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Your all effing retarded to call Dana Taylor a bad...

2009-11-06T03:37:49.388-08:00

Your all effing retarded to call Dana Taylor a bad coach and especially a bad recruiter. None of you know sh*t about how he runs his programs. Take a look at how many of his players are in the professional ranks right now. Take a look at the talent he brings into his programs. The reason they are having a good season now is because of the talent he acquired there. SOOOO many stupid comments were

For the OSU men's program there was some spring co...

2009-05-02T14:49:00.000-07:00

For the OSU men's program there was some spring coverage by the Barometer:

http://media.barometer.orst.edu/media/storage/paper854/news/2009/04/21/Sports/Three.Matches.One.Weekend-3719100.shtml

http://barometer.orst.edu/news/2009/04/28/Sports/Oregon.State.Ends.Spring.Season.With.Strong.41.Victory-3728810.shtml

The OSU women got some spring coverage of the match

Did OSU win a single mens soccer game this spring?...

2009-05-02T09:16:00.000-07:00

Did OSU win a single mens soccer game this spring? Is there someone we can contact to find out OSU's mens 2009 spring game record?

No one can post the results when no one knows the ...

2009-04-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

No one can post the results when no one knows the scores....

can someone post the results of the spring 2009 se...

2009-04-30T13:54:00.000-07:00

can someone post the results of the spring 2009 season for OSU mens soccer?

Not to pile it on, but I read today in the Daily B...

2009-04-28T10:02:00.000-07:00

Not to pile it on, but I read today in the Daily Barometer that the men's team just ended their spring season. Checking osubeavers.com, such a season might never have happened. Certainly I never managed to hear about it, despite trying to read the Barometer and the GT daily as well as check the OSU athletics website regularly.

Fans can't go to games if Beaver Athletics won't lift a

True statement from up above with Cal-poly. They e...

2009-04-27T19:39:00.000-07:00

True statement from up above with Cal-poly. They even signed a Oregon boy this year. Someone that osu probably was trying to get but because of the current situation that is Dana taylor being a bad coach. OSU could not get.

It has been said more than a few times before, but...

2009-04-27T17:08:00.000-07:00

It has been said more than a few times before, but OSU mens's soccer has the worst coaching staff on the west coast and by far the worst in the pac-10. When they were successful it was because they had quality assistants who could coach and recruit good players. You cannot be successful without quality in both these areas. The game has passed Dana Taylor by. It is long past due for new

I sense apathy from the OSU athletic department to...

2009-04-27T10:26:00.000-07:00

I sense apathy from the OSU athletic department towards the soccer program. My evidence: lack of marketing, press releases, promotions, decent seating at the field, community involvment and continued acceptance of an expired coaching regime.

Dear Bob De Carolis,

Please help me love Oregon State University Soccer.

In my view....it all comes back to coaching and Da...

2009-04-27T07:53:00.000-07:00

In my view....it all comes back to coaching and Dana Taylor is doing Oregon State or the state or Oregon no favors.

Club coaches from around the region are steering their best players away from OSU! Dana can't get the best players from the State of Oregon...let alone KEEP the best players from other states that he does land. Case in point, the recruiting class of 2007 was ranked 34th

I wonder which comes first, the competitive progra...

2009-04-16T08:05:00.000-07:00

I wonder which comes first, the competitive program or the players? Chicken or the egg?

Is it possible to compete with second tier players? Soccer is a complex tactical game in which the team with the best players does not always win.

Freshman are just eighteen. There is a lot of time for development in the next four years. A second tier player at eighteen doesn't have to

Speaking for women's soccer, the 2008 and 2009 rec...

2009-04-13T22:08:00.000-07:00

Speaking for women's soccer, the 2008 and 2009 recruiting classes were easily some of the strongest on the West Coast as evidenced by the success of their ODP teams. In reality, UO and OSU don't spend a lot of time recruiting Oregon players because they know their programs can't compete with the top notch programs (Stanford, Santa Clara, UCLA) that our top players are being courted by. So they

I don't think either the OSU men or women should b...

2009-03-06T16:51:00.000-08:00

I don't think either the OSU men or women should be trying to recruit battle ready players. That is trying compete with the California schools head to head. A tough proposition.

We should be looking for uncut gems and developing our stars during their underclassmen years. By the junior and senior years they should be ready to compete. That seems like a way for a coach to really earn his/

coach taylor has had decreasing success with recru...

2009-03-05T15:40:00.000-08:00

coach taylor has had decreasing success with recruiting the top oregon talent. if you analyze the overall contribution of oregon players to the team you'll find that man of them are not able to make substantial contributions. you'll also see that many of the players from states such as idaho and utah are not competitively ready for the pac-10. obviously there are exceptions, but as a whole

When it comes to the OSU men's team, the players t...

2009-03-03T22:22:00.000-08:00

When it comes to the OSU men's team, the players that are in state just are not physical enough. It shows when they step on the field. I'm all for getting the best players out of any state if it means we win.

As for the women, that's another story. It does not matter where they come from because Linus Rhode is a horrible coach. Take any high school team and place 8 of them in the

UP signed 3 Oregonians of 5 recruits for '09. Yes,...

2009-03-01T08:30:00.000-08:00

UP signed 3 Oregonians of 5 recruits for '09. Yes, I think Portland is focused at recruiting in Oregon.

Recruiting in state has benefits related to team pride, fan support and recruiting expenses. Its a no-brainer.

There are good examples of in-state and out-of-state players for every sport. For myself as a fan, I don't need the best recruits. I want to try using Oregon

The University of Portland women's team, by far th...

2009-02-28T23:12:00.000-08:00

The University of Portland women's team, by far the finest program in the state and among the best in the nation, has exactly two Oregonians on it. If there was more top-quality in-state talent, wouldn't the Pilots recruit those players?

Kyle Singler and Kevin Love were the exception, not the rule. Very, very seldom do Oregon high schools produce two top-10 players in one year, much less

Good insights in both comments. Is scholarship inf...

2009-02-28T08:47:00.000-08:00

Good insights in both comments. Is scholarship information like that made public? It would be interesting to consider where the walk ons are coming from.

OSU coaches Pat Casey and Mike Riley have stated they put a high value on Oregon players. Our rejuvinated mens basketball team is nearly 60% local. Its working for them right? I expect soccer to take the same approach.

Good

NOT true at all! Are you ignorant? Let's think abo...

2009-02-27T21:12:00.000-08:00

NOT true at all! Are you ignorant? Let's think about what would have happened last year if OSU mens basketball could have recruited the best talent... they would have had kevin love and kyle singler? HMM sounds like top talent to me... What about soccer? Are you kidding me? Oregon has some of THE top soccer players on the west cost... whitey went to ucla, brian rowe to ucla, eric pohl stanford,

You need to differentiate between scholarship athl...

2009-02-27T10:52:00.000-08:00

You need to differentiate between scholarship athletes and walkons. Most of the Oregonians on intercollegiate teams in the state are walkons because Oregon does not have especially good high school sports compared to California and Washington because the state is so much smaller.