Weekend game thread. Start times below.
| 03/01/13 | vs. Bryant | Corvallis, Ore. | 5:35 p.m. PT |
| 03/02/13 | vs. Bryant | Corvallis, Ore. | 1:05 p.m. PT |
| vs. Bryant | Corvallis, Ore. | 3:30 p.m. PT | |
| 03/03/13 | vs. Bryant | Corvallis, Ore. | 1:05 p.m. PT |
Video feed: http://pac-12.com/live/osubeavers.aspx
Go Beavs
Nice to see Kavin Keyes continuing to produce.
Beavers’ offense is going to break out in the next inning or so, have just missed on some pitches.
Hate to see Boyd make that play with the runner at his back, spent a couple hours getting sewed up from cleats in the head on a similar play.
So nice to watch and listen to Beaver Baseball in the early spring! Can’t believe SDSU had no audio. C’mon guys…18-0 is within reach! :)
Looked like Casper learned his lesson, seemed very aware of the runner at third on the 1-3 putout.
Leadoff double by Andy Peterson to start the third. Time to take the lead.
Man, I thought Max Gordon might have gotten that over the RF’s head at first, good at-bat though. Runner on third and 1 out for Smith.
Man, the Beavers can’t catch a break early on. A lot of hard hit balls right at guys. Bryant’s starter isn’t fooling anyone, just been very fortunate.
Scoreless after 3 1/2 innings
Dylan Davis needs to be more selective at the plate. Has swung at a couple bad pitches for groundouts so far. Needs to be more patient and swing at better pitches when he gets ahead in the count or on first pitches.
Another hard hit ball right at a defender. Eventually some of these balls are going to start finding holes. Scoreless after 4 innings
Nice throw by JRod to second.
1-0 Bryant. They’re starting to hit Boyd hard
Casper make me nervous at first base.
As soon as his foot was hit the ump was calling safe, otherwise looked like a POSSIBLE out.
Boyd has been leaving the ball up in the zone all night, Bryant finally making him pay for it.
1-0 Bryant after 5 innings
No word on bullpen activity for the Beavs; doubt Boyd finishes the sixth unless there is a DP.
Boyd showed you!
Must be that bump on my head!
Again, on the sac, Casper aware of the baserunner.
Smith with a leadoff walk off of the new pitcher, now is the time to put some runs across!
Bryant has been about as lucky as it gets tonight
Another ball smoked and right at the centerfielder. Incredible good fortune
Beavs are crushing the ball. Just getting unlucky.
Man. 2 hard hit right at em.
All this bad luck means the Beavers are gonna explode for 6 or 7 runs in the 8th
Yeah, this new pitcher isn’t fooling anyone. I don’t know about 6 or 7 runs, but 3 or 4 would probably be plenty.
I was just saying with all of the bad luck the Beavers would get an inning where everything goes their way. Got to even out to a degree at some point tonight.
OK, gotcha
The umpires have been just awful tonight
Especially the plate ump. Very inconsistent on breaking balls.
1-0 Bryant after 6 1/2 innings. Time to get some runs.
Keyes makin’ it look easy on the final out, luck may be turning.
Runner on second and 1 out with Keyes up. Bryant RF dropped the ball in RF, got to take advantage of it
Beavers need a big time clutch hit from Jake Rodriguez
Jake Rodriguez with an RBI single to tie the game at 1, gets thrown out at second base after oversliding the base.
That stupid fieldturf makes you slide forever. Got the tying run in though.
Can’t do that there. Huge mistake.
They need to practice sliding on it. If that’s dirt he doesn’t end up 5 feet past the base.
Schultz is making perfect pitches
Leadoff walk, top of the order comin’ up. Time to put this away.
Casey puts on the butcher boy play. Genius move by Pat Casey. Worked out perfectly, runners on first and third and no outs for Tyler Smith
Butcher boy play? What does that mean? Sounds cool
Squaring around early on a bunt to get the infielders to begin coming in, then pulling it back at the last minute and slapping the ball. It’s basically to hit a ball on a line at charging infielders so they have no time to react to it and can get it past them pretty easily.
Ummm… I don’t think it means that. To butcher boy a pitch is to swing down on it in a chopping manner. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a bunt. It’s just the motion of the swing involved.
Ichiro is a master of the butcher boy… and many other swings.
