Not much to say here except to say I walked out of the stadium during a game for the first time. Just a brutal loss. Our D is broken, our O was remarkably pathetic pretty much all game. I don't know what happened to Wilcox, but maybe he's burned out. In many ways, it's hard to fathom this loss and also the many other failures this season. The question for Knowlton is do we fire him, take a financial hit and start all over again with a 5-years-to-complete-disaster cycle? Maybe a young and up and coming coach, like we thought Wilcox was, relatively speaking?
It is hard for me to even figure out where to begin but the wheels have definitely come off our beloved Golden Bears Football Team. Only two years ago we had one of the most aggressive defenses in college football with linemen, linebackers and DBs who could make life miserable for opposing offenses. Today, that was Washington State's defense. They were flying to the ball and constantly getting in the backfield to disrupt our offense. Those are the things that WE USED TO DO!!! Why have we suddenly stopped? Finally, why is our football team so cursed? I swear that it feels like a voodoo hex has been cast on Cal Football this season. So far, we've managed to lose games because of missed PATs, goal line fumbles, failed two point conversions, a blocked punt that gets recovered for a first down and finally, a one-handed, one-foot down circus catch that absolutely NOBODY should be able to make! I love my alma mater but I am seriously starting to hate Cal Football.
Should Cal even field a football team anymore? I have been a diehard since the late 80s. Rooted for them in some hostile stadiums during my travels. I just don't think the school has the interest to support a pac 12 team. Thats okay I guess. I didn't pick Cal as an undergraduate to go to the Rosebowl. There is a commitment by the School and alumni that is required to field a competitive team. We have for the most part never had that. The stadium was half empty as it always is and the outcome is sadly what we have all grown to expect. I hope it is still a good experience for the kids playing as it must be so discouraging to have so few bright moments and so many disappointments.
I essentially gave up on basketball a few years ago and know that as a class of 89 graduate I will never see Cal in a Rosebowl. I know the Cubs won a series finally but they always had the support of ownership and corporate sponsors. We have none of that and in a world in which the top players can get endorsements in high school I just see the gap getting wider.
So sure fire Wilcox and bring in the next underpaid for the pac 12 staff that does not have the tools to recruit and rinse and repeat.
That's the million dollar question: What happens when you finally lose the hope and faith of the donors who principally come to support the revenue sports? Can you continue to starve those programs (and fans) with minimal financial investments and unimaginative hires and misfires? Feels like we're about to find out.
It is hard to know what the solution is. But the football product is just not good and not showing an upward trajectory. No emotion and no fire. The UW and a Wazzou teams are, in combination, as poor as they have been in a long time. We lost in OT in one and got blown out in the other. What is up?
It is hard to know what the solution is. But the football product is just not good and not showing an upward trajectory. No emotion and no fire. The UW and a Wazzou teams are, in combination, as poor as they have been in a long time. We lost in OT in one and got blown out in the other. What is up?
The most disturbing thing about this game is that it was a home game. I can understand not being in a good headspace if you have to travel to Pullman, but home games should never be flat or unprepared.
This team probably doesn’t win another game. Wazzu stormed down the field with such ease on that 1st drive...guys running unguarded in the secondary...awful tackling...boo. Once the Bears comically, and most predictably, butchered yet another PAT, it seriously felt like it was over. Cal football is broken.
Having one of the most inept defenses in the country, and one that rivals even the worst of the Sonny Dykes era, is just a brutal turn of events for Justin Wilcox. Not good.
We are now pretty inept in all phases of the game: Offense, defense and special teams. Even announcer Shane Vereen (one of Cal's greatest running backs) made a comment during the game that; "Everyone on this team has to find a way to step up". I think that he was as disgusted as I was watching this game. At least he was getting paid for it.
You were made fun of because you kept posting the same thing over and over and over again. It was the way you acted, not the idea of Troy Taylor or wikipedia itself, that caused such reactions.
I think Furd's victory was more indicative of Oregon's D as opposed to the Furd O. McKee was really inconsistent and the offense was awful in the second half. Too many mistakes by the Oregon D in the end led to this as well as Oregon's offense suddenly stalling in the second half as well. Verdell went down which was painful for their run game.
Is Tavita Pritchard still the fund OC? Because they way they sent the game to OT reminded me greatly of when they beat USC in 2007. Ford was like 30-40 point dogs to SC and beat them in essentially the same way that fund tied up the game today. Repeated fade passes to 6'19" receivers to the corners of the end zone which if defended would end up with a PI or if not defended finally get a TD. Shaw/Pritchard pulled right from the Harbaugh playbook. Of course, they had a lot of help from the refs too...
Not much to say here except to say I walked out of the stadium during a game for the first time. Just a brutal loss. Our D is broken, our O was remarkably pathetic pretty much all game. I don't know what happened to Wilcox, but maybe he's burned out. In many ways, it's hard to fathom this loss and also the many other failures this season. The question for Knowlton is do we fire him, take a financial hit and start all over again with a 5-years-to-complete-disaster cycle? Maybe a young and up and coming coach, like we thought Wilcox was, relatively speaking?
