I’m a huge Troy Taylor fan.
He was “my QB” when I was at Cal.
I’ve loved watching his career trajectory.
This is a hard road for him.
Shaw is a great coach who inherited a powerful program from Harbaugh... but in an era that no longer exists. Stanford Football has been in sharp decline the last 5 years due to the new college football l…
Shaw is a great coach who inherited a powerful program from Harbaugh... but in an era that no longer exists. Stanford Football has been in sharp decline the last 5 years due to the new college football landscape.
Shaw literally quit.
Academics, NIL, super-conferences, and the Portal will make it nearly impossible to replicate the Harbaugh/Shaw success today.
I’m actually relieved Furd didn’t just disband Football all together. That’s how tough it’s going to be. I wish Troy all the best, except for the 3rd Saturday in November.
California Football has some stability right now.
That is a blessing.
To all the haters out there, you must not understand what Coach Wilcox is dealing with.
And how tough this is to navigate.
Covid was nuisance for most of the Country... it was the Death Penalty for CAL Athletics. (Thank You City of Berkeley.)
Losing all that time and momentum was brutal. Recapturing it has been elusive. (We closed 2019 with a bright future)
But for the first time in my lifetime our Football Coach, AD, and Chancellor are all working together and have a healthy relationship. There is synergy.
That’s been unheard of at Cal since the 1950’s
Coach Wilcox is a leader.
He’s a great football coach with a great pedigree. He’s at a University that’s is uniquely challenging when it comes to academics.
He’s navigating this climate with passion and vision. He has the full support of the University. And he didn’t quit on us when other MUCH bigger programs came calling.
We have a good young team.
We’re getting some great guys back from injury.
And we’re embracing the #BearRaid again.
It’s all gonna be fine.
Best of Luck to Coach Taylor. Hope your winless streak in Big Games continues.
He was the QB for much of my undergrad existence also, since I graduated in '88. Curiously, he never won the Big Game as a QB. His jaw was broken in the $C game in 1986, so Kevin Brown replaced him for the biggest upset ever in the Big Game, a 1-9 Cal over a 7-2 Stanford. Cal did not win again until 1993.
Let's keep Taylor's Big Game losing streak going for at least a dozen more years!!!
Cal football has stability? We’re coming off 5-7 and 4-8 seasons. We just had to fire our OC and Oline coach because they were abject failures. I’m actually very bullish on things with spavital on board, but for heavens sake, stability? COVID’s not at fault for repeated offensive failures and an inability to develop a homegrown qb. And I’m glad you think there’s synergy amongst the leadership, but I’m afraid this “synergy” is the result of a group of buffoons who all think alike. They have multiple dumpster fires on their hands, the revenue sports are somewhere between an embarrassment and a national joke, and we get mostly silence from them. It’s gotten to a point where anytime I hear the name jim knowlton, I just immediately picture the GOV from blazing saddles. But I suppose worthless ol Jim probably has AD on the back of his suit.
Mike White took Illinois to a Rose Bowl and Bruce Snyder took Arizona St to a Rose Bowl because of the gross disfunction and hostility of past administrations.
2021 would have been 7-5 if it weren’t for The City’s Covid hysterics.
2022 was brutal. We were poised to have the best defense in the conference week one. By week 4 we’d lost 1/3 of our two deep. Never started the same 5 o-linemen in consecutive games. Thats tough, but that’s football.
Hoops is a mess. No argument there.
I’m just saying I love Troy Taylor but still believe 100% sticking with Coach Wilcox and a new offense (that led the PAC 12 the year before Wilcox got here) is better for us.
90% of the fancy Portal Transfers don’t qualify to play at Cal.
Believe me, I appreciate your positivity, I just lost mine a long time ago. I hear you on the previous dysfunction, I’m just concerned that a few boneheads on the same page is its own special kind of dysfunction. The Jake Spavital hire may very well be what saves Wilcox’s ass - he desperately needs the offensive coaching and recruiting prowess. But if it doesn’t work, we’re in an even deeper hole than we would’ve been had we cut Wilcox loose previously. We shall see…
“90% of the fancy Portal Transfers don’t qualify to play at Cal.”
This, right here, unfortunately.
It also further illustrates how competent coaching is a necessity for an athletics program like Cal, an institution with a much higher academic bar than that required even by the NCAA.
Personally, I don’t share your optimism regarding Wilcox and the synergy with Knowlton and Christ (Carol, not the one that can’t hit a curveball), but would love to be surprised and I hope you’re right!
Coach don’t make any decisions at any big football schools anymore. The Boosters do. (That’s why a school like SC has cycled through so many expensive hires and just bought another Heisman with a team full of mercenaries)
Cal is a completely different situation… and a graveyard for a lot of coaching careers.
Dykes is playing for a National Title in a few weeks.
Tedford just won the MWC
Everywhere else is easy compared to CAL.
Love Troy, but he has zero D1 wins as a coach and no one has any idea if he can recruit to a place like Stanford now that the Andrew Lucks and Christian McCafferys will be paid $1-$10 Million to play elsewhere (and not have to worry about academics.)
OREGON wanted Wilcox because he represented Leadership and Stability. They were sick of coaches using them as a stepping stone for better jobs. And because everyone knows he’s good.
We should be so lucky to have a great coach who’s loyal to us.
😂 Although I feel for Coach Fox (players were not allowed to PASS the BALL or PLAY INDOORS his first year... thanks Berkeley) I don’t feel like he gets the same grace.
And hoops is a much easier rebuild with the right hire. He should be terminated.
I’m a huge Troy Taylor fan.
He was “my QB” when I was at Cal.
I’ve loved watching his career trajectory.
This is a hard road for him.
