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The good, the bad, and the ugly. Don't know what we'll get but it ain't likely to be pretty.

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Yeah I wouldnt want to see us either. Im only watching those 3 non P12 Network games along with the Santa Clara game and that is it.

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It doesn’t matter when or which network they are on. This might be the worst team any of us have ever seen play for the Bears. I hope I’m wrong. Face palm Oski every game seems likely.

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I'm gonna have to watch these games with a sense of dark humor.

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I feel like we're lucky the Pac-12 Network (and ESPN's equivalent, ESPNU) are still willing to televise Cal basketball.

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I don't follow basketball as much as football... buy Mark Fox is still our coach?!

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I finally gave up COMCAST and with it the Pac-12 Network. I don't know if the fact that I can't watch all but three Bears MBB games is punishment or salvation.

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Well if you want to still see them, Sling offers Pac-12 network (https://www.sling.com/programming/sports/college-football/pacific-12-conference). It's $46/mo total.

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A little pricey. I would be better off having kept Comcast. I feel like I should be able to buy a Pac-12 sub for $10-15/mo., but the Pac-12 being the Pac-12, of course I can't.

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Pretty much these days the online streaming services are becoming just as bad as cable TV used to be. I just want an a la carte option :/

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Salvation...even if this team manages to cobble together a dozen wins, the games are gonna be sooooo ugly.

The only thing I’ve got my fingers crossed for is that Sam Alajiki is just a freak of an athlete and makes an immediate impact, and that Anyanwu shows he was worthy of 4* rankings. I have zero expectation that Bishop O’Dowd will produce an impact P12 player...Rabb largely underachieved his Mickey D AA status.

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I wouldn't make Ivan the barometer for all O'Dowd prospects. And Ivan was partly a victim of arriving at the wrong time for his game. Had he graduated a few years earlier, he's a lottery pick. Had he been born a couple of years later, he's developed differently and his game becomes a little more perimeter oriented. He got stuck in the middle at a time when the game was transitioning profoundly. I'm a Cuonzo defender, but I don't think he did Ivan any favors either. Had he even after his freshman year, he would have at least got a contract.

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