Coaches Hot Seat Prediction and Analysis of 2012 Season: Oregon State Beavers and Head Coach Mike Riley
Coaches Hot Seat Prediction and Analysis of 2012 Season: Oregon State Beavers and Head Coach Mike Riley
Oregon State Beavers
Head Coach: Mike Riley
Years at Oregon State: 11
Hot Seat Position: #2
Overall Coaching Record: 72 – 63 (.533)
Overall Won/Loss Record at Oregon State: 72 – 63 (.533)
Overall Conference Record at Oregon State: 46 – 47 (.495)
2011 Oregon State Record: Overall: 3 – 9 – Pac-12: 3 – 6
2012 Oregon State Schedule & Coaches Hot Seat Predictions
Sept 1 – Nicholls State – W
Sept 8 – Wisconsin – L
Sept 22 – at UCLA – W
Sept 29 – at Arizona – L
Oct 6 – Washington State – L
Oct 13 – at BYU – L
Oct 20 – Utah – W
Oct 27 – at Washington – L
Nov 3 – Arizona State – W
Nov 10 – at Stanford – L
Nov 17 – California – W
Nov 24 – Oregon – L
Coaches Hot Seat 2012 Oregon State Predicted Record: 5 – 7
Coaches Hot Seat Analysis: There is no joy here at Coaches Hot Seat in putting Oregon State head coach Mike Riley on the Hot Seat as there is in the Pure Joy of putting some of these Head Coaches in Major College Football on the Seat that lights there asses on fire but as we enter the 2012 College Football season Oregon State’s Mike Riley is most certainly on the….
Hot Seat!
Yes, it was only 3 years ago that Mike Riley had the OSU Beavers on a roll heading into the annual Civil War Game against Oregon in Eugene with an overall record 8 – 4 and 6 – 3 in the Pac-10 as the Beavers ran onto Autzen Stadium in early December where a win would have sent OSU to Rose Bowl (the same predicament faced Oregon State in 2008 with a Rose Bowl berth on the line in the Oregon game with the Ducks winning 65 – 38).
In what turned out to be a great Civil War Game Oregon beat Oregon State 37 – 33 to secure their own Rose Bowl trip and since that game in December 2009 the Oregon State football team under Mike Riley has put up records of:
Overall: 8 – 17
Pac-10/12: 7 – 11
What has gone wrong at Oregon State since that loss to Oregon at the end of the 2009 regular season?
Before we answer that question let’s go back to the 2008 season again to a Thursday night game in late September when USC head coach Pete Carroll brought the No. 1 team in the country into Corvallis, Oregon to play a twice beating Oregon State team that only two weeks before had gotten thrashed by Penn State in Happy Valley. On that Thursday night in Corvallis the Beavers pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent college football history by beating USC 27 – 21 in a game where the Trojans could never quite get on track and a game where Oregon State played like their lives were riding on the outcome of the game. Move on to the 2009 Oregon State vs. USC game in Los Angeles and the Beavers again played a terrific game but lost on the road in the LA Coliseum and didn’t lose again until that end of the season game against the Ducks.
What is the point of talking about the play of the Oregon State football team in 2008 and 2009 you ask?
Well, to those that have watched Mike Riley’s teams at Oregon State closely it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that Riley’s OSU teams of the last two seasons have not put out the effort, were not prepared to play and were not ready to compete with most of the teams they faced and that reality has showed up on the Win/Loss record with 17 losses over the last two seasons which has not only put Mike Riley on the Hot Seat it has led to many stories like the below one out of Corvallis last week….
Oregon State’s Mike Riley calls players’ behavior “totally unacceptable” – Sporting News
“Oregon State coach Mike Riley is probably getting tired of his players creating off-field issues.
It’s gotten to the point where Riley felt the need to release a statement to select media. In am email to The Oregonian and Corvallis Gazette-Times, Riley wrote:
“This behavior is totally unacceptable and the appropriate discipline started immediately with each event and future incidences could result in exclusion from our football program.”
Four players were recently arrested….”
Memo to Mike Riley: The reason so many of your Oregon State players are getting in trouble is that….
They Don’t Give A Damn
AND
They Have No Damn Pride in their Football Team or University
AND
They feel that way because the Oregon State coaching staff has tolerated both bad and disgraceful behavior off the field and unacceptable and apathetic play on the field and now Oregon State football is filled with players who are only mimicking the level of commitment of the OSU coaching staff as it pertains to expecting excellence both on and off the field of play which is almost nonexistent and thus why the Oregon State football program is spiraling down into irrelevancy as other Pac-12 programs like Washington, Washington State, Stanford, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, USC and UCLA are surging forward.
Coaches Hot Seat is predicting a 5 – 7 record for Oregon State in 2012 and if that indeed is the record that the OSU Beavers end up with and those 5 wins and 7 losses involved the kind of lackluster play that has exemplified Oregon State football over the past two seasons then someone in Corvallis is going to have to ask the question if becoming a bottom dweller in the Pac-12 conference again is acceptable to the alumni and boosters that pay lots of the bills for Oregon State athletics.
Our only question: Is Mike Riley going to keep tolerating MEDIOCRITY in HIS Oregon State football program or is he going to start acting like his head coach in college, Paul “Bear” Bryant, who right now if he was alive would be wondering just what the Hell is wrong with Oregon State football and where Mike Riley learned to accept MEDIOCRITY because it sure the Hell wasn’t in Tuscaloosa.
