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Post by oldbeav on Jan 7, 2022 8:14:00 GMT -8
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Post by kersting13 on Jan 7, 2022 13:40:27 GMT -8
I sat in the outfield bleachers for a Breakers game in 1985. Pretty low budget. I think Marcus DuPree was playing that day before he ripped up his knee. He was supposed to be the next Herschel Walker. Marcus DuPree never played in Portland. He played his first year in New Orleans. In his second year, he ripped up his knee in the season opener at Tempe and was lost for the season. There was no 1986 season. He came back, though, and played for the Rams for two years in the early 1990s. DuPree was all potential. He could have been great, but he was not a very well-rounded back and did not work that hard. Got it. DuPree was on the Portland Breakers, but never played in Portland itself.
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Post by TheGlove on Jan 8, 2022 8:44:32 GMT -8
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Post by ag87 on Jan 8, 2022 10:05:12 GMT -8
pretty impressive career so far for the guy who beavergeek said was only brought in as recruiting bait for his younger brother
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Post by gnawitall on Jan 11, 2022 6:53:39 GMT -8
I briefly caught a glimpse of the USFL logo twice on commercials of NFL games the last couple of weeks, but had no idea what for. I attended one Breakers game at Civic Stadium in 1985. I still have a Portland Breakers T-shirt in a box in my closet. Maybe I'll be able to use it again someday. lol I loved those unis
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Post by orangeattack on Jan 11, 2022 18:11:46 GMT -8
pretty impressive career so far for the guy who beavergeek said was only brought in as recruiting bait for his younger brother the internet never forgets, lol. Geek hung around for 10 years after St. Dennis left, but being wrong about James Rodgers was the thing that drove him from Beaverdom lol
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Post by lebaneaver on Jan 11, 2022 21:05:45 GMT -8
Didn’t Geek move (physically) to Florida? Or…… was he actually IN Florida, but EMOTIONALLY in Corvallis? I never figured it out. He became kind of bitter…. a shame, because for years, I admired his incites. Hope you are well, wherever you are, BeaverGeek.
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Post by seastape on Jan 11, 2022 21:24:43 GMT -8
pretty impressive career so far for the guy who beavergeek said was only brought in as recruiting bait for his younger brother the internet never forgets, lol. Geek hung around for 10 years after St. Dennis left, but being wrong about James Rodgers was the thing that drove him from Beaverdom lol I always thought beavergeek and baseba1111 were the same dude
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Post by steinlager on Jan 11, 2022 22:34:47 GMT -8
Back in the old pure-orange days, geek posted some great recruiting info, in an era where it just wasn't easy to find compared to today. Before pure-orange, I used to read the Oregonian to see who signed with the Beavs. Usually the first I'd heard of the most of the recruits. Now it's a full on information business.
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Post by bucktoothvarmit on Jan 12, 2022 7:32:31 GMT -8
Happy to see James moving away from MR's shadow and gaining experience under a different HC. Different branch of the same tree but it should help with his career path. Solid young man and a great Beaver!!
Go Beavs!!
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Post by giantkillers83 on Jan 12, 2022 19:37:15 GMT -8
Hopefully Mike enjoys the year or 2 gig the new USFL lasts
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Post by wetrodentia on Jan 12, 2022 21:10:41 GMT -8
Didn’t Geek move (physically) to Florida? Or…… was he actually IN Florida, but EMOTIONALLY in Corvallis? I never figured it out. He became kind of bitter…. a shame, because for years, I admired his incites. Hope you are well, wherever you are, BeaverGeek. Incites? Clever.
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Post by lebaneaver on Jan 12, 2022 21:22:51 GMT -8
Didn’t Geek move (physically) to Florida? Or…… was he actually IN Florida, but EMOTIONALLY in Corvallis? I never figured it out. He became kind of bitter…. a shame, because for years, I admired his incites. Hope you are well, wherever you are, BeaverGeek. Incites? Clever. I wondered if any other cynical smart-asses (like me) might catch that. Towards the end, he just continually provoked folks. Before that, I certainly enjoyed him. Do you know if he is well? You’ve been around longer than I.
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Post by wetrodentia on Jan 13, 2022 20:26:43 GMT -8
I wondered if any other cynical smart-asses (like me) might catch that. Towards the end, he just continually provoked folks. Before that, I certainly enjoyed him. Do you know if he is well? You’ve been around longer than I. I do not know but enjoyed his posts back in the day.
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Post by orangeattack on Jan 17, 2022 16:00:58 GMT -8
the internet never forgets, lol. Geek hung around for 10 years after St. Dennis left, but being wrong about James Rodgers was the thing that drove him from Beaverdom lol I always thought beavergeek and baseba1111 were the same dude Definitely not. At one point I tried really hard to figure out who the hell geek is. What I know about Geek is that his actual profession was working as a baseball scout. Home was indeed located in the state of Florida, but it always was. He recruited the Pacific Northwest/West Coast. To some people, he used the name "Willard". He wasn't an Oregon State alum, he visited Corvallis while working and when Erickson was at Oregon State he literally made friends with the administrative staff in the AD while he was there looking at a couple of Pat Casey's guys. Football recruiting was kind of a side conversation, and at this point in time the Oregon State football program was really, really accessible in terms of the staff being willing to share some info with him that they didn't mind made it to the internet. When Erickson left Geek was a big proponent of Tim Lappano getting the job, and he let it be known that he was not a fan of Coach Riley's and this was the beginning of the schism between geek and Beaver fans. When he left Beaverblitz, he occasionally posted on beaverfootball.com under the handle secondnshort. I didn't see him post for the last several years before the website folded up. He never returned to Blitz, as far as I heard. So the reference to baseball with both posters picked up my antennae but as an English Major dropout I can confidently say that the writing styles are absolutely nowhere in the same universe. Geek's writing was more austere, with less platitudes and a lot more sense of impatience than the verbose and lengthy writing of our own baseba1111, and more than that the generational references in both of their writing suggest people who are decades apart in age. Geek never coached and didn't have a ton of insight into the minutae of coaching and scheme. As far as I know, nobody on the old GOBEAVS email list server (where OA and Beavermobile first met) or on pure-orange ever actually met him.
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