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Football: Postgame quotes
By Jonathan Okanes
Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at 11:09 am in Football, Gameday.
A sampling of what was said after Wednesday’s game:
COACH JEFF TEDFORD
On regrouping heading into the offseason
It’s quite obvious that the tone will be set with making sure that we go back to work and work hard. It works both ways. You win, you’re still going to work hard. You’re not successful, you’re still going to work hard. It’s not anything different than we ever do. This is going to sting for a while, and then we’re going to regroup.
On Cal’s offensive struggles
You have to give Utah a lot of credit. They’re a very good defensive football team. They give up 19 points a game. They did a very nice job of controlling the line of scrimmage for the most part and, so you have to give them credit. They did a nice job with their blitz package, their blitz schemes.
On Cal’s defense
They hit some big plays in the passing game and we missed some tackles in the open field. We had guys driving to the ball and not securing the tackle. They made some big plays after the catch. They protected the passer well and I thought the quarterback played well. He was very accurate throwing the ball. They did a nice job making plays.
On what’s most disappointing about the game
Well, losing the game. That’s the most disappointing part. I’m very proud of the way the guys kept fighting. I thought the defense stepped up in the second half, did a nice job of containing them. They made a big play on special teams returning a kickoff back deep on us.
On initially lining up for a one-point conversion with a chance to cut the lead to 8 with a two-point conversion
I looked at my chart and it said one to win, two to tie. I should have just looked at the scoreboard, but I looked at my chart instead of looking at the scoreboard.
LINEBACKER MIKE MOHAMED
On losing despite jumping out to a 14-0 lead
It definitely was disappointing. We felt like we had a lot of momentum and obviously that’s something that you want to continue. But that’s football. There are ebbs and flows and we just tried to keep fighting.
LINEBACKER EDDIE YOUNG
On Utah’s success on offense
They made plays and we didn’t. We missed tackles and stuff when we should have got them down and could have ended the drive, and they got big plays on us and extended the drive.
On scoring his first career touchdown in a season-ending loss
Statistically, that’s not really important to me. It would’ve been the best thing ever for us to get this victory for the seniors to go out winning, and we didn’t. But that’s part of football. Go back to the drawing board and keep working.
FULLBACK BRIAN HOLLEY
On losing a bowl game for the first time
It’s extremely hard. By far this is the worst feeling I’ve had since I’ve been here. This is my last game as a Cal Bear. You want to go out on a high note. You envision how it’ll be. This is not how I envisioned it. Just like in life, if things don’t go your way, it’s kind of hard to swallow.
On his thoughts as he walked off the field
I was just thinking about everything I’ve been through since I’ve been here, the ups and downs, thinking about what went wrong during the game, replaying everything in my head, seeing if there was anything I could’ve done better to get a victory. I was just kind of soaking in everything. I knew it was the last time I was walking off the field, and I don’t know if I’m going to make it at the next level. That very well could’ve been the last time I walked off a football field so that’s what I was thinking about.
Reflections of the season
I don’t know if I can put one word on it. I think this team was really close. We had our ups and downs, our wins and losses. But one thing you can say is we stuck together and kept fighting through everything. We never gave up. When expectations by everybody else dropped and people stopped believing in us, we believed in ourselves. I just think this team had heart. We didn’t execute enough in these five losses we had.
On if he ever expected to be 8-5
This isn’t how I expected it. You put in so much work during the offseason and the team had such high expectations of themselves, let alone everybody else. Definitely, this would be the last place I thought I’d be, as the losing opponent in the Poinsettia Bowl. I really felt that this team had what it takes to play in the Rose Bowl. It didn’t work out that way.
On why the offense struggled
It was mostly just shooting ourselves in the foot — Not winning our individual battles, not holding onto balls, not pass protecting properly. Just little stuff, the same thing that’s happened all the other games this season where our offense failed. Just lack of execution. You see what happens when we execute, there’s nothing they can do to stop us. We stop ourselves every time.
On whether 8-5 should be considered a good season for Cal
I think the program should be grateful, but not satisfied. I’m grateful to have a winning season. I’ve been a part of a losing season before in high school. It’s really tough to handle. But I really believed this team had what it takes to be undefeated. That’s honestly what I feel in my heart and I still believe it after five losses. It just came down to matter of us executing. 8-5 is not a terrible record, but I don’t think that’s what this team is made of. I don’t think it’s indicative of the amount of talent and potential this team had.
