Intriguing game given the Beavs probably have some newfound confidence, and USC isn’t very good this year. I still think they simply out-athlete us. Unfortunately, I’m going to miss the entire game with obligations tomorrow night. But..Go Beavs!
30-20, U$C
Blount taking practice reps probably means Luton isn’t able to practice for the entire time. Only QB at 100% is colletto. He’s the short yardage guy now.
Where’d you see that about Blount?
Buiding the Dam says Blount out this week, but that’s the only place I’ve seen anything about injury or practice status.
https://www.buildingthedam.com/2018/11/2/18027136/oregon-state-football-injury-report-vs-usc-trojans-jake-luton-artavis-pierce
We saw the difference between a 50% Luton and a 100% Colletto last week. If Luton can play he has to play.
Just saw the TPB score. Day is off to a good start!
Beavs keys to the game.
Don’t get sacked much.
Contain the sc run game.
Disrupt Daniels (and/or Sears) rhythm.
Take drives starting at the 25.
Get fired up after halftime.
My first game of the year. Hope they don’t make me regret coming down. GoBeavs
Season stars are a little surprising to me:
https://mobile.twitter.com/beaverfootball?lang=en
“stats”
Anyone need a pair of club seats? 2 extras available
One still available if anyone needs an extra
Ducks up 21-0 in 2nd, if that continues, trend would suggest Beav lossin a blowout. Most times Ducks do well early, Beavs seem to look terrible in contrast later…
And Bama’s kicker misses a PAT, not sure what that suggests for the Beavs game.
Did Bama play today?
Good for them.
I hope they or their opponents won the game.
Yay.
Anybody have a good link for the game?
Go to reddit.com/r/cfbstreams from now on for all games
Hey our orange looks like orange!
Hey our defense looks like shit again
Watching the back 7 again tonight…Wilson is in the box but ends up nowhere NEAR the RB as he cruises in untouched for the TD.
He has to be the 2nd worst starter on the team(after Choker).
It is INCREDIBLE how throwing a decent slant just opens everything up.
We went like 10 years under Riley and GA without being able to complete a slant pass.
Jefferson blew the protection and gives up like a 15 yard sack. Ouch.
Choker 50 yard attempt? FFS just punt it if you’re gonna do that.
Or go for it basically the same outcome.
At least if you go for it there’s a chance you get points
Yup
So on that drive we gave up 2 sacks and a pseudo-sack(TFL like 5 yards behind the line) in 9 plays.
It seems like the offensive line gets better in the 2nd half, but holy crap they are just AWFUL in the first half of like every game.
I thought we (Smith) decided Choker wasn’t an option anymore considering we went for it every time last game. Now we let him go for a 50(!) yarder? Jesus. And he shanks it of course.
Luton>Kicker
KINO
Kicker In Name Only
Wow!
You are programmed.
Defense is super aggressive, the play calling needs to adjust right now and make them pay for it.
Perfect hit by Jalen Moore to break up a huge pass. And then…8 yard run. Because we don’t have LBs.
Seems like they’re trying to force the beavs to pass but still need to run regularly and effectively.
USC line just too physical against OSU line. Seems like Osu Doesn’t get any pressure and also can’t open up any running lanes. Need some beef!
Fuck beef, you need BIG BOY PANTS WARDADDIES
Ummm… same thing.
LMAO at the BeavRecruiting tweet. Nice.
Nice headlock on they 18yrd 3rd down gain!
Just got in front of tv. 21 to 0, obviously defense hasn’t shown up… hopefully offense is here.
These kids don’t quit that’s for sure. Nice catch by Togiai
That touchdown should give them a nice lift going into the locker room.
Looks pretty chippy out there. That could be good for us.
Luton 22 for 27 looking better than usual.
I’m really not invested in this debate but Luton sucks!
22 of 27 for 220 yards and a td in a half vs a bunch of 4 and 5 stars.
Guy, you’re not going to get me to invest in a debate for a player who is gone after 3 games.
Beavs feeling it tonight things are getting chippy…speaking of…who was the dick from $C pointing at the scoreboard on the last play of the half? He seems to think barely better than the beavs at the half is special?
Goes hand in hand: Beavs TOP 14:06, Rush yds MINUS 9.
Both of those gotta change!
Yeah the running game needs to go off the second half.
You guys see the beavs football Twitter tweeting “wide open, you’ll see” then hodgins has that big gainer where he wasn’t covered. I can see it now opposing teams are gonna start monitoring the beavs Twitter during the games lol
And classic Pac12 refs, bailing out USC with a bogus “Exaggerated Movement” call. That didn’t happen.
I know this is off topic, but was in Pullman for Dad’s Weekend and watched the Coug-Cal game. PAC 12 refs just suck! It was so bad that there was a twitter feed showing one of the refs hoisting a Cal travel bag after the game as he was crossing the field to get on the bus! The PAC 12 is bound and determined to have a California team somewhere in the post season mix. The refs bailed Cal out on multiple ‘3rd and longs’ with everything they could come up with.
Maybe it would be better that Big 10 refs ref the PAC 12 and vice versa; at least this way any inherent team bias or support would/could probably be eliminated? But I am tired of year after year of watching these refs. ‘Mr. Glasses’ (a name I christened one of the PAC 12 refs) especially has a h-on for OSU and screws us over repeatedly whenever he is on the field.
Why is stemming only called delay of game on the beavs?
