Kevin Riley just named the starting QB of the Cal football team.
Tweet from Daily Cal Sports. Totally expected, but it's nice to make it official.
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Last year we found out from a Facebook wall post.
This year, we found out from Twitter.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 24, 2009 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Facebook is soo 2008.
I’m gonna repeat my jokes from the DBD post about this.
by CalBandGreat on Aug 24, 2009 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Some say his powerade gives you infrared vision...and that his sweat towels wipe away sin. All we know is he's called giantfan5.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 24, 2009 4:38 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Some say his powerade gives you infrared vision...and that his sweat towels wipe away sin. All we know is he's called giantfan5.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 24, 2009 4:40 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Neville Chamberlain with the Munich Agreement?
I don’t like where this is going…Riley is going to betray us…and…
by paleodan on Aug 24, 2009 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Some say his powerade gives you infrared vision...and that his sweat towels wipe away sin. All we know is he's called giantfan5.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 24, 2009 4:43 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
I have no idea what you mean by this. But I am an idiot and I rec bright colors.
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by rollonubears on Aug 24, 2009 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
(sarcastic overcelebration when nothing of substance has actually been divulged)
Some say his powerade gives you infrared vision...and that his sweat towels wipe away sin. All we know is he's called giantfan5.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 24, 2009 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I got that part. I was just confused by the monkeys.
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by rollonubears on Aug 24, 2009 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
They’re howler monkeys howling with happiness after they heard Riley was named starter!
Some say his powerade gives you infrared vision...and that his sweat towels wipe away sin. All we know is he's called giantfan5.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Aug 24, 2009 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Goal: Have every game this season started by Kevin Riley
please?
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Tedford on Riley as the starter.
“I think they’ve all shown flashes of doing really great things,” Tedford said. “But it’s evident that you can tell by all of the things that are going on at the line of scrimmage and in the huddle and things like that that Kevin’s experience-he’s comfortable with the amount of offense that goes in every day.”
That has been the overarching sentiment for the last few weeks regarding Riley’s camp: In his fourth year in Cal’s offensive system, the redshirt junior’s comfort level is higher than ever. Riley and Brock Mansion shared time with the first-team offense early in camp, but Riley never saw his reps with the ones decrease. Rather, he took nearly all of the first-team snaps in the second half of camp.
Unlike last season, when Tedford started Riley against Michigan State but planned for Nate Longshore to enter the game in the second quarter, Riley is the undisputed starter for 2009. Last year’s indecision — there were some weeks where Tedford did not announce his starter until the actual day of the game — appears absent from this year’s competition.
Tedford did caution that Riley is not the savior of the Cal passing game, but rather that improvement over last season’s inconsistency is going to come from all facets of the Bears’ offense.
“It’s not just Kevin that was the problem, it’s not just Kevin that’s the solution,” Tedford said. “It’s a team effort on the offensive side of the ball.”
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by Swamphunter on Aug 24, 2009 6:44 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
I’d be stunned if they all stayed. Let’s assume that Riley plays for the next 2 years. That leaves 1 year left for Mansion, right? If he can beat out Sweeney, Bridgford, or whoever else is coming down the pike. Could be bye-bye to the Party Yacht!
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I dunno
Depending on how this year shakes out, Cal’s mission to assert itself in the Pac-10 could come to fruition. At which point, with a Rose Bowl or BCS MNC game victory, just having started for Cal might become more important than the number of years you log there.
Call it USC syndrome.
I realize that Matt Cassell never even started at USC and he still was drafted high and played well in NE. Nonetheless, I am sure that Mansion would be displeased if he waited 3 years for his chance and then was supplanted by Sweeney or somebody else.
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Well
Anyone who makes career plans for the NFL to follow in Cassel’s footsteps is probably an idiot. I think that’s the first time anything like that has ever happened. And you’re absolutely right that if Mansion got denied his shot because he had only one year left when another player had two he would be put out. But I also think that Cal will benefit more, not less, from becoming a school where it is a privilege to play even one year as the starting QB. Call it the Kyle Boller effect.
Look, this is college football
These kids all get to go to a wonderful school for free. They all knew there would be competition, the only thing that is guaranteed is a free ride and diploma when you graduate.
I think any one of those QBs can count. Count the # of QBs on the team. Count the # of years of their own eligibility, etc etc. Some of them simply won’t play and most will not make it to the NFL. Don’t despair, as I’m sure none of you had a free-ride at Berkeley.
It doesn’t really matter if they play or not at the collegiate level; playing time doesn’t transfer over to the NFL. Longshore didn’t make a team. The heisman trophy winners like Jason White and Charlie Ward never got drafted. Matt Cassel never played in college; Joe Flacco played in Div 1aa. You’re either good enough to make it into the NFL or you’re not. Playing time is largely irrelevant.
by DavidsonBear on Aug 25, 2009 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
You’re assuming that these kids want to play in the NFL. If these kids want to play in the NFL, then yes, playing time can be irrelevant since so few players make the NFL. But these kids want to play in college. That’s what you’re missing. That’s important to some of them, and important enough for some of them to transfer.
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