On whether the way the season ended is difficult in light of the Arizona and Stanford games
That Big Game was such a big win for us. I don’t know if we just let it all out on the field that game and didn’t leave enough for the rest of the season, I don’t know. Arizona, Stanford games, I think that’s the best this team has played. It’s disappointing to lose these last two games, especially this game because of how I know this team can play, what this team is capable of. So it’s disappointing.
QUARTERBACK KEVIN RILEY
On regrouping heading into the offseason
I haven’t thought about it yet. It just happened. It doesn’t feel good. I liked the way we finished the game and played hard. You lose a game you’ve just got to come back and work harder.
On whether 8-5 should be considered a good season
There’s no way we should be 8-5. It’s hard to say what we should have been, but we definitely should have been better than what we were.
On what needs to change to improve
It’s just a matter of players playing better. Good teams are consistent throughout the whole game.
On how the team will handle the way the season ended
I think we’ll be fine. We just have to work harder. Maybe this will give everyone a little edge to work harder.
LEFT TACKLE MIKE TEPPER
On how a team gets past a season-ending loss
You get past it when you win a game again. (Tedford) isn’t going to walk away and forget about this. He’ll be playing Utah’s fight song at 6:30 in the morning to motivate them.
On whether 8-5 is good enough.
No, it’s not. I think it should be an expectation, and if it isn’t an expectation by our fans, then our fans are messed up. This is a football program as much as an academic institution and you need to start having expectations. If you don’t have those expectations, you need to walk away from this university. You need to push the football team to be the best possible. If you don’t, you don’t have your priorities straight.
On whether the people inside the program have those expectations
Sandy Barbour, Coach T, all the coaches, the players – we all believe that we can win a national championship. We just have to do it.
On whether the team is talented enough to meet those expectations
This team has enough talent to beat Florida or Alabama. I think it’s a sense of urgency on the players. It was spotty. It was there today. It was just execution.
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR BOB GREGORY
On the problems on defense
We didn’t tackle very well. We’d have them for a loss or a minimal gain and then we’d miss a tackle and it would turn into a bigger gain. I thought we did a little bit better job of making some plays in the second half, but we didn’t do a good enough job overall.
On explaining the missed tackles
If I could explain it, we would have done better. We spent enough time working on it. We just didn’t do a good enough job.
On whether Utah’s fast no-huddle hurt Cal
They had a couple series where it was fast no-huddle and there were a couple of times we weren’t quite lined up and ready to go. It gets you out of sync a little bit. Your anxiety level goes up. They did a good job with that.
On how his defense played this season
The first thing I will remember about the season is a bunch of guys who played hard and never, ever gave up. They were an awesome group of guys to coach. At no point during the season, did I ever feel like they quit. At no point did they ever quit during the game. This was an awesome group of guys. For whatever reason, we didn’t make as many plays as we should have, but in terms of their effort and their commitment to this program, they’re one of the best groups we’ve ever had.
On whether the defense played as well as it should have this year
Effort wise, no question. Did we make as many plays throughout the year as we wanted to? Certainly not. It’s up to me to figure out where things broke down and make it better.
On cornerback Syd’Quan Thompson playing through his sprained ankle
There was no way we were going to get him off the field.
On the losses of Thompson and defensive end Tyson Alualu
He and Tyson are maybe two of the best guys we’ve had here in terms of commitment to the team and effort. Those two guys are as good as they get. They’re great individuals off the field.
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December 24th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Wow. I’m really taken by some of these comments.
Tedford says he’s most disappointed in losing the game. At this point, my reaction was – I think you should be most disappointed in how the team played. What happened to the old saying, it’s not whether you win or lose but how you win the game?
Well, Cal still had a chance to win the game at the end, and it still wouldn’t have played very well. I wouldn’t have had a good taste in my mouth even if we had got our stuff together the last 7 minutes and won. But it seems Tedford would have been okay with that. I know I’m splitting hairs, but his team played so bad for such a vast stretch of the game, that the old saying applies to a certain extent.
