"Wilcox goes back to his roots and accepts the head coaching job at Oregon"......."Justin Wilcox accepts the DC position at Clemson and becomes the highest paid coordinator in football"....Sorry if those two fantasy headlines gets me far more excited than anything that came from the game Saturday night. I am a 35-year fan of Cal football, but I went to bed in the third quarter of the game. Never done that before. The misery index is going to continue for Cal fans as long has he stays. That win was just too ugly to be satisfying against the worst team USC has ever fielded.
I know Wilcox turned them down last time, but that's when times were basically normal. Now that Berkeley is buckling down on COVID (For safety so I respect it), it would be easy for Oregon to double Wilcox's salary. And Wilcox would have less COVID stresses on that level.
I think Wilcox will stay anyway, but its not completely out of the blue if he picks Oregon.
Should Oregun present a bona fide offer to Wilcox, he gone. Should it come to pass, he likely takes Sirmon with him. Then he should poach the Oregun State OL coach. He'll keep the current DL coach at Oregun. Who he hires as OC will be the question (hint: it won't be Musgrave).
I know there are rumors of Wilcox leaving for Oregon and that may not be a wild rumor. Wilcox made significant progress with our team his first three years at CAL and CAL is a tough place to run a program. COVID had a big impact on slowing progress down, especially when Wilcox brought in a new OC with a complicated system. We observed flashes of potential this year, but never seemed to put it all together. I do believe that next year, the continuity in Musgrave's system will pay dividends, whether Garbers comes back or one of the two younger QB's compete for the starting job. I would have to think if Milner is as sharp as Zach Johnson in running the offense and making the reads, that his talent gives him the edge in the competition. There are some unspoken things going on right now that NO ONE has articulated. Coach Wilcox's contract expires after the 2023 season. Without an extension for Wilcox recruits will not have a great sense of comfort with regards to Coach Wilcox's standing and future as the Head Coach of the CAL Football team. Bluntly, this will hurt our recruiting efforts. Thus, Knowlton needs to make a decision of whether to keep Wilcox and offer him an extension, or go a new direction with a new head coach. I'm sure Knowlton is in discussions right now with the wealthy alums, that underwrite the costs of the program, about what they want. Wilcox has not yet fully proven himself to be the savior of CAL football, but he has shown a real ability to motivate his kids and he has integrity that is hard to find today in the high stakes world of P5 coaches. My thinking is I would like to give him one more year at least, but put him in a position to recruit. Perhaps a contract extension with minimal penalties if he is fired and some performance based incentives would do the trick. The other thing is that despite what we think about his record at CAL, other schools understand what he has to deal with at CAL and many would hire him and give him a nice contract, maybe even Oregon. So, if we are going to keep him, we need to be competitive with our contract for him. Lastly, I think our problems started and ended with O-Line play this year. We have the horses up front to move bodies and protect the QB in passing situations. If I were Wilcox I would be reviewing the playbook with Musgrave to see if they can simplify the number of blocking techniques and schemes required with the goal of creating a friendlier system for Big Uglies who are not pro level talent. The second thing I would do is review film, in depth with Angus, and look at every player and the technique they were supposed to apply on every play. I would ask Angus how he plans to fix the problems. Without a solid plan from Angus, I would start looking for a new O-Line coach. Drawing x's and o's and determining blocking assignments is easy. Getting guys to be fundamentally sound in both technique and assignment responsibility is the hard part, and it's where we have been failing. These failures have kept our offense from playing up to it's potential and have to often meant our defense, as good as it was, spent way too much time on the field. That's my 2 cents.
Also, it will be weeks of Wilcox going to Miami!!!! OMG, which will amount to nothing. Only way Oregon hires Wilcox is if their 1-5 choices all turn them down.
In his four full seasons Wilcox is at exactly .500. The questions is: is that enough of a sample size and if so do we then assume he'll never be more than a .500 coach and thus fire him? Or do we extend him because of the academic improvement , the respect he has earned and the potential we believe the program has under him? Or do we give him another year in which we expect eight or more regular seasons or we move on?
Wither TDR?
PawlOski
just now
Be interesting to see if DeRuyter follows Cristobal or is a candidate to replace him.
Let's have Heyward go and poach KT. Boomage + KT on the ends = massive destruction.
