They've simply helped condition and ready me for all of the other soul crushing disappointments that life can throw at you. I suppose that's something.
It's helped me survive cancer, the collapse of a marriage, divorce, and the death of both of my parents, fwiw!
Heck, the 2013 Big Game was easy, by comparison. Other fan bases are absolute wusses when their team suddenly sucks--U$c under Clay Helton, for instance...
Alfonso Arau - of El Guapo fame - is also easily recognizable as Juan "Jzhone Wildhair? THE Jzhone Wildhair?" from Romancing the Stone. He directed "Like Water for Chocolate" and "A Walk in the Clouds". More recently, he was the voice for the great-grandfather Julio of the protagonist in "Coco".
If Taylor goes to the farm, & Knowlton/Fox are still employed, Cal might as well forget P5 relevance & petition to join the Ivy League. Not that we'd beat any of their MBB teams, but just to have some connection to a few like-minded souls, to feel a sense of purpose again. Otherwise, tee up another Taylor [Twellman gif: "What are we DOING?!" & play it on a loop] cuz nothing else matters at that point. Revenue sports are a joke of a mockery of a sham of a farce of a mockery of a sham.
This is all Bob R's fault for not being persuasive and forceful enough in his emails to Knowlton. Perhaps our consolation prize will be a multimedia interactive statue of Starkey outside the stadium with a large button you press to hear him call The Play with clips playing on waterproof TVs that flank the statue. Except every nth time someone presses the button, two little doors open up in the statue and a spring-loaded boxing glove pops out and nails you in the face.
The implication is Knowlton should have never extended Wilcox, fired him this year, and hired Troy Taylor. People have been talking about TT for a couple years now, and plenty wanted Wilcox out well before Knowlton extended him.
I for one never expected Troy Taylor to be an OC again, not sure who did.
This is your weekly reminder that Justin Wilcox took home about 47000 dollars after taxes this week while a guy who stated “Cal is my dream job, I love public education, and I’m happy just being able to go to Starbucks once a day” took home a meager 3200 bucks and is about to go coach “Cal’s arch rival” and the complete antithesis of public education.
Also doesn’t have 10 transfers out and 0 transfers in.
This was not only feared but expected based on some pretty open chatter.
I could see why he'd be tempted by the Furd job despite it being the source of all evil and whatnot. They seem to not have high expectations for coaches, a lot of patience, etc. I wanted Taylor as Wilcox's replacement but that's not happening this year. Granted, Taylor's success isn't guaranteed at Cal because Cal itself has administrative problems that coaching can't fix.
I wish him success but really want it to come at Cal someday instead of Furd today.
Knew there was 0 chance he was leaving for an OC job, but good lord if he takes the furd job it will be beyond devastating. I'm hopeful the Spavital hire can swing our momentum in the right direction, but if it doesn't work and we're stuck with Wilcox's continued mediocrity while Troy Taylor turns around furd... I don't even want to think about that.
If Taylor could turn around Sac State, a commuter school with a community college ambience and no winning legacy in football since the campus was established in 1954, he can win at Stanford. Stanford took a chance on Jim Harbaugh when he was coaching a D2 school in San Diego. This is not taking a chance at all.
Yep, he's a program builder. Did it at Folsom, doing it now at Sac State, and although it would induce uncontrollable vomiting, he'll likely do it at furd. While I like the Spavital hire, if our AD wasn't a complete horse's ass, Wilcox would have been canned after this abysmal 4-8 season. Troy Taylor deserves a shot at leading our program, and thanks to Jim Knowlton's mind-boggling incompetence, he'll likely never get it. While I would never wish harm on anyone, I hope Knowlton has to endure a life filled with the level of frustration he's forced upon the Cal fanbase. May he always step on gum, have dead car batteries, etc.
One point of contention however, if Sac State has a community college ambiance, wtf do we have? Cuz their tailgating environment absolutely dusts ours.
I speak from personal experience about the ambience at Sac State since (to quote Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies) I done graduated from there. You should see their basketball court that is straight out of American River Junior College in Carmichael. Of course winning cures a lot of ailments, and I can only imagine how good some of their tail gate parties are now. And too bad about Knowlton. But you have to know it's not just him acting as a one-man wrecking ball to the major sports at Cal.
Gotcha, my wife is an alum as well and we've had far more fun at the Sac State games this year compared to the Cal games. The most activity we have on campus during gamedays are the kids playing whatever that stick fighting game is they play on memorial glade. I know it's not all on Knowlton, but as the boss, he gets the blame. His coaching hires have been atrocious and his department does little to generate excitement for gamedays. The tailgating environment has always been the one that irks me the most. I know we lack the big open lots that other schools have, but there's just no creativity whatsoever to try to generate a fun environment. The whole "Cal Family" thing is such bullshit lip service. They do nothing to actually try to bring the Cal Family together.
