Writing this from Las Vegas after watching all 4 hours up close. Obviously there were awful penalties, play calling, and bone headed decisions, but what stood out to me was the body language and energy of the team after Brousseau took over for JKS.
The #1 thing that stood out to me with Brousseau vs. JKS was him standing in the pocket to let receivers get open. Also, by not immediately rolling out every passing play, Brousseau wasn't forced to throw while running, as JKS often does.
I think we're a 4 win team at this point, and will be attending or watching games simply to watch what Lupoi (and Rivera) decide to do. I also wouldn't be surprised if we see some notable changes during the season (OC of course), and I wouldn't be shocked to see Lupoi leave this off season either. He is not ready for this job, or any serious coaching job.
I don’t think it does and that’s why I haven’t really been around lately. I’ve come to the realization that it is over for us in terms of making it to the BigTen. Our best and only hope is for the ACC to survive. Maybe it does
Lupoi leave? And walk away from four more years of a fat paycheck? Nobody does that. If he leaves, we are paying through the nose to buy him out and bankrupting our future.
Apparently the difference was Brousseau had an actual play caller behind him (McCann) who was also drawing up new plays on the spot. Ridiculous. Somerville singlehandedly cratered our season.
I think I just read the same news you did, and all I can say is 'wow.' Somerville needs to be demoted from OC immediately and do all he can to learn from Rolovich, McCann, and any other experienced coach still left in the building.
While I certainly give Tosh plenty of blame for bringing on Somerville, Rivera deserves a lot of scrutiny as well. His signing off on this big, expensive, poorly-planned experiment should be asked about whenever possible.
Seeing the QB who didn't get snaps with the 1s looking more comfortable with them could mean a number of things: 1) Brousseau is a more talented QB than JKS (see Mendoza, Fernando), 2) JKS is regressing specifically due to bad coaching, 3) we're running the wrong offense for our personnel.
I'm guessing (3), as a version of (2). We saw JKS last year and he was very good. Are we trying to install a Late-Tedford-sized playbook too quickly and no one's figuring it out? Is our coaching just bad? Can we not find SOME functional coaching ability within our massive coaching staff?
Kudos to Brousseau for looking like a seasoned professional. Depending on JKS's injury status, he might be the guy next week (or at least taking the snaps earlier in the week).
I don't think people are disagreeing about needing to change. But Cal could have given itself much better odds for success this season - even with Lupoi as HC. But too many layers of iffy decisions after iffy decisions, which just unnecessarily increased our risk of failure.
You had to roll the dice and take the chance. While disappointing, at least they shot their shot.
Hendricks and Strong regressing is a disappointing surprise, but returning much of last year’s porous OL was an issue from the start, as was hiring a 1st time OC who hadn’t called plays since he coached Pop Warner.
JKS and this coaching staff are not on the same page. Brousseau actually seems like the better fit for whatever offense they are trying to run. I feel bad for JKS because I feel like he would be doing better in a different system. And it feels like the O-line... is willing to block for Brousseau MORE than for JKS? Am I imagining that? Or is it because Rolovich had more influence this game than the previous 4 games?
JKS almost always rolls out of the pocket when he feels pressure, where as Brousseau is more likely to stay in the pocket. I believe both players would do much better with Rollovich as the OC with a simpler playbook.
The combination of penalties and lack of discipline is simply inexcusable.
Given the inexperience, I’m honestly not all that surprised by 2-3….figured we’d be 3-2, if things broke well maybe even 4-1. But 2-3 was certainly within the realm of possibilities given uncertainty over UCLA, a cross-country flight to Cuse, a championship pedigree in Dabo’s club, and a Mullen-led UNLV that was picked to win the conference….
I AM completely surprised by how they’ve looked in getting there, though, and have zero confidence in Tosh and his staffs ability to right this ship because they’ve never done it before and these kids play like knuckleheads.
I’d still rather be 2-3 with Tosh though than 3-2 with Wilcox, so there’s that. Either way, we’re on a fast track to join Andy Panda’s Oregon State and Wazzu.
Depends on what you value more / playing teams closer to home, including old PAC-10 rivals, and having higher likelihood of success or being Rutgers where every season it is a banishment to under .500 with no hope of improvement.