It is hard for me to even figure out where to begin but the wheels have definitely come off our beloved Golden Bears Football Team. Only two years ago we had one of the most aggressive defenses in college football with linemen, linebackers and DBs who could make life miserable for opposing offenses. Today, that was Washington State's defense. They were flying to the ball and constantly getting in the backfield to disrupt our offense. Those are the things that WE USED TO DO!!! Why have we suddenly stopped? Finally, why is our football team so cursed? I swear that it feels like a voodoo hex has been cast on Cal Football this season. So far, we've managed to lose games because of missed PATs, goal line fumbles, failed two point conversions, a blocked punt that gets recovered for a first down and finally, a one-handed, one-foot down circus catch that absolutely NOBODY should be able to make! I love my alma mater but I am seriously starting to hate Cal Football.
Should Cal even field a football team anymore? I have been a diehard since the late 80s. Rooted for them in some hostile stadiums during my travels. I just don't think the school has the interest to support a pac 12 team. Thats okay I guess. I didn't pick Cal as an undergraduate to go to the Rosebowl. There is a commitment by the School and alumni that is required to field a competitive team. We have for the most part never had that. The stadium was half empty as it always is and the outcome is sadly what we have all grown to expect. I hope it is still a good experience for the kids playing as it must be so discouraging to have so few bright moments and so many disappointments.
I essentially gave up on basketball a few years ago and know that as a class of 89 graduate I will never see Cal in a Rosebowl. I know the Cubs won a series finally but they always had the support of ownership and corporate sponsors. We have none of that and in a world in which the top players can get endorsements in high school I just see the gap getting wider.
So sure fire Wilcox and bring in the next underpaid for the pac 12 staff that does not have the tools to recruit and rinse and repeat.
Go Bears :)
My four observations:
1. Fire Ragle
2. Fire Sirmon
3. Fire Musgrave
4. Fire Wilcox
5. Fire Knowlton
Didn't he just sign an extension?
Now there is the matter of what to do about the revenue sports? It's fine to be the NCAA champs in badminton or whatever but what pays the freight?
That's the million dollar question: What happens when you finally lose the hope and faith of the donors who principally come to support the revenue sports? Can you continue to starve those programs (and fans) with minimal financial investments and unimaginative hires and misfires? Feels like we're about to find out.
Meanwhile, SMU is 5-0. Maybe it isn’t the coaches, but the institution. We could hire Saban and still put a crappy product on the field
It is hard to know what the solution is. But the football product is just not good and not showing an upward trajectory. No emotion and no fire. The UW and a Wazzou teams are, in combination, as poor as they have been in a long time. We lost in OT in one and got blown out in the other. What is up?
It is hard to know what the solution is. But the football product is just not good and not showing an upward trajectory. No emotion and no fire. The UW and a Wazzou teams are, in combination, as poor as they have been in a long time. We lost in OT in one and got blown out in the other. What is up?
And to top the day off I just watched Demetris Robertson catch a pass for Auburn.
The most disturbing thing about this game is that it was a home game. I can understand not being in a good headspace if you have to travel to Pullman, but home games should never be flat or unprepared.
A home game where we won the turnover battle and blocked a punt!
This team probably doesn’t win another game. Wazzu stormed down the field with such ease on that 1st drive...guys running unguarded in the secondary...awful tackling...boo. Once the Bears comically, and most predictably, butchered yet another PAT, it seriously felt like it was over. Cal football is broken.
Having one of the most inept defenses in the country, and one that rivals even the worst of the Sonny Dykes era, is just a brutal turn of events for Justin Wilcox. Not good.
We are now pretty inept in all phases of the game: Offense, defense and special teams. Even announcer Shane Vereen (one of Cal's greatest running backs) made a comment during the game that; "Everyone on this team has to find a way to step up". I think that he was as disgusted as I was watching this game. At least he was getting paid for it.
Fire everybody
Nobody was ever against hiring Troy Taylor (or using wikipedia).
You were made fun of because you kept posting the same thing over and over and over again. It was the way you acted, not the idea of Troy Taylor or wikipedia itself, that caused such reactions.
Agreed. Reading the same thought gets annoying after 10 or 20 times, even if the original thought makes sense.
And Bob good for you to not let it bother you.
I think Furd's victory was more indicative of Oregon's D as opposed to the Furd O. McKee was really inconsistent and the offense was awful in the second half. Too many mistakes by the Oregon D in the end led to this as well as Oregon's offense suddenly stalling in the second half as well. Verdell went down which was painful for their run game.
Is Tavita Pritchard still the fund OC? Because they way they sent the game to OT reminded me greatly of when they beat USC in 2007. Ford was like 30-40 point dogs to SC and beat them in essentially the same way that fund tied up the game today. Repeated fade passes to 6'19" receivers to the corners of the end zone which if defended would end up with a PI or if not defended finally get a TD. Shaw/Pritchard pulled right from the Harbaugh playbook. Of course, they had a lot of help from the refs too...
Was Pritchard the QB that beat USC?
Yes, in 2007
He was so mediocre. But 2007 was a wild college football season.
my keyboard refuses to type "furd"
Autocorrect