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Post by rgeorge on Feb 10, 2022 14:02:23 GMT -8
Wilky is putting the Silva statue next to his Robb Thomas reflecting pool. My 49-year-old dad drove the family from Oregon to the Fiesta Bowl in 2001. He asked me once, if I realized why he spent all of that money and time. When I said that I did not, he said that he doubted that he would live to see a better Oregon State team and wanted to make sure that the family got to experience it in person. And the idiot 20-year-old that I was, I told him why he was crazy and about how the 2001 Fiesta Bowl was just a jumping off point. That was more than half a lifetime ago for me. My dad is now a paraplegic 70-year-old. And I realize now that I did not appreciate how lucky I was to get to see that team in person seven times in 2000 and 2001. Allen, Atkinson, Barnett, Battle, Carlyle, Carroll, Cookus, Cornell, Edwards, Fessler, Gibson, Grant, Heyward-Johnson, Houshmandzadeh, Jackson, Johnson, Kintner, Kuykendall, Manning, Maurer, McCall, Prescott, Roberts, Robinson, Sandoval, Seigler, Simonton, Smith, Sykes, Trimmer, Walker, Weathersby and White. Those were just names. And now those dudes are legends. I am sure that there would be at least one or two dudes on here that would fight you in a bar, if you badmouth pretty much any one of them. I fear that 2021 basketball may be one of those 2001 Fiesta Bowl moments. You may not see a basketball team come together and put on a run like 2021 for another decade or two. Heck, 2021 was the best basketball run in the past almost 40 years. And, if you do not count the vacated 1982 run, you are back into 1963 or 1966. You may not see another run like that for another 55-60 years. Just unreal. And you will have those names: Alatishe, Andela, Calloo, Hunt, Lucas, Reichle, Silva, Silver, Thompson and Tucker. I want those names to all be relatively forgettable. They were jumping off points toward something better, like the 2005 Oregon State baseball team. But I fear that this is one of those decades-long pinnacles that we all look back as the measuring stick to measure every subsequent season against. I worry that anyone who badmouths any of those 10 is going to look like a complete idiot in 5-10 years. Those 10 did something that was almost impossible. They downed UCLA, Oregon, Colorado, Tennessee, Oklahoma State and Loyola-Chicago over a 16-day period. Unreal. In 2001, as I watched Oregon State get humiliated at Reser by 7-4 UCLA by 31 points in a game broadcast across the country on ABC, I thought for the very first time that my dad just may have been on to something. Last season was something special. I hope I live to see the next one. Your worries are unfounded
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Post by irimi on Feb 10, 2022 15:43:30 GMT -8
Wilky is putting the Silva statue next to his Robb Thomas reflecting pool. My 49-year-old dad drove the family from Oregon to the Fiesta Bowl in 2001. He asked me once, if I realized why he spent all of that money and time. When I said that I did not, he said that he doubted that he would live to see a better Oregon State team and wanted to make sure that the family got to experience it in person. And the idiot 20-year-old that I was, I told him why he was crazy and about how the 2001 Fiesta Bowl was just a jumping off point. That was more than half a lifetime ago for me. My dad is now a paraplegic 70-year-old. And I realize now that I did not appreciate how lucky I was to get to see that team in person seven times in 2000 and 2001. Allen, Atkinson, Barnett, Battle, Carlyle, Carroll, Cookus, Cornell, Edwards, Fessler, Gibson, Grant, Heyward-Johnson, Houshmandzadeh, Jackson, Johnson, Kintner, Kuykendall, Manning, Maurer, McCall, Prescott, Roberts, Robinson, Sandoval, Seigler, Simonton, Smith, Sykes, Trimmer, Walker, Weathersby and White. Those were just names. And now those dudes are legends. I am sure that there would be at least one or two dudes on here that would fight you in a bar, if you badmouth pretty much any one of them. I fear that 2021 basketball may be one of those 2001 Fiesta Bowl moments. You may not see a basketball team come together and put on a run like 2021 for another decade or two. Heck, 2021 was the best basketball run in the past almost 40 years. And, if you do not count the vacated 1982 run, you are back into 1963 or 1966. You may not see another run like that for another 55-60 years. Just unreal. And you will have those names: Alatishe, Andela, Calloo, Hunt, Lucas, Reichle, Silva, Silver, Thompson and Tucker. I want those names to all be relatively forgettable. They were jumping off points toward something better, like the 2005 Oregon State baseball team. But I fear that this is one of those decades-long pinnacles that we all look back as the measuring stick to measure every subsequent season against. I worry that anyone who badmouths any of those 10 is going to look like a complete idiot in 5-10 years. Those 10 did something that was almost impossible. They downed UCLA, Oregon, Colorado, Tennessee, Oklahoma State and Loyola-Chicago over a 16-day period. Unreal. In 2001, as I