After taking a three weeks off with the last one being out of touch on an Alaskan cruise, I’m ready to get back to work and rest. Vacations take a lot out of you physically and financially.
However, while tanning on the sun deck I read various preseason preview magazines to get hyped for the coming Oregon State football season. It should be an interesting year, as usual for the Beavers. Here’s my plug for Lindy’s since I did the Beavers preview and a feature on the Rodgers brothers.
Another aspect of the trip that kept my mind on work were all the beavers. Really, from dam building kind in Juneau to the historic bordellos of Skagway.
I couldn’t find Sarah Palin as I toured the wilderness on bike and on zip lines. Oh well, Juneau still produced junior women’s basketball player Talisa Rhea and greyshirt football recruit DE Josh Kaiwi comes from Anchorage.
So, expect the blog to be more active leading up to training camp opening, which is Aug. 10. The above photos is of beavers in Canada and the below one is beavers in Alaska. There are some shots of the bordello workers, but that will be of request only.
Recruiting update
Every time I go on vacation it happens. The football team received a verbal commitment from DT Thomas Molesi from Oceanside, Calif.
He comes out of my old stomping grounds, and a program that produces great football players. Here’s a story on his commit by my old paper.
Molesi is a 6-foot-2, 280-pounder who is rated as a three-star athlete by Rivals.com. San Diego State, Texas A&M and BYU were also in the hunt for him.
He’s undecided about going on a two-year Mormon mission after graduation or going to OSU for a year and then leaving. It would probably be better if he did it right out of high school. It takes a year to get back in shape, so using a redshirt season doing that would be wise.
If he comes to OSU, he’ll redshirt. Then go on a two-year mission and come back. He’ll burn a year of eligibility while he gets back in shape. Thus, he’ll only have three useable seasons.
Poll time
Here’s the latest poll on the Beavers Sports Site. It’s on your biggest defensive concerns.
Canham in the news
Did you read this bit in Saturday’s GT on former OSU baseball player Mitch Canham’s house?
7 comments
TAMatrix says:
Jul 20, 2009
Cliff – question/request for you….Can you make an ask of whoever in the athletic department to put together a page that has links to all the different "I Am Orange" campaign pictures? I'm sure a ton of us would love them as backgrounds for our computers or would just like to flip through them all in one place.
They have done great with this campaign and lots of us would love to help them spread it.
Thanks in advance!
WebTraveler says:
Jul 21, 2009
Any word on the time of the PSU game? Most of the other Pac 10 teams are now firming up their opening day games, including start time and TV. Yet the Beavers are still in this quandry about 6 weeks out.
ckirkpatrick says:
Jul 21, 2009
TAMatrix,
Poke around OSU's Youtube site. I saw one I Am Orange video there. http://www.youtube.com/OSUBeaversAthletics
WebTraveler,
Nothing official, but I'd expect it to be around the 3 or 3:30 p.m. range. That's OSU's default time.
TAMatrix says:
Jul 21, 2009
Thanks Cliff…I saw that video too, very solid…just was hoping for a page of the different "billboards but I'll have to wait
WebTraveler says:
Jul 22, 2009
Thanks Cliff…
So far from what I have read elsewhere, ASU, Stanford/WSU, and UCLA have all set their openers for local TV and a game time. The Beavers appear to be slow out of the gate here. Maybe ticket sales for PSU are low and OSU won't show it locally? I admit I am not wild about driving down for the PSU game…
ckirkpatrick says:
Jul 22, 2009
I wouldn't show the PSU game on TV, but do whatever to sell tickets. But, I'm sure it will be on FSN NW at some point.
OSU's deal, at least it was last time I checked, was that they do what they can to with FSN NW to give them TV when they can. PSU-OSU is one those times.
WebTraveler says:
Jul 22, 2009
Personally, I am hoping that the game is on TV and it forces a 7:15 start time. This way I won't have any conflicts with my daughter's soccer season going on then; normally the games are in the morning and I can easily hit a 7:15 game…..but 3:30? Hmmm. That might be tough if its not the first game of the day for her. There was a time that I dreaded night games….now it seems I want the night game. Saturdays are just too busy. Maybe that is why some drop their tickets as well….who has time to blow a whole Saturday on football these days? (either folks fresh out of college with no kids OR retirees with no kids – those of us in the middle are just too darn busy for all of this!!) Hope for late game!!