Wayne Tinkle

Fun fact, when I was in college, the coach of Oregon State was, I'm going to date myself, I forget his name, Mike something.

Wayne Tinkle? No, it was before that.

It was Michelle Obama's brother-in-law, and they played at Maryland, and the Obamas sat courtside.

That was like a really – That's sick.

Treacher looked like he was coming off the bench in some of the summer games, but he's a pretty hyped junior college transfer.

He was also signed to Wayne Tinkle, decommitted when Wayne was fired, and then recommitted to Oregon State.

So you like that he maybe just likes Corvallis.

I don't know what his deal is, but A good rebounder, strong body with some shooting left to see, but comes from a good Juco.

One of the higher Juco

recruits Tinkle ever got, and truly one of the higher recruits in general.

A little bit of that Wayne Tinkle influence on this roster is something I welcome, especially when the roster as a whole has a much higher budget than Wayne Tinkle had to work with.

In recent years, a guy like that, I'm very excited about.

That was their lowest mark since the 2014-15 season, but you're gonna be, I think, floored by the fact that you do have a lot of teams that are a little bit more defense-oriented in this conference.

Now, Oregon State, they're gonna be taken over by Coach Joiner after the Wayne Tinkle era.

It was a magical Elite Eight run, but man, after that, things just went straight down the toilet bowl in Oregon State last year.

They were down to 279th in the country in terms of total possessions per game.

A guy I've been close with over the years, Chris Haslam, comes over to help run the defense.

He's coached the British national team.

He was at Oregon State under Wayne Tinkle last year, but he was also with Danny Sprinkle at Utah State when Utah State won the Mountain West Conference.

And I just think, you know, he's doing a very good job of making this staff sharp.

In this case, it's Oregon state.

They move on from Wayne Tinkle.

They go on and get Justin Joyner.

Oregon state is doing, I mean, Jamarcus Shepard, great hire for football, Kevin Griffin, The athletic director, I think he's done a very good job since he's been named.

No, you cannot run them for punishment.

I had this conversation with Wayne Tinkle one time.

I said, well, you know, put them on the line and just say, you know what? I love you guys.

You guys are so, so good.

People are excited about the backcourt.

The dirty secret of Oregon State basketball is that they have a lot more money this year, just partially because – Justin Joyner, the new coach, doesn't make as much as Wayne Tinkle.

And that money has been very helpful in building what you're going to see is probably the most talented Oregon State roster you've seen since Craig Robinson was using an Obama White House visit to these five-star recruits.

You're going to see top-level athletes.

Here until 1 o'clock.

at Citizens Bank up next a conversation again heading up to Missoula visiting with a veteran football coach who knows the territory well knows Colorado State well Mick Delaney 83 years young and just a by all accounts Wayne Tinkle gave him two big thumbs up and in fact even put me on to say hey you want to talk to somebody about football in Missoula he's the man We'll visit with Mick Delaney next.

We've got Big Jim Wilson, Sidney Poynter, and others still to come.

And an open phone line has been established for Wade Meckler.

We had two, you know, an in-state rivalry with Air Force and then, of course, Wyoming in what they called the border war.

So, you know, I think the Montana-Montana State-Bronwell-Wild stacks up with all the great rivalries in America.

Mick, I wanted to say in closing, when I was reaching out to people that I know, know Missoula, know the Grizz, know the territory, one of the people I reached out to was Wayne Tinkle, who did a wonderful job here and is one of the great people I've ever met.

And Wayne recommended you right away.