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From footballscope.

Oregon State: Per sources, Gary Andersen is planning to hire Utah State defensive coordinator Kevin Clune as defensive coordinator and Weber State secondary coach Cory Hall barring any unexpected issues.

Had a feeling it would be Clune. One thing I didn’t like about Clune on the youtube video I watched, is that he made fun of players (said one was so thin he’d neg him and say he looked ill). I don’t find that funny or professional coming from a teacher/authority figure.

The other question is whether he can recruit.

I don’t know anything about Cory Hall, so if you do lay it on me.

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          • He may have been really bad in a lot of respects, but it’s hard to argue with the results from several of our kickers and punters. We had a long string of all-conference kickers (I believe Kahut ended that), as well as at least two punters who did time in the NFL (maybe more, but all I remember are Paulescu and Hekker).

  1. I think coaching success is a combination of: scheme/adjustments, motivation, teaching, quality recruits/conditioning, experience and a little luck. Did I miss anything?

    I think GA can assess these qualities in Clune.

  2. So he says a guy is too skinny and that’s unprofessional. Couple threads back, you told someone they were fucking stupid, or something along those lines. What’s that make you?

  3. With Clune he worked under aranda and Orlando. Both are looking steller. Both use their linebackers extensively with blitz packages. Clune was linebackers coach. Can he recruit I wonder. He obviously has some ties to Hawaii being there for a year and Utah. Interested in Hall what will he coach. NFL pedigree and sounds hungry in an article I found as a grad assistant at WISKY. I am thinking he will hit it hard since he is somewhat fresh. I am happy but I really wanted Orlando or aranda.

  4. I’m in wait and see mode with Clune, could be a good hire if he can recruit.

    Nick Mitchell to Dixie State. I thought it was still a JUCO, but I guess they’re a D2 school now. Hope that works out for him. I’m still not sure how Mike Riley couldn’t see that he was not D1A talent.

    • yes, the Utah nexus is a real concern. Going forward, every time there’s a development at UU or BYU there will be agita in Corvallis. I’m not as clued in as many on this site, so I had no real knowledge of Sitake when he was hired so I’ll just have to see how this one works out as well.

    • I hear you gopher but really it is not uncommon to pull in known commodities in any business. I do it in mine all the time. Yes I would love to see GA get Aranda but who is to say he hasn’t tried? Aranda if asked by GA in all likelihood respectfully declined… Didn’t he stay a year ago? Anderson is going to pull from what and who he knows. Nothing surprising about that but rather it is expected. Let’s just hope this move is a good one that sticks for a while which in the big picture is most important. Aranda coming would be a big news deal and Aranda leaving again in a year or so would just put us where we are today. I’m good with bringing in the up and coming and hungry for it guys.

      • What’s funny is…if GA pulled Aranda or Orlando it’s still “Utah inbreeding” that everyone is whining about. So what’s the difference? A&O are proven? Not here with this crew of players. Let the guy coach, if he fails…fire him. It’s pretty simple. GA has a pretty good track record for getting assistant coaches that produce (Sitake is a ??).

  5. The only question is can they recruit? Honestly, not to get too armchair but really how hard is it to coach football? I haven’t wasted enough time in my life to thoroughly understand all of the intricacies of the 3-4 defense, but i imagine if I were to spend a week doing nothing but studying it I could teach it. It isn’t calculating moments, quadratic equations, or designing a building that will withstand 12.0 magnitude earthquakes. It’s fucking college football.

    IMO: Most important traits of a college football coach:
    Talent Evaluation
    Recruiting
    Teaching
    Motivating
    Babysitting

    Do these things while keeping the kids in class, getting decent grades, and out of trouble embarrassing the university and I’ll be happy.

    If you can identify your best talent and put them on the field, playing their best position you’re 3/4 of the way there. Rocket science this is not. If this is a synergetic hire that makes GA’s job easier making his vision a reality then great. They both seem passionate, engaging, and hungry enough in the few clips. Welcome aboard, now go sell the shit out of the program. Hold onto Shroud and round out the class. Onward and upward.

