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Cal football: Spring practice No. 6
By Jonathan Okanes
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 pm in off-season stuff.
Considering the Bears have their first scrimmage coming up on Saturday, they did a surprising amount of 11-on-11 live drills today at Memorial Stadium.
In another full pads practice, Cal had a lively session, going live for a few sessions then adding some situational work at the end where the offense tried to score against a dwindling clock and quarterbacks were forced to spike the ball to stop the clock.
This was the first practice this spring where quarterback Brock Mansion got some first team reps. But truth be told, there really wasn’t s true first team Thursday. The Bears did more rotating than they have all spring, mixing and matching players on different units, especially on offense. The “first team” reps Mansion took actually was a mixture of first and second team reps, and the same went for Kevin Riley.
Both quarterbacks did OK, with good moments and bad moments. During one drill, Riley made a nice pass over the middle to connect with tight end (who was subsequently the subject of a crushing tackle) but then was intercepted by D.J. Holt on the next play.
After practice, coach Jeff Tedford was asked what he’ll be most interested in watching during Saturday’s scrimmage.
“Fullback, tight end, the so-called backups along both lines, and some of the linebacker players that had limited roles last year but now are more every-down type guys.”
Tedford has repeatedly said that fullback is the most competitive position on the team. Brian Holley has emerged as the first team guy the past couple practices, but Tedford said “the guy that has really stood out is Will Kapp.” He went on to add that Holley has done a very nice job and John Tyndall “has done some nice things.”
A couple of injury updates: Linebacker Charles Johnson is out for the rest of spring practice with a shoulder injury. Defensive end Keith Browner has a neck problem but Tedford didn’t give a timeline on his return.
Kicker Giorgio Tavecchio had yet another good day of practice, which is amazing considering the circumstance. Tavecchio spent most of spring break back in Milan, Italy to visit family. He said he just flew in last night and had some serious jetlag. That didn’t stop him from consistently booming field goals from long range.
On a final note, some of you have been following ESPN.com’s Ted Miller’s countdown of the Pac-10′s top 30 players. Today, Miller ranked Cal cornerback Syd’Quan Thompson as the conference’s eighth-best player. Something tells me there’s a certain Cal running back that will be near the top of this list.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm
In another full pads practice, Cal had a lively session, going live for a few sessions then adding some situational work at the end where the offense tried to score against a dwindling clock and quarterbacks were forced to spike the ball to stop the clock.>>>>>>> And why precisely do the QBs have to practise spiking the ball to stop the clock as it is dwindling?
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Who do you think you are moron, British royalty? You’re in the United States, where “practise” is spelled “practice.”
It’s a shame your mom wasn’t around to teach you that. Quite sad that she ran out on you like that, huh?
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 pm
hmm. Patty Cakes, you love posting articles on this website, I’m funny you didn’t mention this one:
“USC LB’s Brian Cushing & Clay Matthews tested positive for steroids at the NFL Scouting Combine, according to various sources, including one NFL team.”
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 pm
*I find it funny
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Hey JO, can you guys post a “chat wrap” for those of us who can’t make the live chat? Thanks!
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Something tells me that Amy is crying right now.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:34 am
How pathetic are the posters on this thread. I asked a simple and sincere question because of a point being made in the article.
And why precisely do the QBs have to practise spiking the ball to stop the clock as it is dwindling?
Because you refuse to answer my question I suspect none of you are the fans you are claiming to be. Look I know Longshore was a terrible QB but why must the new QBs be exposed to his clock management issues. Most high school QBs know how to call time out and when to. Who would be so stupid to let a clock run out if they could just take the ball and spike it or throw it away.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:44 am
Will Says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 pm
“USC LB’s Brian Cushing & Clay Matthews tested positive for steroids at the NFL Scouting Combine, according to various sources, including one NFL team.”….Hmmm care to name your source? It wouldn’t be that nfldraftbible site? Why haven’t you been taught on how to recognize a credible source from one that isn’t. It is not surprising that once again you are posting false information. Par usual so we are waiting to see your next lie.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
MNC – I trust you are kidding. You really have no clue about the game of football, if you think that with time running out one can get 11 players to successfully (without infraction) and efficiently (no wasted seconds) line up and spike the ball without practice. It is a critical drill that warrants practice. EVEN USC practices it.
MNC – It is better that you post nothing and let people think you are dumb, than to start typing and remove all doubt!