Exactly. Does luck o da beavs apply to stemming as well?
Apparently the beavs need to jump offsides while on offense to have it called as defensive delay of game. Counterintuitive. USC did the right thing coming out of stance when the beavs did it, so comes down to training. Defensive Players in stationary stance within 1yrd of LOS cannot make sudden, abrupt movements or imitate cadence and draw offensive players into false starts.
And an uncatchable ball is WTF…
Horseshit officiating
With Utah losing, Pac sees an opportunity to get SC into title game, officiating will ensure and SC win
Maybe the p12 championship game should just be between the two teams with the best records and/or some minimum league win total. I wasn’t really in love with the officiating last night. That might reduce the temptation to “adjust” game outcomes. And what the heck is the official stemming rule, didn’t ASSU do that all game to the beavs?
AP better tuck that ball.
Showing nice fight on o at least. Need a turnover
Man I hope our D can step up here.
Need to be more aggressive on D as well as blitz more.
I think coaching it showing such a difference. This team would have given up after Cal under riley.
Absolutely. Same with GA. these are the same guys from last year and their attitudes are totally different.
I love how Colletto is being utilized and is able to save Luton from taking extra hits.
Even when we have a sack we can’t finish it correctly. Still better than nothing.
Nice to see Jefferson get it going a bit at the end of the 3rd. Hopefully that translates into the 4th.
Terrible call on th fake kick there. The second you didn’t get USC to burn a timeout you needed to call one. If you’re going to go for it, run a real play.
Looks like his knee was down.
I don’t mind going for it there, it’s just weird to go with a pass from Timmy on 4th there. Just a weird play.
That ball is coming out.
Did Kevin McGiven sub in for play calling duties in the 4th quarter? Wtf?
It’s really frustrating to see safeties that actually make plays on the ball. Play against us.
Because we don’t have any.
PAC 12 refs handing USC another game. Should have scored a TD on the fumble to tie the game.
I mean, we did, the refs just took it away from us.
You cannot miss that call and not assume refs are dirty, clear as day that was a fumble, total bullshit
I mean I didn’t think it was clear as day, and I’m rooting for the Beavs lol.
Fact is, we got the ball back and we went 4 and out. That sucks. And then they ran a 60 yard TD. So….that’s probably it. That’s kinda what happens when you don’t have a kicker though, that’s 6 points we could have had if we had a boot back there but we had to go for it instead. And failed. Twice.
It was clear but even if it wasn’t the officials are told to let it play out then review, that’s not what they did, utter bullshit and fuck the PAC 12
^^^^^this^^^^^
Was USC holding on the 60-yard td run?
I don’t think so. At the game and that fumble call back completely deflated the team and crowd.
We’re not good enough to overcome that shit
UMMM WHERE IS THE UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT ON THAT KICK?
Dude stepped over the tackled player with his crotch. COME ON. That is fucked.
I’m not gonna look up #44’s name, but he’s a LB that basically ran backward on that run play, then made a weak-ass arm-flail tackle attempt. That failed.
This is why we can’t stop the run.
I have a name for the Beaver tackling style: “The Turnstile.” Saw it several times tonight, Beaver player in upright position, puts a single arm out because they’re out of position, the offensive player runs through it…
Unsurprising but still disappointing outcome. Beavers were competitive for stretches, but couldn’t close when needed. The more the game went on the more Luton was getting closer to INTs…I think after all those slants and quick hitters, it would have been nice if they could have run a double move and got the deep ball, but he’s not accurate on those anyway.
Hodgins looked slow on his long pass play when caught from behind- he playing injured?
Bradford with a nice game tonight, liked his fire.
USC: The epitome of high talent, mediocre coaching and discipline. What a waste.
Perfect coverage by Dunn on 3rd down. Been very solid all game.
Love JS playing to win instead of playing to keep it close (even if unlikely to work) :)
Tough loss even though we had some chances. Questionable play calling and the reversed Td return did us in. Tibs still leaves a lot to be desired
Questionable play calling
Really cold start to the game
Complete inability to stop the run
#1 hasn’t been a huge problem this year, but 2 and 3 are recurring events. I’m giving JS a lot of leeway until he gets his own players and a few years to build the program, but it sucks to see that every single game.
Still, we were down 7 in the 4th and had several chances to tie or take the lead. We just didn’t have the talent to get there yet. Positive signs.
What is Cal doing? Beat UW, holding them to 10, now tied @ 13 with WSU in the fourth?
They call that defense.
What’s that?
Go Beavs!
The team showed exactly who they were tonight. Can make plays but just not enough of them. Defense just doesn’t have the talent to make stops consistently.
With the running game bottled up early, they went to Luton too much. He was hobbling around late in the game.
But it was nice to see them hanging in there coming off the Colorado game. Even going down three scores early. Threatened twice to tie up the score but wasted both opportunities.
How is it the one person in the stadium who can’t see that the ball is loose is the guy closest to the play and with the best angle?
And does anyone else see the irony in Dumbshit railing against political refugees and asylum… in Florida?
What a bunch of maroons.
On the bright side, the down-in-fronters left after #28 ran for 60 yards. It’s nice that the game is so important that you can’t stand and cheer for your team, AND you leave before the game ends.
You’re true fans.
Sitting in Reser is lame. Most people work and shut M_F, tell them to get off their asses and root for the Beavs!
Work and shut Mia Farrow?
Work and shut mezzo forte?
Work and shut Millennium Falcon?
