Just to let everyone know. That the other Cal football team ⚽ beat #1 Pitt Panthers in the country 1-NIL as they say in soccer last night, for CAL's first win in the ACC. Now it is time for the other football 🏈 team to do the same this afternoon.
Well I’m back. I moved to CO last year but happened to be back in town for both GameDay and the game. What a day. Took me a few days to recover(PawlOski!!), but excited about another BIG GAME!!
This is our 3rd program changing game in a row. So far, we are 0-2. However, I must say, l have a “ good feeling”(Bowlesman 80!!) about today’s game. Let’s flip the script today…Go Bears!!
Biggest mistakes for season: lack of OL depth and letting kicker from last year get away to UCLA no less. Kickers are too under valued at Cal. Bad PK likely means two losses so far.
so many dumb penalties
Come on, Bears! More smart penalties
let's play some boring, clean football
Yep, penalties are killing us
Just to let everyone know. That the other Cal football team ⚽ beat #1 Pitt Panthers in the country 1-NIL as they say in soccer last night, for CAL's first win in the ACC. Now it is time for the other football 🏈 team to do the same this afternoon.
GO BEARS!!!!!!!
go bears!!
Looks like MSOC were in an all white kit as well- setting a good winning trend!
I wasn't aware NIL is that big a factor in NCAA soccer.
LOL!
TIL that NIL has been a thing in soccer for a long time.
Awesome!
GO MSOC BEARS!
the takers!
wth is up with these personal fouls
Yeah, so many face mask calls already
scary stuff. pitt players dropping like flies this quarter
Sorry. Apart from permanent harm- NO QUARTER!
Must feel nice having that luxury for long FGs
He didn't have the Vans
Our o line is garbage
Not crisp.
This is how your HC is 21-39 in conference.
Penal.
This is the Cal footballiest Cal football season yet.
oh boy
good start, defense!!
If you need 1 yard, our running game will get you 1 yard. If you need 2 yards, our running game will get you 1 yard.
harsh. but true.
but if you need 15 yards!.... our running game will get you 1 yard.
No discipline.
Just my thought
Awesome drive and then the coaches give away a point, wtf
head-scratching decision-making
Just brutal.
Just play regular sound football. Giving away any point is not good.
we do... maybe that's why our coach has a .465 career record as HC
18 games below .500 v conference foes.
I like the aggression and different look
Well I’m back. I moved to CO last year but happened to be back in town for both GameDay and the game. What a day. Took me a few days to recover(PawlOski!!), but excited about another BIG GAME!!
This is our 3rd program changing game in a row. So far, we are 0-2. However, I must say, l have a “ good feeling”(Bowlesman 80!!) about today’s game. Let’s flip the script today…Go Bears!!
I appreciate the WFC community!
Go Bears, indeed.
Im sure Wilcox wants to win games more than anyone of us fans. Why is he making decisions that are not going to win him games?
Because he’s not a good head coach. It’s very simple.
He has ZERO feel for the game. He’s formulaic, robotic.
Formula would be tokic PATs, kick FG to win, with worst case OT.
Because he is incompetent.
Because he isn’t a good HC. He is a coordinator who has proven he isn’t HC material.
The scorpion and the frog. It’s his nature.
Another screen, who would a thought.
one score game feels like we are down 4 touchdowns for some reason
The OL is just not good enough to have a consistent offense. Way too many negative plays and too one-dimensional with no inside run game.
Perhaps Wilcox should have hired a dedicated OL coach to help this unit as it has historically struggled under Wilcox.
Yep
it really is the root cause of most of the problems
but if the OL is that bad, why not run wide.. or do quick slants and outs. Why do the exact OL dependent plays like runs down the middle?
enough of the screen passes so close to the line too..
Excellent points...you would think this bozo coach could figure that much out at least. Effing basic reasoning.
yes let's keep sending backs down the middle. go get that 1 yard.
And getting pulled down from behind.
play.. action... pls
Mendoza run option should never be the play call.
Fuck!
Penalty what a killer. Don't need to hold to get one yard
Wilcox doesn’t need more time. He doesn’t need more support. He needs to be fired because bringing him back next season won’t change a thing.
Fire Knowlton
Next game, the opposing team will be favored by one point, but Cal will find a way to lose by 0.5.
Biggest mistakes for season: lack of OL depth and letting kicker from last year get away to UCLA no less. Kickers are too under valued at Cal. Bad PK likely means two losses so far.
Bloescb not capable of both hats.
We should see if Wilson can just drop kick field goals?
How anyone can defend Wilcox after this? He needs to be fired immediately!!!
7 years in a row now that Wilcox has losing streaks of 3 games in a row!!
Because our AD doesn’t understand the strategic blunders of Wilcox and his staff. Which is why he won’t fire him for this shit
Fire this clown coaching staff
This specific loss, 100% on staff.
Which f’g idiot went for 2 in Q1?
Playing for a FG with 1:40 left and a team that can hit it from 60?
This is inexcusable
Seriously! I would respect that loser Wilcox if he went for it on 4th down and lost than settle for that FG.
announcer is trying to make the up the middle runs make sense
I mean the defense got two picks on consecutive possessions and offense went three and out both times. Pathetic
finally. yes keep throwing.
heck just keep throwing to endries.
there is a pattern here...
throw --> yards... he is 18/21
run --> 1 yard.
Cal’s good D sure has Pitt bottle up *cough*
This coaching staff is incompetent.
The decision making today is strange. Going for 2, punting on 4th and 1, QB rotation on this drive…
These are the normal assinine coaching mistakes we've seen over the last 7 seasons with this loser Wilcox
The illegal substitution so you can’t even go for it on 4th & 1…
It’s like they’re a couple of kids playing on PS4.
Wilcox is coaching like a guy who knows he won’t be fired anytime soon.
Honestly I don’t think he knows any other way.
So we've tried getting way ahead and losing late. Maybe we can try to get down and come back and win.
Something new and fresh for us!
I'm starting to feel demoralized
ditto. on the whole season
On the bright side we've got a good punter
he gets a lot of practice
why me/us, etc. etc.
Because we are poorly coached.
Great play from Pitt
Playing to make a statement. Bold. Let’s keep it going!
And the statement would be? "I'm an idiot!"?
We want our first ACC win - let's take it!
Why?
What was that?? Do u really need to for 2 now
1 > 0.
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Woo Hoo! TD JET! Go Bears! 🐻
The Bear never quits! The Bear never dies!
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I will never stop loving my bears. However, the coaching gaffs in this game are beyond reproach. I genuinely like Wilcox…but enough…
Our kicker should never step foot on the field again. I do feel for the kid but he’s clearly in over his head.