I wonder what Knowlton is thinking right now. Those payments for the Stadium renovation are looming large. And they can't sell it, becuase who would buy it? You can't do evening concerts there.
No, he's thinking about how he fills the stadium and sells merchandise to pay the bills. So are our rich alums. It's time for a change and our financial situation is going to push us to be all in. That's the one thing about losing that maybe the blessing in disguise.
Like Wilcox, Sirmon is a man of great character, but he is entirely predictable. His defense is always about probable statistical outcome. You know in any situation what he is going to do, even if he dials up different coverages. So you change it up. Not hard to call plays against that.
I left the house and came back to restart the game late in First quarter. Suffered through it till middle of the Third quarter. Then I clicked it off and checked the score just now.
#&$#@+-%$! But not surprising. How many more seasons of this crap do I have to endure.
Jeez, it's not about Mendoza! It's about giving him the time to throw the ball. It's about designing plays to get receivers open. Our O-line and OC let us down today. Mendoza is fine.
No. He runs a pro style offense. You can't run that in college any more and expect to win. Ask Bill Musgrave. We need a spread/air raid coach. Easy to teach, opens up the game.
I wish it was that easy. How much did UW pay Kaelen DeBoer? How much did Oregon pay Lanning. If we want to win, our future head coach needs to be a HC with a incredibly winning record at all levels name from a big program liek DeBoer...or an OC or DC from a program like Oregon, OSU, GA, TN, TX...
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We have one win each in the SEC, Pac-12, Mountain West, and ACC.
That was deflating
game over
Ohhh, great a 2pt play.
Silver lining….lol
Last week we had a double-digit win that wasn't. This week, a 1-score loss that wasn't.
i'll take the garbage time score
Should have slid after he got past the marker. He didn't get clobbered at the end of the play, but he might well have.
Face saving score. 🤷🏻♀️
Two points. Onside kick. Too little too late.
I wonder what Knowlton is thinking right now. Those payments for the Stadium renovation are looming large. And they can't sell it, becuase who would buy it? You can't do evening concerts there.
he's
thinking about what wine to open when he gets back to colorado
Yup
Hes thinking how he can spin another win against Stanford into a successful year.
No, he's thinking about how he fills the stadium and sells merchandise to pay the bills. So are our rich alums. It's time for a change and our financial situation is going to push us to be all in. That's the one thing about losing that maybe the blessing in disguise.
Beat Furd? I hope do, but none of my money would go on the Bears after the second quarter’s performance today.
Hopefully Rich Lyons is Chancellor H1M
Another.
Bad.
Wilcox.
Loss.
can we return to the Pac-X?
Grant of rights
Declare bankruptcy?
There's only one way to come back from the game and what we do is to run the clock down...
Lmfao imagine being down 2 TDs with 2 minutes left and casually playing out of the huddle only to get sacked anyway. Absolute disaster.
Such a poorly coached ballclub.
There’s actually a path to finishing LAST in the ACC this year,
This game makes a train wreck seem upbeat. What a disaster. But I am staying to the end.
This turned out opposite of what I hoped in a post. I thought Scuse would have 17 not the Bears
Wilcox literally hasn’t improved the program at all in almost 10 years. Same exact tier of shit sandwich he inherited
I'd argue it's worse. The first couple years at least had the suffocating defense
DeRuyter
Like Wilcox, Sirmon is a man of great character, but he is entirely predictable. His defense is always about probable statistical outcome. You know in any situation what he is going to do, even if he dials up different coverages. So you change it up. Not hard to call plays against that.
I guess he sucks a little more agreeably than Dykes but that’s about it
Not even. Dykes at least gave us hope that we could score consistently.
Agreed.
Wilcox is way worse imo.
I mean personality-wise, I don’t like anything about him whatsoever from a pure football perspective but he does seem like a nice enough guy
I left the house and came back to restart the game late in First quarter. Suffered through it till middle of the Third quarter. Then I clicked it off and checked the score just now.
#&$#@+-%$! But not surprising. How many more seasons of this crap do I have to endure.
It's not just the review center, it's the COMMAND center.
And they’re heading for the exits in droves.
Um, least it’s not raining! ☀️
Now they are embarrassing us...
Only now?
No more “what ifs” about this season. We are not a good football team.
If we were in last years pac-12 we’d have a worse record and the losses wouldn’t have been close.
I was thinking the same. This team in the Pac 12 north would struggle to win 4 games.
We should be 7-3, but yeah, we aren't good. The best team we've beaten is still Auburn, who isn't good.
I'm pretty sad about this game.
Same.
