I’d give the Beavs a 1% chance of winning this game, meaning if they played it 100 times, they’d win once. Haha. It’s that bad. When I said we were (or would become) a glorified high school team via NIL, pay for play, and the transfer portal, I wasn’t wrong.
Texas Tech 63, Beavs 14
P.S. I did address the DEI hire comment in the prior thread. Go read that regarding site policy. I don’t want to bring it into this thread.
First? On a technicality.
I’ll give it to you. We’re Beavers, where “close enough” is good enough…
Shotguns, horseshoes, hand grenades and Beaver sports!
This has upset written all over it. Texas Tech is riding a wave of hype after beating two nobodies, and Oregon State is always at its best when expectations are low. I think they clean up the mistakes and pull off a close one on the road. Call me crazy.
Call me crazy.
You might be a step beyond that.
Even if we got our shit together, I don’t see any shot at an upset. TTech is essentially Oregon of the 2000’s. Lots of money has been infused into that program recently. This year’s roster alone has been reported to cost around $55M in NIL money.
Just last year, Ohio State was estimated around $25M. Not saying they’ll be twice as good as 2024 Ohio State, but that’s an example of a school/donor that has gone All-In with their football program.
The Beavs have a decent QB.
I believe $55M is for all of their athletes, not just the football team(?).
UNike was allegedly $23M last year for football players, Ohio State $20M for players, $20M for coaches….
Riding shotgun with you on the trip to crazy town…Regulators, mount up!
Absolutely nothing about this game has “upset” written on it…unless TT is going to be upset their margin of victory wasn’t greater…
Ha
Love to see it, but not happening. And yes you are crazy
C’mon.
Seeing headlines and hyperbole about the dismal future of Okie State after their blowout loss Saturday ….hell, they’re backed by oil money aren’t they? They can’t compete anymore for players?
Not a good ROI for Boone Pickens…
I thought that dude was dead?
Is this some sort of Crypt keeper shit?
He died 6 years ago and their program died with him
Gundy was too much of an old school macho-shit to play the portal game, so it’s going to cost him his job soon.
The Phillips 66 sticker adorned Gundy’s headset!
I reca!led joe beaver show interviews Bray on Mondays.Aviso: Scan the podcast.Complaints,suggestions re: music, food,coffee, videos.No hard questions to Bray. F’ups, coaching horrors. Not a bit.
Per the GT
The temporary stalking protective order against Ayers has been withdrawn.
Rodriguez requested the order in early August, alleging she had been physically abused by Ayers. A temporary order was granted at that time pending a hearing but she did not attend the hearing Monday & Judge Demarest granted the request of Ayers attorney to withdraw the temporary order and dismiss the request for a permanent order.
Noonan acknowledged the Corvallis Police Department is investigating the allegations, but he noted “there are no pending criminal proceedings at this point.”
These two are/were in a clearly toxic relationship but he has clearly shown poor judgement.
Does that mean he is unsuspended? Does it matter?
Canzano on his radio show today was talking about Bray’s sideline reporter F-bomb being a slip up that is indicative of his lack of control over his team. He doesn’t have discipline, and the team doesn’t either.
Fair enough.
Then he goes into suggest maybe OSU needs to move Bray full tile back into the DC role, and bring in a disciplined veteran coach to stabalize things.
Guess who that veteran coach he suggested was….
https://media.tenor.com/images/2ff72c04fefe898910bcb513285f65ff/tenor.gif
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1081451420.7428/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750×1000,f8f8f8.u1.jpg
I know I’m gonna get crushed but Canzano ain’t wrong.
Not saying he’s right but he ain’t wrong.
Haha. If ever there was a time for Riley it would be now, when we are completely irrelevant.
I’m just saying. Smith had him around year 1.
I’m no Riley fan but at least the guy wants and likes being a head coach.
Ultimately the school needs to decide football’s important to the university but I don’t see that happening. Wasted opportunity though, for all the “woe is us” competent coaching and current resources could dominate the new PAC.
Canzano knows how to play the game. Do you think there is ANY interest in Beavers fans listening to his show if he doesn’t drop that suggestion?
You hear a lot about the greatest improvement you see in teams is between week one and two. I really hope that isn’t the case. I don’t care if the Beavs lose on Saturday. I don’t care if they don’t cover the spread. I do care that they look like a competent football team, know their assignments and can execute well. Basic stuff.
The biggest mystery is where all of the off-season optimism came from.
“The biggest mystery is where all of the off-season optimism came from.”
To be fair, I had zero, and said Bray was bad, and we’d be awful…
But that’s your baseline
No it’s not. I was (correctly) bullish on Smith.
The only coach I ever got wrong was Gary Andersen. Had I known he was a drunk who impregnates cheerleaders and plays favorites with other predators like Seth Collins, I wouldn’t have been bullish on him. I didn’t know all that.
