All I have to say is Berkely, a once great city school 50 years ago has lots of money. Now home to bums, drug addicts, and criminals.. Berkeley, Oakland and most of the coast is a liberal failure. Officially a shi$ hole.
50 years of watching this team. Same old crap. Watched 10 min of 3rd quarter and could see team was floundering as usual. Turned off and went to bed. Face it, we just can’t consistently attract great talent. We have a good year now and then if the stars aline. Last time we went to the Rose Bowl - 1959??- 62 years ago! Maybe we should be in a Div 2 conference.
DBs got owned. No pressure on qb. #21 to small and way too slow. Garbers inaccurate. Did they even throw to the TE? I’ve sat thru 47 years of this shit now. Always some excuse. Punter must have averaged 35 yds gross. PK can’t hit at 40. Yds. I’ve got better way to spend my Saturday. Just don’t care anymore. Maybe time to move on.
Worst loss of the Wilcox era. No one in my section could figure what Musgrave was trying to do. We run the ball well and then he switches to idiotic calls of 4 yard pass plays. Chase has regressed. Musgrave should be fired tomorrow. Can't even complete a single pass down the field without having it picked off. I've now lost faith in Wilcox with two straight bonehead OC hires. I hope we do the right thing and fire Wilcox if he can't do better than 5-7 this season, painful as it might be. Entering his fifth year he is 1-4 in his last 5 games.
If we can't hire Tedford as OC, can we hire Tedford as a "consultant" who can phantom develop our qbs? I feel like Tedford will do well as an OC. Less stress so hopefully no adverse impact to his health, and he's a good offensive mind. Our best coach in 50+ years, and look at what he did for Fresno state.
My wife (a Bruin) caught me rooting for LSU and she put a voodoo hex on Cal before the game started. That shit works! She walked into the room right when Cal was attempting that field goal to bring them within three AND THEY MISSED! Please send me any suggestions for breaking a football voodoo hex or Cal is doomed!
That crossed my mind but, even though she is a Bruin, she is still a keeper! I'm going to a sport bar next weekend to escape the bad mojo in my house. Maybe that will turn Cal's fortunes around.
Can we finally agree we need to find a better QB than Garbers? Please!?! He has not improved whatsoever under a new OC. He can’t throw downfield, he cannot throw under pressure.
Worst coaching EVER! Wilcox should be ashamed and apologize to the team.
Fire Charlie Ragle tomorrow. He is NOT a Special Teams coach, period.
We have talented players. Our coaching is letting us down.
I feel confident Dykes could beat this Nevada team. Sure it would be 55-52 and the game wouldn’t end until midnight but it would have been exciting and we would have won.
Somebody said Musgrave wouldn’t open up the play book do the other P-12 teams wouldn’t know what’s coming. It sure turned out they were right. No trickeration tonight, Nosiree!
That was an absolute shit-show. Fire Musgrave now! The offensive play calling was absolutely rock-bottom after the first quarter. What does Musgrave have against the run? Same thing last year against Oregon State. Cal has the ball first and goal inside the nine yard line with all of its timeouts and on first down he calls for a PASS?!?! Ball deflected, intercepted and that's it. I think that Musgrave's best days are behind him. Also, on the defensive side of the ball, we couldn't get any pressure on Strong. I wonder if we are going to miss 'Root a lot more than we think. Uggghh....Shoot me now.
It worked once but overall, Cal was flat-out terrible trying to pass the ball. It's strength on offense is the running game so I have no idea why Musgrave just decided to stop running the ball. Yes, mix things up to keep the defense off guard but stick with the run and keep their offense off the field. As soon as we stopped running the ball, we let Nevada back in the game.
I've never said it on this blog before, but I will say it now. Wilcox is AT BEST a career 500 coach. I don't understand all the fawning over him. The man has an 11-20 record in the Pac 12 and got extremely lucky playing a bunch of weak non conference teams when he started. He does not understand the offensive side of the ball and has now made two bad OC hires. I've never seen Garbers look more confused. Did he complete a pass all night over 10 yards?
I just don’t have any faith in Garbers...the big play is completely missing from our repertoire, and it’s not all on Musgrave, tho he was such a dogschitt hire.
Until we start attracting elite talent, especially at the skill positions (which ain’t happening anytime soon, if ever), there’s a clear ceiling on the program. Wilcox’s coaching style lends itself to unnecessarily close dogfight games that turn on a handful of plays. Tedford would never have lost a home opener to UNR tho...
At least the sunset down by Petco was delightful at the glorious new Rady Shell
Absolutely. Musgraves play calling lost us this game. That’s it. Garbers didn’t play great but he shouldn’t have had to do much more than turnaround and hand it off
At that point we had a lot of time and had put together two solid drives. I never thought the wheels would fall off. Again, totally dismayed with Musgrave's offense and play calling.
All I have to say is Berkely, a once great city school 50 years ago has lots of money. Now home to bums, drug addicts, and criminals.. Berkeley, Oakland and most of the coast is a liberal failure. Officially a shi$ hole.
