If you check out the Oregon personnel on the field when Milner was in you'd see that there were few backups in for the Ducks. Nix never came out nor did most of the D players. He performed MUCH better under duress than Plummer. He is quicker to make decisions and he is MOBILE. Every winning college team has MOBILE QB's.
I have little doubt Wilcox will start Plummer in the USC game as long as he came make it to the huddle. Aside from that, I am now convinced that Wilcox is mirroring Holmoe into coaching oblivion. .
I found it insightful to look at Holmoe's second to last season at Cal when his team finished 3-8. Like Wilcox, the team played a lot very close games that year. You can easily make the argument that 2000 team was far more exciting than this version. Cal beat No 13 UCLA that year and lost to No. 6 Oregon 25-17 in the second to last game of the season. The Bears scored 46, 24, 28, 32, 17 and 30 points in their last six games, not one of them a blow-out. (Just a fact check, but Cal has scored 9, 13, 21 and 24 points in its last four losses.)
I think the bottom falls out on programs when the players don't see any forward thinking vision or ability to make paradigm shifts when things are not working. We know there was some talent on that 1-10 2001 team because Tedford instantly turned them into winners the next season. Same situation now. Wilcox will have new coaches, but won't change anything because he is innately afraid of change.
"To the extent that this season isn’t already over, the only two things Cal fans can realistically get excited about is 1) seeing younger players get an opportunity to develop and 2) maybe beating Stanford."
Now is the time to develop that depth that has so badly been missing this year. Get the young guys in so there’s hope of a decent 2-deep next year. At least that’s the only interesting thing left for this season.
There was no fight from the team or the coaches. When there was 7 and a half minutes left in the game after scoring- when down a few possessions, we should’ve tried an on side kick to try to gain more momentum and go out with a fight. Instead, we got a bad low hanging kick and a defense that couldn’t stop Oregon on 3rd and long which lead to another duck td. This team is poorly coached. Coaching to win is not in their motto. They are not coaching a game- they are coaching scrimmage.
Random observation, but I missed most of the Sonny Dykes era, and I’m watching some of these games for the first time. Tonight’s selection is the 2016 Texas game. For as ugly as our team has played this year, a Sonny Dykes defense is truly a dumpster fire to behold. I’m into the second quarter and I can’t believe they end up winning this game.
Harsin coached with Wilcox at Boise State 2001–2002 and 2006–2009. Harsin is a QB coach at heart, has won championships, was a poor fit at Auburn, and I'm sure has buyout language that makes the financials work.
"Unless something unexpectedly changes about this team, the rest of the season is about adding insult to injury." Yep. Appreciate your efforts despite the pain of doing so.
TIL new world monkeys have prehensile tails while old world monkeys have regular ol' useless tails
If you check out the Oregon personnel on the field when Milner was in you'd see that there were few backups in for the Ducks. Nix never came out nor did most of the D players. He performed MUCH better under duress than Plummer. He is quicker to make decisions and he is MOBILE. Every winning college team has MOBILE QB's.
I have little doubt Wilcox will start Plummer in the USC game as long as he came make it to the huddle. Aside from that, I am now convinced that Wilcox is mirroring Holmoe into coaching oblivion. .
I found it insightful to look at Holmoe's second to last season at Cal when his team finished 3-8. Like Wilcox, the team played a lot very close games that year. You can easily make the argument that 2000 team was far more exciting than this version. Cal beat No 13 UCLA that year and lost to No. 6 Oregon 25-17 in the second to last game of the season. The Bears scored 46, 24, 28, 32, 17 and 30 points in their last six games, not one of them a blow-out. (Just a fact check, but Cal has scored 9, 13, 21 and 24 points in its last four losses.)
I think the bottom falls out on programs when the players don't see any forward thinking vision or ability to make paradigm shifts when things are not working. We know there was some talent on that 1-10 2001 team because Tedford instantly turned them into winners the next season. Same situation now. Wilcox will have new coaches, but won't change anything because he is innately afraid of change.
"To the extent that this season isn’t already over, the only two things Cal fans can realistically get excited about is 1) seeing younger players get an opportunity to develop and 2) maybe beating Stanford."
#2 is never a maybe
Now is the time to develop that depth that has so badly been missing this year. Get the young guys in so there’s hope of a decent 2-deep next year. At least that’s the only interesting thing left for this season.
There was no fight from the team or the coaches. When there was 7 and a half minutes left in the game after scoring- when down a few possessions, we should’ve tried an on side kick to try to gain more momentum and go out with a fight. Instead, we got a bad low hanging kick and a defense that couldn’t stop Oregon on 3rd and long which lead to another duck td. This team is poorly coached. Coaching to win is not in their motto. They are not coaching a game- they are coaching scrimmage.
We got enough pieces on the field to win games. Hopefully, they don't head to the portal after the season. Troy Taylor....guess what, they won again!
Random observation, but I missed most of the Sonny Dykes era, and I’m watching some of these games for the first time. Tonight’s selection is the 2016 Texas game. For as ugly as our team has played this year, a Sonny Dykes defense is truly a dumpster fire to behold. I’m into the second quarter and I can’t believe they end up winning this game.
Hire Bryan Harsin for OC.
Harsin coached with Wilcox at Boise State 2001–2002 and 2006–2009. Harsin is a QB coach at heart, has won championships, was a poor fit at Auburn, and I'm sure has buyout language that makes the financials work.
Harsin for OC.
Thanks Nick. Yet another rough article to write, and read.
More Monkey Facts! ... please ...
"Unless something unexpectedly changes about this team, the rest of the season is about adding insult to injury." Yep. Appreciate your efforts despite the pain of doing so.