked them.
Fact 2: No matter what you or anyone else thinks, you’re wrong. Data is provided proving as such
Fact 3: As per the norm you won’t admit it but ramble the fuck on and on and on and on and on. But but but……………….
You’re referring to the Riley mentality, the beav mentality is wanting to win. The Riley mentality is putting up with mediocrity season after season, and then acting like it’s a “neat deal”.
Wow, probably somewhere between 20 and 25 and that’s just great for a program that still seems to think their last National Championship was two weeks ago.
The O-line looks worse in person.
Yanni completely whiffed 3 delayed blitzes straight up the middle.
Seth could not create separation at all.
D line got more sacks but less pressure overall. They didn’t look great. Lack of depth is evident.
Garretson looked jittery in the pocket, it’s evident he doesn’t trust his line, no matter what he says.
It another stud CB doesn’t follow in Nelson and Decoud footsteps, the secondary is in trouble next year.
I couldn’t get excited watching this game. Even the 92 yard TD just did nothing for me. It’s amazing how bad we’ve gotten. Bowl eligibility seems at least two years away in terms of team talent, and by then Garretson will be gone so we have to hope they can recruit an actual QB.
Garretson is as accurate as the Cal QB, yet when a ball is thrown behind cal receiver they catch them. Why is there such a gap in performance? It’s infuriating. And I’m not talking about the long ball throws.
North Dakota State has now won six consecutive games against FBS teams dating back to 2010. They’ve collected $2.175 million from the teams they beat, including $500,000 from Iowa today.
Looks like recruiting should focus on Juco Oline players for the next 2 years. This team needs big guys who already have experience and coaching that can come in and play immediately. Hopefully Kearsley shakes the cobwebs out and can start contributing something other than stupid penalties soon.
Meanwhile, Eastern Washington which lost in overtime to NDSU in their last game was: Down at the half, 24-7, their all-American receiver out, QB struggling. Baldwin replaces the starting QB (Baldwin says he has 3 qbs capable of starting) with #2 who brings the team within striking distance and in the final seconds (fake field goal) throws to a 4th string receiver for the game winner – all in the midst of a howling wind.
I cringe to imagine what EW or NDSU would do to the Beavs.
Cheney is hardly a destination point, (unless you plan to hunt pheasant) crappy stadium (fans are beginning to coalesce to change that).
Aw…it’s a great morning…BEAVS won, ducks lost…Anderson has da BEAVS trending in right direction…GA is a great coach…if ya’ll don’t like him send him Tennessee’s way.
Is he talking about it as in “our identity is X, we need to be X”? Or is he being vague about wanting his personnel to become best buddies and discover their place in adulthood?
Little known fact of Coke Zero’s roots at OSU. Coke Zero was tested by Oregon State University’s own food sensory lab before it was sold to the public. Students and community members were sought for the taste testing and were given gift cards as compensation. I was one of the testers while as a student and have fond memories of the countless tests I took, as well as the 6 pack of label-less cans we were given to consume during a weekend.
I was tired of it still by the time it was released to the public but now it’s the best calorie-free cola on the market in my opinion.
Riley is a solid coach but he has to get rid of Banker, I know players on the team that say he’s a dunce, Michael Rose said the guy doesn’t know left from right and acts proud of his lack of knowledge and is a straight up dick on top of it. That he runs middle school level defensive schemes. When a few teams torch us this year he will be under pressure to fire Banker and if he doesn’t he will be shown the door. If they win a few unexpected games then next year when the simple defensive schemes lose games we shouldn’t lose. Unfortunately Banker holds Riley back and it’s too bad cuz he could do so much more with a decent defensive coach.
Riley was given the option to lose Hand Jive here but decided he’d rather look for greener pastures. I’ll be curious to see if he has the nuts to dump that troll when they ask for the same thing in Lincoln.
BTW, I’ve met Banker, he was a customer, he does come across as both dumb, and a dick all at the same time.
That bromance is why Riley never made it as an NFL coach. Health issues forced Joe Pascale out of the game, and a loaded San Diego defense went from one of the best in the league to one that looked like the assistant DB coach was running the show.
That bromance is why Riley never made it as an NFL coach. Health issues forced Joe Pascale out of the game, and a loaded San Diego defense went from one of the best in the league to one that looked like the assistant DB coach was running the show.
Seems like Ethan Thompson is a lock for OSU tomorrow. Would expect Christian Negron to commit to OSU too, given his connections to the Thompsons. That smile on coach Tinkle’s face in their photo is pretty telling too.
Huge.
Tinkle is going to have a dynasty soon. Question is if he stays. I think at last until Tres has graduated, but he genuinely seems to like OSU to maybe he’s a lifer. It’ll be interesting to watch.
Must say the new court looks very good. Two Thompson brothers would be the basketball equivalent of the Rodgers brothers for Oregon State. Very exciting times for basketball at OSU again and tomorrow with his signing would mean serious steam for both Men’s & Women’s hoops.
huge, but nobody seems to be talking about it. This could be a program changing signing and beaver fans just seem “ho hum” about it.
Ethan Thompson would be the highest rated hoops(or football) commit for OSU since……Corey Benjamin maybe? I seem to remember him being pretty highly regarded when Payne landed him, but don’t know if he was considered top 50 in the nation at the time? Any historians here who would know?
Roberto Nelson. Didn’t he do a Sports Illustrated interview stating he had hundreds of offers? He was also graded higher on the services.
It’s interesting that ESPN (92 grade, 76 ranking) rated Nelson higher (Thomspon at 86 grade, yet 51st ranking). Maybe the recruiting class isn’t as strong this year as when Nelson was recruited.
Stephen Thompson was 61st nationally with an 86 grade, about the same as Ethan Thompson.
Forgot Nelson was so highly regarded coming out of high school. So given those rankings, E Thompson is still more highly ranked than Nelson and S.Thompson.
I guess we’re getting into the ugly territory of comparing rankings from recruiting sites at this point, which is rarely an accurate way to compare guys.
Jack, do you remember how Benjamin was perceived nationally out of high school? I want to say he was in a top 50 level although recruiting sites/rankings were a very different thing back then. He was talented enough to get drafted in the first round after 2 seasons.
I’m fairly confident he will be a beav. I have no inside knowledge however but just based on his comments
“The top three are Oregon State, Syracuse and Stanford,” Thompson said. “Stanford is obviously a great academic school and has a great coaching staff. And obviously it’s in California. Syracuse has a legendary coaching staff. Far away from home in the cold weather, but they are also a great basketball program. They always make it far in the NCAA tournament.”
Fresh off an official visit to Oregon State, Thompson had a special experience in Corvallis.
“I had a wonderful time. It was everything I expected and more – great coaching staff,” he said. “And now I met a bunch of people – from the president at the university to the compliance. Seeing my family made it more special. Just thinking about that. It could be an everyday possibility.”
You can tell alot by who a guy follows on twitter too. I know its not for everybody, but he started an account in the last 24 hours, and i see several OSU related accounts being followed, but zero from Stanford or Syracuse.
That is good news. Until I read your post I was thinking Stanford would have the upper hand due to things like who you’re rubbing shoulders with, the academics, the weather, the babes, the location near the beaches, SF, etc. Now that I’ve gone through the list I’m doubtful again.
Did anybody at the game notice we had those signs on the sideline, with 4 pictures, for signal calling? Similar to what Oregon used starting with Chip Kelly? I saw one on tv briefly, with a crying Jordan in one of the pictures.
Just watched Legend of the Giant Killers on Pac-12 Network and I am pumped for Boise St. I know Oregon State can win this thing. Just need GA and the coaches and all players on the same page in genuine all-out desire for victory and we can get this win which will be a proper sign Beavers are serious about competing each week come confetence play and ready to cause some disruption.
I’m not ready to pencil this one in as a loss either. Wazzu played Boise tough a couple weekends ago and they aren’t anything special either. Granted, the Beavs will have to play better than they did against Idaho St. Also the students are arriving this week so it should be a bigger crowd and better game atmosphere. With the early kickoff I might even see if I can score some tix for mysefl and mini me degenerates.
Brett Rypien, Boise State’s QB, is the first real passing threat our defense has faced this year. He’s pro style but mobile enough that we need to respect the run threat. Smart player too. Afraid he’s going to have all day to throw, and will just pick us apart.
Or maybe we’ll pull a surprise complete game out of our ass and get the upset?
Nah…
Vegas is being kind to us as 14 pt dogs at home.
I think the BSU game, in terms of competition and timing, is a very interesting measuring stick for OSU at this point.
Like Minnesota, the Beavs are understandably ‘dogs, but it should be winnable. How do the Beavs respond in the game – like when BSU “hits them in the mouth” – and how do they respond in terms of known weaknesses (blocking, pass rushing, WR play)?
