Comments on: Football: Gregory on Arizona

By: Killer

Killer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:19:38 +0000

GB77, well said. I am a GB65 and a Bear fan well before that and I have died a thousand deaths watching Bears football. Tedford is class. I think the recruiting has been remarkable considering the competition. Remember that Coach Tedford had the liability of a losing tradition, horrible facilities, and an environment that includes hostility to Cal athletics from some of the surrounding community. These players are people the University can be proud of; they don’t quit, the don’t take cheap shots, they support each other, and they go to class. All of this is because of the program Coach Tedford has established. I want us to go to the Rose Bowl in the worst way, but in the right way. That is why I am a Tedford fan. Go Bears!

By: calbear

calbear — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:12:49 +0000

why pay market price to lose…i say we get tyrone on a nice discounted price and put all of tedford’s money into more classes or reduced fees.

By: CalAlum97

CalAlum97 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:57:49 +0000

Well said GB77.
Tedford’s a great coach and still learning, still evolving, still improving. He has made a long term committment to the Cal football program and fans have to make a long time committment to Tedford. And, as Sandy Barbour mentioned in a recent USA Today article, “If we let him [Tedford] go because we’re not willing to pay market, we’ll pay a huge price, because I don’t know that we can go out and find another coach with that combination of skills and (academic) emphasis.”

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2009-11-09-coaches-salary-analysis_N.htm

By: ho

ho — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:19:48 +0000

GB77 – well said

By: BluenGold

BluenGold — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:09:07 +0000

JO- I am still getting basketball blog entries and comments mixed in with the football blog entries. I checked, and it does not seem to be happening on the basketball archive section of the blog. Maybe you can ask one of your tekkie people to take a look and see if it can be fixed? Not that I have anything against Cal basketball- I just like the format of having the two topics separated into separate blogs or archives or whatever you call them.

By: GoldenBear 77

GoldenBear 77 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:35:46 +0000

Well, since we have already beaten the bottom 3 Pac 10 teams, CalBearDavid83, I can’t buy the basis of your argument.

By: CalBearDavid83

CalBearDavid83 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:26:15 +0000

The problem is that our expectations are not higher, and that they are consistently based on hype and fiction rather than reality. This team right now looks to be playing at the level of a bottom-3 Pac 10 team, no better. I do not see us having any chance in the next 2 games, and to be honest, I think that in the long run maybe that will open up everyone’s eyes to the real fact that the program is still in a shambles and has shown no ability to compete with the elite team(s) in the conference. Tedford may have been the right guy when he came in, but clearly he is not winning the recruiting or coaching battles now and we need to admit that he may not be the right guy to get us to the next level. I am frustrated, upset and at a loss to explain how 50 years of mediocrity and failure can continue without any real end in sight. We need to remember that after this long, the Rose Bowl is our goal, and anything less is failure. Period.

By: wehofx

wehofx — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:02:42 +0000

GB77, couldn’t agree more. Well said.

Go Bears!

By: Bears

Bears — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:09:45 +0000

Tedford is a good coach. He still has many things to accomplish to meet his goals and Cal’s goals.
He is doing a solid job, we all just need to keep pushing for bigger and better. The potential is there, we all just need to keep striving to be the best.
3 and hopfully 4 more games left. I hope our Bears finish strong. Winning 2 or possibly 3 more would be a solid accomplishment based on the way things have gone so far this year.
Go Bears!

By: GoldenBear 77

GoldenBear 77 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:07:54 +0000

Noduck,

I am no psychologist, but my guess — we have come so far, we just think it is our right to keep right on going. We have to recognize that in anything you do, there are plateaus and ups and downs. CAL has gone from being no part of the discussion for decades, to occasionally part of the discussion (at some point we have been in the top ten 4 of Tedford’s 8 years, I think), and we think the next steps should be just as easy. It is not. Remember the old adage — 20% improvement gets you 80% of the way there. However, the flip side is that the last 20% takes 80%.