College Football Week 8 Morning Open Thread, AKA Prepare for Joe Starkey
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“And then the ball goes forward and wait, now WSU has it, what’s this a Cal touchdown!” ~TwistNHook
Cal-Wazzu Audio: Cal Commercial Radio: KGO 810 AM (San Francisco), (Here's the link to that stream; hopefully it should work for the game.) KGIL 1260 AM (Los Angeles), XSURF 540 AM (San Diego), KESP 970 AM (Modesto), KTKZ 1380 AM (Sacramento). Cal Student Radio: KALX 90.7 FM (Berkeley) - Dan Fiedler, Danny Freisinger, Beni Shpringer (For those who don't want Starkey, this should hopefully work too--HT BeastMode!). Sirius XM Satellite Radio: Cal fans can listen to the ISP Sports/Cal Radio Network broadcast feed on Sirius XM Satellite Radio on channels 212 (Sirius) and 195 (XM).
Obviously, there is no TV for this game. So it'll probably be harder for everyone to stick with us in the open threads going up later. While we hope most of you will tune in, no one's going to hold it against you if your eyes are perusing other games on your boob tube (except Hydro. He'll administer headlocks.). TVs are so shiny, ya know?
This is the thread for early discussion of the rest of the games, including Oregon-Washington. Cal-Wazzu will kickoff after the Ducks and Huskies tango, so make sure to plug your headphones into your radio/XM/Internet stream/seismograph and prepare for the Starkey. First quarter game thread should go up about an hour before kickoff.
Morning games
UConn at West Virginia, 9 AM PST/noon EST, ESPNU: RIP Jasper Howard.
Minnesota at Ohio State, 9 AM PST/noon EST, ESPN HD: Can Eric Decker be a one man army more powerful than the Sweatervest?
Illinois at Purdue, 9 AM PST/noon EST, ESPN2 HD: Sign #13284 that the Pac-10 television deals are crap.
Arkansas at Ole Miss, 9 AM PST/noon EST, SEC Network/CSN California/ESPN360.com: GIGGITY goes up against his old team. This should be a relatively peaceful Southern affair, like the Siege at Atlanta.
Iowa State at Nebraska, 9:30 AM PST/12:30 PM EST, FSN HD/CSN Bay Area: It wouldn't be a stretch to say the Cyclones have had the better season.
Oklahoma State at Baylor, 9:30 AM PST/12:30 PM EST, Versus HD: IT'S A TRAP!
Afternoon games (put the headphones on while watching Starkey)
Oregon at Washington, 12:30 PM PST/3:30 PM EST, ABC on the West Coast, ESPN360 everywhere else): This would be a classic trap game for these Ducks if these two teams and fanbases didn't despise the living hell out of each other. The Ducks have won the last five games in this series by 34, 21, 20, 24, and 25.
Penn State at Michigan, 12:30 PM PST/3:30 PM EST, ESPN HD (on the West Coast), ABC & ESPN360 in other areas: Do not want two teams in Big Ten in BCS again. Go Blue!
Clemson at Miami, Oklahoma at Kansas, 12:30 PM PST/3:30 PM EST, ESPN360: Very quietly, Miami lurks in the background in the BCS title picture, although Va Tech folding in Atlanta last week hurt them. Oklahoma-Kansas contains two teams who would like to press the 'reset' button on their season.
Tennessee at Alabama, 12:30 PM PST/3:30 PM EST, CBS HD: The Tide have a ball-hawking, pick-happy defense, and in steps Jonathan Crompton. Magical.
Boston College at Notre Dame, 12:30 PM PST/3:30 PM EST, NBC HD: CATHOLIC FIGHT! Plus it gives me a chance to use this picture again.
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Thanks for the link, will add that now.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 7:42 AM PDT up reply actions
This is the worst group of signs I’ve ever seen on Gameday.
It'll be just you, me, and Peter Nincompoop.
Washington State
Have you seen their flag?
