Beavers and Snow all around

Great season by the beavers. After the start and how disappointing that was, I'm amazed and pleased to watch this team. Riley and the team turned my opinion around. I will say I wasn't sure about him as the head coach early in the season because of the WAY the team played on the field, but I never went to the games hoping Moore would get hurt or hoping we'd lose a game. I think that's pathetic. We're all entitled to our opinion, but we should support the team fully when we're playing. If you don't, stay home. People behind me were hoping Moore would get hurt of that we'd lose every game so that Riley would get fired. I would never do that and can't understand the fans that pay to come to the games to do that. Makes no sense at all. I'm not innocent in having doubts and bad thoughts, but I was ready and waiting for the turn-around. After the WSU game, I was very frustrated. I was truly hoping he'd turn it around, but I had serious doubts. I still cheered them on. I always will. Hell, I sat through the Pettibone era. I went to every home game I could. THAT was frustrating. Sat through the bad to see the good, will sit through the bad to see the good again.

I'm happy for Riley, he's one of the good guys. He deserves this, more than anyone else. He turned around the program a long time ago. He's proved he can turn around a season. I hope they give him a long contract extension. I think he'll show loyalty and stay in Corvallis for the long run.

I'll eat crow, Riley and Moore are warriors and deserve all the praise in the world. Big Hip-Hip-Hooray to both of them!

Link of the moment: OSU Beavers

OSU is bowl eligible after beating Stanford. That's not saying much, but a win is a win. After the first 5 games no one thought we'd win 5 games. So with 2 games left we can win 9 games, and possibly a 10th. I'll say I didn't think Riley could turn him around, but he did and that earns a lot of respect! He got those kids to believe in themselves and the system. In hind sight, he made the right move in not benching moore. He's been huge for OSU.

Next up: UO in the Civil War!!!

Link of the moment: Mt. Bachelor

I'm looking at buying a macbook pro at the end of this month. I've never really wanted a mac, but after playing on my aunts and actually listening to a friend of mine, I decided it might not be a bad idea. The final push was apple using intel chips. I'm really excited about it. I'll never give up my desktop PC, but for my laptop I think it's a good idea. So we'll see how it works!!!

Oh on another note, my previous blog about firing mike riley has gotten a lot of comments. Let me clarify my opinion. I'm still going to go and cheer the team on, because I'm loyal to the program. I still don't think riley is the right man for the job. I think we need someone with the attitude that fits the program. Everyone thinks OSU plays hard and borderline dirty, so we need a coach that can play into that, because we're always going to have that stigma. My thought is we look at pat hill. I think he'd be perfect. I don't think we should even consider getting dennis erickson back. We don't need another retread coach. I think being a retread coach killed any chance of riley succeeding here. And one other thing, I hate hearing the boos directed at the players at the games. That doesn't help a thing. It probably makes it worse in fact.

OK, off my soapbox.

Link of the moment: apple

Crazy week here. I started a new job with the State of Oregon. It's kind of nice to be working with them. You get really nice perks I find out. All the paid holidays and plenty of vacation and sick leave. It's going to be weird to have insurance again for the first time in 7 years really. I won't really have to worry about getting hurt snowboarding or anything like that.

Then I got news that one of my best friends got married without telling any of us. Crazy eloping fool. And on top of all of this, my other best friend is breaking up with his girlfriend and we all figured that they'd be desgustingly happy in marriage soon. Life is definetly odd.

It'll be nice when things settle down and life gets back to "normal."

Should OSU fire Mike Riley? Yes. I've defended him for far too long, but he needs to go. He just isn't tough enough. He holds onto the status quo too long. Matt Moore needs to be benched and Sean Canfield needs his chance. Riley won't do that though, he needs to go. Period.

Update:
I was wrong, Riley has proved to us all he's deserving of the head coaching position, and Matt Moore is just a stud for turning his season around. Apologizes for any bad thoughts. I never booed the team though. Shame on those who did. GO BEAVS

Back home. We got the word that we could go back home today at 6PM. So it's nice to be back and settled in. Now I can go back to work. Ya, getting up at 5:30 am is fun....not! Oh well, it's a paycheck. That's all I can say.

Link of the Moment: IGN

We were evacuated from our home yesterday at 4PM due to the Black Crater Fire outside of Sisters, OR. The fire is about 2.5 miles from my house, which is too close for my comfort. According to reports, good progress has been made to rob the fire of fuel. The reports sounded a lot more optomistic today than they did yesterday. The weather should help them out today with higher humidity levels and lower temperatures. We'll just have to wait and see what comes out of this. Worse comes to worse, we have to rebuild our home. There is insurance for that. So no worries on that end. I'm actually less stressed out today than I was yesterday. It was the waiting and not knowing what was going to happen that was killing me. Hopefully they get the fire under more control and can let us back into our homes.

Link of the Moment: Nugget Newspaper