Washington 42, California 10: Bears Hibernate A Week Early
by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 6:39 PM PST
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PrintAmazing how our season has gone. We've had blowouts, some thrilling wins...and some of the worst fucking losses I've ever seen. Every defeat hasn't been bad, it's been eye-gouging. Nothing redeemable about any one of them. You just want to take the tapes and burn them. Bad football, bad coaching, bad blocking, bad quarterbacking, bad pass defense, bad special teams...
I don't care too much about the four losses (we lost to three of the best Pac-10 teams) as to HOW we've lost each of these games. At least in the early Tedford losses you'd get a fight all the way. In every defeat, the Bears have gone down, and they've gone down quietly. I know there's been a lot of hating on the players for not playing up to snuff, but the coaches have to answer for performances like this. The players being busts is an asinine excuse--the coaches do recruit these guys too, so that falls on them. Good coaches should be able to adjust, motivate, and get these guys developed enough and ready to execute. They haven't, and it's time for them to own up going into the bowl game and next season.
On the bright side, Cal fans got what they wanted--you don't have to worry about El Paso anymore. Poinsettia Bowl is almost certainly our destination now. I hate all of you.
This thread is to discuss Cal-UDub and the remaining college football action tonight (second halves of the Big 12/ACC title games, USF-UConn, Wisconsin-Hawaii). With Cal-Iowa State hoops coming in about an hour or so, official postgame recap coming tomorrow morning--it's too crowded today to really get anything in.
Discuss the football games here. Submit your report card after the jump or click here to view and submit. Scroll up to discuss the basketball game.
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I’m not sure I really care much. The Stanford win sealed this as being a pretty good season. Would have been nice to have a chance at 10 wins though.
We lost by 32 points!!!!
God, I wish I could be happy as you.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 6:47 PM PST up reply actions
I thought nothing that happened today could diminish the euphoria from the Big Game.
I
was
wrong.
Praise be to Tedford!
I'll be riding that high
through the summer. Stretch out the good ones everyone :)
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
It's still on my DVR.
Big Game viewing party tomorrow?
by CaliforniaBone on Dec 5, 2009 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
This game was a new low
The author is right about the losses this year. In Tedford’s previous seasons we had a total of two uncompetitive losses: USC in 2005 and Tennessee in 2006. This year, four.
This loss was easily the worst of the bunch. Locker is good, but the rest of that team has been mediocre all year and they had nothing to play for. And we completely rolled over for them.
The Arizona and Stanford games seem like a long, long time ago.
Nah. Rocky’s style is pretty distinctive. We can’t be paranoid about every new member to the site
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Okay guys, let’s not start calling everyone with a negative opinion Rocky…besides, that doesn’t give enough respect to how trollish Rocky was.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:10 PM PST up reply actions
I'm not rocky
I’ve posted game grades as polarbear91 (the handle I used on the Scout message board for several years before it went downhill this year), but that didn’t require me to log in. The handle you see here is the one I already have for SB nation boards.
forgive me for being paranoid
but either you’re mistaken or you’re an amazing hacker who fooled SBN into thinking you joined this evening.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
this is correct
I’ve been use the sacman701 handle for months. Today was the first time I logged onto this particular site.
I apologize on behalf of Goldblooded. Nerves are raw here after that unfortunate defeat and the trollish behavior of Rocky just really gets under everybody’s skin. We appreciate your comments here. I think we all understand after yesterday’s game that people can express genuine personal disappointment with the team without it being a “trollish” situation.
Further, I would hope our readers wouldn’t jump all over everybody here expressing genuine personal disappointment, because, if so, Ohio Bear would get e-beaten up 8 times over!
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this isn't the NFL
and they had nothing to play for.
Every college team always has something play for. Isn’t this the last chance for any of the seniors to play college football?
Go Bruins!
I guess the players probably felt that way too.
by atomsareenough on Dec 5, 2009 7:24 PM PST up reply actions
Question
Is there an evening thread to discuss the ACC and Big 12 title games?
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 6:43 PM PST reply actions
I think this is it
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 6:45 PM PST up reply actions
Alex???
TKE prytanis… would you happen to be or know a TKE named Alex?
by BLEEDblueNgold on Dec 5, 2009 6:50 PM PST up reply actions
…and you would be?
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 6:53 PM PST up reply actions
oh you wouldnt remember me….I used to sell you drugs…. hey… you should get ur son an xbox for christmass btw
by BLEEDblueNgold on Dec 5, 2009 6:55 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
…hey bear..that you??