"Wilcox goes back to his roots and accepts the head coaching job at Oregon"......."Justin Wilcox accepts the DC position at Clemson and becomes the highest paid coordinator in football"....Sorry if those two fantasy headlines gets me far more excited than anything that came from the game Saturday night. I am a 35-year fan of Cal football, but I went to bed in the third quarter of the game. Never done that before. The misery index is going to continue for Cal fans as long has he stays. That win was just too ugly to be satisfying against the worst team USC has ever fielded.
I know Wilcox turned them down last time, but that's when times were basically normal. Now that Berkeley is buckling down on COVID (For safety so I respect it), it would be easy for Oregon to double Wilcox's salary. And Wilcox would have less COVID stresses on that level.
I think Wilcox will stay anyway, but its not completely out of the blue if he picks Oregon.
i want TDR back
The foolish Irish made the bad move of scheduling Cal as a noncon game, which guarantees them a down season.
Should Oregun present a bona fide offer to Wilcox, he gone. Should it come to pass, he likely takes Sirmon with him. Then he should poach the Oregun State OL coach. He'll keep the current DL coach at Oregun. Who he hires as OC will be the question (hint: it won't be Musgrave).
I know there are rumors of Wilcox leaving for Oregon and that may not be a wild rumor. Wilcox made significant progress with our team his first three years at CAL and CAL is a tough place to run a program. COVID had a big impact on slowing progress down, especially when Wilcox brought in a new OC with a complicated system. We observed flashes of potential this year, but never seemed to put it all together. I do believe that next year, the continuity in Musgrave's system will pay dividends, whether Garbers comes back or one of the two younger QB's compete for the starting job. I would have to think if Milner is as sharp as Zach Johnson in running the offense and making the reads, that his talent gives him the edge in the competition. There are some unspoken things going on right now that NO ONE has articulated. Coach Wilcox's contract expires after the 2023 season. Without an extension for Wilcox recruits will not have a great sense of comfort with regards to Coach Wilcox's standing and future as the Head Coach of the CAL Football team. Bluntly, this will hurt our recruiting efforts. Thus, Knowlton needs to make a decision of whether to keep Wilcox and offer him an extension, or go a new direction with a new head coach. I'm sure Knowlton is in discussions right now with the wealthy alums, that underwrite the costs of the program, about what they want. Wilcox has not yet fully proven himself to be the savior of CAL football, but he has shown a real ability to motivate his kids and he has integrity that is hard to find today in the high stakes world of P5 coaches. My thinking is I would like to give him one more year at least, but put him in a position to recruit. Perhaps a contract extension with minimal penalties if he is fired and some performance based incentives would do the trick. The other thing is that despite what we think about his record at CAL, other schools understand what he has to deal with at CAL and many would hire him and give him a nice contract, maybe even Oregon. So, if we are going to keep him, we need to be competitive with our contract for him. Lastly, I think our problems started and ended with O-Line play this year. We have the horses up front to move bodies and protect the QB in passing situations. If I were Wilcox I would be reviewing the playbook with Musgrave to see if they can simplify the number of blocking techniques and schemes required with the goal of creating a friendlier system for Big Uglies who are not pro level talent. The second thing I would do is review film, in depth with Angus, and look at every player and the technique they were supposed to apply on every play. I would ask Angus how he plans to fix the problems. Without a solid plan from Angus, I would start looking for a new O-Line coach. Drawing x's and o's and determining blocking assignments is easy. Getting guys to be fundamentally sound in both technique and assignment responsibility is the hard part, and it's where we have been failing. These failures have kept our offense from playing up to it's potential and have to often meant our defense, as good as it was, spent way too much time on the field. That's my 2 cents.
Shocking, Miami is in bad shape. They don’t get the type of institutional support or money as Oregon.
Also, it will be weeks of Wilcox going to Miami!!!! OMG, which will amount to nothing. Only way Oregon hires Wilcox is if their 1-5 choices all turn them down.
In his four full seasons Wilcox is at exactly .500. The questions is: is that enough of a sample size and if so do we then assume he'll never be more than a .500 coach and thus fire him? Or do we extend him because of the academic improvement , the respect he has earned and the potential we believe the program has under him? Or do we give him another year in which we expect eight or more regular seasons or we move on?
Can we poach any recruits that had planned to go to Oregon? How about a few in the transfer portal from USC?
Tedford is among the 6 candidates Wilner thinks Oregon should consider. That made me laugh.