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CalBear91's avatar

I always forget to write down my numbers but I've got about 7-8 wins. I'm confident of a win at UW as we've owned them, though when you read the local papers here in Seattle they talk of the Huskies as being certain National Champions. I've never read a more sunshine pumping press about a local team than these puppies. I'm wary of the little bruins, but I think we go after Furd with a vengeance again. Can't wait for the Nevada game to see some early indications of our capabilities.

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TKE Prytanis 79's avatar

I thought it was just me who forgot!

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Rugbear's avatar

That's cause there's never any fucking sunshine in Seattle.

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the beer's avatar

HAHAHA forget to write down your numbers PLEASE BRO!? If you don't have some sort of spreadsheet with at least a third order polynomial and other such wizardry, then how exactly are you wasting your time here?

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CalBear91's avatar

Ha! That's the most Cal alum mockery any blog site could have. Go Bears! My double major in science did not include any of that voodoo math those engineering and math geeks had to take. My mind is pure and unsullied by those things. My Cal fandom is only maintained through the most extraordinary discipline of non-rational approaches.

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the beer's avatar

Says the guy with TWO majors in advanced nerdery SMDH.

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WilderThanGene's avatar

a couple weeks ago I started looking for an API to get Cal's schedule results from the last decade into python so I could do some analysis... didnt find it then started collecting the data manually.. then stopped what I was doing and told myself to get the hell back to work.

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Leland's avatar

It's entirely possible that I've used Cal Football rosters as training exercises for handling data sets.

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Berkelium97's avatar

Sounds like me when I was in grad school

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the beer's avatar

True story. I am a contractor working for a terrible group of people who don't know what I do, how to do it, or how long it takes, so I fold this into the invoice and am technically wasting their time.

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Rugbear's avatar

He's 5 star recruit (Sam Huard) and I'm sure he will be very good, and even better with time and experience. But he will be a true freshman, and I don't care what people think, the jump from high school to P5 football is YUGE. There are very few Trevor Lawrence's and even fewer situations where a Trevor Lawrence level QB gets a supporting cast like he had at Clemson. If we are going to test UW's new QB this is the year.

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mrjpark's avatar

I'm sure he'll be good, but UW is recruiting worse than we are right now. He won't have any tools around him at this rate.

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Rugbear's avatar

I like our recruits. I wouldn't trade them for Oregon's 4 star recruit list. Every single recruit on the list of every school still needs to lift weights and develop into a P5 player. Just cause you are a 4 star doesn't mean you are guaranteed to play. Our kids are smart, have a work ethic, are mature and are solid athletes. Wilcox is recruiting just fine; he's getting what he wants. If you have time watch the Youtube video where Mike Pawlawski interviews Wilcox and Wilcox tells Pawlawski what they look for in recruits. Great athletes always help, but if they don't have a work ethic, aren't smart, don't apply themselves at school, are not coachable or are immature, then athleticism counts for little. Both Oregon and USC have had far superior talent to us over the years, but we have managed to beat both of them, Oregon more recently than USC. I expect more wins as we go forward. ;-)

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