In response to my: “The real fans get another kick in the nuts season”
This birdbrain replies:
LOL…are you seriously calling yourself a “real” fan? Bwhahahahahahahahaahahahahaha
You’re about as far from a “real” fan as it gets bud! –BeavInEugene
Isn’t it incredible that six years into this blog people still mistake criticism (and desire for improvement) with hatred?
Yes, Birdbrain, I am not a fan. I just spend personal resources (both time and money) to run this site because I have nothing better to do. No Birdbrain, it is all just a big conspiracy to ruin Oregon State. I’m a Duck with a ten year plan! Now go back inside the earth, bunker-dweller.
Some can’t comprehend that being a fan of the GAME (which is going to shit) can inspire one to be constructively critical of the team.
From Will’s Dad:
http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/04/oregon_state_beavers_redshirt.html
Obviously this writer Mizell is the best there is. It’s about time Will got some press. It looks like my phone calls and emails paid off.
Mizell is so much better than Schnell. So glad Schnell is gone…she was atrocious as a personality (“I’m a bimbo shopper blah blah!” and a writer.
Stormy misses her.
Schnell always reminded me of Talking Malibu Stacy.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftde81QNXDY
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An overgrown toenail is better than a hangnail.
It does Mizell a disservice to compare her to Schnell. Besides, do we have to talk about Schnell now that she’s gone?
I’m sure the Buffet lines and Gap stores in Portland miss her
Then they can talk about her.
Hey, angry…..I agree BinE is a dildo, but he’s probably just an extreme form of Polyanna. That is, if you dont root for the team, completely and unequivocally, … win, lose or get blown out…. and even if the team and staff are ludicrously bad, …..well, you are not a true fan.
If BinE were a german before WW2 he would have been a total nazi…..totally behind the home team, so to speak, no matter what they did.
I guess these “true fans” are the sheep of the population, and simply are unable to think for themselves. If they COULD think, I would suggest to them that they are the worst fans, and care nothing for quality. But they cant….
Woo hoo! Let’s just get Godwin out of the way first!
Besides that, I agree.
However, I wouldn’t say there is a “worst” type of fan. I would say that some types do more harm than good because they rely on faith rather than objectively seeing reality and act accordingly. But if the heart is in the right place they’re still “good” fans.
There is a difference between a Polyanna who just plain loves his team, win, lose, thick or thin……and the one who hates another fan because they want something better and tries to ferret out ways that might happen. Couldnt worst apply to the latter? There is surely a fan spectrum, overseen by that Great Beaver in the Sky, so given that spectrum, there has to be a “worst”…..
Being the anti-fan of another fan isn’t being a fan at all.
That’s kinda the point.
An Anti-fan? What the hey is that? You saying that two fans of a team, who dislike each other, are thus removed from being fans of the team? I guess I dont get it…..seems like that makes no sense.
I’m saying when the focus is being an anti-fan of another fan, you’re no longer being a fan of some team. Your focus is on the other person, not a team or program or school.
It’s specious.
True fan, eh? Have the tattoo to prove it?
smh
OT; Why most B1G fans like and respect Tom Izzo. MR with more success.
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If at first…..
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NIck Faust will transfer to OSU. Will have to sit out the dumpster fire that will be next season.
http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/04/former_maryland_swingman_nick_1.html
Won’t CR be almost certainly be gone next season? I forgot if this year was officially his make or break year or if that was just speculation.
Anyway, we still have another scholarship so does anyone know if anyone else is potentially transferring?
I wouldnt guess that anything is certain about next year. Seems to me that BDC skirted around any real decision. And who knows, CR might apply himself, the new players might blossom, pigs might fly and the Beavers hoops make some improvement. If that happened, I bet our BDC would keep him. And with some millions of $ in that contract, he might anyway.
ask yourself a question. As much as I want Robinson gone, do we really want BDC making ANOTHER men’s hoops hire???? I sure as shit don’t.
Admin afraid of the repercussions of canning him. Enjoy the show!
But we can find a way to pay out the $4m. We’re going to pay it out anyway. It’s not like we would have to pay in one lump sum either. Although, it is a little funny to think BDC is afraid to go more in the short-term hole for a possibly larger revenue stream.
Repercussions? Are you implying CR would pull the race card?
We finished tenth in the race for first last year. Have you heard of another race?
CR will go 6-12 in conf. play, win play in game in Pac 12 tourney and get an extension using BDC logic.
