There weren’t many highlights, but check out the above GT produced video highlight from the Oregon State football team’s loss to Washington State on Saturday.
Here’s the full follow up story in Monday’s GT.
“I was disappointed, but I don’t know I was shocked,” coach Mike Riley said Sunday night after reviewing the video of the game. “I was shocked we didn’t play better. I saw signs of great improvement from that team, and they put it together yesterday. I have no problem acknowledging that they beat us thoroughly. We didn’t execute yesterday. We had breakdowns in all areas. The rhythm and confidence we played a couple weeks ago compared to yesterday was worse than night and day.”
Riley said Sunday night that two players had minor concussions from the game: FB Will Darkins and MLB Tony Wilson. They will be evaluated through the week. The soonest they may practice will be Thursday.
I asked if anyone would be benched, and said he had no comment tonight. That means he’s thinking about it. We’ll see what happens Tuesday after the coaches meet and figure things out. Riley even said the practice plans are being reviewed to get the players better prepared.
“There’s probably a major analysis of a whole bunch of issues that are mental,” Riley said. “I think there’s an issue of being called flat, being tight. I talked about the idea that we have to be, No. 1, our mentally toughest of our lives right now. That has to translate into the total devotion of what we do. We all have responsibility. And we all have responsibility to pull us out of it.”
Riley acknowledged the fans who are making this the best OSU season at the gate, ever, and those on message boards who are mad and want people fired.
“I’m appreciative of that,” Riley said of the big crowds. “The crowd was outstanding (against Washington State). All I can do is let them know we’ll do everything we can to play the best football we can in the next three games.”
Riley also said he was not asking for a specific review of the latest hit ever on RB Jacquizz Rodgers. It’s up to the Pac-10 if it wants to do anything after it reviews itself on its own. (That means it will be swept under the rug.)
Here’s where the Beavers ranked nationally and the Pac-10 after the WSU game:
Rush offense: 122.6 ypg (94th nationally/ninth Pac-10)
Pass offense: 209.2 ypg (68th/seventh)
Total offense: 331.8 ypg (92nd/eighth)
Scoring offense: 26.3 ppg (65th/seventh)
Rush defense: 169.2 ypg (80th/seventh)
Pass defense: 239.8 ypg (94th/eighth)
Total defense: 408.8 ypg (87th/seventh)
Scoring defense: 26.7 ppg (66th/sixth)
21 comments
BeaverDon says:
May 18, 2012
Does one of the Beavers have to get seriously hurt before Riley will stand up for his players? To allow these hits on Jacquizz to continue is rediculous. Maybe the opposing coaches are not having their players target him, but he is being targetted. What does it take for Riley not to let this be "swept under the rug"
OSU4life says:
May 18, 2012
What is going on at OSU? Does anyone dare try to break down what is happening with the OSU football program?
1) Coaching: Offensive/ Defensive Coordinators are inept. OSU's outcoached.
2) Injuries: James and other key players out for the season
3) Bad Luck: A few unlucky bounces, seconds added, Big gains taken away.
4) Recruiting: OSU lacks the talent to get it done. But they beat UA & Cal!
These are just a few of the problems that are brought up in discussion boards. If it's not too painful, is anyone willing to brainstorm some possible solutions?
ckirkpatrick says:
May 18, 2012
This has already been addressed this season. People have read this here and elsewhere. The Beavers are just trying to fight through all that.
OSU4life says:
May 18, 2012
I know. I guess I'm just hoping that there is some strange phenomenon, or something else that will explain what is happening with this football program! I can't believe we are this bad, quite possibly the worst OSU team since 1997! I think I can speak for the entire Beaver Nation; we would all love to see this team Fight through it and persevere! I'd suggest benching anyone who doesn't play with 110% intensity and give it their all!
midwestbeavfan says:
May 18, 2012
Just wanted to help keep things in perspective as you guys' wives slowly start bringing the knives and other sharp objects back out from hiding.
I have not read any papers from Austin or Gainesville, but would bet the message boards are worse than ours. And I'm pretty sure those schools have or had higher expectations than our Beavs'. Those are two pretty good coaching staffs.
With that being said, the problem that I see with this current group is that they have no heart or grit, nor leadership (See Olander getting in Linnekohls face challenging the linemen to be more like Jeremy Perry). The biggest "sin" one can commit in sports, is playing with a lack of heart or effort. The coaching staffs biggest mistake is in keep putting the same players out their that, though they may have more talent, lack heart and grit.
Its great getting multiple star recruits, but you can't measure someone's heart. The coaches know and see what's going on. They aren't going to throw these kids under bus in the media. It's time (past time) for some major personnel changes. Don't burn any existing red shirts this late in the season, but start playing lots of underclassmen to see how they respond.
aaron_ says:
May 18, 2012
I'd love to see McAndrews and Timi Oshinowo in there along with Ryan Pohl. The benching needs to start on the O-line. We cant bench our d-line because the are all so banged up and many are out anyways.
Ted0 says:
May 18, 2012
All those guys are seniors and if some of the starters had to be replaced I'd prefer that the replacements were some of the younger guys because I just dont think OSU will win 2 of the last 3 games.
WebTraveler says:
May 18, 2012
something has to give here….in Civil War we are going to lose by 100, and I don't want to have that hanging over our heads during the off season.