And then Holey is saying he felt the team had what it took to make a national championship and go undefeated. I don’t know what it is, but all that just smacks of there being a major disconnect between dreams and reality – and isn’t getting that mentally aligned the job of the coaching staff? If the team feels they are able to play with Florida and Alabama, and then are getting smoked by USC, Oregon, Washington, and soundly beat by Utah and Oregon State, there’s definitely a disconnect.
Maybe Tedford and crew, maybe all of us fans, have simply got way too far ahead of ourselves. Expectations for Tedford led teams have possibly surpassed the reality of what he is able to deliver. He falls victim to that, his players do, we fans do. And that’s a dangerous precipice to stand on, because then you are focused on the prize (Rose Bowl) instead of doing the little work necessary to execute. Thusly, I refer to my “old saying” again. And win or lose, we didn’t play very well, did we?
Whether it was:
Little things, like Chris Conte rushing up to make the big hit on the pass to the flat, only to let the receiver escape for a huge gain down the sideline (matador defense).
Or
Big things, like rushing 3, and yet still allowing a receiver to be wide open in the middle of the end zone.
We just didn’t play well enough. Back to the drawing board, Tedford and staff…
December 24th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
To me it’s simple, if the offense executed (Riley) and didn’t go 3 and out most everytime the defense would have performed to expectations. Ludwig really needed to be more creative. Adjustments were not made and the offense became predictable forcing the defense to expend too much energy.
December 24th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
That’s a long interview. Looks like they put more effort into those comments than they did on the field.
December 24th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Tedford’s answer to why he lined-up for an extra point versus going for two is quite a shocker. He’s getting 2 million per year for that kind of game management? Even Riley was ready to go for two.
Other questions:
Why was Chris Conte returning kickoffs?
Why did we abandon the 4-3 early in the game when it seemed we were putting heat on the QB?
Does our QB ever roll out to slow down the rush?
Did we run one reverse this year?
Tedford has done great things–on the field and in the classroom– at Berkeley, but his low key, conservative style may have taken Cal as far as it can go.
December 24th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Old Bear – I’d like to pile on that last point (conservative) and ask what the hell he was thinking not going for the 1st down with 8 min to go, needing two scores with the ball at the 50. This was the same decision everyone questioned in the Stanford game, and yes, he won that one, but still – just make the damned 1st down and finish the game like a winner.
December 24th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Old Bear– Perhaps you have a short memory, Tedford was not always conservative. I am not sure why we are now. I don’t like it one bit. Merry Christmas.
December 24th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Its funny but if any of you are actually very serious about seeing this program go to the next level the fact that this season turned out to be such a colossal failure should not upset you. You see when we hired Tedford we were a team winning a game or two a season. Thanks to Tedford we have improved from that to a solid middle of the road type of pedestrian team that gets anywhere from 6 to 9 wins a season and go to a bowl game. But I think we all realize that that is just about as far as we can get with Tedford, or at least with this coaching staff. Thus any forward progress will require yet another upgrade in the coaching staff and this can only come about out of disappointment like this. Make no mistake Tedford is safe for at least another 2-3 seasons. But by 2012ish with the new athletic center and all if this programs has not made any solid strides towards breaking through (which it won’t) then I foresee one of two scenarios: either Tedford would be let go or he will be pressured by the AD to completely change his staff beginning with a Mr. Gregory. The latter will most likely will happen before, example? watch Illinois. The fact of the matter is the success we had in ’04 was simply due to Mr Aaron Rogers elite QB skills which allowed Tedford to run his infamously complex offense. It is a false success and doesn’t really speak of the overall quality of this program. It is like a temporary blip, a stroke of luck landing someone like Rogers. So if failures like that of this year lead to one of these scenarios in the near future then this may not be such a bad thing at all as opposed to another false, misleading success that sends the wrong impression. Cal fans brace yourselves because 2010 will be rough. In fact don’t even be surprised if we fail to reach .500. Masoli is back Oregon, Barkley is back at ‘SC, Foles is back at Arizona, Luck is back at Stanford, Locker is back at UW, Prince is another returning starter QB at a UCLA program that will breakthrough next year in my opinion, ASU will still have their incredibly stout defense coming back, OSU will find a way to beat us like always…i believe that just about does it. Unless being the underdog for a change magically lights a fire under this dead locker room we are looking at a very realist 5-7 season. Even better.
