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I'm a Ducks fan but really appreciate what the Beavs have done for baseball in the NW. And they've developed at a lot of local players in an area which wasn't a hot bed of amateur talent. Casey is a HOFer. My hope is that Andrew Checketts takes over when UO fire Hayward. That would be a great rivalry.
 
Casey is a future HOF coach....the Beavers baseball program is the best baseball program at the college level on the Planet...I'm an Oregon fan...Beavers, Blazers, Ducks, Timbers, Ems, whatever....I'm really proud of the Beavs!
 
tlongII said:
Had to post this. What they are doing is unbelievable. Hope I didn't jinx them.
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Meh. They're beating up on a terrible Pac-12 conference. Don't even have the most wins nationwide. If Louisville hadn't had such a terrible week, I probably wouldn't even rank the Beavs #1.

OK--I don't actually believe any of that (except for the wins thing, which is factual). Beaver baseball is very impressive this year. Let's hope they don't follow the trend of teams setting regular season records and failing in the postseason.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Meh. They're beating up on a terrible Pac-12 conference. Don't even have the most wins nationwide. If Louisville hadn't had such a terrible week, I probably wouldn't even rank the Beavs #1.

OK--I don't actually believe any of that (except for the wins thing, which is factual). Beaver baseball is very impressive this year. Let's hope they don't follow the trend of teams setting regular season records and failing in the postseason.
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Beavs are #1 in the RPI ranking and the PAC 12 has 3 teams ranked in the top 15-20 (depending on which ranking you look at).

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/d1baseballcom-top-25

RPI ranks
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/rpi
The Rating Percentage Index, commonly known as the RPI, is a quantity used to rank sports teams based upon a team's wins and losses and its strength of schedule.
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BoBoBREWSKI said:
Beavs are #1 in the RPI ranking and the PAC 12 has 3 teams ranked in the top 15-20 (depending on which ranking you look at).

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/d1baseballcom-top-25

RPI ranks
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/rpi
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You realize I was just kidding about everything, I said, right? That said, however, the RPI argument doesn't really help in regard to the bad conference comment--Pac-12's average RPI is 63, 5th in the country. After those 3 in the top 15, the next best Pac12 team is 51st. By contrast, ACC has 6 of the top 16 and 2 of the top 5, Big12 has 6 teams in the top 25, and the SEC has 8 of the top 37. Even the AAC has a better average RPI, despite having nobody ranked above any of the Pac-12's top 3.

Seriously, the Pac-12 is crap this year.
 
BoBoBREWSKI said:
The Ducks are crap this year. :devilwink:
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Horton finally ran out of excuses. I never liked the guy and I am glad Oregon is moving on. I heard a baseball prospect say that his recruiting pitches were just lousey. My guess is they offer Amdrew Checketts the job. He is a former pitching coach there and took UCSB to the CWS. last year. Hortons contract already runs out in Septembef.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Meh. They're beating up on a terrible Pac-12 conference
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Casey is always in the mix....the guy won back to back national championships from a college in a town of 80k people...you know how rare that is? Beavs baseball is an elite program no matter what the Pac 12 looks like...it's the system..we have so little to cheer for in Oregon but men's baseball in Corvalis is something to be proud of from my view and has been for a long time...no flash in the pan number 1 ranking....they earn it and have a winning culture
 
riverman said:
Casey is always in the mix....the guy won back to back national championships from a college in a town of 80k people...you know how rare that is? Beavs baseball is an elite program no matter what the Pac 12 looks like...it's the system..we have so little to cheer for in Oregon but men's baseball in Corvalis is something to be proud of from my view and has been for a long time...no flash in the pan number 1 ranking....they earn it and have a winning culture
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Where was that?

Corvallis' population is around 50K, so what he did at OSU is even more impressive. ;)

:cheers:
 
It's nice too have an Oregon team killing it. I will always for for any team from my home state. I was actually going to OSU during that first run and first championship. It was fun. I remember watching the final game on a tv at the Crow Bar.
I was living in Florida amongst a bunch of fellow biologists who were huge soccer nuts. I was proud to watch the Timbers win the MLS title and show off my city and state with all off those people. Hopefully the Beavs do our state proud this year.
 
BBert said:
Where was that?

Corvallis' population is around 50K, so what he did at OSU is even more impressive. ;)

:cheers:
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actually he is right. corvallis itself is around 55k but if you add the student population at osu it easily become around 80k
 
damianlillard said:
actually he is right. corvallis itself is around 55k but if you add the student population at osu it easily become around 80k
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I wondered about that. I didn't know how the student "transient" population is counted, considering many students don't actually leave town.
 
damianlillard said:
actually he is right. corvallis itself is around 55k but if you add the student population at osu it easily become around 80k
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...not true, students are included in the census numbers according to the Corvallis Planning Division Manager.

Question: Are Oregon State University students counted in the Corvallis population?

Answer: Yes. Even if students go home to other cities, states or countries during winter and summer breaks, they're still included in the census for Corvallis.


"Since they are here for nine months out of the year at least, everything we do has to account for them," said Fred Towne, Corvallis planning division manager.
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Regardless of the population of Corvallis, to me the most impressive thing about those back to back titles is they are the only CWS wins by a northern school in the last 50 years. Just go back and look at the list of past winners. They are almost all from California, Texas, Arizona or the Southeast. Since Ohio State won in 1966, other than Oregon State's two wins, the closest thing we've had to a Northern team winning the CWS has been Stanford in 1987 and 88.

Conventional wisdom for the last 50 years has been northern schools just can't compete due to the shorter warm/dry season and inability to recruit top prospects. Pat Casey continues to prove otherwise.

BNM
 
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