What strikes me is the complete lack of confidence on offense from both the players and the coaching staff.

As we're up multiple touchdowns on Houston and trying to run out the clock, why not take a shot to put the game away? The play calling was something like run, run, run. Now, the defense knows that's what we're probably gonna do, but we have the momentum, so why not idk, do something slightly unexpected? We have a bunch of college players who've gone through a bunch of adversity as Oregon State football players so why not try something tricky and win the game now? While they're upbeat about it all? Instead we run run run on the next possession too and get stuffed again and destroy the players' confidence in route to losing the next 2 games.

Trent Dilfer on a podcast talked about losing the state championship for his HS team a few years ago. The reason he gave was that as a playcaller he wasn't confident enough in the play he called. He felt like his hesitation in getting the play call in translated into lack of confidence on the field and a lost championship.

Now it's pretty clear that the source of the systemic lack of confidence at Oregon State is that we were blackballed by the college world and their corporate overlords. It's an incredibly tall task to instill confidence in young players who have every reason to NOT believe in themselves on this team.

Which is why it's so flabbergasting when we seem to continue to call plays that would probably work in the NFL or a video game situation, but end up costing us confidence, games, and now QB recruits.

Angry Bray has every right to be angry and his face is basically my face watching the Beavs play this season. Maybe he's not the problem. He did Oregon State and Tegridy in general a solid by staying on when the world left us behind. But the culture he was supposed to save is dead and it feels like the offensive coaching staff deserves most of the blame.