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Good Coaching

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It’s amazing what good coaching can do. Basketball moves to 6-2 and looks better than CR’s teams despite the “lack of talent” we keep hearing about. Maybe effort should be included into the definition of talent? Maybe coach-ability should be included, too? Confidence? All these things are part of the picture. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, but you see what I’m getting at. Beavs need to get past Grambling on Monday to setup a good test vs Depaul.

I think we’ll see the same situation play out with football. We hear next year’s team is a 3 or 4 win team. I think it will be more like 6 or 7 wins just due to the upgrade in coaching. At that point talent does become the limiting factor, but a good coach can maximize talent and double win total.

Looking at the schedule, I think the basketball team will win 12 games minimum and maybe even 15 if their skills and confidence continue to build. You can see in the players’ eyes they’re buying in and believing in themselves. Again, I think we’ll see all these patterns with the football team, too, and we’re seeing how it makes a big difference. It’s why I had zero fear about Riley leaving. Talent is a factor, and it become a limiting factor when your coach has maxed out talent. The problem is Riley only got ~70% potential (being generous) out of his guys and didn’t put them in optimal position to succeed, so there’s a lot left to mine.

Mississippi State @ Oregon State

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Early game tomorrow with a 1pm tip.

Some are calling the Beavers’ style boring. I tweeted out that I personally find it gritty, hard nosed, and refreshing…better than anything CR ever did. Wayne Tinkle reteweeted that, so he at least appreciates some fans get it. It’s only 7 games so I don’t want to get too excited about Tinkle. CR looked good early on, too. But I like the style of play, the increased moxy of the team, more defense oriented, more designed plays on offense, and the rebounding and boxing out have been phenomenal so far.. This is all good. On an individual level, I see Victor Robbins stepping up his game and complimenting Payton. Olaf is hit and miss but can mix in with those guys to help out. The point guard, MD (can’t spell his name and don’t want to look it up) needs to finish in the lane. He does a good job getting into the lane, but can’t seem to finish. If he starts making those shots suddenly the offense is not bad with four guys who can score. This means there’s possible upside to the team. Until that happens, though, they’ll have to rely on defense and effort.

Gary Andersen Poster

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Why can’t the marketing department do anything right? They put a giant orange stripe right down the center of Andersen’s face?

A line down someone’s face is (a) disrespectful (b) looks like an Oompaloompa (c) looks like they’re crossing him out (d) looks like an old Polaroid exposed too soon (e) he looks badly sunburned, etc. Who thought this was a good idea, and how do they have a job?

Espn, Jim Rome, Lindsay Schnell, Ken Goe

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I’ve been thinking how to handle these ignorant/lazy media members.

The best approach is probably to blacklist them all in terms of reading their content, but at the same time “Tweet” at them, showcasing to the world their ignorant viewpoints. That way we don’t give them any clicks or ad revenue while getting our message across.

Gary Andersen is supposed to be on Rome next week, so he’ll probably have a lot of good things to say, and that will destroy Rome’s lazy narrative. I don’t think the guy has ever been to Corvallis…he talks about in the same way he’d talk about the moon (i.e. some vague idea of what it might be like).

Also, I’m going to be using Twitter a lot to destroy the narrative and go right at these guys. Recommend me a good handle/hash for this cause, and follow me here.

QB Log Jam

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OSU has 6 QBs on the roster.

Del Rio
VanderVeen
Kempt
McMaryion
Sanders
Mitchell

Andersen recruited Utah QB Austin Kafentzis to Wisconsin. Wonder if he comes to OSU now. He looks like the undersized, savvy type of guy who can run a little of every offense.

Either way, log jam that needs to sort out, because there can’t be 6 or even 7 QBs on the roster. Maybe the more pro-style guys follow Riley to Nebraska.

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