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 6:57 PM PST up reply actions
…and in any case, you should be studying for finals
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 6:58 PM PST up reply actions
i no i no… im in a bad mood though now cuz of the game… anyways…. see ya on the 12th!
by BLEEDblueNgold on Dec 5, 2009 7:00 PM PST up reply actions
…watch it…he needs no encouragement…he snarfs a couple of dozen oysters whenever we enter a restaurant
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:06 PM PST up reply actions
ur damn right old man! alright im gettin off bye dad hah
by BLEEDblueNgold on Dec 5, 2009 7:07 PM PST up reply actions
good night sweet prince…go study
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
I’m not sure what just happened here, but I think it was hilarious.
by CaliforniaBone on Dec 5, 2009 7:12 PM PST up reply actions
my son effing with me
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:14 PM PST up reply actions
This is one of the best threads on CGB! Almost made up for the shitty night!
In other words, Go Bears!
CGB: Bringing families close together.
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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Well, there goes our potential first-ever Sun Bowl appeareance :(
The funny thing is, if we had won this game, I would have considered this season a reasonable success.
True but now we will have our first-ever Poinsettia Bowl appearance
my friends and I have a theory that Tedford and Cal is trying to win all of the Pac10 lower tier bowls before we win the Rose Bowl.
Hopefully we win the Poinsettia so we can stratch that off our list then we will only have the Sun Bowl left. Unfortunately the Pac10 is adding the Alamo Bowl next season.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Pac-10 doesn’t renew its contract with the Sun Bowl. Do we really need two bowls in Texas? I hope the commish doesn’t think so. That means Alamo Bowl next year and Rose in 2012.
Whose domicile? OUR DOMICILE!
I had to catch the game via Starkey.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I don’t have any justification, but I’m going to blame you for this loss.
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
by Thoroughbred on Dec 5, 2009 10:33 PM PST up reply actions
..just barfed in my shoes…not…actually sort of feel like Tedfordisgod…bummed but not emotional…all emotion was spent at the big game..still in that glow
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
Poinsettia Bowl is almost certainly our destination now. I hate all of you.
I laughed out loud at this. Very nice summation.
The Lack of Mack's Imposition Attacks My Disposition.
Yes; 7:15 it's going up
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 6:48 PM PST up reply actions
Was I the only one
who wanted to go to El Paso?
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
would have been fun
More cool stuff in that area than you guys know…but now academic..shit
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 6:50 PM PST up reply actions
Strictly Personal Reasons...
I wanted El Paso also…it’s my dad’s hometown and he’s never been to a college football game. The wife was actually gonna let me drop some coin to go out there and take him. :o(
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
research."
Tomorrow, 5 PM, FOX and ESPN.
I was juiced for it. Now just glum.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 6:48 PM PST up reply actions
i was worried about Washington since the beginning of the season.
Now I won’t eat at any restaurant that doesn’t use MSG.
Oregon got fucked up by Missouri today
Washington State is losing by a lot tonight
Wow
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Looks like the juju traded Pac-10 hoops for Pac-10 football.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 6:50 PM PST up reply actions
Well
at least we got motivation to work hard for that bowl (but they shouldn’t need that in the first place… you have to work hard for every win)
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
I hope we finish every season with the Big Game now
Both Cal and USC looked pretty nonpulsed today. Hard to recover from big rivalry game wins.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 6:55 PM PST up reply actions
We did okay with that last year
But we had 2 advantages:
1. Washington was terrible
2. It was our senior day.
Praise be to Tedford!
At least USC made it (look) close. Us? Not so much
i'm here to clean your pool but i don't have a pool *bowchica bowow*
USC was at home though, so their loss is pretty embarrassing.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:01 PM PST up reply actions
We are we likely to play in the Pointsettia Bowl?
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
yes, but I guess Emerald could select us over USC for hometown advantage
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Whoever has the ability to pick up USC will pick them first. Emerald included.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 6:58 PM PST up reply actions
I figured Stanford would be a shoo-in for the Em, what’s the consensus?
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Arizona—Holiday, Furd—Sun, OSU—Vegas
Up to Emerald and Poinsettia to fight for USC and Cal.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:02 PM PST up reply actions
c’mon transitive property!
It just makes sense from a bowl sponsor’s standpoint to take the norcal team for the norcal bowl and socal for socal…i feel like the respective fan bases would much rather stay up here than go down there/vice-versa for a potentially awful game so close to the holiday
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
LOL
Ludwig’s meeting with his old boss. I guess that one should be good
by EchoOfSilence on Dec 5, 2009 7:01 PM PST up reply actions
danzig, who would you rather face in sweet 16 of vball, baylor or UCLA?