That show bunt is called a slug bunt last I knew. It can be completed with a butcher boy for a dribbler, or the batter can pull back and slam a high fastball for a double like Fernando used to do.
It is meant to chop down on the ball and hit past the charging infielders, it has many different names. Ichiro did not do the butcher boy. Slapping hits and butcher boy are not the same thing. Butcher boy is to show a bunt initially, pull it back and chop down at the ball to get it by the infielders. I don’t believe Ichiro ever did this in MLB.
That’s a slug bunt.
Unless the slang changes over time and terminology changes with it and I’m just late to the party.
When Valenzuela would show bunt then pull back and swing away, that was not a butcher boy. That was a slug bunt which he usually drove for a double. And you know how round that boy was.
Ichiro did whatever it took to get his bat on the ball. Some were slaps. Some were cricket digs. Some were butcher boys. He was so good early in his career that he would start on what he thought was a fastball then chop his swing to catch a change up that was dropping in front of him.
The swing is also a common swing for batting practice since it over-emphasizes the importance of driving down on the ball.
Here’s the question….can a butcher boy swing lead to a Baltimore chopper?
It can, but not if done right. The butcher boy is meant to meet the ball on the downward swing and drive it forward, not down.
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Is that a kind of cycle?
A sac fly is all that’s needed from Davis, a base hit will work, too.
Bryant (whoever they are) has played a good game. Game out of a runner on third no out situation. Beavs fail in the clutch.
Beavers have just had some really bad luck. Dylan Davis hits another ball very hard and it’s right at the shortstop
Beavs can’t get any more unlucky. There is a Bryant fielder at the end of every line drive.
Tied at 1 going to the bottom of the 9th. Time to get a run at get the win
2 outs
Where the hell is Bryant U?
Rhode Island
They should call themselves the Bear.
Smithfield to be exact. Never heard of it before
Perfect bunt by Peterson after Jake Rodriguez’s single. Jansen will be bunting here to put runners on second and third
great AB Tyler
Perfect execution of small ball in the bottom of the 10th to win it. Walk-off RBI single for Tyler Smith. 2-1 Beavers win and now 9-0
Beavers win 2-1!
Touchdown Beavers!
It’s a joy to watch a team that is disciplined, executes their jobs to near perfection, and never stops battling. Essentially, Beaver baseball is the antithesis of Beaver basketball.
Especially winning on a night when seemingly nothing is going your way and having terrible luck. Gotta love this team.
Terrible luck?
Hey Jason… tell us about luck again. Apparently one team gets to use it as an excuse.
Great fallacy-o there uncanny.
Wa what? Luck? Dammit Jack, I’m in Hood River enjoying a 3 day birthday party with the other half of ‘Fat’ Tailgate Society, getting updates on Beaver baseball from AB.com resulting in another win, dreading Monday’s logo announcement, and you have to bring up my most hated line, “fuck o the Beavs” or something like that.
We haven’t spoken literally months and this is how you’re going to drag my pathetic ass back into the fray from my football hibernation 6 months before the season?!
Aw, I see you’ve already grown tired of the other posters so you come back to your favorite whipping boy, ole JtB. I miss you too Jack. Seriously we should have an off season brew at Oregon Trail with Pettibonehead just to live on the edge.
PS
BeavGoph, your two-bowl-games-in-two-nights and your downing of free waffles performance lived on tonight at our Beaver BS session. We hope to add to your legacy this coming season.
Hey Jason. Just looking at the football schedules last weekend. Will be coming out for a game, perhaps SC. Happy birthday to the matriarch of the FTS. If the Luck o the Beavs does not take hold, perhaps see you in Omaha.
For an explanation of luck watch Woody Allen’s Match Point.
LOL … please dont mention Beaver BB! With so many first half leads, an even decent coach would have more conference wins. CR needs to go….
GREAT GOIN, Beaver baseball!!!
Yes, why pollute a baseball thread with talk of Beaver basketball. Thanks for the updates GB90 and all. Did y’all notice that the forks beat Arky in Suprise yesterday, 3-2.
Gonzaga also beat Arkansas today. Marco Gonzales threw a complete game shutout, same guy the Beavers knocked out of the game a couple weeks ago. If Beavers handle business the next 2 days, they’ll jump into the top 5 in all the polls. Oregon lost to Fullerton 8-2 as well.
That gives Reed both duck loses. Fullerton scored 3 runs in the 4th on two WP and a passed ball.