    • “IMO: Most important traits of a college football coach:
      Talent Evaluation
      Recruiting
      Teaching
      Motivating
      Babysitting”

      You imply that doing exactly that is easy. Ive had good teachers and Ive had bad teachers, and I promise you I learned more from the good teachers.

  6. OT.
    The TCU QB situation was on the previous thread.
    I recently, conveniently and temporarily became a TCU fan and I find the situation very disappointing.

  7. Time will tell if Clune and Hall were good hires. As they say, the proof will be in the pudding. The question on my mind is will Clune stick with installing a 3-4 defense or will OSU be going back to the standard 4-3 base?

    Boykin and the other yahoo are fucking morons. You just handed the Alamo Bowl to the ducks on a silver platter.

    Off to give the native american confederated tribes my hard earned money for new years. Booze and debauchery all around. Stay thirsty my friends. Happy new year to my fellow AB degenerates.

    • In some ways, I could give two shits about assistants anymore because I know GA is going to hold them accountable if they aren’t up to snuff. I was a little worried about Sitake with how much he was being paid and GA’s friendship with him. The Beav defense was a no win situation this year, but Sitake did not do anything that stuck out in my mind as being spectacular to improve a bad situation just a little bit. The tackling never got better, the secondary consistently got beat.. At least the offense figured out how to use Collins and realized Nall was a stud RB.

  8. Do we know that Corey Hall is the LB coach? His OSU bio says he is in his first season as a Grad Assistant at OSU. If that is true, he won’t be available to coach on a full time basis, so therefore couldn’t be a full time LB coach, right?
    Wonder if one of our current GA’s is getting bumped up to a full time gig and Hall is just taking their old spot?

  9. Mediocre hires, they need names that make a splash if they want big time recruits. Might as well bring Banker back… OSU has the means to pay a big time coach. Aranda or Orlando would have done that. Very diappponted in the hires.

  10. Well, definitely not a flashy name like Orlando or Aranda, but the two of them will probably stick around longer, so I don’t mind. Overall, I’m mostly happy with these, but I’ll reserve final judgement until we see how the defense performs next season.

  11. 2 new additions to the team to end the year. Quinn Smith, a transfer TE who has been working to join OSU for several months, and Landry Payne, brother of OSU commit Wesley Payne

  12. BSPN on Alabama line:

    “They dominate their teammates with leadership!”

    gag choke puke

    SEC’s gonna need a smoke after BSPN is done with them

    • Yes… at least.

      I like the kid. I can’t even call him a kid any more. He graduated from OSU and went on to get a masters degree in something he knows.

  13. Can’t convince Aranda to take a 400K+ raise or Orlando near a 300K raise? Ouch. Looks like more of the same from Oregon State. Happy to try to climb back towards middle of the Pac-12 but extremely low odds of cracking the top few teams in the next 4-5 years even. GA better keep their contracts near the lower end of range as these guys should come cheap or you are just overpaying for guys early on in their respective duties.

    • I’m intrested to know how you know he’s not going to do a good job? His defense at USU was better than any defense in the Pac12 numbers wise. 2015 USU is 18 in total defense. 2012 under Aranda they were 25th, 2013 under Orlando they were 12th.

  14. New Year’s resolution is for Men’s hoop to take 2016 by the balls and come out with a winner’s mentality by beating Oregon in the Civil War with purpose and finish. Up the ante!

        • heh heh… why?

          I would like to know what his spam-shaped comment has to do with the same.

          If you want analysis, I can give you analysis. If you want rah rah spam for clicks, I can not give you that with a clear conscience. I can let it pass for long periods, thinking you are smart enough not to support spam-like marketing language.

          But that’s just me.