Totally agree with this. The gameday and fan experience in the stadium are seriously lacking. Friends I sit with in section I retired last year. This year, for the first time ever, they went to every Cal road game. I heard all season long how badly Cal compares in gameday and fan experience to what happens at the stadiums of our opponents. They were blown away by the CU game, in addition to our getting blown out.
I live in So Cal now and haven't been to a Cal game since 2011 when they were playing at Pac Bell Park. I have a lot of fond memories of tailgating at Cal from the Snyder and Tedford eras. My ticket source had a fantastic reserved spot pretty close to the stadium. They used to put up a Fun Zone on the women's field hockey turf with live bands and food and beer stalls. The boys were always running around and catching plastic footballs, and a lot of the young girls were dressed up as cheerleaders and were clearly enjoying themselves. Please don't tell me they stopped that.
They still have that but it's not very popular. I've noticed a slow change in our attendance - obviously much smaller now, but there's been a noticeable drop off in young families. Put simply, our fanbase is dying off. You have almost 15 years of the vast majority of Cal grads leaving school not caring about the football team. When the team is average at best and the gameday environment is lame on top of it, the younger generation has no reason to come back. The whole tailgate town is a decent idea, but I think most people would rather throw their own tailgates than pay for overpriced drinks. There is a lot they could try to do - sell premium tailgating spots on memorial glade and turn it into a "mini Grove," work with the city to try to close down a street around the stadium for tailgating, etc. I know none of these are easy and you have hurdles with central campus, the city, etc., but I feel like this athletic department hears no and just says "oh well, we tried." I haven't been impressed with anyone I've talked to down there. I've been lobbying/begging for years to get an outhouse at our Wellman Courtyard tailgate lot so we don't have to piss in the bushes and I've gotten nowhere.
Am I the only one who isn't that enamored with Taylor? He was at Cal when I was at Cal, so I get it. But still...I'm not that scared of him at the Farm.
There is are reasons why Shaw left Stanford. Taking that job is a head coaches death wish given the portal and NIL environment. Stanford has not accepted the fact that college football has put the player before the coaches and the school.
Salute to all of you still here. Good luck not having a heart attack and/or getting divorced although I strongly suspect those remaining are the slave/bottom/subordinate type.
No more money ever to this university.
Unfor fucking giveable what this university has become.
First Tosh, now Troy…
People don’t Judas you repeatedly because you’re a swell dude.
different take, same outcome. If Knowlton were a mole/a plant meant to destroy the dept. from within, he could hang the 'mission accomplished' banner right now. [Heck, how would he act any differently?] The sport was changed forever by the transfer portal, the org that oversees it is almost as corrupt and malevolent as FIFA, and there's not 1 damn thing we can do about it. Another tragedy on the long road of suffering = what it means to be a Golden Bear. Had I won the ~$2B lotto last month, I would've paid any & all buyouts to rid our beloved community of Knowlton, Fox, and maybe even Wilcox (esp. if it meant Taylor would be his replacement).
I still feel for the players, though, who've been abandoned by the "greatest" public university (same goes for MBB). Could write forever about the ills of this forsaken program, but trying to find the positive -- a tall order -- I no longer have to spend my fall Saturdays wondering or worrying about Cal football. Thankfully, we can all look forward to the sun exploding in about 5 billion more years; not the merciful ending we deserve but the one we need.
My thoughts are simple, Jim Knowlton has been a failure at every level and must be fired.
Sigh
Cal sports no longer cause me nightmares, Avi.
They've simply helped condition and ready me for all of the other soul crushing disappointments that life can throw at you. I suppose that's something.
Same. I got over the collapse of the Seleção today in record time. Thanks, Cal Football!
It's helped me survive cancer, the collapse of a marriage, divorce, and the death of both of my parents, fwiw!
Heck, the 2013 Big Game was easy, by comparison. Other fan bases are absolute wusses when their team suddenly sucks--U$c under Clay Helton, for instance...
Hell just keeps getting hotter.
I feel like we're all El Guapo on his birthday and Knowlton/Wilcox/Fox are the Three Amigos
https://looptube.io/?videoId=1l7e9BD_gos&start=80&end=89&rate=1
Alfonso Arau - of El Guapo fame - is also easily recognizable as Juan "Jzhone Wildhair? THE Jzhone Wildhair?" from Romancing the Stone. He directed "Like Water for Chocolate" and "A Walk in the Clouds". More recently, he was the voice for the great-grandfather Julio of the protagonist in "Coco".
