DBD 1.13.09 Hate The Farm

And to answer the question posed, I particularly hate the stanfurdites who hold instruments and debase themselves in public (I hesitate to call them a “band”, as it sullies the word).

Marshawn tells me Trent’s a little bitach

Am I right that the farmhands don’t call it a “mascot”? So it’s just a stupid looking thing they parade around for the hell of it? Whatever it is, I despise it.

Mike Montgomery

oops…old habit

My wife and I think the evening of conception was 11/15…which would be right after the awful Ore. St. game. How do we know for sure? Well, yesterday the OBGYN lady measured the fetus as shown below and she said, "It’s 8 weeks and 2 days…putting us right on 11/15.

As you can see, it’s a boy and he got his father’s girthiness.

For the first time, I have nothing to say.

I also hate farms! Damn you, producers of grain, millet, and other foodstuffs! WHY MUST YOU TAUNT US SO WITH YOUR NON-IRONIC USAGE OF OVERALLS!??!

Wait, but you arent talking about the Little Farm, are you? I love that place, we’d go to it all the time when I was a kid. And then to the Pony Rides. Oh. The Pony Rides.

Let’s start with:

1. “Touchdown” Tommy Vardell
2. Brevin Knight
3. Casey Jacobson
4. Tim Young
5. Mark Madsen
6. Herbert Hoover

12. Adam Keefe
13. Dion Cross

Tiger Woods

John Elway

Jim Plunkett

Mike Mussina

Condi Rice (OH SNAP)

Ted Koppel

Kathryn Doi Todd (for you lawyers out there…hopefully she’s not your judge!)

Mohammad-Reza Aref

JFK dropped out of Stanford’s MBA program…he really was brilliant.

I knew there was something I didn’t like about DiFi

Sandra Day O’Connor…find it kinda hard to hate this one.

the yackass Mitt Romney

And I also hate… oh, darn it, I just vomited all over my keyboard. The buildup of vitriol was just too much. If only I had some green garbage bags to clean this up, but they’re all being used for a (non)mascot thingy.

Phil Knight went to Stanford Business School.

I just want to fuel the hate.

He’s been trapped in Utah…I bet he can’t wait to come to Cal.

Per Ted Miller, Taylor Mays to return for his senior season. CJ Gable too.

More Miller

The Pac-10 also will accept a “thank you” from the SEC for agreeing to a system that prevents USC from playing the top team in the SEC, thereby allowing the SEC to claim four national titles since 2003 against teams — Ohio State and Oklahoma — that have combined to lose eight consecutive BCS bowl games.

The Trojans, winners over Ohio State and Oklahoma by a combined count of 90-22 in meetings during that same span, just wish somebody from down South would come out and play.

Wait… it would be fun… don’t run away!

Wow. Your conference does have great speed.

The bowl season improved the Pac-10’s nonconference record to 19-19 and 7-8 vs. the top 18 of the final regular-season AP poll.

No BCS conference played a comparably difficult nonconference slate. Perhaps ever.

http://thisisgodgiven.com/2008/05/05/tebow-makes-like-a-mohel/

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1681/1558423625lcq2.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/09/12/sports/ncaafootball/tebow.533.jpg

Google Street View is awesome

Rivals has news on another OL recruit.

http://cal.rivals.com/

Thank goodness for this post. I’ve been hating on the bruins lately, and its nice to reminded of my priorities.

/checks BN

GOD I HATE THOSE DICKLESS BRUINS!

I’ve actually had the thought pop into my mind while watching many a cal bball games this year, but have not been near a computer to put the pen to paper so here it goes…..

Is it just me or does Mike Montgomery resemble Oski? Take a look at that pic on the front page…… Mikey M = Oski

I’m reposting this from Deep South Sports…it’s too damn funny to pass up.

the dude should be a 5-star and may get there in some updated rankings… he’s been like the DJax of OLinemen this year

We have yet another monster OL Class…. And the OL is the most important unit on the football team

I just jizzed in my pants

from upgrading their OL.. which has just been horrible and has been holding back their team significantly

They have a lot of skill position talent, but it won’t matter if their QB is getting sacked and the RBs are hit in thhe backfield

This is great for every team in the Pac-10 besides UCLA

And like a 100 comment discussion on how to be an overbearing dad. Oh well, the Hasiak signing kind of took over the news today anyway.

Must be nap time…~235 comments by 12:24 in The Offseason will do that.

And how does onr get lost in it?

BTW, what happened to “How many elements off the periodic table are named after your school?” tagline?

LINK.

We all know that Donovan Edwards didn’t get the grades he needed in his two summer classes last year, and UCLA couldn’t admit him. Now, we hear that Cal coaches have been confident for some time that Hasiak would switch his commitment this week, and it happened to be the same week that he got his first semester grades.

Are you arguing that Cal does not take minimum qualifiers? I don’t understand. Jhavid Best was a minimum qualifer, Lynch was a barely minimum qualifier. Same with DeSean Jackson.

You should feel some pride that your academic admissions office realizes that importance of a good football team.

LINK.

