Smilin’ Mike and TPB’s from Nebraska vs Tenn Vols at 12:30 PST Friday. oob here, stepping in not knowing if angry’s emergency will keep him from starting the discussion.
Riley’s a 7 pt dog in this one with a few injury excuses in his pocket. I’ll be watching clock management, use of time outs, overall team energy, and of course a hand jive demo. How can they possibly function w/o Bruce Read?
Oh yeah, will we see a two minute drill??
What are y’all looking for in this one?
Gee, what’s a two minute drill? Is that when Mark’s defense gets bent over and drilled by opponents for two minutes as they march down the field for a score? Shucks, I’ve seen plenty of those!
That’s were you run two plays in two minutes with two timeouts, while getting two delay of game penalties.
No, you leave two timeouts on the board, and go in at half having wasted them…the first timeout is used in somewhere early in the first quarter when you don’t get a play in to the offense in time…
… after a TV time-out.
Win win either way. Vols loss equals another bitch slap for the mighty SEC. Vols win equals ammo to tell my brother, “hey I told you so.”
OT: For the second time the Buffalos get slaughtered by Cowboys. No Sharps rifle required this time. A mullet proved to be equally deadly.
Too bad, would rather see the Pac represent better. Hoping UW beats ‘Bama.
SEC “desperately needs a bowl win” as Georgia plays TCU; S-I story link to that games box score….
As much as I would love to see Mike get his ass handed to him. I live in Nashville and UT fans are delusional and I would love to see them lose.
Wait is this a huskers blog?
Hasn’t someone here referred to Riley as “Barney Fife” on occassion? Kind of interesting that the rare 10 win season now hinges on the play of Smilin’ Mike’s QB of the same surname pronunciation!
Both teams and their fanbases are delusional…as a CBS article stated, this bowl features two programs and fanbases getting to pretend there back in the 90’s and relevant again…
OT – more progress on the VFC, I hadn’t looked in while, brick is going up as well as the front facade.
http://webcam.oregonstate.edu/reser/
What is the structure there to the left currently receiving the brick?
I don’t see how they’re going to tie all those roof lines together and make it look cohesive?
On second thought, maybe that’s just paint, not brick…
good question. Seems to have a nice little deck on it overlooking the NW endzone.
The brick addition to the left is the team meeting room. I believe it’s supposed to have a glass facade.
The structure on the left is an auditorium/team meeting room.
https://ourbeavernation.exposure.co/valley-football-center/photos/2217904
thanks for putting up this thread, OOB. Myself, I’m heading to a local sports bar where Nebraska fans are reputed to hang out in large number, proudly wearing my OSU gear so I can be readily identifiable for counseling ask Husker nation puzzles over weird play calls, disinterested sideline demeanor, the husbanding of time outs for use next year, and the like. Also, be sure to tune in for the post game call in show on The Zone, on Omaha’s sports talk station. If it’s a loss that show today should be a classic.
OT: Lots of positive comments from people who have worked with Scott Barnes in the past are found in Eggers piece:
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/12-sports/338180-218209-osus-barnes-gets-praise-from-former-colleagues
Thanks for posting that really is a lot of positive reviews. I like that at Pitt when the MBB coach was allegedly setting up soft schedules Barnes apparently reestablished some rivalry games. Given how Andersen and Casey value and approach rivalry games, this sounds like he Barnes may fit in well. It will be interesting to see how he leverages the collective attitudes and abilities of the coaching staff to improve the AD and facilities. With Casey, Andersen, Tinkle and Rueck, he ought to be able to generate interest and further improve facilities. I also look forward to improvements in the fan experience.
Hey thanks OOB. I won’t be back full-time until the 3rd so you guys can do as you see fit until then.
Going to try to watch this game, though.
I view these teams are pretty even/mediocre. Gotta think Riley is due for a choke, but majority seems to be NE wins it.
Per twitters Dennis Erickson retiring. Not sure if he wasn’t being asked back and this is a way of letting him go gracefully or he is truly retiring from coaching.
Utah canned their OC also. Or didn’t renew his contract, same diffrence.
High West Distillery sales are going to plummet.
