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  1. Didn’t we rid ourselves of Ernie long ago? Guess not….

    Tough to tell who’s worse, Kent, or the guy that replaced him.

    Hoping for a few wins here too.

  2. I am going to post a 10,000 word recruiting treatise on this specific thread momentarily because I would like to antagonize a sleeping Beaver.

    Nevermind….Go Beavs kick Wazzu’s ass!

  3. Well I got my football season ticket renewal today. A little surprising but not surprising with the salaries of the new staff. Tickets are $90 more than last year with one less game. $379 vs $290 last year. Looks like the minimum donation in each section has increased too. Can anyone else confirm that? Hopefully enthusiasm for Andersen extends to the wallet.

  4. I do not like Kevin O’Neill. He sounds weird and looks like he should be in the financial industry. I heard he was also the idiot no hotels in Corvallis guy?

  5. Man, The offense has regressed. They are passing up open looks, missing layups, pulling the string on threes and not moving much. Defense can only take you so far, you do have to put the ball in the basket in this game.

    • And thank God GP-2 did not pick up a third foul. They need to play lock down D in the 2nd half and feed the ball to Jarmal (never thought I would be typing that). Also, Tinkle needs to come up with a way to get Schaft open looks.

  6. If these god dammed officials don’t start doing a better job look for something to fly from section 4 toward their pointy melons

  7. Well that was ugly, but a win is a win is a win. Held WSU to 18 2nd half points and absolutely shut down Lacey. Other than those 2 three’s by LMW he was MIA again. Olaf was MIA again as well. game ball to Jarmal Reid. He carried the team offensively tonight. Way to go big fella

    Entire group needs to practice Free Throws! Not good tonight guys!

    • It’s a game where you wonder how the hell did they win, but they did it with really tough defense in the 2nd half. Jarmal is a load and he has a lot of tricks around the basket to get his shot off.

      And I’m really getting tired of Kevin O’Neill and his “Oregon St.has no talent” bullshit. Nobody wins on the road with any consistency in the P-12 except Arizona.

      • yup. conference teams with winning road records………

        Arizona 3-1
        Stanford 3-2
        Utah is .500 at 2-2

        Tough to win on the road in conference. I still think the beavs have a shot at USC and at Cal. Something seems to have lit a fire under UCLA’s ass, but we’ll see if they can keep it up. Shocked they won at Stanford tonight

      • very true. I forgot about that first half one where he tripped over his own feet and he acted like he got pushed and they called Duvivier for the foul I believe. My bad. Lacey and Railey will share the award. Way to go pussies!

  8. I feel like at this point the team is like “How ugly can we win? A win is a win…fuggit”

    Hey man, they winning so I ain’t complaining. Let’s get these Fuskies on Sunday. It’s gonna probably be the same level as USC, so I hope you guys attending get there on time! It’s gonna be fun.

  9. It’s weird, I really like watching these P-12 Beav basketball games when they are close because scoring is such a precious commodity, It’s ugly, but in a way it’s a thing of beauty. Every basket matters. Every foul shot matters, every rebound matters. It engages me. It’s almost like watching a tough football game where teams don’t score on every drive. Little things matter every second.

      • I’ve posted this before but I don’t think that will be an issue next year. The guys coming in seem more team oriented. Thompson has won a state title last year in CA and Tinkle led his team to the finals and is leading the top team in Montana. Bruce was on a team that made the quarters in Southern CA. So they know what it takes to win as a team and that defense can’t be ignored. These guys get more of the state/league accolades than the AAU accolades. Rueck’s team is filled with 1st team all state kids vs AAU all stars.

        I would hope next year, the defensive intensity is still there but the offense is much more efficient with the new kids.

        • Couple of stats to point out,

          On defense –
          #8 in points allowed per game,
          #13 in defensive efficiency (points allowed on 100 possessions).
          #4 in opponent shooting percentage
          #25 in opponents turnover per possession

          On offense –
          #303 in points scored
          #244 in offensive efficiency (points scored on 100 possessions)
          #212 in shooting percentage
          #189 in turnovers per possession

          With the new guys, the defensive effort should still be there, maybe better with additional depth.

