I was yelling “Boo-urns”.

Anytime a player supports booing, copy and paste that article about the Tennessee QB recruit who changed his commitment to Stanford.

Thanks for doing the DBD, I dont really have time. Can somebody get those links ffrom the official Cal site?

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I was at the game. We were dominating on the three point shooting all game.

Max Zhang was the most exciting thing on the court last night.

your own team under any circumstances. it’s not really a matter of whether the players can handle it or not; i just feel like it’s classless. I really disliked it even at Giants games last year, despite Barry Zito’s obvious, massive suck. Clearly, you don’t have to like everything a team or player does, but I don’t feel like booing is the best way to deal with your displeasure.

I actually did try to get people around me to shut up by informing them that “Riley is hurt, retards!” But, I don’t feel like they believed me…

I don’t think people would’ve booed as much if they had known that Riley was injured. The booing came from thinking that there was a better option available.

I don’t boo the players at college games, because they are just kids. The refs, now that’s fair game (and I did boo the refs at all games this season, including the Emerald Bowl).

Wow. Some of those comments are reasonable. Some are just … wow. And that right there is why I don’t go to that place. There’s just so much hatred, so many people there are insatiable, and it seems like every coach needs to be fired for minute reasons.

I find it ironic that somebody was actually complaining that Cignetti was running the ball too much. Really? Most of the time I hear people complaining about how Best isn’t getting enough carries. I don’t think that poster realized that the alternative to Best not getting more carries is passing the ball… which would mean the beloved Longshore would be throwing the ball.

I also find it funny how so many of those posters seem to think that Tedford was wrong to play Longshore. It seems apparent that most of those posters didn’t know Riley was injured and thus it was fairly unlikely he was going to play. But even if Riley wasn’t injured, they make it sound like he would surely be the better option. I’m not sure if that’s necessarily true. We’ll never know. But the person most qualified to make that decision is Tedford. He’s the one who sees the guys in the film room, in practices, etc. We, the fans, don’t. So I find it kind of funny how so many of the comments are filled with the blind (or perhaps ignorant) confidence that Riley would definitely have been the better option and that was a known fact. A fact which Tedford was ignoring. As if Tedford was playing favorites or something – which doesn’t appear to be the case since (i) Riley was injured and (ii) Longshore and Tedford don’t really have a relationship any more. One commenter even suggested that Tedford needs to “put the team in a position to win.” Wow… like Tedford isn’t trying to win games? He’s just fuckin around out there and doing things for shits and giggles because he doesn’t care about winning? Yeah… right. And Tedford is supposed to be the crazy one???

Longshore’s gone, everyone please STFU.

But please remember to wipe your shoes before stepping onboard the Brock Mansion Party Yacht next year.

From Michael Silver’s latest column:

"I made sure to get 10 pts… Older I get, the easier it gets."
– Email Sunday morning from Cardinals halfback and Miami alum Edgerrin James, who despite the ‘Canes’ 24-17 defeat to Cal in the Emerald Bowl managed to win a friendly wager from teammate J.J. Arrington.

like yellow fever alluded to, i think the moral of the story here is that neither cal fans nor nate will have to worry about any of this anymore. he’s gone, and for better or worse that’s all that matters. and with his leave, we should also probably just drop the whole booing topic and hope to high hell that next year either brock or kevin (or beau?) will separate themselves enough to get a firm hold on the starting spot.

It wasn’t just the fact that people were booing Longshore, though. It was that as much as this was hyped as a home game for Cal with a home field advantage, the crowd was only loud (excepting the last five minutes or so) when they were booing Longshore. That’s just ridiculous, to go through an entire game and only make yourself heard to boo a player, rather than, at the very least, make a little noise when your team’s on defense. With that many people, a little noise is all that’s needed.

I don’t like booing, but kinda understand that people were calling for Riley. My personal frustration is that Riley never did anything to lose the job in the first place. But I didn’t boo or chant for Riley or anything.

If Riley was hurt, it was Tedford’s responsibility to inform fans of that to protect Longshore. If Tedford had said that Riley was injured, no one would have booed.

The booing is at Tedford not at Longshore. Coaching clinics and sports psychologists will be studying this one for years about how to not handle a QB situation.

First off – the AT&T park is interesting as a football venue, but I think the Emerald Bowl blew it, and I was not impressed. We could sure use their Jumbotron at Memorial, though!!

