CORVALLIS -- The front doors of the Valley Football Center were unlocked on Saturday. Any foot-shuffling rube could have slipped inside the place, walked straight into Oregon State's football-operations building -- unannounced -- and stood nose-to-nose with Terry Baker's Heisman Trophy.
In fact, I did exactly that.
Three seconds later, tap on the shoulder. The fingers belonged to Beavers football coach Gary Andersen, who happened to be wearing shorts, a pair of sneakers, a T-shirt and a sun visor on a rainy, 53-degree Oregon day.
What? You were expecting security?
"Come with me," Andersen says, "you need to see this.