The Beavs are going to have to come out seriously fired up for this one. Boise State plays really physical, turn up the intensity to a level above theirs. That’s the only way we’ll have a chance. It’ll also help if our star players make the plays they’re capable of (I’m talking to you, Villamin and Nall).
Brother now thinks MR is the answer at Neb. Beating a downward trending Duck team without their super star RB is not a program changer. Is this Riley’s “pull one game out of his ass” for the year?
I expect them to lose their next game, no matter who they play. That is Simple Jack’s DNA.
Buddy scored some free tickets through his work for the first game last evening in the new Viking stadium. Pretty cool place, except for the hideous Barney purple seats. Luck O da Beavs. Finally get to see Aaron Rodgers play in person, and he plays like shit.
He doesn’t often get them this early…usually the hope of any significant bowl was already gone when he was at OSU. Maybe the only exception(?) would be the Wisconsin game.
If everything goes right, maybe Riley becomes RiLLLey this year. A 10 win season would give them reason to excuse what should have been a 10 win season last year, save some bad luck.
It would also excuse next year’s 6-8 wins because it will be a new QB. And Riley’s system is hard. Never mind that it’s harder when you’re taught to move the pocket by standing in a fetal position.
The capital gained from this year’s success wanes in year 4, because Riley’s system is really hard to grasp… and he makes millions, so you can’t question him. Never mind that NCAA football coaches were paid about as much as a mid-manager in the professional world 30 years ago. The Cavalier dominionist attitude has always been a stupid one. Argumentum ad crumenam unsurprisingly and often leads to argumentum ad verecundiam.
Anyway, they will be facing a losing season, and the grumbling will grow louder. Then they roll off a win streak to end the season and give some hope for the next, that eternal hope. He’ll be kept despite fan turmoil. And he’ll roll off another 10, maybe 11 win season… with that QB who finally gets it.
And that three year cycle begins anew, getting closer to the lower lows than it ever gets to the highest highs.
If they can live with that, more power to them. It’s not my problem anymore. I have a head coach who wants to be here… and has a mess to clean up.
From everything i’ve read, he’s tall and really fast. Nobody comments on catching ability, but the 2 star ranking is based on his sophomore year. Sat out almost all of his jr year with an injury. Give him a few more games to put some senior year film together and i think he will look better than a 2* guy.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not shitting on him. Give him this year of hs and his first camp. If his hands aren’t there a guy that tall with that speed spells corner if he can be physical.
“He’s got big hands, great grades and like many players with a Nigerian background, he’s dedicated to everything he does.
“Strict parents,” he said of the secret to success.
So don’t be surprised if he suddenly starts climbing the recruiting charts when others catch on to the skills he possesses. He’s not worried one bit whether he has two stars, one star or no stars.
“I’m just happy to be out here doing my thing,” he said. “It’s what you can do on the football field.”
College recruiters who work hard to find top recruits will eventually find him and then shake their head wondering how he’s supposedly the 288th-best receiver in the nation.”
What did the likes of James Rodgers, Cooks, and Wheaton run in the 100m? He doesn’t quite have their speed, correct? The size/speed combo is impressive if accurate.
I guess I was less interested in that characterization than the fact that he has strict parents and, if one reads the article, receiving ability that is underappreciated at this point.
One of these days OSU has to have a tall, athletic, physically imposing WR that succeeds doesn’t it? Obviously Villamin still has a chance.
>What did the likes of James Rodgers, Cooks, and Wheaton run in the 100m? He doesn’t quite have their speed, correct? The size/speed combo is impressive if accurate.
Assuming that 10.77 is legit, it’s really fast. Wheaton ran a 10.72 his junior year of college. Cooks best in high school was a 10.76 as a junior. I couldn’t find Rodgers’ 100m times.
I’m not a track fan, but it seems like he’s pretty fast to me.
Tyler Asemota: 100m 10.77, 10.80, 10.81. Article claims 10.73.
Brandin Cooks: 60m 6.81, 6.87. 100m 10.72.
Markus Wheaton: 60m 7.05, 7.01. 100m 10.58, 10.72.
Victor Boldin: 60m: 7.05, 7.25.
James Rodgers: 60m 7.03, 7.05, and 7.00.
Note these are college times for Cooks, Rodgers, and Wheaton compared to 11th grade times to Asemota. Apparently he doesn’t run the 60m so it’s harder to do a direct comparison. Cooks was fast in the 60m, damn!
In high school Paul Lucas ran 10.68, 10.70, and 10.58 (PR) in the 100m.
Xavier Hawkins ran 11.38 PR in the 100m
Trevon Bradford: 10.85 PR in the 100m.
Edit: good to note that 100m times don’t necessarily translate to football speed. Even 40 yard dash times are broken down into 10 yard splits at the NFL Combine, and the difference in a players acceleration broken into 10 yard splits makes a huge difference in a players “football” speed because you’re rarely going to be sprinting for 40 yards in a straight line, let alone 100m, in football lol.
Ken Goe is a turd in a punch bowl. If the beavs played an almost perfect game and blew out ISU, he would still complain about something. I like his stab at the terrace, “almost empty” it looked like it was pretty full from what I saw. Yes there were some empty seats but those people could have been drunks drinking up top. I know I would have been. Don’t give that hack clicks.
I’d look at it game to game, doesn’t matter who they are playing.
1. Do the players respond to his coaching? Will they follow him anywhere?
2. Did he have the right game plan?
3. Did the players execute the game plan?
4. Is he making the right adjustments at halftime?
5. Is he putting in the best players to execute the game plan?
He can only do so much before it’s on the players. He can put them in the right positions but it’s up to the players to execute.
Still, our primary goal needs to be to compete to win the Pac 12 North. The first thing I care about if I am GA is winning the Pac 12 North or making progress on that issue.
Secondly, don’t look stupid in games we should be competing in.
I’m wondering if the team is playing to there competition? I asked this up above and I’m patiently waiting for the boise game to confirm my suspicion. If so I’m hoping GA can get that shit knocked out asap.
It did feel like they weren’t mentally “up” for this game like they were for Minnesota.i hope this was an aberration and they aren’t gonna play up or down for the level of competition. Need to be always up
And the first shall be first. Eat my dust!
Go Beavs
Ha!
You ate your dust!
#blessed to be the first to post on the game thread. #humbled.
So blessed. Thank the man upstairs
And it’s raining in PDX now….
Anything less than a blowout will be a disappointment
Flag inside Reser is up. The multi colored valley football center is ready to be revealed. (Why is the back white, but the sides are tan?)
Other than the funky color palate, I think it will look fine as long as fans show up.
http://webcam.oregonstate.edu/reser/
Looks like the terrace fans get tshirts or towels?
Umbrellas?
In their pinot noir?
One grape or two?
Not sure why they couldn’t bother painting the sides also unless they have something else planned for it. Be like a half day’s job. Apparently the section of concrete near the east side is also a different color because they poured it on a different day. Maybe they’ll paint it tartan!
Or maybe do one of the new fancy epoxy garage floor coatings. I’ve seen some of those turn out absolutely beautiful in orange…
I wouldn’t expect a large turnout, I literally could not give away my tickets.
In other news, GBR!!!
*****Warning**** Weather report
Per looking out side My window after making Breakfast, clouds are moving in. Game time 2:00 PM (civ) 14:00 (24) the rain chance will be 30%. By half time chances for rain increase to 40%. Just in time for the fire works. Check out the game link they gave us.
http://pacmail.em.marketinghq.net/functions/message_view.html?mid=1178999&mlid=10774&siteid=2008000051&uid=e782a1097e&hq_e=el&hq_m=1178999&hq_l=1&hq_v=e782a1097e
I have to ask will the Beavers’ Offence have a 40% of raining down touchdowns today or can the Beavers’ Defense wash the Bangles offence off the field? To me it will be a rain soaked game with tempters ranging in the low 60s.
I’d advice going taking wet wheatear gear.
At any rate “Happy First” home game of the season. You been warned
Let this be but one of several victories this season…
Go Beavs!
AH….. October weather, just in time. Great day for indoor tv football marathon. JB
It’s official, the inflated football helmet is NOT on the field for pre-game this year. It’s in Truax with the other kiddie inflatables.
https://twitter.com/BennytheBeaver/status/777199342796967936
So glad they retired that thing.
Looks right at home in that venue though
Now they need to retire cross-eyed/demented raggedy Benny and bring back vintage benny. At least wash that suit. Looks like it’s been under a kid’s bed since ’82.
They should give it to Oregon State’s biggest sock puppet fan. My guess is he’s a furry too
Louisville beating the shit out of Florida State. Their QB looks like a legitimate Heisman candidate.