1-5 in a weaker conference
Yeah the record may end up the same but they definitely got worse this year
At a time that every season will matter for the coming super conferences. Stupid stupid administration, short sighted.
How many tackles could have been made to prevent a first. It's nuts
We found out what the team looks like when Mendoza isn’t on point and its not good.
The defense in the first half was also shambolic.
He’s bailed us out all year on offense. As he goes the offense goes.
Totally exposed after a 3-0 start.
Jeez, it's not about Mendoza! It's about giving him the time to throw the ball. It's about designing plays to get receivers open. Our O-line and OC let us down today. Mendoza is fine.
Mendoza has been able to paper over the line issues somewhat by getting it out so fast. When he’s off then…this…
Might also be a matter of DB's playing very close knowing that Mendoza will never get enough time to throw it deep.
Rotting zombie
If 9 had driven the runner back instead of trying to strip the ball it looked like we might have stopped them short there.
I’ll be surprised if we got the ball back
We are getting it back! (Yeah it's a 3-possession game)
Maybe not yet.
We’ll give up the td in time
Well, at least our soccer teams are outperforming expectations
Who will be our next head coach?
Brennan Marion, UNLV OC.
Wilcox youngest son in 2045 when he finally passes on the next extension we offer him.
😭
Ron Rivera
No! We need an up and coming Coordinator who brings the discipline and enthusiasm of a Sanders.
No. He runs a pro style offense. You can't run that in college any more and expect to win. Ask Bill Musgrave. We need a spread/air raid coach. Easy to teach, opens up the game.
Agree, we don't have the OL development to run a pro style offense.
he's a god fit for the defense, no reason he can't bring in a spread guy for the O
Now that's a great thought. But I'd still rather find a fiery younger guy like Coach Prime.
fwiw riverboat ron is only 5 years older than primetime…62 and 57.
next CAL coach should be no older than 30…maybe 35. that’s how we will find a diamond in the rough that we can afford after wilcox buyout.
I wish it was that easy. How much did UW pay Kaelen DeBoer? How much did Oregon pay Lanning. If we want to win, our future head coach needs to be a HC with a incredibly winning record at all levels name from a big program liek DeBoer...or an OC or DC from a program like Oregon, OSU, GA, TN, TX...
We’ll have to go the coordinator route, we don’t have the money with our “anything to stay in a power conference” acc deal for anything splashy.
You mean in like five years?
Mendoza doesn’t have confidence to come from behind
He has plenty of confidence. He has no o-line and so doesn't have time to throw the ball.
c'mon, beat the East Coast Biasarchy!
OKay, who had 3-n-out when we absolutely needed a TD on their BINGO cards?
Mendoza is ever the optimist holding the ball that long with this line...
If we somehow manage to hold on to Jaron he should start for this team next year.
I like how you couldn't pull yourself away 😀
Jaron?
Gold Bar Whiskey, much?
Until he officially decommits…
Oh, wait, was that the 4 star QB that was committed to us?
Ya.
Love Nando. He'll be even better next year.
The game is mostly over...
Okay, all over now.
Completely over unless we get an immediate stop and our coaches get their heads out of their ….
Not ‘mostly’
Brilliant play call...NOT!!
Give us something D!
why not us? GO BEARS!!
Eh, we're still in it, but holy hell that first half was hideous.
Again, only a CAL fan can find sunshine in a pile of shit. :-)
Sunshine reflecting
We are alive at least
How do you figure? We are 13 points behind with 11.25 to go.
With the ball and have at least in the past shown the ability to score quickly. We’re alive.
Aaaand then we run up the middle on 2nd and 10.
Ya ignore me. I forgot about our coaching.
Our play calling is so two dimensional. There is no creativity. It's brutal. Bloesch has no answers...
We're alive until the final gun and I hope we come back and win. But at CAL we are full of hopium...
Run The Play!
More like zombie
Their receivers bring the wood on blocks
Indeed
Because they have a coach who demands it and won't settle for less.
Now, Cuse salts the game... or tries
Prayer for DPI I guess? Not a good decision.
Well, we still need 2 TDs but we don't need 2-point conversions.
Like I said, CAL fans can find sunshine in a pile of shit... ;-)
so many baffling decisions in this game
Are you surprised? You know, I was not impressed with Oregon when they hired Lanning, but hell, he calls a flipping great game.
seems like it's getting worse, maybe desperation setting in
Fuckin McDonald standing in the backfield while his RB gets tackled. WTF?
There's the old Jaydn!
Still not back to previous top end speed. But I like what he did shoes kn that run
True!
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