Tosh.No: Is This What It Feels Like When Doves Cry?

that it wasn’t possible to give Tosh a big raise and not the other assistants. The money would be completely justified because of his recruiting function.

Every coach knows it is Tosh bringing in the best recruits and adding that (huge) benefit to the team, besides what he adds with his coaching.

Isn’t all that recruiting a lot of extra work too? Doesn’t he spend way for time communicating with these kids and traveling around to visit them? If he adds so much more value (through recruiting) and does a lot more work than any of the other position coaches, why shouldn’t he make a lot more money?

I don’t see this as a particularly big deal in the long run. With the new facilities in place, recruiting will be fine, and I actually take some pride that my alma mater isn’t selling out as completely as many of its peers across the country. If it’s a loser’s attitude to wince at the super-inflation now infecting college football, then so be it. Wins are nice, but Cal football Saturdays have always been more about the tradition, the band, the camaraderie with fellow Blues old and young, and the diversion from real life. Winning is only everything in professional sport.

My sadness at this news today has less to do with what it means for the future of Cal and more for the future of college football in general. While college football has pushed the limits of the spirit of amateurism since the late 1800s, I’m beginning to think, like Dave Zirin, that those limits finally have been breached beyond any sort of justification:

The money has metastasized dramatically and as Emerson said, "Money often costs too much." Athletic departments have now become a moral dead-zone. For winning college football programs, the amount of cash flowing in the system is staggering. For mediocre and losing college football programs, the sport is bankrupting athletic departments, but they spend more with the hope that a winning team will cover all losses. Our schools are being sold on margin right under our noses and I’m done with it. Until the criminal cartel that is the NCAA is finally made a relic of history; until the rancid BCS system is no more; until coaches are no longer the highest paid and most powerful people on campus; until the NFL funds it’s own damn minor league and stops outsourcing this task to our universities; until all of these things happen, I’m done and I hope I’m not alone. Unless we boycott sham amateurism and indentured servitude masquerading as sport, we will never reclaim sports.

I’m not ready yet, myself, to boycott Cal football, but I’ve already started boycotting the rest of the sport. Not so much as a political statement as just a reflection of my dwindling interest. I just don’t care anymore.

Why would I wish Tosh good luck in Seattle? He is getting paid to beat anyone who is not mutt football.

We’d all want to receive such a raise, no? Seriously, that is a big bird in the hand he had to take.

Instead, I blame Tedford for not managing his staff, his recruiting process better such that not only would Tosh leave but that now some recruits are reconsidering things or won’t end up coming.

Management of such issues rise to the senior executive, Tedford.
Unless he can fix this quickly, it’s egg in his face, in my opinion.
Stuff like this (and the Keisau rumor above) is what makes a head coach lose his job – not whether we completed on 3rd and 10 with a run when everyone thought we should pass.

Big test for Tedford, in my opinion. We haven’t heard a word from him yet. He’s working hard at damage control. Let’s see if he can come up with anything at all.

A shack in the Bay area is a castle in the Northwest. He can finally run his very own pit-bull breeding program. Another reason I loved that guy…sniff.

http://www.ibabuzz.com/beartalk/2012/01/17/football-is-kiesau-next-to-uw/

It just does not make sense to me logically but hey I have little or no real information.

@adamgorney: Four-star #Cal commit Jordan Payton just told me #UCLA, #Washington and now #Michigan are back involved in his recruitment.

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but a day later things haven’t settled for me. Let’s not put lipstick on a pig. This is a totally devestating turn of events. You know what has to go? Not Tosh, but Tedfraud’s ego!

Greg Biggins @GregBiggins
Hearing it’s a done deal, Eric Kiesau will be new WR coach at #Washington, another big hire

FUCKING GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

It’s always been hard to be a Cal fan; the future is always bright but the present rarely matches my optimism. Now? The future is looking dimmer.

I don’t blame Tosh for taking such a well-paying job. I wish he stayed at Cal, but I get it. My big concern right now is for losing these guys that made our future look so bright, starting with Shaq. He’s ready to play RIGHT NOW and would have an immediate impact. I think it’s sucky for Tosh to pursue him now at UW, but this is a big boy sport and I guess that’s how it goes.

I hope Zach Kline can work some magic and keep our interested guys in the pipeline. There’s nothing I can do about it, and I’m numb right now.

@juanonjuan10 @arikarmstead whats ya tops right now?

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Who knows what it means, but there you have it.

Getting kicked in the nuts twice in a row really sucks. Its open season on Cal football with To$h leading the way. We need to ask ourselves now, who is next? Oski?

maybe this isnt official yet. Maybe UCLA just ran a rumor to confuse our recruits!
and that Tosh is still the great ole Tosh

Have to see who we get to replace Tosh and now possibly Kiesau. Horrible timing, but we get what we get. Cannot pay the same scale as the other programs, so I suspect we rely a whole bunch on the prestige of Cal and what it can do for you later in life.

The 5-star kids are looking at a pro career – at least that is what they are projecting – so a degree will likely have less priority and a fantastic place like Cal will have less upside. We will consistently get the 3-star and 4-star kids that have high expectations from the school they attend, not just the football program. We just have to coach them up. But realistically, it is nearly impossible to compete and we are irrational to think that we can consistently do so.

I am wondering if we will start hearing about a rift between the top level coaches at Cal (Tedford and the coordinators) and the lower level coaches and assistants – there has got to be more behind these moves than money. I mean really, can Sarkisian and UW be that good a destination? I don’t see it. They may be poaching our coaches, but they are not much less of a stepping stone than us.

Anyway, I’m behind the Bears 100%. The trials of being a Cal fan.

I feel awfu. My stomach just dropped.

I needed something to make me believe that even when it seems all is lost and there is no way out, those that don’t give up, find a way to win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsvdSPgzdg

The bear will not quit, the bear will not die.

Aside from Lupoi and Kiesau? This is getting really ridiculous…

…it’s how we take it…we need to let the players know that..they will get through this just fine but they need some calm leadership to allow that to happen…hope we have it.