UOducksTK1 wrote:Beavers are losing early. Eastern Washington is pretty good for not being Div 1.
EWU is Div 1...
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I think we're confusing terms. Yes, EWU is in fact "Div. 1"; but Div. I is divided into two categories -- FBS (the big boys) and FCS (the "little" boys). EWU is in the FCS. The point here is that an FCS team -- yes, a pretty good one -- just beat an FBS one.
Sorry. Pet peeve of mine. I get tired of people calling FCS division 2.
Getting back to the plight of the Beavers, it's probably pretty difficult to feel just how crushed so many of their fans must be. There was a real feeling, and not just among Beaver partisans, that they could have been 7-0 -- which quite possibly could have meant a Top 10 ranking or very close to it -- heading into their home game vs. Stanford in late October. From that standpoint, it's very much like their season is now lost.
Still, I think Riley will rally them, as he often seems to have before. Will be interesting to see if/how much they rebound with a number of what still appear to be very winnable games coming up on their schedule.
It will be interesting to see. They have a lot of questions to answer on defense.
Riley is a good guy, he is just an average coach though. I rarely agree with Canzano but he was right in his article yesterday, the fan base is willing to accept Riley and the fact he is mediocre.
Greenblood wrote:Getting back to the plight of the Beavers, it's probably pretty difficult to feel just how crushed so many of their fans must be. There was a real feeling, and not just among Beaver partisans, that they could have been 7-0 -- which quite possibly could have meant a Top 10 ranking or very close to it -- heading into their home game vs. Stanford in late October. From that standpoint, it's very much like their season is now lost.
Still, I think Riley will rally them, as he often seems to have before. Will be interesting to see if/how much they rebound with a number of what still appear to be very winnable games coming up on their schedule.
Especially with a new logo, new uniforms, and a new chainsaw song... Seriously must suck after being so pumped.
I hope the Beavers do well for the rest of the season, I want a top 25 matchup for the civil war.
UOducksTK1 wrote:I hope the Beavers do well for the rest of the season, I want a top 25 matchup for the civil war.
Since I have "Ducks' SOS" on my mind so much, I want the Beavers to win the rest of their OOC games (i.e., Hawaii this week and at SDSU two weeks later) and then somehow (1) beat USC in Corvallis in a Nov. 1 (Friday night) tilt, and then (2) after a bye week go down to Tempe and beat ASU (who does not have a bye week the previous week) -- the two conference teams the Ducks don't play. Other than that, I really don't care that much how OSU does.
