A belated thanks, Cliff, great job I must say when the final bell was rang you
were pretty much right on for your prediction for the season!! I would be interested in what you think about next year? I am thinking about middle of the pack for the beavs in 10? Losing back to back games to the ducks certainly
is not satisfactory!! Two years running with a opportunity to get to the Rose Bowl!
Can Riley win the big ones?

To get to the next level and to play at the level of better competition it is very obvious that a much more divisified offence will be more than necessary, it is a must!! With a much more mobile Q-back, Katz this should open things up
some such as the Q-back draw and the full use of "other" team talent! This offence must be reinvented simply because there is to much film available to the competition depicting Rodgers and more Rodgers!! This "new" team must be a North-South oriented team. A two back set with a big power runner who is capable of throwing great blocks (Mack Strong) and also of slamming the line
in the red zone with a abundance of strength and power is direly needed!! I
have no faith in the present Offensive Coordinator-simply a rubber stamper and yes man!!

I am a long time beaver fan and I think the broadcasting team was spot on!!
They would have been far superior field refs than those on the turf!! We deserved to lose but we did get "homered" on several calls! A couple of
those holding calls were ticky tack and their receivers got away with murder pushing off "creating space" something OSU coaches apparently do not know how teach!! There was at least one late (out of bounds) hit on Quizz
that was not called!! Game travesty was OSU offensive play calling!!
Just plain terrible!!

This was a terrible loss and can be attributed to the one-dimension offence
of Rodgers and more Rodgers as Coach Mendenhall stated today "it wasn't
hard to beat OSU, just stop the Rodgers". Riley should clean house on his
coaching staff and start with Langsdorff he has been a miserable failure
all year long calling plays!! Look at the red zone field goals!! Look at the Quizz
and more Quizz!! Don't you think the better coached teams, Oregon. Cincy,
BYU know of him!! The coaching staff is just playing into the opposition hands
when they time and again run him into a stonewall. Where is the innovation and
imagination on offence. If Canfield cannot get the job done put Katz in for a Quarter-wake Canfield up!! He has heard his name so much, I guess he thinks he just has to show-up?Q-back play was terrible but offensive coordinator Langsdorff was worse and it cannot be said he was stifled by the wind, both
teams had to deal with the wind!! BYU coaching was the difference their offensive coordinator knew how to call the game OSU's stunk the place up!!

These beaver football players selected for 1st and 2nd All Pac-10 teams
should be extremely proud of themselves and their team as these honored
induviduals are selected by the Pac-10 coaches. I don't recall that many beavers
ever so highly respected by other Pac-10 coaches. Hip! Hip! Horay!!
Onto to Vegas and put a liking on the cougers!! Go Beavs!!

There is no doubt from my perspective that the Vegas bowl is better than the Emerald Bowl. Logistics, parking and motels and getting around is terrible in Frisco and the ball park stinks as both teams sit on the same side. The Beavs
have a really quality opponent with a former beav as their head coach. They had better bring their A game and figure out how to score red zone touchdowns as
BYU with Hall figures to put a lot of points up!! That old Quizz against the stone wall and Kahut with his 3's is a recipe for a loss. These illegal procedure penalties in the red zone MUST CEASE!!

Ditto Cliff, thanks for your efforts! I appreciated your work all season long, I guess in turned out to be a sour-sweet story in 09 for the beavs as many of the
prognosticators and scribes picked the season win-loss record to be worse than it was! It turns out the home loss to Arizona was the toughest loss as that kept the beavs from the Holiday Bowl. I have my opinions why the beavs start so slow these are conditioning and rote practice plays . Balance in the offence
and a much better defense will be a must in 10 as BSU and parity in Pac-10
looms in the 10 schedule. Red zone problems must be solved!!

Illegal procedures penalties have dogged this team all year long, so those that occurred in the red zone in the civil war cannot be blamed on crowd noise!!
It began against PSU and was rampant all season long. The blame is the coaching and the lack of practice repetitions demanding perfection to eliminate
the problem!! The staid, stale style of old school coaching is going to relegate our football program to a 8-9 win program at best and a mediocre bowl!! Let's
move into the 21st century and move away from the ah shucks attitude. The
reason this program starts so slowly each year is lack of proper conditioning
and lack of repetitions demanding perfection. A variety of players must be involved to create balance and to eliminate defenses setting up for major
role players as Oregon did for Quizz. That is not fair for Quizz or for others
who should be getting time and exposure. Stats are not paramount to wins!!

It is really to bad the beavs cannot get touchdowns in the red zone. I lay the
blame at the feet of Langsdorf and Riley!! A severe lack of imagination and innovation. Quizz had no success with duck defense-why run him two times
consecutivily against a stone wall, O had the best red zone defense in the
conference why not a quick look in pass over the line or sideline or end line
routes to the wide receiver or a flea flicker or wild beaver?

The Beavs were doomed by very poor play calling in the red zone
you cannot run Quizz aganst a stone wall time after time
and settle for field goals if you are going to win the big ones!! Canfield was pretty much right on and his passes to Halahuni and Adeniji were absent in the
red zone. The nice balance that was evident in the win over California was
not there last night. Defense once again proved it cannot come up big when it is needed!! Great game by Sean and James!