Just watched the last PAC-12 CAL-U$C Game. What should have been a famous victory leaving us with forever bragging rights was instead a calamitous collapse.
First, I have to give a shout out to the Players. They played their hearts out. They made lots of mistakes, but they came back every time instead of rolling over. I'm proud of and gut…
Just watched the last PAC-12 CAL-U$C Game. What should have been a famous victory leaving us with forever bragging rights was instead a calamitous collapse.
First, I have to give a shout out to the Players. They played their hearts out. They made lots of mistakes, but they came back every time instead of rolling over. I'm proud of and gutted for them at the same time. They deserved to win.
But they made so many mistakes that point straight at Coaching. The taunting penalty when we were driving gave them life and sucked it from us. I didn't think we'd recover from it. But they did. But the turnovers borne off not cradling the football properly were devastating.
Yet even then we persevered. And damn if we didn't come back and score and have a chance to win on a 2pt conversion. Regardless of outcome, I agreed with the decision to go for it. But where was our special play for that exact circumstance? We didn't have one. Just a straightforward drop back and hope someone ran open. Every Team has a one off 2pt play they practice to win a game. It's something the opposition will never have seen on tape. Except us.
For letting the Team down by not having them perfect the fundamentals and not having a can't miss 2pt Conversion play to win the game - Coach Wilcox has to go to put an end to the era of never being quite good enough. I hope we start life in the ACC with a clean coaching slate.
For those that were at the game it must have been amazing, probably the best atmosphere in years right up until the final moments.
I am a retired High School and College football coach and your comment on teaching how to "cradle" a football is taught from the very first day of JV football in high school and repeated by EVERY coach throughout a players football career. You ridiculously blamed the coaches for the fumbles. The trouble with Cal and Stanford is the fact they don't have the NIL money resources to recruit the top players in the portal and high school. Also, their academic standard are much high than most other colleges.
As for 5 Star success. Colorado’s not running the table. We are still being punished for Tedford’s APR. Yes, my guess is we could have players like Bear Alexander, if we made more academic exceptions.
Sorry, but you can't pin this one on the coaches. Offense rolled up 49 points despite giving up 4 turnovers. Yes, the defense gave up 50, but $c started multiple drives well into Cal territory, including from the 18 after Hunter's back breaking fumble. And for the first time all season, special teams were excellent.
Just watched the last PAC-12 CAL-U$C Game. What should have been a famous victory leaving us with forever bragging rights was instead a calamitous collapse.
First, I have to give a shout out to the Players. They played their hearts out. They made lots of mistakes, but they came back every time instead of rolling over. I'm proud of and gutted for them at the same time. They deserved to win.
But they made so many mistakes that point straight at Coaching. The taunting penalty when we were driving gave them life and sucked it from us. I didn't think we'd recover from it. But they did. But the turnovers borne off not cradling the football properly were devastating.
Yet even then we persevered. And damn if we didn't come back and score and have a chance to win on a 2pt conversion. Regardless of outcome, I agreed with the decision to go for it. But where was our special play for that exact circumstance? We didn't have one. Just a straightforward drop back and hope someone ran open. Every Team has a one off 2pt play they practice to win a game. It's something the opposition will never have seen on tape. Except us.
For letting the Team down by not having them perfect the fundamentals and not having a can't miss 2pt Conversion play to win the game - Coach Wilcox has to go to put an end to the era of never being quite good enough. I hope we start life in the ACC with a clean coaching slate.
For those that were at the game it must have been amazing, probably the best atmosphere in years right up until the final moments.
I am a retired High School and College football coach and your comment on teaching how to "cradle" a football is taught from the very first day of JV football in high school and repeated by EVERY coach throughout a players football career. You ridiculously blamed the coaches for the fumbles. The trouble with Cal and Stanford is the fact they don't have the NIL money resources to recruit the top players in the portal and high school. Also, their academic standard are much high than most other colleges.
As for 5 Star success. Colorado’s not running the table. We are still being punished for Tedford’s APR. Yes, my guess is we could have players like Bear Alexander, if we made more academic exceptions.
Sorry, but you can't pin this one on the coaches. Offense rolled up 49 points despite giving up 4 turnovers. Yes, the defense gave up 50, but $c started multiple drives well into Cal territory, including from the 18 after Hunter's back breaking fumble. And for the first time all season, special teams were excellent.
Don’t you remember? We used our 2 pt play earlier in the game and it was beautiful. We didnt have two of them tho.