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.
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.
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.
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?
My four observations:
1. Fire Ragle
2. Fire Sirmon
3. Fire Musgrave
4. Fire Wilcox
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 :)
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
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.
Fire everybody
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.
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.