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 am
One of my favorite sayings is “Don’t ever wrestle with a pig, because you will both get dirty — and the pig likes it.” You folks are wrestling with a pig.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
Moron, look at it this way:
At least your beloved Rey Rey was smart enough to take a masking agent!! hahahaha
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
J.O. any standouts on either side of the ball yesterday?
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:50 am
Wonder if any other Cal players will crack this Top 8 players other than Jahvid? Maybe Mike Mohamed????
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 am
I don’t think Mohamed will be there, but I was thinking he’d be on the list earlier. He is definitely a top-30 player in the PAC-10.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:39 am
Bill, what year is it? Jahvid will be 1 or 2 without a doubt. How could you even ask?
I agree with Tyler about Mohamed. He’s a great diamond in the rough find, but if he was going to make this list, it would be in the teens at most. Too bad, JO didn’t hound him about it at the practice. “Miller, thanks for posting links to my blog, but what’s the deal with giving no love to Cal’s leading returning tackler on defense?” Maybe, that’s too much Bill O’Reillyish for JO, but it would be a fun read on a blog. Plus, it would be a return of Miller’s affections towards this blog. Jab Jab!
Go BEARS!
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:04 am
Will Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
Moron, look at it this way:
At least your beloved Rey Rey was smart enough to take a masking agent!! hahahaha >>>>>>> The only thing that needs masking is your credibility problem. Yours just sinks lower and lower. I guess that’s why you need all of your s/ns. Maybe just maybe you will post something believable. Then again you can always ask stupid questions like Jan K Oski who wants to know what the players did on spring break.
BTW how come the AP wires which busted the kid from Boston College for using roids had no mention of either Clay or BC? One can only imagine what your next source of rumor will be. How about The Bear Insider?
Clovis is Cal Country Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
MNC – …. if you think that with time running out one can get 11 players to successfully (without infraction) and efficiently (no wasted seconds) line up and spike the ball without practice. It is a critical drill that warrants practice. EVEN USC practices it.>>>>> And we do it right unlike a certain player from your program who had a stupid moment and became the laughingstock of college football and cost your HC a new set of headphones. The only time I laughed at PUCLA posters is when they posted a bunch of jokes and pics about that play.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am
I am surprised at the implied criticism of running plays where the QB has to engage in clock management. Consider the following:
A. Perhaps Cal is thinking of an end of first half drive to get an additional score. Oregon State didn’t forget about the benefit of trying to score at the end of the first half in 2008.
B. You’d think U$C would appreciate clock management, considering how poorly the team managed the clock at the end of the Oregon State games in 2006 and 2008 (how hilarious it was to watch Sanchez, and how well Stanfurd and Texas managed the clock in 2007 and 2005, respectively.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
J.O. is there any way you can ban moron, will, amyfan4life, et. al. who participate in this drivel? I’m sick and tired of having to sift through all the crap just to find one or two real football comments. They’re discussion killers and this nonsense is really affecting the quality and credibility of the site.
Thank you.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 am
JO,
When you write of Tavecchio booming FGs from long range, do you mean 45+ yards? What’s the specific distance?
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
Good to see the next generation of Kapps making waves at Cal. If the kid’s got the right stuff, I’d like to see another Kapp on the field!
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Hey Patty Cakes this is where you’ve been. How’s my little pooper-scooper? Anyway Eric made an excellent point about clock management, my team sure could have done a better job against Oregon State. You better believe we’re practicing ball-spiking with our unproven and untested QBs. If they don’t get it together we’ll be lucky to go to the Holiday Bowl.
Everyone knows what you were trying to imply with your statement. Frankly I expect better behavior from my employees.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
“Good to see the next generation of Kapps making waves at Cal. If the kid’s got the right stuff, I’d like to see another Kapp on the field!”
Will Kapp on the field + Rose Bowl + Joe gets to drink tequila again = magical.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
CalAlum97,
I could not agree with you more. It is those who respond who ruin this site. Rather than ignoring one poster (easy), now I have to ignore most.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:39 pm
To GoldenBear77 and CalAlum97,
I guess I find it surprising that you are so eager to have a newspaper ban lots of participants. Is there some minimum threshold of commentary you find acceptable? If, for example, you expressed a view that the majority of other participants viewed as in poor judgment, regardless of the topic, could we arrange to have the newspaper have you banned? CalAlum’s two posts concerned banning of others (not football related) and generations of Kapps (not the most substantive football issue to be discussed). GoldenBear’s two posts concerned joining CalAlum’s non-football related request to ban and offering up one of the poster’s favorite quips (again, not football-related). Based on the standard articulated by CalAum, both of you should be banned.