Yeah… last year we had a poor non-con showing followed by a .444 conference record for a whopping .500 record. Then we go play some meaningless post season game where we lose several thousand dollars.
And Bobby D gleefully tacks on another unwarranted year to the coach’s contract?
That’s bunk.
To make it worse, hoops had the exact same numbers.
Not much new in the spring ball story lines but wondering what people think of this remark from Riley:
“With good health and the addition of the three transfers on defense, Riley envisions a team that will have as much or more depth as any of his 13 teams at Oregon State.
“Besides a couple of spots, we probably have the best depth ever,” he says. “And we might look OK in the offensive line by the time we start camp, too.”
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/12-sports/218891-75701-a-few-question-marks-remain-as-osu-heads-into-spring-game
While reading the story I happened to notice a headline about three women being arrested for twerking outside City Hall in Beaverton.
Having lived a sheltered life I had no idea what twerking was but it sure sounded interesting.
I managed to find an instructional video on this topic so I thought I’d share it just in case you too are not up to speed regarding the matter of twerking.
How to Twerk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgoyVRO0A0E
O-line again the issue. Every year. Groundhog Day.
Noticed Woods and Ward are expected to get light work Saturday and that Brown (who missed Mondays practice) will get most of the work…along with Haskins.
It’s gonna be interesting watching how the RB group, which Riley says is the strongest (deepest?) on O, shakes out. Hope Garrett can break Riley’s tendency to simply go with the guy with the most seniority. Of course, that could be somewhat muted if Woods cannot stay healthy.
In discussing the O-line, Riley says he’ll configure it to play “the best five.”
One more thought on the link: Was even 25% of this reported by the kids at the O? Eggers is caught up with the Blazers and still has time/ability to produce this article along with the one on Casey’s 700th win. Imagine what we might learn if Eggers beat was only the Beavs.
Banker, “mic’ed up!”:
http://www.osubeavers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30800&ATCLID=209483675
I AM READY TO FIGHT ALL BIRD- BRAINS!!!!*#!!
I will jump that fence and fight every bird brain here bro!
Birds actually have larger brains (relatively) than humans. Calling BIU a birdbrain was too much of a compliment.
They also have larger peckers.
Get your minds out of the gutter. We are talkin’ beaks.
Based on these photos, Jalen Grimble had an INT and return yesterday….the guy looks like he could be in an NFL camp now. He’s not looking like the typical OSU DT; either undersized or a big, doughy middle…
http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/04/oregon_state_beavers_last_prac.html
I agree. Too bad Scott C left a year early. We would have finally had good players at both positions.
No mention of the WR transfer from WSU. Is he still planning on going the squad?
Joining….
According to his Twitter he’ll be at OSU “next month”
https://twitter.com/RahmelDockery/status/459046010614870017
Good. Could be the wildcard in the equation.
OT – S-I ranks the top 100 draft prospects, including:
Brandin Cooks, #32 overall, #6 WR
Scott Chricton, #40 overall, #4 DE
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20140501/2014-nfl-draft-top-100-prospects/
It will be cool if Cooks goes in round 1.
Didn’t finish the article before posting that.
Rashaad Reynolds came in at #100, #14 CB….
Seems low for Cooks. Almost every current assessment I’ve scene has him as the 3rd best WR and will get drafted in the teens. Be nice if he was lined up opposite Percy for the Hawks but he won’t last that long.
It would a great thing for recruiting.
Jameis Winston has crabs!
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/us/florida-winston-shoplifting-allegation/
BTW, some great spoof pictures on the net. What a moron. Guy has life by the balls and seems intent on fucking it up.
My favorite https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmecVQgIUAAppdh.png
Mine to. That is sweet.
“Better off spending your Saturday with people you love or doing things you love than rooting for these dimwit authority figures (admins, coaches, etc) who can’t even get the obvious right. But hey, May is just a few days away. ” Spoken like a true fan.
Maybe it was this part of the post (which followed the part where you implied you were a “real fan” and those that do not always cry that the sky is falling are not) that BeavInEugene keyed in on. You do realize you did the same thing he is doing (i.e. calling out some on the site as not being “real” fans) right?
*implied
He didn’t call him out for not being a real fan. He just called him an immense idiot.
Please keep up.
And I did not say that he called him (BeavInEugene) out for not being a real fan.
You keep up (this seems like a recurring problem…).
Oh…
Someone hi-jacked your post then:
“You do realize you did the same thing he is doing (i.e. calling out some on the site as not being “real” fans) right?”
