Millions of dollars for what?
Jenna Santelli
Issue date: 2/21/08 Section: Sports
Just when you think you've seen it all, the University of Oregon throws a curveball in the direction of Oregon State. The expansion of Goss Stadium has been a sign of what winning two national championships can do to a program: more seats, a better score board, a turf field and a more exciting atmosphere overall. It seemed like we were going to have the finest ball park in the Pac-10 until the proposed Duck stadium appeared on the Ducks' website.
This proposed stadium is going to have it all: a state-of-the-art video board, picnic tables, and between 4,000-5,000 seats. It is also going to have nice locker rooms for both home and away teams.
Now, before talking about the stadium, I want to share something. I know that athletic department websites are supposed to be biased and talk up their respective schools, but the U of O goes above and beyond bias. While reading an article pertaining to the new ballpark I stumbled across a paragraph that took bias to a new level. After reading this paragraph, I though they had interviewed Terrell Owens. (TO and the Oregon athletic department both have confident and cocky attitudes.)
To take a quote from the press release, "The hiring of two-time National Coach of the Year and 2004 College World Series manager George Horton provided immediate credibility and demonstrated the school's aspirations to field a national-caliber program from the outset."
They might be able to talk the talk, but really it's going to come down to swinging the swing and walking the walk.
Coach Horton is certainly one of the top five coaches in the nation. However, he has nothing on OSU coach Pat Casey. In the 2007 College World Series the Beavers beat his "credible and national-caliber" top five team.
I hope the Ducks do have a national-caliber team, because then the Civil War series would just get a whole lot better. That first baseball Civil War will be the revolution to a new and exciting rivalry, and the Beavers will get to battle their two biggest rivals in one season in the Washington Huskies and the Oregon Ducks.
This proposed stadium is going to have it all: a state-of-the-art video board, picnic tables, and between 4,000-5,000 seats. It is also going to have nice locker rooms for both home and away teams.
Now, before talking about the stadium, I want to share something. I know that athletic department websites are supposed to be biased and talk up their respective schools, but the U of O goes above and beyond bias. While reading an article pertaining to the new ballpark I stumbled across a paragraph that took bias to a new level. After reading this paragraph, I though they had interviewed Terrell Owens. (TO and the Oregon athletic department both have confident and cocky attitudes.)
To take a quote from the press release, "The hiring of two-time National Coach of the Year and 2004 College World Series manager George Horton provided immediate credibility and demonstrated the school's aspirations to field a national-caliber program from the outset."
They might be able to talk the talk, but really it's going to come down to swinging the swing and walking the walk.
Coach Horton is certainly one of the top five coaches in the nation. However, he has nothing on OSU coach Pat Casey. In the 2007 College World Series the Beavers beat his "credible and national-caliber" top five team.
I hope the Ducks do have a national-caliber team, because then the Civil War series would just get a whole lot better. That first baseball Civil War will be the revolution to a new and exciting rivalry, and the Beavers will get to battle their two biggest rivals in one season in the Washington Huskies and the Oregon Ducks.
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