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 24, 2009 7:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Final Injury Report
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/post/_/id/4366/final-pac-10-injury-report-18
California
CB Syd’Quan Thompson, hip, questionable
K Vince D’Amato, shoulder, doubtful
OG Matt Summers-Gavin, shoulder, probable
FB Brian Holley, stinger, probable
Washington State
OG Zack Williams, ankle, probable
LB Louis Bland, knee, doubtful
OG Brian Danaher, concussion, out
CB Daniel Simmons, leg, out
OT Tyson Pencer, ankle, out
LB Alex Hoffman-Ellis, staph infection, doubtful
OG B.J. Guerra, knee, questionable
OT Stephen Ayers, ankle, questionable
It appears as if Washington State will be missing an entire offensive line.
you forgot one
FB carp, nothing’severeffinwrong, completely available
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Well, if he is going to miss a game to get rest and heal back up, this is the one to miss.
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WHY DO YOU HATE WAZZU SO MUCH?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
by carp on Oct 24, 2009 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
FB Brian Holley, stinger, probable
WTF
LB Alex Hoffman-Ellis, staph infection, doubtful
Ewww.
by CaliforniaCMB on Oct 24, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
How to say this lightly…have any other conference games been untelevised that don’t include Wazzu?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I honestly cant remember the last time a game went untelevised that wasn’t the 2006 Wazzu game. Where we all trudged to Memorial to watch it on the big screen. That was sorta cool in its own way, although it was near impossible to see if a catch had been made.
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PS – we’re leaving in like an hour! We might even have a breakfast tailgate.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
You’re leaving that as a gametime decision?!
by Yes We Cannon on Oct 24, 2009 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions
:)
I know. I’ve got shrimp kabobs (TWSS) and burgers ready to go. I got a text last night saying we’re rollin’ earlier than we were expecting. When life gives you a tree you chop that shit down and blow up the railroad tracks.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Only carp could realize that the term shrimp kabob is a potentially sexual joke.
Of course, I propose that instead of TWSS you use TWMBMSS: That’s What My Boy Scout Master Said.
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HIYO!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I’m going to drag that inane joke through some kind of evolution, I don’t care how many eggs I have to break to make this omelet.
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So you’re going to carp’s tailgate too?
by Yes We Cannon on Oct 24, 2009 8:45 AM PDT up reply actions
is it rong that I like Notre Dame Stadium? I love the simple end zone “backslash” design. No signage anywhere. Does the 50 even have the team mascot logo? I love it. I’d love to see a Cal-Notre Dame OOC game.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Nah, lots of things to hate about ND, but their field is not one of them.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
The best thing about the ND stadium is Touchdown Jesus watching over every play
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Whose domicile? OUR DOMICILE!
I wonder if this game would be on ESPN 360?
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This sucks:
http://cbs5.com/sports/football.equipment.stolen.2.1268060.html
Gilroy HS football team has equipment stolen.
The perpetrators deserve to die by firing squad.*
*It’s a good thing I’m not affiliated with teh law or enforcement of teh law.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
DAMN YOU, OBAMA! WHAT DID GILROY HIGH SCHOOL EVER DO TO YOU!?!??!
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GILROY WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE BIRTHER MOVEMENT!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions
This is probably the first Gameday not to feature at least one drunk student.
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Well, I figure nows a good time to acknowledge our play-by-play man. Here’s an interesting piece:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2008/12/farewell_joe_starkey_the_world.php
When I began calling U.C. Berkeley games at KALX radio in 1994, the first thing the older broadcasters told me to do was listen to Starkey – and don’t do anything he did. Announce the score every two minutes? Starkey could go whole quarters without informing you who was playing, let alone who was winning. Name the formations, who was going in motion, whether the defense was man or zone? That’s standard stuff, but not for Starkey. In fact, he also eschewed the practice of noting where on the field a pass was tossed or even how long it was — in short, describing a visual medium for an oral device such as radio. Nope, none of that.After a lifetime of listening to Starkey broadcasting Cal and 49ers games, I can only recall two of his calls by heart: The Play and Steve Young finding Terrell Owens between a pair of Green Bay defenders as the clock ran down in the 1999 Wild Card game. (I also recall him announcing the winning overtime field goal in Cal’s 34-31 victory over USC in 2003, but I honestly don’t recall what he said as I was too busy shouting and swerving onto the median on I-580). Starkey’s Tourette-like bursts of verbiage were uniquely well-suited for once-in-a-lifetime plays such as this where it didn’t really matter what was happening – you just needed to know it was something fantastic.