Louisville laying the smack down on Florida St. 42-10 early in the third.
Petrino is a total dirt ball, but he is a fantastic coach.
Speaking of scheduling cream puff mid-majors…….. Should the Beavs get Louisville on the schedule?
Major-Major
They should give it to Oregon State’s biggest sock puppet fan. My guess is he’s a furry too
Hate to break the news but some programs consider the Beavs cream puffs.
Like 90% of programs do.
That’s an exaggeration.
You don’t hate that.
Wonder if Leach will finally snap if Wazzou loses to Idaho.
Do not repeat…do not even think of scheduling North Dakota State. JB
It’s not embarrassing to lose to North Dakota State. It’s just that you then have to pay them half a million for the experience.
“The North Dakota State offensive line wore down Iowa’s defense.” Indeed!
NDSU’s line was getting handled in the first half. They made some adjustments at half and just kept trying to run the ball. That last drive that should have tied it was just them shoving the ball down Iowa’s throat. It was impressive.
Maybe someday we’ll get one of these diamond in the rough 3-star QBs (Lamar Jackson, Marcus Mariota, etc.). Jackson is impressive.
Oregon looks to have some QB issues.
Is the Beav game on Pac-12 network?
Beavs are on Pac12 network today
Yes.. 2:00
At least you know what time the game starts, coach, but shouldn’t you be in the locker room giving them a pep talk instead of hanging out on AB??
I offered but Andersen won’t return my phone calls.
I see Banker still has absolutely no clue how to deal with mobile quarterbacks.
That is predictable and yet still kind of surprising…
He said his “Jimmies (Huskers) were better than his Joneses (Beavers)” and he could do more defensively….
Bet the hand jive his in fine form as he and Riley think “Here we go again.”
Banker should feel right at home. 8-0 zeros
Any links for Beavs?
streamendous has the game listed
Colorado might actually make some noise in the conference this year.
Door is wide open for a new Pac-12 door mat. Who will sink to the occasion?
I think we’ve got the inside track on that one!
Anyone having trouble with comcast to get the entire pac 12 channel lineup online? I can only find the main pac 12 channel. Did comcast drop the local channels as part of the online streams?
Nevermind, I was able to find it. Message as always, comcast sucks. They changed their UI and it was convoluted how to find Pac 12 Oregon.
Riley throwing the ball on 2nd and 2 when the Ducks are starting to cancel Banker’s gaps… is typical.
Crazy Lucas can’t break away from Idaho State defenders.
Definitely hasn’t look as fast as advertised so far in his career.
Yeah I thought he was gone, someone threw a nice block but the next guy ran him down easily.
It’s like he was looking back waiting to get caught. He just doesn’t look that fast. Wonder where that 40 time came from and how accurate it was.
Can we have Ole Miss play Alabama every week? Seems to be the only kryptonite Nick Saban has these days.
O line looks like shit.
It’s looking like it’s going to be a long year.
Offense has looked bad so far. Not good when you look slow vs. Idaho State.
I am not thrilled with the terrace at all. I think this was a huge mistake. I wish they had saved the money and kept it for finishing the west side instead.
What’s wrong with it? I mean the roof looks like shit, but what’s wrong with the actual area?
My big beef right now is the waste of space. If you are standing (not sitting in the chairbacks), there’s only so much room to be able to see the field – basically you need to be standing right behind the top row of seats.
They should just slap a jumbotron on the roof and be done with it.
Could have put a terrace mid-deck or something on the new west side.
Game is pretty boring. We have yet to see Andersen’s “power running game.”
Aunt Patty putting a licking on Idaho.
Ticker just say Royce Freeman out with a leg injury?
Yes. First series of the game. Ice on shin, no knee or ankle involvement .
A better D back would have picked that ball that Bolden came down with. Nice catch though.
Mumbles: Garretson is the leading rusher and there’s no backup if he gets dinged. Gulp…. Is it possible that Nall is better at dishing out punishment than he is at taking it?
I’m thinking OSU is in need of an OC….. And more talent.
Nice 10 yard run
Without the turnovers, their offense looks better then ours
The screen game looks like shit today. And where is Villiman
Sad to see Idaho St getting pressure on Garretson nearly every play. Pac 12 defenses will be licking their chops
Not to mention Boise State…they may win the trenches easily.
“…against the Oregon State Ducks…”
LOL
Beavs offense (especially the run game, outside of Garrettson) looks like crap.
Oregon getting man-handled.
Oregon is not going to be good. The Qb is weak.
He looks awful. They just scored, though.
Dumb that they went for 2 so many times earlier.
We barely got the first against idaho st. Not good even though it doesnt matter. Plus 3 turnovers we do not look good. Embarrassing! Garretson good again! I would like to c more hurry up personally.
Terrible play calling, terrible blocking, terrible defense. How did they get worse from the last game? Its like they play to the level of their competition.
Playing to the level of the opponent was a very Riley thing.
The realistic problem is their lines both aren’t very good, so they can’t even dominate bad teams.
Yeah i think that’s why wsu has lost to lower level teams is because they don’t utilize the size advantage in the run game. To me our team overall still looks about 10 lbs too light at most positions.
Oh no, the chainsaw…
Bright with the triumphant return of the Flailbacker position.
Hate to say it, but the offense is predictable and lacks an identity and a commitment to the run game.
And either OSU’s WRs are getting separation, or Garretson isn’t seeing them? Even when he rolls out and buys time, there’s really doesn’t seem to be much there. Makes me think perhaps all the WRs are overrated?
Just had a Villaman citing. Did OSU have too many days off between games??
That fucking oline sucks sooooo bad it’s embarrassing.
Offensive line looks atrocious (we knew that). They should feel embarrassed, and I expect them to have a fun half-time meeting.
Came out energetically flat and overconfident, but Garretson carrying the team emotionally and showing the rest how to just play football (even with his mistakes), hope he stays healthy and that trickles down as the season goes on. But we still look like a glorified JV squad overall.
I wonder if they stockpiled the roster with like 20 talent deficient lineman before bolting for Lincoln on purpose, sure is holding back our rebuild :(.
Garretson is playing like he gott drilled last game. He is off on all his deep balls and its holding the whole o bacck.
Yes he’s off, but look at the bulk of the pass plays he’s running for his life…….from a bad fcs front 4. Oline needs to get its shit together.
And receivers aren’t getting open on some of those scrambles, they’re just standing around.
I will agree that he’s not throwing the ball well. He has a tendency to open his hips and not step into his throwing motion (kinda like Tommy Armstrong) so everything is coming out of his release flat and hot. Needs to calm down and settle in, but easier said than done when he doesn’t trust his o-line to protect him from that fierce Pocatello pass rush.
I feel like he’s showed up and played hard both on the road against a Big Ten school and at home against a FCS “cupcake”. That’s very Sammie Stroughter of him and this team desperately needs that to get through these kinda painful rebuilding years.
I’ve said before that Garretson was a decent QB (not even a starter) on a decent non Power 5 team, a lot of people want to make him out as some kind of savior, understandable given the atrocious QB play last season, but it’s not reality. It’s questionable that he’s even P-12 caliber at all, but he’s by far the best the Beavs have.
Seth collins best hands?
This Oregon coach is pretty dumb going for 2 over and over with a bad QB.
This is one of the most boring games I’ve ever watched.
Hard to find much good despite them being up 23.
You had to say that : )
WTF
OMG, one of the most pathetic efforts by a D in a long time…
If this were any P5 team they were playing they’d be down 30.
Appalling.
Im going to be sick
Really, really bad.
They were totally coasting on the possession…embarrassing.
Maybe they hit up some of the beer vendors on the terrace at the half?
All you can do is laugh. UnfuckingBelieveable.
Kudos to the RB, at least he showed pride and effort.
Maybe this game will finally teach Oregon to kick extra points.
Fitting that touche turtle reffing this game, this team is a bad cartoon today.
The offense is one dimensional like with seth if garretson doesn’t hit his deep ball. He’s done a good job of evading pressure but is missing out on the explosive plays
Scary teams make the most improvement between week 1 and 2, too. Yikes.
I thought this team could win 4 games….
Plus the bye week in between for added growth…
Unlike Nebraska, our OSU football contemporary reality is not far from OSU history and tradition….
Yea bolden
Having to rely on a Banker defense to hold a 4th quarter lead. I feel like I’ve seen this story before.
Nice catch Bolden
Nice run Bolden
Bolden…ying and yang
Cladsic bolden fuck up then kill it. Wish it was more of the latter.
Riley beats Oregon.
How bout them extra points.
Serves them right. It ain’t the Chip and Mariota days anymore, duckies
Wasn’t that impressive a play by Bolden- Villamin had a pretty nice block on two defenders and then Bolden just used his speed to dominate inferior athletes. He put a nice move on the defender about 10 yds out, but more bad defense than anything.