          • My analysis is I would love a return to the 80s mentality of Beaver basketball of expecting to win CWs. Team has improved but Oregon still gives them fits and part seems psychological that OSU is too reluctant to stake its claim to be the best program in the state. Would love to see them seize the opportunity to set tone for conference play. A win vs loss goes a long way in this game in that regard. Take your analysis of details of typical play and tendencies from certain players all you want. When I am achieving at higher levels in any aspect of life it is usually because so am very determined and focused. If team collectively shows that force of will then I see it as a win. If not then I expect a loss. That is my analysis and do believe this game is big for setting tone of this team having any realistic shot at NCAAs. GP2s last year so this is the time to take advantage and come out fast out of the gate for a special season.

          • Hello?

            Does anyone here understand rivalry?

            They were always a pain in the ass. And while we went off and hired coaches who couldn’t or refused to recruit locally, they profited off our laziness.

            We’re back. And yes, they are one of our humps. Once we hump them consistently, we will have arrived at normalcy. And yes, Sunday is a big game. But so are all the rest of them.

            edit: I should say that Mark Few profited as well. But from whom did he learn to pick players from our region?

          • Normally, I can pretty much follow your process…it’s just that sometimes it becomes so esoteric that I get lost. well, maybe most of the time….

          • If you’re responding to me, then I fail to see how rivalry is esoteric.

            If you’re talking about spam-boy’s tendency to constantly sound like the 11pm news local sportscaster going to break with a tease, then I get it.

            It’s just so constant. It’s like reading a bunch of cliche headlines all mashed together in one post.

            Now is the time that Oregon State must prove it is worthy of the big stage. You prove yourself worthy by hiring big actors for the big stage. Will Ed Ray agree that this is a serious and important aspect of the legend of the fall in the airport-less heart of the valley? Hire Matt Wells!

          • Yes, it was you I was responding to, Jack.

            What I meant is that to me, it sometimes seems that during one of your conversations (this can be read as: diatribes, , once you get started, that you are the only one who can follow the trail. I try, I really do but sometimes I’m just lost out there with you.

          • Yes, it was you I was responding to, Jack.

            What I meant is that to me, it sometimes seems that during one of your conversations (this can be read as: diatribes, , once you get started, that you are the only one who can follow the trail. I try, I really do but sometimes I’m just lost out there with you.

            But that’s just me.

  15. Bama’s front seven is unfair. You have to hand it to Saban. He has turned that program into total monster. Coordinators come and go and the results stay the same. I can’t stand Lane Kiffen, but I have to give him credit. He called a great game last night.

    • His teams are very business-like out there. You don’t see their players dancing around after making a tackle each time. Kind of refreshing, actually.

    • Who the fuck would negative this post? It just states fact about Bama’s defense and references that Kiffin is still a putz even though he called a great game last night! Seems like sound observation to me.

          • Maybe they don’t like him? I don’t think beavergopher is going to jump off a bridge if someone down votes him. No offense, but I think it’s funny when people get mad when someone down votes them. They’re just trolling for that exact response. Hook. Line. Sinker. And I’m sure it’s just some duck troll down voting the name and not reading the post.

          • Sometimes it’s fun to beg for downvotes and get them. I personally don’t get the whole “like” thing. But it’s funny to manipulate that groupthink.

          • Hopefully, you are picking up on my SARCASM, right? Fake outrage, right?

            Although, I’ve been reading this blog for many, many years and Beavergopher is one of the nicest posters on this board!

          • No I did not pick up on the sarcasm. I should have know. Now I’m going to jump off a bridge because someone down voted me. And Jack, some people down vote you simply because you post, which I find equally hilarious.

          • Jack, I believe someone has been down voting 93% of your posts since 2008. That is both sad and funny.

            Your 2014 Merry Christmas post received 11 down votes and I’ve noticed your 2016 New Year post is off to a nice start. Minus 3 and trending down.

          • I don’t know, it almost seems like this is an automated response (is that possible?). Someone really has the time to look for the name “Jack” on damn near every one of your posts on this blog over the course of several years and click the minus button?