Since I bought season tickets from LA, contributed to NIL, because I believed in the sham we have been sold, and I have gone to our conference games for decades (Nebraska, Oklahoma, Michigan State, Tennessee, Texas, Notre Dame, Hawaii in Sydney, and North Carolina and missed Ole Miss because of a death in the family) yet knew after the first drive of the UCLA game we were in deep trouble, I am not going to any more games and will not donate anymore absent radical change.
I don't really care about playing Oregon State and Washington State. It's nice to see them but they don't meaningfully move the needle for me. I'd rather travel and play ACC teams than play Boise and Colorado State every year. Plus, would we even have a higher likelihood of success? Once we drop down the resources are going to dry up. We barely even have institutional and fanbase buy-in now. Who's going to care when we're G5?
Hiring a novice coordinator/play caller alongside a novice head coach-how did this get past the spit balling sesh? There are so many head scratchers in this rebuild.
There are way too many personal foul penalties being committed, which shows a complete lack of discipline, and it seems like the team is getting worse in this area instead of better. IN-EX-CUS-ABLE‼️
The team continues to struggle with this pro playbook and that has got to get fixed. Get rid of Somerville & promote Rollovich to Assist HC in charge of the offense.
Tosh exclaiming "Hold on to your ass" and then the team virtually delivering the game to UNLV with these needless personal fouls is beyond frustrating.
I didn’t like Wilcox because I didn’t think he was good enough for a team with aspirations of regaining a foothold in the realigned P4. I don’t like Lupoi because I don’t think he’s good enough to coach at the FBS level, period.
We can get a great coach and staff at CAL if we want to. We just need to pay them and give them the support and freedom to do what they do. Why didn't we go after Bob Chesney or someone like him?
They decided on a developmental coaching preschool instead. It’s insane. I keep drafting an Emergency Strategic Turnaround Plan with exactly these metrics-what should have been/can be done-Chesney/turnaround model-there were so many solid choices. Sigh.
I like Lupoi's attitude and fire. But he has not delivered the results and hasn't made the right decision to hire assistants who can bridge his own shortcomings.
Cal just doesn't have the kind of runway for him to improve gradually. Part of it was his own doing for setting such high expectations and goals with everyone. Now we are all shocked by such a poorly coached team.
If Cal were a startup that needs to pivot to find product-market fit, we have very little game-to-game improvement signals (over 5 games) to give anyone confidence that Tosh can actually turn this around quickly enough. I, for one, am not confident that this team will beat anyone else on our schedule this season.
Maybe we will win one or two more through more individual heroics (e.g Lopa) or through luck (e.g. Syracuse). But can Tosh coach the team toward sharper execution? Design better plays for OUR players to execute at a higher level? Out-scheming our opponents? Maybe next season, after we suffer through his learning curve/growing pains.
So I haven't had time to review the game on a condensed video and will do that later this week, but I have been hearing a lot about how the backup QB executed better and might be better than JKS. Brousseau was 19/32 for 200 yds, 2 tugs and no INT's. JKS was 19/27 for 195 yards, one tug and 1 INT. Other than the interception its pretty even and JKS's completion % was higher. In fairness to JKS he had some good throws that were dropped (Ian Strong on the sideline on a long throw was one) and Brousseau's passes were not as accurate. Brousseau has a lot of game experience and maybe was more comfortable managing the game. I'm pretty sure the play calling changed for him as well, probably running a simpler package. I think JKS in the right system is a superstar. It's obvious that Somerville's system does not showcase JKS's incredible talent.
When I look at this game our loss came down to one things: shitty coaching (including shitty coaching decisions). We had 464 total yards compared to UNLV's 350. We were pretty even or had a slight edge in the rest of the categories except for penalties. We were 16 for 147 vs their 7 for 67 in penalties. I will say I think we were the recipient of some marginal calls and missed calls (the tackle that put JKS out of the game should have been called a roughing the passer IMHO). Our play calling sucked at critical times. I believe Somerville was calling the plays. He went to outside and bubble screens way too often. And who runs into an 8 man box on 3rd and 4 and 4th and 2? Absolutely idiotic play calling.
This team never has it all together. It seems that as the coaches fix one problem another arises. This week is was penalties and arm tackling (again). That's a sign of a staff that has no idea how to create a program that constantly enforces the basics/fundamentals while teaching the finer points of technique and play schemes. This team doesn't get better overall from week to week, it regresses in some areas while perhaps improving in others. The net result is a team that is not good.
