I am trying this Sprague/Machado podcast out. First episode aired today. I just started, so no opinion yet, but here you go if you’re interested.
https://soundcloud.com/dirt-sprague/the-dam-podcast-episode-1
I’m listening now. Machado is hilarious. She was such a supporter of Riley, yet she’s already saying there’s much more excitement around this camp. Duh, because Riley was a problem, which I told you over and over, Mamma.
Maybe more comments as I work through this thing.
What is this crap? I went to the site looking for updated rosters and find this:
http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics33/1280/SQ/SQSXWKUTCUONGTZ.20150804224236.jpg
http://image.cdnllnwnl.xosnetwork.com/pics33/1280/KR/KRKJGKLUSLZHPXM.20150805171816.jpg
LOL!
Is this random clip art? That 2nd image looks like a bad 80s cartoon.
Way to nail it this time, marketing department.
This is funny.
So while at Oregon State, a few miles from the Ducks and watching them kill him ever year, he never thought to take inspiration from that offense. Now at Nebraska, he does?
Just shows how complacent he’d become. Now that fans have demands (not just expectations), there’s a fire under his ass, and he’s suddenly open to ideas.
Also hilarious is this:
“We just have to be really careful in what we select to do. And then, like I said, we’ve got to practice it like crazy so it becomes our identity. That’s what you’re always looking for.”
Always looking for that identity, Mike. How about this for your identity: a guy who is a chameleon, poseur, changing only to meet expectations of the job and nothing more…oh, and not knowing how to utilize players or timeouts. There’s your identity, buddy.
From a guy who emailed me this article:
I love how he is actually willing to change when someone puts their foot up his ass and he knows his job is in the balance if he doesn’t perform.
Precisely. Well said. Riley is the worst.
It seems people are upset about the Jordan Stevenson situation and now saying this staff can’t recruit. Well it’s only July and they have five 3-star recruits. That’s better than Riley could do most years by this point, at least from my memory.
It’s definitely frustrating that they aren’t in the mix for Stevenson. It’s equally frustrating they can’t land a big name, breakthrough recruit. But these guys signed an entire class and now 8 good looking prospects this cycle without even coaching a game, so they’re doing okay. I think we need to let an entire season play out on the field to see if that generates any recruiting buzz. We think recruits should be as excited about GA as we fans are, but it doesn’t work that way. So yes, disappointing we’re not seeing a huge uptick (though I’d argue there is an uptick — GA is getting better players), disappointing they weren’t in the Stevenson mix, frustrating they can’t land a big name, frustrating that players de-committed, but let them coach a season first before getting worked up about it.
Unless the team looks awful during the season, I think come February the Beavs will have signed their best class ever. I’m going to say top 35 class when all is said and done.
Twitter is disruptive technology. Just look how easy it was for a blog like this to open a recruiting division. Now I’m looking into media/press. What I am talking about is Twitter Periscope. If you don’t know what that is, watch this brief video.
I don’t think Wall St is valuing the stock properly, and I’m not sure Twitter even understands the ramifications of Periscope. Essentially, anyone with a phone and the periscope app can stream live (yes, live in real time) to Twitter. This means several things for angrybeavs:
1. Anyone at a football game can stream that game and give different vantage points. For example, a perspective from in the stands, different view point, the fan’s reactions, dialogues, etc.
2. Anyone walking around campus can stream their interactions with players. We hear people claim, “I met player x in class, and he was a real jerk.” Well, with this technology, everyone can see that. Maybe impromptu interviews if you meet a player, etc.
3. Show practices (that are open to the public) in real time. Imagine being able to watch practices instead of reading summary reports? The reports are great, but it would be even better to watch the practice and maybe have Silverstream and others give commentary over it.
4. Various other uses. For example, a user can create and host their own show and field questions, creatively find ways to access coaches/ask questions, those who go to local high school football games can ask recruits questions, etc. The limitation is the user’s creativity.
Essentially this would all create an AB television/media division. We can have a twitter channel of our live streams and link it right onto the main AB site just like the recruiting. It also gets everyone involved in providing content.
This is extremely disruptive technology. The old paradigm is over. The question is: do you guys have any interest in this? It would require the AB army to be out there using this technology. If so, we can set up a periscope channel (I’m not sure how to do this part yet, but I’m sure it’s easy).
It’s interesting that Twitter is providing some of the most interesting technology out there; technology that actually has utility, and yet most people in finance are down on the stock. This is extremely disruptive technology. Did I mention that yet?? Think about how as soon as we launched a recruiting feed, Beaverblitz did the same a week later. Blitz has even stole leads from Beavrecruiting. The old media can’t keep up with the new, and the new technology is making their old business models obsolete — things happening in real time, where we can form opinions on the fly, are simply more interesting than things that happened in that past written down on paper and filtered through someone elses viewpoint or opinion.