Tridents!
What half-moron or higher intelligence being looks at a gig and calls it a fork? They’re not used for even remotely similar purposes.
Besides… tridents are way cooler. Who the hell would fear a fork? I’d fear a spoon before I’d fear a fork.
We could settle on the ASU Frogstickers…
Ahhhh, but that’s exactly why you call them forks, a fan that does not like their opponent uses every device to ridicule them, ergo forks instead of tridents.
I can go with this. We can laugh at them when they use the term themselves.
Ever hear their motto “Fear the Fork”? Yeah.. take it up with ASU
Fork you!
First game Saturday will start at NOON. The change from 1:05 recently posted on the team twitter page.
https://twitter.com/Beaver_Baseball
Trying to beat the rain
Beavs sure know how to play play baseball. Congrats! Looks like another stellar year in hardball in Beaverville
PS – I think this Beav team has a shot at #3. I hate myself for even saying that.
Whilst waiting for today’s baseball games and especially for haters and loathers of the despicable Lynn Snyder, the track team is in Salem – taking baby steps into full recovery after being left for dead. Two women are in Seattle at the Dempsey indoor – a good high jumper and a 13,000 meters runner. And Ryan Cope, freshman football player is going to run hurdles in Salem this evening. It’s all on the OSU website. As if that isn’t enough, the softball team is playing today and they’ve done well so far.
Gotta love spring sports.
I agree. I need to follow the track program’s progress.
And beavers wrestling in the pac12 championships which they should win.
Nevermind, baseball back to a 1:05 pm start
Should be another series sweep (last night’s game was the toughest)
The stream is terrible today
Joe Theisman says Beta Prostate helped him. Give it a try.
Lol. Well done.
The sound is fine for me but the video keeps freezing about every 3-4 seconds.
1-0 Bryant after a half inning
Unearned but Child didn’t sound sharp.
He’s not. He’s not hitting his spots, falling behind in the count, needs to start throwing some quality strikes.
We’re lucky to have Jim Wilson. He could be doing bigger things imo.
Absolutely, he is so knowledgeable in both FB and Baseball and has a way of not speaking over the play by play guy. His experience as a school teacher must come into play in both his timing and the well presented comments. Even I understand what he says!
Wilson said something very provocative after Friday’s game. Called it a “system win,” by which he means OSU is a team that is resilient, expects to win, is well-coached, and finds a way. All of the qualities that are absent in the hoops squad and too rare on the gridiron.
… all of the qualities which were not present for the first six years Casey led this team in the Pac 10.
Single by Conforto scores a run to tie it up, no RBI though. Runners on first and second and no outs. Keep tacking on runs.
The Bryant pitcher actually has a nice tailing 2 seam fastball. Reminds me of Sam G a bit.
Two run double by Dylan Davis and it’s 3-1. Starting to see Dylan Davis adjusting to the pitch on the outside part of the plate and driving it. Great to see.
3-1 Beavers after an inning but poor execution after Davis’ double, probably should have gotten another run.
Hard to complain about a crooked number inning but they wasted a run not getting Davis across from second with nobody out.
How can this not be available on an ipad?
3-1 Beavers after 2 innings
Child has been wild, really lacking command today and the defense hasn’t been good either
Jake now with an error and a passed ball this inning. Not a very good start.
Jake has had such a good run to this point, his maturity should help him put poor play behind him.
3-2 now after a ground out
3-2 Beavers after 2 1/2 innings
3-2 Beavers after 3 innings
3-2 Beavers after 3 1/2 innings. Time to extend the lead.
Beavs kinda sleepwalking through their at bats since the 1st.
1 out single by Keyes.
1 out bunt by Jake Rodriguez. Interesting decision by Casey.
It doesn’t work out, no shock there. 3-2 Beavers after 4 innings
Great catch by Conforto and that ball carried a ways. Not gonna take a really well hit ball to get out in left field today.
Conforto and Keyes, two very nice defensive plays, gotta love it!
Conforto destroys a two run shot to right field and it’s 5-2 Beavers. You could tell he was getting closer to hitting one out today. His swing was looking good and he just missed a pitch last time up. Having a guy hitting like Dylan Davis is behind him forces pitchers to give him more pitches to hit
right over Benny’s head in the top row of the RF bleachers!
basic viewing rule: don’t look away from screen when Conforto is at the plate. dang it.
