Coach Mike Riley is ready for the season.
Oregon State football coach Mike Riley spoke with reporters Wednesday to give an update on the coming season. Here are the bullet points.
OL recruit Stan Hasiak will not be with the team this season. He did not finish his academic requirements to enroll.
There are 82 players on scholarship now, and two or three walk-ons who will get one before the season. The only greyshirt at the moment is PK Garrett Owens.
CB Jordan Poyer will not be suspended any games. His charges were dropped from his incident of going into a bar where he wasn’t wanted.
Here’s the one-game (first game) suspension list from players who got in trouble for off-the-field issues: CB Sean Martin, LB Josh Williams, DE Akeem Gonzales, DE Noa Aluesi, DE Lavonte Barnett.
The RB competition continues. Riley is waiting for someone to take control or two people share it.
True freshman Isaac Seumalo is the first-string center. “If there’s a guy (true freshman) who can handle it, he’s the guy,” Riley said.
The biggest concern is the OL. They need a big training camp. The rest of the positions are OTs Michael Philipp and Colin Kelly and OGs Josh Andrews and Grant Enger.
OSU looked at the roster at Penn State to go after some players, if they were were Northwest guys. There were no, so OSU didn’t go after any. “And I don’t feel comfortable doing that,” Riley said.
Riley will continue to call the players in practice early in training camp, but wouldn’t say if that will continue in the games.
Practices were moved to 11 a.m. in camp so the team can have meetings first, the practice. Practices stay at 11 a.m. in the season so players can have class at 8 a.m. and in the afternoon.
8 comments
RC says:
Aug 1, 2012
Cliff,
Can you confirm that Malcom Marable will not miss any games?
Thanks,
Cliff Kirkpatrick says:
Aug 1, 2012
He is not on the suspended list, so he’s not missing any games.
dunerats says:
Aug 1, 2012
I don’t understand why Riley wouldn’t go after Penn St. Players. Oh thats right, they might be good. If Riley calls the plays this year the Offense might be formable.
aaron_ says:
Aug 2, 2012
duberats, i found that comment to be interesting too. Even a back up at Penn St is probably better than most starters on the Beavs team. Especially the DT’s on O-line. Who cares if they are not from Oregon? They should have looked a bit harder at PSU’s linemen and offered something if they were worthy, which i am sure they were. Anyways, it would be great if Riley called the plays in the regular season. Our offense would be much more fluid.
beaverboy says:
Aug 2, 2012
Anyone know what year langs started calling plays
Cliff Kirkpatrick says:
Aug 2, 2012
2008
BeaverDon says:
Aug 2, 2012
” “And I don’t feel comfortable doing that,” Riley said.” Comfortable with what? Helping a kid out when the school they are at just got hit with a whole lot of penalties? What would Riley prefer to do, let the players suffer through 4 years with no bowl game? At least the Beavers can go to a bowl game, if they can win 6 games.
73GradMike says:
Aug 2, 2012
My friend who is not much of a Beaver fan says that Riley is telling us that he would be uncomfortable being TURNED DOWN by players whose team has been banned from postseason play for their college careers. “Who really thinks that a player from Penn State (unless he has shown previous interest in Oregon State, [cough, cough] football) would transfer to the team picked to be in the bottom 3 of the Pac-12?”, he says.
I, on the other hand, only wish the Beavs well. Not wearing orange-colored glasses, I don’t realistically expect a winning season. BLEEDING orange, I hope we win every game. I will be rooting for Oregon State all the way.