December 25th, 2009 at 7:15 am
I think tedford has some serious family issues. It’s the only reason I can think of. His head has not been in the game for a couple years. That goof up on the extra point wasn’t just a brain fart. That whole drive was played like we were down 17 and had given up. Same with kicking with 8 min left from the 50 for a net 10 yard push back after penalty. A tedford staple used to be punting from the 35…into the endzone. At least he stopped doing that. Still, he really needs help on the game prep and execution aspect of his job. Big help. Merry christmas bear fans.
December 25th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Discouraging end to a discouraging season. Fortunately, we’ll get another shot in 2010. In the meantime, thanks for your (mostly) thoughtful comments and support for the Bears during the ’09 season. Thanks to JO for his good work throughout the year. I wish you all a healthy and prosperous New Year.
December 25th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
whoa! now there are popup ads and those annoying ads that dominate the screen for a few seconds, just enough to make you scroll to avoid them, then recoiling so you have to scroll back. not shopping at sears ever again. way to sell out, beartalk. time to find a real blog. “excuse me for my voice” author ken crawford is quitting his job and just doing his own blog.
December 25th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
JO, you’re the man. you deserve better than the contra costa times. go shop around. there are plenty of media outlets in need of a dedicated reporter and savvy journalist. a very merry christmas to you and your family.
December 25th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Roll On- I find it insulting and inappropriate that you would make assumptions about another man’s family life.
December 25th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Yeah. You are probably right. I’m just trying to figure out what’s going on with this team, and I think it’s deeper than it appears. Family issues are a big reason for strange occurrences. But if you find speculation like that offensive, I’m sorry.
December 25th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Seriously what the heck does “I looked at my chart…” even mean??? So according to “his chart” to “win” all we needed was: 1) to kick an extra point, 2) kick and recover an onside kick, 3) score a touchdown and kick an extra point, 4) kick and recover a SECOND on side kick, and 5) kick a field goal…all in 90 seconds. Is Tedford crazy?!? Come on coach, overtime has been around in college football for over 15 years now; it’s obvious our best (albeit remote) hope to win was to make a two point conversion, then recover an onside kick and score another touchdown with 2 point conversion. Then we take our chances in OT.
I wish that was Tedford’s only mistake in this game, but sadly it was only the most galling…
December 26th, 2009 at 8:13 am
http://usc.scout.com/2/932071.html
Uko to USC. I called it two months ago on this board. My inside source told me the same thing this article reported.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:48 am
LOL i love how moron tried his hardest not to spend all of xmas day posting again, only to post immediately after xmas.
December 26th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Abe- You’re right.
Tedford plays conservatively and predictably on both sides of the ball. Easy to gameplan and execute against on both sides of the ball. That has been apparent for 4-5 years, with it getting a little worse each season. The 5 blowout losses this season are inexcusable.
The fact of the matter is that Tedford has NO CLUE how to fix this. He just says that they just need to go back to working hard. That is EXACTLY what he said as the 2007 season spiraled out of control. Week after week, he said they needed to work harder. More of the same.
Working harder is NOT the issue. I do not question that the coaches and the players work extremely hard. I also do not question that Cal has had the talent year after year under Tedford to compete with and consistently beat every team in the Pac 10 except SC. There is ONE subpar element- the coaching. I will be more specific- it is the coaching philosophy and strategies. Bottom line is the conservative, predictable, play “not-to-lose” style is a failure. We beat the bad teams, win a couple games vs. comparable teams, and now get hammered by other comparably talented teams with better and more aggressive and creative coaching.