Bolden does things like that on kickoffs. He’s good in open space when he doesn’t have to make a catch with this hands and can use his body to catch (punts/kickoffs). The problem is he doesn’t catch with his hands.
He’s a good backup, bad starter.
Still say that’s a stupid penalty
Did he pull a Chad Johnson crossing the end zone? It kind of looked like it.
Just tuned in. Team looks?
Like shit.
Worst 30 point lead ever
Yeah this game feels closer than it is.
riley coached hella game today..
More like Helfrich coached like hell today.
that’s true also Angry
helfrich is a suck ass coach…
I’ve never been impressed with him. He’s riding Chip’s coattails and pretending/forcing the aggressive attitude, to the point of stupidity. Chip would never go for all those 2s…probably just once.
Where is cook, I don’t think I’ve seen him today.
I saw him completely whiff a block that would have sprung Nall earlier.
Riley made a great call on that forth down…won it..beat the ducks real good with that call..cornhuskers will probably win the big 10 west…
Agree doubt he’d get the ball back if he punted. The teles said to punt. Riley knows Oregon well and knew he couldn’t punt. It wasn’t rocket science just a coach who knows the opponent well and knew he’d never see the ball. It’s sad we have to pat Riley on the back for obvious calls.
Well, I hope GA keeps the starters in for the 4th because they still need a lot game experience.
I’d like to see McMaryion get some reps.
He looked good running for his life.
Riley might be the best coach in football..all things considered
It’s setting it up perfectly. Set up a delusional expectation by the fan base, only to get bludgeoned by Wiscy and Ohio State.
not wiscy..chryst is a cuck…osu maybe
If the Badgers don’t win by 20, I’ll buy you a beer in the luxurious new endzone.
great deal..i’ll buy you a beer just for that nice offer
They also won’t beat Iowa. And they’ll lose one mind-numbingly stupid game… like @Indiana.
A “cuck”?
Take your white nationalist bullshit somewhere else sfb.
They also won’t beat Iowa. And they’ll lose one mind-numbingly stupid game… like @Indiana.
I must have liked that comment.
Are you high? Or drunk?
little bit of both…does’nt change the truth..Riley is the best coach in college football
We heard and laughed at you the first time, Dee.
How good is Boise State this year?
Seems like they’re going to kill us if they’re just average by their standards.
People are sleeping on Boise St. They’re a pretty good team this year that could run the table
Garretson looks off, Nall looks slow and hitting the wrong holes. only major bright spot on offense is Bolden and possibly Lucas. Bolden was open on two other touchdown opportunities, garretson just off
Yeah Nall looks indecisive at the hole but that could be that the holes aren’t there.
Regarding Nall, It looks like there is something wrong with him or else the Ducks defense made him look like the second coming of Franco Harris last season. It might be a little of both, I thought he looked slow on many plays during the Minnesota game and my thought then was either he’s injured or he gained weight. He didn’t look a better today.
Kearsley at center, o line got blown off the ball on that short yardage 4th down run.
Beavs had the jump, but there was one extra guy on D combined with one missed block.
Kearsly had a nice tackle. Too bad you can’t do that on offense.
Haven’t been impressed with our offensive line this game. Run blocking is horrible. I love Nall but he is for special Nall designed plays. To slow out of the backfield to be an every down runner. Defense looks good outside getting burned on runs a couple times.
It looked like Nall was tippy toeing it a lot, but wasn’t he nursing an ankle injury this week?
Yes, he was nursing an injury. I believe it was Gina who reported that he was actually listed as “probable” on the injury report prior to the game. To my mind he is a big question mark going forward.
Agree w.r.t. him being too slow out of the backfield. Imo he’d be much more benefit to the team if he was playing LB.
Apparently Oregon has North Dakota State scheduled in 2020. Wonder if Oregon will get that game cancelled before then.
I think Pierce has looked great on this drive. Not sure what is up with Nall.
Agree, he looks good.
Agreed. He is more explosive. I think Nall is still gimpy from Minnesota game.
The injury is gnawing at him.
Either the game of football is too long, or this game is just that boring. I’m having a hard time watching any more
This is what college football looks like.
Jack: How much credit do we get for shoulda games? Like the ‘ucks shouda won that game. :-)
The 4th quarter sucked.
So did the 1st 2nd and 3rd. It’s a nice matched set of poor playing.
Garretson looked good except for the 3 long passes that were over thrown. All 3 should have been td’s. Bolden actually had a good game. Villamin second game now drops a pass right into his arms. Definitely a better team this year but we have been compared a lot to Colorado but Colorado gave Mich. the fight of their lives today until Co’s qb got knocked out. Not sure I see any more for sure wins this year for my beloved beavs.
Villamin used to be really good. I’m not sure what’s going on with him. Maybe the offense is just a bad fit for him and he’s not focused.
In the first half, I kept asking if he was even on the field.
>Not sure I see any more for sure wins this year for my beloved beavs.
Maybe not, but it’s not like the Pac-12 is looking like world beaters from top to bottom.
Boise State – looked okay, but really untested. Tough after a bye week.
Colorado – looks good, but if the QB is hurt, they’re screwed.
Cal – looks average at best.
Utah – looks very good to me.
Washington – looks very good.
Wazzu – hasn’t impressed me at all.
Stanford – is very good.
UCLA – looks good but vulnerable to losing games they should win.
Arizona – looks fairly poor to me.
Oregon – looks adequate, but frankly, a pale imitation of what they were.
We could snake out a couple more wins.
Honestly a pathetic game. Left a lots of points out there. Gave up way too many yards on defense. Bailed out by a terrible qb on the other side.
Is Togiai hurt?
at some point in the 2nd quarter i heard the pac-12 guys say he wasn’t available for the rest of the game. didn’t say why, but sounded like an injury
He went down in the first series I believe.
Yes he did. With a knee injury?? Hope I’m wrong or it wasn’t that bad of an injury. My vote for Art Pierce to get more carries in the next game.
will riley/nebraska make the playoffs this year?..i think so
Shut up.
you just jelly of the corn
I don’t think you can make jelly out of corn… too much starch. I’ve seen it suspended in gelatin. And, of course, it’s highly visible in poo.
You know why Nebby hired Mike Riley?
They were in awe of his schucks.
well played
Lol very nice
Your fucking high. They won’t win their division, let alone making the playoff.
I agree with BeavButter: Riley inherits Tommy Armstrong and makes him a better player. Andersen inherits Del Rio and gives him to Florida.
“Andersen inherits Del Rio and gives him to Florida to blow out his knee”
FTFY
If anyone thinks Del Rio would fare better behind the current O line these first two games you probably watched the same two games Stevie Wonder did
Children of the Corn’s schedule sets up nicely for it all to come crashing down in late October early November with roadies at Wisconsin, tOSU and Iowa.
If ANYONE thinks Nebby makes the CFP this year you are higher than Tommy Chong and Willie Nelson combined.
Certainly not impressed with that performance. They’ll be lucky to win one more game if they don’t improve significantly. Sooo many penalties. I can’t really say I saw improvement since game 1. I think if they played Minn. today they would have been blown out.
If there isn’t significant improvement after this game, it’s going to be a looooong season.
Very vanilla offense, nothing memorable about it. The defense looked a little better to my eye than last year’s. I like Decoud.
all mike riley needed was some support..now that he has it, he wins championships
Nice one. Very witty.
LOLOL
Wins against Fresno, Wyoming, and a has-been quack squad, all at home, and suddenly Riley’s a world-beater championship coach. I think someone spiked your butter
If you don’t consider a contract for life some decent support, I don’t know what the hell is. He turned a 9 or 10 win Husker team into a 6 win team last year, there is still plenty of season left. I’d hold your horses until he beats Urban Meyer and then you can crown him champion.
Watched the game from the terrace. Was actually a pretty cool experience.
Elitist wine sipper!
Let’s get the rundown.
Food, beer, view, elitist assholes or actual fans, ingress/egress…
Thoughts for today.
Hogeyes can no longer give the Golden Rodents crap about losing to NDSU.
Riley lucks out with the injury to Freeman. Anti Luck O da Beavs?
Duck QB looked like crap. I have a better throwing motion.
Nebraska will have a false sense of accomplishment.
Beavs looked pretty lousy from what I saw.
Pretty confident in my preseason preditiction of a loss to BSU from what I saw today.
riley pulled the beavs out of the gutter..no other coach could have done it..and ya’ll shit on him
Richard Mullaney left Andersen for Alabama to win a national championship
Hey sockpuppet, did you forget what online identity you were making up?
