Comments on: Football: Training camp report — Aug. 9

By: noduck

noduck — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:17:26 +0000

wow… is this one of those spontaneous cal fans support groups i’ve heard about?

By: abe

abe — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:40:46 +0000

I dont mean to insult JO, it certainly wasn’t not my intention but sometimes you got to make a point somehow and that was the only way I could do it. As I indicated above this wasn’t just about me, otherwise yeah I did have this other report so I shouldn’t care but I was advocating for everyone who relies on this blog for all their coverage. Read it, it actually makes some sense. Finally, this is a restricted article, posting a link won’t work. And as for the violation of copyright I am probably doing Bearinsider a favor since this was just a one time thing except I might have convinced a few people who also have the time like I do and the willingness to shell out $10 bucks a month to get a different perspective. Hope that answers all your concerns. Once again I apologize to JO, if this was in any way an insult because that was not my intention, just a little frustrated. I have had my other subscription for a while, yet I never stopped visiting this blog on a daily basis b/c I value JO’s perspective, besides the X’s and O’s. I am not saying JO is not capable of providing similar coverage. I understand he probably has more responsibilities. Thats why in my criticism above I indicated that if he has time to cover just one thing at this point in camp I wish it was the X’s and O’s and not the intangibles. That was all.

By: TrumanHugh

TrumanHugh — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:39:43 +0000

I very much appreciated this post, JO. Team leadership is just as much a part of the equation as the Xs and Os, especially for Cal. This blog is about Cal football…all aspects of Cal football, and there may be times when a specific topic or focus may not be addressed…too bad!

There are many sources of information out there and I think this post was a nice perspective, something different. As Abe learned, the specific type of info he was craving was just another mouse click away. Why bitch and moan when your were clearly able to find the storyline you were looking for?!

Abe–in the future, simply post the link. That way, you’re not insulting JO by hijacking his blog with “oneupmanship”, and, more importantly, you’re not violating any copyright or subscription regs.

Go Bears!

By: MoreNCsarecoming

MoreNCsarecoming — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:13:33 +0000

Thanks for the helpful article JO. I showed it to Daddy and he was encouraged. Leadership is his thing.

Thanks to Abe for post #2.

By: abe

abe — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:33:57 +0000

I understand what you are talking about and that is precisely why I like to keep tabs on multiple sources to gain the fullest coverage on the state of Cal football. Thus from my own selfish perspective I actually don’t mind the above coverage. You see I am a Cal football fanatic and I have a lot of time on my hand to read all kind of blogs everyday but not everybody shares that kind of luxury. And for most of those people this is probably the only source of news as most of the other decent blogs are not even free. Therefore speaking from their perspective it its not out of place to suggest that the above report could probably use some substance as far as actual football is concerned. One other thing, I find such a detailed focus on the topic of leadership this early in camp rather premature. Yes leadership is important but this is only the 3rd of camp. I would wait perhaps till the last week of camp to provide a more thorough summary on this area about who emerged as a leader and how the rest of the team is responding and so on. Dont get me wrong, everyday when I open my browser, this is the very first blog I check on so I appreciate the work JO does and I have said that on multiple occasions. But today I couldn’t help but be disappointed with the complete absence of any mention of at least QB play, especially when the QBs did some nice things apparently.

By: CalFBFan

CalFBFan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:16:12 +0000

Eh, to be honest, I don’t mind that JO’s gone and done something different; I tend to check all Cal football sources and it’s good to have multiple stories on different subjects. At least one will have a practice report and JO having a different angle makes checking all the sources more worthwhile.

Besides, JO usually gives us a practice report. It’s nice to spice things up every now and then.

By: abe

abe — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:56:52 +0000

I must say I am rather disappointed with this report. While I acknowledge leadership is important in team sports I don’t thing it shouldn’t be the focus of an entire report. I am dying to know how the offense did, how is Riley and the receivers are progressing, how about the new WR’s, LB’s, the fullbacks,…etc I mean come on JO, where is the beef. A lot of the stuff about players not present or injured etc is stuff that maybe should be mentioned as a footnote. I waited all day for this report, since practice is closed we have absolutely no idea what is going on, and there is not one comment about actual football—I don’t mean to dissing you or CC times, but I simply can’t say I am not disappointed.