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Baylor. We’re rooting for Baylor tonight. UCLA’s front row is, 6’5, 6’4, 6’4 and 6’3… I think that’s the tallest in the NCAA (not 100% sure). We lost both our reg season matches against them.
Man, Forsett attended that game.
Feel sorry that he had to come out for that.
hoping for a big game type miracle for the bears right now
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Touchdown
Georgia Tech has taken a 24-13 lead over Clemson in the third quarter.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 7:06 PM PST reply actions
Totally slipped my mind to post the open thread on this
Cal women’s hoops won this afternoon. This loss is my fault for neglecting our Lady Bears.
BERKELEY, Calif.—Alexis Gray-Lawson scored 15 points and freshman DeNesha Stallworth added 14 points, seven rebounds and four assists to lead No. 20 California past Colorado State 78-44 in the Colliers International Classic on Saturday.
Freshman Gennifer Brandon had 10 points and 12 rebounds for the Golden Bears (4-2), who had dropped two of three, including a 12-point loss to No. 3 Ohio State on Nov. 29.
The win was the 99th of Cal coach Joanne Boyle’s career. She needs one more to become just the second women’s coach in school history to reach the 100-win mark.
Meghan Heimstra scored 11 points and had 11 rebounds, the fourth double-double this season for the Colorado State sophomore. Kim Mestdagh added 12 points for the Rams (5-3), who were off to their best start since 2004-05 before losing to the Bears.
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I was really hoping for that 10 win season, placing ahead of SC, and sending SC to
the Poinsettia Bowl.
I still consider this season a success because for two reasons: we beat the furd and we are going to a bowl game.
10 wins and finishing tied for second would have been great for recruiting but the coaches will just have to work a little harder to get the kids they want now.
Well it is a disappointing end to the regular season, especially after the Big Game but we still have a chance to redeem ourselves and out on a winning note with our bowl game.
We still have a lot of issues to address on this team but that is for another day and another post.
I'm with you my brother
…exactly how I feel…a bittersweet season
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:12 PM PST up reply actions
while I reserve the right to be peeved at the manner of our losses, the day we start taking 8/9 win seasons and bowl games for granted is the day we’ve lost our roots as Cal fans.
I will also be pleased with a Bowl Game and Stanfurd win. Always.
ALWAYS
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:16 PM PST up reply actions
That is the truth
a lot of young Cal fans would consider this season a failure but they couldn’t be more wrong.
8/9 wins is not easy, especially in a tough Pac10 this year.
Not to mention the great Big Game win was truly one of the greatest Cal victories in the Tedford era.
Now you’re making me feel guilty for being so angry. ;-)
I, for one, will not lose my “roots.” I was devoted to some pretty bad teams, like many of us were. That doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t still get angry over downright embarrassing performances like tonight.
When this one wears off and I look back on the season, you’re right: the bowl game, the Big Game win, and (for me) the Ucla win will make me look fondly at the season. And make me look forward to 2010, with the Rose Bowl hope springing eternal.
But right now: still pretty damn mad.
Praise be to Tedford!
not to excuse our performance, or lack thereof, but for UW this was like their “bowl game” and they played like it
So?
We had no response for that? Where was the team that rose up against stanfurd when were down 14-0? I want THAT team back.
Praise be to Tedford!
Problem I have with that comment...
Isn’t that what everyone said when they played LSU to start the year? Or USC right after they beat OSU on the road? Or, to be honest, two weeks ago in the Apple Cup to avenge last year’s loss? They have had a season’s worth of high intensity games.
The game sucked, and I’m frustrated with the performance of the team and the coaches…but three years from now I’ll still remember the Big Game and I’ll have forgotten this game. so there’s that.
Now, let’s help the Pac-10 go 7-0 in Bowls
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Oklahoma is going to stomp the Furd
Calling it now.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:14 PM PST up reply actions
If we had played Oklahoma, we might have been the benficiary of some OU complacency. If Best didn’t play in the bowl game, Oklahoma might have cruised into the Sun Bowl, not really giving us our due. But somehow, I think having to play Gerhart will energize the Sooners (who haven’t exactly been bowl game warriors lately). Gerhart will be hyped, no doubt. I see Oklahoma treating that as a challenge and stepping up their game. I think the world of Gerhart (grudgingly – he is a furd, after all), so I’ll be interested to see that matchup.