5-2 Beavers after 5 1/2 innings
Luck o the Beavs, liner at Smith, DP to end the t7. Jansen due up to start the Beavs half of the 7th.
Beavers pretty fortunate there, runner on the move and Smith moves over to cover and it’s a line drive right at him for a double play. 5-2 Beavers after 6 1/2 innings
Back-to-back singles by Peterson and Tyler Smith and runners on the corners and 1 out for Michael Conforto.
RBI single by Conforto and it’s 6-2. Conforto is getting hot now
Bases juiced and 2 outs for Jerad Casper.
7-2 Beavers after 7 innings
I like Peterson in the leadoff spot much better than Max.
Same. Patient, got some speed and a much bigger threat with the bat than Gordon
Home plate umpires the first two games have had very inconsistent strike zones.
Love Tony Bryant’s change up.
How many left on in this game by OSU?
9, I believe
Beavers win 7-2 and are now 10-0.
Andrew Moore with an easy top of the first to start game 2
Not to start counting chickens before they hatch but does anyone know what San Francisco and Texas St look like? What our odds of a sweep in those series?
Texas State is 3-7, San Francisco is 4-7. Texas State has some solid starters at the top of the rotation but the Beavers should handle their bats. San Francisco is alright. They’ve battled Arizona this weekend although losing both games. I think San Francisco has a better chance of beating the Beavers than Texas State does. Neither series will be easy, but I like OSU’s chances to sweep Texas State.
Michael Conforto two run home run and it’s 2-0 Beavers
2-0 Beavers after an inning
Andrew Moore is hitting the corners to perfection early on.
YEA… We beat Bryant…. We beat Bryant!!
I was afraid they would be the toughest games on the schedule. After beating them the PAC-12 will be a cakewalk! Has any baseball team gone undefeated? Until this year? JB
PS: Question…. where is Bryant? Do they have a nickname? Is there any chance we could get them on the basketball schedule?
Smithfield, Rhode Island.
I think we should avoid the powerhouse basketball program Bryant. We inevitably would blow our first half lead in embarrassing fashion.
Bulldogs
Anyone have an idea how hard Moore throws? From the looks of it, he’s really running it up there.
High 80’s to early 90’s
Great catch by Matthews. Beavers have made some great plays defensively this series
Beavers might sweep, but Bryant at least seems to offer some competition. I remember a series against Hartford (I think a couple of years ago) and it was brutal. All their pitchers could do was throw mid-80’s fastballs over the middle of the plate on almost every pitch. I think SDSU was targeted as the test and Beaver pitching dominated.
Bryant has a solid team, no nonconference team is a breeze this season, which was a nice change.
2-0 Beavers after 4 1/2 innings
Gabe Clark with an RBI triple and it’s 3-0
Andrew Moore with a 3 hit shutout through 7 innings. 3-0 Beavers
3-0 Beavers after 7 innings
Moore with a 3 hit shutout through 8 innings
Engelbrekt coming in to close the game with runners on first and second and no outs
3-1 Beavers
Engelbrekt closes it out, Beavers win 3-1. Wasn’t a pretty game but a win nonetheless. Beavers are now 11-0
How close was the 3-2 pitch from loading the bases?
Pretty close, it was in the dirt but Bryant’s hitter couldn’t check his swing.
It was out of the zone but they called him on the checked swing. It was pretty close to not being a swing.
Things are falling their way. It just happens when you’re a good team.
11-0 with a team era of 0.90 ain’t too shabby. Can’t wait til league play starts, Pac-12 has some very good teams.
Best conference in college baseball. Amazing depth in the conference with Arizona, ASU, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford and UCLA all capable of deep postseason runs.
Gophers 2-2 vs PAC 12 this year…………..just saying LOL.
Forks, yes Jack forks, beat Arky again today 3-1. Not a good trip west for them. Fullerton up on the ducks 3-0 in the third.
Oregon and Cal are having a rough start to the weekend, understandable though with facing some great competition.
I’ll take the advice from above and just laugh at their idiocy. They call themselves forks and have a trident for their logo.
You say tomato, I say tomatillo.
Players seem to be pretty excited for the rebranding Monday. Steven Nelson saying
” So ready for this beaver unveiling Nike giving us 3 new helmets unis and everything else this year #gobeavs”
#who stole my bike?
