Week 5 Non-Cal Football Open Thread
by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 3, 2009 7:15 AM PDT
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PrintPump up your fellow Cal fans by copying this on your Facebooks/Myspaces/whatever, printing this out, taking it to the game, spreading it among your Bears in the stands to help rile them up.
Yo, everyone, GET YOUR GODDAMNED GAME FACES ON. These are the Trojans, and we need to treat them like Trojans: Give them a rollicking ride, take them on a three-hour, dirty-talking, ass-slapping, multiple-orgasm-producing trip to the next dimension, and then tear ‘em off and flush ‘em down the toilet and grab a beer and fall asleep with a fat-ass smile.
Can we do that? Does a Bear s--- in Tommy Trojan’s megaphone? Did O.J. do it? Did O.J. Mayo get paid? Is ‘Tusk’ the worst song in the history of recorded music? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Let’s dooooooooooo itttttttt.
Conditions: Lots and lots of wind. Northwest winds of 20 to 30 mph, with gusts up to 45 mph. That is not a misprint.
Temperature: 67 degrees near the kickoff, dropping to about 57 degrees by 9 PM, although I'm not sure how much that takes into account the wind factor.
Line: USC favored by 4
No Pac-10 primer this week. It's not like any of you care about the rest of these games anyway. Inside the Pac-10 will recap all the other games tomorrow or Monday.
All of the moderators (Marshawnthusiasts, Jahvidtician, Follettariat) will be at the game, and we'll all try to at least make cameos at the tailgate, so show up! Follow us on the Twitter for any updates.
For the rest of you watching elsewhere (on your big screens, at the bars, on ESPN360), keep things reasonable while we're gone. Except for the SC hating. You can do plenty of that.
Here's the estimated schedule of posts, so keep this in mind.
4:00 PM PST/7 PM EST: 1st quarter thread will go up.
5:45 PM PST/8:45 PM EST: 2nd quarter thread
6:30 PM PST/9:30 PM EST: 3rd quarter thread
7:15 PM PST/10:15 PM EST: 4th quarter thread (and overtime thread if necessary)
8:45 PM PST/11:45 PM PST: Postgame thread
If any of the posts go up before the quarter is concluded, stay in the current quarter thread. Only move on to the next thread after the quarter is concluded, then link to the next quarter thread in the comments of the bottom quarter thread (i.e. 1st quarter concludes, someone link to the 2nd quarter thread, etc.).
In the unlikely case the game is moving at warp vector eight, just stay in the current thread until the next quarter thread appears at the times above before linking.
Enjoy the games, here's the schedule of games to pay attention to:
5 PM: USC at California, ABC HD/ESPN360 in areas not televised
One focus people, one focus.
After the jump, here's an updated list of the recruits with some changes from yesterday's post.
Here's a list from the Bear Insider of the actual recruits visiting for Cal-USC. Tevin Carter -Santee High School- 6-3/190 receiver Austin Hinder -Steamboat Springs High School- 6-4/185 Quarterback Anthony Jefferson -Cathedral High School- 6-2/190 Wide Receiver Cassius Marsh -Oaks Christian High School- 6-4/264 Defensive End Sean Parker -Narbonne High School -6-0/180 Safety Lache Seastrunk -Temple High School -5-10/185 Running Back Cecil Whiteside -Newport Harbor High School- 6-3/220 Outside Linebacker
Chris Adcock -Dallas Christian High School- 6-3/301 Offensive Guard/Center
Garrett Adcock -Dallas Christian High School- 6-2/265- Offensive Guard Alex Crosthwaite -Cathedral High School- 6-4.5/305 Offensive Tackle Josh Harper -St. Mary's High School- 6-1/180 Wide Receiver
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the wind might be in your favor.
if jeff tedford would just add a few more short slant routes (it’s the best play in college football in my opinion) and has a good gameplan you should be fine. usc only put up 27 points on wazzu. smu put 27 points on wazzu. when usc played them they had three starters injured who did not play. one was the starting rb. i think the others were offensive lineman. peace out.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Oct 3, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL. Yeah, guilty as charged. Pretty funny. My wife and I were just trying to remember the last time we slept in past 7am. ’Been up since 5:30.
Yknow, if we pop a lot of Trojans out there, you guys might not be the only ones with kids pretty soon.
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by TwistNHook on Oct 3, 2009 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yo, everyone, GET YOUR GODDAMNED GAME FACES ON.
Perhaps the greatest sentence ever written.
