Jeff Tedford Will No Longer Disclose Injuries. Good Idea?

But that’s never what happens. Most fans see what happens on the field and we react immediately. If they don’t know who’s injured, they might trash players negatively or question the coaching on the field without having the proper set of facts available to them.

On the scale of “Things Tedford does that in any way affect me” this is somewhat below “Looks at my section in the stands while I’m standing in it,” but above “Gets onto 680 South from 24 East Interchange.” So, I’m with you on the “don’t care.”

it’s here

As for disclosing/not disclosing. It’s a good idea, but since it effects my enjoyment of the game (ME ME ME) I don’t like it. But hey, anything to help the team is a positive.

It’s too late. We’ve already put together the report card post. You’ll have to wait until next week, which hopefully will be a happier report card to fill out.

my thoughts exactly. Tedford is a pretty paranoid guy.

Jim, that’s YOUR philosophy.

on the first drive, if I remember correctly. Within the first few plays. Hey, we know what’s going on too!

I would have voted for something like “it’s a stupid idea, and I don’t care.”

Personally, I think Tedford is way too paranoid for his own good. Nevada not knowing about Mohammed/Allen’s injuries certainly didn’t seem to have much of an impact on this game. If I were Tedford, I would be more concerned with our defense showing no discipline to contain the qb keeper on the option, and our qb (Tedford’s own area of expertise) who, as a 5th year senior, continues to display little poise or savy. Closing practices, witholding information…this is all a distraction from the actual problems with the program.

Of course, as you say, if we win at Arizona (and then put together a good season) all is forgiven.

Cameron Jordan, broken buzzcut! Out six to eight hours in barber shop.

Exactly what I was thinking. Practicing for a player who doesn’t suit up won’t really affect the opposing team. But if the opposing team doesn’t practice for a player who does suit up, now that could have a noticeable effect.

Though, I felt dirty enough when he was icing the kicker.

Exactly. There’s been a huge change in state/federal policies regarding the disclosure of personal info, (ie. injuries) over the past few years. If the majority of the team prefers not to have their injuries disclosed anyway, he may just be making a public statement to protect the players from having the media pester them.

The Sharks do something like this (“so and so has an upper body injury”).

What gets me is this: Are we trying to alienate our fanbase, or actually try to sell out Memorial Stadium on a week-by-week basis? While winning is vital, having a bloody clue in many facets of the program helps fans stay interested. We have piss poor media coverage in the nation’s 5th largest market. Some of that, a good effin chunk of that, is on the university.

If there is one thing I know about the Cal fanbase once they’ve made up their mind about completely unreasonable allegations regarding paranoia, they will, in every way, listen to reason about further reasons underlying this decision. So, it’ll be OK.

This is soooo true.

Let me tell a story from my time with the team. I remember one day during a practice I was talking with some of the SMI (student medical interns). They were talking about how they were going to have to wrap up a players either arm or ankle for the game, and how they were going to do both arms/ankles even though both weren’t injured. It didn’t occur to me why at first, and so I inquired. The point of wrapping both arms/ankles is so that the other team doesn’t know which one is the injured arm/ankle and so there is now a 50% chance of the opponents purposely pulling/bending/scratching/gouging/hitting the injured body part. Some nearby players overhearing our conversation sort of threw in their two cents and agreed that a lot of dirty stuff sometimes goes on in those piles. As Cali49a already pointed out, U$C scum were “massaging” Echemandu’s nuts in the 2003 game.

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Sorry, I couldn’t disagree with you more.

The injury policy and the game performance are two separate issues. The news release on the injury policy was offered as an explanation for why Mohammed and Allen’s issues were not previously disclosed. It was not offered as an excuse for the admittedly woeful game. Subsequent interviews with players and coaches reveal that the coaches feel they were both out-coached(scheme) and out-executed. Many players have said that there was nothing wrong with the schemes, they just made too many mistakes. No one blamed the injuries nor the injury reports.

it tends to make reasonable folks wonder why in hell we’re paying him a paycheck at all.

If I see any, I’ll tell them that he’s now the all-time leader in career wins at Cal. He’s won more games during his tenure than we have the last several decades. We are lucky to have him.

Am I disappointed with the team’s performance and preparation? Sure. I’m certainly with you there. But, I think it’s a little premature to throw the coach and his staff out with the bathwater. Careful reading of his post-game interviews and subsequent press conferences show that he’s being pretty candid with taking the blame for their collective failures in the previous game.

Every coach recruits, from the DLine coach on up. So, you are proposing that we fire no coaches with as much humiliation as possible.