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Post by spudbeaver on Jun 17, 2024 19:30:32 GMT -8
1993 UCLA 20 - OREGON STATE 17, STANFORD 31 - Oregon State 27, & Washington 28 - OREGON STATE 21. Those three games were on consecutive weekends. 1994 ARIZONA STATE 22 - Oregon State 16, USC 27 - OREGON STATE 19, Stanford 35 - OREGON STATE 29, & Oregon 17 - OREGON STATE 13. A close one in the season opener, both home games around the first win at the Rose Bowl, and then a close one in the Civil War. That USC game was very winnable. But Alexander's broken collarbone cost Oregon State the game. In 1995, Pettibone went to more of a flexbone rather than a wishbone offense to try and pass more, which was just stupid. Pettibone ran the wishbone. He was in over his head trying to add in flexbone elements.He was heavily pressured by boosters to open up the offense.......it was a bad idea. Coaches that listen to the fans often end up sitting with them.
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Post by seastape on Jun 18, 2024 4:20:20 GMT -8
He was heavily pressured by boosters to open up the offense.......it was a bad idea. Coaches that listen to the fans often end up sitting with them. Except for Pokey Allen. I seem to remember that when he coached at Portland State, every home game he would run one play that was designed by a fan. I think one even went for an 80-yard touchdown. Good stuff.
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Post by bvrbred on Jun 18, 2024 7:06:31 GMT -8
I don't believe opening up the offense was a bad idea per se. The problem was it wasn't Pettibone's game, and it wasn't his OC Summers' game. If Pettibone really wanted to try it he should have bought in thoroughly by bringing in a different OC, and recruiting personnel for it. The process couldn't happen overnight. It took Riley, who had a lot of experience with passing offenses, a year and two thirds to get a decent passing game going here after he had developed two JC WR, converted a QB into a WR, tried two JC QB and finally got lucky with a walk on QB. The path couldn't have been any easier for Pettibone even under the best of circumstances.
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Post by Judge Smails on Jun 18, 2024 7:37:56 GMT -8
I don't believe opening up the offense was a bad idea per se. The problem was it wasn't Pettibone's game, and it wasn't his OC Summers' game. If Pettibone really wanted to try it he should have bought in thoroughly by bringing in a different OC, and recruiting personnel for it. The process couldn't happen overnight. It took Riley, who had a lot of experience with passing offenses, a year and two thirds to get a decent passing game going here after he had developed two JC WR, converted a QB into a WR, tried two JC QB and finally got lucky with a walk on QB. The path couldn't have been any easier for Pettibone even under the best of circumstances. But he was the one that came up with the dance craze known as the Shanklin shuffle.
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Post by bvrbred on Jun 18, 2024 8:43:06 GMT -8
Evidence that Pettibone should have gone looking for a different OC.
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Post by keizerbeav on Jun 18, 2024 11:44:20 GMT -8
Pettibone got lucky and picked a great DC in Rocky Long, great man and coordinator. Several years in the Pettibone regime our defenses were very respectable, and I believe Rocky was hired away after the 95 season by UCLA. The offenses under Pettibone were mostly horrible, we never ran the option well.
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Post by orangeexpress on Jun 18, 2024 20:03:06 GMT -8
Paul Johnson was the OC in Hawaii during Pettibone's tenure in Corvallis and would have been an intriguing option (no pun intended) to serve as our OC. He was later the HC at Georgia Southern running a dynamic option offense that made our defense look silly when we played them in 1999.
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