Starkey will keep calling Cal games, but after this year he’s done with the Niners. And whoever his replacement is, it’ll likely be a step down, oddly enough. These days announcers seem to all come out of the same pod: Same Rod Balagojevich hair, same mellifluous voice, same offend-no-one line of humor. In other words, Joe Buck. Starkey may have been flawed, but he was an individual. And, above all, when it comes down to the elemental question of “who will be most entertaining” – well, it’s him.
Joe Starkey’s surprisingly good at not getting his picture taken. Srsly. Also, did you know he had a very respectable NHL career with the Penguins?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Wow...caption contest?

"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Joe: “At least the 49ers didn’t fire me.”
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by 49er16 on Oct 24, 2009 8:57 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
He’s Berkeley unique! The play by play guy who has decided to call neither play nor play!
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Corso just said Arkansas “shot their wad.” And Herbstreit said, “can you say that?”
Classic
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Man I feel sad for Lee—dude can barely speak. He really should’ve taken the year off, those stupid mascot heads can wait.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 9:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Might not have made a difference. My father had a stroke 3 years ago, recovered pretty fully, but there’s still enough residual muscle damage (plus minor aphasia) that he’s never going to get back to rapid-fire speech.
(We knew the underlying cognition was going okay when the stock market crashed and it turned out he’d decided he didn’t like the signs several months earlier and cashed out…)
Gameday Saturday Selections
Since no one ever holds them accountable:
6 Iowa @ Michigan State
Lavell: MSU
Lee: MSU
Kirk: Iowa13 Penn State @ Michigan
Lavell: PSU
Lee: PSU
Kirk: MichiganClemson @ 10 Miami (FL)
Lavell: MIA
Lee: MIA
Kirk: MIA12 Georgia Tech @ Virginia
Lavell: GT
Lee: UVA
Kirk: GTAuburn @ 9 LSU
Lavell: LSU
Lee: LSU (“by one point”)
Kirk: AuburnArkansas @ Ole Miss
Lavell: Miss
Lee: Miss
Kirk: ArkUCLA @ 22 Arizona
Lavell: Ariz
Lee: Ariz (“by two touchdowns”)
Kirk: Ariz11 Oregon @ Washington
Lavell: Ore
Lee: Ore
Kirk: Wash3 Texas @ Missouri
Lavell: Texas
Lee: Texas
Kirk: No Pick8 TCU @ 16 BYU
Lavell: BYU
Lee: TCU
Kirk: BYU
That mascot is UGLY!

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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Man, imagine trying to guess what the fuck that thing is if you know nothing about football. What would a biologist guess?
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Pokemon?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s his 3 chillenz by 3 different womenz
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Then, you must REALLY hate Travis Henry!
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Correction: chowder must
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought he only had two children with two different women?
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well in that case chowder must love him
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions
cricket chirps…horned frogs ribbit?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
just you wait.
it’ll probably be ohio state – texas fiest bowl last year. I WON THAT FUCKING BOWL PICK EM. THAT WAS MINE, YOU SLUT
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Scoreboard boy.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe if Lane Kiffin wasn’t their coach…………..
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wutchoo got gainst lane kiffin main? dudez a ballin muh fucka
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
This tOSU-Minnesota game is such a slog. The crowd gets rowdy when an offensive play goes for more than 7 yards.
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So some reason I can’t keep my eyes off this game. There are better games this mourning, but I just can’t stop watching this game. I must be a gluton for punishment.
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Same. It’s like sweet, sweet nectar
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I was watching it purely because the announcers were over-analyzing Pryor on every pass. If he completed one suddenly he was a good QB.
by Tedfordisgod on Oct 24, 2009 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Player-Coach fight on the Minnesota sidelines.
