[Austroturf]

McKee sits this weekend and I hope to hell Patu doesn't go down. Needless to say, I put this one in the L column no matter who's under center. Program is a shadow of its former self. Coach has no answers other than the usual-suspect platitudes. Season's another bust -- worse than even I had imagined last summer. Insofar as the BG is concerned, I really don't care anymore at this point. Maybe, just maybe, 3-9 might get some attention among influentials. Such as they are at Stanford. What happened from 2009 to 2015/17 is a misty memory. But I'm thankful to have been there. I just can't help feeling like it didn't have to be this way. But it is. And that's that. On to WBB and MBB.

Oh, rodents gnaw on scrawny trees, 37-10.

Here's the bit that irks me: Stanford has consistently outrecruited Oregon State in the last decade or so.  We should have the talent to beat them soundly, as we have for most of the last eleven years.  In fact, our current win streak dates to 2010.  And yet, we are 12+ point underdogs.  What is the difference?  Frankly, it can only be attributable to coaching.  Or maybe our recruits were overrated, or the wrong set of recruits for the program.  But that also is attributable to coaching.  Ultimately, that's what it boils down to.

[Austroturf]

McKee sits this weekend and I hope to hell Patu doesn't go down. Needless to say, I put this one in the L column no matter who's under center. Program is a shadow of its former self. Coach has no answers other than the usual-suspect platitudes. Season's another bust -- worse than even I had imagined last summer. Insofar as the BG is concerned, I really don't care anymore at this point. Maybe, just maybe, 3-9 might get some attention among influentials. Such as they are at Stanford. What happened from 2009 to 2015/17 is a misty memory. But I'm thankful to have been there. I just can't help feeling like it didn't have to be this way. But it is. And that's that. On to WBB and MBB.

Oh, rodents gnaw on scrawny trees, 37-10.

Here's the bit that irks me: Stanford has consistently outrecruited Oregon State in the last decade or so.  We should have the talent to beat them soundly, as we have for most of the last eleven years.  In fact, our current win streak dates to 2010.  And yet, we are 12+ point underdogs.  What is the difference?  Frankly, it can only be attributable to coaching.  Or maybe our recruits were overrated, or the wrong set of recruits for the program.  But that also is attributable to coaching.  Ultimately, that's what it boils down to.