Trumplican troll!
Dan - please kindly go away unless you want to talk about Cal football.
50 years of watching this team. Same old crap. Watched 10 min of 3rd quarter and could see team was floundering as usual. Turned off and went to bed. Face it, we just can’t consistently attract great talent. We have a good year now and then if the stars aline. Last time we went to the Rose Bowl - 1959??- 62 years ago! Maybe we should be in a Div 2 conference.
DBs got owned. No pressure on qb. #21 to small and way too slow. Garbers inaccurate. Did they even throw to the TE? I’ve sat thru 47 years of this shit now. Always some excuse. Punter must have averaged 35 yds gross. PK can’t hit at 40. Yds. I’ve got better way to spend my Saturday. Just don’t care anymore. Maybe time to move on.
We’ll I’m officially renouncing my Cal fan hood after nearly 30 years
Worst loss of the Wilcox era. No one in my section could figure what Musgrave was trying to do. We run the ball well and then he switches to idiotic calls of 4 yard pass plays. Chase has regressed. Musgrave should be fired tomorrow. Can't even complete a single pass down the field without having it picked off. I've now lost faith in Wilcox with two straight bonehead OC hires. I hope we do the right thing and fire Wilcox if he can't do better than 5-7 this season, painful as it might be. Entering his fifth year he is 1-4 in his last 5 games.
Currently Crying in the student Section
WSU, UW, OSU, Cal and Furd all lost today. We are tied foe 2nd in the division
A real silver-lining if there ever was one.
Who had the most painful loss; Cal or Furd or WSU or UW?
Cal, because that’s where I went and that’s who I root for.
Cal’s is definitely most painful, and the only one I really care about.
Washington’s was devastatingly bad... 22 pt favorites.
If we can't hire Tedford as OC, can we hire Tedford as a "consultant" who can phantom develop our qbs? I feel like Tedford will do well as an OC. Less stress so hopefully no adverse impact to his health, and he's a good offensive mind. Our best coach in 50+ years, and look at what he did for Fresno state.
My wife (a Bruin) caught me rooting for LSU and she put a voodoo hex on Cal before the game started. That shit works! She walked into the room right when Cal was attempting that field goal to bring them within three AND THEY MISSED! Please send me any suggestions for breaking a football voodoo hex or Cal is doomed!
You married a witch.
She has her witchy moments (who doesn't) but she is still a keeper.
Find a new spouse
That crossed my mind but, even though she is a Bruin, she is still a keeper! I'm going to a sport bar next weekend to escape the bad mojo in my house. Maybe that will turn Cal's fortunes around.
Can we finally agree we need to find a better QB than Garbers? Please!?! He has not improved whatsoever under a new OC. He can’t throw downfield, he cannot throw under pressure.
Worst coaching EVER! Wilcox should be ashamed and apologize to the team.
Fire Charlie Ragle tomorrow. He is NOT a Special Teams coach, period.
We have talented players. Our coaching is letting us down.
And where did Brooks disappear to? Injury?
I genuinely don't understand how Ragle wasn't fired immediately after the 2020 Big Game.
Wilcox! Wilcox decided to hire Musgrave in 2019 and doubled down by keeping Ragle in 2020.
I'm not defending Wilcox. I just can't wrap my head around it.
I was hoping Wilcox could be Tedford 2.0. Really like the guy but I just don’t think he can be more than a 7-6 guy.
Feels about right. Now I’m Hoping for 7-6.
He isn’t even half of Tedford. He is more like Dykes than Tedford.
At least Dykes scored TDs
I feel confident Dykes could beat this Nevada team. Sure it would be 55-52 and the game wouldn’t end until midnight but it would have been exciting and we would have won.
Yeah, but an upper half MW team would be Dykes’ best win. At least this iteration gives us some quality wins: ‘furd, SC, UW, UO
I enjoyed those wins against Texas. Dykes also beat UW. I’ll give you Sc, furd and UO.
He’s the anti-dykes. All defense no offense
I prefer upside down Dykes.
Yeah but his defenses were twice as bad as Wilcoxs. It’s a push at special teams as both Dykes and Wilcox have about equally bad special teams.
Somebody said Musgrave wouldn’t open up the play book do the other P-12 teams wouldn’t know what’s coming. It sure turned out they were right. No trickeration tonight, Nosiree!
The first quarter was the winning playbook. What happened? Eight in the box?
That was an absolute shit-show. Fire Musgrave now! The offensive play calling was absolutely rock-bottom after the first quarter. What does Musgrave have against the run? Same thing last year against Oregon State. Cal has the ball first and goal inside the nine yard line with all of its timeouts and on first down he calls for a PASS?!?! Ball deflected, intercepted and that's it. I think that Musgrave's best days are behind him. Also, on the defensive side of the ball, we couldn't get any pressure on Strong. I wonder if we are going to miss 'Root a lot more than we think. Uggghh....Shoot me now.