Personally, I think MNC tends to make idiotic statements and predictions (most amusingly from last season, that Norm Chow’s brilliance would allow Craft to carve up the middle of our defense), but, unlike the views of others, I see most of the posts as trying to make points related to the game of football (strategy, coaching, players, recruiting, etc.). When MNC makes a football-related comment that I disagree with, I respond, as I do with others (Jan K and I had a various running debates during the past season over several issues). Here, MNC made an incredibly poorly thought-out comment about clock-management. I was more than happy to point out the obvious flaws, but that doesn’t mean MNC is somehow less entitled than you to make the point. Do you somehow believe that whether Cal does or does not practice end-of-half or end-of-game clock management drills is an inappropriate topic of discussion on this board?
I do agree that things like Pete Carroll’s pooper-scooper have absolutely nothing to do with football, and I would prefer not to see it posted, but I’m not in favor of banishments; I prefer the marketplace of ideas.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I am hereby retiring my sophomoric quips about a particular poster and will focus my comments on football. Let’s start with why Cal will beat USC next October -
1- Kevin Riley is better than most people give him credit. Certainly he has to step up and demonstrate it, but the kid has too much talent not to succeed.
2- None of the SC quarterbacks will have established themselves by October and Cal’s linebackers and secondary are much better than SCs QBs.
3- Taylor Mays is a great player but he’s also a cheap-shotting, head hunter. Without Rey to slow down the front line, he’s going to lined up in a fullback or tight-ends sites and is going to have at least a couple rude awakenings.
4- The Cal offensive line will atone for its let downs last year and will provide the protection for the QB that they know they can deliver.
5 – Jahvid Best is a Heisman candidate and the best running back in the Pac-10. With an improved passing attack, he will bust big gains against SC and its relatively weak defense.
PC
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Eric,
Actually, I am in favor of any intelligent discussion.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Pete Carroll Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I am hereby retiring my sophomoric quips about a particular poster and will focus my comments on football. Let’s start with why Cal will beat USC next October -
1- Kevin Riley is better than most people give him credit. Certainly he has to step up and demonstrate it, but the kid has too much talent not to succeed.>>>> And according to your esteemed coach talent isn’t enough. Honestly I saw nothing out of him last year that made me think he could get the job done against serious competition.
2- None of the SC quarterbacks will have established themselves by October and Cal’s linebackers and secondary are much better than SCs QBs.>>>>> We will have 3 QBs who will be tearing it up and with our offensive arsenal of WRs, RBs and stellar OL we won’t need a lot of production out of our QBs.
3- Taylor Mays is a great player but he’s also a cheap-shotting, head hunter. >>>>> And of those enormous hits that nearly decapitated all of your WRs last year which one of them was a cheap shot?
4- The Cal offensive line will atone for its let downs last year and will provide the protection for the QB that they know they can deliver.>>>> I am hearing our DL will be the best in years.
5 – Jahvid Best is a Heisman candidate and the best running back in the Pac-10. With an improved passing attack, he will bust big gains against SC and its relatively weak defense. >>>> The kid is also prone to injury. Excuse me but I have some green stuff I need to upchuck. Heisman and your program just don’t sit well together.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Eric Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am
B. You’d think U$C would appreciate clock management, considering how poorly the team managed the clock at the end of the Oregon State games in 2006 and 2008 (how hilarious it was to watch Sanchez, and how well Stanfurd and Texas managed the clock in 2007 and 2005, respectively.>>>>>> So Eric you seem to be saying that whenever USC loses it is because of poor clock management. Nope! When Texas beat us it was because Vince Young played sissy football. If they had played mano y mano we would have won hands down. Against Stanford we had the ball but JDB coughed up an interception. Both OSU games the Beavers had a great game plan. None of our losses had anything to do with bad clock maqnagement on our part. Our QBs did not run the clock out when they could have thrown a pass into the cheap seats thereby stopping the clock.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
OREGON STATE
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
gotta love a team that can really FIGHT ON
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Everyone relax! It’s friday, and it’s obvious the CC Times will do nothing about Amy. JO has said that much in the past. If others chose to engage her, have at it! No one is forced to read all of the post on here, if they’re on target or not. I happen to avoid reading any content from several posters, because I know the likely substance to their post. It know it would be nice if we have a somewhat clean discussion like that on bearinsider, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon. Let’s be happy, we won’t stumble upon any content from Amy on there or Scout.com. Go BEARS!
