CORVALLIS — Coaches and players tend to live in one-week bubbles, moving quickly from game to game during a three-month regular season.
Yet Oregon State coach Gary Andersen was asked Monday to take a step back and evaluate his team at the midway point of his second season, where the Beavers broke through with their first Pac-12 victory under his watch but still sit at 2-4 following a 19-14 home loss to No. 19 Utah.
His assessment?
"Do I see the progress I want to see? No, because we're not undefeated," Andersen said. "But do I see progress within the kids and how they prepare, their want-to, their care factor, their belief, their knowledge of the game?