Shut up dairy queen; Jamba Juice > Orange Julius
Ah, then that’s a yes. That’s cool, just wanted to be clear.
lol yes obviously mike riley wouldn’t waste his time here with us loser arm chair coaches
Mullaney is a smart guy. Villamin might want to look elsewhere himself before it’s too late.
Correction. He shit on us. Twice. The first time for San Diego, the 2nd time when he quit fucking recruiting and started coasting. We still send Shawn Eichorst our deepest thank you
I only regret I have but one up vote to give to this post
This troll is boring. At least come up with something compelling if you’re gonna troll… like how Riley is at least better than Helfrich.
Did anyone else notice how Nikegon didn’t get away with WR holding in this game? It was such disrespect that their final drive was shut down by a penalty which actually wasn’t a WR hold.
Nebby’s discipline is so bad that the refs had to call as many penalties on them as they did. Nikegon’s D was that bad too. But there were about five really poor calls on their O, one which should have been a completely different penalty on them.
It was a pretty lousy game, overall.
Poor discipline is the hallmark of RiLLLLey’s teams.
why did riley get offers from nfl/alabama/ucla/usc/nebrasaka?…people that know football know he is great coach
Why aren’t you blabbering on the Husker blog? Riley doesn’t coach Oregon State anymore. He’s gone and he’s not coming back. Deal with it.
USC hired Kiffen and Cutty Sark. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
And yeah that NFL career was long and illustrious.
Shut up.
Nfl? Ha, sure, that worked so well in San Diego. Alabam, yeah, they’d rather have him than Saban. USC, shit they hired Kiffin, and Sarkisian, that’s not a glowing record there. Nebraska, fired a coach that HAD a winning record for average guy Mike, hysterical.
Everyone knows that Mike had gotten lazy, and so beholden to his slacker buddies (Banker esp) that he would rather ruin another program (thanks Husker idiots) than actually do the job he was being paid for at OSU.
Mike’s a clown. You should be happy to have him, you’re a clown too.
How’d that work out in San Diego?
He didn’t get any from the middle three, unless you think he’s a liar.
Mike won today against a top 25. What did you do? Clown Circus maybe?
“Mike lucked into a win due to the opposing coach’s ineptitude and arrogance continuing to go for 2 today against a top 25”
FTFY
*With Bo Pelini’s players
Well if Mike is so lucky all the time, why aren’t you coaching?
When did I say he was lucky all the time brainiac? I said he was lucky today. Helfrich being just as big of an idiot and going for 2 on three separate occasions I guess didn’t help at all.
And I don’t coach because much like Simple Jack and his merry band of misfit idiots, I’m lazy.
The injury to Freeman was the difference in the game.
Helfrich went for 2PAT on all five TDs, so he’s worse than you thought.
ya’ll never did deserve him…28 years of loserville trumps any other loser football story…he took ya’ll out of it…you fucks could not back him up..sad sad story…
He didn’t do shit, he didn’t start the winning at OSU. Yah he beat oregon in 1998…..Big deal so did every loser coach that came before him. He couldnt win the important games. Then took the school to new lows and he’ll do it with nebraska, just give him time.
and nutbutter proves he isn’t a beaver fan. Color us all shocked. Maybe after Helfrich gets fired in a couple years Uncle Fill can convince Smilin Simple Jack to come to the glitz and glamour.
RiLLLLey
Dennis Erickson broke the 28 years, not Riley, and also took the beavs to a BCS bowl…again, not Riley. How quickly we forget.
this is the attitude i’m talking about..he didn’t do shit? really man? who could drag your ass out of 28 years of losing?…only a great coach like Mike Riley…why don’t you get that..28 years man..what a mountain he overcame at corvallis
So what winning season did he have before Erickson showed up? What bowl games did he make? That’s right he didn’t. Oh please tell me Erickson used Rileys players as a rebuttal pretty please. And I can’t figure out if your a Riley nut hugger, a fucking duck loser or a delusional huskers fan……….maybe all three.
this is the narrative that many idiots (like yourself) believe. You really think Simple Jack did that all by himself? In two years?
Newsflash, it started several years before Riley
It doesn’t even matter. The Riley hating losers here will eventually turn on GA as well. Most of the guys on here never successfully coached and I wouldn’t be surprised many of you even played the game outside of madden football.
You’ve never done 99.9% of things in life, yet you have opinions about all of them, including this blog. Go start a blog, then have an opinion about a blog.
#dumbLogic
Ooooh Angry’s mad, huh? Angry are you mad?
Nope.
Start a blog, then you can have an opinion on one.
Yes missa massa
Do you wear black face as you type and mouth those words?
Awwww, did your feels get hurt cuz we said naughty things about Riley? The fact is Riley wouldn’t have had the time he got at any top program in the country. Did he help with the climb out of the hole….sure. the problem is he couldn’t finish games, beat teams that should have been easy or even get a 10 win season. He had the rose bowl in his grasp twice and couldn’t do it.
The other problem is fans like you (if you even are one, which I doubt) who are just happy with just mediocre teams winning a few games and playing in the Vegas or Emerald or idaho potato bowl every three years. You are an enabler, enabling a mediocre coach to get off the hook.
It’s laughable that you clowns show up and spout off about how good Riley is……like the guy just won the National Championship. He beat a mediocre at best, Oregon team. Congratulations, maybe you can take his nuts out of your mouth long enough to tell all the nebraska fans about the faux “giant killer” teams Riley coached, hell you might be able to get those fans to start a hashtag…….#giantkillercornhole.
Teams play to win, Riley didn’t know how to win. Just like the current team…..they don’t know how to win…….yet.
*fail*
When Riley first came to OSU, it was 26 years. When he ditched OSU a couple weeks before signing day it was 28 years.
Try again. You’re easy, but I’m lazy today.
The other a-hole Kelly getting curb stomped by Sparty. Love it when ND loses.
I have ND in the pickem………Go Irish bastards….:(
I love watching that plump bastard turn on his assistant coaches and bitch them out when things are going bad for the Irish. ND is another delusional program living in the past just like Nebraska.
it is difficult to discuss football with a fan base that has suffered the trauma of 28 years…nothing about winning is really clear when you suffer thru that…i really don’t know how it was accepted in the first place…it is quite the study if you want to dig down and discover the effect of it all…all i know is a good man dug you fuckers out of that hole…why he would be attacked is another study all together.
Yes, the good man who bailed on the program twice for his selfish desires and also encouraged rape.
What a guy.
And came across as being really concerned about his players “family” but it took an expose in the Oregonian about how little OSU and Riley cared about the graduation rate of his players to show what a lying piece of shit he really was.
Oh yeah that ass hole was a real winner alright.
Yeah I don’t get it either; even if Mike Riley won a national championship, people on here still would never give him credit. Its a pointless battle. I think they’re just jealous a man from Corvallis went on to be successful in life and the naggers on here just want to hate on him bc they’re unhappy with themselves.
Bullspit.
You would have to give him credit.
But it will never happen. So the exact same thing could be said of you or me.
Nobody’s talking about his life. The topic being trolled is that of his being the best coach in college football. You write nothing in support of that.
Mike Riley had an overall positive impact on the Oregon State football program, and I’m kinda surprised that so many people on this website are denying that. I’ll chuckle at any time he mismanages the clock and Banker’s inability to defend the read option or a Hail Mary pass, but at the end of the day, Riley isn’t a terrible coach. His last few years at Oregon State just made it clear that we needed to go a different direction with the program to revitalize the program. I’m glad Mike Riley is no longer coaching at OSU, but I have no ill will towards him or any success he finds at Nebraska.
Fair assessment.
I don’t hate him either and much like you laugh at the same mistakes he repeatedly makes. At this point in his career, he is what he is. Is he a decent coach? Yes. Great coach? Not even close.
Much like you I am glad he left and both parties went different directions. But what you are seeing on the field at OSU is a byproduct of his and his hired friends laziness in recruiting towards the end. He may have helped build up the OSU football program, but he also failed to maintain it and let the boat take on so much water that it needs a complete rebuild. THAT is on him. He’s also went 6-7 last year and 3-0 so far this year with Bo Pelini’s recruits, not his. Let’s just see where both of these programs are after 5 years have passed since the coaching changes happened.
He helped take us out of the abyss, but he was about to take us right back into it.
Riley was driving the program into the ground and was pouting like a baby when BDC finally called him out on it. Riley is incredibly lucky that Bo Pelini was the coach at NU, they were looking for someone who had at least had the perception of competency in coaching AND the perception of being a class act on and off the field. Pelini’s antics really had NU on pins and needles, Riley was the antidote, but he won’t be for too long. NU has a history of firing coaches, even after multiple winning seasons.
Perfect assessment.
Wait until Husker fans see him and Banker standing at the end of the sideline giggling at each other… away from the team… as the team gets blown out… yet again.