I do think there are some problem areas, like special teams. But all in all, we play a game-long prevent defense that rushes 3 and drops 8 into a soft zone and still can’t cover anybody. On offense, we essentially play the mirror image of our defense. And every good coaching staff, especially the ones that have been around for awhile now know this and must lick their chops to play Cal. Even Utah knew exactly what to do to beat us. Once the Utes and their fresman QB settled down and executed their solid gameplan, they DOMINATED us. It’s all really pathetic how Tedford can’t see the forest for the trees. And make no mistake- how Ludwig calls plays is EXACTLY how Tedford would and how he wants them called. And how Bob Gregory runs his defense is EXACTLY how Tedford wants it run. Don’t take risks, try not to make mistakes, and we should have a chance to win. That worked for awhile, until opposing coaches had a large enough body of work to KNOW that Cal is actually going to keep the training wheels on it’s athletes.
It all reminds me of how Jim Tressel under-achieves every year with top 5-7 talent. Contrast that with the aggressive style coaches like Chip Kelly, Pete Carroll, Les Miles, Urban Meyer, Bobby Petrino… All my non-Cal friends that watch the Bears just shake their respective heads at how Cal under-achieves every year. They all think Tedford sucks as I defend what a class act he is and remind them of how horrific Cal was PT (pre-Tedford). But I have seen this coming for 5 seasons, it gets worse every year, and now itr seems a LOT of Cal fans see it.
I’m not calling for his firing, though this is not going to get better. Sandy Barbour can’t fire him now. But I do think we could see some .500 type seasons coming and I do think we could see some losing seasons coming. When that happens, I think we can and will see him gone. As I have said here before, I jjust hope Chris Peterson or Kyle Whittingham are still at Boise State and Utah and possible successors.
December 26th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I fully agree that conservative, predictable coaching and uninspired play-calling are the difference between being a moderately decent team and a really good team. It’s hard to say that because I really do appreciate how Tedford turned around our program from a Pac-10 bottom-dweller to a reasonably competitive team. But unfortunately, the team has hit a plateau. It just hurts to watch the predictable, conservative play-calling and the soft zone defense that gets torched by any reasonably decent QB. It also hurts to watch the pathetic special teams and the place-kickers who cannot kick off further than the 20 yard line. I’ve been saying it for 3 years now — FIND A DECENT PLACE-KICKER AND GIVE THE MAN A SCHOLARSHIP!! If you do not have the personnel to play smash-mouth football — or if the personnel you have aren’t executing it well — sometimes you have to get creative and try something different. You cannot run the same 5 plays all season long and hope to get lucky every now and then! As for Bob Gregory, every time I want to start calling for his head, the defense has a good year (like last year) — I just cannot figure him out. Tedford USED to be a lot more creative and accomplished more with lower-rated players — but lately his coaching is getting less and less aggressive and more and more predictable — “playing not to lose instead of playing to win” as many of you have pointed out. Even in the AZ and Stanford games he did that, and we were lucky to win in both instances.
December 26th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Typical Tedford press: “blah blah blah we didn’t execute blah blah blah that’s college football blah blah blah we missed some tackles blah blah blah they made some plays blah blah blah we’ll go back to work blah blah blah I suck and should be fired blah blah blah”
December 26th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
If Riley plays better, we would have had a chance to win.
QB’s help sustain drives, letting the D rest. D, therefore, plays better and gives up less points.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
There are elements of truth to most of what is being said about Tedford and his staff. I agree that it seems that he has become less aggressive in his play calling (via Ludwig). It has been mentioned before but I noticed that the WRs skill have fallen off quite a bit. I think that Coach Daft needs to be looked at. Tedford got rid of Ferrigno and hired Daft. It seems about that time our WRs became horrible. Last year the excuse was they were young. Well Boateng,Tucker are Sr, Ross a Jr, Jones a So, so what will their excuse be for this year?
December 26th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Plus, the QBs have established a pattern of getting spazzy and mentally hurried under Tedford. Rodgers is the lone exception. Boller,Ayoob, Longshore, now Riley. I thought Longshore was the exception, but now it has become clear that it is the QB coaching since Riley seems to have the same spazzy tendencies that Longshore developed under Tedford.
