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Post by atownbeaver on Apr 1, 2021 15:55:07 GMT -8
I think you just have to rank actually national championships above anything else. Doesn't really much matter the sport, if you are the best in the nation that year, that is a top accomplishment.
So 1, 2 and 3 have to belong to baseball.
I think we cannot ignore OSU women's basketball making the final 4 in 2016. That is HUGE. they made the elite 8 in 2018. I think you have to at least put women's final 4 above the men's elite 8. you have to. I think you can put Men's elite 8 over women's because Oregon State WBB was then solidly and well established and a national force.
Fiesta bowl. I think you have to put it up there, less for the overall accomplishment (not that a BCS bowl in the era isn't great) and more for what it meant.
I guess I am going to order it:
1. 2006 baseball NC 2. 2007 baseball NC 3. 2018 baseball NC 4. 2000 Fiesta Bowl Season, just domination and being an elite program, period. 5. 2016 Women's basketball final four 6. 2021 Men's basketball elite 8 7. 2018 Women's basketball elite 8 8. 1999 winning men's football season, breaking the streak 9. 1998 football season for giving us hope that 1999 was going to happen 10. 2006 football. I dunno man, that was just a real fun season. we squeaked out 10 wins (albeit on 14 games), offense was just on fire all season, loved the power running, play action design. first major USC upset. We started 2-3, Can Riley signs were in the stadium, then we finished out 8-1 including topping the aforementioned #3 USC and all culminating in a Sun Bowl for the ages against Missouri with Sammie Stroughter taking that punt return 38 yards to set us up on the 45 yard line with 1:08 on the clock, Matt Moore drives OSU down, including completing a 4th and 3 pass to Sammie, and caps it off with a TD pass to Joe Newton... the HUGE BRASS BALLS RILEY turns and hands the 2 point conversion off to Bernard on the simplest of half back dives up the gut. He will not be denied. Fun fact, the Missouri QB was Chase Daniels, who has gone on to make roughly one hundred bazillion dollars as a back up QB in the NFL.
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Post by seastape on Apr 2, 2021 0:44:30 GMT -8
I'd go with the Fiesta Bowl #1. I loved college football before I arrived at OSU in September, 1986 to begin my freshman year. The moribund state of the OSU program at the time did nothing to deter my love of the college game and it was easy (though often painful) to become a fan of the Beavs. And when the a-holes of the world, including the ones who weren't trying to be but still were, asked me if I thought it would be better if OSU was in a "smaller" (read: weaker) conference so they could compete, I would tell them no and also tell them that it would be all the sweeter when OSU did have a good team. And that Fiesta Bowl season a was sweet, sweet season. Luckily for me, that is the only season for which I had season tickets and was present for every home game.
Although I have always loved the San Francisco Giants, I have never been a huge baseball fan. The most I thought of it at OSU was to occasionally catch a few innings on my way home from class. When the Beavs finally made it to the post-season (after being passed over, perhaps unfairly, the season before), I got on the bandwagon. In 2006 I was at a cafe in Mancos, Colorado, eating breakfast with the woman who would later become my wife. The local 12-page newspaper was for sale and I bought it in the vain hope that it would have coverage of the final game of the College World Series which had been played the day before. There was no article but, I'll be damned, there was the box score of OSU's first national championship in baseball. That was a great day and that Championship was my second favorite moment in OSU sports history. Tough to beat a national championship.
Tied for that second place was the championship in 2007. One year is a fluke that people could write off. Back-to-back is a powerhouse. I don't know why, but the fact that OSU beat the same team both years also added icing on the cake. Maybe it's because OSU beat the that team that would have been a powerhouse but had the misfortune of running into an even bigger and badder powerhouse. It's like going to the NBA finals agaisnt Jordan's Bulls. The second champonship added to the greatness of the first one and was great in itself.
The 2018 championship comes in fourth.
But fifth with the possiblity of an even higher place in the future is this years Elite Eight basketball team. I like basketball better than baseball. But every single year since I have been at OSU basketball has been a disappointment. Most of those years OSU has fluctuated between mediocre and awful. And since 1982, OSU has had zero NCAA tournament wins.
OSU was a twelve seed in 87-88 when it lost a good game in the first round to five-seed Louisville which featured Pervis "Never Nervous" Ellison. The next year OSU had a better regular-season record and hope arose when the Beavs made it to the tourney as a six seed. Alas, OSU fell to the mighty 11th seeded Purple Aces of Evansville, a team that wore t-shirts instead of tank tops.