Praise be to Tedford!
Humanitarian Bowl
UCLA will go, I hear.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 7:15 PM PST up reply actions
Wisconsin
They’ll own Hawaii.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 7:16 PM PST up reply actions
Got I hat that field. I hat that field enough to start a haberdashery. But hey. A bowl is a bowl.
Go Bruins!
Pac-10 in Bowls...
My best friend and I, both of us Old Blues, are the types that would like it if the Pac-10 went 1-6 in the Bowl Games with Cal being the “1”…
Both of us know that tends to put us in the minority of Cal fans, doesn’t it?
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
research."
Plenty of Cal fans probably root against Stanfurd, USC and UCLA. At least around here, there’s alot of friendliness with Oregon and OSU.
Plus when they win it makes our conference look a little better.
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I used to be that way until I moved to Ohio and started to sprout Pac-10 pride because of the all the Pac-10 bashing that goes on out here. However, there remain 2 Pac-10 teams for which I don’t root in bowl games.
Praise be to Tedford!
udub’s expensive coaches looked good tonight. I think they spend 50-100% more on asst coach salaries than we do.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Nick Holt has been giving us a buttfucking forever and a minute now.
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
by Thoroughbred on Dec 5, 2009 10:40 PM PST up reply actions
Ndamukong Suh
He’s having a great game against Texas.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 7:14 PM PST reply actions
He. Is. Beast.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:15 PM PST up reply actions
I can see why Jay Guy de-committed (though the coaches at Nebraska now didn’t even recruit Suh, and the dude’s a beast o his own)
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Think King and Owa are gone after today?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:17 PM PST up reply actions
I really really hate people trying to extrapolate our on-field results onto our recruiting class. Is there a correlation between good season and good class? Yes. Can you use that correlation to predict the actions of teenagers making their college choice? No. Get over it.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
You seem angry.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:25 PM PST up reply actions
Ryan Anderson
He and his Orlando Magic are taking on my Golden State Warriors in about 15 minutes on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 7:16 PM PST reply actions
Go Ryan!
KILL THE DUBS!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:18 PM PST up reply actions
Poinsettia Bowl
Last year’s game was TCU vs. Boise State, if memory serves. Since that game, neither one of them has lost.
Since we can’t go to the Sun Bowl anymore, let’s get some of that Poinsettia mojo.
Still angry…
Praise be to Tedford!
sup dudes
offseason plz
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Can we skip it? Mommmmmmmm, I’m sick, I don’t wanna go to school today!
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
We’re not the Irish! A month of practice isn’t ‘beneath us!’
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Can they just… do it in secret? Can we pretend the season is over? The team doesn’t need fan support to beat Utah, they suck! (Oh God we’re going to lose to Utah.)
(Or BYU whatever.)
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
…forget the faux drama…how do you put up the witty animation?
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:24 PM PST up reply actions
Click the little tree icon above the text field, insert url, viola.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
never
We need to win the bowl game to salvage some pride. You don’t want to go into the offseason with the memory of having laid an egg in your last game.
Avinash said to let my anger out
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, now that I’ve let that out, I’m going to get some perspective:
Kept the axe, check
Entertaining games this season (see: Maryland, Arizona, Stanford), check
Winning season, check
Jahvid’s fine, check
SAHPC under construction, check
Whew, alright! I’m not feeling so bad anymore.
by BleedinBlue on Dec 5, 2009 7:20 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
EXACTLY
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:23 PM PST up reply actions
Washington 42, Cal 10
Washington. We got blown out by Washington. We were uncompetitive against Washington.
I see your points. They’re good ones. I just can’t appreciate them yet. I’ll appreciate them in a couple of days. Tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.
Praise be to Tedford!
We got blown out 4 times this year. 4 times. People can claim and 8 or 9 win season is hard and I don’t necessarily disagree. However, it is pretty inexcusable to get blown out 4 times in one season. Cal just isn’t that less talented. Whether it’s desire, focus, preparation, I don’t know. But, something isn’t right with this picture.
It'll be just you, me, and Peter Nincompoop.
I tend to agree with you there. Before today, I was going to remember this season not only for winning a thrilling Big Game, but also for the resiliency of this team. It’s admirable for the team to have overcome the 2 blowout losses to win 3 straight and then overcome the bad loss of Best and the OSU game to beat Arizona and then stanfurd. But now that we’ve added another blowout loss to an inferior opponent to our body of work, it’s time to examine why we lost these games this way. Coach Tedford needs to step back and examine this team the same way he stepped back and looked at it in 2007. Good teams should not be blown out this many times.