No one did. Oregon State is so needy, it jumps at the miracle coach, the program-saving qb.Ed Ray’s “A” game rhetoric is cringe worthy. OTOH: Apply for the job sight-unseen? At least he left money on the table.
Are his initials MR?
How about bring in Dennis Erickson for a season or two to hopefully stabilize things?
Early line is TT -24.5 they will cover that by half time
Maybe even by the first quarter?
https://youtu.be/oKYf9YUIdmI?si=Qs6VGR-XeJpM8X2r
Bray on hot seat?
That guy doesn’t know nearly as much about football as he thinks he does. Just a duck homer.
I didn’t get the impression he’s a duck homer.
That’s because this is his new channel. But trust me he is by his own admission.
Im really not impressed with what I’ve heard or seen from people affiliated with Locked On. They seldom cite sources – named legit sources – seem more interested in giving their thoughts, speculations and “ideas” than reporting actual news that actually happens. But they probably know how to get clicks with stuff like “Rumors of a team moving back to the Pac-12” and “Curry to Blazers trade proposed” (by a podcaster talking about SETH Curry)
A lot of it’s just gossip now. They’re trying to make sports a soap Opra with drama.
Nashon Wright just took a interception back 73 yards for a pick 6 on MNF
Court hearing starts tomorrow P12-MWC where the MWC is seeking a dismissal of the lawsuit, but I doubt the judge will grant that request.
Oregon State vs. Texas Tech odds
Spread: Texas Tech -23.5 (-115), Oregon State +23.5 (-105)
Favorite Moneyline: Texas Tech -2500
Underdog Moneyline: Oregon State +1100
Total: 60.5
Total Over Odds: -115
Total Under Odds: -105
Odds provided by BetMGM.
No shot the Beavs stay within 4 TDs. Game over by halftime if not sooner.
TT-49
OSU- 17
Time to shutter VFC and turn Reser into a soccer stadium. OSU football has been vanquished by many foes, but mostly been destroyed from within by poor leadership.
Leadership including the old pac-12 commissioner. Yes Barnes could do better. Bray could do better etc. But let’s not act like we aren’t going to a fight with a stick.
And of course it is destined that MR should be the only option as the steady hand who can right the ship.
If Barnes actually pulls that stunt, I think I would have to finally be free of the Beavs.
Well, the way things look in the short term, it might be a good plan. Long term? No, but that’s nha can’t get much worse so having a guy like MR to come in and address the issues like special teams might be a benefit as we know things don’t appear to be getting any better. MR would bring a wealth of experience and knowledge something that Bray doesn’t possess. The old saying, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results applies to the current situation. I’d be at least willing to give it a shot as we’ve got nothing to lose as the season is pretty much shot.
That’s not the definition of insanity.
It’s the definition of perseverance.
They both end up in the same place which is a lack of success. The point is, this program needs some experience to get things turned around whether it’s MR or a Dennis Erickson, I don’t really care.
It doesn’t need the Riley experience again…
Riley 5.0
Huang listed as 8th wealthiest in America with a net worth of $151B.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/09/richest-people-in-america-forbes-list-2025/86054219007/?tbref=hp
I don’t want him to invest in football. Use the money for something that can help people, especially when college sports is a mess without parameters.
Are we sure that’s AI?
Yeah, college sports are not an “investment.”
Are you under the impression AI willl help people? Because I think that’s incorrect.
Actually, this is the perfect time to have a mega donor. He could have OSU winning an NCAA championship in 1-2 years and it would be a massive F.U. to the system.
Yes, cash certainly helps in todays world. Yes, a school like OSU will never compete without a bloated wallet. But, lots of schools have wasted resources chasing the elusive trophy and have not much to show for it.
Having a mega donor doesn’t necessarily equate to National Championships. Look no further than 40 minutes south. Phil has dumped millions into that program, before it was even legal, and still a fat zero like their logo.
I’m still in the camp of letting the dipshits with cash becoming a semi-pro feeder to the NFL and allowing academic institutions a league where they play college football
Has the special teams coach Jaime Christian been fired yet or relieved of his duties?
How about the special teams quality control guy? You know, Daniel Akey? As mentioned before, is his relation to Special Assistant to the Head Coach making him an untouchable in this fiasco?
I’m with “Dave from Tumwater”; way too much inbreeding in Beavs sports in general and especially in FB
of course not. That would require some work and cause a brief, slight commotion.
Civil War “rivalry” game to pause next season due to schedule commitments, resume in 2027.
Mullens said UO need for 7 home games will take precedence over a home-and-home Civil War, so there may be pauses in the future. Barnes says regional rivalries mean more than ever and the student-athletes want the game.
