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PAC 10: Grading Week 1

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1. Cal–Played a BCS school and beat them by 40. ’nuff said.

2. USC–They are simply bigger, stronger, and faster than your team. Men amongst boys.

3. Washington–They’re going to be good this year. If we played these guys yesterday we’d be licking wounds this morning.

4. Arizona State–Shaky QB play, but the defense looks strong.

5. Stanford–Another school that played a BCS opponent. Andrew Luck is a huge upgrade over Pritchard.  The skill positions are beginning to look dangerous.

6. Oregon State–No pass rush to an otherwise solid, if not deep, team. Foreboding weakness for Pac-10 play.

7. Arizona–Central Michigan is a respectable opponent. Arizona controlled the game with the ground game, something they’re expected to do a lot of this year.

8. UCLA–I couldn’t watch more than a minute of this game. Picked away at SDSU, but their offense is not very good.

9. Washington State–Look improved, but the talent deficiency was too much of a hurdle. Played with spirit and pride in defeat.

10. Oregon–A bad offensive line, a lack of depth at RB, and a coach who lost control of his team after one weem. With the disablement of a QB or two looming, this has the making of a nightmare season.

Game Day Observations

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1.  The defense is getting no pass rush. This was more disconcerting than the CB play. Gabe Miller, a converted TE, looks like our best DE.

2. Offensive line looks OK. Better pass blocking than run blocking.

3. Krebs should never see the field–dude is stiff as wood and got juked by a DII QB.

4. Wheaton will one day be as good as Dez Bryant. Same frame and speed. On a similar note, Halahuni needs more balls his way.

5. Poyer needs to see the field more. He’s better than Cameron Collins.

6. Collins is bulky and stiff. Was real high on this guy when he signed, but I’d rather see Poyer in there.

7. T. Kavanaugh shouldn’t be returning punts. I hope that was just to avoid injuries in game 1…against Pac-10 competition we need a game breaker.

8. Katz is going to be a great QB. Surprised he didn’t have any other offers besides Air Force.

9. Jovan Stevenson is not a viable backup. He has no speed, pretty much a one move and fall to the ground kind of back. Use him to spell Quiz, throw a block, and run out the clock, but that’s it. We literally don’t have a Pac-10 RB after Quiz. Better cross our fingers.

10. FSN has terrible coverage. They had an entire year to move towards HD and hire better producers. What a failure.

Go Beavs.

Remember When Our Offense Portended Prolific?

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In the spring game, and early in fall camp, Canfield was tossing balls around like Madden ‘98 on the rookie level. Really, the offense appeared prolific. As we break camp and head into a week 1 match up with the mighty Vikings of Portland State, it seems the appropriate time to reflect on the team that might have been versus the team that is. On offense, what might have been, but are missing for one reason or another:
 
1. Markus Wheaton–High 3-star prospect (who should have been a 4) and fastest player on the team.
2. Ryan Pohl–Athletic 3 star guard from Hawaii who has looked dominating at times.
3. Darrel Catchings–3 star WR who looked unstoppable in the spring game and early camp.
 
What is:
 
1. Damola Adeniji– 0 star recruit. Uses body well, but is not a game breaker in any sense of the word.
2. Grant Johnson–0 star walk-on. Really dislike Riley’s move in starting this guy over a great talent in Pohl.
3. Casey Kjos– 2 star recruit. How is Bishop, who is eons more dynamic, not starting here?
 
Beaver recruitniks love to say, “stars don’t matter!”, but we lost 7 stars on our offense, and suddenly it doesn’t portend so prolific. Think about that.

Petition to Dr. Edward Ray

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As I noted in earlier blogs, Edward Ray said one of his goals would be to get OSU on par with “peers” in terms of academic reputation. Peers, as defined in the [metrics] PDF below, are:

University of Arizona; University of California – Davis; Cornell University; University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign; Michigan State University; Ohio State University – Columbus; Pennsylvania State University – University Park; Purdue University – West Lafayette; Texas A & M University – College Station; and University of Wisconsin – Madison

You can read all the complete strategic plan here:

http://oregonstate.edu/leadership/strategicplan/

As you can see, the plan was initiated in 2004 (see archive), and there’s an update in 2009.  Five years later and we are still listed in U.S. World News as a 3rd tier university.

The following link highlights that the University’s goal was 2nd tier by 2007-2008:

http://oregonstate.edu/leadership/strategicplan/10_19_2005_PerformanceMetrics.pdf

If you agree with me that the University has failed to meet expectations, please leave a comment below saying so, and the results will be mailed to our dean expressing our collective dissatisfaction. Again, without criticism and high expectations the status quo will remain.This academic perception has a negative impact on recruiting. Just see Odighizuwa’s quotes if you require verification.

I, ______________, believe OSU failed in their goal to earn 2nd tier or higher status with national college rankings systems such as U.S. News and World. As an OSU alum, I would like to see my university held in higher esteem and respected by the casual observer.  We ask that Dr. Edward Ray (a) address why our strategic plan has failed to this point (b) revise target dates for success and (c) explain how success will be attained (i.e. what measures are taking place). We would like this information in the next state of the union publication printed by the university.

Moevo's Mom

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Paul Buker, can you please stop with the cheeseball “family” stories about Moevao’s mom? It has nothing to do with football or making our team better, and it’s nauseating in a Titanic kind of way.

Thanks,

Angry

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