            Yeah, I guess funny, but also (now, I’m being serious)……….that’s kind of fucked up.

          • It’s just spite, they have no other recourse. It’s kind of like taking your ball and going home, expect they don’t leave, they hang around and boo you from the sidelines.

  16. Speaking of Defensive Coordinators…….I guess I shouldn’t hate on Ken Goe so much. He has an article defending Don Pellum and of course within this story there is no mention of the Ducks defensive performance against the Beavers (really just the 2nd half debacle). Be nice if they keep Pellum long enough for the Beavs to lay 56 on the Ducks, which might be enough to finally win a CW. Thanks, Goe!

  17. Haven’t watched college football in over a month. Feels great. Don’t even know if the Ducks played their bowl game yet or what the outcome was. Lol. Recorded 3 new songs in that time and collaborated with some cool musicians, which is the most productive month for me in years. Sold 1k worth of soap for the holidays, which was a lot of work, but sales were off the charts and we added Intel execs to the customer list. Feel less disgusting overall, as a human being, being far removed from the corruption/frustration of college football. My 2016 goal is to quit playing fantasy football so I can be entirely removed from sports (except mlb-never quit baseball-, nfl playoffs, and beav games), which are a huge time suck that just get in the way of productivity. If anyone wants to buy AB make me an offer.

    By the way, everyone should check out “making a murderer” on netflix. Fascinating documentary.

    The Clune hire is fine, but he better recruit and get a low salary until hear proves he deserves a high salary. Or an incentive based contract. But if he gets 500k to start then fuck that. I’m sick of these coaches sucking the OSU teat.

    Let’s hear your new year resolutions

    • Re Making A Murderer: FWIW the pilot (episode 1) is available on youtube.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34M2zdLc-2U

      Resolutions: buy glass for my weapons; buy property that has a well; finish up on prepping; try to find something to invest in that won’t go to hell when the shtf

      Speaking of documentaries here’s one you might want to watch:

      Zero Point – The Story of Mark McCandlish and the Free Energy Fluxliner Space Craft
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkVNv7PbeH8

    • I can’t stand New Years Day sometimes. I’ll watch the Rose Bowl… if it’s a good game after a while.

      But we have to wait until 6pm for hoops.

      I found myself watching surfing this morning because there was nothing on. De Souza makes some big beautiful bottom turns but couldn’t handle the backwash today. Manning won by default in the end.

      • Man that Peyton is something…League MVP, Super Bowl Champ, surfing champ…bet the Bronco’s front office isn’t happy with this though…

  18. Anybody here have a picture of the old noise meter from inside Gill Colesium? Ir can anybody find one online? I’m not having any luck.

  19. This is how far college football has degraded. We get a great anthem followed up by a lone bomber on a flyover… for the Rose Bowl.

    The Rose Bowl deserves the Blue Angels. Hell… I’d settle for the Thunderhawks. A flyover by a lone bomber is normal high school stuff in many towns around the country.

    Cool that Ken Burns is the marshall. There’s a lot of truth in that man.

  20. Stanford’s representing the conference well.

    Also, this game is proving the B1G is just Ohio State, Michigan, and then everyone else.

  21. The powers that be were hinting that Iowa was a fraud during the season. I guess they were right. They look totally outmatched.

  22. Hawkeye fan sites are pretty good. It goes from “we’re awesome, go hawkeyes” to “oh shit” in about 2 posts. Lots of butthurt about the trick play touchdown also. Forgot that was a variation of the Annexation of Puerto Rico play.

    • I mean it’s kind of expected to some degree, right? If you don’t make the playoffs, you can call it anything you want, but other bowl games are the NIT or worse the CBI now.

      • Most games were over before anyone took their seats. There really were no great paper match-ups. Michigan exposed MSU, which made the whatever Bowl predictable as hell. Clemson is a really fast team, as someone here pointed out. But Chokelahoma was supposed to beat them by out-speedying them?

