As for ASU, they should have beaten Wisconsin at Wisconsin, and were damn competitive against Oregon. Oregon easily could be playing for national championship. ASU ain’t no gimme.

Of the 3, UW has looked the worst. But you think that team is a gimme as well.

So let’s say we win 2 of thoses 3, since all are at home. Add WSU. Where do we get two more wins to put us over .500? Nothing wrong with keeping hope alive, but absent a radical change in strategy, any wins likely would be the result of pure luck. I’d like to see the posters claiming that this team has shown it is improvement over last year. I’ll concede the defense is probably overall better (Nevada game notwithstanding) and at least the kickoff return coverage has better.

Okanes and others have said that this may be the most disappointing loss in the Tedford era. I actually think Arizona 2006 was worse, because when it happened I knew that we had probably thrown away our Rose Bowl chances, and it was so close. But this one hurts bad, because of the incredible defensive effort. And if you want to defend the 4th and 1, sure, it is defensible. But at the end of the day, it showed a lack of confidence in the offense, it lacked aggressive, and it gave Stoops the opportunity to tell his team Cal was weak and that they were daring Arizona to win. Had we run and made it, we either would have scored a TD (and the game was over) or we would have run another 2 minutes of the clock before trying for a FG if we were more than a yard out from the endzone. I pointed out what happened in the Alabama-Arkansas game. Saban understood the risk/reward for going for it on 4th and inches at the 50, when he was up 4 points, and he went for it. Tedford almost assuredly would have punted.

Afraid I don’t see anything mind boggling about that suggestion. It’s pretty simple. Tavecchio makes either of those very makeable fourth quarter field goals and the Bears upset 14th ranked ‘Zona in Tucson.

I don’t find that statement mind boggling at all.

Now did Riley look good? No, not really. But let’s be fair there were a lot of dropped balls. Say what you want but the throw to Jones at the end is on Jones not Riley. You have to make that catch. Ross had a big gainer that was dropped and Lageman has to know where he is in the endzone. Not making excuses for Riley but people are so quick to blame him for everything but fail to realize that the other 10 guys around him have to make plays as well.

Lets all chill out on how “resurgent” UCLA is. Their version of the “Pistol” as they call it the “revolver” is not in the same league as Nevada’s. Now their win against Texas was nice for the Pac it was a definite look ahead game for Texas who was obviously more concerned with playing Oklahoma next week. Two of UCLA’s TD’s they had to move the ball 5 feet. They only attmepted 8 passes all day. Stack the box and force Prince to beat you with his arm…..He Can’t. Cal is more athletic defensively and should handle the Bruins.

The O is our problem. They need to do something. Where has A. Miller gone? They have weapons and I dont understand why we are so stagnent. I’m not on the Riley train but there is no way we see Sweeny unless Riley gets hurt. You just cant do that this year. He’s never taken a significant snap and there is no way you will throw him into the fire of the Pac 10.

Interested to see how the rest of the season plays out. If the O pulls its head out of its ass it could be fun to watch, if not we might have this AZ game feeling alot.

Roll On You Bears!!

Riley played well and with a lot of passion, which I think was positive. Our D was outstanding and goes to show that Nevada was a bit of a fluke. Sure, we didn’t get the win but no one — repeat — no one, will take us lightly this year.

All those guys who are moaning are the same guys who, every year, fantasize about Rose Bowl hopes and world domination. GET A GRIP. 4th place and a decent bowl are good for me. This year.

Applying the standards that some of you use to criticize Riley, Jake Locker and over 3/4 of the QBs on ranked teams would be benched. Get real.

I suspect many of you doomsayers are trolls trying to play mindgames. Real Bears do not quit. We will have a good season.

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Odd… where are all Tedford apologists and defenders that were all over Tedford critics just this AM?

Again, I am not saying fire Tedford, but I will say what has become evident for 4+ seasons-
With Tedford as Cal’s head coach….

Cal will never win the conference title
Cal will never go to the Rose Bowl
Cal will lose too many winnable games
Cal will choke away games on the road
Cal will blow a lot of games they should win
Cal will frequently look lost or incompetent in 1,2,or all 3 phases of the game
Cal (Tedford) will play not to lose, instead of having some guts and playing to win (with no fear)

Cal is not holding serve. They are moving backwards with their play, while Stanford, UCLA, UofA and UW are moving up. SC, Oregon, OSU have already been better than Cal the past few years. Utah is on the way, Cal can’t beat them. ASU even looks really good, like they are improving. Not good.

If you want to know what appears ahead, look at the last 2-3 years of Cal hoops under Ben Braun.