I am pretty bumed I didn't attend the game, but the only tix available were in the corner of the endzone. I hung out with my two boys- Jake and Josh, 5-6 yrs old.
It was a great game for the Beav's! Afterwards, there were a lot of questions about next year....already!!!!! The press is all over the Beav's, which is great. OSU is a top tier program.
The line of discussion is not about a winning season anymore, expectations are way higher. The Beavers are about winning the Pac-10, and competing for the national championship.
Yes, I said it. The Beavers are all about winning the national championship.
10-4 9-4
2008 is the year.......assuming we can find a top-notch QB. Canfield and Moevoa are not the answer.
"They were a lot faster than we anticipated," Maryland senior defensive tackle Carlos Feliciano said, echoing the sentiments of most of his teammates.
They say Defense and a Running game wins championships, and perhaps for suspect QB play the Beaver's could've had a championship greater than the Emerald Bowl. The OSU defense and running game was superb this year. Major props to OSU's offensive line, they were incredible.
Yvenson Bernard played outstanding with over 177 yds rushing, and James Rogers followed up with 113 yds rushing and 2 TD's. OSU rushed for 273 yds in the game..fuck yeah.
3 turnovers was pathetic, and is not acceptable....unless you win! Go Beav's!
OSU's defense was unreal...again. OSU better give Mark Banker a pay raise. He did a great job. So did the kids who played for him this year.
Riley is 4-0 in bowls for the Beav's. Awesome.
9-4 this year with no QB and no All-American WR. Wow.
Derrick Doggett is probably one of the best LB's OSU has ever fielded. Darlin and La"Rock" ain't too bad either. These guys fly to the football on every play.
Maryland had 22 yds rushing and 204 yds passing for the night. 63 yds of passing came on one play.
As I mentioned before, the OSU running game will be the determining factor. Yvenson Bernard fumbled after getting blasted and guess who picked up the ball and went into the endzone....James Rodgers.
OSU's defense is looking unreal. Derrick Doggett is going to be a first round draft choice, quote me know. This guy is all over the field. A complete freak.
The story of the game is the potency of OSU's defense. Except for one big play, the OSU offense has been soley responsible for this close game. Both OSU QB's have sucked big time. Rogers fumble didn't help, but otherwise Canfield and Moevao have sucked.
in the red zone Canfield threw a really stupid INT. Serna missed a FG prior. The Beav's are keeping the Terps in the game. OSU's defense is playing outstanding. 3 turnovers, but the Beav's have coughed it up 3 times too.
The only hope is the running game. Yvsenson has got carry us.
Maryland has some big guys on their squad. Check out BTD's report.
OSU is definitely smaller on defense, but they are faster. I tend to like the faster players myself. They can swarm around the ball and make plays. But big teams have given fits to the Beavers in the past-remember Louisville? They had a bunch of monsters and they punished the Beavers.
I will be posting live reports on the game tonight, so check back for OSUBB op/ed.
Over the last 7 years the Beavers have turned out a bunch of NFL linebackers like Barnett, Ellison, Siegler, and got the moniker "Linebacker U" from Penn St.
But our last two QB's(Anderson and Moore) are BALLING in the NFL.
Derek Anderson has single handedly turned the Cleveland Browns from scrub to playoff contender. Today Derek lead the Browns past the much improved Bills 8-0 in a snow storm. If they win next week they will make the playoffs for the first time since their franchise was restarted in '99. I can't remember when the old Browns went to the playoffs.
Carolina Panthers rookie quarterback Matt Moore got into the huddle late in the first half Sunday and froze.
"I just couldn't get the play out of my mouth," Moore said. "Guys were like, 'Come on! Come on!'"
Moore kept his mistakes to the huddle.
Becoming the fourth quarterback to start for the Panthers this season, Moore engineered three scoring drives in the fourth quarter and outplayed two-time Pro Bowler Matt Hasselbeck, as the Panthers stunned the Seattle Seahawks 13-10.
Kuddo's to OSU alumns for a great showing this weekend!!!!