This year’s beatdown is on the B10 network with a noon kickoff, though Mullens says you never know what will happen in a rivalry game…
Barnes is wrong. And no home and home? If Barnes agrees to that I’m out.
Yeah what’s the point of that? Wasn’t that the reason they were going to continue initially. So they want to pause when it’s supposed to be in Corvallis and reinstate when it’s scheduled for pewgene? LOL
Fuck that guy
Oregon State should never play oregon in football ever again. What’s the point of being a consistent bloodbath doormat and losing by 40+ points, not coming close to being a competitive game every year? Who benefits here, OSU or them and only them? They left, leave it at that and move on. They can schedule someone else to pad their stats. How many blowout Civil War losses on National TV will it take for the most loyal donors to say no more? Maybe after the Beavers lose by 70+ this year? It’s only going to get worse and less competitive as time goes on. Barnes is an idiot if he continues to schedule the non existent “Civil War” especially in football. I refuse to waste my time watching the massacre formerly known as the Civil War, I know many who are doing the same.
This was so predictable. Mullens is laying the ground work for the Civil Ware series continuing but only if its in Eugene every year. I been on board with keeping the rivalry going if only because of the history and OSU has about zero opportunity to get top ten teams to visit Reser. It keeps OSU / Reser relevant.
If the condition for continuing the game is that its in Eugene every year, then absolutely not. There’s next to zero benefit to it. OSU can go play just about any team in the country it wants to on the road and probably get better money.
Genuine question to those that feel the need to keep Oregon for the “strong opponent”
Do you guys really think OSU would be more likely to make the playoff at 12-1 with a loss to a top 10 opponent or 13-0 without playing a top 10 opponent?
Because I think the 12-1 team will get zero credit from the committee for playing that game. But would get credit for being undefeated.
Strong opponent at home in Reser. There’s a difference. The reality is most our competition for a G5 spot in the playoff will be playing ranked P4 team on the road most seasons. We would have a ranked team in Reser every other season. It’s an advantage.
And yes I expect a 12-1 G5 team who lost a close match to a top ten opponent would get the nod over an undefeated G5 team who played nobody.
As an example in 2023 one loss Tulane team (loss to ranked Ole Miss) was consistently ranked by the CFP ahead of undefeated Liberty (who played nobody) until Tulane lost its second game late in the season.
Last year one loss Boise St (loss to Oregon early) was consistently ranked ahead of Army who started 8-0. They faded at the end but never would have overtaken Boise in the CFP rankings.
It’s an advantage if you win.
I think they’d take another 13-0 G5 team with no games against a top 10 over a 12-1 OSU with a loss to a top 10 team though.
Sure, maybe if they have zero “ranked” opponents you might be right but “ranked” and “top ten” aren’t the same thing.
Even at that we don’t know for sure given that we haven’t seen it in reality once the final rankings come out yet.
Appreciate the response!
I still think wins are more important than opponents but time will tell.
Article on the Big O yesterday that headline reads, “Trent Bray sees the light at the end of the tunnel,” but I don’t have a subscription so I was unable to read it. I just wonder what tunnel he was referring to?
The tunnel of looking at 0-4 to 0-6 to start of the season. I don’t see the Beavs traveling to over 2,000 miles away to Boone, North Carolina and beating Appalachian State on the road. Wake Forest is better than Fresno State and more talented. The wins that I see are Sam Houston State, Lafayette, possibly Tulsa. If the Beavs play flawless and/or the other team plays horribly, then maybe Houston, Wake Forest, and Wazzu at home? What other program in the country would keep a coach employed who is 0-5+? Coming off a 5-7 season which they lost 9 of their last 10 games? Reser might not even have 10,000 in attendance by October.
Here ya go:
https://archive.ph/J418G
Thx
Colonoscopy?
No win vs. the Cougs. Their experienced coach, familiarity w so many players and use of wsu 5th year seniors was coalescing in game 2.
Ohio State saying only two B10 programs are brands, OSU and M, and revenue sharing needs to change to their benefit.
Last year they spent $20M on football players, $21M on coaches….
Yeah and they don’t like the new transfer portal idea. So they seem to be all high and mighty. Send the “brands” to the premier league and let them enjoy keeping up with the jones’.
Greed is a funny thing it’s never really satiated. The only viable options to drive increased profits for the “brand” programs is unequal revenue sharing or kick out the bottom feeders in the BIG/SEC.
USC and UCLA left the PAC because they felt they deserved bigger shares of the revenue in the PAC12. Now that they’re just another team in the BIG, it’ll be interesting to see how they feel if the BIG goes to unequal revenue distributions and they start getting less than some. Oregon and Washington have a lot to worry about because their contract with the BIG guaranteed them a 1/2 share for 5 years and only consideration of a full share after that. They’ll be easy targets for lower revenue shares to satisfy tOSU and M.