Maybe this was mentioned but the real positive last night was meeting all of the baseball team and getting autographs before the game at Truax. I asked PC about retirement and he reminded me is not retired but he is senior athletic director assistant something or other. The team was all really polite and personable. Proud of those guys!
Totally nailed yesterday’s prognostication on the game. Way to go coach! You’re a genius! Can’t wait to see the +’s rolling in.
Nice, 3 points off?
Mine was 30-20, which wasn’t bad either.
No it was seven. Had SC at 42. But I figured the Beavs ceiling was 21.
Does anyone have a means to sneak in and burn those orange uniforms?
The orange crayons?
Right..those ones.
It could have been worse.
We could have worn Utah’s unis with a butthole on the back of our lids.
https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/418/788/8788418.jpg?fit=bounds&crop=620:320,offset-y0.50&width=620&height=320
I stood on the west side with all the other people who never sit down and block the view of the old timers with bad backs. It was loud and crazy until the touchdown was called back on the scoop six, and USC quickly scored. 14 point swing. In mass the crowd sat down and the steam just went right out. That call, blowing the play dead by the line judge, instead of letting it play out for review, sealed our fate.
I was in the corner down by the terrace and the west side. Actually liked those seats quite a bit. Guys to my left were up and shouting the entire game. Guy might have had the loudest voice ive been around, and he kept it up from start to finish. It was pretty impressive.
Crowd did a good job for most of the game. They were slow to arrive at the beginning of each half but filled in I’d say close to 70% capacity at it’s peak.
Still, our gameday traditions are lame, if I’m being honest. I hate the 1st down chant. I hate the 3rd down chainsaw.
The sound system is used pretty well to help keep the energy up. The student section is kept hopping with constant electronic music blaring, which I actually like as a change of pace from the old days. Cant please everybody, but it seemed to keep the energy level fairly high throughout.
Too bad the ref calling that TD return dead and the terrible offensive series on bookending that play pretty much killed everybody’s boner. I was thinking the refs would owe us a freebie PI call or holding call to help make up for the tieing TD they ripped from us, but nope. We just went 4 and out and gave up the long td run on the next play and the place went lifeless. We gave up
The game day “traditions” are so effing awful. (I guess they’ve been doing them long enough that they are traditions.)
First down chop is crap. I refuse to partake.
Seeing that our school has a top Forestry college, the chain saw and turnover chain saw are acceptable.
I don’t understand why we stopped doing our best traditions.
The stadium was never louder than 35k fans chanting O-S-U, Oregon State Fight Fight Fight. Gone.
No one but the fucking band will do the BEAVERS spell out after the fight song, another oldie that is lost.
But that first down chop… please stop.
Glad you mentioned the band. They deserve credit for the job they do. I think the band has gotten better over the years and they do a really nice job.
Did they show the coast guard helecopter flyover on tv? OSU can’t get the jets to fly by, but we can get a helecopter. It was….different.
Edit: added link to video of the flyover/anthem
https://youtu.be/GkILLUrWQvE
I thought it was clever how they consistently drowned out the albeit smaller Trojan band. I didn’t realize that away teams bring a band or is that just an arrogant USC thing?
Wazzu brought their band too, they were more irritating as well. Funny thing about the $C babd is they only played 3 songs. But yeah beav band was tight and sounded great. My daughter is looking forwatd to joining that band in a couple years…Go Band Nerds
“…just an arrogant USC thing?”
Well, spoiled children gonna do what spoiled children do!
About 10 years ago some big jets flew over low and fast before the CW. Didn’t know it was coming. scared the shit out of everybody.
I was at that game and the planes were LOW!
“TNT” as the fourth quarter pump-up song needs to go as well
I don’t care if we have to copy “another school’s song”, but standing around saying “oi, oi” for 3 minutes while doing a weak fist pump just does not do it on the same level as does jump around, enter sandman, or sandstorm to name a few
Agree, people seem to still like it though. But as a pump up song, it is a little slow and boring. I’d much rather they use Thunderstruck if they are dead set on AC/DC
Why can’t we have a unique pump up song, like Waiting for the Worms by Pink Floyd? That would intimidate opponents as opposed to getting them hyped up (like last night)
The theme to Leave to Beaver would amp things up. ^^^Unique.
Psychosocial.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5abamRO41fE
Psychosocial Baby is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtJt4A7iOA
seek and destroy metallica 4th quarter pump up would be flipping nuts!
Haha it’s always fun to remind myself that I’m surrounded by pussies.
Down vote this too Alice.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu951up_0
This should damage your delicate sensibilities.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x-64CaD8GXw
And you’re way too much of a bitch for this one.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0BLcCM8nPYQ
What next Limp Bizkit?
https://youtu.be/ZpUYjpKg9KY
Heh heh… Slipknot is just performance art with a monolithic song backing it up. Take away the music, and all you have is a bunch of fans snapping their fingers and saying, “This is cool.”
Enter Sandman still puts me to sleep, all these years later.
Maybe any of the numerous versions of Train Kept a Rollin could work. I prefer something with more a backbeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKCR7kQMTQ
Always like Highway Star. I used to listen to the XCops cover of it back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQVTtpE9J7s
Losers celebrate first downs…winners expect them and get them. It has to go….
The chant “Oh! Essss! Yooouuuy!” is great, defining, differiiating needs to stay.
Yup. They do that here at Minnesota. A few years back some Ohio State fans sitting behind us asked why we did that. My response, “when you suck you have the celebrate the little things.”
