I won't predict the outcome of our season. I am optimistic that we will do well, but I will plan on just soaking up and enjoying the college football experience watching my sturdy Golden Bears compete every Saturday. ;-)
Coach Wilcox has been a middle of the pack kind of guy throughout this tenure. The pattern has been to win every non-conference game and then have a losing record in conference with some WTF losses against teams Cal should have handled and some WTF wins against teams they should have lost to.
I don't see anything being any different this year, right around 6-6 or 7-5. Historically, this is not such a bad thing. There has only been one Cal head coach in the last 40 or so years who left the place with a winning record, and he exited with a bad taste in his mouth.
I need to see some consistent offense from a Wilcox coached team to alter my assessment. I have eagerly read every post form the optimists who are saying that Musgrave is the real deal and has a system that will click this year with Garbers finally coming into his own as an NFL ready leader. If true, it's going to be a fun fall.
I am planning on bringing my kids to the games like I do every season, they are younger than the approved age to receive the vaccine. Does anyone know what the policy is for vaccines? Must all in attendance be vaccinated? Are masks going to be mandatory?
I really just want to enjoy the games with my kids and continue to indoctrinate my children to be life-long Cal fans.
I wonder if there will be any improvements to the streaming situation. I'm guessing no... it's probably too late and the ludicrous Sling and Fubo contracts (where you have to pay for a whole-ass redundant TV subscription) are still in place. If George Kliavkoff can deliver a standalone Pac-12 app subscription in the next 3.5 weeks I'll pay daily homage to him as my new God for the entire season.
"[Kliavkoff], if you be the right god for the business here, I call on you to help. If you would [give me this standalone app subscription], then I would kill for you a fine white lamb, or, failing that, if I couldn't get a good one at a decent price, then six pigeons." - Titus Pullo
Thanks for the crystal ball analysis. I think the pendulum could swing either way. A couple of early victories over a scrappy Nevada team and a road game at TCU could help prove that the players' current stance is correct. However if we slip in either of those games we could end-up 5-5 or 5-6.
Oh man, Nick. I just entered all the Cal football dates into my Apple Calendar. The Sac State and TCU kick offs are going to ruin my entire week by being at 3:30am and 4:00am.
Hi, NegaBear2021 reporting in. What's the line on how many games get cancelled due to smoke, covid, or other super awesome modern day phenomenon? Have a grate day. :|
"So: will we get something like the 2020 Bears that we were promised, or something like the 2020 Bears that we actually got, but over a 12 game schedule?"
It's entirely possible that we get both.
It's been popular to cite Cal being "decimated" last year, but the takeaway from that is it didn't take that much to have a decimating affect, which speaks to the combination of depth and experience, or in the Bears case, the lack thereof.
The reason a lot of people are skeptical of Cal this year is the Bears appear to still be perilously thin. A team that Bear fans and players correctly see as capable of pulling off some good stuff (see some recent and relevant wins over UW & Oregon) could also be easily derailed due to relatively few issues compared to some others in the conference. A system designed to win close games also makes narrow losses in some of those close games a greater possibility. Its a formula for a middle of the division finish, and a middle of the road overall record, especially given a pretty tough road schedule.
I won't predict the outcome of our season. I am optimistic that we will do well, but I will plan on just soaking up and enjoying the college football experience watching my sturdy Golden Bears compete every Saturday. ;-)
Coach Wilcox has been a middle of the pack kind of guy throughout this tenure. The pattern has been to win every non-conference game and then have a losing record in conference with some WTF losses against teams Cal should have handled and some WTF wins against teams they should have lost to.
I don't see anything being any different this year, right around 6-6 or 7-5. Historically, this is not such a bad thing. There has only been one Cal head coach in the last 40 or so years who left the place with a winning record, and he exited with a bad taste in his mouth.
I need to see some consistent offense from a Wilcox coached team to alter my assessment. I have eagerly read every post form the optimists who are saying that Musgrave is the real deal and has a system that will click this year with Garbers finally coming into his own as an NFL ready leader. If true, it's going to be a fun fall.
Vaccines for attending games:
I am planning on bringing my kids to the games like I do every season, they are younger than the approved age to receive the vaccine. Does anyone know what the policy is for vaccines? Must all in attendance be vaccinated? Are masks going to be mandatory?
I really just want to enjoy the games with my kids and continue to indoctrinate my children to be life-long Cal fans.
I wonder if there will be any improvements to the streaming situation. I'm guessing no... it's probably too late and the ludicrous Sling and Fubo contracts (where you have to pay for a whole-ass redundant TV subscription) are still in place. If George Kliavkoff can deliver a standalone Pac-12 app subscription in the next 3.5 weeks I'll pay daily homage to him as my new God for the entire season.
"[Kliavkoff], if you be the right god for the business here, I call on you to help. If you would [give me this standalone app subscription], then I would kill for you a fine white lamb, or, failing that, if I couldn't get a good one at a decent price, then six pigeons." - Titus Pullo
Thanks for the crystal ball analysis. I think the pendulum could swing either way. A couple of early victories over a scrappy Nevada team and a road game at TCU could help prove that the players' current stance is correct. However if we slip in either of those games we could end-up 5-5 or 5-6.
Oh man, Nick. I just entered all the Cal football dates into my Apple Calendar. The Sac State and TCU kick offs are going to ruin my entire week by being at 3:30am and 4:00am.
I mean we won every game last year when we played our O and D Line, so fairly good reason to be optimistic :)
Hi, NegaBear2021 reporting in. What's the line on how many games get cancelled due to smoke, covid, or other super awesome modern day phenomenon? Have a grate day. :|
"So: will we get something like the 2020 Bears that we were promised, or something like the 2020 Bears that we actually got, but over a 12 game schedule?"
It's entirely possible that we get both.
It's been popular to cite Cal being "decimated" last year, but the takeaway from that is it didn't take that much to have a decimating affect, which speaks to the combination of depth and experience, or in the Bears case, the lack thereof.
The reason a lot of people are skeptical of Cal this year is the Bears appear to still be perilously thin. A team that Bear fans and players correctly see as capable of pulling off some good stuff (see some recent and relevant wins over UW & Oregon) could also be easily derailed due to relatively few issues compared to some others in the conference. A system designed to win close games also makes narrow losses in some of those close games a greater possibility. Its a formula for a middle of the division finish, and a middle of the road overall record, especially given a pretty tough road schedule.