Playtime with a Beaver

Fourth and Fifty was approached by the Oregon State fan site Building the Dam to do a little Q&A session before the CBI game.  Here are the questions that we sent their way.  You can read BtD’s questions to FaF by following this link.  Make sure you click it so it seems like we have fans.

Cheerleaders, cheerleaders everywhere but not a single one to talk to me.

1)  [Fourth and Fifty] Which is more exciting:  Oregon State Basketball or the fact that your coach is the brother-in-law of President Obama?  Be honest… Eh, you don’t even have to answer that, we already have made up your mind for you.

[Building the Dam] At first, it was the fact that our coach is brother-in-law of the President. Then, after the guy began to win games at a much more rapid pace in the Pac-10 conference than last year, Oregon State basketball started to become cool. But we’re not all the way there yet…. so the answer to this one is still probably tuning in to see the inauguration and seeing Coach Rob. in the background of every other camera angle. So you were right.

2)  What’s a better recruiting tool for you at Oregon State: The (as stated above) Presidential association or the chastity of AC Green?

Definitely the aforementioned Presidential association. It gets us on NBC, CNN, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and a ton of other places…. AC Green brought back the wave. It’s definitely cool to have the support of the alumni coming back, though.

3)  Since Oregon State shares a similar color scheme with the University of Texas, and the University of Houston’s mascot is a Cougar can we just pretend this is a post-season rivalry game to up the ante?

Hey, why not? We are playing in the most cutting-edge, innovative tournament around. Actually, take that back. We’re going to need to slow the game to the tempo of approximately half the speed of smell in order to stop Aubrey Coleman from running all over our faces and throwing up shots with reckless abandon.

4)  If this game were being held at Hofheinz Pavilion here in Houston, how many Oregon State fans would be making the trip?

Oregon State fans are like fruit flies… they’ll just pop out at you out of nowhere. So, about five or six, maybe.

5)  Are you jealous of that Nike money that Oregon gets?  I’d ask if you were jealous of their uniform choices but we already know the answer to that.  YES!  Just like the rest of us.

Being jealous of all the money that is pumped into Eugene basically defeats the point of being a Beaver. We’re basically the anti-thesis of Oregon. (Although I must take this opportunity to say that Phil Knight has done some positive things for our university as well). We like to say that if someone is interested in the bling bling go ahead… go to Oregon. We’d rather have the guy who will come to practice every day with their lunch pail, work their butt off, and make improvement every day. It’s two different ideologies, really… hard to explain.

6)  If the Oregon v. Oregon State rivalry is known as the Civil War, who’s the North and who’s the South?  Who’s Texas?

At first glance, Oregon would be the North because they have the cool uniforms and more money and Oregon State would be the South because of the superior military leadership, but clearly this is a trick question. Oregon State is the North, because they won the war. Clearly, Texas is Portland State because they’re off to the side but keep getting to NCAA Tournament because they’re actually better than every other team in the state. Plus, they play in a high school gym.

7)   Why couldn’t one of your players step on the face of a C-USA opponent if only so we would have another line of questioning?

We would have, but we’re scared to schedule opponents from C-USA. Except this time, we payed $60,000 to some company who decided they’d like to see us blow our money and get curb-stomped by Aubrey Coleman and his posse.

8)  Which would be worse, going winless during the basketball season or winless during football?  We had the distinct pleasure of being part of a winless football campaign… Gotta tell you.  Do. Not. Want.

Right now, going win-less during football season would be terrible because the pendulum has swung far to the left in favor of football. It used to be the other way around. One would like to believe that we could support both a successful football and basketball program, but that hasn’t really been done before. Right now it’s safe to say that both major sports are on the rise… let’s just hope that Craig Robinson doesn’t go chasing multi-million dollar bonuses like AIG execs and take a job somewhere else. So to answer your question… losing it all in football would be much worse.

9)  Do you have a live mascot(s) on campus?  If so, which sorority houses the best ones?  (Awwww, yeah we did!  The inevitable beaver joke!)

Hmm…. yes, there are a few. Our big claim to fame is Sarah Jean Underwood. She was on the cover of Playboy. And you can learn more about her here. I think I’ve more than answered this question…. do some Google searching if you’re still not satisfied.

10)  Parting thoughts?

Um, give us a chance. We’ll try to slow the game down and start running back doors around you, so keep your head on a swivel. May the best team win!! And may we meet you in the NCAA Finals sometime down the road.

Well played, good sir.  Well played.

Read Fourth and Fifty’s answers to Building the Dam’s questions.

[Picture from some assholes who think it's ok to rank cheerleader hotness.  The nerve of some people. Sheesh!]

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