If unequal revenue shares in the SEC and BIG don’t come to fruition, I suspect the next round of realignment will be ejecting the bottom feeders from the BIG and SEC or more likely the brand programs breaking away and leaving the bottom feeders behind. Think Nebraska, Purdue, Illinois or Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Mississippi St, Missouri, maybe Arkansas & UCLA etc. It’s really the last option to drive revenue shares for the “brand” program further North. There aren’t really any remaining ACC and BIG12 schools that could be added to the BIG and SEC that will up their value but removing bottom feeders will definitely put more money in the pockets programs at the top.
Recently the AD at Nebraska said if this last round of realignment was painful for some the next round will be even more painful. He was talking to Nebraska boosters and I suspect he was talking about Nebraska’s situation in the BIG. Mediocre football, mediocre basketball, small market, and no longer AAU affiliated.
TT QB completing 74% of his passes so far, 7 TDs, no INTs, pocket passer, and beavers have no pass rush.
TT spent a lot on front seven on D, and Murphy will be under constant pressure.
All cupcakes on their schedule of course, third one coming up!
OLive with a bit more background on WR Eddie Feauff:
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2025/09/whether-in-a-ugandan-orphanage-or-the-end-zone-eddie-freauffs-joy-persists.html
Anyone who thinks Wake has any talent whatsoever needs to share their drugs with me.
They make us look good.
https://x.com/costello_nic/status/1966342055388471349?t=k8QsnGC3N9gXcgeFv-afGg&s=19
Illegal transfers in high school football….its amazing how important sports are to people, and how losers like this Steigh guy actually get parents to take money…
“A private high school in the Los Angeles area has forfeited its 2025 varsity football season in the wake of allegations that a local bagman funded the illegal transfers of five players to the team.
Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance announced Tuesday it was suspending its season. The school is in the middle of an “internal investigation in coordination with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Department of Catholic Schools,” after it self-reported California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section violations.
It was already a season to forget for the Bishop Montgomery Knights, even before the school announced its decision Tuesday. The team raised eyebrows this offseason when it picked up over 20 transfers. Suspicions that something was up were all but confirmed Aug. 20, when CIF-SS ruled five of those transfers ineligible for violating a bylaw about “Providing Incorrect, Inaccurate, Incomplete or False Information.”
Just three days later, the Knights traveled to Hawaii to take on St. Louis School. Officials called the 34-27 loss early when a brawl broke out between the two sidelines and police intervened. The incident led to a wave of suspensions that forced Bishop Montgomery to forfeit its next game against Orange County powerhouse Mater Dei. A week after the game in Hawaii, the school parted ways with head football coach Ed Hodgkiss.
Yet all of that paled in comparison with the revelation Monday that infamous high school booster Brett Steigh helped secure the wave of transfers to Bishop Montgomery. In an interview with On SI’s Tarek Fattal on the “Fattal Factor” podcast, Steigh, a local businessman who says “most of my money does come from gambling,” revealed he paid parents to get players to transfer to not just the Torrance program but also to Narbonne — where Steigh graduated from in 1992 — and St. Bernard. This marks the third school where Steigh’s association eventually led to penalties and violations. ”
https://www.sfgate.com/preps/article/high-school-football-booster-california-trouble-21028753.php
https://youtu.be/OplgaI3-Bmw?si=DVgwCZEErq588SIR
Love him or hate him, he isn’t wrong about OSU and Bray.
Who is he?
I feel like “love him or hate him” means I simply don’t want to give “him” any clicks, regardless of the content.
Canzano……
yeah
With NIL and wealthy graduates being a frequent topic here I found one I had never heard of.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng
NVIDIA Stadium and score Board? Reser Grandstand, Panda Grandstand, Terry Baker Field….
Black and Orange Chicken…..mmmmmm….
Nvidia has a sports AI division, offer to give them full access to all your sports data and film. Make investing in OSU a profitable choice rather than charity.
Access to all that data has to be an easy sell.
Is this why you brought up Peggy today?
She reportedly a part of the Trailblazers new ownership group. So she’s got some interest in sports.
https://x.com/jwquick/status/1966583302971617625?t=VtD7QvJTDq8LXk8lJIN9hQ&s=19
I don’t notice OSU in the list of institutions to which she has donated?
Yeah that’s were I heard of her
OSU apparently getting $3.2M for playing BYU in Las Vegas….no plans to make BYU go to Corvallis to make up for the lost home game…
At least that’s not a total body bag game like the blue bloods they scheduled in the past and it’s not a home game for byu either.
I got no problem with doing this once a year. Shouldn’t prevent you from getting to 6 home games.
I’d also argue for playing FCS schools in Portland even if it is considered one of the other 6 home games. Anything that can tie OSU to the Portland market should be done.