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
1. Riley had an up and down season last year, though (as I repeatedly expressed last season), I believe it was the result of the bad decision to alternate QBs. That won’t happen this year. Didn’t Palmer stink it up until his senior year?
2. 3 QBs tearing it up? if U$C is giving meaningful playing time to 3 QBs during the season, things definitely won’t be going well. As for WRs and RBs, but for Williams, the WRs have been mediocre at best and the RBs (other than S. Johnson – why he doesn’t get more playing time is a mystery) are way, way below Best (and Quizz). When U$C’s QBs fail to step up, defenses will key on the run just like defenses keyed on Best last year. Last year, Cal’s defense effectively held U$C to a single TD (the second TD came very late), and that was with a QB likely to be drafted in the top-15 and on the road in a game where the Cal offense, particularly in the second half, was barely on the field. Imagine what happens when U$C comes to Berkeley. Reminds me of 2003.
3. Yes, the hit that nearly decapitated our receiver was one that should have had Mays tossed from the game. He finally got flagged for it in the Rose Bowl game, and I am guessing at Cal he’ll get a flag if tries it again.
4. I’ve been hearing the same thing, but, as we have all learned, more ncs have not been coming notwithstanding the perceived talent, so the fact that the DL is allegedly the “best ever” at U$C doesn’t concern me.
5. Best has been appeared to be injury prone, but consider what he did in the last three games of the season – banged up and the entire focus of the defense, he nonetheless was truly extraordinary. Had Tedford not insisted on having NL throw a pass in the bowl game against Miami, Best would have run for at least 250 yards.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
us?
our?
Like I said, morencs is mentally ill. He is so desperate for self-esteem that he must refer to the SC team as if he was a member.
Pity the troll. No job, no future. Just a lot of meds and therapy.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
calbear Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
OREGON STATE
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
gotta love a team that can really FIGHT ON
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Spoken like a fan of a team that has first hand knowledge.
You have lost to the Beavs 4 of the past 6 games. 3 of those games were played on your home turf. Remember S. Jackson in 2003? Remember Ayoob in 2005 and the throw to one receiver only game because Marshawn also rode the pine with his fumbleitis? Remember Riley in 2007 and running Forsett 3 times into the line goal to goal on the 1? Last year they beat you without a healthy Quizz. Strougher and James Rodgers humble your special teams. They definitely play USC type of football even until the last minute when Riley threw not one but two pick 6s.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Goldenbear 77
i wish more people would listen to your point. i’ve been
a follower of this blog for a while and i’ve never been
compelled to respond to comments of MNC. the fact that
people continue to respond to this guy/girl and the fact
that you or i post these posts means he/she will
continue to be post on this blog their comments. there
is only one way to deal with people like that-ignore
them. this is the first and last time i will ever
mention anything about MNC and i urge all of you out
there to do the same otherwise the comments in this
blog will be MNC posting ugly comments and people responding to that—simply boring and uninteresting.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Last post from me today since I gotta run.
U$C’s losses to Texas, Stanfurd (biggest upset ever), and Oregon State (twice) were not only because of clock management (and, no, not every U$C loss is because of clock management – Cal 2003 was not a result of clock management), though in those particular games, clock management was a factor.
Texas – had U$C’s silly secondary not dropped the foolish pass from Vince Young that was an incredibly easy INT, U$C would have won. Had the U$C running back made a 1 yard game on 4th down, U$C would have won (isn’t that the definition of mano y mano?) But Texas’s game strategy at the end was smart from a clock management perspective – spread the field and let the QB, who is big, strong, and can run, have the option to run for easy first downs, thereby stopping the clock. Funny, because Texas’s poor clock management against Texas Tech last year (i.e., scoring too quickly when they easily could have ground out a few more running plays near the goal line) cost that game and a chance in the NC game.
Stanfurd – the Booty INT was the result of poor planning from a clock management perspective. To win the game, all U$C had to do was kick a field goal. They started with the ball at their own 40 with 45 seconds left (the result of a stupid Stanfurd face mask penalty), and thus needed only 30 yards to give a realistic shot to kick the field goal. Had U$C not burned a time out when Stanfurd was 4th and goal – right after Stanfurd had called a time out (I’ll ignore U$C’s time out when it was first and goal at the 9 with 1:39 left) – U$C would have had better options. Bad clock management. It also doesn’t help to get sacked on the first play after Stanfurd had taken the lead.
