Built the Program, Lost the Conference: Oregon State Beavers (Ep. 29)

Welcome back to Misery Sports Co. If you’ve ever watched a generational talent spend their prime years carrying a dysfunctional organization and that dysfunctional organization was your team, you’re welcome here at Misery Sports Co. I’m Zach and I’m Trevor and that was way too real. We’ve both witnessed that several times. Mostly in basketball. Yeah. Too soon. Um, we’ve got a jam packed episode. We’re going to carry the same format. We’re talking through it. We’re going up to upper management to see if we can add a few different segments. But we’re going to go through our normal segments before we jump into our weekly performance review. Trevor, what do you got for us for our first sponsorship? Well, we’ve heard from this sponsor before and due to their recent success, they are back with a special deal for our shareholders. If you use code big, dumb, clear frame glasses that probably aren’t prescription. 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Yep. You know what I saw that made me know that they’re welcome. Here is one of those tweets of teams before in this category were two and three hundred and fifty seven until this night when you know those tweets where they give you that’s a Browns tweet. Yep. Poor Spurs such a shame. But yeah you’re welcome here. You’re absolutely welcome here. Oh man. Well welcome into our weekly performance review where we take a look across, uh, our own teams, teams that we’ve covered at Missouri Sports Co. Uh, it could be anything and everything. Nice grab bag. Trevor, what do you got for us this week? Well, it has been a week since I confess that I was super hyped on Carnell Tate. Have I come off of that hype? No, I have not. They posted another one hand catch and, uh, somehow I’m even more hyped this week than I was last week. I’m just. I’m all in on this guy. It just makes so much sense. Um, I’m here for it. Um, and, you know, I was thinking today while I was looking for really any Titans content, and I was just thinking about the pattern of getting hyped for a team that all leads to that week. One brick wall that I smack every single year. Honestly, the past ten years, you just you get hyped. You get in this echo chamber of coaches in the front office telling you that this is great and wow, that fifth round draft pick, they’re doing even better than we thought. And like they could get some serious playing time, like really soon. And you’re just like, dude, we’re going to the playoffs. This is amazing. And then boom, week one hits you in the face. And it’s like coming out of a dream where you’re like, oh, that’s right, we suck at football. Like I had totally forgot, I completely forgot. I just can’t wait for that. I’m excited for that. Yeah. Every player’s maxed out on their stats. Right. It’s like Madden. You just pump them up, you’re ready to go. And then, uh, yeah, reality hits very quickly in the NFL. Mhm. The last time it didn’t hit for me was actually twenty fifteen. So we have to go back a super long time. This was the year that we drafted, uh, Marcus and week one, they matched us up against the Bucs so we could play Jameis. Fun matchup. And he lit the world on fire. I don’t know if you remember this game. We beat the Bucs forty two to fourteen. Marcus went thirteen for fifteen for two hundred and nine yards and four touchdowns in thirteen passes. He had a perfect passer rating and he was on the bench sipping Gatorade by the fourth quarter so he wouldn’t get hurt. And it was like, oh, we’re going to the playoffs, baby. Like, this is this is happening. And then we followed that up with six straight losses and a three and thirteen year. Wow. Oof! Yeah. Let’s go. So you know that is rough. Maybe it’ll be a nice week. One we have the jets, so it’s possible, right? Yeah. Never know. It’s possible. You never know. Uh, the stars are still out. They did not get granted access back to the playoffs. I double checked on ESPN this morning. That has not happened yet. Mhm. And the Mavericks, we don’t have a head coach yet. That’ll be, I think, probably the next interesting line. Don’t you think that we’ll hire a coach before the draft? Yeah. Uh, yeah. You would have to. I mean, right, it’s coming up though. It’s pretty quick like, isn’t it? It’s like two weeks, I think. