He is a hell of a nice, down to earth kinda guy. Run into him at Trader Joes in Corvi and he acts like you are his best friend. Rides his bike to work. Waves at you when you pass. Just doesn't have the fire or tenacity to keep up with the evolution of modern college foosball. Personally, I'd rather see him replace our donkus A.D.
His, "gee willakers, kids will be kids, they're having fun, maybe we'll get'em next time" attitude won't be missed.

Riley was a solid coach for the Beav's. I don't know much about OSU football but I don't believe the program was in shambles before Riley. Didn't Dennis Erickson coach the Beavs and have a 10 win season once or twice??? Don't think Riley had a 10 win season.

He will be a good fit in Lincoln. They need someone to steer the program ahead and keep things in-line with fans and recruits. Bo was too up and down. I would not want to play ball for Bo, Riley yes...

Thanks guys - I'm back off the ledge. It was more of an instant shock WTF moment this am, especially after I kinda had my hopes up for the Sweater vest. I've spent all day familiarizing myself with everything Riley. Color me very, very impressed. I'm 1000% on board with this cat (hated Bo). With NU's immense resources which he never had at OSU, this guy is gonna turn some heads. Now go get Frosty from down the road, dust off Orgeron and let's do this thing! GBR!

Hey nick, rumor has it Orgeron is coming along with Mike. I have no doubt he will be more successful at Nebraska than he ever was or will be at OSU.

Bent - OSU had 28 consecutive losing seasons, the last couple under Riley, before he left to coach in the NFL. Erickson came in and went to a bowl game his first year, then followed that up with the 11-1 (only loss coming on a wide right fg to UW) run that ended up with a clownstomping on Notre Lame (41-9) A win which gave OSU the first BCS bowl win of any school in Oregon
Erickson left, Riley came back and managed a 9 win season sandwiched between seasons of mediocrity and outright shitshows.

Anyone else happen to catch the end of the East Carolina & Central Florida game tonight?
Great finish.

Saw it on ESPN this morning...losing on a Hail Mary might be the worse thing ever in a football game.

Fish on...

Todd

OU 42 UA 14

Oregon has all their horses and motivation. UA is gonna get run. And UA is the only team out there that I see that has a chance to beat them. With that Bama D I saw last weekend I'd say Oregon will put 50 up on them.

Having said that go Wildcats!!!

What's the over under for Levi Stadium tonight? 10,000? About the same as an average PAC 12 b-ball tourney game at Staples?

That stadium will be a joke tonight. And I've heard they are on their 6th try at sod. Could be ugly footing. Cali never hear of field turf???

If the game was in a real city like San Francisco more fans would show up.
Santa Clara.....not so much. That is like having the game in Pullman.

That didn't take long to get a bite.

The Pac-12 Championship should be at the stadium of the higher ranked team...if they'd like to actually get people to go, at least.

Take Oregon fans, for instance...why would any of them travel to Santa Clara for a Friday night game when they have at least one, if not two more games to go after this, games that will matter a helluva lot more?

Play it in Eugene and the stadium would be packed.

Playing it in a neutral stadium is bad enough...playing it in a town that doesn't even have a Pac-12 team is straight up stupid.

They'll have 35K fans in there tonight, I bet...which is what? Half the capacity?

Fish on...

Todd

Hopefully the locals won't have one of their Panty Parades.

Blue gill are pretty cool fish.
Much cooler then the saggy old flappy lipped carp from down south.

College football this weekend...

I hope the whole fuckin thing blows up.

I hope Arizona beats Oregon, I hope Wisconsin beats Ohio State, I hope Alabama loses to Missouri.

I hope TCU and Baylor both win.

I hope FSU finally isn't allowed to get their schit together and pull it out in the end.

I hope there are no SEC teams in the playoff...or, more to the point, I hope none deserve to be there...the committee will put on in there no matter what, no matter how they have to justify it.

I hope they have to ignore the TCU/Baylor head to head game, and then justify that.

No Big 10 teams, no SEC teams...and a Pac 12 team with two losses in the final four (Arizona).

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. I do not think that UO will run over UA tonight...I think they should win, but they should have won the last two times they played them, too.

If the Wildcats can run the ball it will be a decent game.
If not, all bets are off in my opinion. Beating the Ducks three times in a row will be a difficult task.

Scobby Wright from UA is quite the player. Hard to believe he wasn't one of the finalists for the Butkus award finalists.

Some kids just want to break everything within reach.
Bad kid.

That's 10,000 more than would show up for a Stanford or Cal game.

Santa Clara is just such a hot bed for collage football!

There will be half a stadium full, I'd guess.

Shittty atmosphere, crappy turf. I hope the game is good at least.

Fish on...

Todd

I sure hope so for the Pac's sake!

Both home stadiums use FieldTurf so no advantage unless they had occasion to practice on a wet, grass field during the week.