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Football: Anger officially on Guy list
By Jonathan Okanes
Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 10:41 pm in Football, Mid-week.
Cal punter Bryan Anger is officially a candidate for the Ray Guy Award, it was announced today. Anger was on the preseason watch list but the list of 54 official candidates was revealed today by the Augusta Sports Council.
Anger is currently 12th in the nation in punt average at 45.2 yards per punt. That number has been brought down by a handful of rugby punts he has been asked to do this season against teams with aggressive punt block schemes.
The Ray Guy Award is given annually to the nation’s top punter. Anger was a semifinalist for the award in 2008 and 2010.
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October 31st, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Good for him- except with all these lame a$$ rugby punts this season, it’s gotta be killing his what his average could be.
There’s just so much genius on this staff… unreal.
November 1st, 2011 at 2:54 am
another punter in the nfl. nice! why can’t we get someone who can kick it through the uprights?
November 1st, 2011 at 3:08 am
I guess Jeff Genyk is just too clueless to actually put in blocking to stop an “aggressive blocking scheme.” Perhaps he should have had Tavecchio do rugby-style PATs too. Really a joke to have one of the top punters in the country and have him chunk it because the coaching staff can’t give him the protection he needs to get the ball away.
November 1st, 2011 at 11:51 am
So we’re sacrificing Anger’s talent for an agressive scheme. Well, the aggression isn’t really working, a lot of PR has been able to return it at least 10 yards back on most punts this year.
November 1st, 2011 at 12:27 pm
http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/01/fly-on-wall-at-maynards-clemson-visit.html
November 1st, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Wow.
http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/01/fly-on-wall-at-maynards-clemson-visit.html
November 1st, 2011 at 12:34 pm
It gets worse.
http://www.ubbullrun.com/2010/02/theres-something-about-keenan.html
November 1st, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Now that Okanes has left, he shouldn’t be replaced. Please just shut this site down — It fails to add value or serve any constructive purpose.
Thanks and Go Bears!
November 1st, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Jonathan, Thank you so much for your work over the years covering Cal football. I wish you the best in your future endeavors, and you’ll always be remembered here!
-David
November 1st, 2011 at 3:51 pm
I thought Okanes did great work and I’m appreciative, like many Cal fans, of his efforts. I now have absolutely no reason to read this newspaper.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:35 pm
His Twitter departure announcement is quite cryptic. Was he terminated? Did Kennan Allen order Tedford to have him relieved of his duties? Seems odd to leave a beat in the middle of a season. There’s more to this. Seems like there’s more to everything these days when it comes to our beloved Bears.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:37 pm
J.O. was always did a solid job, will be missed.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:48 pm
On any planet I’m aware of, this would be shocking. Not on Planet Tedford…
Posted November 1 on California Golden Blogs …
“Although Tedford announced this morning that Maynard will start against WSU …”
Cuz Keenan told him to?
November 1st, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Check out our head coach’s dismissive, arrogant, petulant treatment of beat reporters with the temerity to ask him about a potential QB change. This guy is becoming completely intolerable in almost all respects.
http://www.bearinsider.com/news/story.php?article=1555
November 1st, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Tedford is really highly rated on this website…
http://www.coacheshotseat.com/
Glad to see him getting the kind of notoriety he deserves.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Check this link, same site. BY FAR the highest paid of the worst coaches in college football.
http://www.coacheshotseat.com/CoachesHotSeatRanking.htm
November 1st, 2011 at 4:53 pm
did you ever have a job you hated so much, you actually wished you’d get fired? this sure looks like that.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:54 pm
He makes almost double Chris Peterson. Unbelievable. He’s the most overpaid coach in college.
Too bad by the time Tedford is actually fired Peterson will have already taken another job.
November 1st, 2011 at 4:59 pm
It’s difficult not to notice how the beat reporters quickly wilt on the critical QB topic after Tedford intimidates them with ominous pauses, sunglass-hidden glares and curt answers. Who the hell does he think he is, Bill Parcells?
http://www.bearinsider.com/news/story.php?article=1555
November 1st, 2011 at 5:00 pm
JO, thanks for the blog and a sincere best of luck.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Judging from this clip I think Tedford is entering the Khadafy-like stage of deluded invincibility and moral infallibility.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:01 pm
i thought peterson loved it in boise. no academic pressure, a city where everyone loves football, and you. why go to cal? i’d love to have him, but he doesn’t seem like a money talks kinda guy. he’s sort of the anti-bcs to begin with.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Rollon… @ #17 -
I wish he hated this job so much he’d quit. Seriously.
He is REALLY bad at it.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Thanks, J Okanes. Great work. You will be missed.
But what happened? It really is goofy for a sports reporter to leave in the middle of a season. Is CC in financial trouble again?
ie C peterson, no way he leaves Boise. I’ve said this before but people thought Hawkins and Koetter were going to be great bcs hc’s and look how that turned out. It does seem, however, that peterson is the best of the bunch.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:17 pm
JO, we’ll miss you. i wasn’t talking about you in the previous post, i was talking about tedford, just so you know. anyhow, if you got laid off, that’s total bs. you did a great job. you’ll be missed. and i guess i’ll have to go to bearinsider now. maybe we should have clicked on more of these crappy banner ads here, to bump up the hit rate count or something. oh well.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Actually Rollon, it makes no sense to talk replacements, since the only way he is going anywhere is if he quits. They can’t get rid of him even if they wanted. Too much $$$.
I was just trying to point out that Peterson, who blows Tedford away, makes about half of Tedford’s salary.
