ESPN has some tongue-in-cheek humor pointed at the worst of the worst college football teams. This week the OSU Beavers are ranked No. 2. They're getting close to the top spot. Here is their comment:

Oregon 'trail' State. You have died of dysentery.

The Beavers are the nation's only six-loss team after traveling 4,477 miles round trip to lose a heart breaker in Boon, North Carolina, to Appalachian State. Now they host Wake Forest, which will make a 4,624 mile round trip from Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Corvallis and back. For what it's worth, Wake and App St. are separated by 86 miles.

The Beavs should have just stayed in North Carolina and spent the week in the foothills eating barbecue, drinking moonshine and watching the fall foliage turn orange and black, both colors of Oregon State and the colors that your liver turns after drinking real Carolina moonshine!

I'll be honest I feel horrible for the Beavs, I know plenty of great Beaver fans I feel really bad for them and the school. Great campus (better than Oregon in my opinion), Corvallis is a good small college town.

I totally understood the anger from them and WSU, I understand the money grabs they made, and most of it was justified in my opinion, they were simply trying to survive as an athletic program. I'm not going to say that Oregon should have done anything to save them or other elements of the old Pac-12 or its members, but I find what is happening to the Beavs to be really really sad.

It's absolute free for all in athletics now, nobody is doing anything for others, it's always about what is best for ourselves. It is what it is now, there is no loyalty, it is mostly if not purely about money, college sports is simply not what it once was. Oregon State is probably one of the best examples out there of the casualties of this new world.

I know a lot of people on here make fun of OSU, and maybe it comes from people that you know, but to me it's just sad, Oregon is above making fun of that program from what my point of view, it's just rubbing it in at this point. I think of it like Michigan making fun of Central Michigan.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by spartan2785

I understand where you're coming from. But I'm straddling both sides of the fence when it comes to the Beavers and Ducks. I married into a Beaver family (what was I thinking?!) They have been downright nasty when it comes to the U of O. Even my own wife and step-kids won't hesitate to say something negative about our Ducks. I basically stay silent as to not irritate them

and just say "scoreboard!" Beav fans point to Phil Knight, saying if it wasn't for him, the Ducks wouldn't be where their at. Agreed. Then I mentioned that two OSU graduates, Jensen Huang, President, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia and Andrew Cherng, president and CEO of Panda Express could have donated money to OSU if they so desired. Huang is currently the 6th

wealthiest billionaire at 161 billion, Cherng has 7.3 billion. Knight is worth 33 billion. It just so happens that Phil Knight is a sports fan while the other fellows are not. My late step-son had mentioned that OSU graduates are loaded with cash, they're just not involved in the sports world.

I remember way back when the The Bottom Ten was published weekly in the sports section of the RG and Oregon was almost always in it. Not fun for the fans, players, or coaches of the teams so listed.

While I'm excited about the Ducks being in the B1G, I'm still a little in shock that the PAC-12 no longer exists, and hope that Oregon St. and Wash. State can get a new conference going that will give them some athletic success and financial security.

3 hours ago, spartan2785 said:

they were simply trying to survive as an athletic program.

"Oregon left the conference for money" they claim...then they steal 30 million from us.

"Oregon destroyed the conference" they assert....then they go and destroy the Mountain West.

2 hours ago, sports fan said:

Beav fans point to Phil Knight, saying if it wasn't for him, the Ducks wouldn't be where their at. Agreed.

Wrong response.

Oregon was after Phil Knight for YEARS, and he refused. Not until Oregon went by themselves to the Rose Bowl and Cotton Bowl did Phil agree to help.

Tell the Beavers...."Winners want to work with winners." Oregon deserved the support. What has Oregon State done?

Tell them to blame THEIR administrators. Oregon State was overpaid for decades from the conference, and they cruised on it. They need to take responsibility for their own bad management...

5 hours ago, spartan2785 said:

I'll be honest I feel horrible for the Beavs, I know plenty of great Beaver fans I feel really bad for them and the school. Great campus (better than Oregon in my opinion), Corvallis is a good small college town.

Personally... I struggle to look away. It's a fascinating train wreck.

In many ways a really really bad Beaver team is a bad look for the State of Oregon. However... That matters less now as the two premier teams in the state are in drastically different places.