          I’m seeing some similarities to what Dick Bennett did at WSU many years ago. Essentially started from scratch. His teams were all about defense and grinding out possessions. Game were routinely in the high 40s and 50s. Ugly games but in the end it paid off when his son took over. 2 NCAA appearances and 1 NIT bid.

          • Tony still does that. He stresses D first. If his kids play his D to perfection, he gives them free license on the other end.

            I agree with this mentality wholeheartedly.

  10. Regarding GA, I think he just learned that he prefers building programs rather than inheriting a built program. Nobody is talking about that angle, but it seems the most obvious based on his path and things he’s said in interviews.

  11. IMO the team was still in shock after the drubbings they took in the desert. Confidence was extremely lacking and it showed early & often.

    The difference between the first and second halves was wonderful. They started getting their mojo back late first half and early in the second half and by the last 5 minutes were back on top of their game! Reid & Duvivier taking the lead to the win can only help the rest of the team.

    I expect a much better performance Sunday.

  12. Looks like I’ll be going to the Colorado MBB game. First game in 5 years.

    Nice to see Gill on tv with plenty of butts in the seats for a Thursday last night. House should be nearly full on Saturday vs UW. Not many tickets left aside from the nosebleeds and upper corners.

  13. Another thought:

    If CR was coaching this year with the 5 top scorers having left, everyone would deal with the likely 5-17 record right now as it being a “rebuilding year”, and what can you do…

      • I thought Oregon State was about, er, honoring the past and traditions LOL

        You’re right, I need to let CR and Rile E. go, but it’s so hard :-( How can you appreciate good performance when you can’t compare it to the subpar?

      • Hell make the clock variable: “Payton bringing the ball up the court, OSU with 25 on the shot clock – no wait! The clock just changed to 2 seconds! Payton steps into a 40-footer!….”

        Then make the points variable too – when the ball is mid-air. “Payton with the 3! NO! THAT WAS GOOD FOR 15! OSU up 16 now!”

        George Carlin had some good suggestions for sports….if the pitcher hits a batter, the batter is out. Basketball: Light the mid-court stripe on fire…football? too many just standing on the sidelines doing nothing, get ’em out there!

      • People in general want to see faster paced games. A lot of college basketball games end up slow and ugly. Rule changes to help scoring and pace are not for the die hard fans, it’s to get more casual fans be more interested in watching more often. College basketball games do not need a 35 second shot clock. That’s way too long. Eventually there will be a 25 or 24 shot clock and the game will be better for it. I hope they switch to 10 minute quarters next. It will only improve the game

        • Don’t women’s college games have a 30 second shot clock already? Never understood why the men’s was 35. I like 30. 2 possessions per minute. Clean and simple.

          I don’t like the idea of unveiling it during one of the post-season tournaments though. If teams play with the same rules all year, why would they think it’s a good idea to switch it up on them in the last couple games? Would much rather they waited until next year and then gave these rules to everybody at the same time.

        • Remove TV time-outs or give each team two time-outs per half and keep the four TV TOs. Nothing makes a game lag more than the TV TOs themselves… except when both teams have four TOs in the last minute of a close game.

          I’d also consider allowing a 30s TO on top of the other two full ones in each half, so long as it disappears after the -4:00 TV TO.

      • If you can keep possession for 30s in soccer, you probably have a very very good team. In fact, you would probably have one of the best teams in the world.

          • Why don’t you do it? And I’m not talking about the dumb-fuck argument where I suppose you need to go out against great athletes who are at the top of their sport and beat them. Just take a ball out on a field and go try out your shot clock idea. Start at one end of the field and go do it. Then do it for 45 minutes straight, take a fifteen minute break, and do it for another 45 minutes.

            Good luck.

  14. Hypothetical question….but it could potentially apply to one of the 2016 recruits.

    If a kid says that a school hasn’t been in contact with him for weeks, and said school said he was their number 1 target in his position for 2016, do you think the coaches have cooled on him?

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