Comments on: Football: From the press box

By: Shaka

Shaka — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:06:12 +0000

This thread ought to continue for the balance of the season and let’s see where we all stand and how 2012 bodes. Excellence in coaching is about leadership, clear communication, and getting more results than the sum of the parts. “Kaizen” or constant improvement should be in the everyone’s DNA, from the team to the coaches to the equipment manager.

Coach Tedford, how do you think you are doing and what are you doing to address your honest answer?

By: calbearclaw

calbearclaw — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:21:22 +0000

BEAR FANS!

The fog of Rodgers is lifting and the wretched, unthinkable truth is now coming into focus.

Bizarre secrecy (closed practices), overt hostility towards the media, subtle intimidation disguised as sturdy benevolence, a bizarre attachment to sunglasses, repetitive propaganda, overstatement of achievement, a near cult like following, flagrant nepotism (his son was installed on the team), scared colleagues (Barbour), nefarious courtship of valuable foot soldiers (KA), all while living in a remote compound far from his people (Lafayette).

Tedford has become a bloated dictator.

Rise up Golden Bear faithful, rise up.

By: calbearclaw

calbearclaw — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:31:05 +0000

Apologize for posting this on all threads but I think I find it just that startling.

http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/01/fly-on-wall-at-maynards-clemson-visit.html

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:47:40 +0000

Haas is still struggling and not what it should be thanks to Braun. We are witnessing the same thing with Tedford and the football program. There is a lot of anger and frustration here. I say that’s good because many have passion and care. But apathy is next. When apathy sets in- which happened during the Braun snoozefest of mediocrity, it is hard to get passion, fans and their dollars back. This is happening and has been happening the past few seasons under Tedford. And it ain’t improving anytime soon under Tedford. There is way too much evidence to the contrary.

By: BlakeStreetBear

BlakeStreetBear — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:16:33 +0000

4 more games this year…12 more next year…then we get a different coach? Why can’t we stop the qb keeper? Isn’t it the simplest play in the playbook, even simpler than dive right? Did Prince even complete a pass more than 20 yds down the field?

Jim Harbaugh ran 3 BRILLIANT and successful plays on 3rd down yesterday: a PA pass play to the TACKLE/TE, a QB sweep, and a PA pass play to the NT playing HB!! Tedford used to have this type of creativity and imagination. Remember the brilliant pass play to Boller at MSU in 2002 for a TD? Those plays used to be somewhat commonplace, at least once a game we’d see something new. For the last 3+ seasons we see the same flat boring play calling almost every play of the game!

Cal football is very boring right now on the offensive side of the ball and if I don’t feel like shelling out $65 plus parking/food/etc for a boring product that does not make me a fair weather fan, that makes me intelligent. I love the Bears at least as much as everyone else here, I was brought to Memorial as an infant, born aug. 29th, probably within the first couple weeks of my life. I have Cal blood in my veins, but that does not make me blindly faithful to the sinking ship that is Tedford. I am not a fair-weather fan for not attending games coached by a terribly disappointing and frustrating coach. I still want Cal to win and be successful but, just like at the end of the Braun era, I do not hope the team continues in mediocrity indefinitely. Those last few years of Braun were terrible. Who can say the last 3+ seasons of football haven’t been.

Since #2 ranking in ’07 Cal football is 28-26, 10-18 on road/neutral. Take out the non-fbs teams and i think we are sub .500. For how much longer is this acceptable?

By: Greid

Greid — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:12:27 +0000

Rollonubears / Old Bear 71 / Bobsac:
Seven years of questionable coaching decisions, and skillset are not enough for you? How about seven years of declining recruit quality, quality wins, and fan/TV support?

Remember the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the outcome to be different.

Use your Cal degree to identify, analyze, and solve the cause. Though, I still can’t explain Tedford’s initial success, everything since strongly suggests to me some other factors were at play in that initial success.

By: bobsac

bobsac — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:36:51 +0000

With age comes wisdom, sometimes, as proved by Old Bear 71. The JT era, like the Waldorf era long ago, is obviously in decline. The question is, will the trend start heading up again? The Big U needs to see JT through his contract, & extend or renew it at the end if there is improvement, & not do so if there isn’t. It’s really quite simple. Also quite simple–JT needs to find & keep a good offensive coordinator so that he and we might enjoy the years remaining on his contract.

By: Juancho

Juancho — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:23:09 +0000

JO – 80 comments on a blog post. As someone who used to work in marketing, this is a good time for you to get on the phone with the people you sell advertising space to and renegotiate.

By: Old Bear 71

Old Bear 71 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:41:15 +0000

First time to comment here.
Would everyone please remember that jT came to Cal and won with the recruits of the Tom Holmoe era, often referred to a the Holmoecaust? The best years were with many of those who committed to the Bears during some of their worst won-lost seasons.
Tedford did coach up some excellent players. The won for him when they didn’t for Holmoe. Good players will come to Cal, even during down years.
Our coach ought to get two seasons in the new Memorial and SAHPC before we cut him loose.
I have been a Bear fan since watching the first game of my freshman year in 1965 when Notre Dame took the bears out to the tune of 0-49! Through thick and (mostly) thin I root for the Bears.
I am a fan. College football is a game. every game has one winner and one loser. The fun is in the contest, competition, when our guys prevail it is more fun. But if one wants guaranteed wins and unending superlative performances of super elite athletes then choose and SEC team and root for them.
GO BEARS, Beat Stanford

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:02:15 +0000

Sorry, Roll but those are two separate issues.
The play of the Bears, which is the reason for the stadium, a place for people to watch the games, is atrocious. Tedford as coach is failing badly.

As to the stadium upgrades, the means for paying depends in large part on people voting with the wallets to attend games. And the failure of the first part, Tedford as coach, the Bears as a team, can lead to failure on the second part, paying for the stadium.

If people don’t buy tickets or reserve hugely expensive seats, from where will the money come to pay for the upgrades. The success of the team filled the stadium in numbers never before seen. The failure of the team – of Tedford – will lead to empty seats: no fans, no money.

All on TEDFORD, the mega-millionaire, the highest paid employee of the State of Calfornia.

But, have no fear, his existence as coach is based upon a contract, not a vote of the fans.