This is the one that hurts the most. The stadium could be half full, and OSU fans could shout down anyone they wanted with a deafening unison of that chant. I’ve seen it used in a passive aggressive way to direct anger. I’ve seen it used as a controlled frenzy of pride. I’ve seen it lift teams out doldrums.
And then one year I go to a game, and the cheerleaders are directing the stadium to chant the different letters in different parts of the stadium. I look around, and the crowd is complying, with scattered looks from like-minded people wondering why we weren’t just doing our chant.
And then they started blaring constant background noise… and threw a fat guy and some meth geeks with chainsaws at us… and the contrived aspects borrowed from other franchises, like the first down pavlov’s bell….
And then you just say, “Fuck it! Just let them all get drunk.”
Whatever happened to those crisp fall evenings where I could just stand and marvel at nothing but a riled up crowd focusing directly on the action on the field?
tartan
I kind of wish they would’ve capitalized on the mammoth craze of early 2016. I would take a mammoth “trumpet” and/or mammoth stampede sound on 3rd down over the chainsaw.
Its nice that OSU is getting all these recruits visiting but where are the commitments?
I would look for those guys in Fresno, Ft. Collins, Boise maybe Logan, Utah? Wouldn’t spent much time searching in Eugene, Seattle, LA or Palo Alto. JB
I think the 140 pounders said “I’m a competitor and all, but maybe I shouldn’t be playing against 4 & 5* recruits.”
TV has really f’d up CFB. Still have not announced the game time for the game here in Minneapolis this Sat. What is the standard for the PAC?
Generally two weeks notice. Should get the uw game time today.
But if it’s a bigger game, it’s the Monday before the game.
On a related note-
I went to the hole/Stanford game this year, I hadn’t been to a game in probably ten years before that.
The TV time outs really fuck with the flow of the game. Doesn’t matter what is happening, who has the ball, driving, whatever.
TV time. Everybody stand around for what feels like an eternity. It’s really weird.
You got that right.
I think this is massively overblown. TV timeouts come when everyone is standing around rather the game is on TV or not.
Its not like they just randomly go to a break in the middle of a team’s drive.
Don’t understand this “mess with the flow” stuff.
It’s because they’re neither compulsory nor voluntary, and they’re longer (at least the first two in every quarter) than a normal time-out by about 250%. When you compile those 8 breaks, they are longer than halftime itself.
It’s not a biggie where parity exists. It’s just a part of business.
Hoops has at least made them compulsory. But there are too many of them, used by weak coaches to create more parity. The days when coaches had to actually call their own time-outs showed just how good your coach was at making adjustments. I’d like to see them go to 15, 10 and 5:00 TOs and give the coaches two per half on their own. I’m tired of watching a bunch of ~four-minute segments with an end-of-game flurry of blech.
Who is going to the Stanford game this weekend? Never been and we are taking a little one with us. Any advice is appreciated.
Been there a ton. Beautiful campus. Directly across El Camino Real from the stadium is a high end, snooty shopping area. There is a small Mexican restaurant with very good food and phenomenal sauces and salsas. The area reeks of money. Up the the street north of the campus in Menlo Park is a place called the Refuge that specializes in Belgian beer …..yum.! Fantastic pastrami sandwiches. A couple of all the all important liquor stores are nearby. Parking for the games is easy. Lots across the steet under the huge trees. There is an old style diner in down town Palo Alto for breakfast. You will get raped by the hotels. Very pricey. Have fun. If it is a night game, bring warm clothes as no matter how warm it is during the day, it really cools off at night. Have a great time.
Are any of those campers on Real listed on AB&B or HomeAway?
Beavergopher thanks for insight. Luckly, we aren’t staying around there but good suggestions for food. I hope we show up and the game is somewhat competitive.
Had someone email me about Coach Casey. I invited him to share here on the site if he has more to add.
Yeah, wouldn’t surprise me.
Seems he wanted to test the “walking off into the sunset thing” and didn’t like it.
I think this is all a lot of the reason why Bailey was named as the interim coach. I was told Casey has an option in his contract that there is some date after next season ends in which the head coaching job is his if he decides to come back. Of course I imagine OSU would take him back after that date too.
Here is the pertinent section of Casey’s contract:
So I wasn’t able to catch a single snap from this game. Was it closer than the score indicated or visa versa, etc? Any key plays that changed the outcome? What’s the take away from it?
I think a replay is worth watching. Luton was good for 3 quarters, mainly 2nd and 3rd.
Refs royaly hosed the Beavs out of the game tying TD fumble recovery in the 4th and then we rolled over.
Should have been 28-28 with 9 minutes to go, but a minute later its 35-21 USC.
Our run game had -9 yards at half yet we were still in it
Ugh. That sounds painful. Nothing worse than the Pac refs determining games.
In real time, the runner looked to be down before the ball came out on the fumble play. It was the way the beavs defender stripped the ball, made it look like the ball came out well after the runner hit the ground.
Refs didn’t decide the game there. Beavs had already blown a promising drive with a strange fake fg call. Then went 4 and out after the fumble. Two great chances to tie it up and didn’t get it done.
Looked down maybe, but questionable enough for a replay so blowing the play dead is a mistake. The result should have been fumble with TD. But instead was fumble with ball on the 40. Then our offense imploded. Refs blew it twice on the same play.
