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  1. Amtrak road trip with my son to this game! The outcome of the game has no bearing on my enjoyment of the trip. Time spent with a loved one, making new friends, and experiencing new places and great food is what this weekend is all about for me.
    I hear Northlake Tavern has good pizza so we’re gonna hit that place for sure.
    Go Beavs!

      • Tailgating at UW is only worse in Provo. In the past we’ve found private parties at houses near the stadium but all my contacts have now graduated.
        We’ve also wandered the stadium lot in search of Beaver-friendly ‘gates, and while you’re sure to score a beer and some good-natured ribbing for wearing orange, none of these parties are fun enough to return.
        Rumor has it the “Girls Gone Wild” film crew will have a presence on a boat in the bay so we’ll see if I can get my 24 year old son some looks.

        • Gotcha, well my cousin and I will be there if your looking to meet up with fellow Beavs. We’re both originally from Corvallis. He still lives there I don’t. Let me know Jason.

          • Our plan on Saturday is to wake up whenever and grab some some cheap food after dropping a few bills tonight at Little Darlings. Then before kickoff we’ve had a suggestion that Northlake Tavern has killer pizza so we’ll hit that then walk or Uber it to the stadium and see if we can find Beaver friendlies.
            I haven’t looked but I’m sure stubhub has tix on the cheap. That’s almost always better than trying to find tix at the game.

          • Haha, here everybody is thinking this is a sweet, wholesome father/son outing to Seattle for some football, and really its more like a road trip to the tittie bar with some football on the side. You now have my vote for father of the year!

          • A sweet outing with your grade school age son or drunken debauchery with your adult son…….it’s all “thumbs up worthy” on this site!

          • It’s all about spending time altogether. The older I get the more important time has become. Memories with my Dad are priceless and I intend on giving my son a treasure chest full of memories with me.

  2. Meaningless, but then again if Riley wins he gets another year on his contract, right? Would that increase the buyout costs in the future? I just hate seeing mediocrity rewarded!

    • I get negatives for saying that mediocrity shouldn’t be rewarded??? How else would one describe Riley’s contract set up?

      Geez, tough crowd.

  3. Under 5 minutes to go. Sounds like Beavs men’s futbol is up 1-0 on Denver and on their way to a 1st round win if they can hang on a couple more minutes.

  4. Watching the K-State-WVU game. Bill Snyder is such a good coach. If there’s a coach who truly does more with less, it’s Bill Snyder. He’s on his way to more than likely at least a 9 win season and competing for a big 12 title. He’s basically all the things media members thinks Mike Riley is. They’re always so well coached and execute the gameplan.

        • Mutual cowering by both at best. Remember it was Nikegon who killed the deal because they wanted to play LSU at Jerryworld. In order to do that, they had to give up a home game. But they had to make up a home game the next year in order to get the accounting right, so their only road game had to be scratched.

          Guess where that road game was supposed to be.

          That was the front end of a home and home, and Nikegon also did not want to just swap the home and home dates. But they did want KSU to come the next year for the one-off. KSU was having issues with scheduling already because they suddenly had to go to a nine game conference slate and had a bunch of non-con games that were scheduled as much as six years earlier. So that was a highly unrealistic request if there is no home gate and game for the home crowd.

          So KSU just told them to stuff the contract somewhere else, and Nikegon fans started wailing about, “Ohhhh… they’re so scared… whaaaaaa!!!”

          As it turns out, it made a later boring match-up in the bowl game a little less boring.

          • Why would KSU want to travel to an “inferior opponent” either? When was the last time the ducks traveled to a ‘Nichols state’ type of program? Do they, the ducks, ever travel for a non-con, period?

  5. Peterson blows a game by bad clock management and their media is all over him. Riley does pretty much the same, and our media kisses his ass….

    A difference in expectations. They want and expect a winning program. We are happy with … a program. Get a team on the field in uniform and its all good. No wonder Riley likes cruise control…

  6. Two teams, both needing one win to go bowling. If ever there was a game for Riley to concentrate on, and win, this is it. So maybe he will?? Is there any way to predict our coach? LOL…

  7. 31-17 Huskies is my prediction. I just don’t see the beavs winning this one. UW is ready to bounce back at home after blowing it in Tucson last week.