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you gotta get to going at this point. Mhm. Hearing some, uh, they’ve been pretty hush lipped on it, but, um, uh, some front runners are, uh, Mike and Nori from the Timberwolves and assistant. They’ve also been floating like Cooper’s Duke Coach Scheyer. I think that that would be weird. I don’t know, I’m not super thrilled with that. And then you get some, though, like, it’s like leaving Ohio State or Alabama or something like no way. Right, right. It’s just I got a cushy job. I’m getting a top five class every year. Like, yes, you’re golden. We, it’s not like, like a school that we’ll talk about later where you get a really good player once a generation, that dude just farms them like, right, I’m not as much money in college basketball. It’s like ten teams. Like you’re one of the ten. So just right. Sit there. You’re good. No way. He leaves. But that is my recap. What do you got for us, Zach? Um, I hate all my teams, so I’m not going to cover them. Uh, okay. Yeah. USA team USA is playing tomorrow, I think at nine o’clock eastern. Let’s go. Uh, they are opening up the World Cup, so Mexico got their big win to start the World Cup. Can you imagine playing in Mexico in the summer, the dead of summer? Like, um, I saw that, uh, England, the English national team was sweating their butts off in Florida. Like. Yep. That is understandably. Yeah, yeah. Um, so team USA, I’m all aboard. Let’s ride the train, baby. We’re underdogs. They’re here at Misery Sports Co. They’re going to pay their dues. They’re going to get her done. They’re gonna get out of the group stage. Um so it goes. It’s forty eight this year which is much larger. And then they’re going to go to a round of thirty two as I understand it. Let’s just get there. Let’s just get there. Yeah. Seems totally doable. It would be. Well, let’s just get there. Let’s let’s just let’s just try to get there. One would be great. Let’s just get there. Yeah. Let’s see what happens. It’s a fun, fun time every every four years. All aboard the hype. That’s right. Well, before we jump into our defunct mail room, we’re going to jump to our next sponsor. Have you ever dreamed of playing in the World Cup, representing your country, walking out of the tunnel to a roaring crowd, hearing tens of thousands sing your national anthem and immediately realizing you made a terrible mistake? Well, now your dream can become reality with the all world team. 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Um, for the last couple months and getting some more topical stuff out. So going through those that I’ve been waiting for to get some, get some spotlight and it’s time now. So these are all from April. So it’s been a hot minute. This tweet from Andy Reuther was uh, the night of the draft. And what a scene it was. It was in Pittsburgh I think. Right. Is that where it was? Yes. Yep. So the NFL has done an amazing job at just hyping this event up. There’s so many people there. Um, and so, uh, Andy Reuther tweeted, sorry kids, but daddy can’t put you to bed on Thursday night. I’ll be in Pittsburgh dressed as a Bengal tiger watching twenty year olds get jobs. And that really broke the glass for me. Like, oh yeah, we’re just kind of dressing up, watching these twenty year olds try and get a job and I’m dressed up like a tiger. Uh, from Kiks on Twitter said maybe Mike Vrabel got confused about what type of cheating helps the Patriots win Super Bowls. And our winner was from Max. So this was right after the Blue Jackets. In their last. It was either ten or twelve games. Like we just needed them to win four and they won two. I think it was twelve. I think they had twelve games to win four and they won two and missed the playoffs. Um and so Matt Max rates walked into my local Chipotle in my Columbus Blue Jackets jersey. My head held high. Immediately I was spit on. A lady called me a loser. A man shoved me and said, playoffs are bust. The worker dumped out my first bowl and said Bogo is for winners only. Just a tough time for CBJ fans, but we see you and we welcome your. We welcome you here at MSK. That’s right. You got for us, Zack. So, Trevor, I tried to find a few different tweets for the Browns, for the Titans. I mean, cam Ward is trending on Twitter. I was like, oh, I’ll click on that. And it’s like one or two fans just dumping on him in OTAs. Um, cheddar Sanders is getting dumped on obviously Deshaun Watson. So a couple of things. Nothing that I can really post. But there was a video going around where shutter is literally basically in seven on seven, where the the defensive line does not really rush. They like pass rush for a second and then they just stop. And Mike Hall, one of our D tackles, is just holding his hand up in the air just up in the air. Shutter looks looks looks. He throws and hits Michael’s hand. That has not moved for five seconds. No. And then they just celebrate like you know they had stopped him. It was ridiculous. Um, another