It was a great battle. JT made the right call. Sometimes players miss FGs. It hurts immensely.

It sucks that one role player can determine the sucess of your season, but that’s football. I think that bigtime football programs should devote an extraordinary amount of time finding the best kicker around. Wasn’t Georgio a walk-on?

Sometimes you gotta learn to deal with that 50%, emotionally, ya know.

When I became a Cal fan, it was more like 80%.
These days 30% is great!

Even on the AZ touchdown drive, pressure nearly got to Foles as he threw the 51 yard pass to Criner, and Hagan was perfectly positioned on the ball, and appeared to even get a hand on it. It was just not meant to be.

And I am not going to blame Tedford for going for the win with the 40 yard field goal. Seriously, people? It might have been nice if Vereen had rushed more to the middle of the field, given that Tavecchio is a lefty and had to fire from a weird angle, but that wasn’t the wrong call given that it would have won us the game, and is a very makeable distance. I don’t understand the Tedford hating from a tough, hard fought loss (and near-win) on the road to a top-15 team. If we lose another 5 games, I’ll get it, but I just don’t see that happening.

Even on the final drive for Cal, despite solid AZ defense throughout the game, we were moving the ball well, and Jones ususally makes that catch; I don’t remember the last time a pass went off his hands like that.

In any event, yes, this was painful, for the players, the coaches and the fans. But running around screaming “The sky is falling” makes little sense given where we are. Let’s not forget that there was a reason we were selected by the press to finish 7th in the Pac-10. I still firmly believe that we are going to do better than that, maybe even significantly so. This is a character building loss, and I have faith that we are going to do well in our remaining Pac-10 games this year.

Go Bears, get healthy, and crush the baby bears in two weeks (and the toejams thereafter)!

So many people took the Nevada loss too hard. It was a first impression of the Pistol, which was being run to near perfection. It reminded me of how Texas Tech blasted us when Leach had that offense clicking on all cylinders. Defense is about matchups. Clancy and the D were just not ready for the Pistol played at that level.

I believe this defense is going to do very well the rest of the year, save against a certain spread option offense. OSU’s fly sweep may still provide some problems, but the other offenses we’ll face are traditional (or a pathetic version of the Pistol as compared to Nevada). Plus, you just KNOW Cal will be underestimated here on out.

I was very pleased with the effort Saturday, and can see a very good season, result wise, if that effort continues.

Let’s hope his capabilities don’t only show up against lesser foes