Publicly expressing undying loyalty and support for a failure like Riley, and saying he’s the best we have is a real blow to the other qbs. He’s basically saying that they really suck. Like, worse than Ayoob.

I, and thousands of other Cal fans lost the last shred of faith in Tedford on Saturday. It’s time, Sandy. Fire Tedford at the end of the season. We can do better than this.

Look, I was out walking in North Berkeley last week, and I just happened to run into Albert Ghiorso, a NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PHYSICIST who helped discover 12 elements with his team at Berkeley. We are the best public school in the nation. We are known around the world for premier academic programs, famous alumni, etc. But then our high-profile football team goes down to SC and absolutely humiliates the school and kind of drags Berkeley’s name through the mud. That’s unacceptable. For a couple of years now, Tedford has held on to his job only because it hasn’t gotten quite bad enough to justify firing him, or maybe because bear backers and Barbour are still holding onto some loyalty and nostalgia about 2004. But I think it’s definitely time now. Like PeteBear and BlakeStreetBear said, Tedford’s mojo is gone. It’s done. It’s not gonna get better. Time to plan for the future Sandy. This mediocrity is unacceptable at a world-reknowned institution like Berkeley.

CalBearEnthu – the Kyle Boehm era? Seriously? I love your optimism, but does anyone have any confidence or faith that Tedford can develop any QB at this point? I don’t.

Definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different result. That is Cal trying to win a road game or beat a good team or develop a QB. Plus, what is going on here defies any one player or one position.

Also, part of Boehm’s game is running. He will never do it here, because Tedford despises a running QB. So you already lessened his tools before he ever sets foot on campus.

I wanted to float my idea thrown out a couple of times in the past month. What about a couple of series of each half running the Pistol w/ Brock Mansion? Our D could never stop them in practice. This is a great example of what would be a breath of fresh air from Tedford, showing some creativity. But he is no sack, playing scared Tedford.

No imagination, no innovation, no inspiration, no conference championship, no Rose Bowl- ever. Cal has as much chance of getting to the Rose Bowl as Ben Braun had of winning a national championship- heck, make that winning a conference championship.

I’m afraid I have to disagree with you on the “same old Tedford” angle. His early teams were never humiliated like this in losses, speaking to far better game preparation early in his career at Cal. Listen to what LA Times Columnist Bill Plaschke had to say about Cal after the game:

“Can I pause here to say that Cal was the most unprepared visiting team I have seen in the Coliseum in years? Their sorry afternoon included dropped passes, blocking breakdowns, uncovered receivers, and an attitude that became clear when they literally walked off the Colisieum at halftime while trailing 42-0.”

Tedford used to sleep in his office in a cot during those heady first few seasons. I doubt he is doing that now. I dare say he has gotten a little too comfy on the job….all you have to do is look at his growing waistline to figure that one out.

The coach should have taken some of that $2.8 million salary and hired an extremely competent and driven second-in-command, much like Mac Brown has done with Bill Muschamp and Bobby Bowden did with Jimbo Fisher. Mike Belotti at Oregon recognized the job was too much to handle when he brought in Chip Kelly from Maine. The bottom line is that Tedford is overpaid and probably burned out with no clear line of succession. It’s not a good situation for Old Blues, and I agree with most of the posters that we will have to live with this unpleasant siuation for the next few seasons before anything is done about it.