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He is thee example. You made the general statement of true frosh QB's and happened to be wrong. I never said that he was the rule. I mentioned him, again, because it's not all that uncommon for True Frosh to be successful. Here is another example in the same year and SAME CONFERENCE. Jake Browning - Washington 210/334 (63%) - 2671 yards 16 TD 10 INT 139.7 QBR Brett Rypien - Boise State similar numbers as above. This^^^ I'll take those stats any day over TA's...welcome to being a WR TA. Josh Rosen is 8-4 Jake Browning is 6-6 Brett Rypien is 8-4 Are those the numbers NU is looking for next year?

Reading these pro-Riley posts are giving me flashbacks to the past 10 years. Here are a few things you have learned/will learn about Riley and Co. 1. He will start slow every year and lose games he should not 2. He will win 1 game a year that is unexpected. 3. Bankers defense can work against pro style offenses 4. Bankers defense does not work against spread offenses/mobile qb's. 5. It takes at least 2 years for good qb's to look decent in Riley's offense Watching Nebraska's year from afar has been exactly like watching the last 10+ years at OSU. Now watching the post season reaction from fans is equally similar. The potential from incoming recruits keeps you thinking that next year will be better. Sorry to say, each season is eerily similar. Some years you catch breaks and end 8-4, other years not and you end up 5-7.

Hi guys. Here is an OSU perspective. I've been watching Riley coach since he first arrived at Oregon State. At that time, he ran a modern pro style offense and Banker ran a defense that was successful at stopping those types of offenses. Almost 20 years later they still play that same style of football, unfortunely for them, the rest of college football has moved on. Riley's major flaw is stubbornness. He's too stubborn to change his offense, he's too stubborn to change assistants, he refuses to adapt his program to what modern college football has become. He uses his best asset, niceness, to cultivate relationships with the media who propagate the theory that he's a great coach. They like him too much to say otherwise. For an example, just check out Ted Millers blog on ESPN this week. If he had the personality of your previous coach, he would have been out of coaching years ago. Riley gets way too much credit for building the OSU program. In reality, he took a terrible program and got 5 wins, then jumped to the NFL. It took Dennis Ericson coming to Corvallis to build the program into a somewhat respectable organization. When Riley came back the second time, the program started a long slide downward. There were peaks and valleys along the way, but the trajectory was defiantly downward. In summary, I think Mike Riley was a good coach at one point in time. Unfortunately, he has allowed the game to pass him by. He is unwilling/unable to adjust to the modern game. He has used his great personality to foster relationships with the media who, in turn, help to improve his coaching image. I believe that with Mike Riley as head coach, mediocrity is the best case scenario...