The Oregon State football coaches wrapped up their second half-day camp Saturday. They also worked and hosted a Nike recruiting camp earlier in the month.
So far there’s one commitment in OG Connor Thomas from Kalispell, Mont. You can read about him in Saturday’s GT here. More should come soon.
“They are instructional camps, but they are obviously used by us as evaluation purposes,” coach Mike Riley said. “What we hope to accomplish is, No. 1 maybe they’ll learn something here for their football career or upcoming season. The other thing is those kids get to be on our campus and work with our coaches, and we work with them. Since we’ve been here, in general, half the guys we sign on signing day have been in one of our camps. So they impact our recruiting.”
The big team camp will be Tuesday-Friday. About 15 teams and more than 1,000 players will be on campus.
“We still get some of the same things done there, but it’s mostly to develop in football so they learn skills and practice techniques,” Riley said. “And they compete a little bit.”
6 comments
WebTraveler says:
Jun 21, 2010
When are some of the game times going to be announced?
For example, Louisville? Since just about every other Pac 10 team is playing on the same date, just about every TV window is filled, so the game time can probably be set now?
Boise State?
ckirkpatrick says:
Jun 21, 2010
Only the national ones are set up early. The regional ones on FSN, VS are usually done two weeks out.
Boise State is in an either/or situation. There's another game that could flip times with. That will be be decided later, too.
WebTraveler says:
Jun 22, 2010
Arizona State already announced that their 9/4 date with Portland State is on FSN-AZ?
But where can the Louisville game possibly go? Aren't all the TV windows filled unless they do a 11:30 start? I am hoping for a night game so I can make it with the kids soccer season again in September……
beavfan05 says:
Jun 22, 2010
9/4? That game is at TCU. 445 start. For the Louisville game on 9/18, I'm guessing a 330 start, based on the pac 10's announcement, looks like all the 1230 and 730 slots are full.
http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/05…
WebTraveler says:
Jun 22, 2010
I know the Beavers 9/4 game is at TCU. My discussion was about how FSN-AZ has already been picking up the non-selected national games, I never made any reference whatsoever to OSU-TCU on 9/4. Cliff stated that the non-national games won't be set for awhile. Maybe true locally, but not true for other Pac 10 teams, hence FSN AZ is already picking them up…..
ckirkpatrick says:
Jun 22, 2010
Sometimes those minor games against I-AAs get set early, too. I remember right more game times will be set in about a month, then you wait until two weeks before.