watched Oregon State get humiliated at Reser by 7-4 UCLA by 31 points in a game broadcast across the country on ABC, I thought for the very first time that my dad just may have been on to something. Last season was something special. I hope I live to see the next one. The 2001 season was a jumping off point. Beaver football mattered for a number of years afterward. There’s no way that you can argue that Beaver football regressed to what it was before that season…even in the Gary Andersen years. There were decades like the Andersen years. But Beaver fans came to expect more, so GA’s tenure was short-lived. I’m not predicting a basketball era of relevance, but if it happened once, we can do it again. Something is terribly amiss right now. I’d really like to have the inside scoop, but we won’t get it. This year is pretty much over. Not much salvageable. So let’s hope the kinks get worked out for next year and drink hard to forget this one.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Feb 11, 2022 13:49:54 GMT -8
My 49-year-old dad drove the family from Oregon to the Fiesta Bowl in 2001. He asked me once, if I realized why he spent all of that money and time. When I said that I did not, he said that he doubted that he would live to see a better Oregon State team and wanted to make sure that the family got to experience it in person. And the idiot 20-year-old that I was, I told him why he was crazy and about how the 2001 Fiesta Bowl was just a jumping off point. That was more than half a lifetime ago for me. My dad is now a paraplegic 70-year-old. And I realize now that I did not appreciate how lucky I was to get to see that team in person seven times in 2000 and 2001. Allen, Atkinson, Barnett, Battle, Carlyle, Carroll, Cookus, Cornell, Edwards, Fessler, Gibson, Grant, Heyward-Johnson, Houshmandzadeh, Jackson, Johnson, Kintner, Kuykendall, Manning, Maurer, McCall, Prescott, Roberts, Robinson, Sandoval, Seigler, Simonton, Smith, Sykes, Trimmer, Walker, Weathersby and White. Those were just names. And now those dudes are legends. I am sure that there would be at least one or two dudes on here that would fight you in a bar, if you badmouth pretty much any one of them. I fear that 2021 basketball may be one of those 2001 Fiesta Bowl moments. You may not see a basketball team come together and put on a run like 2021 for another decade or two. Heck, 2021 was the best basketball run in the past almost 40 years. And, if you do not count the vacated 1982 run, you are back into 1963 or 1966. You may not see another run like that for another 55-60 years. Just unreal. And you will have those names: Alatishe, Andela, Calloo, Hunt, Lucas, Reichle, Silva, Silver, Thompson and Tucker. I want those names to all be relatively forgettable. They were jumping off points toward something better, like the 2005 Oregon State baseball team. But I fear that this is one of those decades-long pinnacles that we all look back as the measuring stick to measure every subsequent season against. I worry that anyone who badmouths any of those 10 is going to look like a complete idiot in 5-10 years. Those 10 did something that was almost impossible. They downed UCLA, Oregon, Colorado, Tennessee, Oklahoma State and Loyola-Chicago over a 16-day period. Unreal. In 2001, as I watched Oregon State get humiliated at Reser by 7-4 UCLA by 31 points in a game broadcast across the country on ABC, I thought for the very first time that my dad just may have been on to something. Last season was something special. I hope I live to see the next one. The 2001 season was a jumping off point. Beaver football mattered for a number of years afterward. There’s no way that you can argue that Beaver football regressed to what it was before that season…even in the Gary Andersen years. There were decades like the Andersen years. But Beaver fans came to expect more, so GA’s tenure was short-lived. I’m not predicting a basketball era of relevance, but if it happened once, we can do it again. Something is terribly amiss right now. I’d really like to have the inside scoop, but we won’t get it. This year is pretty much over. Not much salvageable. So let’s hope the kinks get worked out for next year and drink hard to forget this one. The 2017 season was arguably the worst season in Oregon State history. Oregon State won more games in the six years before 2000 than in the seven years between 2013 and 2021. The down years did not stretch into the decades, though. The rest of the post is not be directed to you but toward others. 2000 Oregon State football had a .917 winning percentage. 2001 Oregon State football had a .455 winning percentage. 2020-21 Oregon State basketball had a .606 winning percentage. 2021-22 Oregon State basketball has a .143 winning percentage. The delta between the winning percentages in 2020-21 and 2021-22 basketball is only .001 more than the delta between 2000 and 2001 football. Perhaps, the issue is that the 2000 football ceiling was higher than the 2020-21 basketball ceiling, so it feels like the drop-off has been much more catastrophic than it was. I will keep hoping for a miracle turnaround here. The season is not dead yet.