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by CBKWit on Oct 3, 2009 9:20 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
As a fan, I love the wind
I grew up on college football in the 1970s (and early ‘80s), back when the Heisman almost by default went to the country’s top tailback and the quarterback’s chief job was to hand it off—and call the plays in the huddle. These were the days of Billy Sims, Tony Dorsett, Earl Campbell, Herschel Walker, Charles White, and, of course, our own Chuck Muncie. Forget all this garbage about bubble screens, the spread, trips receivers; it was an era embodied by the I-formation and the Wishbone, and it was all about the power run. Yes, the Pac-10 had some hot-shot quarterbacks, especially in the Bay Area and the Pacific Nortwest (Plunkett, Roth, Bartkowski, Fouts, the Throwin’ Samoan), but it was an era when the Trojans’ famed “Student Body Right” sweep was the icon of football on the West Coast.
Forever after, my favorite football games have always been epic clashes between two great running games. And the wind blowing into Strawberry Canyon this evening makes even more giddy about the prospects of perhaps the greatest showdown of tailbacks we’ll see, anywhere in the country, all year: #4 vs. #4, Best vs. McKnight. The game might (and probably will) still come down to which unproven quarterback can make the play(s) his team needs in the second half to win—and to avoid the costly mistake(s) that could send his team to defeat. But I sure hope we see a display of two great college tailbacks at their Best.
For many of you, I’m sure it’s the 2003 classic that you’re trying to channel today. For me, it’s my first Cal-SC game in 1985 that’s the template for my dream vision of tonight’s encounter. Suffocating Cal defense, plus two big touchdowns and 100+ yards of rushing from the star tailback = Cal 14, USC 6. I would love nothing more than to see a reprise of that tonight. But a repeat of 2003 would be fine with me, too, as would 1991’s Russell White extravaganza.
Go Bears!
by California Pete on Oct 3, 2009 9:29 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs
Postgame reflection
Doh! (At least McKnight looked pretty good.)
Go Bears!
by California Pete on Oct 3, 2009 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
HAY GUYS
Is tailgate at 12:30 or 12 or 11? I’m trying to decide what time to drive up to Berkeley (from SJ)
In other words, Go Bears!
12:30
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 3, 2009 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Amazingly, Wisconsin can’t seem to cover Decker either.
If Minn hadn’t fumbled on their first drive, it might not be so close.
Still can’t seem to run the ball though.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 3, 2009 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Err… not sure what they’re doing over there.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 3, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Leaving for tailgate in half an hour (from Peninsula).
Will you you guys in a little bit.
Act all day, dance all night. Let's get it poppin'... I'm in Bombay, trick!
Will you you guys in a little bit.
And he is coming pre-buzzed!
All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!
by rollonubears on Oct 3, 2009 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
If Michigan somehow goes to a BCS bowl this year, we will be hearing about the legend of Forcier’s freshman year for the rest of our lives. Ugh.
All aboard the Jahvid Best rickshaw!
by rollonubears on Oct 3, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m sure its been said, but BC-FSU for game day?? What a joke. Thats so typical ESPN north-east bias. Boston and NY are the center of the universe for them
The safety didn't bite
The flea flicker had nothing to do with it, he was just beaten by the receiver.
by SuperBruinMan on Oct 3, 2009 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Stanford
They’re going to be 3-0 in Pac-10 play for the first time since 1999.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 3, 2009 2:45 PM PDT reply actions
Stanford
They still have to play USC, California, Oregon, Arizona State, Arizona and Oregon State.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 3, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Washington!
Washington is getting jobbed by the refs. They had a TD on 3rd down on sneak that wasn’t called, and now they get one called back. Two different drives end up in no TD’s when they are on the one or two
Furd
comes up with victory. Let’s make it two victories in the bay area then. Good luck Cal, go Bears!!!!! please beat $c.
Georgia
They had it. Not stopping LSU on the kickoff after the penalty hurt them big time.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Oct 3, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
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Thu 10/06 | L 15 - 43 |
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Thu 10/13 | L 9 - 30 |
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Utah
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Sat 10/22 | W 34 - 10 |
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Sat 10/29 | L 14 - 31 |
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Washington St.
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Sat 11/05 | W 30 - 7 |
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Oregon St.
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Sat 11/12 | W 23 - 6 |
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Sat 11/19 | L 28 - 31 |
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Fri 11/25 | W 47 - 38 |
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Wed 12/28 | L 10 - 21 |