        Iowa against Stanford? It was intriguing enough that I watched for about half the first quarter.

        Or was it because it is the Rose Bowl?

        Watching Eric Ball run all over Iowa was no real surprise.

        I can’t even speak to what the other bowl games looked like except for what they appeared to be on paper. oSu v. Miss St.? Really? Who would want to watch that if you didn’t go to Miss St.? Florida against the Harbaughs? Really?

  23. Stanford is would have been plenty capable of winning a 6 or 8 team playoff this year. Stated vigorously they were a Top 3 at end of season but weaker conferences get rewarded for less quality games and a softer schedule. 98% of years the Pac-12 champion no matter how many losses will still be one of the top four teams in the nation as far as actual threat. Waiting for the SEC to sit one out if our league is forced to. Our top teams our right with theirs.

  24. Stanford would beat Clemson. Stanford and Alabama would be true battle of nation’s best. Clemson close but don’t have a McCaffrey and would fall to the Tree. Right now I would bet Cardinal over anyone.

    • They’re very good, but their issue has been the occasional stinker (Northwestern and Quack) At their best they could win a playoff, though.

    • I’m not so sure stanford would beat Clemson. Clemson is a fast team, and stanford D wasn’t that good this year. They got exposed in that Oregon game and the WSU game also. Running QB’s are their kryptonite. They are a #3 team.

      • It was interesting to me that Furd scores a TD on a “brillant” fake fumble play, yet two very real fumbles off of the snap by Hogan against the Quacks most likely cost them the game and maybe a spot in the playoffs?

  25. There were some outstanding results in hoops last night. The UCLA game was just ugly. But the Utah loss was fun.

    This is not going to be an easy season for anyone. All that USC talent is coming together. That can be scary too.

    • Any insights as to what’s been going on with the UW men’s basketball team? Not too long ago the player related news out of Seattle gave me the impression that things were in chaos up there and yet they’re able to beat UCLA last night. Admittedly the game was in Seattle and it took 2 overtimes but still…………

        • FWIW – Since it was a preseason game, and I haven’t looked at the box score, etc., I can think of reasons which would explain why this happened. If any of them were true then one could say that the loss to UC Santa Barbara would not be an indicator of how good the team is or isn’t.

      • They are in total disarray. All Romar does is throw the ball out and swallow his whistle.

        The entire game was played on the FT line. It was just ugly to watch.

  26. Am I correct in thinking the football assistant hires are the first since Stansbury was made AD? Does he have any or much say in who’s hired and how much they’re paid and if so is this a good thing?

    The Stansbury effect??? Good or bad?

  27. Liberty Bowl promo claiming it’s been a showcase for America’s premier teams since 1959. The teams currently playing are a combined 13-11. K.

      • Actually, he was awarded the Heisman before the bowl game. But he was in attendance at the A-N Game at the same field the week (or so) before because of the Heisman celebration… and the two Kennedy Bros. (Jack and Bobby) wanted to sit with him.

  28. Ladies game is just underway. Beavs should win handily, USC isn’t anywhere close to as good as their record might lead you to believe.

  29. Ducks are seriously going to gag away a 31-0 lead. Amazing. I confess I wasn’t totally against them this game because PAC and all that. (I need to be sent to a football re-education camp)

    • I was kinda pulling for them, too, until they started doing that MEGA choke….

      Almost that whole second half it was backup QB’s for both, and the ducks got …what, I guess Cloaca-fucked, right?. Pretty amazing.