Fine, fine, I accept most of Hydro’s arguments about Nate starting and all, and that’s fine. But I have a lot of sympathy for frustrated fans, and all the side comments I heard from boo-birds were making it clear that they were angry at Tedford. I’ve totally gotten over any personal feelings against Nate – I just know his abilities are limited.

Longshore really has gotten worse as a QB, though. It’s kinda sad. I wish him well along with everyone decent, but I wouldn’t put him on my NFL scout team. I don’t think he runs an offense well, and he just doesn’t seem to see much of the field. Add in lower than average mobility, and what’s the deal?

I also have sympathy with Tedford, who I love, and also criticize very regularly. Coach is a hard job. Very hard. But we pay him a TON of money, so I’m going to go ahead and criticize using a very high bar. I have sympathy for him, and I want him to do even better. I do not want him replaced.

Credit first – almost NO penalties on us. Good job. Calling timeouts on first down after a stoppage is sad. Bad coaching. We should execute on a higher level, and bring more innovation with play calling. Tedford is too conservative in many respects. He’s trying to beat Pete Carroll at Pete Carroll’s game, which is a fairly noble pursuit, but I think he should think more outside the box to get our team to the next level.

I find it too easy to call out whether Cal is going to Run or Pass, and if we’re going to run inside or outside. As a poser-armchair-QB/defensive coach, my guesses are way too good. More variation from the same line-up, please. More play-action please. Stop running Jahvid Best up the middle – use the FB for that 1/2 the time – create more problems for the defense. “Establishing the run” is what I would call our offense, and it isn’t versatile enough to win the Pac-10.

Conservatism is common among college coaches – like punting from the opponent’s 45-yard line on 4th and 3. It’s ‘by the book’ even if it’s not worth it. We should have gone for it twice more in that game – and that time we did I think was ONLY b/c Miami called that timeout.

OK, if coaches just went maverick and tried all kinds of crazy s*it they’d lose a lot of games that were easily won with a more conservative plan. But when you’re outmatched, or behind, you have to take more chances – losing by 21 is not better than losing by 10. My main criticism is not being flexible as game conditions demand – you have to react more to the clock and the score and the realities of what’s happening – not what you wrote up as ‘the way we like to win’ (establish the run, control the game with long drives – bend but don’t break on defense, get an early lead – don’t turn the ball over – duh – that’s nice but it doesn’t always happen in the first half!).

Tedford is supposed to have a huge playbook – we saw very little of it the last 2 years.

To close: people earn the right to boo when they buy their ticket. Yes, booing can have unintended negative effects, but I wouldn’t react to strongly to it. They do sell alcohol in that stadium you know – how polite and ‘smart’ do you expect all those people to be?

They aren’t to clap when they watch another failed Cal drive. Someone please go look up the stats – how many sustained offensive drives has Cal had in the last 4 years? It’s our biggest weakness, and fans always enjoy good offense the most.

P.S. What happened to Bryan Anger in that game? I love him so much but he didn’t work any magic…

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Looks like someone lost their chance at a defensive coordinator job. >.>

I feel sorry for NC State. I feel like this would’ve been a blowout if Russell Wilson was still QBing.

Mizzou looks like they should be bagging groceries instead of footballs.

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Unbelievable.

Jeremy Maclin:Chase Daniel ::: Jahvid Best:???

No time to do DBD today. If somebody can grab it, be my guest.

So basically judging by the poll above, 50% of the people either wanted to boo Longshore or couldn’t care less. Longshore strikes me as an ungratefully arrogant SOB! Especially after the piece in the CC Times. I am so happy he is done. Good luck on your mission in the poverty stricken streets of Peru you SOB Mother F’er!

The only booing that I can condone is toward the refs—-especially when the jumbotron shows tens of thousands of people exactly what you didn’t call.

There is no good reason to boo your own team. It doesn’t matter how much you paid. Would you like it if someone came down to your classroom and started heckling you when you missed a question on your final? Do you boo your friends when they genuinely tried at something but couldn’t quite make it? Treat these people like human beings instead of puppets that are supposed to dance for your amusement.

There was someone in the student section (on the aisle between sections A and B) who, when people attempted to shut him up for booing, started booing louder and saying:

“BOOOOO FREE SPEECH BOOOOOO FREE SPEECH”

over and over again. Sure, you can say what you want, but it doesn’t make you any less of an asshole. The girl standing next to him (possible girlfriend) looked really, really uncomfortable and ashamed.

But I did boo the refs… LOUDLY.

I also tried to make people shut the fuck up when they booed