CalBear we sleep well at night knowing Cal’s athletic insignificance in the Pac 10. No Rose Bowl in 50 years. No Rose Bowl victory since the 1930’s. The evidence you claim is neither posted nor explained in any context. When was the data taken? Is the comparsion for the same periods of time…i.e Toledo Era compared to Tedford Era (two different timeframes) Who is on the all academic? Did you have a Rhodes Scholar this year like we did? What is a special admit and are all special admits equal? All evidence points to your own athletic and academic waste. It’s so bad you can’t even point to your own school you have to use your Bay Area Rival to make your point. That there shows your own waste of an education. No my friend we sleep well. We don’t take our insecurities to our younger and superior baby brother’s board and post using Stanford statistics. You can be proud of that and sleep dreaming of why you were rejected by both schools.

<a href=“http://www.mercurynews.com/spo”http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_11439977rts/ci_11439977" target="_blank">http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_11439977rts/ci_11439977" target="new">Harbaugh= greasy; Tedford= non-greasy, clean, nice

It’s no sin to be an ambitious coach. And if Harbaugh is using the NFL feelers as leverage to get more money from Bowlsby, that’s also not against the law. But a man should at least be up front about the situation, unless Harbaugh wants to be considered just another borderline greasy coach who talks out of both sides of his mouth.

At least twice in the past six years, Cal has faced a similar situation with Jeff Tedford, who has been in the mix for several NFL and college jobs. But there has been a lack of drama. Tedford openly acknowledged the interest. Cal Athletic Director Sandy Barbour talked with Tedford. They assessed each other’s needs. They came to new deals. Quick, neat, clean, non-greasy.

Stanford doesn’t like greasy, either. Initially, the delay in reaching Harbaugh’s contract terms was explained by concerns about deferred compensation and a way to structure the deal so that Harbaugh’s base salary would not tick off the Nobel Prize winners on campus who take issue with making less than the football coach.

At least Nestor is.

Don’t fall for that academic excuse: That’s typical sour grapes excuse from Bruin message board posters. It could be a simple explanation of Ca having a better reputation at OL in recent years. It’s a set back for now. But big ups to Cal. Hope CRN keeps fighting away till the signing day. It’s not over yet.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/01/13/mailbag/index.html?eref=T1

This surprises me because he’s one of my favourite college football writers, but he’s so out of touch with the common football fan that he doesn’t understand why so many don’t enjoy the constant fellating of Tim Tebow by the media.

It’s not as simple as jealousy or wanting to make someone like Tim Tebow, who is muscular, talented, good-looking, well-disciplined, moral, etc., seem flawed. Some may venture down that path, but for most, I suspect it’s simply a case of recognising Tebow’s skills, but understanding that there is more to college football than Tim Tebow.

Simply stated, Florida won the NC game due to a team effort. The defense (combined with Bob Stoops’ playcalling) stopped Bradford and the explosive Oklahoma offense. Percy Harvin, who should have been the offensive MVP of the game, ran all over Oklahoma’s defense (which performed well in the game). Tebow has the unique ability to play hard, crush defenders, etc., but he does not “will” his damn team to win. He does not make the entire team better. His pep talk to the defense and his excitement are fun to watch, but to say that Tebow is the team is to take away from their efforts and, quite frankly, is shameful.

From Rivals

For the first time ever, Hasiak travelled with his family to Windsor, Canada this week for a family reunion. Windsor, which is the southernmost city in Canada and actually lies south of Detroit, is where his father was raised. It was one of the more interesting trips Hasiak has ever had.

“It was a great reunion. I knew it would be,” Hasiak stated. "I just loved it. It was my first time there, and I was able to meet so many people.

"Due to the way the timing worked, Coach Tedford, Coach Lupoi and Coach Cignetti from Cal all travelled there to meet with me and my family. That was so much fun, and it was just neat that they could meet my family in that type of environment. It was memorable, you know, in a lot of ways.

“They told me later on that they really had a lot of fun meeting everyone, and you could say that they kind of stole the show in a way. You can’t but not like them. Coach Neuheisal from UCLA also came up the day after, and I think he had fun too.”

And

There’s simply no questioning the talent of Hasiak. At the recent Under Armour All-American Game, Hasiak was the only offensive lineman that was able to handle 5-star future Florida Gator Gary Brown, with the two having some great one-on-one battles.

Hasiak was one of a few players that also played the entire game. In practices, he was denoted as being able to handle any bull-rush, and played with a strong base and showed good feet and athleticism. He moves his feet extremely well and had one of the best overall performances on the White squad.

Cal would also like to add a few other impact freshman late in this year’s recruiting period, and that includes Hasiak’s friend, 5-star defensive prospect Devon Kennard from Phoenix (Ariz.) Desert Vista high school.

“I’m going to let (Kennard) know I’m going to Cal,” Hasiak said. “We became friends over the summer, and I think he was real curious to know what I was going to do here. He’s been looking at USC, like I was too, but I think Cal has more to offer him. I think we could both make the impact we want to make there, and then do some things that haven’t happened in a long time at the school.”

“The next thing I need to do is call USC, and then the other schools I was contemplating going on trips too. I need to cancel those, because I’m going to Cal.”

TOOT TOOT!