That should go over well.
encouraged rape??? how do you sleep at night to slander a good man like that…you are really a punk ass person…it will come back to you
A 1 game suspension for gang rape, and then blaming the victim, is the same as encouraging rape.
Brenda Tracy would tell you the same. You should try googling her story and your pal Mike’s turning a blind eye to her plight.
First!
Ah damn just a smidge too late. Go Beavs!
Lol
Mike Riley has done more to address the issue of campus rape that any other coach that i have heard from….but we degress don’t we angry..you know from football results..lets talk about RAPE RAPE RAPE..THEY RAPING EVERYBODY AROUND HERE..this is a social issuse way beyoud football.
Nice deflection
Joe Paterno disagrees.
Do you realize how full of shit you are? Or are you just setting naked at your computer, playing with yourself as you try to come with things to yank our chains, while you’re yanking on your wee-wee?
-1 for mental imagery, think I just puked in my mouth a little : x
it all comes down to money and sex…no way right…fuck me..and toss the coin
I’d bet you’d like it if someone offered to fuck you. Hahahahahah Move on fairy, move on.
how about you go fuck yourself instead
Rape isn’t sex.
Strike two.
Let’s examine how “great” of a college football coach smilin Mike really is………….
in 15+ seasons
102-87 overall record
61-68 Conference record (Pac-10/12, B1G)
Conference championships: Zero
Conference championship game appearances: Zero
BCS bowl game appearances: Zero
New Years Day bowl game appearances: Zero
Best conference finish: Tied for 2nd (twice in 15 years)
Losses to FCS teams: 2
And his best bowl game was in 2012 losing the Alamo Bowl to a weak sauce Texas team.
Yep, that’s a great coach alright. Children of the corn got themselves a real winner. GA has proven nothing yet. I’ll concede that. But the fact remains Riley is NOT a great coach.
Need I go on????
But but but he beat the ducks this year! So what if it was with Pelini’s recruits and it was at home and the ducks are trending down and were only ranked 22? And he didn’t piss himself against an FCS team! HE ACTUALLY BEAT THE DUCKS FINALLY OMG ALL HAIL RILEY THE CHAMPIONNNNNN
To be fair, the 2008 and 2009 CWs were de facto conference championship games. Winning meant first place. Losing meant third.
He never had a second place finish. DE had one.
Piqued my interest, so I went and looked it up.
Riley’s finishes as HC:
OSU1: Last (10th/0-fer), 8th
OSU2: 7th, 4th, 7th, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 7th, 9th, 3rd, 7th, 11th
Neb: 8th
That’s an average of 5.5 in a 10 team league, 7.5 in a 12 team league… and 8 in the B1G.
You’re 0 for 3. Both years they finished tied for 2nd. A civil war win would have meant a co conference championship. 2008 with USC, 2009 with Oregon. Both times OSU would have won the tie breaker and Rose Bowl berth. 2008 was tie for 2nd with Oregon, 2009 was a 3-way tie with Arizona and Stanford. There was no conference championship game in the Pac-10 so where you get the idea they finished 3rd in the standings after losing the civil war is between you and the voices in your head.
http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/standings?season=2008&group=18
http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/standings?season=2009&group=18
As for DE, the 2000 season was also a co-conference champion between OSU and Washington
Yeah… in the land where everyone gets a trophy and nobody keeps score, we don’t delineate?
Is that it?
We should have given all your info to the bowl system that had to abide by those tie-breaks in order to place teams in order for invites. I enjoyed watching us in the Holiday bowl those two years.
And I don’t know about you, but I would have rather beaten a different Indiana team in a different BCS Bowl on 1-1-01.
I’ll give you 2000, but only because it was a three-way tie for first. If it was only us and UW, we’re a clear 2nd place. As it was, a crap non-con schedule cost us a RB invite.
You’re right on 2000. I wasn’t 100% correct. It was a 3-way tie for first. Oregon had also lost a non conference game to someone. I don’t remember who. As for the others? I don’t/didn’t make the rules when it comes to bowl game picks. They’re weren’t slotted then and they aren’t slotted now. For right now in the Pac-12 bowl selection committee’s may choose among tied teams or go one spot below in the standings to make their pick after the Rose Bowl participant. Be that as it may, Oregon St STILL finished tied for 2nd in 2008 and 2009 (yes you are and were wrong) and yes due to those rules in place OSU got the shaft in 2009 and fell all the way to the Vegas Bowl. 2008 they got it right as the Holiday was the 2nd to choose (they choose Oregon over OSU), which dropped the Beavs to Hell Paso. 2009 was the clusterfuck that saw a team play for a chance at the rose bowl drop and all the way to Vegas.
Incorrect.
They were slotted then. The only out a bowl had was to be able to pass on a team if they had them play recently. That’s how we play a fourth and fifth place bowl in that string of four third place finishes. If it was a hard lock, we would have played four Sun Bowls in a row.
That’s the way it is. We were playing for first and ended up third both years. Manufactured ties for this or that position are just whimpers of lost hope held together by baling wire and chewing gum… staring sadly at a scoreboard as the supposed tie is thrust into reality.
The fact still remains. Riley had two teams that finished tied for 2nd place in 2008 and 2009 and are recognized as such
And the fact remains neither of those two second place teams played in the second place bowl.
There’s a reason for that.
Piqued my interest, so I went and looked it up.
Riley’s finishes as HC:
OSU1: Last (10th/0-fer), 8th
OSU2: 7th, 4th, 7th, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 7th, 9th, 3rd, 7th, 11th
Neb: 8th
That’s an average of 5.5 in a 10 team league, 7.5 in a 12 team league… and 8 in the B1G
Fact 1: A Riley team finished tied for 2nd twice. 2008 and 2009. And is recognized as such. Again I didn’t make those rules just stated them and linked them.
Fact 2: No matter what you or anyone else thinks, you’re wrong. Data is provided proving as such
Fact 3: As per the norm you won’t admit it but ramble the fuck on and on and on and on and on. But but but……………….
The beav mentality is hard wired in. It is unbreakable.
You’re referring to the Riley mentality, the beav mentality is wanting to win. The Riley mentality is putting up with mediocrity season after season, and then acting like it’s a “neat deal”.
you seem to have nasty attitude…i like you…keep charging..
Then why troll with it?
how high will nebraska be ranked this week?
Not as high as you are if you seriously think Riley is some sort of championship college coach now, and not as high as Pelini had them.
#1……because, Riley.
Wow, probably somewhere between 20 and 25 and that’s just great for a program that still seems to think their last National Championship was two weeks ago.
Just got back from the game. Things I noticed:
The O-line looks worse in person.
Yanni completely whiffed 3 delayed blitzes straight up the middle.
Seth could not create separation at all.
D line got more sacks but less pressure overall. They didn’t look great. Lack of depth is evident.
Garretson looked jittery in the pocket, it’s evident he doesn’t trust his line, no matter what he says.
It another stud CB doesn’t follow in Nelson and Decoud footsteps, the secondary is in trouble next year.
Decoud is a redshirt. He has 1 more year
Del Rio goes down with knee injury.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17574103/florida-gators-qb-luke-del-rio-injures-knee-low-hit
I couldn’t get excited watching this game. Even the 92 yard TD just did nothing for me. It’s amazing how bad we’ve gotten. Bowl eligibility seems at least two years away in terms of team talent, and by then Garretson will be gone so we have to hope they can recruit an actual QB.
Beavs win.
dux lost.
A good day.
We won’t have to hear about a “natty” until Alabama has a loss.
You’re not going to hear about it at all. They’ll be lucky to finish third in the North.
Texas and Cal are both proving tonight that neither have a good defense.
Garretson is as accurate as the Cal QB, yet when a ball is thrown behind cal receiver they catch them. Why is there such a gap in performance? It’s infuriating. And I’m not talking about the long ball throws.
We suck.
Receiver coach is Riley product.
I wondered that myself.
He was good when he had great players.
Chad Johnson strikes again at the Cal game.
Man’s my hero
North Dakota State has now won six consecutive games against FBS teams dating back to 2010. They’ve collected $2.175 million from the teams they beat, including $500,000 from Iowa today.
http://www.sbnation.com/2016/9/17/12953526/north-dakota-state-bison-football-iowa-fcs-fbs-upset
We need help in the OC department.
No, we need more help in the talent and depth departments
Looks like recruiting should focus on Juco Oline players for the next 2 years. This team needs big guys who already have experience and coaching that can come in and play immediately. Hopefully Kearsley shakes the cobwebs out and can start contributing something other than stupid penalties soon.