UW, UCLA, WSU – the three worst teams in the Pac 10…..could the Beavers really be the worst team in the Pac 10? It's really looking that way. We seem to have some gaping holes on both lines….are we just not recruiting well here? We need some junior college transfers to offset this. This is just bad.
tradernum1 says:
May 18, 2012
Cliff,
Misprint in the first sentence. It's not "There weren't MANY highlights"
it's "There weren't ANY highlights"………
Losing to the cougars.
At home.
By a bunch.
"What kind of team are we?" Horrible.
Harry_Beaver says:
May 18, 2012
Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Mike Riley, Oregon State
-From "Rivals"
Now THAT'S pretty funny!
ean says:
May 18, 2012
It is one thing to lose to the Cougs who have been playing better as of late but it is something entirely different to lose without so much as a whimper of a fight.
mckalk says:
May 18, 2012
The Cougs pretty much dominated the Beavs the same way that TCU did in the first game of the season minus James Rodgers in the special team game. To me it is not that complicated, you have to be able to stop the run and run the ball yourself to consistently win games. The Beavs have done that exactly one time this year against Cal, so 4-5 is about what you would expect (maybe even a little better when you look at the year to date stats).
NC_Ducks says:
May 18, 2012
Good call on signing Riley for life beavers. I'm so glad you did because he'll keep you as bottom feeders forever LOL, Owned by the cougs. Montana State played them tougher than you….at WSU. Pathetic.
aaron_ says:
May 18, 2012
may fleas from a thousand camels infest your armpits NC Duck.
GoBeavs64 says:
May 18, 2012
LETTERS IN THE EDITOR’S MAILBAG
Published: Tuesday, Nov 16, 2010 05:00AM
Some fans are embarrassing
I am a Duck fan. I don’t have season football tickets, but I have cheered our team on for years. When I get a chance to go to the game here, I do. I just don’t buy season tickets. The reason is the fans. Most home games that I have gone to I have seen Duck fans cursing, drunk, belligerent, obnoxious, vomiting, fighting and just plain fowl (pardon the pun).
The last game I went to was against Cal. We flew south to Berkeley, joined thousands of fellow Ducks, and cheered our team on. Well, most did. I sat next to a bunch of drunken Ducks. They were embarrassing. They were using foul language, passing a flask they snuck in, pushing and being just plain stupid.
We have an opportunity to be in the national spotlight, to set the example, and to be seen as a classy and unique university sports program. Our mascot is fabulous. Our team is great. Yet some of our fans are embarrassing. This is a time when we can show how good we are as a team and a fan base. We can set the example of team support in college athletics, or just be a bunch of drunks who spill over from the tailgate party to the stadium. Tell the people around you who act like this to knock it off. Call security. Have them ejected. And if you are one of them, stay home or change. Only other drunks enjoy your company.
NC_Ducks says:
May 18, 2012
I would wish the same upon your football program but I already died this past weekend and has already been infested with the maggots of justice. You are where you belong. Don't act dissapointed, you should be thrilled that the illusion lasted so long that you're football team was a worth more than the garbage education your school pruduces. Get ready for the turkey this year in the civil war. They should have never changed the schools name. OAC is what you are.
Ted0 says:
May 18, 2012
A UO fan talking talking about how another school provide a garbage education, but I guess it'd be a duck fan to know what a horrible education is.
aaron_ says:
May 18, 2012
Well the AD at U-Dub called it correct when he said that UofO was a joke of an acedemic institution. You can say what you want about our football team now, but you cant bust on the acedemics of OSU. You have to come with better stuff than that NC.
GoBeavs64 says:
May 18, 2012
Yea , our education is so bad that we have finished consistently ahead of Oregon academically and our enrollment number is higher . Yours is so called school that is all about athletics and education second. If I wanted a Oregon degree all I would have to do is send away for one of those degrees one finds listed in the back of a check stand trash rag . That's what an Oregon education is worth. You know , all your doing is pissing off the Beavers to no end and if you keep this up the ass whooping they will lay on you in the CW will be remembered for seasons to come. I wouldn't wipe my ass with one of your degrees. Sorry cliff for the language but maybe now you'll see what jerks like this can do to people who's tempers are usually in check , there is enough stress in Beaver Nation right now without this hemorrhoid adding to it
wcjr says:
May 18, 2012
what would make you think this jerk has a degree? He can't even spell! Two more mistakes in this latest post. As I mentioned before, he might (with a lot of help) have a GED from LaneCC.
GoBeavs64 says:
May 18, 2012
I wanted to take this time this morning now that I have slept and woken with a cooler head to apologize for my lack of class in responding to the classless digs by NC_ Duck . I am apologizing to Cliff and all my fellow Beavers out there . We are better than that , have more class and dignity than that and in my anger I chose to forget that and let this idiot get under my skin. The Duck fans that I have met here in Eugene have been mostly good people and I know that rotten apples such as NC are few and far between but that is what we are dealing with over here , over zealous fans who like last year are slapping each other on the back and congratulating themselves for something that their football team is doing , not them and awarding themselves with a title that they haven't won yet . Another example of entitlement that the the U of O is known for.
I hope that our guys read these blogs , see what he has been saying and use it for motivation come CW time to knock these people down a peg or two.
In the meantime , I once again apologize for letting myself be brought down to NCs immature level and hope that My fellow Beavers can forgive my over zealousness .