I say give him 2 more years (10 total) to get to the Rose Bowl or NC game. If he doesn’t do it, buy him out and send him on his way. The facilities will be completed by then, so we should be able to hire a great Head Coach by then.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Last thing, I am tiring from the ‘remember Holmoe’ crowd. Or the ‘for the last 40 years, we sucked, so we should be happy with Tedford’. Well if you like underachievement, then Jeff is your man. I want improvement and results. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
December 26th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Well Cal state fans you have USC to thank for redeeming the Pac 10 from its bowl embearsments. The TV analysts were talking earlier today about the weakness of our conference team showings so far. We needed this win a big way. After the game tonight I gave a Christmas gift to my friend and I congratulated him on his hand in the win. He told me to look for 2-3 big time recruits signing with us this week now that Meyer has resigned. (He was the one who told me about Uko two months ago and I posted that info on this board so as to give you posters an advanced notice so that you wouldn’t get your hopes up).
So I think I will sign off for this year. However I will leave you with this early prediction for 2010. We will be undefeated by the time the Oregon State game rolls around. I also place you guys no higher than 6th next year.
December 27th, 2009 at 11:23 am
The Tedford defenders constantly remind us to remember what it was like during the Holmoe and Gilbertson years and be thankful we have a guy who is putting us in bowl games year after year. I am certainly thankful, but I would like to remind everyone that Tedford did not invent winning football at Cal. The misery wrought by the Holmoe/Gilby years had everything to do with two clueless AD’s who were too cheap to conduct a national search for the right fit in the program.
Bruce Snyder proved you could put a winning product on the field at Cal, and I have no doubt Cal would have been a Rose Bowl team in the early 90′s if Bob Bockrath hadn’t been too cheap to extend his contract. I defy anyone to name more than a handful of games during the Snyder era that were not extremely entertaining, even in losses. The Snyder coached teams played with extraordinary passion, and he found under recruited guys like Mike Pawlawski and Jerrott Willard to over acheive and carry out his mission. It only took one special recruit – Russell White – to take Cal to the next level.
That’s what I am asking – no demanding – from Tedford and his $2 million salary. You get one more season to figure it out, Jeff, or take your millions and go packing while Cal still has a winning tradition to attract the right kind of coach. Aside from junking the 3-4 defense and getting rid of your special teams coach, your biggest decision will be how you handle the quarterback competition next year. I haven’t seen too many under achieving junior quarterbacks make big production leaps in their senior year, Kyle Boller notwithstanding. Riley is inconsisent and will remain inconsistent. It’s hard wired into his nervous system. Do you have the guts and vision to change the offense and go with one of the younger guys at the position, or will you stick with the loyalty plan and risk your first losing season?
Please make the right decisions, Jeff, because I can’t stomach another season like this one just passed.
December 27th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
http://www.bruinsnation.com/2009/12/27/1220744/u-c-wins-bowl-game-under-cloud-of
$C escapes!
December 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Cal played in the Emerald Bowl last year and they sold out. In fact they added extra seats to take care of all the fans that wanted to go. I saw thousands of empty seats in the third deck of yesterdays game in SF. What’s with the USC fans? They have more fans at a game in Berkeley then they did last night.
December 27th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Rocko, remember how full the LA Coliseum used to be during the Paul Hackett era? Or should I say, how empty it used to be?
$C fans like to point to other schools and call them bandwagon, but that’s just a case of the pot calling the kettle black. When things go sour, they bail.
December 27th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Wow Will. You are really going to great lengths to link such an objective blog with a great reputation for excellent journalism. HAHAHAHA. Jealousy will do strange things to people.
Rocko – so what’s your point? I saw thousands of empty seats at the Christmas red flower bowl.
December 27th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Moren, weren’t you “signing off” till next year? Guess not.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
How come DeSean Jackson introduces himself as a Long Beach Poly High School grad but Winston Justice who also went to LBP introduces himself as being from USC? What does that say about your program and ours?
December 27th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
From JO’s colleague at the mercury news, Jon Wilner:
Action: USC beats Boston College in the Emerald Bowl.
Reaction I: It took an extraordinary effort on the part of the replay officials, but they made it happen. Pete Carroll should have asked them to help hoist the Emerald trophy.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
So who will your special teams coach be? Seems like a microscopic move for an 8-5 season with a bunch of wins over OOC cupcakes.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Ahh moron I look forward to an entire offseason arguing how much of a joke the University of Cheating Scumbags has become.