Meanwhile, Eastern Washington which lost in overtime to NDSU in their last game was: Down at the half, 24-7, their all-American receiver out, QB struggling. Baldwin replaces the starting QB (Baldwin says he has 3 qbs capable of starting) with #2 who brings the team within striking distance and in the final seconds (fake field goal) throws to a 4th string receiver for the game winner – all in the midst of a howling wind.
I cringe to imagine what EW or NDSU would do to the Beavs.
Cheney is hardly a destination point, (unless you plan to hunt pheasant) crappy stadium (fans are beginning to coalesce to change that).
That was a tough game to watch. We are in trouble…anyone see another win on the schedule after that?
Aw…it’s a great morning…BEAVS won, ducks lost…Anderson has da BEAVS trending in right direction…GA is a great coach…if ya’ll don’t like him send him Tennessee’s way.
GA talking about the offense finding their “identity” in the post game presser. Here we go…
He’s in his second year…..that acceptable. It’s not acceptable in your 7th,8th,9th….ect, year. Like he who shall remain nameless.
Golly, maybe he can let me borrow it once he finds one. I keep losing mine every year.
Is he talking about it as in “our identity is X, we need to be X”? Or is he being vague about wanting his personnel to become best buddies and discover their place in adulthood?
If it’s the latter then… NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
I’m not giving up on Anderson by any means but there is a part of me that wishes Baldwin was in Corvallis instead of Cheney.
We have Coke Zero Baldwin. So there is that.
It’s Diet Coke Baldwin. Coke Zero is for pussies
Coke Zero is Diet Coke for men. Why drink that crap?
Besides, Zero is more appropriate given his performance as OC.
I was going for irony
Little known fact of Coke Zero’s roots at OSU. Coke Zero was tested by Oregon State University’s own food sensory lab before it was sold to the public. Students and community members were sought for the taste testing and were given gift cards as compensation. I was one of the testers while as a student and have fond memories of the countless tests I took, as well as the 6 pack of label-less cans we were given to consume during a weekend.
I was tired of it still by the time it was released to the public but now it’s the best calorie-free cola on the market in my opinion.
So what I’m understanding is that Diet Coke is for a beaver. But Coke Zero is for pussies, even though beavers helped develop it?
A win over Boise State and the Beavs can claim the mythical “We own Idaho trophy.” No small feat for a “rebuilding program.”
Unfortunately it does not extend over the Idaho border to either Cheney, WA or Helena MT. JB
I’m pretty sure we beat Carroll College.
Riley is a solid coach but he has to get rid of Banker, I know players on the team that say he’s a dunce, Michael Rose said the guy doesn’t know left from right and acts proud of his lack of knowledge and is a straight up dick on top of it. That he runs middle school level defensive schemes. When a few teams torch us this year he will be under pressure to fire Banker and if he doesn’t he will be shown the door. If they win a few unexpected games then next year when the simple defensive schemes lose games we shouldn’t lose. Unfortunately Banker holds Riley back and it’s too bad cuz he could do so much more with a decent defensive coach.
Yeah, basically the same story as at OSU.
Riley was given the option to lose Hand Jive here but decided he’d rather look for greener pastures. I’ll be curious to see if he has the nuts to dump that troll when they ask for the same thing in Lincoln.
BTW, I’ve met Banker, he was a customer, he does come across as both dumb, and a dick all at the same time.
Such a great combination.
That bromance is why Riley never made it as an NFL coach. Health issues forced Joe Pascale out of the game, and a loaded San Diego defense went from one of the best in the league to one that looked like the assistant DB coach was running the show.
That bromance is why Riley never made it as an NFL coach. Health issues forced Joe Pascale out of the game, and a loaded San Diego defense went from one of the best in the league to one that looked like the assistant DB coach was running the show.
Beavs are 14 pt dogs to Boise St
Sounds generous
Jump on that, it’ll probably go up.
Seems like Ethan Thompson is a lock for OSU tomorrow. Would expect Christian Negron to commit to OSU too, given his connections to the Thompsons. That smile on coach Tinkle’s face in their photo is pretty telling too.
Huge.
Tinkle is going to have a dynasty soon. Question is if he stays. I think at last until Tres has graduated, but he genuinely seems to like OSU to maybe he’s a lifer. It’ll be interesting to watch.
Will there be a thread about this given the significance if he signs?
Must say the new court looks very good. Two Thompson brothers would be the basketball equivalent of the Rodgers brothers for Oregon State. Very exciting times for basketball at OSU again and tomorrow with his signing would mean serious steam for both Men’s & Women’s hoops.
Hepa and Jack Wilson on campus this weekend as well.
huge, but nobody seems to be talking about it. This could be a program changing signing and beaver fans just seem “ho hum” about it.
Ethan Thompson would be the highest rated hoops(or football) commit for OSU since……Corey Benjamin maybe? I seem to remember him being pretty highly regarded when Payne landed him, but don’t know if he was considered top 50 in the nation at the time? Any historians here who would know?
Roberto Nelson. Didn’t he do a Sports Illustrated interview stating he had hundreds of offers? He was also graded higher on the services.
It’s interesting that ESPN (92 grade, 76 ranking) rated Nelson higher (Thomspon at 86 grade, yet 51st ranking). Maybe the recruiting class isn’t as strong this year as when Nelson was recruited.
Stephen Thompson was 61st nationally with an 86 grade, about the same as Ethan Thompson.
Forgot Nelson was so highly regarded coming out of high school. So given those rankings, E Thompson is still more highly ranked than Nelson and S.Thompson.
I guess we’re getting into the ugly territory of comparing rankings from recruiting sites at this point, which is rarely an accurate way to compare guys.
Jack, do you remember how Benjamin was perceived nationally out of high school? I want to say he was in a top 50 level although recruiting sites/rankings were a very different thing back then. He was talented enough to get drafted in the first round after 2 seasons.
I’m excited……….and I’m not really that in to basketball. Are we sure we’re getting him? I know daddy’s here but that doesn’t mean anything.
I’d put our chances at about 99.9%
Never a sure thing till a guy actually signs, but i have little doubt he will announce OSU tomorrow
I’m fairly confident he will be a beav. I have no inside knowledge however but just based on his comments
“The top three are Oregon State, Syracuse and Stanford,” Thompson said. “Stanford is obviously a great academic school and has a great coaching staff. And obviously it’s in California. Syracuse has a legendary coaching staff. Far away from home in the cold weather, but they are also a great basketball program. They always make it far in the NCAA tournament.”
Fresh off an official visit to Oregon State, Thompson had a special experience in Corvallis.
“I had a wonderful time. It was everything I expected and more – great coaching staff,” he said. “And now I met a bunch of people – from the president at the university to the compliance. Seeing my family made it more special. Just thinking about that. It could be an everyday possibility.”
http://www.oregonlive.com/recruiting/index.ssf/2016/09/ethan_thompson_espn_4-star_sg.html#incart_river_index
You can tell alot by who a guy follows on twitter too. I know its not for everybody, but he started an account in the last 24 hours, and i see several OSU related accounts being followed, but zero from Stanford or Syracuse.
https://twitter.com/joshuapakele/status/777575965056569344
That is good news. Until I read your post I was thinking Stanford would have the upper hand due to things like who you’re rubbing shoulders with, the academics, the weather, the babes, the location near the beaches, SF, etc. Now that I’ve gone through the list I’m doubtful again.
Anyway, here’s hoping.
Did anybody at the game notice we had those signs on the sideline, with 4 pictures, for signal calling? Similar to what Oregon used starting with Chip Kelly? I saw one on tv briefly, with a crying Jordan in one of the pictures.
The river or the country?
The Poyer.
Just watched Legend of the Giant Killers on Pac-12 Network and I am pumped for Boise St. I know Oregon State can win this thing. Just need GA and the coaches and all players on the same page in genuine all-out desire for victory and we can get this win which will be a proper sign Beavers are serious about competing each week come confetence play and ready to cause some disruption.
I’m not ready to pencil this one in as a loss either. Wazzu played Boise tough a couple weekends ago and they aren’t anything special either. Granted, the Beavs will have to play better than they did against Idaho St. Also the students are arriving this week so it should be a bigger crowd and better game atmosphere. With the early kickoff I might even see if I can score some tix for mysefl and mini me degenerates.
Brett Rypien, Boise State’s QB, is the first real passing threat our defense has faced this year. He’s pro style but mobile enough that we need to respect the run threat. Smart player too. Afraid he’s going to have all day to throw, and will just pick us apart.
Or maybe we’ll pull a surprise complete game out of our ass and get the upset?
Nah…
Vegas is being kind to us as 14 pt dogs at home.
I think the BSU game, in terms of competition and timing, is a very interesting measuring stick for OSU at this point.