Oregon State 2008 – my point was that Oregon State effectively won the game when they scord a TD right at the end of the first half. Oregon State started that drive at their own 42 (following a U$C fumble) with 5:12 left in the half. They drove in a methodical and intelligent fashion to (a) destroy any chance for U$C to have time to get the ball back and (b) steal more points (either by a FG or by a TD). Good clock management.
Hope this helps.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I’m surprise you’d question the knowledge of Pete Carroll. You obviously don’t know what you’re writing about.
1 – Riley’s performance deteriorated when he didn’t get enough time to throw. Maryland learned that they needed to blitz him to throw him off his game. Clearly the game hadn’t slowed down for him. That’s where practice helps. The game will slow down; he will be better. Better than SCs three-headed QB.
2 – Cal’s defense will match very well against SC’s offense. The weakest spot is the QB position. It’s a statement of fact. Cal will exploit the weakest pieces.
3 – see what Eric wrote. Taylor Mays is not only a cheap-shotting head hunter, he’s not very bright either. Proof, he passed up a sure early first round draft position for a lower position. If he’s not smart all-around he’s probably not that smart on the field either. That will be his downfall.
4 – If the DL is as impressive as you say, Tedford will mitigate it by routing it outside. Don’t be surprise when Jahvid Best gets beyond line and busts a dive play for 80 yards.
5 – Have you actually watched a Cal game? Did you notice the even though Jahvid Best was the only legitimate threat on the field that he still won the Pac-10 rushing title?
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Eric Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Hope this helps.>>>>> Your points were wel presented and well received. Thank you.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Pete Carroll Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:42 pm
1 – Riley’s performance deteriorated when he didn’t get enough time to throw. >>>> Brilliant, just brilliant.
2 – Cal will exploit the weakest pieces.>>>>> Well Will that’s how the game is played. Next point please.
3 – Taylor Mays is not only a cheap-shotting head hunter, he’s not very bright either. Proof, he passed up a sure early first round draft position for a lower position. If he’s not smart all-around he’s probably not that smart on the field either. That will be his downfall. >>>>> Does the name Russell White mean anything?
4 – If the DL is as impressive as you say, Tedford will mitigate it by routing it outside. >>>> Your knowledge of football is really beginning to come through like 100 year old buttermilk from a spout.
5 – Have you actually watched a Cal game? >>>> Way too many and it almost killed my interest in football and turned me to comedy.
Did you notice the even though Jahvid Best was the only legitimate threat on the field that he still won the Pac-10 rushing title? >>>>> Not hard to do when you pick up almost 600 yards on two cupcakes. But what were those statistics against USC? 13 carries = 30 yards. That’s Heisman padded numbers.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Oh yeah, got a real tree-hugger on our hands here who is going to tell us:
1) Moron is actually making great football commentary and not trolling (yeah right!)
2)the “liberties” and free speach of posters is paramount above all, regardless of content.
Well, if you actually believe the “logic,” and I use that term loosely, you laid out in post #24, Eric, you must be Dumpster Muffin in drag and doing nothing more than trolling. And yeah, people are banned from forums all the time for inappropriate content and trolling, so get over it.
Good to see there are others on here who are fed up with the crap moron and his buddies put up. As Abe says, “I urge all of you out there to do the same otherwise the comments in this blog will be MNC posting ugly comments and people responding to that—simply boring and uninteresting.”
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Moren/Amy/Patty Cakes/ you have not refuted any of my claims.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I’m pretty sure Tavecchio won’t be on any top 8, top 30, top whatever list, but it was his first year. I just hope he or someone can kick the ball at least close to the end zone and keep it in bounds…do we have a kick-off specialist yet?
April 4th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Couldn’t ignore CalAlum97′s diatribe.
Can’t say that I am “tree-hugger,” since I was more than happy to see the trees gone and seeing Memorial Stadium upgraded. Having been to most of the Pac-10 stadiums, Nebraska in 1999, Michigan State in 2002, and Tennessee in 2006, Memorial is by far the most beautiful stadium, and anything to upgrade it has my support.
1. Based on the name CalAlum97, I guess that means you apparently graduated from Cal. Thus, I am surprised at your interpretation of a fairly straightforward writing. You state: “Moron is actually making great football commentary.” I wrote, “Personally, I think MNC tends to make idiotic statements and predictions (most amusingly from last season, that Norm Chow’s brilliance would allow Craft to carve up the middle of our defense), but, unlike the views of others, I see most of the posts as trying to make points related to the game of football (strategy, coaching, players, recruiting, etc.).” When I last checked the dictionary, “great football commentary” is not exactly the same as “idiotic statements and predictions.”
