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Post by richard44 on Jul 28, 2024 10:55:04 GMT -8
Lengthy, informative interview. At about 19:53 Gavin says "We already have our schedule set for next year" in the context of it not being hard to find good teams that want to play OSU. in 2025. The issue has been finding good teams that want to play OSU in Corvallis. Do you know that to be fact or are you just making an assumption? I’ve seen another poster on here share that concern, but nobody is actually certain of the talks behind the scenes about the schedule (unless Barnes let that info leak to some random poster on here?) If that is true, then so be it. We are going to be a top 15 team to start the year, will be returning a really good roster and pitching staff, so if we have to beat good teams on the road, I’m cool with that. It will be an RPI booster and we have to win away from Goss to win it all anyway. |
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Post by rgeorge on Jul 28, 2024 11:23:21 GMT -8
The issue has been finding good teams that want to play OSU in Corvallis. Do you know that to be fact or are you just making an assumption? I’ve seen another poster on here share that concern, but nobody is actually certain of the talks behind the scenes about the schedule (unless Barnes let that info leak to some random poster on here?) If that is true, then so be it. We are going to be a top 15 team to start the year, will be returning a really good roster and pitching staff, so if we have to beat good teams on the road, I’m cool with that. It will be an RPI booster and we have to win away from Goss to win it all anyway. It does not have to be Barnes that lets info out. There are plenty of people on this board who have connections, friends, and family who work inside the AD in various capacities. As far as I've heard Gavin is passing on the "company line". The schedule is far from being "set", and final contracts will not be all completed for some time. The high quality teams on the schedule so far are due to invites from preseason events, not necessarily OSU scheduling. Those invites are due to OSU's reputation. But, once the preseason events are scheduled/filled out most high quality teams are into conference play and are not likely to travel far for midweek games. Just as OSU wasn't during Pac12 play unless they were headed or returning from Pac12 games in the vicinity. OSU can not afford to be a total road warrior as they already lose money. They have to pick and chose carefully and despite what has been said, there is no way I see OSU getting a superior schedule to what was had in Pac12 play + NC games and invites. I mean it is fairly common sense, as if the situation was reversed why would OSU travel distances for multiple NC series when they already had a tough conference schedule?? They didn't while in the Pac12, why would other high quality teams want to travel clear to Corvallis when they get a tough conference schedule and can get decent quality NC games midweek, close to home?? But, we'll see when the actual schedule is posted. |
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Post by beaverboilermaker on Jul 28, 2024 16:22:22 GMT -8
The issue has been finding good teams that want to play OSU in Corvallis. Do you know that to be fact or are you just making an assumption? I’ve seen another poster on here share that concern, but nobody is actually certain of the talks behind the scenes about the schedule (unless Barnes let that info leak to some random poster on here?) If that is true, then so be it. We are going to be a top 15 team to start the year, will be returning a really good roster and pitching staff, so if we have to beat good teams on the road, I’m cool with that. It will be an RPI booster and we have to win away from Goss to win it all anyway. The only times OSU has recently had difficulty scheduling good teams at Goss have been late February and early March home-opener series, and I think much of the fan base would be happy to see no more home openers until at least the first weekend in March anyway. There really is no reason to force these types of games against North Dakota State and Coppin State just to be at home, especially starting in 2025. What OSU needs now is to use those early weekends as chips to schedule home-and-home series instead of paying to bring teams to Goss for one-off body-bag series. There seem to be good indications that scheduling home-and-homes can work out for the 10 weeks of "traditional" conference games. - The Big 10 has an odd number of baseball teams, so one team will always have a NC weekend. I expect at least u of 0 and uw to want to stay in the PNW for their byes, and there is at least a reasonable chance that u$c and ucla could do the same considering that the rest of the B10 could do more harm than good to their Strength of Schedule.
- Parker mentioned last season that our coaches were disappointed that Cal was specifically NOT agreeing to schedule OSU in the future, adding some hope that Stanford may be agreeable. The ACC schedule (at least last year) featured mid-season NC weekends for teams, which could be a place for Stanford to fit and stay on the left coast.
- Washington State makes the WCC an even number of baseball teams if I understand correctly, but the hope would be the Cougs would be interested in maintaining the rivalry and schedule improvement to play alternating years at Goss and Bailey–Brayton when they do not have a conference series.
- The Big West has an odd number of teams, and although it has struggled in recent years, there are still a number of strong teams recently in addition to the historically good teams (Fullerton and Long Beach). OSU could do reasonably well scheduling home-and-home series with the top 6 or 7 Big West teams to get 4 or 5 weekends per year.
- The Mountain West also has an odd number of teams, and scheduling them should be limited to one series per season if at all possible.