Check out OSU baseball intro video. Great stuff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFrqM7btDPw
Such a great play from Conforto to Gorton at the end!
Never get tired of seeing Gorton spiking the ball.
OT – From Wilner’s blog:
“The NCAA punished Saint Mary’s on Friday for recruiting violations and hit coach Randy Bennett with a failure to monitor/failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance — severe charges that will be a lasting stain on his reputation.”
“Failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance”? How might this figure into the Ucks situation? Is this charge part of a defined list, or just the NCAA working “on the fly”?
It’s just part of the descriptive meaning for the FTM violation. FTM is usually leveled against a school/coach/admin when the players are doing something without their knowledge. In the case of Bennett, it was a former assistant coach who violated rules.
When you see this kind of penalty you’ll also hear about how the coach never knew, and the NCAA is just being mean and blah blah blah. But in the rules it says the buck stops with the coach. If his underlings or players do something wrong, it’s assumed that the coach didn’t take the time to mentor them on compliance.
Penalties will depend on how obvious the violation was and how experienced the violator might be. A frosh who walks onto campus and screws up on his first day will barely turn the NCAA’s head. When a school has a history of many frosh screwing up on the first day year after year (Boise State) then it gets a little more serious. When it’s an assistant coach, it’s more serious still.
When it gets to the point that many assistants are violating many rules or many players are openly breaking many rules, then even if the coach has no idea these things are going on the school just has no control over the situation. That’s when the NCAA comes down with LOIC.
Wilner is prone to drama and Bennett can feel free to bring the “stain on his reputation” to Corvallis in 2015 (after CR is let go) if his feelilngs are hurt too badly!
Bennett has been farting around in the WCC for too long anyway. Few is the big daddy who’s not going anywhere in that league, so it’s time for Bennett to make some noise elsewhere.
Fullerton wins the duck series, taking today’s game 5-2. To add insult to injury a Fullerton player wore the number 8 today for the first time since Horton wore the number as head coach. Fullerton is now 10-0 on the season.
Oregon will probably be swept. Fullerton has potential to be a national seed this season. They’re a level above Oregon, Stanford beat Texas to take the series and look to sweep tomorrow. West coast has some elite teams this season with Stanford, UCLA, Oregon State and Fullerton. Good to see.
Beav grapplers win second straight conference title.
I really don’t know the answer, but which other PAC-12 schools still having wrestling? JB
ASU and Standford. They throw in a few other schools such as Boise to make it the PAC.
Kind of lame I know, but shows with a good coach you can win in Corvallis. CR?
They finished 10th nationally last year. It’s a fairly big deal in the Big Ten.
Paging Bendbeaver………..props to PU for beating the f’ing BADgers in Madison after being down by 13. Evans, the one forward for Wiscy has been so bad with the yips at the free throw line that he was shooting JUMPERS for his free throws. Really funny.
Impressive win, and somehow Purdue is able to win in Madison. They showed good fight after a lot of talk about lack of effort recently and the team not playing together as a unit, especially after getting shelled by Indiana twice.
I think that’s the first time I’ve seen a jumper free-throw, although I’ve seen it suggested on fan boards when a player is equal percentage from the field.
How did you like Breusewitz’s do? Looks like a red haired Kramer.
Or one of the Simpson’s characters.
Ruined their senior day, too.
Wow Arky loses to Pacific today, 4-3. That makes Arky 0 for the west coast and makes the pre-season rankings look silly.
Ben Wetzler goes 1-2-3 to start the game
Jim Wilson keeping track of Wetzler’s pitch count, took only 9 pitches to finish off the Bulldogs in the T1.
Beavers are giving away outs to start the game with all these bunts
5-4-3 DP to end the T2, pitch count now at 19.
Scoreless going to the bottom of the third. Time for the offense to wake up. They’re getting pitches to hit just popping them up so far.
Another team ahead of OSU in the Baseball America in top 5, Louisville, lost today to Kent State.
Golden Flashes! Older sister, who used to teach at OSU, is an associate dean there. Loved to see them beat the Ducks last year.
Jake Rodriguez got lucky twice during that at-bat. Two curveballs should have been strike 3.
Beavers’ offense sleepwalking again
Bad baserunning by Tyler Smith and he’s thrown out at third. Takes a runner out of scoring position.
Double by Dylan Davis and runners on second and third and 1 out.