2. This may have been a little subtle, but my point was not “liberties” and “free speach[sp]” of individuals participating in an on-line forum are paramount. As a non-governmental actor, the Contra Costa Times can ban whoever it wants whenever it wants. Rather, I find it amusing that you would ask a newspaper to engage in prior restraint by banning certain posters from making future comments based upon the reactions of others to past comments. Newspapers tend to frown prior restraint demands. See New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).
What I have learned from your post is, instead of (a) talking about football and (b) answering my question of what is the minimum threshold of commentary you would find acceptable, you appear more interested in attempting to insult others by, among other things, saying that they impersonating someone else “in drag.” Wikipedia.com has a definition of an internet troll that you might find helpful: “An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.”
No football discussion on a Cal football discussion forum. Uses “inflammatory” and “off-topic” messages with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response. Sounds like you’re the big winner…
Anytime you feel like weighing in with something football-related, that would be great.
April 4th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Time to lock this wack thread.
Go Bears!
April 4th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Pete Carroll Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Moren/Amy/Patty Cakes/ you have not refuted any of my claims.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I beg to differ Will. If you post something shallow you should expect to get a shallow answer in return. Do some research, learn the game understanding all of its nuances so that you can post some intelligent discussion. Until then your attempts are a dead giveaway that you are clueless.
April 4th, 2009 at 10:35 am
haha I’m not Pete Carroll Moron. Get that in your head.
April 4th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
By responding to the troll, you either end up defending Cal footbal, which isn’t necessary, or talking about USC football, which is what the troll wants.
The troll isn’t here because it is trying to promote USC football, but for the attention it craves. It probably gets off big time when over half the posts here are responses to it. Don’t give it the satisfaction.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Folks, you can deal with Moron all you want, but the bottom line is that this is a damaged person who desperately needs attention and is incapable of stopping. His need for attention is socio-pathic. For example, when he fakes a screen name pretending to be a Cal fan on the SC boards, if no one from Cal rises to the bait, he then comes to this blog and posts things like “Oh, look at the bad posts from Cal fans!” and links the threads. Moron is basically jumping up and down and yelling “Look at me!” at the top of his lungs when he does this. He desperately wants the attention.
This just shows what we all know — that Moron is mentally ill. I mean, he posts several dozen fake posts when he does this. Just think of all the effort it took to do that and he’s been doing this stuff for five or six years now. He can’t stop because THIS is all that Moron has in his sad little life. Think about it — Moron creates this fake life here — full of lies and attempts at making himself seem important. The fact that he continues to refer to SC as “we” shows you how weak his self-esteem is. If SC sucked in football, he’d be a fan of whatever other team was dominating the country.
And he was played by the moderator of the Cal Scout board into thinking they were friends, and Moron confided that he had to drop out of Davis Law for that unknown medical reason. And when a medical leave goes on for several years, it means mental health issues.
Pity the troll — but don’t assume you can do anything to make it go away. He has no where else to go but this site. He’s been banned on non-SC boards, and he’s basically neutered on the SC boards. His morencs, 9dwarfs, iam, iwas, kyleboller, mebane and a dozen other screen names were banned and any new ones are banned if he shows his rabid anti-Cal mode. CC Times is all he has left, and for someone so desperate for attention, there is no way he will leave on his own.
This is one sick puppy, folks. Pity the troll.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Why can’t the troll be banned on here? Every time I read the Cal Blog I see him writting all kinds of crap. I bite my tongue everytime by not saying anything back. This guy is jerk and loser.
Roll on you Bears!!!
April 5th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Feel better now “GoldenBear” after that psycho babble? Let me guess we will see that same post from you again. I will be counting off the days not only until this appears again in exact form but when you will finally post something of substantial football interest. Like you said, it’s 5 years and counting.
April 7th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Like I said, pity the troll.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Golden Bear Says:
April 7th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Like I said, pity the troll.>>>>> I think before you publish another rant you should have a conference with Sherm, the Advising Bear to find out a way to improve the grammatical foibles of one of your players.
“It was kind of emotional,” Kendricks recalled. “Just to think that other people think that about myself, it lets me know what I have to do and what expectations are. If other people believe in myself, I’ve got to, too.”
http://www.dailycal.org/article/105129/kendricks_hopes_to_wrap_up_starting_linebacker_spo
April 7th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
MoreNoCreditsarecoming: Are you a USC grad or just a wannabe? Would you please answer that question?