Today is the First Day of the First Year of the Reign of Gary Andersen, and it is also the day after the Beavers won the Civil War for the first time in 8 years. I woke up in my suburban Corvallis home and took the mile-long walk from my front porch to Reser, kicking cans in the parking lot, skirting around 3-inch deep puddles, and watching still-drunk college students stumble home. I believe Corvallis may have been, as we say in the business, quite lit last night.
Along the way, I wondered what this win means for the program: I joked yesterday that we should give Ryan Nall a key to the city (we should) and that Ryan should get to be the one that fires Mark Helfrich (he should).