I would think he will have way more time to be drunk
What happened with victor jones? Didn’t nemec say he was supposed to announce yesterday?
He announced Wyoming.
Hadn’t heard his name much in Oregon State recruiting news other than really early on. My guess is he wasn’t currently a player OSU was pursuing.
Watching Stanford, and really wishing we can supplant them (and Utah) in the standings the next 2-3 years. I would like to see us beat one of them (most likely Stanford next year at home). That would be great progress.
Any chance we see Shaw go to the NFL for greener pastures in near future? If not, we need to get some rumors going — “Shaw to 49ers”.
Is Whittingham a lifer at Utah? Be nice to see him go too.
“Is Whittingham a lifer at Utah? Be nice to see him go too.”
Are you out of your ever fucking lovin mind???? GA is from SLC. He has family there. It’s his alma mater. I honestly think GA likes it here but that is the ONE job that if it ever opened up he’d be gone in a heartbeat. And I guarantee that would be one of the first calls either his agent or the Utah AD makes.
Nebraska fans still complaining about Armstrong, convincing themselves he’s the problem?
They’re getting a preview of their next 2 years here with new QBs…
He was the solution, not the problem.
Yep, he was the only reason they had 9 wins and were hanging in games last year. Newby is okay, the WR is good. I think they lose all those guys? Now it’s on to Riley’s recruits and the years of training a (statue) QB.
“Now it’s on to Riley’s recruits…” And Bankers continued fine tuning of his approach to mobile QB’s.
I guess there is a Tulane transfer, last name Lee? Who TPB are going ga-ga about. I thought they had some five star redshirt freshmen waiting in the wings?
Banker comes through on cue. Gives up a TD with seconds to go in the 1st half.
He IS reliable…
Time for Aluminum Mike Riley to start airing it out?
God I wish the Beavs could get NU on the schedule the next two years….
Yes… but how many time-outs did Riley put in his time-out account?
He should have enough to buy rocking chairs for everyone by now.
So hey guys, how are the special teams looking after they unfairly fired that awesome special teams coach? Uh, just asking for a friend. Yeah.
“Poor tackling has been the Achilles heel of Nebraska today” – commentator
I think he meant decade
Banker allows mobile QB touchdown, take a drink
“Scotty died from acute alcohol poisoning”
+1 for the Oregon Trail reference lolol. You win the internets for today
I’m no fan of UT, but I really hope they don’t “coug it”. I would like Smilin’ Mike to stay on this side of the “Pelini Wall”……. 9 win season.
Can’t stop the outside DE and no chip or help from TE or RB, sounds like Biley
Sounds like the Texas game.
So Riley gave up with just under 4 minutes left? He stuck his 4th string qb in? What the hell is he thinking? Thank god that clown is gone, what a douchebag.
Agreed, unless Fyfe was hurt, I don’t understand. Wouldn’t you at least throw a Hail Mary with your starter who is actually a QB?
#TPB are now seeing the real Mike Riley. Butch should score on this last possession just to bury the knife deeper.
Because he’s Riley?
“It’s a neat deal he got to play in the bowl game.”
with a winning record this time!
I’m pretty sure Fife got his bell run on that record breaking sack, the 2nd Tennessee guy hit him in the helmet with a forearm.
Looks like the Four Loss Floor is still intact
RiLLLLey
for me this was the 5th most satisfying game of the season. Angry’s 9 win win-cap gets validated. It’s a year late, but this is probably Riley’s high water mark in Lincoln.
It’s not a win cap, It’s a loss cap. RiLLLLey. He’s won 10 games once before. But he’s NEVER had less than 4 losses in ANY college football season.
Angry’s classic post was that Riley’s upper limit was 9 wins. Yes, he won 10 games one year but ONLY because the Beavs played 13 regular season games (counting Hawaii) and that’s the only reason they were able to get to ten.
And NU fans shouldn’t get too excited, I forgot that Pelini had a couple of 10 win seasons, but they also came with 4 losses. So Whiskey is right………good for 4 losses a year. I think Solich was the last 11 win coach and they fired his ass.