Had the game been tied at that point, you don’t think the team finds a way to stay in it to the end? I like our chances better with a tied game at least
The thing was clearly out. Maybe there was a matter of whether or not the runner re-established control before going down, but it was clearly knocked loose in real time and impossible to miss from 30 or 40 yards let alone six to ten feet away. There was no time for any ref to think he re-established control at any point in real time. Once it’s loose, he should know to let it play out.
It was a poor call that was likely just a mistake, but there was nothing going on for the rest of the game on either side after that deflation. They popped one, and the game was over.
Agreed on that fake. That was just dumb.
Fake nearly resulted in a pick 7 for USC. That was idiotic.
Its almost like we planned to use the fake field goal in that series before it was 4th down, so we ran shitty plays on 1st/2nd/3rd down to guarantee that situation. Run it on 3rd and 10 with the game on the line? 4th quarter play calling was really bad
I mean… once you change formations, it’s no longer a trick play.
It’s just us lining up for 4th and long with our K as the slot and our possession receiver as the QB.
??
Disagree, was clearly a fumble live to me. Either way, the refs are told to let those play out and not blow it dead if there is any question.
Ball was coming out as he was going to the ground. Pure strip of the ball…got screwed on the whistle. 28-28 if called correctly…None the less, we were dominated on both sides of the line. Sad to say, but I was glad the Beav’s made me stay up for 40 minutes of game time.
Get the trenchers…and we will compete.
Bill you’re the only one who saw the runner as down. It was obvious, not even close. No, that didn’t decide the game but certainly played a factor. Most often, the ref atleast let that play out, and then put the ball back if he was indeed down.
Still, gotta be encouraged with Beavers play.
Another takeway is we were down 21 to 0. I forgot about this detail since we felt like we had a chance a to win. We came back to make it 21-14. Why do we start so slow but I like that the team and coaches make adjustments. The team was fighting until the missed fumble/td. Still can’t get any pressure on qb and our d line got pushed back hence the gigantic running yards for usc. On our side of the ball, no matter who was running the ball we couldn’t do anything and I think that is a concern. Reser was actually kinda rockin’ and the environment was fun. Thankful we don’t have many 7 pm games because staying up that late made me feel very old.
I don’t think the slow starts is much of a mystery. The Beavs are so clearly over-matched by most opponents that when the latter come out with a prepared game plan and proper motivation, with their superior athleticism they easily dominate the beginnings of games. The gap is so profound that, predictably, the better teams ease up, and with their own form of gritty determination and with proper coaching motivation of their own, the Beavs creep back in. The good teams sense what’s happening, and turn it back on. Colorado couldn’t, thus that outcome. Even with the missed call that would have tied the game, I don’t get the sense that SC would have been a replay of what happened in Boulder though truly there is no way to know
Guy, at least you now admit to not watching games, It suddenly all makes sense.
1 game. Show me where I admit to not watching multiple games. Link it.
I’ve seen way too much Luton that 1 game isn’t going to matter either way. You really want to have a debate about this player. Maybe make a friend and discuss it with him or her?
Didn’t you start this site because you were banned from Blitz for being critical and not falling in line with the administrators? I didn’t think you were one of them, but maybe I was wrong.
I’m not sure what you want. Okay, Luton got better. Maybe 3rd string instead of practice squad.
Are you content now?
I still don’t want to discuss this player. He’s gone in 3 games, and I have no interest in him.
Aww come on, angry, let’s not blame Luton for the sins of the Pantsed One. He did get the first road win since the Gum Chewer was in charge. Also not his fault the O-line sucks.
The stark difference is the coaching staff more often than not putting Luton in a position to succeed. Not that he always did, but it hasn’t been too bad the last two games.
Angry you should watch the football in 60 of the USC game. You’ll be encouraged by the short and intermediate pass game. It’s worth watching just for that.
We lose out on a possible commit to Wyoming… Wyoming?!! Ouch.
Academics? Maybe we moved on? Maybe WY was a good fit for him?
Yeah I don’t know the whole story. 247 had a crystal ball prediction of 100% him going to the beavs so lesson learned again on looking at those. I’d rather get some big guys for the lines anyways.
Crystal ball predictions i’ve found to only be helpful when the predictions all come flooding in on the day of the announcement, and they’re all identical.
On the positive, Juco DT Myles Tapusoa decommits from Houston tonight. He is planning to visit Oregon State too, so that’s a good sign he is interested in what OSU is offering him
Boise St QB commit Hank Bachmeier appears to be testing the waters a little. Dont know if that means he intends to decommit from Boise, but it wouldnt surprise me to see the Beavs try to get him in for an official visit
He was supposed to be a lock for MN right up until he went to Boise.
Row the Spud
#elitetaters
As for the poor call on the fumble recovery TD stolen. It was systemic of that crew. There were several plays earlier in the game, where the refs got the call correct, but had no business stopping play assuming they’d be correct. Doesn’t draw attention when they are correct. But very poor officiating in that regard and improvement not likely in thus type of system.
I’m doing a write up with the Stanford blogger this week, so let’s have some questions for him.
If a Tree scores a touchdown but no one’s around to see it, does it still count?
Ask him whats wrong with their RB. He was in the pre season Heisman talk, but hasn’t done anything this year. And does he expect him to be pac12 player of the week like every other RB thats played us.
Is he a pretty big fan of Ryan Nall from last year?
Do they think OSU week will be a pretty good time to rest Bryce Love again this year?