Oh yeah, check out Al "Hitman" Afalava's massive hit in the Oregon game...awesome! Fouts is such a pussy-he called this a great catch at the end of the clip....
Phil sent me an email from his wife's account...I stand corrected about Bowl econ 101, check the email and the grammar/spelling. LOL. OSU academics at its finest....I can't count, and he can't use the english language...and we graduated...
Meat,
All of the bowl money is actually split between the teams. The Conferrences recieve the $$ no the teams.
Who makes money on the bowls? Mainly the vast majority of the Division IA universities. Most of the bowls are non-profit 501(c) (3) organizations setup by the host communities to manage and promote the bowls, which of course benefit these communities through economic impact and exposure. However, financially the bowls are setup to primarily benefit the universities that participate in the game and their conference partners. Most conferences divide any revenues over typical expenses of attending the bowl with all the other schools in their respective conference. In this way even a program that goes winless can reap a share of the bowl revenue generated by that schools conference. In some conferences that can be millions for each school. Therefore, not only do the 64 teams playing in bowls receive money but so can dozens of other teams that do not even participate. In addition, the BCS provides millions of dollars each year to be divided by each of the Non-BCS conferences and additional funds to Division IAA members, something that was never done prior to the formation of the BCS.
OSU has begun preparations for the Emerald Bowl. Great.
'Qizz Rodgers is lighting up Houston high school football. I am not a Quizz hater, I just don't think the Beaver Nation has to turn into Ohio State because of a sports writers fetish with this kid. I hope he doesn't feel fan pressure yet either. Don't forget the kid hasn't signed paper yet. Idiots.
When I was playing ball at OSU I used to have a killer mix CD I'd listen to before every practice and game- yes, I used to get fired up for practice. I loved practice as much as games to be honest. Anyway I stumbled on a great rap song that used to get me fired up(still does), I remember that Stanford played this song during pregame warm ups, yes Stanford had hip hop blaring away. I bet all the straight laced Phd's loved it......
I don't know if I have ever seen this before, but it's worth noting. We have a recruit coming in who has set all the Texas rushing records you could imagine, but he's 5'6" and 185lbs soaking wet.
He is the brother of James Rodgers, the guy who scored the winnning touchdown in this years Civil War. His name is Jacquizz Rodgers. He has verbally committed to coming to OSU next year and T.F. Brown at the Oregonian has a hard on for him.
A couple people have commented that one hit from USC's linebackers will set Rogers straight, which may be true. But who knows. Barry Sanders was as small as Jacquizz, maybe he'll grow in college.
The bottomline is that it's great we are getting interesting players like Jacquizz, but let's see if this kid is actually eligible before annointing him the next Ken Simonton. It's getting ridiculous. We have 30% of our recruiting class who can't pass academic muster every year. We need to get our shit together and get perspective. Rather TF Brown needs to.
It's been a long week. Having to hear how Mike Bellotti voted his sorry team ahead of OSU in the coaches poll was hard enough. That guy is a straight up a**hole. I hope we kick their asses for the next decade.
Message to Mike- watch the vid below you F**kin scrub:
But worse, I've had to read about all the bull***t about the Beaver's either getting screwed or not getting screwed on the bowl selection. It's overwhelming.
Here's is the bottomline regarding OSU getting screwed:
USC (10-2): vs. Illnois (9-3) in the Rose Bowl. Payout = $17 million. Arizona State (10-2): vs. Texas (9-3) in the Holiday Bowl. Payout = $2.2 million. Oregon State (8-4): vs. Maryland (6-6) in the Emerald Bowl. Payout = $750,000 Oregon (8-4): vs. South Florida (9-3) in the Sun Bowl. Payout = $1.9 million UCLA (6-6): vs. Brigham Young (10-2) in the Las Vegas Bowl. Payout = $1 million California (6-6): vs. Air Force (9-3) in the Armed Forces Bowl. Payout = $750,000
If you can't do math, OSU lost $1.15M dollars by not getting selected to the Sun Bowl, even though OSU was #3 in the conference.
Let me state this again, $1,150,000.00.
Do you really think the OSU administration gives a rats ass how many OSU folks attend the game? Hell no. It's not about ticket sales. That is a drop in the bucket. $1.15M is not chump change.
Yes, OSU got screwed.
Always follow the money.....the truth is waiting.....
Fellow Beaver blogger Jason Protho writes a cool piece on the similarities between James Rodgers and Ken Simonton. Jason has two great vid's of both players. I am not 100% sure. Both are clutch at this stage. The similarities are uncanny.
The All Pac-10 teams came out Monday, and OSU had plenty of players on the list, but most were on the 2nd team. It is amazing that we didn't have more than 2 make All Pac-10 first team.
No knock on Dorian Smith-because he is a stud, but he was hurt a few games wasn't he? He makes first team, which is great. I want Beavers on the first team.
How the fuck does Derrick Doggett make 2nd team?????
We have to deal with horrible officiating down the stretch, crappy bowl selections, and now this?
WTF is the rest of the sports world missing? OSU football is the shizzzzat.
The Pac-10 awards are chosen by the Head Coaches. I have no idea when or how, but I have assume that some voted before they got a taste of Al Afalava and the rest of the bone crushing Beaver defense.
Beaver First Team Selections
Roy Schuening, OL, Sr., Pendleton – 2005 and ’06 Pac-10 Honorable Mention
Dorian Smith, DE, Sr., Van Nuys, Calif – 15 career quarterback sacks.
Riley and team broke the home team streak!!! Awesome. #3 in the Pac-10 is incredible given what he had to work with. It is amazing how close this team was to finishing 10-2 vs. 8-4. ASU and UCLA will haunt this team in a good way. OSU is the best 8-4 team in the nation if that means anything. I think it does. I think Riley has won me over for good. I think he has also built a program. A real college football machine capable of anything it imagines.
I want to start this post by apologizing for saying Lyle Moevao is not a Pac-10 QB. He is, and he deserves respect for what he accomplished. He improved tremendously this year. Winning the Civil War is huge. But he is not the QB I see taking OSU to a BCS bowl anytime soon.
Second, I want to apologize for saying Matt Sieverson was not on par with Clinton Polk. Matt played a great game. He was superb. He played with heart and showed the Ducks the back of his jersey all night.
Rogers was sensational. What a freshman season. Game winning TD in the Civil War.
Polk had one of the best TD runs I've seen in awhile too. Great job by the RB's.
OSU's offensive line was the real Offensive MVP. They are absolute studs. No sacks and 214 yds rushing. Are you kidding me? That is outstanding.
OSU's defense played great, except for a couple breakdowns. We gave up 195 yards rushing, which is way off our average. That said OSU's D was unreal when it needed to be. They are an awesome bunch.
Derrick Doggett is a freak. 18 tackles and a INT for TD(2nd time in a Civil War game). He won't last past the 2nd round of the NFL draft. He is a stud.
I am reading reports that Oregon's locker room comments after the game were about excuses, while the Beavers locker room comments were about heart and character. Bellotti is denying that he lost the game, literally and figuratively. He did. Now he's making excuses. What a pussy.
Now on to the Emerald Bowl in SF! My hometown.
OSU will be playing Maryland. Maryland ended the regular season tied for fifth in the Atlantic Division of the ACC and 6-6 overall with notable victories over then No. 8 Boston College and then No. 10 Rutgers.
Some other Beaver Bloggers have some great posts on the Civil War:
Beaver dam nation- In depth review on what OSU is all about Jason Prothro's Blog- Great post about the game and why Bellotti is lame. Brooks Hatch- The final points about Mike Riley are why he's a "players coach"
12:47 left, Ducks punt again. The ESPN camera zoomed in on Dennis Dixon and his face looked liked it was over.......it was one of those "a picture is worth a thousand words" moments...
OSU's defense has played well. But Moevao got cocky on is second drive and coughed up the football. Luckily OSU's D held. But after getting pinned, Serna punted a 30 yarder. Two plays later Oregon scored after their first string QB was knocked out.
