David Shaw, left, doesn't have Andrew Luck, 12, anymore.
Andrew Luck has left Stanford for the NFL. Will the Cardinal be the same? And can the Oregon State football team take advantage of the situation?
“I haven’t stopped working on things since I got the job,” coach David Shaw. “My philosophy hasn’t changed. We are going to do what we’ve always done.”
Brett Notthingham and Josh Nunes are battling for the starting QB job. A decision will go on into training camp, Shaw said.
“It was fun to help molding them,” Shaw said. “It will be fun when someone takes that job. It’s a different battle for the starting job instead of fighting to be the backup.”
“There still is an Andrew Luck hangover, but we have smart accurate passers,” Shaw said. “The quickest way to lose the competition is to try and be Andrew Luck. They just have to be efficient.”
And it looks like the offense had some issues in the spring game. The competition was dominated by the defense. Read more here.
Here’s a good rundown of where the team is at position-wise from a report from the middle of spring practice. Like most teams, the Cardinal is rebuilding a many areas.
The Beavers get Stanford in Game 10 at Stanford. At this point the Beavers should be over the early season rust but will injuries have caught up to them?
Being on the road and this late in the season, I don’t have this game as a win. However, the Beavers are usually good for one upset. And they match up well against the Cardinal in respect to scheme.
“I think it’s going to be similar,” Shaw said of his view of the Pac-12 race. “I was a voter for the top-25, and I don’t want to be again. It’s hard. Our competition is at a level most people east of the Mississippi don’t understand.”
4 comments
OSU4Life says:
May 9, 2012
Oregon State matches up well because Stanford doesn’t have a running QB. If the opposing team has a running QB it is basically a guaranteed loss for OSU. Hopefuly Mark Banker has figured out a way to stop a running QB with his defense! Even with Stanford being a top 10 team their home crowd isn’t a huge advantage, which could help OSU. Most of the games OSU will play this year could go either way, with the exception of maybe Nicholls State, Wisconsin, and the Phil Knight puppets. Which OSU team will show up? Will the defense ever get off of the field on 3rd downs, or keep teams out of the endzone, or find a way to create turnovers? Will the offense learn how to block, get the ball into the hands of the playmakers (Wheaton, Cooks, Gwacham, the TE’s), find a running game, and score touchdowns?
Ben says:
May 9, 2012
I honestly don’t like what I’m hearing about Sean mansion during this spring. I think he is way too much of a question mark as a turnover machine. Our o-line is still very weak, our interior d-line is barely legitimate, and langsdorf is still coaching. Coming off a 3-9 season with these continued problems and we can hope for about 5 to 6 wins. I’m guessing the real result will be less pleasing.
bone says:
May 9, 2012
I wouldn’t read too much into Sean’s performance in the spring if, the offense’s game plan is very vanilla and you don’t want to read about him torching our defense. One poster earlier made a comment that Sean cut his interceptions down by from 4 to 1 over the past two spring games, can we expect that decrease in interceptions during the season? I hope so, but maybe not likely. If you have some time go check out some of USC practice notes and see how Matt Barkley is doing.
bone says:
May 9, 2012
we will have to wait and see on Mannion come September, if he cuts his INTs in half I would be very pleased.