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Football: Tuesday links
By Jonathan Okanes
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 12:30 pm in Football, upcoming game.
- Cal’s first weekly game notes of the season.
- Here is my Cal season preview, focusing on coach Jeff Tedford. He enters his 10th season and is somewhat at a crossroads of his career.
- Cal’s 2011 season at a glance.
- Rivals.com has released its list of the top 250 recruits for 2012 and the Bears have two oral commits on the list.
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August 30th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
I have to disagree that Tedford is under pressure. The pressure starts when Cal football returns to Memorial. He gets a 20 month pass because of the tree sitters and not bolting during construction.
August 30th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Yep. I totally agree with that, Milo. He may even get 2 years at the new stadium if we improve this year and next. And with the talent we have, there’s no reason we shouldn’t. I do hope we hit bottom last year. Kind of a double bottom, but whatever. Go Bears!
August 30th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Treggs looks like a promising WR for us. Incredible hands. Good routes. Very quick. Only criticism would be not a lot of breakaway speed and this strange “happy feet” thing on every snap. As a junior though, wow.
August 30th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Rivals didn’t include Cal’s (in my opinion) top recruit: Kenny Walker. For whatever reason, recruiting services consistently downgrade Northern Californian recruits. Aaron Rodgers, M.J. Drew, Tom Brady…these players weren’t ranked that high on national scouting services and they turned out to be OK. There are many more, those are just the extreme (top 2 players in football at any level period are from NorCal) but in general, scouting services severely downplay NorCal recruits. If anyone noticed Viliami Moala was ranked 7th best DT by ESPN in 2011. While that is a high grade no doubt, anyone want to bet me that he gets drafted to the NFL either as the top or 2nd DT from that class? In other words, I’m very happy that Kenny Walker is a Bear, more so than any other player we’ve got (save Kline) so far.
August 30th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
There is always pressure to win.
Tedford needs to get his offense going starting with QB, Coach M has to get that OL and TE group performing and if they do this, the team will be solid.
Every year is a new year and every year at Cal the coach is expected to win.
I hope Tedford and his QB group are ready to perform starting Saturday!