BTW I hope there’s a Big Red Overreaction show again. That stuff’s gold
Someone please link this up. Thanks.
Especially since they started 7-0 and they actually thought they were in the playoff conversation. Smilin’ Mike is such a tease!
now it’s time to check in with the Husker post game show on The Zone in Omaha
Tune In radio, 1620 the zone
Settle down Butch Jones its just a bad Nebraska team
right out of the gate: “let the soul-searching begin”
They are looking for a new coach in Korea?
Don’t blame me, Huskers! My defense was just sitting out the bowl game to protect our draft stock or something like that etc.
I kind of thought there were opportunities for you to wave your hands more frantically. And BTW, Hawaii won their bowl game, so I don’t think that job is going to come around again.
I didn’t want to risk injuring my hands jiving too hard in a bowl game. There’s gotta be NFL teams out there needing some gaps cancelled, and I gotta keep these babies fresh
Host tries to dump first caller for profanity and fails… Methinks #TPB be unhappy
Host acknowledging the hot start was against crappy teams, but he’s surprised how hard and fast they fell (unlike us)
Good Lord, is there some drug in Lincoln I’m unaware of that all of the idiots start taking from birth?. They were barely beating shitty, less talented teams who fell apart in the 4th quarter against them.. These things aren’t a mystery if you follow college football and are not just obsessed with your hometown team!!!
They “liked what they were seeing”. I.e. the wins. They couldn’t see it in any more detail or objectivity. So, they’re surprised…
TPB
Maybe someone needs to investigate the psychological effects of GMO corn
Hmmm… people in flyover states ignoring the more than overwhelmingly obvious negative reality in order to confirm their biases?
I don’t believe that phenomenon exists.
Riley press conference:
“Defensively we just gave up too many big plays”
“[incoherent rambling]”
“[more babbling]”
If Banker goes next, we’ll know Riley’s serious
It was also good to see Riley bundled up like the game was being played in Green Bay. It brought back memories, I guess.
They got football and corn. Now they got Riley, a cornball.
OT- I have the Arizona Bowl on in the background (I know). I just heard a Beav reference from the announcers.. I forgot that Darell Songy is at South Alabama. They are starting to get their butts kicked by Air Force, but Songy has 13 tackles so far. Looks like he has got his shit together now.
13 tackles within 3 lines of the yard of scrimmage? Otherwise it’s a meaningless stat. I can rack up 13 tackles 20 yards downfield (AKA the Ray Lewis method into the HOF).
He has pretty decent stats for the season. Looks very active. I guess he used drugs when he was at OSU.
One caller says he thinks Riley’s the right man to have at the top, but his staff needs to get it together. Says he’s glad Riley’s quick to pull the firing trigger.
Huh?! One overdue firing in like 15 years is not “quick to pull the trigger”. He only did it because he feels actual pressure to win at Nebraska. If Read was still stinking it up here with Riley, we know damn well he’d still be on staff. Riley’s loyalty only exists so far as he can coast and take advantage of the school. That gum chewer really annoys me.
that jumped out at me too. No one back there has done any homework on Riley’s staff development pattern. In the entire run of Riley’s collegiate career only one assistant (Paul Chryst) has gone on to be a head coach in his own right. Andersen has two in just two years. The great preponderance of the callers to that show are wistful about the old smash-mouth line play that used to define Nebraska football, and are correct in believing that controlling the line of scrimmage is the single biggest indicator of success, without seeming to have absorbed the fact that Riley is perhaps the most QB-centric coach in major college football and the type of play they want to return to is never going to come their guy.
Seems to be part of their arrogance and lack of interest in anything but the false narrative. The answers to Husker football future are all there in the Beav past (if they are open enough to truly understand what the past is telling them). First clue, it doesn’t have anything to do with “doing more with less”.
Did a rought draft application letter today to be on Barnes’ hand licked 20 member fan advisory board. Hoping I can work remotely and dial in for conference calls. Got some ideas to help get OSU to a Rose Bowl in the next 5-6 years, rally the fan base & improve the game experience across the major sports.
Hope I get the call up. Ready to share what I feel many fans are looking for.