That's okay because we were even better the next year (89-90) which featured Gary Payton as a senior and a share of the regular- season conference championship! Unfortuately, hope was dashed yet again as the fifth-seeded OSU kept up the ignoble tournament tradition by falling in the first round to a twelve seed, in this case the Ball State Cardinals. Two years in a row to swallow the bitter pill of falling to a (much) lower seed in the first round. But the 88-89 and 89-90 teams were the best basketball teams OSU has had since 1986.
Until now. Finally a team got some tournament wins and looked good doing it. That Elite Eight run was a badly-needed shot in the arm for the team and the fans. Winnnig six elimination games in a row, with all of them close enough to make us nervous. All six of those games were agaisnt NCAA tournament teams. Then the Beavs played tough against the seventh. This year, OSU...O...S...U! was the twelve that defeated the five. And the four. And the eight. How cool was that run? Given time, it will probably rise on my list.
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Post by irimi on Apr 2, 2021 7:05:11 GMT -8
It’s really hard to rank each because of all of the factors involved. Plus, I was overseas for the B2B baseball championships and never heard a word. The win in the Fiesta Bowl was just a footnote....So correct me if I’m wrong, but...
The MBB team this year was a true underdog, unlike the others. They were picked to finish last and did little in the season to draw attention to themselves. In the Pac 12 Tourney, they were mostly an afterthought, and only by winning did folks start to talk. Making it into the NCAA Tourney wasn’t a given. They had one chance to do or die, so Beaver fans everywhere were simply happy that they made it. No one expected them to win one game, much less make it to the Elite Eight.
For this reason, I think I’d pick it as the greatest accomplishment in Beaver sports. It’s hard to beat from last to top 8 in the country.
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Post by steinlager on Apr 2, 2021 8:52:09 GMT -8
1. Fiesta Bowl. That was frickin awesome! 2. 2006 World Series. To win all those consecutive elimination games was unprecedented. 3. 2021 Pac 12 tournament championship and subsequent Elite 8 run was so unexpected it has to rank high. 4. 2018 World Series. Game 2 against Arkansas is a Beaver treasure and one of the best sports moments I've ever witnessed. 5. 2007 World Series. After barely getting into postseason Beavs played like a #1 seed. 6. 2008 football win against #1 USC. I finished a 6 month job in my former life in Boardman, Oregon that day and listened to Parker on radio and then watched game on DVR several times. Special connotations on that one. 7. Women's basketball run to Final Four. That was a good team. 8. 1988 Civil War win. Pouring rain for parts of game. Hammered in the student section. Tearing down goal posts. Great memory. 9. 1985 football over Washington when Beavs were 34 point dogs. I was there and it was unbelievable. 10. 1998 Civil War double OT win. I had gone to a friend's funeral that day (OSU alum) and that game really picked me up!
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Post by flyfishinbeav on Apr 2, 2021 9:13:17 GMT -8
1) Baseball championships....Pat Casey building the program 2) Fiesta Bowl....and generally not sucking at football as bad 3) getting Scott Rueck 4) Elite 8 run men's B ball
The absolute #1, all-time, worst thing to happen for OSU athletics was the Dee Andros/Fred Milton interaction that basically landed us in sports pergatory (especially football) for decades.
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Post by Judge Smails on Apr 2, 2021 12:38:35 GMT -8
1. Fiesta Bowl. That was frickin awesome! 2. 2006 World Series. To win all those consecutive elimination games was unprecedented. 3. 2021 Pac 12 tournament championship and subsequent Elite 8 run was so unexpected it has to rank high. 4. 2018 World Series. Game 2 against Arkansas is a Beaver treasure and one of the best sports moments I've ever witnessed. 5. 2007 World Series. After barely getting into postseason Beavs played like a #1 seed. 6. 2008 football win against #1 USC. I finished a 6 month job in my former life in Boardman, Oregon that day and listened to Parker on radio and then watched game on DVR several times. Special connotations on that one. 7. Women's basketball run to Final Four. That was a good team. 8. 1988 Civil War win. Pouring rain for parts of game. Hammered in the student section. Tearing down goal posts. Great memory. 9. 1985 football over Washington when Beavs were 34 point dogs. I was there and it was unbelievable. 10. 1998 Civil War double OT win. I had gone to a friend's funeral that day (OSU alum) and that game really picked me up! #8 brings back memories.
