Post by nabeav on Oct 3, 2017 12:58:38 GMT -8
Really I only want to talk about one thing: Jason Phillips interview.
They interviewed the Central High head coach Shane Hedrick, who coached Marlon Tuipulotu of USC. Said he flipped from UW four days before signing day after Clay Helton showed up unannounced. Said coaches usually do show up unannounced, but GA was always polite and professional and called before coming. Points for GA in my book. Hedrick's son, Grant, played for Chris Peterson at Boise. Interestingly enough, he's the last QB to complete his eligibility for the Broncos, and he signed in 2010. Anyways, Tuipulotu is a beast that might be better than Ndamukong Suh and a super nice guy. Tuipulotu and Talanoa Hufanga are very close, and a funny comment when Warren asks if we might see them playing together at USC. Hedrick responds "I sorta hoped I'd see them play together at Central High, but that didn't happen." If you took a drink every time Jon Warren butchered Tuipulotu, you'd be dead. Also for every time he forgets the name of the couple the media room is named after.
THE BIGGEST DRINKABLE MOMENT OF ALL TIME
I can't even sugar coat this. Jason Phillips interview pissed me off. Upshot is (and this was already covered in another post) that it was a depth chart issue - Hodgins is #3 and we went 2 WR sets. Said "you don't want to have your third or fourth best players out there if they don't need to be" or something along those lines.
Why, then, did Trevon Bradford see the field? Does this mean that Hodgins is actually #4? If he's #4, why is he starting all the other games? Why is he second on the team in targets (according to footballstudyhall.com)?
This is the kind of f*ckery that this staff pulls all the time. GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT. It's not that hard to come up with a believable reason for him to not be on the field. Others have mentioned Storm Woods not playing vs. Michigan and other mysterious missing people.
He also goes on to say how much he appreciates Gary Andersen delegating things to position groups, saying IT IS REALLY UNIQUE IN THIS PROFESSION. Didn't GA just say in his presser that it's always been done that way in the 28 years he's been a coach? Is Gary from some strange universe where this is how everything is done, and he's never seen it done another way? It's just illogical.
As a fan, I know I don't understand football half as good as these guys do. I played one year in middle school, and I was terrible. I would've been an all-american flag football player for sure, but once you put pads on and someone could hit me I was DONE. So I don't care if the coaching staff says "it's an internal matter" or "it was a football decision," and leaves it at that. But don't treat me like a goddamn idiot.
I'm completely done with these guys. I'm going to keep coming because the players deserve assholes like me cheering for them. They've done nothing wrong and continue to put that jersey on and do their best for a school that I'm not sure is doing its best for them right now. But damnit I'm sad and angry right now.
Rant Over
The second hour was basically a talk about the Giant Killers reunion next Friday with Scott Spiegelberg, director of the Varsity-O program at OSU. You can go for $67, register here. Scott was at the game vs. USC in 1967 as an eighth grader and went on to play for the Beavs in the 1970s. He rattled off every player that was going to be at the reunion, and then told a story about playing USC at the coliseum and going in as the backup QB and completing a fluttering ball for a first down before getting rolled up two plays later and having to come out due to injury. His dad was a head coach at Medford back in the day, and was offered a job by Tommy Prothro to coach with him at UCLA that he turned down. In something that's sort of relevant to current day Beaver football and regime changes, they talk about a story that Bill Enyart didn't have a fit with Prothro, and if he'd stayed, Earthquake very well could've ended up at another university.
There was an interview with McGiven, but he basically parrots what Phillips says: they were in "21" formations and he was the odd guy out.
They interviewed the Central High head coach Shane Hedrick, who coached Marlon Tuipulotu of USC. Said he flipped from UW four days before signing day after Clay Helton showed up unannounced. Said coaches usually do show up unannounced, but GA was always polite and professional and called before coming. Points for GA in my book. Hedrick's son, Grant, played for Chris Peterson at Boise. Interestingly enough, he's the last QB to complete his eligibility for the Broncos, and he signed in 2010. Anyways, Tuipulotu is a beast that might be better than Ndamukong Suh and a super nice guy. Tuipulotu and Talanoa Hufanga are very close, and a funny comment when Warren asks if we might see them playing together at USC. Hedrick responds "I sorta hoped I'd see them play together at Central High, but that didn't happen." If you took a drink every time Jon Warren butchered Tuipulotu, you'd be dead. Also for every time he forgets the name of the couple the media room is named after.
THE BIGGEST DRINKABLE MOMENT OF ALL TIME
I can't even sugar coat this. Jason Phillips interview pissed me off. Upshot is (and this was already covered in another post) that it was a depth chart issue - Hodgins is #3 and we went 2 WR sets. Said "you don't want to have your third or fourth best players out there if they don't need to be" or something along those lines.
Why, then, did Trevon Bradford see the field? Does this mean that Hodgins is actually #4? If he's #4, why is he starting all the other games? Why is he second on the team in targets (according to footballstudyhall.com)?
This is the kind of f*ckery that this staff pulls all the time. GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT. It's not that hard to come up with a believable reason for him to not be on the field. Others have mentioned Storm Woods not playing vs. Michigan and other mysterious missing people.
He also goes on to say how much he appreciates Gary Andersen delegating things to position groups, saying IT IS REALLY UNIQUE IN THIS PROFESSION. Didn't GA just say in his presser that it's always been done that way in the 28 years he's been a coach? Is Gary from some strange universe where this is how everything is done, and he's never seen it done another way? It's just illogical.
As a fan, I know I don't understand football half as good as these guys do. I played one year in middle school, and I was terrible. I would've been an all-american flag football player for sure, but once you put pads on and someone could hit me I was DONE. So I don't care if the coaching staff says "it's an internal matter" or "it was a football decision," and leaves it at that. But don't treat me like a goddamn idiot.
I'm completely done with these guys. I'm going to keep coming because the players deserve assholes like me cheering for them. They've done nothing wrong and continue to put that jersey on and do their best for a school that I'm not sure is doing its best for them right now. But damnit I'm sad and angry right now.
Rant Over
The second hour was basically a talk about the Giant Killers reunion next Friday with Scott Spiegelberg, director of the Varsity-O program at OSU. You can go for $67, register here. Scott was at the game vs. USC in 1967 as an eighth grader and went on to play for the Beavs in the 1970s. He rattled off every player that was going to be at the reunion, and then told a story about playing USC at the coliseum and going in as the backup QB and completing a fluttering ball for a first down before getting rolled up two plays later and having to come out due to injury. His dad was a head coach at Medford back in the day, and was offered a job by Tommy Prothro to coach with him at UCLA that he turned down. In something that's sort of relevant to current day Beaver football and regime changes, they talk about a story that Bill Enyart didn't have a fit with Prothro, and if he'd stayed, Earthquake very well could've ended up at another university.
There was an interview with McGiven, but he basically parrots what Phillips says: they were in "21" formations and he was the odd guy out.
- but Talanoa told me a while back that he and Marlon are cousins. That's why I think SC really has the inside track in the end. 