My bad. Just because it’s in one of your posts doesn’t mean you wrote it. I get it now. I’ll remember that next time.
“Calling out some on the site” is not the same. This is not complicated.
I have no idea if when Angry was implying that some fans were not “real fans” because they don’t get as upset as he does, whether he was thinking of BeavInEugene or not. That’s why I did not say, for instance, “calling out BeavInEugene as not being a ‘real fan.'”
Your bad.
Was he calling anyone out on this site? Reading the context, any fan with hopes of greatness (or even just a low bar like goodness) for their team which are unrealized is a fan who gets a kick in the nuts. It happens every year, yet we all come marching back in August. Some of us question authority because of authority’s track record while others have blind faith.
Casual and bandwagon fans are the only ones not kicked. So maybe they’re being called out in your argument. But you’re close to conflating apples and oranges there.
Whomever “someone” in a sarcastic rant is, you seemed to be pretty sure who it was and of angry’s hypocrisy before. Why is it that now you have no idea what you were saying?
I don’t think I ever wrote that they weren’t fans. Just that they are the type of fan who holds the program back.
edit: I see Jack already covered this. Thanks.
Hate to give props to a Badger, but I have like this kid after this.
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Sounds like the offensive line will be a mess this fall….the organization of it still seems typically non-strategic.
http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/05/oregon_state_beavers_coach_mik_8.html#incart_river
It sounds more like they prefer Isaac at center and want to work out these guys at LT.
The likely line up is RT Andrews, RG Bays C Seumalo LG Mitchell LT Harlow. Or C Mitchell, LG Harlow and LT Seumalo.
Not bad at all. All but Andrews has started multiple games. Depth is a bit of an issue. Sapolu will never be an effective starter. Weinrich has been injured all the time and the rest are still in development.
If somehow, any of the guys trying out at LT work out, then the line is better with Isaac making the calls. It doesn’t look like any of the incoming freshman will compete for playing time.
I agree. I think a healthy combination of Seumalo, Mitchell, Andrews, Harlow, and Bays would be as good or better than any line we’ve had for awhile now. I suppose it could be a blessing in disguise that Seumalo and Mitchell (as they are likely the two best of the group anyways) sat out spring practice to get their health issues in order if it means some of the less experienced guys get a lot of meaningful reps in practice. It’d be great if 2-3 of the guys getting the exta time could develop into “playable” guys and add some real depth to the line for the upcoming season.
It just sounds like LT – Mannion’s blind side – is weak. There’s a JC transfer whom Riley has essentially said is disappointing, and a few projects. i thought at this point, with the OLine “recruiting haul” a few years back, that things would be more stable and predictable up front. Maybe I am misreading it, and its purely an injury thing that could sort itself out by fall camp.
There is more depth on the o line now than in the past five or six years. Depth in this case does not imply quality. Yet there is competition, and a real feeling that more than 5 guys will play in a game. Also, this year they talk about technique instead of bear crawls. I really like them giving the three left tackles a taste of success and then demoting them so that they must earn a spot in the pecking order.I just hope that the o live picture of Hopkins being knocked backwards on his butt was not indicative of his normal technique.
Someone email me some inside info or a practice report! This thread has run its course.
Bonehead has the inside track with “Will’s dad,” surprised he isn’t all over this comment.
I have some contentions with Riley’s analysis of depth.
I have never worried about WR play because history tells us that we will be good this year and next year and the year after that. We lost James, and Marcus took over. We lost Marcus, and Brandin took over. Now we’ve lost Brandin. This cycle has been occurring at OSU forever under Riley. If there’s one position group I can point to as productive on a collegiate level and showing signs of skill beyond, it’s WR.
WR is and always will be the deepest pool of talent on our team under Riley. They are the most important piece, and they are easy to develop.
That being said, I think it’s rather cool that the man says RB is deep. He sees the same value we all see in the players he’s brought in. And he’s willing to listen to Garrett about using them as a blunt weapon instead of the over-use we’ve seen in past years. At least, that’s my take on that comment. We have several backs who can plug and play. And we now have coaching who puts those players in a position to win every situation.
Maybe that’s just me thinking Garrett is way more than I thought he was. I’m really thinking I was wrong in a big way about his hire. I’m a little excited to see his words in action. I just hope he gets that chance. I would love to see our pro-set run efficiently on a RBBC formula. And I think going forward this can be a huge selling point to recruits. You come to OSU and be a part of the system. You don’t waste your limited playing life on useless reps for individual glory. You spend your time getting value reps and honing your skills to be a next level player.