If Taylor goes to the farm, & Knowlton/Fox are still employed, Cal might as well forget P5 relevance & petition to join the Ivy League. Not that we'd beat any of their MBB teams, but just to have some connection to a few like-minded souls, to feel a sense of purpose again. Otherwise, tee up another Taylor [Twellman gif: "What are we DOING?!" & play it on a loop] cuz nothing else matters at that point. Revenue sports are a joke of a mockery of a sham of a farce of a mockery of a sham.
This is all Bob R's fault for not being persuasive and forceful enough in his emails to Knowlton. Perhaps our consolation prize will be a multimedia interactive statue of Starkey outside the stadium with a large button you press to hear him call The Play with clips playing on waterproof TVs that flank the statue. Except every nth time someone presses the button, two little doors open up in the statue and a spring-loaded boxing glove pops out and nails you in the face.
It's Bob's fault for only emailing Knowlton. Bob should have directly emailed Troy Taylor and persuaded him to come to Cal.
Haha, for real! It was this easy:
Step 1. Email this to Knowlton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Taylor_(American_football)
Step 2. Email this to Troy Taylor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Knowlton
Step 3. Email this to both of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_Golden_Bears_head_football_coaches
* Mark all emails as "Urgent" and BCC Gavin Newsom.
The implication is Knowlton should have never extended Wilcox, fired him this year, and hired Troy Taylor. People have been talking about TT for a couple years now, and plenty wanted Wilcox out well before Knowlton extended him.
I for one never expected Troy Taylor to be an OC again, not sure who did.
This is your weekly reminder that Justin Wilcox took home about 47000 dollars after taxes this week while a guy who stated “Cal is my dream job, I love public education, and I’m happy just being able to go to Starbucks once a day” took home a meager 3200 bucks and is about to go coach “Cal’s arch rival” and the complete antithesis of public education.
Also doesn’t have 10 transfers out and 0 transfers in.
#fireknowlton #firechrist #firefox #firewilcox
#notanotherpennydonatedtothisclowncircus
This was not only feared but expected based on some pretty open chatter.
I could see why he'd be tempted by the Furd job despite it being the source of all evil and whatnot. They seem to not have high expectations for coaches, a lot of patience, etc. I wanted Taylor as Wilcox's replacement but that's not happening this year. Granted, Taylor's success isn't guaranteed at Cal because Cal itself has administrative problems that coaching can't fix.
I wish him success but really want it to come at Cal someday instead of Furd today.
Taylor’s a free man in Paris, unfettered and alive.
“...Paris...has always been the capital of refugees and exiles as well as of France.”
I wish they hired Garrett or Greg Roman
Knew there was 0 chance he was leaving for an OC job, but good lord if he takes the furd job it will be beyond devastating. I'm hopeful the Spavital hire can swing our momentum in the right direction, but if it doesn't work and we're stuck with Wilcox's continued mediocrity while Troy Taylor turns around furd... I don't even want to think about that.
If Taylor could turn around Sac State, a commuter school with a community college ambience and no winning legacy in football since the campus was established in 1954, he can win at Stanford. Stanford took a chance on Jim Harbaugh when he was coaching a D2 school in San Diego. This is not taking a chance at all.
Yep, he's a program builder. Did it at Folsom, doing it now at Sac State, and although it would induce uncontrollable vomiting, he'll likely do it at furd. While I like the Spavital hire, if our AD wasn't a complete horse's ass, Wilcox would have been canned after this abysmal 4-8 season. Troy Taylor deserves a shot at leading our program, and thanks to Jim Knowlton's mind-boggling incompetence, he'll likely never get it. While I would never wish harm on anyone, I hope Knowlton has to endure a life filled with the level of frustration he's forced upon the Cal fanbase. May he always step on gum, have dead car batteries, etc.
One point of contention however, if Sac State has a community college ambiance, wtf do we have? Cuz their tailgating environment absolutely dusts ours.
The environment of those empty malls throughout America where you can tell "Fun was had here, but no more".
I speak from personal experience about the ambience at Sac State since (to quote Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies) I done graduated from there. You should see their basketball court that is straight out of American River Junior College in Carmichael. Of course winning cures a lot of ailments, and I can only imagine how good some of their tail gate parties are now. And too bad about Knowlton. But you have to know it's not just him acting as a one-man wrecking ball to the major sports at Cal.
