The Furd won. Best with a freakish injury and probably out for season. We lost.

Sigh.

So glad that he only had a concussion and it wasn’t anything serious

And to have happen to such a great kid as well. I really hope he’ll be able to play again.

This could be a game

Or did we lose because the team was preoccupied with his injury?

Anyone else nervous about the Stanfurd game at this point?

We could lose every game unless we figure out our passing situation.

USC and ASU are trying to out-penalty one another. If ASU wasn’t so poorly disciplined, they’d have the ball and be driving against USC late in the 4th with a chance to win.

Absolutely wild interception gives ASU the ball inside USC’s 30.

Trailing 30-10 at halftime, they’re now only down by eight points and they’re moving in for points.

I think we wont be seeing too many hurdles by a Cal player or even any others for a while now. Good thing

Thankfully jahvids ok, it was soo quite in the stadium, we thought he landed on the side of his neck and was paralyzed or worse.

Jahvid is a class standard of what an individual playing college football should aim to be, and the injurys that have happened to
him are so very unfortunate.

None of us as true cal fans should be botherd by the games outcome that much, the greatest
news of all was him having movement, awesome news!

Get well jahvid, we all respect you so much!

After giving up 500+ yards again and 45 points, no. 15 Houston can’t escape this week and loses to Tulsa.

That I don’t want us to wear that uniform combination again. Evair.

I’m just happy Jahvid is still alive and hopefully has nothing more than a horrible looking concussion. My old man was a high school coach and I’ve been around the game for over 25 years. I’ve rarely seen something that ugly that didn’t end with someone paralyzed or worse.

Give me until Mon or Tues, then I’ll start complaining about our mediocre team.

This EXCELLENT news if true.

PLEASE LET IT BE TRUE!!

For a while I was afraid there was going to be some kind of paralysis or worse. It was so long before they wheeled him out on the gurney.

All I want from here on out is to beat the Furd and Emerald Bowl.

Judge Miller dies

First Montgomery from Wazzu, then Stanfon Johnson and now Best.

Two life threatening and one that looked life threatening (and thankfully wasn’t).

I made a frontpage post about Best’s test results. I’ll keep it updated if I hear anything else.

Our volleyball team just knocked off #4 Washington in their house. Five sets… but it wasn’t a fluke, we beat them physically and statistically. Hana and Carli were awesome.

This is especially cool since:
1) We beat #24 Wazzu last night
2) #4 Washington swept #5 Stanford in three sets last night and if they would’ve just beaten us, they would’ve most certainly jumped #3 Hawaii for #3 overall.
3) Washington hates us… I mean they hate Cal.
4) Jahvid is okay.
5) Jahvid is okay.

So, around the third quarter some fans sitting behind me are obviously running out of patience with how the game is going, so they go into total Riley nitpick mode.

When the pocket is collapsing and he throws to get rid of the ball:

Oh yeah, great throw Riley. You’ll get the Heisman for sure.

When he has two guys hanging on him and he attempts to get the ball off to one of our receivers:

Nice throw Riley. How about actually throwing it to him.

When Tucker dropped a pass thrown to him:

Good job Riley. How about finding someone who’s actually open next time.

So when they got up with about seven minutes left in the game, they were discussing on whether to leave early or not. I turned and said:

Yeah, get the fuck out of here.

Wanna know why I said that? Because it’s not Riley’s goddamn fault. You’d have to be a total idiot to think that those issues I’ve quoted were all because of Riley and not because of, oh I don’t know, our severely lacking O-line that can’t block halfway-decent pass rushes? (Not to mention WRs that have dropitis, but that’s not the main focus of this rant)

Seriously, I miss who we had last year, because whoever is our current o-line coach is really not doing his job properly. Without a stable o-line, you can’t have a passing attack. Without a passing attack, you need to rely on the run but when your run is stopped, that really leaves your team in a bit of a bind now, does it?
But no, with idiots like the ones in H section, it’s always the quarterback’s fault! Because we don’t take kindly to logic in them there parts!

Now I’m not saying that all of Riley’s miscues were the o-line’s fault, there were a few that he should have avoided tonight, but the most obvious ones that should have fallen on the o-line were blamed on Riley as well.

“Cal football: home of blaming the QB for everything!”

As for the game itself, glad to hear that Jahvid is doing okay. Some story floating around our section was that he had broken both one of his arms and one of his legs (didn’t he land on his back or possibly his neck?), but really happy to hear that it’s only as much as a concussion.

u are correct sir! O-line sux..QB sux, playcalling sux, .skill guys have gotten worse than last year. there’s no excuse, it’s typical…this cal team is like any cal team from the 60s on… It’s a culture of losing…a culture that lets a bunch of nerd professors (see the sf chron this week) dictate too much regarding cals funding. happens every year…other schools don’t let this happen. Berkeley’s a cauldron of mediocrity. The school’s going downhill because of the culture…We need winners, from the top down. Chancellor, AD, coaches…it’s got to change. don’t let the professors dicatate what happens! they are all a bunch of liberal dorks who got beat up in high school. losers! we need winners who support our athletes!

BTW, solid chance that the Civil War is for the Rose Bowl again this year. OSU has WSU and UW next, so they could be 6-2 going into the Civil War. Oregon has ASU at home and then they are at Arizona. I could see them losing at Arizona, which would put them at 6-2, also. Even if they win both, if they are 7-1 going into the Civil War, then if OSU wins they would have the tie-breakre. Civil War is at Autzen, so advantage Oregon, there. Although it wasn’t an advantage to have it at Reiser for OSU last year. Who knows?

Arizona has to lose more for this to happen. Hopefully, that starts next week. And I don’t know how USC having the win over OSU complicates matters. But could be a very interesting end to the season again.

Fuck football.

Scout has an interview with him available on their main page, for subscribers only.

Maybe next year we can be picked to finish 4th and that will fix a lot of our angst. Looking back on our actual results we’ve had one good, almost great, year. The rest of the years were just decent (with the 9 win season also counting as good). Maybe another way to look at it, is that we are slowly building up the program to those lofty expectations, but that we jumped the gun on big expectations. 8 wins a year would be fantastic, that is my expectation. 7 wins feels a little disappointing but its better than the alternatives.

I noted at least two blown plays from B. Johnson (25) from my cheap seat in section J (Southwest corner) . One was a roughly 50 yard reception in the the first Q by Halhuni, and a second one to Adeniji in the 3rd for another 15 or so. How are DB’s being coached, that’s my question. If they move in on the pass as if they’re linebackers when they are the over the top protection, they are going to continue to be too late. In both cases. In the TE pass (Halhuni) the missed tackle appeared to be an astonishingly bad angle for a safety and led to about 35 yards after the catch.