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‘meh’ describes their entire season… dunno if you can ever implode in this circumstance
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Things don’t implode in the Big Ten unless someone places a giant magnifying glass over the cornfields.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
REMINDER - Volleyball live stream
PRD will be live streaming #15 Cal vs ASU this Sun @ 1pm PT.
Avi will be posting an open thread. If you’d like to attend, the game is free if you bring your Wazzu football game stub. If you can’t make it to Haas, see you here for the stream.
Day: Sunday
Date: Oct. 25, 2009
Location: Berkeley, Calif.
Time: 1:00 p.m. PT

Where will Morgan Beck be?
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Ooh, didn’t know about the Wazzu dealie. I might swing over there.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
F*CK BAYLOR F*CK BAYLOR F*CK BAYLOR
10 play drive that went 11 yards. You can’t make this stupidity up.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 10:05 AM PDT reply actions
Calm down, fella. What did Baylor ever do to you?
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
They’re losing money for me. Again.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
dude. baylor? BAYLOR?? they don’t even have their best player — the only one who’d make you want to wager on them!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Heading to the game.
Enjoy the Magnificent Joe Starkey!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 24, 2009 10:13 AM PDT reply actions
Heading out as well
Looking forward to seeing this one live and in living color!
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by minesweeper on Oct 24, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I am dead.
My wife would have had me buried but I am still not done defecating from the Olestra.
To avoid cross-contamination, I will be away from the board and in a secure room watching Alabama-UT, where I will be doing deals with God and selling my soul to the dark lord Saban, because if Sadaam Hussein were playing Tennessee, I would be down there on the sideline waving an Iraqi flag and screaming “SHOVEL IRAQ SHOVEL!!”
(I come from a split family – fathers side Bama, mother’s side UT. It’s rough being mixed at holiday season.)
May Jesus Crompton Christ bless your soul.
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Theoretically
We could be ranked in the BCS next week since we are 27th in the full BCS standings right now.
http://www.bcsguru.com/bcs_standings.htm
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Playing Wazzu will ding our SoS a bit though unfortunately
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Kansas to Oklahoma..
AND UCONN JUST SCORED!!!!!!!!!!!! WVU IS AHEAD OF US!!!!!!!!!!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Not to mention….some of the two loss teams ranked ahead of us in the human polls are pretty suspect – Kansas (losers to Colorado, beaters of no one), three-loss Oklahoma, 4-2 Ole Miss, etc. Assuming Oregon and USC keep winning, we should be justifiably pretty high up in the rankings pretty soon despite the crappiness of our performances in those two games.
by Tedfordisgod on Oct 24, 2009 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
for sure.
it’d be cool to be ranked after today, but if not, i’m sure we will be if we beat ASU too (assuming Wazzu win)
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Fortunately/unfortunately, where we are ranked is pretty irrelevant at this point. I am only interested at this point because it looks like we may end up with a pretty unique resume – potentially 10 dominant wins, and 2 awful awful losses. Not sure the last team that would have been similar (Maybe like Texas a few years back when they were losing. Maybe 2003 Texas – 10 point loss to Arkansas, and a 65-13 loss to Oklahoma. And that team was robbed, ROBBED, of a BCS slot according to Texas fans. They were ranked No.5 (!!!) heading into the bowl game (lost to WSU – man, WSU used to be good – in the Holiday bowl).
If Cal should end up 10-2, Cal fans need to be as delusional as Texas fans are.
by Tedfordisgod on Oct 24, 2009 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone else watching UConn WVU
seems like best game on at this point.
umm….and Let’s Go Terps!
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hahahahaha
Interception on 3rd and 13 by WVU… WVU returns deep in UConn territory and fumbles it back to UConn. First Down!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
FOR JASPER BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
shit.
at least they have time to score
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
watching UConn-WVU because it’s close… and we have a great chance of being ranked in the BCS if WVU loses
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
dammit.
oh well, this wvu team will still pitt and cinci still on its schedule
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by Thoroughbred on Oct 24, 2009 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Afternoon
You’re late!
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 24, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions

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