If, as I have heard the donors/boosters were the ones who back the choice of Tosh versus a proven HC (like Bob Chesney at UCLA with his 4-0 record versus tougher competition), they have no one to blame but themselves. I am befuddled how RR could agree with Tosh's decision to hire two rookie coordinators. This is classic CAL making a decision to go for it but shooting themselves in the foot.
Our coaching is a real problem. It is the problem.
The big question is: are we going to live with this for 3 or 4 more years?
At the risk of being criticized for being overly optimistic the following observations are offered….(1) appreciate the on side kick called by Lupoi to open the 2nd half down 24-7, (2) appreciate all the 4th down calls, (3) appreciate the play of the offense with Br at qb, (4) appreciate excellent ST play, (4) appreciate running of all our RBs, (5) appreciate the aggressiveness of the defense overall. The message given by Lupoi etc is that the Bears will be dangerous and risk taking to the end. The screw ups were obvious. The refs were outrageously inconsistent (which let UNLV off the hook on a cheap shot that knocked JKS out of the game and took out Cal’s safety and lock down CB out of the game while allowing UNLV to get away with multiple late hits and taunting while calling Cal WRs for phantom holding penalties, but multiple unforced penalties were killers. The team is now decimated by injuries to the starters. Perhaps Lupoi’s take no prisoners aggressiveness can save the day while building a favorable reputation to keep his recruits, but very risky territory. This may be the “culture” he’s trying to build. There is no play book for what’s he’s doing.
Luckily I had the Dodger game to listen to while repairing the hay barn, occasionally peeking through fingers covering my eyes at the Cal score. What a disappointing season we have so far.
The reality is that you have to make a quick splash nowadays. The days of program building are over. I do think this staff did an excellent job of building excitement ...but maybe not such a good job at tempering expectations.
It would have been amazing if they could have pulled an instantaneous change in performance (or at least not be worse). But should we really write a first time head coach off after five games? Given it don't look too good out on the field and we don't really have time to mess around in this shark tank..but I think we are seeing REALITY play out here.
Many people noted the inexperience of the staff...and maybe we were naive to hope that our OL would develop into something better than it was. Been a long time since we had pro talent on the OL! That's hard to change in the portal in one year.
I just want us to save face so Tosh can hang onto some of these recruits. Time will tell if Tosh can run a program, but dude is a GOLD star recruiter! I think he built his staff more around recruiting. He should have surrounded himself with an experienced offensive coordinator, so he can focus on what he does best.
It's not impossible that the team improves. It starts by playing the QB that fits the system...rather than being a one man team.
Georgia, Alabama, Oregon, Washington is not the same as enticing young top shelf guys to a 2-10 team, or maybe 4-8. We will see how recruiting goes this winter.
Honestly, if we have a coaching change it’ll have to be Ron for a couple of years to right the ship (something I wanted from the beginning but can see why he would say no initially).
What halfway decent coach would want to step into this hot mess? Especially if we get rid of Tosh after only one year.
Maybe I’m a dreamer but if they had the right ppl involved in the search and the organizational/systemic dysfunction straightened out, maybe it wouldn’t be such a hard sell. Yes a great coach who has turned a team around is expensive but for someone who likes challenges-and the West Coast-that’s a big one.
We have 3 games coming up against 4-1 teams (Va Tech, WF, SMU), then 3-2 NC state. We could exit October 2-7, sliding to Furd and BC level. We WILL be relegated if the program doesn't turn around - and maybe to the Mountain West or the shell of the Pac 10. If that happens, the only thing filling up CMS will be concerts by Paul McCartney and other bands. BTW, I also thought Brosseau looked way better than JKS today - how is that even possible???
Writing this from Las Vegas after watching all 4 hours up close. Obviously there were awful penalties, play calling, and bone headed decisions, but what stood out to me was the body language and energy of the team after Brousseau took over for JKS.
The #1 thing that stood out to me with Brousseau vs. JKS was him standing in the pocket to let receivers get open. Also, by not immediately rolling out every passing play, Brousseau wasn't forced to throw while running, as JKS often does.
I think we're a 4 win team at this point, and will be attending or watching games simply to watch what Lupoi (and Rivera) decide to do. I also wouldn't be surprised if we see some notable changes during the season (OC of course), and I wouldn't be shocked to see Lupoi leave this off season either. He is not ready for this job, or any serious coaching job.
Given the fact that the program is probably fighting for it’s re-alignment life, right now he’s looking like a one and done.
That fight ended 5 years ago and the door will officially slam shut if the Protect College Sports Act is passed
Honestly none of it matters then.