I hope you spell check that puppy before hitting send, if you want to get licked
It was either lick his hand or kiss his ass. You made the right call.
Sounds like something for which angry should apply.
Riley was all shoulders, shrugging, trying to hide, as always.
Utah State hires ex duck assistant David Yost
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2016/12/former_oregon_assistant_david.html
Who wore it better? Yost or Harry Dunne?
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/P3iPPXJvN_ns7cDUXkV.2A–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://l.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/original/KXC4_IXTUr0FkUqJppFtYDHE45U
What a doofus. Wonder if Yost is aware weed isn’t legal in Utah
Sounds like Erickson retiring was by choice. But he may join his son in Idaho coaching HS football.
http://www.sltrib.com/home/4765361-155/utah-football-roderick-let-go-erickson
So, when Oregon hires the USF running backs coach, does USF try to bring Telly Lockette back to Florida? I wonder how much Lockette likes living in the northwest and making multiple Florida recruiting trips during the year. Could see USF as a tempting move, if given an upgrade in duties/salary.
Harbought is getting embarrassed by Jimbo and the criminole’s.
Was getting embarrassed
Lol I walk out of the room for 10 minutes and it’s a 1 Point game.
Oregon State has no business hanging with a true #2 team. Somehow theyre within 3 of UCLA in 2nd half.
UCLA must be a fraud
Tie game now. Still 16:22 to go, but still. I mean, c’mon
I’m glad someone else brought it up. I figured if I posted something I’d jinx ’em.
Ooops maybe I already have.
Refs will take care of it anyway. Apparently you just need to get inside the key to have a foul called, if youre UCLA.
Just saw Hamilton for UCLA get away with a double dribble on a fast break too. First game ive watched all season and I’m already annoyed with the Pac12 reffing
Beavs lost by 13. But overall stats looked improved. UCLA had two guys score over 20 points on us. Thompson Jr. Had 25 points. Maybe still some hope for this season??
Where has this been all year?
A good basketball game but Mr. “conference of champions” is going on and on and now something about a girl during WWII…. Meds?
Only lost by 13. MORAL VICTORY! *cheer*
OT: let the Riley shit go…that’s old news.
The Riley stuff is how AB started I think, plus it gives us something to do since Nebraska is playing in a bowl this year and we’re not. It’s entertaining.
Agreed. An entire post dedicated to talking Rileys team? Is this 2012? Time to stop scrolling through old pictures of your ex, boys
It’s more like your ex being on a corny TV commercial and laughing and making fun of her
Except you’re the one producing the commercial.
Pretty sure we didn’t produce the bowl game
said it before, and will say it again now. Success by Riley at Nebraska (as defined by the normative standard in Lincoln) is a major strategic threat to the short term future of Oregon State football. Seems so obvious to me, especially with a team that has six wins combined the last two years.
There will be no success there.
Stop thinking about that which we escaped in terms of anything other than what it is.
For anyone that saw it, was the Orange Bowl as good as S-I suggests? “One for the ages” hyperbole…Will Harbaugh stick around, or will the LA Rams tempt him?
Does UW have a shot today, or is Alabama with a dual threat like Hurts just too much? I imagine the game will feel like a home game for Alabama and fairly hostile for UW. I expect UW’s Petersen coaches a good game, but can’t quite get it done. And I won’t be surprised if there’s some officiating in ‘Bama’s favor.
There’s no one to like in the rose bowl, but better the PAC should win then Ped State. I look forward to Andersen and the Beavs beating USC in the near future.
it was the best bowl game of the season so far and I’ve seen much of all of them. As of this writing UW is hanging in tough. First possession of the second half by Bama will be the tale of the game, I think.
I’ve watched not a single second of any bowl games, and I agree with this assessment.
It’s crazy that our president elect is also a prolific twitter troll.
Happy New Year, assholes!
“Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/815185071317676033
And he claims he is a uniter, so fucking embarrassing
What’s embarrassing is the dumbasses replying to an obvious troll. They are validating his post by acknowledging him. He’s a master at trolling the special snowflake generation.