    • A head coach with some success might be able to get away with a response like that now and again, but it’s a flippant answer from a coordinator and it shows Banker has no fear of losing his job.

    • Um… nobody knowing why is precisely why they didn’t show up to play.

      Hello?

      I need a job for a half million a year where I get to say, “I dunno,” to most questions. Where do I find one of those?

  8. MISSOULA — Another candidate has surfaced for head coach of the Montana Grizzlies, and he’s the biggest name in Division III since John Gagliardi.

    Lance Leipold of Wisconsin-Whitewater has shown his interest in the job, according to a couple of sources with knowledge of the situation. He’s coached the Warhawks to a 104-6 record in eight seasons, including a 10-0 mark this fall.

      • don’t want to belabor the coaching opportunity at U of M but there seems to be a ton of interest which tells me that this old saw “who would want to come to Corvallis?” is crap.

        • Don’t sell Montana short… which I’m sure you’re not doing, of all people.

          But Montana has a great atmosphere for football. It’s the only show in town, and the people love it enough to care to a high degree.

          The same is true in Fargo. They expect NDSU to be number one at the start of the season. They expect them to win the championship. And they expect one of their players to win the Payton award. It’s not like they woke up when all of a sudden this Bohl guy came onto the scene. There’s a long line of successful coaches on several levels dating back to the 60’s.

  9. The Beavs offensive line is outmatched by the UW front 7. UW will be pinning their ears back. Counter punching is their best strategy. Draws and screens and swing passes to the edges. Maybe a roll out here and there. They haven’t done that in a while.

  10. Who will UW try to take out this year? It was Wheaton previously. I’m guessing Woods and Villamin receive some questionable shots to try and hurt them or intimidate them.

    Beavs have to be un-Beav-like and when hit in the mouth, hit back. Not cheaply, but hard.

    If Brown can break through the first line of UW’s defense, his speed will

    • I was going to say the cheap shots followed Sark to USC, but then I remembered Peterson had a guy take a head shot at James Rogers, so wouldnt be surprised to see similar garbage happen at UW.

      • My thoughts as well. The Beavs seem to follow Riley and don’t hit back, let alone trade cheap shots. One of Riley’s many shortcomings.
        Only chance for payback that I see involves the combo of Bray and Wynn, they both approach the game with a warriors attitude. Perhaps if the questionable cheap shots are obvious enough we’ll see some retribution. Not holding my breath.
        There is this possibility; Petersen has kicked some of the most likely suspects off the team, maybe that cuts the chances and we see a clean game, ….maybe.

      • Peterson’s teams have had a rep for taking cheap shots. I thought this was a means – to some degree – to compensating for having less talent.

        The teams could play disciplined football in terms of sticking to their assignments (like when they shut down UO/Blount), and I really like that about his teams. But then on top of that there was some cheapness to intimidate or whatever.

        I expect it to emerge this weekend in Seattle as they are striving for bowl eligibility and Riley’s teams don’t respond to this kind of attack.

        Woods has been running impressively hard as of late; his 35-yarder against ASU was a thing of beauty, the best run of the night. He’d better be prepared for not just taking hits, but delivering them on the end of his runs.

        I’d like to see Haskins get the opportunity to deliver punishment too. Like Jack said, not every run has to gain a lot of yards to be effective…

    • …a welcome addition to the backfield. And let Haskins go hit somebody if needed. He doesn’t need the ball.

      As you can tell, I think the Beavers have to be aggressive and take the fight to UW and then not back down. Not in character, but likely necessary this weekend.

  11. Watching 20/20 and the next portion is about a girl who stole from her friends. I could have sworn she had a Beaver hat on and a duck jersey on in another clip…

    See what type of publicity we get

  12. Don’t see Riley getting back to back wins over decent competition. Game will have more than a handful of moments to be won but Pass Happy Mike will revert to game losing habits. More heat was taken off after last week than what is deserved. Barring Riley making a series of atleast a few pretty goid decisions in the 2nd half, this most likely goes down as a loss.

    That would make for 12 losses in the last 14 conference games. Gets you fired at over 95% of P5 programs. Prove me wrong Riley. But I see Riley submediocrity continuing. Rather we reinvent and go for the rejuvenation being seen under Tinkle. At bare minimum Read has to go this offseason and spend that 500K on a recruiting ace.

    Huskies 37, Oregon State 27

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