Shaw is a great coach who inherited a powerful program from Harbaugh... but in an era that no longer exists. Stanford Football has been in sharp decline the last 5 years due to the new college football landscape.
Shaw literally quit.
Academics, NIL, super-conferences, and the Portal will make it nearly impossible to replicate the Harbaugh/Shaw success today.
I’m actually relieved Furd didn’t just disband Football all together. That’s how tough it’s going to be. I wish Troy all the best, except for the 3rd Saturday in November.
California Football has some stability right now.
That is a blessing.
To all the haters out there, you must not understand what Coach Wilcox is dealing with.
And how tough this is to navigate.
Covid was nuisance for most of the Country... it was the Death Penalty for CAL Athletics. (Thank You City of Berkeley.)
Losing all that time and momentum was brutal. Recapturing it has been elusive. (We closed 2019 with a bright future)
But for the first time in my lifetime our Football Coach, AD, and Chancellor are all working together and have a healthy relationship. There is synergy.
That’s been unheard of at Cal since the 1950’s
Coach Wilcox is a leader.
He’s a great football coach with a great pedigree. He’s at a University that’s is uniquely challenging when it comes to academics.
He’s navigating this climate with passion and vision. He has the full support of the University. And he didn’t quit on us when other MUCH bigger programs came calling.
We have a good young team.
We’re getting some great guys back from injury.
And we’re embracing the #BearRaid again.
It’s all gonna be fine.
Best of Luck to Coach Taylor. Hope your winless streak in Big Games continues.
And Go Bears
He was the QB for much of my undergrad existence also, since I graduated in '88. Curiously, he never won the Big Game as a QB. His jaw was broken in the $C game in 1986, so Kevin Brown replaced him for the biggest upset ever in the Big Game, a 1-9 Cal over a 7-2 Stanford. Cal did not win again until 1993.
Let's keep Taylor's Big Game losing streak going for at least a dozen more years!!!
I love this
Cal football has stability? We’re coming off 5-7 and 4-8 seasons. We just had to fire our OC and Oline coach because they were abject failures. I’m actually very bullish on things with spavital on board, but for heavens sake, stability? COVID’s not at fault for repeated offensive failures and an inability to develop a homegrown qb. And I’m glad you think there’s synergy amongst the leadership, but I’m afraid this “synergy” is the result of a group of buffoons who all think alike. They have multiple dumpster fires on their hands, the revenue sports are somewhere between an embarrassment and a national joke, and we get mostly silence from them. It’s gotten to a point where anytime I hear the name jim knowlton, I just immediately picture the GOV from blazing saddles. But I suppose worthless ol Jim probably has AD on the back of his suit.
Institutionally, it’s the best it’s ever been.
Mike White took Illinois to a Rose Bowl and Bruce Snyder took Arizona St to a Rose Bowl because of the gross disfunction and hostility of past administrations.
2021 would have been 7-5 if it weren’t for The City’s Covid hysterics.
2022 was brutal. We were poised to have the best defense in the conference week one. By week 4 we’d lost 1/3 of our two deep. Never started the same 5 o-linemen in consecutive games. Thats tough, but that’s football.
Hoops is a mess. No argument there.
I’m just saying I love Troy Taylor but still believe 100% sticking with Coach Wilcox and a new offense (that led the PAC 12 the year before Wilcox got here) is better for us.
90% of the fancy Portal Transfers don’t qualify to play at Cal.
We need to build a locker room.
Go Bears
Believe me, I appreciate your positivity, I just lost mine a long time ago. I hear you on the previous dysfunction, I’m just concerned that a few boneheads on the same page is its own special kind of dysfunction. The Jake Spavital hire may very well be what saves Wilcox’s ass - he desperately needs the offensive coaching and recruiting prowess. But if it doesn’t work, we’re in an even deeper hole than we would’ve been had we cut Wilcox loose previously. We shall see…
Justin tried to keep Jake. That was his first choice for OC, but Jake went to West Virginia. Maybe it’ll all work out.
And I hear you... I spent decades without much positivity. Made seasons like ‘91 ‘04 ‘06-‘08 that much worse. So now I just hope for the best.
The Bear will not quit...
“90% of the fancy Portal Transfers don’t qualify to play at Cal.”
This, right here, unfortunately.
It also further illustrates how competent coaching is a necessity for an athletics program like Cal, an institution with a much higher academic bar than that required even by the NCAA.
Personally, I don’t share your optimism regarding Wilcox and the synergy with Knowlton and Christ (Carol, not the one that can’t hit a curveball), but would love to be surprised and I hope you’re right!
Go Bears! Those Troy Taylor years were fun!
Coach don’t make any decisions at any big football schools anymore. The Boosters do. (That’s why a school like SC has cycled through so many expensive hires and just bought another Heisman with a team full of mercenaries)
Cal is a completely different situation… and a graveyard for a lot of coaching careers.
Dykes is playing for a National Title in a few weeks.
Tedford just won the MWC
Everywhere else is easy compared to CAL.
Love Troy, but he has zero D1 wins as a coach and no one has any idea if he can recruit to a place like Stanford now that the Andrew Lucks and Christian McCafferys will be paid $1-$10 Million to play elsewhere (and not have to worry about academics.)
OREGON wanted Wilcox because he represented Leadership and Stability. They were sick of coaches using them as a stepping stone for better jobs. And because everyone knows he’s good.
We should be so lucky to have a great coach who’s loyal to us.
Go Bears
Jim, get off your burner account and go fire Fox
😂 Although I feel for Coach Fox (players were not allowed to PASS the BALL or PLAY INDOORS his first year... thanks Berkeley) I don’t feel like he gets the same grace.
And hoops is a much easier rebuild with the right hire. He should be terminated.
I'll have what you're having :')
Gonna need names…