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justbearly's avatar

I am imagining me happy Friday night after we win the game.

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Paul Cali's avatar

Here's how I summarize Camus' thought: 'Embrace the suck" and rebel against all human injustice that you perceive.

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CalBear91's avatar

Any mention of Camus gets my full attention, as he is one of my greatest heroes. Well done, sir. Besides Myth of Sisyphus, I highly recommend essays in Resistance, Rebellion and Death. It contains the clearest expression of certain important ideals related to humanity I've read. What a loss to humanity that he died too young in a car crash. We are bereft.

As for football, your conclusion nails it. How absurd to try so hard and change so much and yet be so mediocre! It truly doesn't matter why, only that it is.

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Swimmie1's avatar

Crazy. My buddy and I were just walking home from the game and joking that Camus and Sartre were definitely Cal fans. I get home, and read this.

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Rae Moulton's avatar

Who’s next: Solzhenitsyn, Beckett, Kant, Nietche?

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AndyPanda's avatar

"the gravitational pull of what Cal football is". You have recognized a powerful force strong enough to overwhelm most things, and yet largely underappreciated for its influence. It seems to be much easier to copy and paste "Fire Wilcox!" and hit "Post".

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Archon79's avatar

I’m definitely in the “fire Wilcox” camp but its with no ill will because I understand the gravitational forces of the program. Nothing but respect for him and while the epitaph of the Wilcox era hasn’t been completely written yet (these next two games are vital) if and when it does get written it would say, “Really tough circumstances BUT coaches have done more with less”.

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space_lab's avatar

I harbor no ill will towards Wilcox but we are stuck dead in the water as the world changes rapidly around us. I blame Jim Knowlton and the campus leadership that didn’t fire him.

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BearWarg's avatar

Thank you for finding Wilcox's bachelor status of 2022 per the media guide. Now that's what I call sports journalism! Let's hope Wilcox's wife doesn't read WriteForCalifornia

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rising4air's avatar

What's the over-under on hiring James Franklin?

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Joe's avatar

Well, we would be okay beating mediocre teams, but will probably be 0-41 against top-10 ACC teams.

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Rollonyoubears111's avatar

Great article! Fun read.

Cal football is just mental master*ation with masochistic tendencies. Almost an act of futility. Nothing real with come of it because we are static in our philosophies. Unless there’s a huge paradigm shift nothing is going to change.

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bearspot's avatar

In considering the current state of the Wilcox Era, the phrase I can't shake is "the immovable object". Not to go back to Sonny-ball, but I'm kinda thinking that Cal now needs to instead become "the unstoppable force".

And as far as rocks (and rock fights) go, watch the "rock scene" from _Everything, Everywhere, All at Once_. https://youtu.be/2X1sOTg-ivg These rocks are the Cal fanbase and Wilcox.

It's time to roll.

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space_lab's avatar

Those seasons were less successful in a W/L sense, but as a fan I had more fun watching Sonny’s teams.

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Justbear's avatar

I had more fun watching Sonny's offense.

I have more fun watching Wilcox's defense.

I don't remember but I probably had more fun watching Sonny's special teams.

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