Buker just reported that Riley left three hours ago on a recruiting trip. I guess there are two ways to look at this: 1. Positive: nice to have ones head coach so involved in recruiting and taking an active role. 2. Negative: it's mid week, time for practice and your team is 0-2. Your head coach has to leave on a recruiting trip because the school cannot fund a recruiting coordinator. Your thoughts?? Prior to anyone claiming how awesome this class is, please remember that historically, it's very common for OSU to have this number of recruits this early. Also, last Sept, Oregon had the same amount of recruits they have now, and it turned into probably the best recruiting class in the history of the school. I admire Riley working his tail off, but shouldn't he be more focused at home right now??
If I were Riley I'd be more than happy to get the heck out of Corvallis right now too....just kidding...just kidding...calm down everyone. I think it's bad. I really do. It's a critical week for a winless team who is having a mini-QB controversy, tons of injuries, eligibility questions, scoring issues and the Commander in Chief heads out to go talk to some high school kids? OSU has been shutout twice in their last four games. I agree with Mike when he said, "It's another one we have to overcome (Wisconsin loss)," OSU coach Mike Riley said in reference to slow starts for his team. "From a coach's viewpoint, you've got to be energized. You've got to find ways to help them. That is probably the key ingredient for our staff." (compliments of yahoo sports: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/teams/oof) I'm just not so sure that "ingredient" includes mid-season recruiting trips. JMHO.