The evidence will be in the first schedule when it is released, and I suspect that most teams with weekend series will actually be home-and-home in the first 2 years. Scheduling 4 or even 5 of the former Pac would go a long way to getting the heart of the schedule filled, but I also hope there are a few surprise national teams that are willing to schedule home-and-homes with OSU. OSU's coaches and AD must believe even a medium-case scenario to be better than the WCC or MWC option, so it comes down to what you want to assume or believe until the 2025 schedule is announced. |
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Post by Judge Smails on Jul 28, 2024 17:54:45 GMT -8
The issue has been finding good teams that want to play OSU in Corvallis. Do you know that to be fact or are you just making an assumption? I’ve seen another poster on here share that concern, but nobody is actually certain of the talks behind the scenes about the schedule (unless Barnes let that info leak to some random poster on here?) If that is true, then so be it. We are going to be a top 15 team to start the year, will be returning a really good roster and pitching staff, so if we have to beat good teams on the road, I’m cool with that. It will be an RPI booster and we have to win away from Goss to win it all anyway. Well the person that I know in the AD dept said we could have as few as 10-15 home games. They are trying to get to at least 20, but we shall see. That’s what they have as of now. |
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Post by Judge Smails on Jul 28, 2024 17:57:08 GMT -8
Do you know that to be fact or are you just making an assumption? I’ve seen another poster on here share that concern, but nobody is actually certain of the talks behind the scenes about the schedule (unless Barnes let that info leak to some random poster on here?) If that is true, then so be it. We are going to be a top 15 team to start the year, will be returning a really good roster and pitching staff, so if we have to beat good teams on the road, I’m cool with that. It will be an RPI booster and we have to win away from Goss to win it all anyway. Well the person that I know in the AD dept said we could have as few as 10-15 home games. They are trying to get to at least 20, but we shall see. That’s what they have as of now. Very few P4 teams are willing to come here on their bye week. They’ll play us, but at their place. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jul 28, 2024 20:25:43 GMT -8
Do you know that to be fact or are you just making an assumption? I’ve seen another poster on here share that concern, but nobody is actually certain of the talks behind the scenes about the schedule (unless Barnes let that info leak to some random poster on here?) If that is true, then so be it. We are going to be a top 15 team to start the year, will be returning a really good roster and pitching staff, so if we have to beat good teams on the road, I’m cool with that. It will be an RPI booster and we have to win away from Goss to win it all anyway. The only times OSU has recently had difficulty scheduling good teams at Goss have been late February and early March home-opener series, and I think much of the fan base would be happy to see no more home openers until at least the first weekend in March anyway. There really is no reason to force these types of games against North Dakota State and Coppin State just to be at home, especially starting in 2025. What OSU needs now is to use those early weekends as chips to schedule home-and-home series instead of paying to bring teams to Goss for one-off body-bag series. There seem to be good indications that scheduling home-and-homes can work out for the 10 weeks of "traditional" conference games. - The Big 10 has an odd number of baseball teams, so one team will always have a NC weekend. I expect at least u of 0 and uw to want to stay in the PNW for their byes, and there is at least a reasonable chance that u$c and ucla could do the same considering that the rest of the B10 could do more harm than good to their Strength of Schedule.
- Parker mentioned last season that our coaches were disappointed that Cal was specifically NOT agreeing to schedule OSU in the future, adding some hope that Stanford may be agreeable. The ACC schedule (at least last year) featured mid-season NC weekends for teams, which could be a place for Stanford to fit and stay on the left coast.
- Washington State makes the WCC an even number of baseball teams if I understand correctly, but the hope would be the Cougs would be interested in maintaining the rivalry and schedule improvement to play alternating years at Goss and Bailey–Brayton when they do not have a conference series.
- The Big West has an odd number of teams, and although it has struggled in recent years, there are still a number of strong teams recently in addition to the historically good teams (Fullerton and Long Beach). OSU could do reasonably well scheduling home-and-home series with the top 6 or 7 Big West teams to get 4 or 5 weekends per year.
- The Mountain West also has an odd number of teams, and scheduling them should be limited to one series per season if at all possible.
The evidence will be in the first schedule when it is released, and I suspect that most teams with weekend series will actually be home-and-home in the first 2 years. Scheduling 4 or even 5 of the former Pac would go a long way to getting the heart of the schedule filled, but I also hope there are a few surprise national teams that are willing to schedule home-and-homes with OSU. OSU's coaches and AD must believe even a medium-case scenario to be better than the WCC or MWC option, so it comes down to what you want to assume or believe until the 2025 schedule is announced. WSU is playing in the Mountain West, not the WCC. But the Cougs do give the league 8 teams: WSU, AFA, SJSU, Fresno, SDSU, Nevada, UNLV, New Mexico. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jul 28, 2024 21:20:51 GMT -8
Well the person that I know in the AD dept said we could have as few as 10-15 home games. They are trying to get to at least 20, but we shall see. That’s what they have as of now. Very few P4 teams are willing to come here on their bye week. They’ll play us, but at their place. Oklahoma State came to Oregon State in 2019. The Big 12 historically would play elite teams on their bye weeks. But the Big 12 has an even number of teams with the addition of Utah and the Arizonas. The ACC and Big Ten also have played an ambitious bye-week schedule. Plus, the Big Ten has historically played a 9-week conference schedule with a bye week, as opposed to the other conferences' 10- or 11-week (with a bye week) conference schedules. There are ways to make a great schedule work. I would be disappointed, if Oregon State does not schedule at least six of the former Pac-12 teams. |
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Post by beaverphd on Jul 29, 2024 16:00:08 GMT -8
Wilson Weber has joined Harwich in the Cape Cod League
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Post by oldbeav on Jul 31, 2024 14:02:08 GMT -8
Not exactly summer ball but…
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Post by oldbeav on Aug 12, 2024 20:26:43 GMT -8
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Aug 12, 2024 21:57:49 GMT -8
Harwich won the Cape Cod League Championship Game today. Weber was was the designated hitter, hitting in the cleanup spot. Weber hit a double to drive in the second run and scored the third run to help Harwich build a 3-0 lead. Bourne came back to within 3-2 but got no closer in a 4-3 Harwich win. |
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