Go Beavers! Spring practice is well under way and as the team gears up for the new season they will hold a special Spring Game on April 26th at Reser Stadium. Fans can watch the game at 7:00pm PST on the Pac-12 Network or join us in Corvallis to cheer on their favorite team in black & orange.  Oregon State Football will showcase what’s ahead for fall bringing back many returning players, over 302 combined starts, making OSU one of the most experienced teams in the conference.

For more information you can visit our website, glance over the 2013 Spring Prospectus or read about the Ten Things to Watch in Spring Football.

Well folks, it’s Civil War week! There is a ton of good will around the country directed towards the Beavers. Our guys and their run to Rose Bowl has garnered a good bit of attention. Governor Kulongoski who attended University of Missouri has declared his allegiances:

Gov. Ted Kulongoski tipped his hand today on which team he wants to win Saturday’s “Civil War” football game between the University of Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State University Beavers.
Color him black and orange.
“The Ducks won’t go to the Rose Bowl if they win,” the governor said. “I want the Beavers to go to the Rose Bowl.”
Kulongoski, a graduate of the University of Missouri, typically stays as neutral as possible in public on cross-state rivalries. Not this time.
“I’m all for the Roses,” Kulongoski said.

The Civil War is a special time in Oregon. We only have one pro team (the Trailblazers) in the state so the Division I college teams are the focus of a lot of attention. Everyone in Oregon, even those who didn’t attend OSU or UO, has an allegiance of some sort…Even the Governor.

We’ll try and check in later with some Civil War fun!

(note: the presence of roses in this post in no way is intended as a guarantee or any other offense that would result in the jinxing of my beloved Beavers. They are merely representative of the Governor’s desire to see the Beavers in the Rose Bowl…So, if the Beavers lose this Saturday, blame the governor)

GO BEAVS!
-jm

From the South Lobby, fourth floor, Washington Convention Center:

Greetings from Seattle, dear readers! I know it has been a long stretch since I last posted but I have been running around like crazy at the National Association of College Admissions Counseling Nat. Conference this week. The whole staff is up here and we’ve been learning a lot.

More importantly, though…How exciting was that victory over USC on Thursday!!!! We all watched the game together at Fox Sports Grill in Seattle (special thanks to our hosts: Youniversity.tv). We screamed our heads off for the Beavers. Eventually we were leading the whole place, representatives from all over the nation, in first down celebrations, OSU chants and the fight song. I had more than one person who was there with us say that they loved how into the game we were. I just told them: “imagine how it is in Corvallis!”

People at the conference have been congratulating us on the big win and everyone here is so excited. Special props to the USC Admissions Team who came over to our spot after the game to congratulate us, very classy! Fight on the rest of the year SC!!

Anyhow, as the Beavers locked the game up we all stood there screaming, some of us with tears in our eyes (we love our Beavs!) wishing we could have been there. But alas, that’s the life of a road warrior…Never there.

Hopefully I’ll check in again soon! Hope all is well out there.

GO BEAVS!
-jm