Go Bears!

Wow, Olsonist is rolling over in his grave.

I wager olsonist will have something to say about this.

Riley REALLY needs to make his page, yknow, private.

I’m very happy for Riley and I am sad for Longshore. I am officially retiring as the Nate Longshore antagonist.

Go Bears.

sweeney 2011?

Also, Avinash, if you want to edit your post to add more stuff, go right ahead. Please, however, feel free to use the “body paragraph” as compared to the “intro paragraph” so as to keep the other front page stories from falling down too far. Thanks for putting this up so quick, I was busy watching the gymnastic gala.

Congrats to Kevin… I couldn’t be happier. We’re going to see his potential. Frankly, I would’ve felt just as good if Nate would have won it. But it’s a good problem to have…. having too much talent to choose from.

Good for Kevin! And GO BEARS! 9 Days!

I agree 408. Great for Kevin. Whichever way Tedford went, Longshore or Riley, I would have been pleased because we’ve got to believe in Tedford’s decision-making. Zoonews, I’d also love to see Longshore starting the 2nd half to cheers. It will be interesting to see what situation Longshore would come in on. In the Armed Forces Bowl, Riley came in for a change of pace and caught fire; Tedford left him in, presumably to keep the good momentum going. I wonder: if Riley starts out hot, will Longshore even get a chance? And if Riley slows down, and is replaced by a dominant Longshore, would Riley ever come back in?

I think Riley is Oski Jesus.

Even if you go back to the Oregon State game, Hydro and Danzig would be especially helpful here, but if you go back to the OSU game, for a first game where he only found out he was starting 10 minutes before the game against a premier defense he played well. Gutty performance. Even with the losing play he was trying to win the game (not tie it).

This is going to be good.

Congratulations to Riley. I look forward to seeing him start.

btw, imagine the line to get Riley’s autograph at fan appreciation day…

From here

On the starting placekicker:
“[David] Seawright’s the kicker, for field goals. We’ll continue to evaluate for kickoffs. We felt like Seawright has a great upside. We will continue to evaluate, it’s going to be a day-to-day thing, but as of right now, Seawright’s the No. 1 kicker. I feel like there’s a great upside there, leg strength. He struggled early in camp, but once he got his bearings, he was very consistent kicking the ball. He gives us a little bit more range.”

OMGOMGOGMOGMOGMOGMOGMGOMOGMOG

ahem. ok back to my pasta, reminding myself that the season hasn’t fucking started yet.

I guess a number of us (potentially all of us) will be proven either very right or very wrong

While I don’t express so on my blog or in my posting here or on CyberBears, in private, i have been a Longshore supporter. I’m disappointed he didn’t win the job, but I trust Tedford’s judgment. It must have been very difficult for Tedford to bench a fifth year senior that was once ranked the best junior quarterback and that took the team to a 10 win season in 2006.

One thing to note, is that if Riley struggles, no longer will most fans get on Nate’s back. If Riley was benched for ineffectiveness, he would no longer lurk behind Nate.

http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2008/08/21/post-practice-thursday-2/

I’m surprised that Seawright and Kay are still “battling it out” for kickoff duties. I remember reading that Seawright was almost never short of plugging it into the end zone, and Kay had trouble getting it to the 10 last year…seems odd.

Also, pretty nuts that Boateng isn’t 1st team. I thought he was supposed to be the second coming of Desean, only bigger.

Also, I can’t help but feel a little bad for Nate. Prospects of an NFL career coming out of 2006 and now a benchwarmer, to a great degree because of a ticky tack ankle injury.

I am really surprised by this. I had prepared for Nate to start (he was the incumbent and Tedford seemed to play him at times when he obviously should not have been on the field) and was willing to support him, but I am thrilled that Riley won the starting position. I am looking forward to this season more than ever.

 - Boateng is not going to start at WR. Possibly an issue of Tedford trying to cut down on attitude issues (this a rumor in JO’s blog’s comments so probably false)
- Longshore doesn’t talk to anyone after the news gets out

Watching him in spring ball, he clearly has talent comparable to Ross and Calvin (though not necessarily superior, which is an assumption a lot of Cal fans have made). However, he often looked like he was simply dogging it and not putting in a lot of effort. In one practice he was last out of the entire team in getting in position for cool down stretching. With the other guys having similar talent and practicing hard, and the addition of (especially) Marvin Jones and the other recruits, this does not particularly surprise me.

now more excited for the season to begin and will sleep well tonight.

I have to eat my words, I was sure he would start NL. Does this perhaps mean that Cignetti was strongly pro-Riley?

This plus Seabiscuit starting makes me think that Tedford is taking a bold, new approach to the season!

This is going to be a very young team on offense. If we make it through the first part of the season ok, we could be on to something big.

GO BEARS!

Alright bitches, I’m Kevin Riley’s Facebook friend so don’t even think of messing with me.

Oh my God I can’t wait until next weekend omgomgomg

How can you say no to someone like this…

h/t: Spencer/Orson

Man, I can’t remember ever going into a season with less enthusiasm, but this changes everything! Finally, finally! Thank you Coach Tedford!

GO BEARS!!!

Did anyone else read this as “Kevin Riley Named Starter FOR Michigan State”?

I took a double take.. wait, he switched teams? Or is it an underhanded dig that he’ll be so bad that he’ll practically be playing for the other team? Or is it… ohhhh, right.

It was probably just me.