Pac-10 Media Thursday – Pre-game
The Arizona Daily Star had a entertaining read about the upcoming Pac-10 season. Here is what Ryan Finley had to say about the Beavs:
“Oregon State will start 1-4 — and still make a bowl game. That is because the Beavers finish as well, or better, than any program in America. Oregon State has gone 9-2 in the months of November and December over the last two seasons, its only losses coming to UCLA (2006) and USC (2007). To use a beaver term: “Dam!”
The Oregonian’s Ryan White paints a soap opera picture at the media day, but what caught my attention was the nine blog feeds that an Alabama newspaper has to cover the three, yes three, SEC media days. Yikes!
The Tucson Citizen’s Anthony Gimino gives his rundown of the Pac-10, picking USC to win the title in 2008 and to save time in the years to come penciled in the Trojans as the conference camps for ‘09, ‘10, and ‘11 as well.
He says it is a four tier league with OSU falling in the “gee-a-bowl-game-would-be-nice tier.” He picks the Beavs to finish sixth, but is skeptical with the front seven having to be replaced, etc. etc.
Ted Miller, who I am sure will have a pretty good post media day write up, published a informative mail bag blog post. Several times he addresses the Beavs and plenty of good stuff about the conference as well.
What I am looking for at the media day is will Mike Riley continue to sing the praises of his team or will he fall back on the tried and true, run of the mill we have a lot of holes to fill, if the piece fall into place, it is going to be fun, let’s wait and see, rhetoric.
And last but not least, and having nothing to do with the media day, the Civil War got some love from a blogger on FanBlogs.com rating the rivalry the fifth best in the nation, just behind USC-UCLA and just in front of Stanford-Cal.
