Comments on: Football: Daft, Krasinski let go

By: milo

milo — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:59:22 +0000

Geoff Mac would be a nice add. He did a lot with what he had, played with heart.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:27:03 +0000

Wasn’t Geoff MacArthur coaching at Richmond High a few years back. Anyone know if he is still coaching somewhere? He was a great player for CAL and played for Tedford as well as Holmoe, so he knows winning and losing. Perhaps Tedford should give him a call.

By: Steve W

Steve W — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:06:14 +0000

Firing and replacing assistant coaches is not going to get the job done to bring the program back to the upper tier in the conference. Tedford needs to find an heir apparent, pay him big bucks and promise him the head coaching job when his contract runs out.

I would like to think that Tedford right now is looking for a brilliant offensive coordinator who is willing to come to Berkeley and help restore the program under those conditions. Starting salary? How about $600,000 to $800,000 per year, and some of it coming from Tedford’s pocket if it has to. Tedford need look no further than Chip Kelly at Oregon for the blueprint, and maybe he could slide over to the AD’s job like Mike Belotti did after a few years.

Nothing else is going to work save a very painful and costly buyout of JT’s contract after a few more losing seasons.

By: Calduke

Calduke — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:49:08 +0000

Neuheisel makes the news – Tedford doesn’t

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/12/18/ucla.assistants.fired.ap/index.html

By: EastCoastCalFan

EastCoastCalFan — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:40:05 +0000

Daft stayed at least three years longer than he should have. He clearly had no idea. It’s only the loyalty of JT that kept him around. And Marshall… don’t even get me started….

BRING BACK COACH “M”!

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:15:11 +0000

There are so many points here that are valid but I believe the real issue is Tedfords play calling the last 3 seasons. I attended the UCLA, Oregon and Washington Games and watched every other in 2010 and I couldn’t agree more that it was lackluster football. I can understand the conservative calls in the Oregon game but several others including the heartbreaking Washington game left me befuddled. Looking back on the season I can’t really recall us going for it on 4th once or even concocting a decent trick play. Vereen was basically all we had on offense and the blowout loses were absolutely embarrassing. I am not going to speculate about next season until I see the first 4 games. My hopes are we inprove to a decent bowl game my fear is missing another. Go Bears!!!

By: MontereyJack64

MontereyJack64 — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:55:36 +0000

JT needs to do some serious, honest self evaluation!
Ludwig has not been and will not be the answer to improving the Bears offense. The team needs more than a good qb. It needs a decent offensive line, a first rate running back and lots of help beefing up the defense. Fresno State must be licking their chops for that first game in 2011!
I want JT to succeed but have little hope unless he gets realistic about infusing the team with great coaching and better players.

By: MikeD

MikeD — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:51:19 +0000

> Tedford just needs to develop one QB right now, just one QB and everything will be OK.

fixed that for you

By: rotfogel

rotfogel — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:08:33 +0000

Tedford just needs one QB, just one QB and everything will be OK.

By: milo

milo — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:09:38 +0000

Picard – honestly?

Jerry Rice might be the best football player EVER. I know that’s debatable but it’s him or 2 other guys. Without a doubt he’s the best ever WR.

That said, great players often don’t make good coaches, see Singletary. I’m not sure about Cross but he might be able to communicate and teach players better, he was/is a talker…or maybe not. I think Jerry would just look at players like, man you’re bad and not understand why.

Any way, maybe Cal will hire Ken Margurum. He’s a Furd guy but coached at Cal as WR coach and married a Cal alum so he’s local but have no idea if he’s a good coach. I think a young up and comer might be a better choice.