What about the empty backfield to get out of the end zone? With Garbers throwing? Seriously? 🤦♂️
It worked once but overall, Cal was flat-out terrible trying to pass the ball. It's strength on offense is the running game so I have no idea why Musgrave just decided to stop running the ball. Yes, mix things up to keep the defense off guard but stick with the run and keep their offense off the field. As soon as we stopped running the ball, we let Nevada back in the game.
If you look at the stats the difference in this game was two things: Big Plays and Red Zone Convesrions.
And that's how we lost the game.
Bummer those are factors in who wins the game.
Which ones did Cal do?
Lolol sadness
I’d add good OC vs bad OC too.
It is time for Wilcox to go. He is 0-2 in hiring OCs. Special teams are still and under him. He is like Tedford, just without all the winning.
Could not agree more!
Could have/should have run for 300 yds tonight.
Shudda fell asleep after Q1
I've never said it on this blog before, but I will say it now. Wilcox is AT BEST a career 500 coach. I don't understand all the fawning over him. The man has an 11-20 record in the Pac 12 and got extremely lucky playing a bunch of weak non conference teams when he started. He does not understand the offensive side of the ball and has now made two bad OC hires. I've never seen Garbers look more confused. Did he complete a pass all night over 10 yards?
In the first quarter in spite of pass interference
Dude, people hold water and dawn for him like he is Tedford or has the early winning seasons and success of Tedford.
he actually did
Hire Tedford for OC?
Proven qb developer. Less stress on tenfold so he won't quit due to health reasons. I support this.
We got spanked by a MWC team that’s been living out of a bus for 3 weeks because they got smoked out of their stadium. What an absolute joke.
Three quarters… three points. Not gonna lead to good results.
Whatever happed to IF Garbers starts and finishes the game
I just don’t have any faith in Garbers...the big play is completely missing from our repertoire, and it’s not all on Musgrave, tho he was such a dogschitt hire.
Chase is not the answer. Sigh.
Absolutely dismayed with Musgrave's offense and play calling.
I'm so glad I didn't make the trip for this.
I came so close to buying flights. Thank god. Sac state and Stanford might be it for me this year.
The flight was around $900 for Orange County to SFO and I was still thinking to buy it.
Fire Musgrave!! Too soon??
Fire Wilcox? Too soon? It is year 5.
Until we start attracting elite talent, especially at the skill positions (which ain’t happening anytime soon, if ever), there’s a clear ceiling on the program. Wilcox’s coaching style lends itself to unnecessarily close dogfight games that turn on a handful of plays. Tedford would never have lost a home opener to UNR tho...
At least the sunset down by Petco was delightful at the glorious new Rady Shell
Nah dog. I feel like we are watching tedford decline without all the fun years before it.
Too late actuallt
Too late.
Well, my yearly optimism has been crushed. At least I don’t have to stay up late for the games this year.
The defense played well enough to win, the offense didn't.
Not that many defenses will hold the Pack to 22 this year.
The Bears shouldn't be shut out thru three quarters ever.
I wouldn’t say the defense had a great game. Nevada stopped themselves more than we stopped them.
You got beat, too much Berzerkly mary Jane for you.
Worst coached game I have ever seen. oops since Holmoe.
Absolutely. Musgraves play calling lost us this game. That’s it. Garbers didn’t play great but he shouldn’t have had to do much more than turnaround and hand it off
Did Nevada just throw eight in the box and dare Garbers to make a play?
The scorecard should be fun….
I liked Beau Baldwins offense better than Musgrave's.
We suck. Rugbear probably thinks we can still win this game
NOPE.
When they were scoring unanswered points, I wrote we are going to lose, and you replied "LOL" and "chill"
At that point we had a lot of time and had put together two solid drives. I never thought the wheels would fall off. Again, totally dismayed with Musgrave's offense and play calling.
Rugbear is an ultimate sunshine pumper. He will still back Musgrave and Wilcox even after this loss and after a losing season.
I like Wilcox. Not happy with Musgrave at this point.
Musgrave was an unimaginatively blah hire...damn Eugene connection.
What a shitshow
We suck. Two maybe three win team.
Offense is garbage.
That hurry up drill was terrible
Guh, more horizontal offense.
This is so cal. We won’t even get a first.
??? is that call?
Throw it down the middle. Not dinks
Really. Checking down in a 2 min drill…
That’s on Garbers. Sigh, SMH.
Hahaha so. Much. Holding.
One 2am Washington drive please?
For all that, we're still in it.
Yeah man. Let’s see if Garbers can steal one
I can't believe we are still technically in this.
Good deke by Nikko
So for the first time tonight I’ll say it, probably should pass on this next drive…
Watch Musgrave run with Brooks down the middle
In fairness, it would probably work.
Nevada: play to win the game.
Cal: play to not lose... or maybe just play to lose.
Nevada has mostly been playing not to lose on the last two possessions.
Quick let’s go deep on first down!
Well at least my weed smoking habit never lets me down…..
Loos like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue