So….. we missed out on the kid…..

Yeah...Tinkle needs to go. We can't have underwhelming results at his pay in the MWC or wherever we wind up. This needs to behis last season

Why would any recruit refuse the money and pick OSU?

If the last 30 years of OSU MBB hasn't been proof enough, welcome to the new age of NIL, where OSU is the only program in the Pac12 that won't use a collective to land new recruits in MBB (also football and baseball). When Tim Shelton left for Colorado State, it shoulda been a wake up call. Nope. Glenn Taylor Jr knows wazz up. He left for 'greener pastures'. It wasn't bread crumbs he was following, it was $100 bills, all the way to St John's! 

Shelton: “You’re like, man, are we going to get lapped before we get in the race?"

Oh yes, and how about Beaver baseball: Last year in baseball, Oregon State was in the hunt to recruit Air Force right-hander Paul Skenes, who was in the transfer portal. He wound up at Louisiana State, where he won D1 Baseball Player of the Year honors and pitched the Bayou Tigers to the College World Series title — beating Oregon State in the Baton Rouge Regional. On July 9, the Pittsburgh Pirates made Skenes the first pick in the MLB draft.

“He could have been in a Beaver uniform,” Scott Sanders says. “He ended up going to LSU for the money. That’s the world we’re living in right now. We had him. NIL is the reason we didn’t get him. Strictly because of the money. The bigger SEC schools have unlimited resources. That’s tough to compete against.”

This year, the Beavers lost out on Sacramento State shortstop Wehiwa Aloy — the WAC Freshman of the Year — to Arkansas. And UCLA pitcher Kelly Austin, the Bruins’ No. 1 starter, to Florida. NIL money was at least a factor.

“We have seen it in the baseball landscape,” says Darwin Barney, the former OSU shortstop great now an assistant coach on Canham’s staff. “What a lot of schools are doing is using NIL money as if they are scholarships.”

“Recruits are telling us, ‘They start with this number. What do you have?’ ” Barney says. “And we don’t have it. We don’t even have stipend money to give to everybody.”

What number does Oregon State have?  "Zero"

Ball game.

Tim Shelton knows more about Beaver MBB than you do. I'll take his word over yours. People who compare the sport of football to basketball are lazy.

People that bitch about reality are not only lazy but enablers if mediocrity. The NIL is here, for now, and OSU will never EVER compete with schools in the SEC for donor $. Or any school with wealthy set of athletic donors. Do, get over it. Plenty of other hoops programs with far less substance thrive far better than OSU has. And before any NIL excuse.

If Skenes was truly interested in OSU as a program he would have been in Black & Orange. No? He was interested in $ and a great program. That's how it's going to be for the time being.

Hating on the LSU's and Oregon due to donors is hypocrisy at its finest. As the "Karen & Chad" types would love to have those $, yet would simply find another bitch/excuse(s).

Why don't you incorporate the old, often used crying towel... Corvallis is just so hard to recruit to. I mean let's just raise a ton of $ to move the university to a new location. Until the NIL cat is leashed or put back in the bag, OSU will have to do whatever it can to succeed. Your NIL cries are not only lazy, full of hearsay and misinformation, but futile.

Just as with the conference realignment doomsday crowd, you'd think OSU doesn't land any quality players. With how it's going OSU probably should just shutter athletics! 🤔

And, as usually some just can't stay on the topic of a post that they are supposedly refuting.

Don't think anyone mentioned or doubted DB or "who cares about a quitter".

But, that's what "Chad" types do. Way to live down to your image.

The difference between the NFL and college football? There isn't a salary cap in college football.