  30. If I’m a QB I’m thinking twice about transferring to Quack U. Other teams will be gunning for you hard since they know knocking you out equals sure victory

    • Meh, we have a winning record locked up. Not like it’d have stopped the SEC honks anyway. Just enjoy the epicness of the meltdown :)

      • Nice philosophical question, like whether we should shoot barred owls… Riley was a good coach for OSU for a number of years. I am grateful that we had a few good years under him. But, he lost a few games that left a bad taste… I have both relished his losses at Nebraska, and I have rooted for him there, like against UCLA. Call me complex I guess. He’s past his coaching prime. The game has passed him bye. I don’t have any animosity toward him. More so for the ducks, so I’d root for Nebraska. Good question for the rest of the angrybeavs.

        • I have never rooted for the Ducks at anything in my life, but if they trounce NU it does keep the Riley narrative in tack. I will have to ponder this on occassion leading up to the game next year.

  31. Just handed to us on a silver platter……………………….

    Here’s your standard response to the sure to be there a-hole duck fans at the Civil War tomorrow.

    How’d you enjoy that Alamo Bowl yesterday???? Beaten by a back up QB

        • Haha. Yup, the only thing missing was Grinning Glen squinting at the scoreboard as things went to hell. He had some beaut’s, but the meltdown that our duck friends just equaled was his magnum opus. We had to go to a sports bar to watch it at it was on NFL network. There were a few Texas Tech fans in the place who thought I was “too negative” for thinking we could still lose when being up 38-7 midway through the third quarter. The skinny is that the U president caught Mason laughing about it in the locker room and two days later they shit canned him.
          2006 Insight Bowl – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
          Wikipedia › wiki › 2006_Insight_Bowl
          Insight Bowl logo. Texas Tech Red Raiders · Minnesota Golden Gophers … CB Antonio Huffman (Texas Tech) …. GMAC Bowl, previously the largest comeback in bowl history; 2006 Michigan State vs.
          ?First quarter – ?Second quarter – ?Third quarter – ?Fourth quarter

    • Yes, it was. It clearly showed that without the Vernon Adams transfer, they would have gone nowhere this year. The offense in the first half was dynamite, the second half, without Adams, mediocre.

      Realize that TCU stalled on two td drives in that second half, settling for field goals and if they had punched one of those in, would have been no OT. And of course, TCU played the WHOLE game with a backup QB. UO just played half that way.

      Their QB development produced no depth whatsoever, much less 2 deep. Mariota was a winner from the first, and Vernon Adams was a transfer.

      • What is it with the Quacks and not developing back ups? Didn’t a dominant season fall apart when Dixon got injured? Do they not give the back ups any reps in practice? I thought Bennett looked decent a couple of years ago, but he was not going to get any time under Mariota. I guess that’s why they need senior transfers now.

  32. It will be interesting to see how Pellum survives this one and how Ken Goe will spin it. I have been arguing with many a Quack fan that Oregon can’t be considered an elite program going forward if quarterback development is not two or three deep. If Helfrich had any balls he would rescind Prokop’s scholarship and take his lumps next season, but he won’t. It’s not the Nikegon way, ask Altman.

    • The various injuries the Ducks suffered throughout the game are enough of an excuse that I don’t see Pellum getting fired. He will live to coordinate another year, and in this Beaver fan’s mind, rightfully so.

      • That’s true, from a Beaver perspective, we want Pellum to stay as long as he would like. Last two games back up QB’s laid 82 points on the Duck defense (I’m not counting Bolden’s TD return}. That’s a steaming pile any way you slice it.

  33. Jesus: 1
    Godless, pot-smoking communists who unironically wear Che Guevara T-shirts and new Nikes: 0

    Thank you, Gary “PAC-12 killer” Patterson.

    And to any Duck fans who may be lurking, now you know what us Beaver fans faced under Mike Riley.

  34. I don’t know if anybody remembers, but our beloved Beavs had the biggest comeback in D-1 history for a few years. They trailed San Jose St. 28-0 and won 31-28 back in the 80’s.

  35. From a duck blog:

    “Are we the most tortured fan base in college football?

    Or are we the most tortured fan base in college football?”