It may be worth discussing the effect of the new Redshirt Rule. Has Shaw indicated his plans and does it benefit any one type of school over another?
Are there any “unknown” Tree (RS) players who will now get playing time? If so, what does he expect of them?
Also, has the Stanford staff given any indication of their view of the caliber of officiating in the PAC? Any particularly egregious calls this year?
Proper wine and cheese pairing for a Nov. game?
Their D and O line have been less than dominant. What has changed?
Bud Light and American
Put it on a plate. You’ll enjoy it more.
I was thinking Hamms and havarti
Mmmmmmmmm…… Hamms sandwiches. It’s what’s for breakfast.
who’s a better coach: Harbaugh or Shaw?
will the Beavs cover the high priced spread?
Being trees are they afraid of the Beavs chain saw?
No but seriously, the trees have given up more passing yards then any other team in the Pac-12 this year. OSU’s pass game has come alive. OSU also has a couple great running backs. How will the trees fare defensively and why?
Hey Angry, a friend of mine is one of the writers at fishduck if you want to line up a blog post with them before the CW.
Sure.
KJ Costello has thrown 9 picks so far, in what situations are picks likely this weekend?
Have there been factors other than an aggressive rush and excellent coverage (neither of which the Beavs have shown) which have led to interceptions?
He’ll throw a pick-six, but it will get blown dead because they’ll say he was in the grasp.
On the flip side, we’ll actually get a sack.
Final chance for any questions. I will be sending these in tomorrow morning.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/collegesports/article/Stanford-s-JJ-Arcega-Whiteside-to-miss-Oregon-13368346.php
If it’s not too late, how much does he think injuries will play a role. Who will they miss the most injurywise?
Pat Casey:
The provisions of Casey’s contract which allow him to resume the HC position are now posted above as part of the previous discussion here.
Men’s bb opens tonight. Middle of the road team. Basically needs to run the table in non conf and .500 record in conference to make the NIT.
Exaggerated movement? Stemming? Check Niners reaction to questions on the penalty in his presser at the 11:05 – 12:30 mark.
https://youtu.be/P4uG7WoLEA8
The rules state:
Player(s) aligned in a stationary position within one yard of the line
of scrimmage may not make quick, abrupt or exaggerated actions that
are not part of normal defensive player movement (A.R. 7-1-5-IV).
No player shall use words or signals that disconcert opponents when
they are preparing to put the ball in play. No player may call defensive
signals that simulate the sound or cadence of, or otherwise interfere
with, offensive starting signals, (A.R. 7-1-5-V)
He was given no explanation. Because a non-contender doesn’t get the the benefit of this call when a game with a “contender” is on the line. USC jumping out of stance seems like the right thing to do to get this called when the defensive front shifts though.
“disconcert opponents”
Isn’t that the object when trying to put up a “W” ??
heh, heh. Seriously though, good call on which teams are likely to be given the benefit of “judgement” when it involves a contender and a non.
Was talking to somebody about OSU’s QB recruiting. Sounds like several people around the program are under the impression Blount will be transferring out at the end of the year, with Gebbia on the fast track to take over the starting job.
If that’s the case, and we also lose Luton to graduation, we will be extremely inexperienced and thin at QB next year. I would fully expect OSU to take a QB in the 2019 class if/when Blount makes his plans known.
Our depth chart next year could look like:
Gebbia(RS soph)
Colletto(Junior with redshirt available)
Willard(RS soph)
Moore(RS soph)
2019 QB to be named
Would be too bad because I think Blount would make a good backup option for the next 2 years.
Luton might get a medical hardship, correct?
Can’t believe I am saying this, but that would be best for the team.
I don’t know the rules but you would think if anyone could pull a medical waiver it’d be him.
Luton can’t get a medical hardship. To get one, you need to miss two seasons due to injury. He doesn’t fit that requirement. He used his redshirt year at Idaho.
I’d say it’s extremely unlikely the NCAA would grant him one.
There was talk he’d be granted an exemption a few weeks ago. I guess him playing out the rest of the season nixed that chance?
We need to recruit another QB this cycle if he and Blount are both gone.
Blount should stick around. Injuries happen and maybe the anointed one sucks when he plays.
I have no idea if he’d actually be given the hardship waiver, but on the surface I dont think he meets the criteria because he used his redshirt year voluntarily and not because of injury. I also havent seen any reports that he would try to apply for the 6th year. That could change but I’m leaning toward Luton not being here next season.
He could be a grad couch?
Or an undergrad sofa?
More like a futon.
That would make him a co-bed.
Blount is an okay backup, but he isn’t P12 starting material IMO. I get the impression he thinks he is more talented than he really is. If he wishes to transfer, more power to him. Hurts our depth, but if he finds a place to get more playing time can’t fault the kid.
Okay is a little relative.
I think he would be great as a change-of-pace QB this year. Luton has an obvious ceiling. Blount can break it because of his asymmetrical style. Luton can then clean up when the D has been given the runaround.
It’s not a difficult concept. It’s simply a matter of changing the personnel to match the practice personnel. I’ve always said that people working at 100% with 60% talent can outperform 90% talent that performs at >54%.
And it’s college football.
I’m gonna stick with those numbers.
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I wonder if Smith can talk him into staying. He has already transferred once. If he is feeling like he is a sold #2 then maybe they can talk him into be ready to go at any moment if Gebbia is injured. I don’t blame him if he does leave though. Seems to be the new thing for qbs losing out on starting.
