Coaching Love: Who do YOU love?
by The VD Special on Feb 21, 2009 4:48 PM PST
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PrintSo I know there are still a few basketball games left, and baseball is just getting underway, but given that our team has 7 Pac10 wins (for those keeping count, that's 7 more than last year, with 3 games to go), including a 4-game sweep of the Bay Area schools. We have signed 4 of the top 150 players in the country in basketball for next year, and things are looking up for our little program. And of course, he showed his love for OSU by announcing "GO BEAVERS" at the DNC. There is reason to want to give Craig Robinson some mad love, but we have a couple other coaches who are pretty alright too.
Mike Riley has been arguably the best football coach we've ever had, leading us to unprecedented success on the gridiron. Not only that, he is a class act off the field, and his players reflect that. Guys like Sammie Stroughter, Mike Hass, Lyle Moevao; these are the guys that represent us, and they represent us with the utmost respect and dignity. He has repeated his loyalty to Oregon State by continuing to say he'd love to finish his career in Corvallis. But then again...
Pat Casey has won us 2 national championships and 3 CWS appearances and put Oregon State baseball on the map. The team became America's college baseball sweethearts, and Pat Casey was so good that it was even worth it for UO to try and steal him away. He showed us his loyalty, by turning down his "dream job" at Notre Dame to stay at Oregon State.
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So I ask YOU Beaver Nation: Which is your FAVORITE coach at Oregon State? Discuss in the thread
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I know, I'm struggling too
I know how my mom must feel.. She always says she can’t pick a favorite child— she loves us all for different reasons.. That’s exactly how I feel about how our coaches
I support Takimoto in his effort to support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
exactly
what I was going to say, only about my cats.
by Jimmy James on Feb 22, 2009 11:24 AM PST up reply actions
Lavonda
Lavonda’s clearly the best, though not for wins, simply for fashion.
hahahaha
+1
I support Takimoto in his effort to support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
by The VD Special on Feb 21, 2009 5:19 PM PST up reply actions
Damn...
This is a hard choice but I have to go with Riley even though Pat Casey was a CLOSE second. I just think that at the end of the day Riley is the coach of the biggest sport on campus and definitely the most profitable one. Without Riley’s success with the football team the athletic department wouldn’t have money to hire Coach Rob, keep Coach Casey, and renovate Gill or Goss Stadium thus allowing those programs to be successful. Riley has put Beaver football on the map after DECADES of futility and continues to lead the program to unprecedented heights. But don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t trade any of these guys for anyone else in the country in their respective sports. Beaver Nation is lucky to have each and everyone of them.
GO BEAVS!!
Riley
He has proved the most to me so far. I know Pat has won 2 national titles, but in the end football is just the bigger sport. Craig is very close to 1st. I’ll give it to him if we make the NIT.
It is interesting
This poll breaks down to about what I would have said the reaction to the coaches in that video they show at the basketball games, the one about supporting OSU athletics and how much the fans mean. I saw it at the CW game.
The cheers for the three above really seemed to break down to about the same IMO, Riley really got a good cheer.
-RVM
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