    Uhhhh replace “tortured” with “entitled” and he’s spot-on

  36. Hatfield Dowlyn Complex $138 million
    Jock Box $41.7 million
    Marcus Mariota Sport Performance Complex $19.2 million (estimated)
    Mathew Knight Arena $200 million

    UofO facilities are like a pervert’s van saying “Hey little guy, want some candy? I got nice clothes for you too.”
    Too bad for Phil. He can’t buy EVERYTHING he wants.

    • The TTATT was more than $230m, and there were costs associated with it shuffled off into other dark corners of accounting hell. And I’m not even talking about the land swaperoo they did to sidestep laws.

      There is so much waste and so many greasy deals built into that disgusting symbol of avarice.

  37. Here’s an interesting stat from the Alamo bowl tonight. TCU had a .9% chance of winning the game after they scored thier first touchdown. But that’s the second lowest odds ever, first was Michigan vs Michigan state this season. With 10 seconds left MSU had a .2% chance.

  38. Maybe the Beavs can hire Chip Kelly and we could kick the ducks ass for the next 10 years while they try to figure out how to stop his offense and whiff like the Beavs have for so long…

      • Thank you for the somewhat backhanded recognition of my coaching prowess. I would love to be back on the sidelines at good old Parker Stadium.

        The recent bowl games were reminiscent of my tenure at OSU. There’s nothing more entertaining than a 47-7 blowout. Best bowl season ever!

        On its way to you a framed autographed picture of yours truely. JB

        PS: There is a $75 shipping and handling charge.

  39. For more horrible music choices, just hit the link.

    Angry@Angry… I really don’t care that you fucking hate music. I fucking love it. It is more important in my life than anything except family… and maybe food.

    I love seeing you twist in your own wind, though. If you think the music I have linked here is the worst ever, you just don’t like music.

    I’m pretty sure the only music I’ve never posted is polka death metal by Debbie Gibson. Of course, that would be redundant since that’s your schtick.

  40. Woke up with a smile on my face when I realized that the dream that happened in San Antonio last night was not a dream. So far 2016 has been fantastic. Iowa gets whacked in the Rose Bowl, Aranda leaves Madison, and quacks equal the Insight Bowl meltdown of one Glen Mason.

    Let me be the first to say……FTD!

    Almost had a miracle yesterday in the Barn. What looked like what was going to be a blowout against #1 Sparty turned into a tight game. A one possession lead with less than a minute to go, but a couple of misses on good looks leads to an eight point loss. Valentine did not play for Sparty.
    Izzo is a class act. Always praises the other team and players and takes heat for his team’s problems by blaming his coaching. It is funny to see him stand next to his players and staff for the national anthem. He is a shrimp.

    • I still find it fascinating that apparently all that was holding the “Duck Dynasty” together was a pair of 5th year senior transfers. What do the other QB’s and Centers do during practice? Go run errands for Uncle Phil?

      • Nice to see the meltdown in Alamo, but I’d enjoy the Ducks getting run out of the gym today much more.

        I expect with all of the negative attention for this record-tying collapse, the Ducks basketball will be highly motivated today. Yes, different sport, but nonetheless, I think from a “university” (tee hee, I make little joke) perspective, a good showing today will be important to them.

        Let’s see some cool, focused Beavers play well for four quarters in Gill and remove doubt from the outcome.

    • Can’t make it down. Sick wife and kids and lot’s of snow up in the ‘couv. Emailed my tickets down to a buddy in Corvallis. He’ll have to represent.

      I did get 3 comp tickets to the USC game, though. Hopefully the stars will align.

    • Well, I tried. Just got back to the house. A huge amount of traffic going 5mph, plus snowing on icy roads.

      Took almost an hour to get from Sisters to Suttle Lake. At that rate I would have gotten to Gill about the time the game was over.

      Ok you guys that we always have to kick out of our seats…today’s your day!

  41. Wow…here in Bend we are hunkering down in preparation of the militia offensive to overthrow Deschutes county. I appreciate the effort, CJ

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