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Post by bucktoothvarmit on Apr 2, 2021 12:55:36 GMT -8
1) Baseball championships....Pat Casey building the program 2) Fiesta Bowl....and generally not sucking at football as bad 3) getting Scott Rueck 4) Elite 8 run men's B ball The absolute #1, all-time, worst thing to happen for OSU athletics was the Dee Andros/Fred Milton interaction that basically landed us in sports pergatory (especially football) for decades. You make a solid argument that "the great pumpkin" ushered in 29 years of football hell as both a coach and AD. Perhaps he wasn't as "great" as some folks think he was. Go Beavs!!
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Post by flyfishinbeav on Apr 2, 2021 13:20:42 GMT -8
1) Baseball championships....Pat Casey building the program 2) Fiesta Bowl....and generally not sucking at football as bad 3) getting Scott Rueck 4) Elite 8 run men's B ball The absolute #1, all-time, worst thing to happen for OSU athletics was the Dee Andros/Fred Milton interaction that basically landed us in sports pergatory (especially football) for decades. You make a solid argument that "the great pumpkin" ushered in 29 years of football hell as both a coach and AD. Perhaps he wasn't as "great" as some folks think he was. Go Beavs!! It was all a misunderstanding. It was taken as a "racial" thing when in fact it was a "being old school" thing that got blown out of proportion and ran with......it actually parallels a lot of the cancel culture stuff we see today......Andros and Milton were friends later on after all this.
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Post by seastape on Apr 3, 2021 6:51:34 GMT -8
1. Fiesta Bowl. That was frickin awesome! 2. 2006 World Series. To win all those consecutive elimination games was unprecedented. 3. 2021 Pac 12 tournament championship and subsequent Elite 8 run was so unexpected it has to rank high. 4. 2018 World Series. Game 2 against Arkansas is a Beaver treasure and one of the best sports moments I've ever witnessed. 5. 2007 World Series. After barely getting into postseason Beavs played like a #1 seed. 6. 2008 football win against #1 USC. I finished a 6 month job in my former life in Boardman, Oregon that day and listened to Parker on radio and then watched game on DVR several times. Special connotations on that one. 7. Women's basketball run to Final Four. That was a good team. 8. 1988 Civil War win. Pouring rain for parts of game. Hammered in the student section. Tearing down goal posts. Great memory. 9. 1985 football over Washington when Beavs were 34 point dogs. I was there and it was unbelievable. 10. 1998 Civil War double OT win. I had gone to a friend's funeral that day (OSU alum) and that game really picked me up! #8 brings back memories. Absolutely. I seem to recall a chunk of the goal post landing in a certain house's basement.
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Post by seastape on Apr 3, 2021 6:53:46 GMT -8
1. Fiesta Bowl. That was frickin awesome! 2. 2006 World Series. To win all those consecutive elimination games was unprecedented. 3. 2021 Pac 12 tournament championship and subsequent Elite 8 run was so unexpected it has to rank high. 4. 2018 World Series. Game 2 against Arkansas is a Beaver treasure and one of the best sports moments I've ever witnessed. 5. 2007 World Series. After barely getting into postseason Beavs played like a #1 seed. 6. 2008 football win against #1 USC. I finished a 6 month job in my former life in Boardman, Oregon that day and listened to Parker on radio and then watched game on DVR several times. Special connotations on that one. 7. Women's basketball run to Final Four. That was a good team. 8. 1988 Civil War win. Pouring rain for parts of game. Hammered in the student section. Tearing down goal posts. Great memory. 9. 1985 football over Washington when Beavs were 34 point dogs. I was there and it was unbelievable. 10. 1998 Civil War double OT win. I had gone to a friend's funeral that day (OSU alum) and that game really picked me up! That 1988 Civil War win was giant and one of the single greatest sporting events I ever saw live. I seem to recall that it knocked the yux out of bowl contention, as well. Just a little icing on the cake.