RBI groundout by Gabe Clark and it’s 1-0
2-0 Beavers after the Beavers get fortunate on a missed call at first base, runners on first and second and 2 outs now
Our buddies at Nicholls State held LSU scoreless on one hit……till the 6th inning.
Going to the seventh with LSU leading 2-0.
Good thing they don’t play in football.
Beavers now 1 for 5 with runners in scoring position, only hit came on a missed call from the first base umpire
San Francisco beat Arizona 9-2 today. Beavers play San Francisco in 9 days
2-0 Beavers after 5 1/2 innings
Back-to-back doubles by Clark and Hayes but don’t score yet.
Bases loaded for Kavin Keyes and no outs. Chance to basically put Bryant away
Strange to see a hitter for Kavin, particularly with him playing such good D.
Ryan Howell pinch hits for some bizarre reason and strikes out
I’d be pissed if I was Keyes
Joey Matthews pinch hits, hits a ball off the plate and reaches as pitcher mishandles the ball, then Peterson hits a two run double. 5-0 Beavers
Peterson 2 RBI double, he has really been productive.
Bases loaded and 1 out for Michael Conforto
Grand slam by Conforto and it’s 9-0. That ball was annihilated.
I haven’t seen a ball hit that hard in a long while. That was just a stunning bomb.
So much for the sophomore slump!
Bryant just got Conforted.
Damn. We have the bash brothers with Conforto and Davis. Both of them have really crushed the ball this weekend.
That’s what they were in high school and announced that’s what they’d be here. It’s just taken Davis a little longer to adjust to the pitching.
how does Hayes hit for power when he is such a bean pole?
beautiful swing…a little tired of the choppers to first, hope he comes around a little quicker than getting hot at end of year like last year.
Beaverjuice?
He has kind of John Olerud type body. Got some pop and is a lot stronger than he looks.
10-zip, could end this after 7 innings IF the two managers agreed to mercy rule before the start of the game.
Having a Paulaner Double Bock. and watching the Beavs kick ass. Pretty good combo.
Michael Conforto with another bomb, a three run shot and it’s 13-0
Bryant got Conforted again?!
Yup, he hit a bomb over the scoreboard. Any pitcher makes a slight mistake right now and he’s going to destroy the ball
oh my word.
Holy crap!
Nate Esposito with an RBI single and it’s 14-0
Beavers win 14-0 and move to 12-0 on the season. Beavers pitchers didn’t allow an earned run the final 24 innings of the series and the bullpen hasn’t allowed a run this season.
@OSUBeaversFB’s defensive coordinator Mark Banker coaching OSU hitters from the stands, and heckling opposing pitchers. Fans love it.
This per Lindsay via twitter.
I guess I wonder what satisfaction there was in heckling pitchers that were clearly not doing well anyway. Pitchers on a team that came all the way across the country knowing full well they would probably get their butts kicked, a team which performed well early on in the series. A team which probably didn’t have a single fan in the stands. I guess if Beav fans want to be like the ucks in obnoxiousness . , , but it doesn’t seem like a good medium in which to compete. I’ll save my heckling for a Pac 12 game.
That’s fair enough.
I guess on one side you have people who revel in fandom no matter what form it takes. They would say what he did is just fine because he’s just a fan who is working over the opposition and has knowledge enough to help his own side.
Since baseball is infinitely more complex than football, it would be strange if Banker told us that we as fans had no right to do the same as he does when he’s a fan. Actually, that had nothing to do with baseball’s complexity. It only had to do with Banker’s hypocrisy.
It is what it is.
He should have been reading the new book, Stopping the Read Option For Dummies.
It was the “fans loving it” that sounded like something from a coliseum movie. I wasn’t there so I have no idea how much Lindsay was editorializing (especially in a twitter). Indeed, it is what it is.
I thought heckling the pitcher was generally accepted and done by both players and fans.
http://warrennolan.com/baseball/2013/rpi
Is Presbyterian part of the Catholic 7 Conference?
That makes sense.
And the Edward WIlliams drama continues:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/9011684/tulane-green-wave-sign-edward-williams-mom-had-rejected-texas-tech-red-raiders
Bet he transfers before it is all said and done.
Baseball America out with it’s poll, Beavs move up to #4. Pac12 has 6 teams in top 25.
The Horton effect continues as the ucks come in at #15 with 3 losses; they are the highest ranked 3 loss team and seven teams ranked behind them have 2 or less losses.