Praise be to Tedford!
I kept thinking that I’ve seen this game before.
Deja vu. No highlights again!
by prd74 on Dec 5, 2009 7:21 PM PST via mobile reply actions
On the bright side, less work for you!
Good work all season man. We’ll always have the Big Game.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:23 PM PST up reply actions
Unrelated:
From a poster on a non-sports forum I frequent:
It is very troubling since basically the only frequently-updated blog on UCLA sports is run by an absolute nutcase (like he insists on always calling it U$C* because their success has to be asterisked because they are cheaters and horrible people and blah blah blah) who gets like autistic-level upset whenever UCLA is playing poorly; the site began as [redacted].com, though, so you kind of have to see that one coming. Anyway when UCLA is playing good he is mostly just all “Yeah whoo 104 championships John Wooden yeah”, and nothing (except for Women’s soccer, kind of) has gone well this year.
suffer baby bears, suffer.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I feel like I need to reevaluate my 100% hatred for UCLA, because it’s almost entirely Bruinsnation related. I used to halfway root for UCLA because of the whole ‘sister public school camaraderie thing’. Then I found BN. It’s starting to feel unfair to punish the rest of the Bruins because Nestor is such a nutcase.
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I feel the same way. But then I think of Nestor gloating, and I just can’t root for UCLA. It’s a conundrum.
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
I know, it sucks, right? I mean, Ben Howland is a great coach and those UCLA final four teams would be easy to root for as a neutral observer. And the football team has had some cool guys (well, OK, mostly Maurice Drew)
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I could root for Norm Chow. Not so much anyone else on that team.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I respect Price’s beastliness. Beyond that, this year’s UCLA team is pretty nondescript
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Despite my anti-Uclaness, I do like Maurice Jones-Drew a lot. Nice Bay Area kid, whom I remember we had a decent shot at getting. But he went to Ucla, in part, to get away from home because he thought it might be good for him (or so I’ve heard). Couldn’t begrudge a kid for that. I continued to like him as a player, even as he torched us in the ’05 game.
My dislike for Ucla is largely driven by the BN types. I know many good Ucla peeps. My favorite Ucla people, in order: (1) Two of my law school classmates, (2) Maurice Jones-Drew, and (3) Harsha.
Praise be to Tedford!
Open Thread
The basketball thread is posted.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 7:25 PM PST reply actions
It’s going to end 7-6. You can just feel it.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:27 PM PST up reply actions
right
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:28 PM PST up reply actions
I dunno, after our game, I like seeing what good defense is like.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
After watching the awful performance by Cal's D today
I’m really savoring this game. These Ds are awesome.
Whose domicile? OUR DOMICILE!
but where is the O…come on
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by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
It seems unfair though. We all agreed that the Cinci-Pitt game was awesome even though nobody played much defense. Why should this game get punished for being the opposite? And it’s not just the offenses being bad – these defenses are both good, especially Nebraska’s
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tbf Nebraska’s offense is pretty bad.
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It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Defense
Nebraska has a great one.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 7:31 PM PST up reply actions
A little of both—there’s a reason McCoy isn’t projected to go high in the draft.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:31 PM PST up reply actions
Georgia Tech
They’re in striking distance with a 30-20 lead. This could get out of hand.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Dec 5, 2009 7:32 PM PST reply actions
OMG
did they just say that Nebraska has 46 yds total offense? myuk myuk
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
God I want them to get a pick six, sit on the lead and win this with double digit offense.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Mucking up the blocked punt earlier may have been the missed opportunity that costs them the game.
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Yeah what happened with that? I just saw the punt block, flipped away, then flipped back a minute later and it was Longhorns 3rd and 2. What was the sequence?
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Didn’t they beat Oklahoma even though they got fewer than 100 yards total offense?
Praise be to Tedford!
BTW
I think it will be great next year that we won’t get any hype at all. God, I hope this is what happens…feels sad to say so, but we only win those big games when everyone (including our own fanbase) is saying we’ll lose
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Don’t want to think about it. We’re not going to be much better next year.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:40 PM PST up reply actions
My long held theory is that when we finally make it to the Rose Bowl, it will be in a season when we had no such expectations.
Praise be to Tedford!
That’s the problem with Cal fans. Because of the Rose Bowl complex, when we even have the sniff of being halfway good, we always think this year is the year.