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Post by seastape on Apr 3, 2021 7:23:32 GMT -8
I think you just have to rank actually national championships above anything else. Doesn't really much matter the sport, if you are the best in the nation that year, that is a top accomplishment. So 1, 2 and 3 have to belong to baseball. I think we cannot ignore OSU women's basketball making the final 4 in 2016. That is HUGE. they made the elite 8 in 2018. I think you have to at least put women's final 4 above the men's elite 8. you have to. I think you can put Men's elite 8 over women's because Oregon State WBB was then solidly and well established and a national force. Fiesta bowl. I think you have to put it up there, less for the overall accomplishment (not that a BCS bowl in the era isn't great) and more for what it meant. I guess I am going to order it: 1. 2006 baseball NC 2. 2007 baseball NC 3. 2018 baseball NC 4. 2000 Fiesta Bowl Season, just domination and being an elite program, period. 5. 2016 Women's basketball final four 6. 2021 Men's basketball elite 8 7. 2018 Women's basketball elite 8 8. 1999 winning men's football season, breaking the streak 9. 1998 football season for giving us hope that 1999 was going to happen 10. 2006 football. I dunno man, that was just a real fun season. we squeaked out 10 wins (albeit on 14 games), offense was just on fire all season, loved the power running, play action design. first major USC upset. We started 2-3, Can Riley signs were in the stadium, then we finished out 8-1 including topping the aforementioned #3 USC and all culminating in a Sun Bowl for the ages against Missouri with Sammie Stroughter taking that punt return 38 yards to set us up on the 45 yard line with 1:08 on the clock, Matt Moore drives OSU down, including completing a 4th and 3 pass to Sammie, and caps it off with a TD pass to Joe Newton... the HUGE BRASS BALLS RILEY turns and hands the 2 point conversion off to Bernard on the simplest of half back dives up the gut. He will not be denied. Fun fact, the Missouri QB was Chase Daniels, who has gone on to make roughly one hundred bazillion dollars as a back up QB in the NFL. I understand your sentiment here, but it was impossible to get into the national championship game in the 2000 football season unless you had one of the top two teams in the nation according to the obscure BCS formula. So undefeated Oklahoma filled one spot and one-loss Florida State filled the other spot over the four other one-loss teams that year. OSU would not have even gone to the championship in baseball under such a formula in 2006 and no way on Earth in 2007, even if the top eight teams got to a championship series in baseball. It is one reason that Idon't think the "national champion" standard appliles fairly in football as compared to baseball and basketball.
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Post by irimi on Apr 3, 2021 8:04:27 GMT -8
You make a solid argument that "the great pumpkin" ushered in 29 years of football hell as both a coach and AD. Perhaps he wasn't as "great" as some folks think he was. Go Beavs!! It was all a misunderstanding. It was taken as a "racial" thing when in fact it was a "being old school" thing that got blown out of proportion and ran with......it actually parallels a lot of the cancel culture stuff we see today......Andros and Milton were friends later on after all this. It was a year after MLK had been assassinated. One of the most volatile periods in American history, and even a country-bumpkin of a coach in Corvallis, OR should have recognized the importance of the moment with regard to his Black athletes. Minimally, he ought to have attempted to diffuse the situation before it grew out of control. Besides, he was a guy who allowed no facial hair. How could you trust him?! All the best people have beards.
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Post by steinlager on Apr 3, 2021 9:01:52 GMT -8
It was all a misunderstanding. It was taken as a "racial" thing when in fact it was a "being old school" thing that got blown out of proportion and ran with......it actually parallels a lot of the cancel culture stuff we see today......Andros and Milton were friends later on after all this. It was a year after MLK had been assassinated. One of the most volatile periods in American history, and even a country-bumpkin of a coach in Corvallis, OR should have recognized the importance of the moment with regard to his Black athletes. Minimally, he ought to have attempted to diffuse the situation before it grew out of control. Besides, he was a guy who allowed no facial hair. How could you trust him?! All the best people have beards. I had a buddy in high school who had a beard sophomore year, so he could always get us beer. He was in the best people category!
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Post by TheGlove on Apr 3, 2021 10:44:05 GMT -8
You make a solid argument that "the great pumpkin" ushered in 29 years of football hell as both a coach and AD. Perhaps he wasn't as "great" as some folks think he was. Go Beavs!! It was all a misunderstanding. It was taken as a "racial" thing when in fact it was a "being old school" thing that got blown out of proportion and ran with......it actually parallels a lot of the cancel culture stuff we see today......Andros and Milton were friends later on after all this. I’ll take things that White people say for $200, Alex.
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Post by beaverbud82 on Apr 3, 2021 11:17:22 GMT -8
The answer to these types of discussions should always be Robin Reed. Create your question, determine your criteria, then click on the Robin Reed wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Reed), and you have your answer.
My personal all time happiest Beaver fan moments:
1) 2006 baseball national championship 2) 1998 Civil War football win 3) Every win ever - in any competition against the ducks
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