I really don’t care about Luton or Blount or this year. This is a throwaway year. I don’t think any reasonable analysis would say otherwise.
What I think is that the O-line talent on the practice squad is intuitively better than what is on the field currently. It will take a year of proper direction to make them whole. While they do that, our future QB is working our D, making them better by sheer will… as a scout QB.
I’ve seen some improvement on D. We’re at least leaning forward on some tackles, now.
Atleast you admit it
off topic any good site for election results tonight?
Either way the races go I’d still like to be informed.
You can see live results here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-senate-elections.html
realclearpolitics.com Has a good interactive website.
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/smartpolitics/
This was an odd one, given the numbers.
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/smartpolitics/2018/10/30/chuck-grassley-win-onefor-the-grim-reaper/
What might possess a wholly truthful candidate for public office to say something like that?
Men’s hoops looking fantastic so far. Leading UC Riverside by 1 at halftime. They were picked to finish 7th in the 9 team Big West.
No excuses this year.
sounds about right. I forgot they played tonight.
Tuned in to watch the Zion Williamson show on Espn. Game time was listed as 6:30. Instead, they bait and switched us and gave us a 30 minute college football playoff top 25 rankings show. Like anybody tuning in to duke/kentucky gives a shit about playoff seeds
Gill looks good though with the new lighting and video boards
It’s weird. But I guess it’s good. It’s what I’ve always wanted. So I’ll get used to it.
But it’s bright, and I’m still watching the end boards.
UCR has a little bit of talent. I’m confused about what he’s doing with his bigs. Dijkstra (sp) is a good 4, but he was planted in the corner far too often. Martin reminded me of World B Free out there. When he was on, the game was ridiculous. When Dragon was on at the same time (mostly on transition 3s) they were gaining.
There’s a lot to work with on that team. I think the prognosticators were wrong on their outlook, unless their conference is about six tourney teams deep.
That being said, our low efficiency periods were when we were rotating the newbies. It’s expected. The vets performed well together. It’s on them to make the rest feel at home when on the court.
I’m confused about the constant need to iso Stevie. He’s not a franchise 2. He’s immensely better at the 2 than he is at the 1. And I think he can become a franchise 2. His D is a good sight better than it was last year, given his remaining weaknesses. I guess that”s what fueled the run when we started to press. Although, they were throwing the ball to all sorts of weird spaces when that happened. So that may be a coaching thing.
G settled in after what was probably the turning point in the game–when Tres made the falling down dish. That was such a smart play, knowing he was just sitting there, waiting to come open. The isos with Stevie over the previous 3 (?) possessions were a waste. That was a time to utilize the workmanlike effort Hollins put in.
I thought that was an unfair task as well, but I’m happy he put in the work without complaint. That’s a team player.
Nicebeaver, we have any shot with Darnell Washington? The dual offers help?
Idont know that a dual offer makes a difference unless other schools arent offering football. In this case, he can play for pretty much any team he wants on a football scholarship, and i doubt any team’s basketball program would say no to a non scholarship spot for him on their roster, so he’d have that opportunity pretty much anywhere he goes.
Togiai was a little different because teams liked him for basketball, but OSU was the only school to offer him for both football and basketball(utah may have tried adding football really late in the process, after it was too late)
But as far as our chances…..when I see an Auburn and Alabama offer on the list, I immediately count us out.
Yeah, when I saw ‘Bama had offered, I didn’t think we had a chance. Not sure how much more effort the staff is going to make but at least they’re going after the top talent. With the transfers that we’ve gotten, can’t hurt to establish some type of relationship as who knows what may happen in a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyh-JpWdGmQ
It’s a mother-beautiful bridge.
And it’s gonna be there.
WEDNESDAY MORNING CHUCKLE:
Here is Slick Willie after he decided to give up play calling (can you spell scapegoat?)
“I’m not a big ego guy,” he said. “I’m going to always do what’s best for our program. And just because I give up play(calling) doesn’t mean I’m not involved in it. I’m still going to be involved in everything and make suggestions when I need to. But I felt like this is what our football team needed.”
I was already bummed about the USC game, but now I learn we have a men’s soccer team ranked in the top 25. Crap :-(
You’d think Coach Smith would “borrow” one of their players to kick for us. That is exactly what my high school football coach did, our kickers sucked bad so he went to soccer practice and talked to their coach. We ended up with a swedish foreign exchange student doing our place kicking and he was money.
You can’t really do this. If the player in question is on a soccer scholarship (even just a partial one) than the rules dictate that he would count towards your 85 football scholarships.
Math aside… or not… the soccer coach can offer up any deep benchers who are likely redshirts. The premise has validity. I would look for keepers and sweepers. If they’re any good as midfielders or strikers, they should be playing… given we don’t have international players at those positions… which no NCAA team has.
I’m totally aware of the players scholarship counting towards football. What I was getting at is this is a position of need that doesn’t seem to be being addressed. Heck even a walk on soccer playerprobably could be convinced to try out for kicker. It’s just a thought, maybe Coach Smith has a plan …
You haven’t been watching them?
Or is not getting a 30 second break after five seconds of action confusing for you?
Wow
It’s not my rant, but I’ve heard it enough.
Why do people play soccer?
So they don’t have to watch it.
It’s a free country.
Suck it.
I would like to know what’s going on with Mankato, St Cloud and Du-loot?
Holy crap!