Gotcha, my wife is an alum as well and we've had far more fun at the Sac State games this year compared to the Cal games. The most activity we have on campus during gamedays are the kids playing whatever that stick fighting game is they play on memorial glade. I know it's not all on Knowlton, but as the boss, he gets the blame. His coaching hires have been atrocious and his department does little to generate excitement for gamedays. The tailgating environment has always been the one that irks me the most. I know we lack the big open lots that other schools have, but there's just no creativity whatsoever to try to generate a fun environment. The whole "Cal Family" thing is such bullshit lip service. They do nothing to actually try to bring the Cal Family together.
Totally agree with this. The gameday and fan experience in the stadium are seriously lacking. Friends I sit with in section I retired last year. This year, for the first time ever, they went to every Cal road game. I heard all season long how badly Cal compares in gameday and fan experience to what happens at the stadiums of our opponents. They were blown away by the CU game, in addition to our getting blown out.
I live in So Cal now and haven't been to a Cal game since 2011 when they were playing at Pac Bell Park. I have a lot of fond memories of tailgating at Cal from the Snyder and Tedford eras. My ticket source had a fantastic reserved spot pretty close to the stadium. They used to put up a Fun Zone on the women's field hockey turf with live bands and food and beer stalls. The boys were always running around and catching plastic footballs, and a lot of the young girls were dressed up as cheerleaders and were clearly enjoying themselves. Please don't tell me they stopped that.
They still have that but it's not very popular. I've noticed a slow change in our attendance - obviously much smaller now, but there's been a noticeable drop off in young families. Put simply, our fanbase is dying off. You have almost 15 years of the vast majority of Cal grads leaving school not caring about the football team. When the team is average at best and the gameday environment is lame on top of it, the younger generation has no reason to come back. The whole tailgate town is a decent idea, but I think most people would rather throw their own tailgates than pay for overpriced drinks. There is a lot they could try to do - sell premium tailgating spots on memorial glade and turn it into a "mini Grove," work with the city to try to close down a street around the stadium for tailgating, etc. I know none of these are easy and you have hurdles with central campus, the city, etc., but I feel like this athletic department hears no and just says "oh well, we tried." I haven't been impressed with anyone I've talked to down there. I've been lobbying/begging for years to get an outhouse at our Wellman Courtyard tailgate lot so we don't have to piss in the bushes and I've gotten nowhere.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM Troy Taylor gonna kill us isn't he?
Stanford hired him. Still not really tripping.
Am I the only one who isn't that enamored with Taylor? He was at Cal when I was at Cal, so I get it. But still...I'm not that scared of him at the Farm.
What did I tell you guys 3 weeks ago?
Troy Taylor will be the next furd coach per very reliable sources.
I hope Jim Knowlton and Carol Christ are fired with cause for this shit show they’ve forced upon the athletic department and larger university.
We have literally zero transfers in but 10 plus out.
Our basketball team is 0 and <I stopped fucking counting>
And Knowlton uses our donations to fund shit dick coaching and absolutely zero pr in a metro area sans a pro sports team other than the A’s
Enough!
There is are reasons why Shaw left Stanford. Taking that job is a head coaches death wish given the portal and NIL environment. Stanford has not accepted the fact that college football has put the player before the coaches and the school.
I am officially done with Cal athletics!
Salute to all of you still here. Good luck not having a heart attack and/or getting divorced although I strongly suspect those remaining are the slave/bottom/subordinate type.
No more money ever to this university.
Unfor fucking giveable what this university has become.
First Tosh, now Troy…
People don’t Judas you repeatedly because you’re a swell dude.
different take, same outcome. If Knowlton were a mole/a plant meant to destroy the dept. from within, he could hang the 'mission accomplished' banner right now. [Heck, how would he act any differently?] The sport was changed forever by the transfer portal, the org that oversees it is almost as corrupt and malevolent as FIFA, and there's not 1 damn thing we can do about it. Another tragedy on the long road of suffering = what it means to be a Golden Bear. Had I won the ~$2B lotto last month, I would've paid any & all buyouts to rid our beloved community of Knowlton, Fox, and maybe even Wilcox (esp. if it meant Taylor would be his replacement).
I still feel for the players, though, who've been abandoned by the "greatest" public university (same goes for MBB). Could write forever about the ills of this forsaken program, but trying to find the positive -- a tall order -- I no longer have to spend my fall Saturdays wondering or worrying about Cal football. Thankfully, we can all look forward to the sun exploding in about 5 billion more years; not the merciful ending we deserve but the one we need.