Yes there were plenty of open seats in our bowl game, witch takes place in a stadium that holds 70,000 fans. AT&T holds 42,000 during baseball, making the emerald bowl more like 35,000. Once again USC couldn’t teach anyone to count but that’s two times as many seats, therfor more emptys are acceptable.
Enjoy your offseason moron, let me know if you find any other LBP grad that says his college name instead so I can tell you again that Desean is a huge fan of his high school, and it bothers us none.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Pay the recruits, pay the players, pay the replay officlals. I guess all the teachers can’t be paid off.
BC was hosed, SC was lucky to beat a very mediocre BC team- thanks to the replay officials. And SC fans were at the game posing as empty seats, just like the the Arizona game.
And before you reply lamely moren, there were over 10,000 Cal fns at the disa-Pointsettia Bowl- there were nowhere near 10,000 SC fans at the nut bowl.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
House-
Technically, it is “University” of Scumbag Cheaters. I’m sure that’s what you meant. How sweet would probation be for them??
December 27th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I thought Moron would be showing up to take credit for the University of Second Choice and their “dominating performance” against Boston College. Word to the wise Moron, it’s a lot easier to win when you can get credit for catching a ball out of bounds and not get credited with touching a ball on a punt! Let’s face it, U$C is the cash cow for the NCAA in the west and no punishment will ever come to Sneaky Pete’s dirty program. Bottom line is with all of your dishonesty and millions of dollars USC, you got one more win than Cal.
December 27th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/314268-its-official-tedford-is-on-the-hot-seat
December 27th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Oops, sorry, OK here, we go: looks like there is one writer on the planet who has the guts to call Tedford out, as he should be for the 3rd consecutive disappointing season and most importantly for a program that clearly headed in the wrong direction.
December 27th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Abe please explain to me how last season(08) was a dissapointment and how a guy who has averaged an 8-5 record over the past 3 years and 9-4 over the past 6 should be on the hot seat?
That article is pathetic, and btw cal has not gotten worse in
the last two years;
07- 7-6
08-9-4
09- 8-5
The past two years have been better than the 07 season, let’s wait till we accually have a losing season till we talk about hot seats.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Abe take a chill pill. We are lacking at a critical position. Quarterback. Ayoob, Longshore and Riley squandered major talent (Lynch, Forsett, Jackson and Best) with their poor play and hence we never had what we had in 2004 with Rodgers, a reliable trigger man for our offense. Gregory’s 3-4 might had worked if we had a strong secondary this year but we did not. Let’s face it, we are not U$C we don’t have their tradition and SEC commitment to to win at all costs. But we have a reliable program that is solid (but not spectacular). We are a couple of key players away from making that leap and I for one am willing to stick with the guy who got us here.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Is Jon Wilner not objective enough for you Moren? LOL.
I know BN is a joke, I just wanted you to go over there and have some fun with them. I hear that Nestor guy is really nice; he’s a lot like you.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:35 am
I should add..I’m sure there’s NO WAY you’ve been banned there yet.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
HOUSE: yeah sure lets wait till the building is actually in a blazing inferno before we call the fire department, its just smoking now, (in fact i don’t even know why we have fire alarms).
EASY ED: uh what a revelation, of course, after all its the QBs fault a defensive back unit that was rated as high as 5th best in the nation by Pat Forde that is part of a defense proudly ranked 108th in passing defense. (I know overrated, but 108, um). Not to mention a horrid special teams despite a roased loaded with speed, unless the timers they use to time these players are all off, damn you Riley. Yeah it is definitely the lack of these “one or two” key players that we have a team that hasn’t heard of leadership and heart and fire. Yeah we are definitely a couple of key players away from not being a team that goes from 5-0 to 7-6.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
One of these posters just can’t resist responding to me but still hasn’t contributed one post this year (and on the SF Chronicle site) having anything to do with football. For that reason I guess I will just have to stay on here to give your life some meaning. My pastor at Capital Christian Center has been saying a lot lately about how purposeless many people have become. He also used the analogy of a football team. I have no doubt he was speaking with yours in mind.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Purposeless? Says the guy who still lives with his dad at age 30+….
December 28th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
And don’t worry Moren, I’ll soon be returning home with a greasemonkey enabled browser…I’ll miss our little chats very much. You’ll end up being blocked just like on all the other sites.
