CORVALLIS - Ron McBride didn't have a lot of answers, but questions began piling up in his mind when Gary Andersen did not return his text messages.
The two regularly communicate and McBride often visited and counseled Andersen and his staff during stints at Utah State, Wisconsin and most recently Oregon State.
So when messages from McBride went unreturned over the weekend after the Beavers lost at USC, he grew concerned and assumed something must be wrong with his protege. He was floored by the Monday news Andersen had mutually parted ways with OSU.