Just don’t take one and done road games.
Houston about to go up 20-7 on Colorado.
Good Lord, Houston looks much improved. The Beavs are going to go 3-9 or 2-10 aren’t they? I’m depressed.
So you’re an optimist?
No kidding
We will always have Lafayette!
Probably best to watch out of curiosity.
Honestly, except for the team that shall not be named, the legacy Pac-12 is having a crappy ass season. UCLA down against New Mexico. Hope the checks cleared.
UCLA is in freefall against New Mexico. Down 28-10 with about 4 minutes left. The Bruins deserve whatever lack of success they get.
UCLA the school’s president the one who didn”t tell rhe regents?
Didn’t they have to pay Cal some money also for their underhanded bullshit?
I mean, Cal’s 2-0…
And Arizona’s 3-0; USC 2-0; UW 2-0; Utah’s 2-0 and ranked…
Arizona stadium looked about 40’percent full. We aren’t the only ones. There’s zero hope to go on a playoff run unless you are in the 20 mil range. Happy for Coach Brennan getting some wins though.
New Mexico 35-10 over UCLA….UCLA me ght duck worse than the beavers do.
Might suck worse…
Last place in the Mountain West! Eff the Bruins for what they did, and the Huskies/Trojans are going to be just fair to middling for a long time. Quacks may be the only winners with football, but at what cost to every other program?
Oregon would have been better off staying too. Would have had less travel, an easier schedule, undefeated most seasons plus the automatic conference bid if they did lose some non-con games somehow.
This team is likely to start 0-6 for the year. Not sure how you keep the locker room with that type of start. Think Tech is 23.5 pt favs right now. I might actually take the over on that. Sounds like the TT front 7 is better than Cal’s front 7 who were very dominant over our OL. First road game of the year and we won 1 road game last season. It’s sad there’s been 0 accountability for any of the coaches from the disaster that was the last 2 weeks. Not sure how the ST guy has kept his job. Must be nice to have the job security like that. Be terrible at your job, make hundreds of thousands each year and have no worries in the world.
The disaster has been ongoing since the 4-1 start last season. Come on, losing 28-0 to Air Force? They ended up being a crappy Mountain West team last year. They also lost to a three-win Nevada team. One can blame the poor QB play last season, but who is responsible for that? OC and HC, right? When one considers the level of competition, this is bordering on GA era stuff.
Yeah, not pretty to say the least. This team was awful on the road which is why I think taking the over is a safe bet.
This whole thing just makes me sad. I wanted Trent Bray to be successful, and maybe in the old days when recruiting wasn’t all about NIL money, he could have. He clearly couldn’t find anyone good to be his assistants, and so we’re left with the OSU reunion coaching staff that is full of not good coaches, and a group of players that don’t seem to be very good. I think Bray is a nice guy, and I think it sucks for him that he’s the face of this team in this era.
I don’t really know what will happen to OSU sports going forward, but I’m sad about how the past few years have gone for NCAA sports in general. I NEVER thought I’d enjoy watching pro sports more than college. And now, I simply don’t care when I see a college game on. I’ll watch any NFL game now and pretend its because I’m tracking my fantasy football guys, but really it’s just because watching college sports makes me sad.
I’m with ya. At least pro sports have a little bit of field leveling between seasons with the salary cap and draft process. Its not perfect, but its also not a downward spiral when a team has a rough couple of years
Why wasn’t cookus kept on staff? He at least was creative and his special teams weren’t a huge liability like this outside of kicker.
Heard rumors it was somehow related to his personal life but dont want speculate on those details
He wasn’t great, but compared to the new guy he looks like a hall of fame coach
Good to see they worked on self-inflicted penalties this week. Can’t wait to see the first long snap.
Wow, two false starts already. Lol
Nice start and great punt!
this team is permanently fucked
Even nature wants to put the Beavs out of their misery!
I think Barnes needs to give the coaching staff a 10 year extension!
Most of the coaches could not win at the high school level!
Are the thousands of fans still in their seats magically protected from the lightning?
Haven’t even turned on the game, score 0-0, yet 4 fellow alums have already texted how bad they look. This page confirms.
Think I’m gonna go to the park instead.
Smart move.
According to Parker, the long snapping solution is to shorten the disyance and have Wells shotgun snap it.
Expecting some blocked punts
This isn’t a serious team. This is the best they can do? Why didn’t they try this last week? Staff is so fucking incompetent
Yeah, I think that’s why you’re seeing frustration among the players. Next thing we’ll see is lots of players hitting the transfer portal.
That’s unbelievable. They have an experienced long snapper, but they can’t overcome his “mental” issues, so this is the solution?
