QB Sean Mannion was named the starter Tuesday
Oregon State redshirt freshman QB Sean Mannion was named the starter by coach Mike Riley after Tuesday’s practice.
Last year’s starter, junior Ryan Katz, will be the backup with no plans of rotating in anymore.
“We wanted to make that announcement so we can head into practice with that in mind,” Riley said. “It’s a matter of we think he earned that right. That’s about it.”
Read the full story about the situation now in the story up on the GT site.
WR coach Brent Brennan was on crutches at practice after meniscus surgery on his knee Monday. “I hired damaged goods,” Riley said. “He had a bad knee coming in, and tweaked it in camp.”
RB Jovan Stevenon (ankle) sat out practice, as did WR Markus Wheaton (ribs) as expected.
WR Jordan Bishop (ankle) practice, while LB DJ Welch (elbow) and WR Micah Hatfield (hand) returned.
OG Josh Andrews (knee) will be out longer than the four weeks Riley originally said, but will be back by the end of the season.
No word on DT Dominic Glover (academics), who hasn’t practiced with the team for more than a week.
Riley just laughs it off when his name is brought up in interviews. “I haven’t even heard his named mentioned today,” Riley said of administrative people giving him updates on Glover.
Practice was quick. It was a refresher course on everything that’s needed, and the team worked on plays that will be needed in the future.
“It was a little light, and we wanted to get going again to revisit things we needed,” Riley said.
13 comments
Ben says:
Sep 13, 2011
I’m still waiting for a report that says something drastic changed at practice. Something no one could have ever predicted. Something that lights a fire underneath the players. Something that makes it appear as though the players suddenly “got it”, a light “clicked on” for them. Until I see that, I don’t see anything changing. We’ll struggle against UCLA just as we’ve struggled the first two weeks of the season. Our only hope is that UCLA stinks up the joint completely.
Chris says:
Sep 13, 2011
While I don’t necessarily disagree with the decision, I think Riley really handled this entire thing poorly. From 1st quarter of the 1st game Riley’s been completely out in left field.
Personally, I don’t think Ryan Katz really got a fair shake. Yes, in the first half of the first game, he played. He didn’t do well, but most of the team did not either.
I just think the entire situation was handled very poorly by Riley, as has his decision making all season long (ala the suspensions, but then unsuspended, etc.)
Ben says:
Sep 13, 2011
Well, it’s not like this season couldn’t get any weirder. We’re totally out of sorts, we’ve got everyone injured, the 3rd string QB shoots to the top of the depth chart…
What next? We put up 60 against Stanford and take them out of national championship running?
Nothing that happens to this team in 2011 will surprise me. To quote the great Winston Churchill, “They’re a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside of an enigma.”
sdbeav says:
Sep 13, 2011
The Chinese curse comes to mind … “May you live in interesting times.”
sdbeav says:
Sep 13, 2011
Well Mr. Mannion, here’s to you being the GOAT.
maffu72 says:
Sep 13, 2011
Glover failed his class. This insight attributed to his roommate. Don’t know why the coaching staff isn’t moving on…
Chris says:
Sep 14, 2011
Failed? How do you fail a class unless you really had no reason to be there in the first place? Crap.
KVGeorge says:
Sep 13, 2011
@sdbeaver Greatest Of All Time:GOAT I agree.
BeaverDon says:
Sep 14, 2011
“It was a little light, and we wanted to get going again to revisit things we needed,” Riley said.
I think they need to have a ‘heavy’ practice, they need to ‘revisit’ EVERYTHING. They neet to start with, “This is Football, this is a Football field”. From there they can move on to more complex things like “The goal in Football is to score more points than the other team”
mike says:
Sep 14, 2011
Good for Riley. He has been traditionally slow to change, and I’d like him to kick Langsdorf and Banker in the butt while
he’s at it.
HOWEVER, please tell Mannion to stop staring at his receivers like a kid with his first crush or we are absolutely
going to lead the nation in pick sixes.
Shane says:
Sep 14, 2011
This is NOT a practice thing. Riley has proven that his previous years practices can lead to great success. This all about talent level. We have how many Seniors that even see the field? maybe 6? and none of those players are our top guys (maybe Lance Mitchell). When you have True Freshman playing and many Redshirt Freshman you are going to struggle.
This is the end result of 3 bad recruiting years in a row.
The good part of all this is that in looks like next years class is a good one. Lets hope it continues. I think Mike Riley is a good coach but if you don’t have the athletes you are in trouble at this level.
Also, remember 2006? Fire Riley….Canfield Signs? That season turned around for us and Matt Moore did OK that year. What I am trying to say is relax. Mike Riley has earned the benifit of the doubt in my eyes.
Go Beavers.
2004Beaver says:
Sep 14, 2011
I’m excited to watch Riley and the staff squander Mannion’s talent like they did with Katz, the Rodgers’ Brothers and every other talented player that has showed up in Corvallis lately.
Just kidding. It’s Katz’ fault that they can’t recruit any good lineman, that they managed to get the a significant number of experienced players hurt in training camp, that Lansgdorf’s offensive scheme is so predictable a six year old can call the plays when we get to the line of scrimmage….etc.
Is there anyone to replace Hekker? -4 yards! Way to go.
But hey, maybe this is just another slow OSU start and we’ll be back to our mediocre, underachieving selves in no time.
At least OSU baseball is worth rooting for.
orb says:
Sep 14, 2011
Predictable play-calling is an understatement of great magnitude. Up in my section we call most of the plays before the ball is snapped and we are correct 3/4 of the time. Pleasr MR, go back to calling the plays. Harbaugh and Kelly both have/had OC’s but they call/called the plays. Hasn’t worked out too badly for them.