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Post by Werebeaver on May 24, 2018 11:03:57 GMT -8
Hardly. Riley took a program that was arguable the worst team in the history of modern college athletics and brought real success. He set the stage for DE's success, and followed up with several fine seasons of his own. He did this with sub-par facilities and low budgets, in a sport that gets the hottest spotlight. He earned major scalps - including a fine record against Pete Carroll - arguably the most iconic coach of the era - and twice came within a single win of making the Rose Bowl. Riley accomplished what for Fertig, Avezzano, Kragthorpe, Pettibone, and Anderson were unimaginable goals. Only DE - who won multiple National Championships and National COY awards - exceeded him in my lifetime. True, Horton started from scratch, but with gleaming new facilities and what is likely the largest budget west of Texas. He rode the initial wave of publicity (and his personal reputation) to a couple seasons of relevance, then slowly slid back to the bottom half of the Pac. He did nothing more than what the UO could have expected had they hired any of the better coaches from the mid-majors at half the salary. I don't think the final assessment is correct. Horton did bring immediate coaching chops relevance, which is the only way you can recruit at a high level right off the bat. Few mid-major coaches can offer that. He just, after that burst out of the gate provided by all the money and all the facilities and all the publicity, couldn't get past the first few recruiting classes into a sustained pipeline to match the Pac-10/12 upper level programs. Face it, they came so close to getting to Omaha a few years in, and if he couldn't parley that into a relatively stable high level group of recruits each year, then that is on him. Yep, they came close that one time. |
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Post by ochobeavo on May 25, 2018 8:23:53 GMT -8
Wow. I certainly don't watch the games, but I saw they lost again 10-1 yesterday (securing a losing record on the season). So if you're scoring at home, that's the losing side of 12-4, 15-1, 10-2 and 10-2 in the last 4. And they apparently want to bring him back? Looks like the kids may have quit. #YesPleaseBringHimBack
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Post by mbabeav on May 25, 2018 10:25:16 GMT -8
Wow. I certainly don't watch the games, but I saw they lost again 10-1 yesterday (securing a losing record on the season). So if you're scoring at home, that's the losing side of 12-4, 15-1, 10-2 and 10-2 in the last 4. And they apparently want to bring him back? Looks like the kids may have quit. #YesPleaseBringHimBack They have been waving the white flag since the Beavs took them down - this is where Horton has fallen down in my estimation a lot. I have never seen a Casey coached team quit. Quite the opposite - will never forget Gundy sitting there in front of the cameras after 2005 series telling the world that the Beavs would be back in Omaha next season. Now that about gave Casey a heart attack, but the Beavs backed it up. Same with last year - did the best they could at the end of 2016 only to get left out, and came back, well you know how they came back. uckville, in uckville, mighty Horton has struck out. |
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Post by blueheron on May 25, 2018 20:21:42 GMT -8
Isn't Horton signed through 2022? Didn't he sign a new 5 year deal last year? I don't know what his buyout would be but it might be more than UO wants to pony up to dismiss him. After all, it is a minor sport and not that relevant to the overall success of the UO athletic program. If it weren't for "Beaver envy", even fewer would be that interested in duck baseball fortunes. It was a one year extension. |
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Post by Tigardbeav on May 25, 2018 20:25:32 GMT -8
my friend giantkillers83 texted me about Yovan working on a NO HITTER. Until about a minute later. LOL. Good use of the superstition model |
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