Stupid question: do long snappers wear gloves? Watch the issue be some sort of altered tackiness of the balls or snappers gloves because of fresh paint in the locker room or something stupid like that. Should give them a try for the two away games, what have the got to lose?
Anybody on here from the Corvallis area? If so, can you defintively ascertain that football practise is actually taking place…
Lol. That’s a fair question
Pretty sad we are spending 1.5 million on a QB yet the rest of the team sucks. Is Erickson still kicking. He’ll ask him to have mercy on us and help us.
Someone here mentioned that it would be better to spend more on linemen even if that meant less on QB.
Here,here! On both sides of the los.
He was sold a bill of goods thinking he was coming to a team with lots of offensive potential. This team is offensive!!! Just awful football. Who would hire any of these coaches?!?!
Not only that, but $1.5 mil was spent on a QB that was told by his previous school (Duke) that they were going with someone else at the position and that he was free to seek another school.
Clearly, even God doesn’t want to see this game.
Not impressed with Georgia’s QB.
North Texas 14-3 over WSU in the 2nd quarter.
Yeah I saw that. Are the Cougs as bad as us?
Nah, can at least beat a Mtn West opponent. Shows how much better their coaching is too cause a lot of their key guys came from South Dakota State. In theory, we should have more talent but they’re at least winning games.
Best case scenario is for the game to be cancelled, right?
N Texas 35 WSU 3 almost halftime
Hahaha!!!
42-3 NT almost halftime
Apparently the NIL era means Don’t Mess With Texas
Now I’m Laughing…..NIL
The best defense is a good weather delay.
I picked the best time to nope out of caring about college athletics.
It’s become the pros but with shittier players.
At this point I just poke my head in on random fan fanbases melting down for the lulz :)
Butt kicking starts at 3:10 PAC Time
52-3 NT
Man, its one thing to get hammered by a Texas Tech, but North Texas State. I’m afraid our brother to the northeast is in just as bad a shape as we are. Sad.
Mizzou is pretty good. Had over 600 yards offense with over 400 on the ground Ahmed Hardy had 250 rushing. Tennessee is not balanced enough. No running game. I love to throw but you have to be able to run the ball.
Great coverage by our FB bit great catch and throw. It has started.
By our DB but
So predictable coming out of the delay!
Dude how is that not challenged?
Yeah, I thought so too. Probably not enough to overturn but at least give it a shot.
The Beavs are pretty much surrendering the game with this bizarre punt formation.
Reser stadium is gonna be a ghost town! Maybe the administration will get the message – or maybe not.
The coaching staff is laughable.
Turn out the lights the party is over. MM is just taking money now. He has decided it isn’t worth caring when the whole staff is hindering everybody.
These guys will be lucky to win 2 games honestly. The staff is lost and the players are already tuning them out and considering where to transfer out as soon as they can.
How embarrassing to see the special teams is worse than many high schools. I’d imagine a lot of guys on the roster are in schock at how ridiculous the whole thing is beginning to look. Reality is beginning to take a toll.
Yep. One of the worst displays of D1 football I’ve seen in a long, long time!
Don’t watch this garbage! Turn on the Georgia – Tenn game.
Is it faint praise to call a pooch punt a smart play, finally!
QB Pooch kick. FINALLY! Only took them 4+ quarters of disaster to think of that.
Defense got a stop but the offense is not doing anything.
Georgia – Tenn is 28-27 early in the 4th. Great game with teams that actually can execute football!
I swear to God this team is worse than the Andersen teams. Complete crap
Welp, so much for the defense getting another stop.
Why are these idiot announcers babbling about Murphy’s ability to run? Do they know anything about his past? Duke moved on from him because they wanted a dual-threat QB.
1st and 35 no problem crossing pattern good for 29.
Against P-4 competition, the defense is looking weak and slow, like the worst GA teams. I guess the only glimmer of hope is they won’t be playing P-4 competition much in the future, but it almost certainly means they won’t be back at the P-4 level either. The best we can hope for is that Bray’s replacement can develop a Group of Six powerhouse.
Nice pick by Skyler but MM misses on a wide open pass to Wells and then throws a pick
TT has 6’8 , 350 # players – ugh
But, but, we’ve got Cavanaugh……..
And a giant purse.
Defense is hanging in there and 3rd and 26 from beavers ,31.
Looks like I jinxed them a little swing pass for a TD, 21-0.
Georgia vs Tennessee is a real game with real players…..
Yes! A classic!
I’m checking out at halftime. I have to ice my hemorrhoids…..lol
BIG JIM points out another coaching fail. Fair catch would have given the ball to Beavs at the 40.
Promote the ST coach. Maybe the coaching staff is in on a gambling scheme.
Does the Beav defense ever make a tackle on first contact in space?
