Southern Illinois @ Oregon State
8pm tip.
Game thread.
Regarding the “Jaquizz” Gaffe…
Turns out the marketing department was behind it. Yes, the same geniuses who brought you men in bras and the shark-headed Beaver have now brought you “Jaquizz Rodgers” (come on, that just looks wrong), whoever he is.
Apparently they have a gameday script which they read over the PA during timeouts and such, and they also post some of this information on the scoreboard. In the script, the name was spelled correctly in some parts but incorrectly in others. This misprint is in bold font both times, yet nobody noticed it was spelled differently than the correct version, which was only one sentence after.
Embarrassing.
If you’re going to honor a guy get his name right. Double and triple check it. There’s nothing else to say about that.
We have needed an overhaul of marketing for years. Is this the final nail in that coffin? I doubt it because nothing changes at OSU (though the higher ups are riled over this). You can take a snapshot today, put it in a time capsule, and in 20 years it’ll be the same dumbasses running the show, only a little older and a little balder.
Beaverblitz Looks Cassandra Today
I can’t read the threads, but the titles sound Cassandra!
http://oregonstate.rivals.com/forum.asp?fid=1248
Maybe they will finally admit difficult truths.
You know, this reminds me of 1999 with the internet stock bubble, housing bubble (1.0 and the current 2.0), and perhaps the most recent Bitcoin bubble. “They can never go down!” and other logic-defying rationalizations. The people knowingly entrenched in awful products have every motivation to perpetuate them. This is human nature. They will lie to themselves until the lie becomes so patently false that it’s more embarrassing to spew it than admit the truth. Based on the Blitz thread titles and the Gazette article, maybe these pea brains’ synapses are finally firing. Time is a great equalizer, and eventually the truth surfaces. It is never pretty, always painful, but life always moves on.
Even if the Beavs win the Civil War, it’s just more Lucy Van Pelt. The Riley story has ended–what you’re witnessing is the epilogue.
Beavs Honor Jacquizz Rodgers at Halftime by…Misspelling His Name
Beavs can’t seem to do anything right.
Oregon State scoreboard shows James Rodgers and his brother "Jaquizz"… missing a "c" there.
— John Canzano (@JohnCanzanoBFT) November 24, 2013
Washington @ Oregon State
Game thread.