I don’t think it does and that’s why I haven’t really been around lately. I’ve come to the realization that it is over for us in terms of making it to the BigTen. Our best and only hope is for the ACC to survive. Maybe it does
Lupoi leave? And walk away from four more years of a fat paycheck? Nobody does that. If he leaves, we are paying through the nose to buy him out and bankrupting our future.
Apparently the difference was Brousseau had an actual play caller behind him (McCann) who was also drawing up new plays on the spot. Ridiculous. Somerville singlehandedly cratered our season.
I think I just read the same news you did, and all I can say is 'wow.' Somerville needs to be demoted from OC immediately and do all he can to learn from Rolovich, McCann, and any other experienced coach still left in the building.
While I certainly give Tosh plenty of blame for bringing on Somerville, Rivera deserves a lot of scrutiny as well. His signing off on this big, expensive, poorly-planned experiment should be asked about whenever possible.
Seeing the QB who didn't get snaps with the 1s looking more comfortable with them could mean a number of things: 1) Brousseau is a more talented QB than JKS (see Mendoza, Fernando), 2) JKS is regressing specifically due to bad coaching, 3) we're running the wrong offense for our personnel.
I'm guessing (3), as a version of (2). We saw JKS last year and he was very good. Are we trying to install a Late-Tedford-sized playbook too quickly and no one's figuring it out? Is our coaching just bad? Can we not find SOME functional coaching ability within our massive coaching staff?
Kudos to Brousseau for looking like a seasoned professional. Depending on JKS's injury status, he might be the guy next week (or at least taking the snaps earlier in the week).
Guys, we gambled because we weren’t satisfied of going 6-8,7-7 every season. We lost the gamble. It sucks but it was the right call to gamble.
I don't think people are disagreeing about needing to change. But Cal could have given itself much better odds for success this season - even with Lupoi as HC. But too many layers of iffy decisions after iffy decisions, which just unnecessarily increased our risk of failure.
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You had to roll the dice and take the chance. While disappointing, at least they shot their shot.
Hendricks and Strong regressing is a disappointing surprise, but returning much of last year’s porous OL was an issue from the start, as was hiring a 1st time OC who hadn’t called plays since he coached Pop Warner.
I’m not even looking for someone to blame, I just wanna understand what’s wrong
JKS and this coaching staff are not on the same page. Brousseau actually seems like the better fit for whatever offense they are trying to run. I feel bad for JKS because I feel like he would be doing better in a different system. And it feels like the O-line... is willing to block for Brousseau MORE than for JKS? Am I imagining that? Or is it because Rolovich had more influence this game than the previous 4 games?
JKS almost always rolls out of the pocket when he feels pressure, where as Brousseau is more likely to stay in the pocket. I believe both players would do much better with Rollovich as the OC with a simpler playbook.
I saw exactly that, too.
Is the o-line secretly sick of the hype over JKS and refusing to block for him?
Maybe they worked extra hard after QB1 went down? Might not be any more complicated than that
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that-it was an instant uptick. Until…it wasn’t. Maybe they were just fired up bc JKS went down but idk
Thanks JMG.
The combination of penalties and lack of discipline is simply inexcusable.
Given the inexperience, I’m honestly not all that surprised by 2-3….figured we’d be 3-2, if things broke well maybe even 4-1. But 2-3 was certainly within the realm of possibilities given uncertainty over UCLA, a cross-country flight to Cuse, a championship pedigree in Dabo’s club, and a Mullen-led UNLV that was picked to win the conference….
I AM completely surprised by how they’ve looked in getting there, though, and have zero confidence in Tosh and his staffs ability to right this ship because they’ve never done it before and these kids play like knuckleheads.
I’d still rather be 2-3 with Tosh though than 3-2 with Wilcox, so there’s that. Either way, we’re on a fast track to join Andy Panda’s Oregon State and Wazzu.
Not sure that ultimately will be a bad thing.
I think Cal being relegated to a mid-major would be a bad thing.
After going to games for nearly 50 years, I personally would not go to any more Cal sporting events.
Depends on what you value more / playing teams closer to home, including old PAC-10 rivals, and having higher likelihood of success or being Rutgers where every season it is a banishment to under .500 with no hope of improvement.