Collins has
1 and 35
3 and 25
3 and 26
I have never sone this before , Im turning it off
Is there a beaver game today? Tennessee blew it against Georgia
Somebody needs to tell MM to try and plant his back foot when he throws. I’ve never noticed a qb throw while backpedaling so much.
Gundy needs to have him roll out or something if there isn’t time due to the pass rush. Not that it matters anymore actually.
There isn’t gonna be time; in the 1st qtr there was one roll out into a tackle pocket and it worked. Ain’t seen it since.
No sense of urgency. Not even the notion to hurry up and spike the ball to at least try a Hail Mary. I know it’s minor, but Murphy was just standing there waiting for the play. So poorly coached.
Not really minor. Actually major failure by all involved, can’t make this foolishness up.
Last play of the half, 11 seconds, nuttin’
2.3 yards per play vs 9.0 yard per play. Guess which team is which.
Is there any more lightning headed Lubbocks way?
I’m a pretty good lip reader and tell you what Bray said: “fuck me”.
This product is so bad that the Beaver faithful have nothing to even be angry about anymore. This is a dreadful showing and it continues to get worse week by week. Barnes should be considering a coaching search to replace the entire staff at the beginning of December.
Bray has been defeated and his energy is now depleted. Unpreparedness, horrible execution and a lack of game-plan is continuing to expose the entire staff.
OSU is being shown once again on a national broadcast how embarrassing the sports program is, confirming what all of the pundits said 2 years ago after the PAC dissolved. OSU should just shut it all down and focus on Baseball and engineering. Why care if the school admin never cared to begin with.
At this point, I suspect the lawsuits were only to maintain status for future government research grants and never about actual successful sports programs. Prove me wrong.
Please explain further the last sentence.
If anything, I think all of the lawsuits etc were more about sustaining the university bottom line for everything linked to Power 5 level academics and research programs rather than maintaining a Power 5 caliber sports program.
All media grandstanding was always focused on student athletes but now I just don’t buy it. I no longer believe that athletics is or ever was the priority at OSU.
I’m willing to hear the view that may disprove my conclusion but I doubt anyone cares.
Thanks, didn’t realize P5 was a big deal for research programs; bottom line concerns make sense.
It’s beyond obvious at this point. Other than baseball the university doesn’t care about athletics. It just doesn’t.
What makes no sense is why they spend so much on Reser given that.
I vote for no 0regon game thread.
Later Bray, appreciate what you did, but you in over your head bud
Caufield a nice one handed reach back catch, too bad he isn’t more consistent.
There’s your roll out to Reddicks, then followed by another int by MM.
I had never wanted one of our hires to be a home run more than I did Brey. It’s not working.
If you think this game is bad, just wait until next weekend. That hamr is the end of Bray’s HC tenure at OSU. He will remain as DC but I’m ready for Smiley Riley v4.5 or 5.0.
That game is the end for Bray.
How about just cancelling the Nike game before next week. Say the whole team is ill and we can’t field a team.
Pay whatever fines and move on. Don’t give the ducks another chance to destroy OSU in another sport.
Hahaha!!!
This team will likely start 0-7. The good news is all the teams on the backend of the schedule look far worse than us.
Hard to believe.
The lead is down to 38 and the Beavs still have all 3 timeouts.
The poor players – Perhaps they aren’t skilled/talented, altho we have no way of knowing, but it has to be tough.
Overall, how do y’all grade the effort of the players today? Just the players, forget the coaching.
Both Bray and Thomas mention lack of effort in post game interviews.
I blame Bray. He had two whole hours to sneak the team out of the stadium during the weather delay.
Apparently, it is not apparent to a great many on this post. No serious money=no coaches and no players=no wins. Without some serious money, changing the HC is an exercise in futility.
Agreed.
University wide commitment is how you get that money.
I disagree that they don’t already have the resources to compete within the new conference with better coaching though.
To dominate the new PAC and compete nationally does take a new campus wide approach though. This coaching staff ain’t the one either way.
I was watching the cal game. Look up their coaching staff. Much more experience there than what the Beavs have and it shows. The execution and preparedness is evident.
I disagree on the coaching part. If we had competent coaching we would have beat Fresno and possibly Cal. It’s amazing how really good coaching can make a difference.
Stats at Yahoo show 2 sacks by Beavs and only 4 penalties. 4 penalties only allows 2 beyond the 2 false starts on the first possession. Improvement?
Looks like Beavs open as 27 pt dogs next week, surprised?
Not nearly enough, I wouldn’t take less than 35.5
I think the Ducks could play all true Freshman and still cover the point spread.
Reckon college football is minor league baseball for me now. I spent the afternoon riding my bike. AAA is definitely better than A ball but it is all minors. I’ll tune in when my team is doing good and if it is convenient and cheap I’ll catch a game or two and drink some beers. But that’s what it is now, I’m not even that bummed about today.
