Oregon State @ Minnesota
Go Beavs!
BeaverBlitz & Angie Machado = Total Dickheads
What we’re hearing is they left current subscribers high and dry, offering them a 3 month “free” membership at Scout if they had an active Rivals account. Well, what if they had a full year, like this guy?
https://twitter.com/megk57/status/771105673748688897
After 14 years on Rivals, we are moving @BeaverBlitz to @ScoutMedia. I couldn't possibly be more excited about the future of the site!
— Angie Machado (@AngieMachado1) August 31, 2016
Angie couldn’t be more excited, but the same can’t be said of Mr. Kronsteiner.
Now let’s get into the hypocrisy:
For years Angie wouldn’t let anyone with a Scout membership cross post info or even post a link to free articles on Scout. Now she’s working for Scout and trying to wrangle everyone over there, this despite her sources apparently drying up to the point she has little info not available on Twitter.
You know, I was a bit shocked and appalled at first, but then I realized this is so very BeaverBlitz. This is a site that banned me for saying the Beavers had undersized cornerbacks because being “negative” like that was bad for the delusional fan who was paying Angie money to hear everything was great.
Good luck to Scout…they’re going to need it with that crew of money-hungry lunatics now on board.
And poor Beaversedge gets left with an awful name a few degenerate crumbs like the sock puppet.
Beav’s Future Scheduling
Holy inability to get out of your own way.
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/pac-10/oregon-state-beavers.php
Compare it to even the Ducks, who are a 10x better program yet playing a 10x weaker future schedule:
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/pac-10/oregon-ducks.php
So 2021 we can maybe have bigger goals…nice work, guys.
Rodent Bowl Pregame
Just one week away, it’s apt time to have the much anticipated Rodent Bowl pre-game thread.
Really this is an excuse to hear BeavGopher’s thoughts on the game. I know almost zero about Minnesota other than a few articles I read, saying they had a top 25 D last year but lost a handful of key players from the unit, good RB who is hurt and will likely miss this game, and that’s about all I know. The Beavers have an upgrade at QB, and the RB position should be much better this year. Those are the notable improvements.
The Beavs have some talent on D. Pritchard, Napolean (film), Willis, and Arnold stand out. The Landry brothers look really good on film, but haven’t heard much about them. Williams, Irvine, Ugwoegbu and other young guys stand out as interesting prospects. I expect growing pains with all these guys, but especially those younger players.
As for the game, this is what I think:
Lucas, Collins, and Nall are probably faster than any player on Minnesota. Big question for me is can Garrettson manage the game efficiently and get the playmakers the ball? If so, these guys are too fast…they will run by Minnesota (Big 10 is just always slow). Villamin has the size to dominate any CB in the Country. So, the combination of size and speed makes the offense intriguing here.
I’d pick the Beavs to win in a heartbeat if they had depth. But I can see them wearing down in the 2nd half. Minnesota game plan seems predictable: (a) on offense, try running all over the Beavs and (b) on defense box in/contain the Beav’s speed (c) use the home crowd to gang up on the young Beavers.
These teams are closer than people think, and barring a turnover barrage I don’t see what Vegas is thinking here. Watch for Seth Collins and the Beavers special teams return specialists to flip this game on its head. Speed kills.
Beavers 35, Minnesota 31
Interesting Recruiting Email this Morning
This guy put together some good data on recruiting, in general, but also specifically about the Beavs. Give it a read. If you have any specific questions, I believe the content creator will show up and answer anything. At the end is a link to the blog post. The links to the interactive map crashed my browser, so just a head’s up there, but I think it’s because it’s a large file and data set.
Good morning,
Hope you’re doing well. I’m a data and content manager here at Rukkus, we’re a secondary ticket marketplace for sports and concerts.
I took the time to put together an analysis of all 128 FBS rosters for the 2016 season using Google Maps to place each player (more than 13,000 in total) in their hometown and it created a very interesting visual of the college football landscape, especially when it comes to Oregon State, who has the 4th broadest recruiting reach in CFB.
You can check out a larger interactive version of the gif above here that allows for zooming and sorting by conference.
We hear about teams recruiting talent from local hot beds but I was curious to see what teams expand their radius of recruitment to find players further from campus. The results proved to be pretty eye opening:
- The average Pac 12 recruit comes from 836 miles away, almost double that of any other Power 5 conference
- The average distance from hometown to school is 128 miles for USF players, lowest in CFB
- The average distance from hometown to school is 1,881 miles for Hawaii players, highest in CFB (Stanford has the highest average of any mainland school at 1,243 miles)
- The average FBS player hails from 446 miles away from their school
- More than a third of all FBS players come from either Texas, Florida, or California and Vermont is the only state without an FBS homegrown player
I compiled a few more heat maps and charts that highlight popular recruitment regions and a breakdown of the states that players come from and can share high res images or embeds for those.
I’d love to hear your thoughts and I’d also be happy to send over some more specific data for another team or conference if you’re interested. Here is a link to the post and one to just the interactive map.