Since I bought season tickets from LA, contributed to NIL, because I believed in the sham we have been sold, and I have gone to our conference games for decades (Nebraska, Oklahoma, Michigan State, Tennessee, Texas, Notre Dame, Hawaii in Sydney, and North Carolina and missed Ole Miss because of a death in the family) yet knew after the first drive of the UCLA game we were in deep trouble, I am not going to any more games and will not donate anymore absent radical change.
I don't really care about playing Oregon State and Washington State. It's nice to see them but they don't meaningfully move the needle for me. I'd rather travel and play ACC teams than play Boise and Colorado State every year. Plus, would we even have a higher likelihood of success? Once we drop down the resources are going to dry up. We barely even have institutional and fanbase buy-in now. Who's going to care when we're G5?
Ha, you’re unfortunately looking at your radical change…this is it.
Hiring a novice coordinator/play caller alongside a novice head coach-how did this get past the spit balling sesh? There are so many head scratchers in this rebuild.
Bingo...from the top public university in North America. Go figure.
There are way too many personal foul penalties being committed, which shows a complete lack of discipline, and it seems like the team is getting worse in this area instead of better. IN-EX-CUS-ABLE‼️
The team continues to struggle with this pro playbook and that has got to get fixed. Get rid of Somerville & promote Rollovich to Assist HC in charge of the offense.
Tosh exclaiming "Hold on to your ass" and then the team virtually delivering the game to UNLV with these needless personal fouls is beyond frustrating.
I didn’t like Wilcox because I didn’t think he was good enough for a team with aspirations of regaining a foothold in the realigned P4. I don’t like Lupoi because I don’t think he’s good enough to coach at the FBS level, period.
I don’t know if a coach exist that can save Cal in realignment and if they do exist, they aren’t coming to Cal
We can get a great coach and staff at CAL if we want to. We just need to pay them and give them the support and freedom to do what they do. Why didn't we go after Bob Chesney or someone like him?
They decided on a developmental coaching preschool instead. It’s insane. I keep drafting an Emergency Strategic Turnaround Plan with exactly these metrics-what should have been/can be done-Chesney/turnaround model-there were so many solid choices. Sigh.
"if they do exist, they aren’t coming to Cal" - realism
Why do you say that?
I like Lupoi's attitude and fire. But he has not delivered the results and hasn't made the right decision to hire assistants who can bridge his own shortcomings.
Cal just doesn't have the kind of runway for him to improve gradually. Part of it was his own doing for setting such high expectations and goals with everyone. Now we are all shocked by such a poorly coached team.
If Cal were a startup that needs to pivot to find product-market fit, we have very little game-to-game improvement signals (over 5 games) to give anyone confidence that Tosh can actually turn this around quickly enough. I, for one, am not confident that this team will beat anyone else on our schedule this season.
Maybe we will win one or two more through more individual heroics (e.g Lopa) or through luck (e.g. Syracuse). But can Tosh coach the team toward sharper execution? Design better plays for OUR players to execute at a higher level? Out-scheming our opponents? Maybe next season, after we suffer through his learning curve/growing pains.
The simple answer to your question is that my faith in Tosh (and RR at this point) has faded. To much talk, to little results.
So I haven't had time to review the game on a condensed video and will do that later this week, but I have been hearing a lot about how the backup QB executed better and might be better than JKS. Brousseau was 19/32 for 200 yds, 2 tugs and no INT's. JKS was 19/27 for 195 yards, one tug and 1 INT. Other than the interception its pretty even and JKS's completion % was higher. In fairness to JKS he had some good throws that were dropped (Ian Strong on the sideline on a long throw was one) and Brousseau's passes were not as accurate. Brousseau has a lot of game experience and maybe was more comfortable managing the game. I'm pretty sure the play calling changed for him as well, probably running a simpler package. I think JKS in the right system is a superstar. It's obvious that Somerville's system does not showcase JKS's incredible talent.
When I look at this game our loss came down to one things: shitty coaching (including shitty coaching decisions). We had 464 total yards compared to UNLV's 350. We were pretty even or had a slight edge in the rest of the categories except for penalties. We were 16 for 147 vs their 7 for 67 in penalties. I will say I think we were the recipient of some marginal calls and missed calls (the tackle that put JKS out of the game should have been called a roughing the passer IMHO). Our play calling sucked at critical times. I believe Somerville was calling the plays. He went to outside and bubble screens way too often. And who runs into an 8 man box on 3rd and 4 and 4th and 2? Absolutely idiotic play calling.