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Post by nabeav on Feb 15, 2022 15:16:03 GMT -8
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Post by spudbeaver on Feb 15, 2022 16:03:50 GMT -8
A modern day Robin Hood? Not worth it for an average of $6k each. Maybe just inept.
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Post by william44 on Feb 16, 2022 12:39:30 GMT -8
Your Father was wise. I am 77 and now winter in Calif. Will be driving to Surprise for our annual trip over there. Just to watch Baseball. What we witnessed last year was amazing . Sure we thought maybe it is fixed. We forget how rarely in the last 30 Years we have been good. We all can talk about GP2 or Eubanks. We cannot defend the mediocrity of many Years but we shrug and always think of better times to come. The 2000 football team was special. I remember a Beaver Luncheon in Portland when Pettibone Coached. Being under 50 than I walked out of there pumped. Media talked about winning. Finally I thought. I have seen close to 300 Beaver football games and 75 or more Basketball. All the far west classic etc etc. All in all I now know it is a rare occurrence to be relevant. Wish it were not so.
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Post by jdogge on Feb 16, 2022 14:21:48 GMT -8
OMG! You boys get your panties in a twist over the dumbest inconsequential things.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Feb 16, 2022 15:49:17 GMT -8
October 21, 2000 Oregon State travelled to the Rose Bowl, in an attempt to sweep the Los Angeles schools for the first time in Oregon State history and attempt to win at the Rose Bowl for the second time in program history. UCLA was ranked 23rd. The Bruins were 18-3 at the Rose Bowl over the previous 21 games, stretching back to the beginning of 1997. UCLA started the year by beating #3 Alabama and #3 Michigan before losing to Oregon in Autzen and California in Strawberry Canyon. Simonton missed most of the second half with a hamstring injury. McCall shouldered most of the running back load in the second half. He finished with 24 touches, 153 yards and a touchdown. 153 yards was more than a quarter of Oregon State's total and was the most yardage of any non-quarterback for either team in the game. McCall more than doubled UCLA's rushing total by himself and almost tripled Deshaun Foster's total. McCall's 66-yard touchdown with 1:52 left was the game-winner, although the run was marred by the fact that Erickson went for one, as opposed to two afterwards. I can still watch his family come down to give him a hug in the end zone after his score in my mind. Great run. Great game. Legend because he was on that 2000 team.
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Post by seastape on Feb 17, 2022 10:57:14 GMT -8
October 21, 2000 Oregon State travelled to the Rose Bowl, in an attempt to sweep the Los Angeles schools for the first time in Oregon State history and attempt to win at the Rose Bowl for the second time in program history. UCLA was ranked 23rd. The Bruins were 18-3 at the Rose Bowl over the previous 21 games, stretching back to the beginning of 1997. UCLA started the year by beating #3 Alabama and #3 Michigan before losing to Oregon in Autzen and California in Strawberry Canyon. Simonton missed most of the second half with a hamstring injury. McCall shouldered most of the running back load in the second half. He finished with 24 touches, 153 yards and a touchdown. 153 yards was more than a quarter of Oregon State's total and was the most yardage of any non-quarterback for either team in the game. McCall more than doubled UCLA's rushing total by himself and almost tripled Deshaun Foster's total. McCall's 66-yard touchdown with 1:52 left was the game-winner, although the run was marred by the fact that Erickson went for one, as opposed to two afterwards. I can still watch his family come down to give him a hug in the end zone after his score in my mind. Great run. Great game. Legend because he was on that 2000 team. The Pac-10 logo on McCall's uniform reminds me of how much the current Pac-12 logo sucks.
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Post by giantkillers83 on Feb 17, 2022 19:46:25 GMT -8
History lesson messer Silva…. Lol.
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Post by irimi on Feb 18, 2022 7:23:09 GMT -8
I wonder if Silva's dad is playing the same team 10 days and 4 more losses later....
It must really suck to be a parent of one of the players this year.
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