Strength of schedule?…a bit; Horton effect?…also a bit.
Uncle Phil effect?…a bit.
Poll writers looking at a limited sample?…quite a bit.
Agnew is transferring do southern Illinois.
I like Agnew, especially his off-field character and how he has represented the university. But alas, fumble-itis was his downfall. He’ll probably do just fine with his new team.
He doesn’t lose a year of eligibility either correct?
Too bad. Saw it coming when he didn’t play in the bowl game. Too much talent to ride the pine, but it would have been nice to have him as a backup who really knows the system. I find it interesting how a fumble by a RB is an unforgivable sin, but MR tolerates QB’s throwing picks right and left.
Jerry Kill, the coach at Minn, turned Southern Ill. into a lower division power when the were at the brink of eliminating football. Good luck to Malcom.
I feel bad for him, he comes in and wins the starting job as a true freshman, has a monster game and is talked about being the next great running back. Then gets buried in the depth chart because of injuries, inability pass block, and of course the fumbles (which I think could be solved if he didn’t try and reach the ball for an extra yard). But as Jason said, great character guy who represented the university very well. Best of luck to him.
Forgot about the hamstring problems. He seemed to be the best pure runner of the bunch to me.
Yeah I agree with you that he was the best pure runner, but wan’t up to par with Woods and Ward on the other attributes that are vital for running backs to have in this offense. Luckily we have a pretty good stable of backs, just needs to stay healthy.
What can Brown do for you?
Hope it works out well for Agnew, but there is depth and the future looks promising if Mattison can qualify. Didn’t realize Agnew’s bro was the FB at SIU.
Woods/Ward/Brown/ should be challenging to defend if the pass has to be respected.
It will be interesting to see who shows up for the rebrand – Payton? Barry? Jackson? Rodgers bros? Paea? High end achievers from baseball, wrestling, gymnastics?
Will they design something I actually want to buy and wear? I’d appreciate a t-shirt that looks like its for athletics, but reads “OSU Fisheris and Wildlife” instead of “OSU Football,” but somehow I don’t see that.
Here’s the story
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-southern-illinois-agnew-20130304,0,4294492.story
Woods and Ward don’t strike me as #1 RB material. They both could be middle of the PAC quality, but I’m hopeful Brown or Mattison are the real deal. We have been blessed with awesome backs for most of the past 15 years, and Woods and Ward don’t seem like they could live up to that.
So, tonight at 6:30pm is the logo reveal. Anyone else as nervous as I am?
Depends. How nervous are you? How about a scale of 1 to 10?
And do you mean your nervous because of the negative potential outcomes (Beavers look like a joke), or nervous because you think its going to be positive (Beavers actually have cool gear without looking desperate for attention)?
Why is this a good time to unveil the logo given that they won’t be implemented until fall? I’m assuming they’ll do an early release for fans to buy products in the spring and summer, but that just means they’ll be showing up at spring sporting events (e.g. baseball games) with logos/gear the team itself doesn’t have, correct? Not necessarily a bad thing, just wondering about the timing of it.
I plan on having a 5 gallon bucket next to the computer in case I get the urge to vomit. So yes, I am nervous.
I’d hate to be the one doing any sort of image unveiling for a company/team. No matter what, there’s going to be a certain number of people who will hate it.
I guess it’ll create some off-season buzz outside of the Northwest. It’s something new and different, which is a good thing.
I agree, at least half of the posters here will declare how awful/amateurish/silly/etc the new logo is. I might even be one of them.
I doubt it will create any buzz outside of OSU alums. OSU is ineffective at reaching beyond them, much less effectively TO them….
Nervous? YES – 8.
Was in Corvallis this weekend to visit my daughter and looked for some gear at Fred Meyers and downtown – not much left. The racks were cleared out for today.
The duck gear & graphics are very good – i hope that NIKE put their best team on our project and we end up with something to gets national attention. Thank goodness we have a baseball team and wrestling team to fall back on with the branding flops…..
Any predictions on who models the new uniform tonight? (Benny doesn’t count)
Bobby D will be modeling the uniforms tonight. It’s his party
Hopefully it won’t be that chick from the “Put a Beaver on it” billboard.
I’m worried that we will end up looking more like the Ducks rather than less like them. I’m not a fan of the multiple uniform/helmet combinations, but I’m sure that is what we will get.