If Beavers brewing a title contender, Saturday a good time to show it
CORVALLIS — Jonathan Smith begins his fifth season at the Oregon State football helm Saturday night when Oregon State faces Boise State in a 7:30 p.m. game carried by ESPN, a sure-to-be-favorite by late-night fans all up and down the East Coast.
On Beaver and Duck football, reffing in the NBA this season, Keanon Lowe’s movie, Terry Baker and the Heisman and death of a champion …
Knocking it around on a variety of subjects on a drizzly Sunday in the Willamette Valley …
• I can’t imagine Jonathan Smith got much sleep Saturday night.
Oregon State’s 27-24 loss to Stanford couldn’t have been much more painful for the third-year Beaver coach.
Losses like that are daggers to the heart a coach trying to build a program.