This team never has it all together. It seems that as the coaches fix one problem another arises. This week is was penalties and arm tackling (again). That's a sign of a staff that has no idea how to create a program that constantly enforces the basics/fundamentals while teaching the finer points of technique and play schemes. This team doesn't get better overall from week to week, it regresses in some areas while perhaps improving in others. The net result is a team that is not good.
If, as I have heard the donors/boosters were the ones who back the choice of Tosh versus a proven HC (like Bob Chesney at UCLA with his 4-0 record versus tougher competition), they have no one to blame but themselves. I am befuddled how RR could agree with Tosh's decision to hire two rookie coordinators. This is classic CAL making a decision to go for it but shooting themselves in the foot.
Our coaching is a real problem. It is the problem.
The big question is: are we going to live with this for 3 or 4 more years?
Thank you, always look forward to your input.
At the risk of being criticized for being overly optimistic the following observations are offered….(1) appreciate the on side kick called by Lupoi to open the 2nd half down 24-7, (2) appreciate all the 4th down calls, (3) appreciate the play of the offense with Br at qb, (4) appreciate excellent ST play, (4) appreciate running of all our RBs, (5) appreciate the aggressiveness of the defense overall. The message given by Lupoi etc is that the Bears will be dangerous and risk taking to the end. The screw ups were obvious. The refs were outrageously inconsistent (which let UNLV off the hook on a cheap shot that knocked JKS out of the game and took out Cal’s safety and lock down CB out of the game while allowing UNLV to get away with multiple late hits and taunting while calling Cal WRs for phantom holding penalties, but multiple unforced penalties were killers. The team is now decimated by injuries to the starters. Perhaps Lupoi’s take no prisoners aggressiveness can save the day while building a favorable reputation to keep his recruits, but very risky territory. This may be the “culture” he’s trying to build. There is no play book for what’s he’s doing.
Thanks to draftkings and CTE, my football fandom is already marginal, this season may end up killing it.
Cal football is giving everyone brain damage from the players to the fans.
Not sure what else to say.
Futbol can break your heart, too. Just sayin’.
Luckily I had the Dodger game to listen to while repairing the hay barn, occasionally peeking through fingers covering my eyes at the Cal score. What a disappointing season we have so far.
The reality is that you have to make a quick splash nowadays. The days of program building are over. I do think this staff did an excellent job of building excitement ...but maybe not such a good job at tempering expectations.
It would have been amazing if they could have pulled an instantaneous change in performance (or at least not be worse). But should we really write a first time head coach off after five games? Given it don't look too good out on the field and we don't really have time to mess around in this shark tank..but I think we are seeing REALITY play out here.
Many people noted the inexperience of the staff...and maybe we were naive to hope that our OL would develop into something better than it was. Been a long time since we had pro talent on the OL! That's hard to change in the portal in one year.
I just want us to save face so Tosh can hang onto some of these recruits. Time will tell if Tosh can run a program, but dude is a GOLD star recruiter! I think he built his staff more around recruiting. He should have surrounded himself with an experienced offensive coordinator, so he can focus on what he does best.
It's not impossible that the team improves. It starts by playing the QB that fits the system...rather than being a one man team.
Dude is a gold star salesman.
Recruiting top talent to the likes of
Georgia, Alabama, Oregon, Washington is not the same as enticing young top shelf guys to a 2-10 team, or maybe 4-8. We will see how recruiting goes this winter.
Honestly, if we have a coaching change it’ll have to be Ron for a couple of years to right the ship (something I wanted from the beginning but can see why he would say no initially).
What halfway decent coach would want to step into this hot mess? Especially if we get rid of Tosh after only one year.
I don't think RR is the right guy for the coaching job. Coaching college vs. the pros is night and day. We need a proven winner in the P4 level.
Maybe I’m a dreamer but if they had the right ppl involved in the search and the organizational/systemic dysfunction straightened out, maybe it wouldn’t be such a hard sell. Yes a great coach who has turned a team around is expensive but for someone who likes challenges-and the West Coast-that’s a big one.
We’re imploding
We have 3 games coming up against 4-1 teams (Va Tech, WF, SMU), then 3-2 NC state. We could exit October 2-7, sliding to Furd and BC level. We WILL be relegated if the program doesn't turn around - and maybe to the Mountain West or the shell of the Pac 10. If that happens, the only thing filling up CMS will be concerts by Paul McCartney and other bands. BTW, I also thought Brosseau looked way better than JKS today - how is that even possible???