Like Minnesota, the Beavs are understandably ‘dogs, but it should be winnable. How do the Beavs respond in the game – like when BSU “hits them in the mouth” – and how do they respond in terms of known weaknesses (blocking, pass rushing, WR play)?
The Beavs are going to have to come out seriously fired up for this one. Boise State plays really physical, turn up the intensity to a level above theirs. That’s the only way we’ll have a chance. It’ll also help if our star players make the plays they’re capable of (I’m talking to you, Villamin and Nall).
You forgot Bolden, pffft, sorry almost got that out with a straight face…
Brother now thinks MR is the answer at Neb. Beating a downward trending Duck team without their super star RB is not a program changer. Is this Riley’s “pull one game out of his ass” for the year?
I expect them to lose their next game, no matter who they play. That is Simple Jack’s DNA.
Buddy scored some free tickets through his work for the first game last evening in the new Viking stadium. Pretty cool place, except for the hideous Barney purple seats. Luck O da Beavs. Finally get to see Aaron Rodgers play in person, and he plays like shit.
#TPB
It’s now Mikes signature win for the year.
He doesn’t often get them this early…usually the hope of any significant bowl was already gone when he was at OSU. Maybe the only exception(?) would be the Wisconsin game.
Meh…
If everything goes right, maybe Riley becomes RiLLLey this year. A 10 win season would give them reason to excuse what should have been a 10 win season last year, save some bad luck.
It would also excuse next year’s 6-8 wins because it will be a new QB. And Riley’s system is hard. Never mind that it’s harder when you’re taught to move the pocket by standing in a fetal position.
The capital gained from this year’s success wanes in year 4, because Riley’s system is really hard to grasp… and he makes millions, so you can’t question him. Never mind that NCAA football coaches were paid about as much as a mid-manager in the professional world 30 years ago. The Cavalier dominionist attitude has always been a stupid one. Argumentum ad crumenam unsurprisingly and often leads to argumentum ad verecundiam.
Anyway, they will be facing a losing season, and the grumbling will grow louder. Then they roll off a win streak to end the season and give some hope for the next, that eternal hope. He’ll be kept despite fan turmoil. And he’ll roll off another 10, maybe 11 win season… with that QB who finally gets it.
And that three year cycle begins anew, getting closer to the lower lows than it ever gets to the highest highs.
If they can live with that, more power to them. It’s not my problem anymore. I have a head coach who wants to be here… and has a mess to clean up.
GA adds a 2 star WR.
http://www.buildingthedam.com/2016/9/18/12962936/tyler-asemota-commits-to-oregon-state
If you add enough 2 stars together, do you get a 4 star?
Riley would have the first 100 star recruit.
Another very under the radar prospect. He can run fast. That’s it.
The 2 star is very deserved. Hardly any stats from his junior year.
A very high risk commit.
He has defensive back written all over him.
From everything i’ve read, he’s tall and really fast. Nobody comments on catching ability, but the 2 star ranking is based on his sophomore year. Sat out almost all of his jr year with an injury. Give him a few more games to put some senior year film together and i think he will look better than a 2* guy.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not shitting on him. Give him this year of hs and his first camp. If his hands aren’t there a guy that tall with that speed spells corner if he can be physical.
At least it’s not a 2* QB…
From the LA Times:
“He’s got big hands, great grades and like many players with a Nigerian background, he’s dedicated to everything he does.
“Strict parents,” he said of the secret to success.
So don’t be surprised if he suddenly starts climbing the recruiting charts when others catch on to the skills he possesses. He’s not worried one bit whether he has two stars, one star or no stars.
“I’m just happy to be out here doing my thing,” he said. “It’s what you can do on the football field.”
College recruiters who work hard to find top recruits will eventually find him and then shake their head wondering how he’s supposedly the 288th-best receiver in the nation.”
http://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/varsity-times/la-sp-vi-football-tyler-asemota-of-sherman-oaks-notre-dame-won-t-be-invisible-much-longer-20160706-story.html
What did the likes of James Rodgers, Cooks, and Wheaton run in the 100m? He doesn’t quite have their speed, correct? The size/speed combo is impressive if accurate.
Hmmm, Nigerian huh.
Now “Bright” Ugwoegbu lived there till he was 9 years old, imagine what a force he’d be if he spent even more time there.
I guess I was less interested in that characterization than the fact that he has strict parents and, if one reads the article, receiving ability that is underappreciated at this point.
One of these days OSU has to have a tall, athletic, physically imposing WR that succeeds doesn’t it? Obviously Villamin still has a chance.
>What did the likes of James Rodgers, Cooks, and Wheaton run in the 100m? He doesn’t quite have their speed, correct? The size/speed combo is impressive if accurate.
Assuming that 10.77 is legit, it’s really fast. Wheaton ran a 10.72 his junior year of college. Cooks best in high school was a 10.76 as a junior. I couldn’t find Rodgers’ 100m times.
I’m not a track fan, but it seems like he’s pretty fast to me.
Tyler Asemota: 100m 10.77, 10.80, 10.81. Article claims 10.73.
Brandin Cooks: 60m 6.81, 6.87. 100m 10.72.
Markus Wheaton: 60m 7.05, 7.01. 100m 10.58, 10.72.
Victor Boldin: 60m: 7.05, 7.25.
James Rodgers: 60m 7.03, 7.05, and 7.00.
Note these are college times for Cooks, Rodgers, and Wheaton compared to 11th grade times to Asemota. Apparently he doesn’t run the 60m so it’s harder to do a direct comparison. Cooks was fast in the 60m, damn!
Found them on http://www.athletic.net/.
Other notables:
In high school Paul Lucas ran 10.68, 10.70, and 10.58 (PR) in the 100m.
Xavier Hawkins ran 11.38 PR in the 100m
Trevon Bradford: 10.85 PR in the 100m.
Edit: good to note that 100m times don’t necessarily translate to football speed. Even 40 yard dash times are broken down into 10 yard splits at the NFL Combine, and the difference in a players acceleration broken into 10 yard splits makes a huge difference in a players “football” speed because you’re rarely going to be sprinting for 40 yards in a straight line, let alone 100m, in football lol.
Bolden’s 100 time came into play last weekend :)
That’s true, same with Cooks with that 98 yard reception the other week. It does happen from time to time! ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKveXCi5ELM
Recruiting class shaping up to be a dud…
A two star WR who may be under rated at that. Fine.
When the heck are we gonna hear about several OL and DL Juco’s who can play??
Does anyone else get the feeling that Ken Goe has a personal vendetta against Oregon State fans?
Do you mean his passive aggressive comments about the Beavers or how every Beaver story he writes turns into a Duck story?
There is also the stories he writes about Mike Riley too.
he can’t get over how people ever got dissatisfied with Riley.
Ken Goe is a turd in a punch bowl. If the beavs played an almost perfect game and blew out ISU, he would still complain about something. I like his stab at the terrace, “almost empty” it looked like it was pretty full from what I saw. Yes there were some empty seats but those people could have been drunks drinking up top. I know I would have been. Don’t give that hack clicks.
Per Kerry Eggers:
TE Noah Togiai and LB Landry Payne have both been ruled out of Saturday’s game vs Boise State with knee injuries #GoBeavs
Any rumors about the frosh PF who had the knee injury. Is he going to be cleared to play this year?
Likely out for the year. Earliest could be ready is January. Redshirt is likely.
Only if there is a desperate need do they use him this season.
Thanks
How I would grade Clune’s performance if I was GA:
-First, I would give the most weight to how our D does against P12 North teams that we should be competing with such as wsu and cal and ducs (35%)
-Next I would give most weight to how our D does against P12 south teams that we should be competing with such as zona, and utah (25%)
-Next I would weight how our D does against the strongest P12 teams such as Stanf and UW (13%)
-Next I would weight recruiting (13%)
-Next I would weight how we improve in areas needing improvement from last year (13%)
Comments? Alternatives? Colorful insults?
I’d look at it game to game, doesn’t matter who they are playing.
1. Do the players respond to his coaching? Will they follow him anywhere?
2. Did he have the right game plan?
3. Did the players execute the game plan?
4. Is he making the right adjustments at halftime?
5. Is he putting in the best players to execute the game plan?
He can only do so much before it’s on the players. He can put them in the right positions but it’s up to the players to execute.
Still, our primary goal needs to be to compete to win the Pac 12 North. The first thing I care about if I am GA is winning the Pac 12 North or making progress on that issue.
Secondly, don’t look stupid in games we should be competing in.
I’m wondering if the team is playing to there competition? I asked this up above and I’m patiently waiting for the boise game to confirm my suspicion. If so I’m hoping GA can get that shit knocked out asap.
It did feel like they weren’t mentally “up” for this game like they were for Minnesota.i hope this was an aberration and they aren’t gonna play up or down for the level of competition. Need to be always up