One of them as an upstart is fun. All of them as the powers is funky.
It’s going to be a fun season… for teams that can compete.
Beavers can win the conference should they beat Washington, and Stanford loses.
https://osubeavers.com/news/2018/11/6/mens-soccer-beavers-head-north-for-regular-season-finale.aspx
This is a great story, and good for OSU, who would thumb down a beav team for doing well?
Soccer hasn’t done this well since 2009, and coached by a local dude is cool too. Say what you want about Barnes he may have found an actual coach.
The coaches have several National Championships among them. Pretty impressive this being Head coach Boss’s first year at the helm.
Their system/style should be very open to recruits. I’m acquainted with coach Simmons and ran into him at FM last fall. He’s confident the team is headed in the right direction. I think he laid a great foundation, and innovative minds are taking that to a new level.
We might challenge the Appalachian stranglehold on the sport with this process. It’s kinda fun to watch.
Then we have to challenge the Pac refs to keep it from being a bully sport, like the Premiere League. Stanford and (to a lesser extent, and more annoyingly) UCLA get those calls to an unfair point.
Hi Jack
Hi, Coward.
Yikes!
No rate hike now?
A December hike is too late for an already unstable market. Consumer confidence can’t break free from consumer debt. Those aren’t good numbers headed into a spending season.
I suppose I should back up the statement with real data:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-28/u-s-consumer-confidence-rises-to-highest-in-almost-18-years
-and-
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/08/14/household-debt-and-credit-report-up-by-82b-in-q2
What this means is that the US is giddy about spending, but we’re doing it on margin. That’s an instability common in all downturns. Call it a bubble if you like. Those will technically only appear in unique sectors. But its overall effect on the economy can be seen here. Come 2019 Q1, people will have to start servicing their debt. In order for them to contiue doing so at the rate they’re accumulating debt(or say they will), the GDP has to remain above its existing track for the length of that debt.
That means the economy has to be better than the best ever in the history of the world by a measure of 104%+1%+1% (rounded #s), the second 1% being the number required to account for the lag from this year.
Where a rate hike would be beneficial, now instead of next month, is in setting lending numbers and debt expectations headed into the spending season of Q4. Black Friday will be an unmanageable number for debt after the December hike, because it will have been borrowed against November expectations.
Business had already baked in a November rise. So at least they’ll be conservative about it and not ask consumers to overextend before money is tightened next month.
Right?
Invisible hand and all?
Good luck with that continued misread.
Americans just loves to print money for themselves. I wonder where they got that idea.
And if you think the Credit CARD Act of 2009 is going to keep the margins clean, as it had been doing (albeit, in the form of a starved dog, as the GOP seems to like its institutions who protect individual rights), then good luck with that as well. Did you forget that Dumbshit was POTUS?
http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-credit-card-agreements-cfpb-20180313-story.html
More sobering data:
https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-consumer-debt-keeps-skyrocketing-2018-2
The irrationalities in the market appear when Americans broke with their pattern of deleveraging Q4 debt in 2017 Q1.
Just like now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjjPlEW9bRM
Nice.
Love Carlin.
Question:
Did Dumbshit knowingly subvert the Constitution when “naming” Matthew Whitaker as acting AG, or did he subvert it because he’s really just as stupid as I believe he is?
The latter. He took advice from Kelly Ann’s husband, although he probably thinks the SCOTUS will have his back.
If they do, it would be a complete 180 from what they’ve written recently… specifically Dumbshit’s favorite Justice.
But that was when someone not inclined to make up laws (which word-for-word directly contravene actual laws) on a whim was in office. So we’ll see how much integrity they even pretend to have on this one.
Nothing would surprise me at this point. There’s a reason he so badly wanted Kavanaugh sitting specifically, and it wasnt for his track record on abortion rights.
Full disclosure: I voted for Trump (thought he was better for the economy and was over the Social Justice Warriors)…totally regret it. Went all blue except for two (R) on my CO ballot just to get checks and balances in place. The great thing about being a moderate is you can admit when you’re wrong. Judge Kav was the final straw. Voted Obama in the prior election, for reference…zero party affiliation.
Never been more embarrassed for America. Though, I really don’t want to see those SJWs back. So, this is a tough time and position for a moderate. The big question is how to stop all that SJW BS while also putting us on a good economic path? Might have to start a new blog for these topics.
It’s sad that people ask me not to vote my conscience just for checks and balances, and that they actually make sense.
I never understood the whole SJW thing. There are always going to be people on the fringes, complaining. Now they’re the establishment. It may be hard to discern sarcasm on the internet, but it sure looks easy enough to whine on twitter… constantly. I guess it’s just different for me because I didn’t interact with people who discussed that kind of thing. Or at least I didn’t have any reason to be in that kind of discussion.
Why would I, unless I choose to insert myself in some metaphysical discussion about something that doesn’t affect me? Nobody was or ever will be taking anything away from me because they are given equality under the law in a country of laws. If that were the case, I would take a long look at my moral standards, and I would wonder why they were so very weak.
Now it’s just in my face on a daily basis, affecting me directly. And the otherism is all-encompassing… and really insulting… and coming from a punk-ass bitch playing with daddy’s money.
Although, it is fascinating watching the super-volcano-like scar on humanity this se-ego produces. I wonder if I’d stop watching the trainwreck if I didn’t have to do so.
Whoa!
https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker/status/1060882574954835970
I guess it was as bad as the White House says it was.