There is a certain sadness upon realizing I can have my fall Saturdays back and OSU doesn’t have to be a part of them anymore.
I really appreciate DE and how he made OSU a national sensation. I will never understand the mindset of the alums and administrators who still cling to a Riley mindset. It’s like they have no inclination to greatness, but are always happy for mediocre or simply ok to disregard sports institutionally.
Perhaps I should have been prepared a long time ago to just move on from OSU sports. I have shared great moments at OSU sports during the PAC10/12 era with friends and family.
Today I must admit that OSU will never be a competitive football program again, nor in men’s basketball. The clock is ticking on Rueck getting an SEC offer so women’s basketball is going to rapidly decline. I’m glad for the CWS run for baseball but I’m not convinced they can get back ever again. In a lot of ways, even the new PAC12 feels like a fraudulent effort to maintain a lost status and OSU has zero vision for itself, let alone thinking they have a vision for a conference. I’m sad and will miss having high expectations. I guess I’m cured of an optimism about OSU and it is replaced with a pall of low expectations.
Ask Notre Dame if special teams matters
Hey angry people, I decided to eat mushrooms this afternoon, did we win?
Is it too early to start thinking (posting) about the next head coach?
Is it possible for OSU to replace a coach and not go 1-11 in year one?
Right now… we don’t need 13-0… we just need to not be horrible.
It’s one thing to be 0-3, its another to even have the post-game show hosts on the flagship station wonder what the hell is going on. Worse than Gary Andersen era Beavers? Would Mike Riley be an improvement? Lend credibility to the program?
I’m quite perplexed. I saw the team practice/scrimmage early in fall camp and they looked so improved.
The energy was focused, tense, competitive. There weren’t a ton of mistakes, offense and defense both trading blows with big plays. Playing fast and aggressive.
I don’t know if it’s something intangible about the locker room or staff under Bray (maybe they are too close?), or just losing all confidence getting beat by a more talented CAL team then they expected and realizing they aren’t as good as they thought they were, but the reality of what the team looks like now vs then is pretty unexplainable, and ultimately inexcusable.
It is indeed GA level dysfunctional, and at this point, it doesn’t really matter how or why you got here, there’s very little chance of recovery.
The X and O’s are bad, but the “intangibles” are worse. The team looks dejected, asleep, and directionless. Totally unsure, unconfident and even uninterested in anything that they are doing.
Truly the darkest Beaver timeline.
That was the vibe from all of the local media, and FWIW, they made Phil Steele’s most improved list. They don’t look better to me at all, except for more depth in the passing game. They have some injuries on the OL, and Ayers is out. They probably win the Fresno game if Black were healthy, but the coaching is amateurish with no plan when challenges strike.
So sad,OSU administration is paralyzed/has no money, doesn’t care. Talent or little talent,the players deserve decent coaching.
Looks like I was pretty close on the score yet again. Next week should be fun.
Only the mentally ill had any thoughts that this team would keep this game close. We can’t win on the road and I dont think theres 1 game on this schedule where they will win on the road. The coaching is that bad.
This team is cooked. There’s 2 realistic wins on this schedule and maybe you can sneak one vs the Cougs? Not sure. They looked really bad last night but I also think we would’ve lost to both teams the cougs beat. While the 2017 team had just the 1 win, I’d say this is a worse team in general wven if they have a couple more wins because this is the easiest schedule rhe beavs have had.
I don’t really know if there’s any coach on this team that you keep if you could? I mean, I’d love to keep Bray as DC but other than that, I’m not sure there’s much else left. I suppose Coach Cooper over the DBs has done well with what’s he’s got. Otherwise, I think you’d be able to live without any of the other coaches staying. I know people were big on coach heck with TE but that unit hasnt seemed anything beyond OK and if Caufield is our best TE, thats a position that is in trouble.
I’m also not sure I believe this is a talented group of players. A lot of people like to spew that fact, but I’m not seeing it on the field. OL and DL are the weakest they’ve been for a long time. I can understand the OL being ass because that was a strength of ours and Coach M was an awesome line coach. DL has been a very bad position for us outside of that 10 win season and for this group to be even worse than some of those other years is really saying something. OLB unit is ass. 3 games in and we finally get our first sack. On track to collect 4 sacks this year which would be 3 less than last season. MLB is ok. Finally Foster led the team in tackles but then our next 5 top tacklers were from the secondary. That’s crazy. I’d say that is actually a very weak position as well. RB room was supposed to be a strength and it’s not. I get the OL blocking has been bad, but talented RBs can break some tackles, create some yds and yet we had 22 total rushing yds yesterday. Around 50 vs Cal and only broke 100 vs Fresno State. I Do think that better coaching would elevate a lot of the guys on this squad, but I’m not sold that the talent is actually there.