thing that I, you know, I can’t really show on the show, but we’ll definitely repost it is, uh, did you see Wemby getting hit by eggs? There was a New York after the game, right? Yeah, it was crazy. They threw eggs at him, hit him in the head. He’s a big target, to be fair. Yeah. So, I don’t know. I went down a rabbit hole. Have you ever heard of the word? Word ninja? You ever heard of that before? So you you keep repeating a word until it just becomes really strange, and you don’t really understand it. I was searching for, like, awkward sports segments, and I just got stuck on awkward and I was like, why are there W’s in between the K on both sides? Like why awkward if you think about it. Like it doesn’t make any sense. Trevor. So that was yeah, that’s my experience. Were you medicated during this? I was not. I should have been. And then I found, uh, so it’s actually a, it’s actually a Twitter from at Wade X flash. And so this is going back to the oh six Miami Heat team, which I know we both hate. However, I thought this was hilarious. So this is basically the old team. You’ve got Udonis Haslem. Dwyane Wade. This is going to be Alonzo Mourning primarily talking. But Shaq is also in the room confirming all of this. And I think it’s hilarious. All right. All right. Now I can tell y’all this. Yo but but this this is real. Okay. Golden state on the bus after shootaround. He taps me on the shoulder again. Uh, I’m gonna pick up two quick ones. Talking about Shaq. I ain’t got it tonight. Yeah, You play a lot. Just letting you know I’m. Okay. Communication. Good. Leadership. Lizzie. Lizzie. Hey, man. He prepared me for this. He’s sitting over there like this. Yeah. Look at the way. That just encompasses the NBA regular season. It’s just like. You know what? I had a big dinner. I don’t think I’m going to play tonight. I’m gonna pick up two quick fouls. I’m hacking somebody’s first quarter. You might want to do a couple extra stretches. Oh man. Good stuff. Well, before we jump into the Office of Moral Victories, we have our third sponsor, Trevor. Who is it tonight? So glad you asked. Hey, it’s a big summer for movies. We got some blockbusters out there that are, uh, sweeping the country. Big, uh, big summer for movies. This July. It’s a spy thriller. Like you’ve never seen. 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I appreciate you confirming that because that’s an important note. Thank you for picking up on that same universe. Correct? Correct. Yeah. Floop’s foolish. They make a they make an appearance, too. Absolutely. All right, well, welcome to the Office of Moral Victories, where we deliver the most beautiful, shiny, tiny objects to our employees of the week. Trevor, who is your employee or employees of the week. Well, I think last week it was Cleveland for not hiring Jason Kidd. Another appearance, even though classes are again half off if you use that promo code. Uh, this week we are going with former Stars Forward and current Carolina hurricane Logan Stankovic or Stanke, as we lovingly call him in these playoffs. He has scored eleven goals, has fifteen points, including a goal and the third star of the night in the Stanley Cup final game two against the Vegas Golden Knights. His hurricanes are currently up three one with ten minutes left in the third, and could take a three two lead on Vegas. And you might remember he was traded to Carolina from the stars for Mikko Rantanen, which I think was worth it. But it just hurts because he’s very lovable. He’s a young kid, super talented. And, uh, you hate to see him go. But shout out Logan Stankova. We miss you stank. Let’s go stank. Stanky. How about you, Zack? All right, my employee of the week. I gotta give credit where credit is due. Twenty plus years ago, the Cleveland Cavaliers hired a head coach, and it was the first time head coach, and he had to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers. He had to coach LeBron James in his at his peak, essentially in the world revolved around LeBron James. And now that man is one win away from an NBA championship. That is incredible. New York Knicks head coach Mike Brown. Hey, I’m gonna give him props. He’s gone through. He coached the Cavaliers. We went to the NBA finals when LeBron was very young in two thousand and six. Yes. Ended up getting swept up. You know I thought he just he got a bad rap, right. Because again, the entire universe revolved around LeBron. LeBron ends up going to the heat. So then Mike Brown catches the heat, gets fired, goes through this journey. Now he has one win away from winning the championship. Well done Mike Brown. Congrats Mike Brown absolutely. The I still think that the Orlando Magic made a deal with some deity for their soul and stole one from at least a finals appearance from that Cavaliers team. That just was not crazy. Trevor and I, I, I hate that you brought that up. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry that that prevented that prevented us from a Kobe Bryant versus LeBron James NBA finals. Like how crazy would that have been? And Kobe was still in his prime. We deserve that, man. And if I remember correctly, they the magic turned back into a pumpkin like that was not a good finals. Oh, they got crushed. Yeah. It was just like Kato Turkoglu went from lighting the world on fire. Rafer Alston like Rashard Lewis. It’s it’s it’s not too soon, but it’s too soon. Yeah. Yep. Well, sorry for bringing that up. Uh, but thank you. Congrats to our employees of the week. Uh, our employee of the company will maybe put those in the mail for you, because, uh, we sure as shit aren’t doing it. Absolutely not. Before we go to the deep dive, we have, uh, a final sponsor. Zach, some golf vacations promise luxury, some promise instruction. The John Daly Golf Experience package promises chaos for one unforgettable day. You’ll live your life the Daly way. Crushing drives, riding dirty in a golf cart, consuming a medically questionable amount of beverages, and making course management decisions based entirely on confidence. Learn essential daily skills like pulling driver when absolutely nobody recommends it. Do not do it wearing pants loud enough to disrupt wildlife. Wow. Okay. 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So every week we jump into another team with a long suffering fan base. Trevor, who do we have in this week’s deep dive? Well, I’m about to go to a conference in the Pacific Northwest. And so I thought, hey, why don’t I pick a team from up there? And one jumped out immediately. When you think of the Pacific Northwest and bad teams, my mind goes one place, and that is the Beavers of Oregon State and nowhere else the lovable beavers. Uh, you sometimes forget that they’re up there, but gosh darn it, they are a team. They are up there and they are a really, really old team. Uh, the university itself goes back to eighteen fifty six. It’s been around for a super long time. Uh, the football team, uh, started down the road because originally this was like a, uh, agriculture based community college that grew a little bit and eventually developed a football team. Now it’s hard to tell, you know, early on where the football teams really good, but or is it just nobody was out there? You know, it’s hard to say, but they were fine early on. But let’s not talk about the nineteen tens and 20s because I don’t think our listeners have or unless they’re, I don’t know, vampires or something. You haven’t been suffering that long, but what you have probably lived through, if you are an Oregon State fan, maybe older, you are at least aware of going back to the seventies. So In nineteen sixty eight, they joined what would later become the Pac ten. At the time, it was the Pac eight. So starting in sixty nine, when they go six and four, they do not get ranked in the associated in the AP poll until the year two thousand. Ooh. So that’s a long time that they don’t even sniff the poll. So you got twenty at least twenty five teams that are just consistently better than anything you’re putting out there. Um, I think that they maybe potentially like there were some vacated wins from other teams that maybe boosted their record a few times. Um, but we as Ohio State fans, let me tell you, we don’t recognize vacated wins from the n c double a which is a sham, and we don’t have time to get into everything that went on in the past week, but I don’t believe in it anymore. It’s fine. So for thirty two years you don’t even get red inked. But then they have the two thousand season. The two thousand season, they go eleven and one. They share the Pac ten championship and they go to the Fiesta Bowl and win. They dominate Notre Dame. Do you remember at all who was on the two thousand Oregon State football team? Oh two oh. No. If I told you Bengals wide receivers from two thousand. Yes. And I had no idea. I’m really bad at recall stuff. Uh, Chad Ochocinco. Yes, Chad Ochocinco and T.J. Houshmandzadeh were both on this team. Yeah. They were both on this team. Yes, they were both on this two thousand, uh, Oregon State team. Chad Johnson played one year for them. Uh, and they went eleven and one. And I, I do not remember this team at all. Uh, did not cross my like, it’s not logged in. Oh, that was a great team. But clearly they had a lot of talent on the team, uh, and did really