Oregon State Leads First Team All Pac10 Selections
by The VD Special on Dec 8, 2009 4:37 PM PST
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The coaches have spoken: Oregon State has the most First Team All Pac10 Selections of any team in the conference. Offensive player of the year was Toby Gerhart, Defensive Player of the Year was Brian Price, and Coach of the Year was Chip Kelly. No surprises there. What was very surprising was not only did we have seven first team all selections, Oregon, which won the conference championship outright, only had one, Ed Dickson. LaMichael James of Oregon and Vontaze Burfict of Arizona State were chosen as offensive and defensive players of the year.
So congratulations to Sean Canfield (QB), Jacquizz Rodgers (RB), James Rodgers (WR), Gregg Peat (OL), Stephen Paea (DL), Keaton Kristick (LB), and Suaesi Tuimaunei (Special Teams).
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That is just awesome!!!!
Much congratulations are in order to the entire Beaver team!
Slight consolation after the heartbreaking loss...
Cliff K. had this on his blog too (more good news)….
• Four consecutive winning seasons; the longest streak since a five-year run between 1966-70.
• A Pac-10 high 20 returning starters for the 2010 team, including James and Jacquizz Rodgers.
• 16 lost starters on defense over the last two years; only two lost off the 2009 team.
That bodes well for the future...
If we can get Katz or Lalich up to speed quickly, we’ll be rockin’.
I like Katz’s potential. he seems to bring both the throwing arm and ability to run a bit too. Can you imagine a QB like that along with the Rodgers brothers in the backfield? And add in the receivers we are bringing back next year? And what I assume will be a seasoned offensive line?
But just know nothing about Lalich though, so can’t say much there and he might be great too.
I just think if we can get a QB going quicker in the first part of the season we could be deadly next year.
-RVM
by rvm on Dec 9, 2009 3:57 PM PST up reply actions
We need to remain realistic
We aren’t going to get a much better year out of QB any year than what we had with Canfield this year. I don’t think Katz or Lalich pose any chance of doing any better. At least our defense will be solid, but we could be looking at an anemic year for the offense if the QB isn’t doing well.
by The VD Special on Dec 9, 2009 3:59 PM PST up reply actions
Right.
I don’t think either one will match Canfield’s lights-out performance this season. But, if they can make good decisions and throws, not taking sacks when they should throw the ball away, etc., then things will be going very well. However, if it takes them a long time to learn the system, the receiver’s routes, etc., then we’ll have the same kind of slow starting season.
Hold On!
Canfield did not have a lights out performance all year. Remember back when? There was all this discussion about changing the QB starter and so on? Canfield started very slow this year.
Can a QB go beyond what Sean was doing at the end of the season, probably not he was indeed lights out. But did we think anyone could top Matt Moore’s performance at the end of 2006? Did anyone really think Canfield would be the one to do it if someone did?
Sorry but Sean was awesome, and I personally think he can be a possible starter in the NFL with a couple years back up experience and mentoring. BUT to say we can’t improve or even match is not giving the program all that much credit.
I’m not saying that Katz or Lalich will, I have no idea. But I will say I did not see Canfield’s second half of the season performance coming either, so I’m not going to jump to any conclusions.
-RVM
by rvm on Dec 9, 2009 4:31 PM PST up reply actions
and remember that Moore
Also started slow in 2006 and there were calls to bench him too.
I just think, and very much hope, that someday sometime this OSU program will get a QB in there that clicks sooner and then improves like the ones of the past did (except for the always seemingly very hot or very cold DA) from a higher level starting point. Will it ever happen, who the hell knows. Lots of variables beyond just that one player. But if it does and you think these last couple years have been good, well…
-RVM
by rvm on Dec 9, 2009 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
You’ve got to tell me what Canfield did so poorly, even at the beginning of the year. A lot of his sacks weren’t his fault— the o line was porous against Cincy and Zona. Call me skeptical, but Sean’s overall performance and his stats aren’t going to be matched next year.
by The VD Special on Dec 9, 2009 4:41 PM PST up reply actions
maybe, maybe not
The line is one of the variables yes, but to say he had a complete season and a complete lights out year is not the way it went down.
I actually was not in the camp of ditching on Canfield by the way. But here were some of the arguments as I remember:
He didn’t move very well in the pocket when needed (he had happy feet at times you have to admit, and yes sometimes that had to do with the line, but like you can’t blame it all on Sean you can’t blame it ALL on the line either for he recovered much much better from sacks and pressure later in the season)
He was staring down receivers (oldie but goodie).
He was relying way too much on Quizz for short gains, never would look medium to long range.
He was letting balls get away from him and throwing too high.
He doesn’t seem to have any leadership confidence out there.
And so on, I will say though again that to revise the way he played in the beginning and say it matched the end of the season is totally incorrect. He was a much better QB the second half of the season (and yes so was the team as a whole). We had a poll on this blog for gosh sakes asking about if he should be benched didn’t we?
Overall, my main point is that I’m just saying we always seem to say, well we’ll never replace Anderson, or Moore, or Simonton , or Jackson, or Bernard, or Johnson, or Newsome, or Hass, or Stroughter, etc.
Sometimes the team doesn’t and sometimes it does. Who are we to really say you know?
-RVM
by rvm on Dec 9, 2009 4:57 PM PST up reply actions
Oh and VD Special
I know you want me to be more pragmatic so here you go, if this happens:
TCU @Cowboys Stadium. So our non-conference schedule will look like
@TCU
@Boise State
LouisvilleFor being notoriously slow starters, Bob DeCarolis isn’t doing us any favors
We damn well better have a really good QB leading the team!
-RVM
by rvm on Dec 9, 2009 5:28 PM PST up reply actions
But can you imagine?
If that was our pre-season slate, where would we be going into PAC-10 play? Holy jumpin’-up-and-down Martha!
Doh!
Meant to say, if that was our slate and we were 3-0 going into conference play…
Guess I should have phrased that differently...
What I meant was that I hope we can get a QB into “second-half-of-the-season Sean” form quickly, instead of arriving there by Game 6 or so. And even if Katz or Lalich come out of the gate well, it will still be tough to match a 70% completion rate! But then again, as you said below, who knows? We can’t predict the future!
by sangdorange on Dec 10, 2009 10:09 AM PST up reply actions
I totally agree, and that was my main point really
Yep, and don’t get me wrong either. I’m not saying it will happen, I’m just saying look out if it does happen (which I hope it does!).
-RVM
There ya go.
That’s what I was trying to convey.
QB and Quizz
While I agree that QB will be a question mark next year, a more seasoned offensive line might be able to block better for Quizz and he might have a Heisman season next year. During the second half of this season, it seemed like the offensive line was better at pass blocking than run blocking.
I have a feeling that they will all learned quite a bit about playing at this level this year and they will generally be better next year. Having an offensive line which can do pass protection at the beginning of the year may mean the QB transition might be easier.
# of Beavers on First Team
Something tells me that the appropriate recruiting classes were not rated like the first team selections came out. Riley must be a good judge of talent and a good player developer.
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