And then we go out and lay an egg.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:46 PM PST up reply actions
And looking at the talent and schedule for this year, it kinda looks like an 8-9 win team with you extract the hype from some players. I mean, 2 NFL seniors and 1 NFL junior…? Anything more than that? Maybe if some of the juniors this year have very good senior seasons…
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
9 wins could get the Pac-10 next season. So the expectations will be there again.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:49 PM PST up reply actions
Oh people will start talking it up…
~Oregon and the Furd come to Memorial
~We have 7 home games
~USC will still be adjusting next year
~Oregon State will lose Canfield and probably James Rodgers
Always inflated expectations. That’s what Cal fans are known for!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:55 PM PST up reply actions
Well, according to my friend, Stanford is going to the Rose Bowl next year and there is nothing we can do about it.
lol.
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by rollonubears on Dec 6, 2009 12:23 AM PST up reply actions
I have to believe we will be better next year
We return a lot of starters on the OL, hopefully the light bulb will go off and they will take that next step.
We have Lagemann, Ross, and Jones all returning at WR, plus Miller at TE.
Defense, we lose 3/4ths of our secondary, Devin Bishop, Young, and Alualu. I am not going to lie, right now the defense looks worse next year but I have to believe some young guys are going to step up. We return everyone on the DL put Alualu, hopefully Hagan can regain his confidence next season.
The most important part of the defense, hopefully we can find a pass rush at OLB. A good pass rush will help make up for losing Syd and would help that whole secondary look better.
Once again, the biggest question mark is QB. Riley had some great moments but also some really bad ones as well. Either Riley, Sweeney, or Mansion needs to elevate their play if this team is going to improve. Rileys 55% completion percentage is not going to cut it.
Don’t mean to rain on your parade, but there a lot of "hopefully"s in your statement, and what Cal needs is more than hope.
i'm here to clean your pool but i don't have a pool *bowchica bowow*
True but that is all we have is hope and really a lot of other CFB teams will be
hoping the same next season.
Teams lose a lot of players every year and all they can do is hope their backups and other players will step up.
Hey come on
we are going to GREAT next year, and I refuse to contenance any contrary view…at least until then…the glorious power of hope
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:50 PM PST up reply actions
this team could be a sleeper next year...
…if it would just show some consistency. The offense that executed so well against Stanford returns mostly intact. The defense loses a lot but under Gregory it has never been cover-your-eyes bad over the course of the season.
But Cal hasn’t been known for consistency since, well, the Rodgers era. It’s pretty much expected for Cal to lay at least one egg per season these days.
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what would be nice is if there wouldn’t be a fan/supporters’ overreaction to one egg… yeah the losses to oregon and usc were downright horrible, but as you can see, you can lose 2 games and still get in the BCS, no matter the losses. I just hope everyone remembers that.
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Problem is, we lose more than 2 games, and any talk of BCS and this team probably won’t be happening for a while. I pray I’m wrong, of course, but I see little reason to believe otherwise
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cincinatti lost 10 starters on defense this year… they were picked 4th or so in their conference.
nothing is set in stone. these are all college athletes. i don’t expect BCS next year, but i see an offense that can thrive with improvement (OL is still young).. and some promising defensive recruits. i bet you were not saying the same things after we beat Furd. don’t let one game sway your opinion.
Like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Yeah we need to just limit it to one "egg" and we will be fine next year
Hell had our only two losses been to Oregon and SC, as bad as they were chances are we might be going to a BCS game.
completely agree
…and on that point, i was driving home from the big game late, listening to espn talk and the guy had this clever scheme to avoid the pitfalls of early polls…something like, everyone starts even…then for a division II win (what is that called now??) you get 1 point, conference win 2 pts, etc…he had some other ways to add or lose points , but it really made some sense as it really penalized crap wins over easy teams, and made rankings meaningless…only what happened on the field counts…anyone else familiar with this idea…who is the guy who is proposing this…I’d like to read the whole thing
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by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:46 PM PST up reply actions
solid performance
plus had a few big highlight reel type plays.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
clarify:
28 for 113, 3 tds
2 rec for 76, one was a 69-yarder
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
McCoy wins if Texas wins.
If not…Ingram or Gerhart.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:45 PM PST up reply actions
Not that I think Gerhart isn’t deserving (because he is) but how is it that Gerhart gets this sort of push for Heisman, yet JJ Arrington couldn’t get so much as an afterthought in 2004?
Praise be to Tedford!
Ahhh screw political correctness
He’s a white running back!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 5, 2009 7:51 PM PST up reply actions
He is?
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by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 5, 2009 7:52 PM PST up reply actions