well. So like two thousand was like the highlight for them. Um, they sniffed the polls some twenties. They got as high as seven in twenty twelve, but then from twenty fourteen until twenty twenty two, another eight years where they do not sniff the AP poll. They have seasons in there with one win, a couple with two wins. Uh, things are going better as we get into the twenty twenties. So in twenty two they get up to sixteenth. In the AP poll, they get ten wins that year. They go and win the Las Vegas Bowl. But then in twenty twenty three, I think one of the worst things to happen to college sports happens. And that is the dissolving of the Pac ten. And or I’m sorry, the Pac twelve at that point. And I just feel for these fans, especially because all signs pointed to the big twelve being the ones that were gonna dissolve and go out. And then some stubbornness by the commissioner with some TV deals led to the Pac twelve just fizzling out. And so Oregon State and Washington State became two teams that had no division to run to. They watched all their conference mates run off and get homes to other divisions. And they’re just left in limbo to pour salt on the wound. Uh, they are also bad teams. Since that happened, uh, last year, they won two games out of twelve. Geez, really rough year. Um, it’s just been a lot of bad football. Uh, I, I do randomly remember Jacquizz Rodgers, that running back. Do you remember the little guy? Yeah, yeah, he was had a twin brother who was like a wide receiver or something. That’s right. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Uh, he didn’t do anything in the NFL, which was a shame. But I remember watching him and he was really fun. I think that was around like thirteen or like twelve, thirteen, fourteen somewhere in there. Um, but it’s just been a lot of bad football up that way. Yeah. I enjoy watching Oregon, Oregon State for some reason on rivalry week. Yes. Every once in a while Oregon State pulls it off. So I was looking in within the last, you know, ten games Oregon versus Oregon State. Oregon State’s won three of them. So every once in a while they pop up and they just get that that clutch win. Yes. I’m so glad you brought that up. It’s one of my favorite rivalries in the game. Uh, it’s the Civil War is what they call it. And I think that’s a great name. They hate each other. Oregon and Oregon State. Um, they do have contracts in line to play. We’ve seen some of these rivalry games go away, so at least they have that. But are you really excited to play the team that has Big Ten money and Nike money. And then, you know, you’re just kind of hoping to spoil the season real quick. My last thing, I went back and was looking at the history of the Civil War, this civil war. And there are some hilarious stories where like there have been, um, riots, there have been, um, storming of fields and like smear campaigns in the papers. So I just wanted to read one. Uh, so this was from nineteen thirty seven. So you can imagine it being read in a. Yeah, that kind of voice. So Oregon State students, um, one fourteen zero they gathered after a big win over Oregon. They partied six p m till midnight the next morning. They were like, nope, that wasn’t enough. So two thousand students all made a caravan and went to Eugene, where the University of Oregon is. And the cops were like, what are you doing here? And they were like, please, please let us go through. And just like, you know, give the middle finger, not that, but like, you know, whatever. And they were like, you know what? Fine. We will escort you through town as long as you behave. And they were like, yep, no problem. You got it. So they get escorted through town. But what the cops didn’t plan on was that Oregon classes were going to let out at eleven. And so then just like chaos erupts. So then you have like students kidnapping other students and for some reason stripping them and then making them repaint the like, yellow. Oh. On campus. And, and then it says they made them naked. They had to slide down it. Oh my God. And so they describe it. The newspaper described it as a riot. And most Oregon State students by one o’clock had fled with torn clothes, black eyes and missing shoes. Wow. Yep. That’s incredible. And that that rivalry, honestly isn’t that bad. You would think Oregon would have some sort of massive lead. Seventy wins for Oregon, forty nine losses and ten ties. Like it’s okay. Relatively close. All right, we’ll take it. We’ll take it. Oregon State. I hope things turn around for you. You are definitely welcome here at Missouri Sports Co. That’s right. 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