Either way you spin it, it’s embarrassing. Welcome to America
So the President of the United States is suppose to be trolling people? Okay….Sounds awesome. Enjoy watching him get rich and do nothing to help the fools that voted for him but hey at least he will troll people on twitter which apparently is what America is looking for in a President now.
He hasn’t taken office……he’s the president of nothing.
yeah, that makes it better lol….
Motherfucker is the king of snowflakes… an orange one at that… fake gilding, if you will.
More correctly… he should be called a snowfake. And as Trumplethinskin takes your firstborn away for his foreign war(s) of choice, you can thank your stars that THE nigger didn’t kill America.
Sleep well snowflakes, white as hell.
I wanted to give this guy a chance, but I’m already sick of him.
Exactly. I never was a supporter, but we made our bed and the people spoke, so I’m prepared to make the best of it. Was hopeful the troll stuff was just an act to help bring in votes during the election, and was hopeful when his supporter said as much, and thought he might clean it up after the election. But it’s becoming apparent that this is just who he is. Hope he doesn’t decide to troll China or some other world power that can’t just laugh it off.
People did not speak. He lost by almost 3,000,000 votes. So the people in Wyoming get almost three times the votes as do the people in California. If this happened in Bolivia we, US election observers, would declare it an invalid election.
in football terms, lost on the scoreboard awarded the win based on more first downs. America!!
I’m prepared to fight like a hellion against the anti-christ.
And if anyone wants to talk about how really dumbed down that statement is… whatever.
Speaking of punchable faces….
And on top of that the American public is being played like a cheap violin by the folks who own the press and most of our elected representatives.
NDAA Allows US Government to Use Propaganda Against Americans!!
http://beforeitsnews.com/terrorism/2014/06/ndaa-allows-us-government-to-use-propaganda-against-americans-2449318.html
US Propaganda: How Corporate America Manipulates the American Public Into Unwitting Support for Corporate Fascism
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-propaganda-how-corporate-america-manipulates-the-american-public-into-unwitting-support-for-corporate-fascism/5408445
It is now legal to manufacture lies by the government to the public
http://debateneutral.com/now-legal-manufacture-lies-government-public/
Fuck off.
This is your world now.
Own it pussy!
Already being called “Twit-ler”
Look guys
Dave Aranda’s D dominates today.
Washington is in big trouble.
SEC stinks as a conference, but Bama is dominating the lines and seems to know every WA play beforehand.
don’t count out “big play Peterson” yet; or would that be “big play Jonathan” now?
They had two chances at turnovers and did not take advantage. They can’t block Bama’s front seven.
Game over.
Cutty Sark goes from Patron to boogers. Oh yes, he did!
https://mobile.twitter.com/randyvinneau/status/815340033393627136/video/1
Ohio State showing why you should only let conference champs in….
ESPN headline: Alabama DE Allen: Washington players were ‘soft’
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18385158/alabama-crimson-tide-defensive-end-jonathan-allen-calls-washington-huskies-soft
Isn’t that, in general, the reputation of West Coast teams?
Washington has a good chance to be back there next year, and they’ll be a year harder. (That didnt sound right)
Anyway, theyre pretty new to that territory and will grow from the experience.
Rightfully so. West coast is weak. The fans and media, for the most part, couldn’t even handle my criticism out here. What I was writing was pretty light compared to East Coast journalism.
Pansies abound.
Allen was lined up against a true freshman most of the game wasn’t he?
I don’t understand the context of the link that will not follow.
If you have something to say, you should say it.
Per Adam Schefter:
“San Francisco is expected to make sweeping changes, dismissing both HC Chip Kelly and GM Trent Baalke, league sources tell ESPN.”
It would be funny if Oregon fired Taggert and had to buy him out, too.
Maybe we can hire him as WRs coach. lol
New General Thread up, had enough schadenfreude?
Really?
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
Fucking morons.
Ooooh… the elite coastal elites don’t understand my delicate psyche. They’re guilty of political correctness and shit. But I’m not a wuss for whining about the manufactured whine about about some straw whine.
Fucking morons.
You deserve me in this state now. It’s precisely what you asked for. And you have no defense left.
You are naked to the stupid, and you are why.