Not much to say other than it will be a busy month.
Sun Bowl vs Notre Dame
Portal is open today.
Chiles is gone.
No Schedule released yet.
No staff announcements yet, though Gunderson, Devan, Perkins and Hynson appear to be on board.
Not much to be excited about right now, but we move on.
At least Men’s Soccer is relevant and playing in a final 4 this week, also vs Notre Dame.
The decision has been made, Bray’s got a huge plateful.
Who is gonna be advising him? Which players will stick around? What caliber assistants will join/stay, and how soon?
If that’s not enough, what do ya think of prospects for the PAC2? Is Barnes earning his $
Have at it, Go Beavs!
My guess is Smith will be gone soon. Maybe by Monday.
Martinez has a quote up on Twitter how he doesn’t want to go, but his plan is his plan. I expect at least 50% of our roster to enter the portal. Smith will definitely take Chiles with him to a next gig. My guess is only unproven players remain to try to prove themselves, and then move to a P5 team next year.
This will be the state of Beaver football. We’ll be a recruiting ground for P5 transfers, and it’s why I was adamant we had to try to get into the Big 12 or make a killer independent schedule. This redefining of the PAC and/or joining the MWC will result in catastrophy.
What people got wrong about Smith is they assumed some great loyalty to OSU. Probably true if he could relive his glory years, but he can’t with 8 of those schools gone. He’ll be able to relive them more in the BIG10 playing the former top PAC schools, and I think that’s what he wants to do. Too competitive to play MWC schools, which is what I said all along.
Time to exit the world of college football with a whimper. :(
We pretty much have nothing to play for, a coach who will be leaving, recruits who will be entering the transfer portal in days, an away game in a hostile environment vs a rival, and mountain west competition in the offing. This is an all time low, and I think it will show in the players’ performance. :(
70-19 Ducks as Jonathan Smith does some crazy shit early on, convinced he can’t win the game, that results in a bizarre 19 points.
This is going to be a game where you can make any analogy with the butt. Butt pounding, prison style, etc, so post your favorite butt phrases below. That given, I’m most curious to hear where Beaver fans are at after that brutal loss.
– We have a gambler at HC who is likely going to leave.
– We had a chance at a special season that our HC sabotaged.
– We’re about to get our butts made sore by the Ducks.
– We’re headed to the MWC or something equally bad like adding them to the PAC.
– We’re about to lose a lot of our best players to the transfer portal.
We went from a program on the rise with an up and coming HC to a program one game away from being left out of P5 for good, our coach getting poached. And before you say other schools won’t want him after his poor calls this year, realize: even though he is not good at in game management, we have such a bad reputation that everyone but us will objectively see him as brilliant.
So where are you at? I’m very defeated. I don’t see anything bright in the offing.
Ducks 56, Beavs 24
Secondary prediction: Sith gets poached before our bowl game.