December 29th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Will – it’s obvious you sit around your computer and press F5 frequently.You put up 8 posts on this thread and all of them are related to me or my team and none about your team. Of course, as bad as your program is I can understand.And I assume blocking me on this site will also keep you from posting 10 times a day on the SF Chronicle site?
December 29th, 2009 at 10:35 am
5:46 am? Wow…that’s early for someone without a job or college degree.
And I post on SF Chronicle 10 times a day? I haven’t been there in months, ‘drawfs’ LOL. Being a 2L can be quite rigorous. Did you ever make it that far in law school? I’ve posted more frequently here over the last week because the semester ended.
I love how you think that I’m the only one who would challenge your lack of intelligence…it’s not surprising that there are other people who are on SF Chronicle that think so highly of you too. Enjoy our conversations when you can…greasemonkey will be back in two days…
December 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Oh, and I should add that greasemonkey is for the benefit of other users so that they don’t have to see me constantly owning you. One of my faults is that I have a pretty big ego. When I see someone less worthy than me on an intellectual level, I like to let them know it. I’ve probably ticked off a lot of people on this site by contributing to your hijacking of the thread by owning you so often, and it’s just not fair to them. That’s why I’m confining this discussion with you to a thread so far down the list of posts, so that I don’t waste everyone else’s time.
Best wishes on your future endeavors moron, I’m sure as time progresses, you’ll become a bigger and better internet personality. While I might strive to become a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, you’ll always be a more prominent meme that everyone mocks on the net. And for that, I salute you.
December 29th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Daddy just told me that Temple beat pucla today. HAHAHAHA. Can’t remember the last time Temple was in a bowl game. You guys and pucla both stink up post season play for the Pac 10. Nice going.
Will Says:
December 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Oh, and I should add that greasemonkey is for the benefit of other users so that they don’t have to see me constantly owning you.One of my faults is that I have a pretty big ego. When I see someone less worthy than me on an intellectual level, I like to let them know it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. You are a legend in your own mind Senator! LOL.
December 29th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
“When I see someone less worthy than me on an intellectual level, I like to let them know it.”
I know you didn’t graduate from college, but I thought even you would know this:
30 is greater than 21. That is all.
And the ownage continues!
December 29th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
“Well kizz my grits!” pucla won.;) Well that must make you the undisputed winner of the biggest rotten egg laid by a Pac 10 team in a 2009 bowl game. Wear the award proudly since you have such a big ego Will. And by the way, what was the last time Temple won a bowl game and who was that against? I noticed you conveniently refused to answer that question. LOL. You are too easy Will.
December 29th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Abe I assume that we are both fans of the program so I’ll treat you with the respect a fellow Golden Bear deserves (as opposed to the Moron). Are there problems? Hell yes! You have named everything that is wrong with our program. Stop, take a breath and think what Tedford has brought to the table. If you want a screamer like Mike Leach or that clown who used to coach Kansas I’m sure we can locate one. If you want a cheater who could care less about the school or the players like Sneaky Pete, we can raid U$C’s coaching staff and get a Sarkisian or a Neuhiesel with his past. Bottom line, all things considered I’d love to have bragging rights over my friends down here in Southern California with our long awaited Rose Bowl appearance but not at the cost of the total embarrassment to the University. P.S. I guess if Tedford was a creep like Mack Brown we would have gotten our Rose Bowl back in the ’04 season.
December 29th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
LOL why would I even bother reading the rest of your post after you got everything wrong? Moren, I am your master, just bow down to me. The dirt I walk on is worth more than you LOL.
December 29th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Moren, what’s 1+1?
December 29th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Will – I baited you and naively you took the bait like the amateur you are. Of course I knew that pucla won. And because you took the bait I went the next step to expose the pitiful performance of your team in their bowl game. It is your team and your program alone that laid a rotten stinking egg.
So what was the last time Temple was in a bowl game and who did they play? Did they win or lose? Still want to play or do I need to answer it for you?
December 31st, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Daddy said he would contribute some good moeny if your team would sign Harbaugh as coach. Otherwise, not another dime.
Glad to see at least one Bay Area team showed up to play. They would have killed the Okies with Luck at QB.