The NFL is changing in that way. It makes complete sense for the NFL feeder league to do the same.
I join you in being excited to see Garrett’s words put into action. He is gradually developing a list of quotes which could rival those of Pat Casey. Soon, the rubber meets the road!
Although I am inclined to agree with you to a point about the WR position, we are really inexperienced there. Every year, or so it seems, a senior that has had limited action steps up and becomes a really valuable part of the offense because having the mental part of the game down pat. Cummings was that guy last year and after he went down, so did the offense. Boom was positioned to be that guy this year and now he is trying to play DE.
Mannion may be the most important “coach” this year running the captain’s practices. If he can get the young guys up to speed we should be ok. The physical talent is there, but they need to know their assignments so he trusts them. FTD.
Boom should have been a DE coming in. His tape said so, and I harped on it like I have a tendency to harp.
I agree wit the idea that the third receiver makes a difference. And having Cummings available would have made a huge difference last year. But I think the plug and play mentality will rule from here forward. That has an immense value in terms of mitigating drop-off value in the “third receiver” slot. Everybody gets reps. Everybody gets time.
If we don’t have a QB smart enough to adjust to the “everybody” concept, then we should just resign ourselves to being mediocre forvever. I think Mannion is poised for a magnificent year with multiple options. The O-line will always be my bugaboo. I think we need to sign at least four per year with the hopes that at least half of them take hold. But that’s another talk. Mannion has many weapons, and I think he’s smart enough to make it work.
Hopefully this won’t jinx anything but Conforto and Wetzler are having two of the all time great seasons ever. Conforto is leading the nation in OBP and hitting over .400. Wetzler with a sub 1 ERA and a .135 batting average against.
Dammit!
Shhhhh!!!!!!
I’m not as confident as Jack regarding receivers this year. Yes- WR is a major strength in Riley’s offense, and in the long term we’ll have no shortage of stars. But even though we’ve had a parade of WR playmakers (Hass->Straughter->James->Wheaton->Cooks), we definitely had some rebuilding years at the position. Go back and check ’07 and ’10. Maybe Boldin and/or Mullaney take a major step forward this year…or maybe not.
Regardless, what’s more encouraging to me is what I’ve heard Garrett say on the matter. What I’ve heard repeatedly is that we have depth at TE and RB, and we need to utilize it. Maybe we just run 2 (or fewer) WR sets all season long, and use our TEs and RBs to shore up the receiving game. That would certainly play to our strengths, and would be interesting to watch.
That is what I am hoping for. Woods has some issues as a pure runner, but he is a very good receiver
I think Woods has durability issues as well, the RBBC approach could be part of the answer. While RBBC can be said to lead to predictability, execution can overcome a lot of that. But, as Garrett has said, everything has to be done “exactly right”.
RBBC can be excellent if the system is consistent. I have zero problems with plug and play if we’re a machine.
The defense… hoo boy… that needs to get less complicated so our coaches don’t blame the players for not playing defense… apparently. I happen to think it comes down to recruiting talent in the trenches. But who am I to disagree with the oh so proven winning method on display at OSU?
I’m not even touching upon the TE condition. We’re supposedly solid there, but that depends on WR depth for their remaining healthy.
Someone always steps up “next year” when we’re talking about WR depth. The second and third options are the ones who save the TEs from being eaten alive. Mullaney was to California HS football as Mike Hass was to Oregon HS football. I expect extreme greatness from the kid. And I doubt he’ll disappoint.
The questions will surround Bolden and others. I think the raw talent assembled is just amazing. If Viillamin comes out of Prop 48 land he can be a special player as well. We’re just stacked at WR in terms of talent. And I trust Brennan to make the most of that group… aside from my blind faith that Riley always has receivers available.
game starts in 2 hours. How about a new game thread Angry?
Good point. Got distracted…we’re going to see Joe Rogan in SB tonight. My lady likes his podcast (his standup seems pretty bad from what I’ve seen).
I’ll be gone after making the thread so behave, doods.
Joe Rogan does stand-up?
You learn something new every day.
he tries
Yeah he was surprisingly good. His youtube videos kind of blow so I wasn’t expecting much, but even so he was objectively good tonight.
Never listened to his podcast but his stand up is terrible. I can think of probably a dozen or so comedians I’d rather go see. Good luck. At least they serve drinks.