Do you realize we pay Tedford essentially what Notre Dame paid to get Brian Kelly, almost as much as what Florida paid to get Will Muschamp. Tedford makes as much or more than just about every coach in the NCAA.
As I have said, NO ONE does less with what he has to work with than Tedford (this has now been true for many seasons), and NO college football coach is so GROSSLY overpaid.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Just watched the video of the Tedford press whatever you want to call it. Man, he must hate doing this. And it shows. He looks REALLY pissed a few times with the questions.
But when he is not pissed, he gives the same blase, boring, rote answers he always gives. It’s all so tired, worn out … apathy is close.
PS- Chip Kelly and Tedford make about the same $$. Man, that boggles the mind.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Other comment- on the video, the media is hitting hard on the qb stuff, he is miffed and shows disdain in his reaction, which stays until the questions shift in another direction. Probably pretty intimidating.
Wouldn’t you love to overhear the beat writers conversation amongst themselves while they wait to be allowed entrance to the field everyday to watch the team run sprints. And then deal with this stuff from His Highness? .
November 1st, 2011 at 5:36 pm
JO, best of luck to you in the future. You deserved better. Hope to see a good bye post from you and an update about what you’ll be up to next.
November 1st, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Can someone please copy & paste the link to the video clip you guys are talking about? I am on my other school network and it says the admin has banned this ip address. =@
November 1st, 2011 at 5:55 pm
reposting this link.
http://www.bearinsider.com/news/story.php?article=1555
November 1st, 2011 at 6:08 pm
JO,
Can you please tell us why you’ll no longer be on the beat?
November 1st, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Dan
Tedford is not a quitter.
November 1st, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Economy is tight and the newspapers can’t pay journos to be on the beat of a beat team. and tedford called the publisher to complain.
Thanks for the memories JO – best of luck.
November 1st, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Mr. B seriously? JT got JO fired? Gotta be hyperbole or hype. (I hope.)
November 1st, 2011 at 7:55 pm
The coward Tedford is sticking with Maynard because he knows that Maynard gives him the best chance of beating the next two mediocre opponents and achieving that magical 6-6 record that will get Cal into a minor bowl game and mute the hounds that are screaming for his head.
He cares not that we will all be sickened by having to watch another year of Zach locking in on his brother and flinging errant passes all over the field. God, I wish I could find a therapist who could cure me of my Cal football affliction.
November 1st, 2011 at 8:16 pm
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.
November 1st, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Come on Bear fans get a grip. You’re beginning to sound like spoiled U$C fans!
November 1st, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Calling fans of a team that hasn’t been to the Rose Bowl for more than half a century spoiled strikes me as inaccurate.
November 1st, 2011 at 9:27 pm
5 best Games in the Tedford Era. Again…I make these selections on games that boosted the reputation of the Cal football program nationally.
1. 2004 USC 23 Cal 17.
You may ask why do I pick this game as the most impactful game for Tedford when we lost? Well, because USC was (and is) the bellweather program in the west. On a national level, Cal gained tons of respect by playing USC tougher than any other team all year long. Cal dominated the Trojans on both lines of scimmages, outgained USC 424 to 205. Cal looked to be the stronger team and everyone who saw that game knew it. This game, more than any other the in recent history, legitimized the Cal football program as a potential contender for a national championship!
2. 2007 Cal 31 Oregon 24
Cal goes into Autzen Stadium and beat the Ducks in dramatic fashion by forcing a fumble near the goal line as Oregon was closing in on a game tying TD in the final seconds of the game. Cal demonstrated a tremendous will to win with a gutsy 4th qtr performance. Cal jumped to #2 in the rankings after this victory and seemed to finally get that signature win to put the program into national championship contention. Little did we know that Cal would endure one of the greatest collapses of any Cal team in the following weeks….but for a brief moment, Cal and Tedford were Kings of the Hill!
3. 2003 Cal 34 USC 31
Triple overtime thriller where Cal defeated national power USC. Teford showed great leadership when he pulled an ineffective Aaron Rodgers for Senior QB Reggie Robertson. Robertson rewarded Tedford, by playing the game of his life and he engineered one of the best upsets in Cal history.
4. 2003 Cal 52 Virginia Tech 49 Insight Bowl
Va Tech had a rebuilding year in 2003, but was still viewed as a nationally relevant program. Cal came in with zero credability as an up and coming program. Aaron Rodgers played an amazing game and positioned the Cal program as a potentially top team for the upcoing 2004 season.
5. 2006 Cal 45 Texas A&M 3 Holiday Bowl
This game restored some credibility for the Cal program. Cal had lost to Tennessee earlier in the year and also had lost decisively to highly ranked USC. Texas A&M was one of the few “quality” wins for the 2006 Cal team. Cal dominated this game on both sides of the ball and played like a top team in front of a national audience.
Honorable Mention
2009 victory over Stanford 34-28
2005 victory over Stanford 27-3
While beating Stanford is not nationally “relevant” event…but these were great victories over our arch rivals and offer great memories for all Cal fans.
November 1st, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Here are the 5 worst losses under Tedford…I make these selections based on perceived “program reputation destruction” on a national level:
1. 2006 Tennessee 35 Cal 18
This game was the opening weekend of the 2006 NCAA season, game was on national TV during the east coast prime time slot (7pm start time, I believe). This game was also about conference pride…SEC brawn vs the “soft” Pac-10. Cal was a top 10 ranked team and was a 3pt favorite despite playing at Knoxville. Tennessee was coming off a poor year the prior season and Vol fans were calling for head coach Phillip Fulmers head. First play of the game…Tennesse knocks out Cal’s TE (Craig Stevens) which foreshadowed what would happen in the game. Cal played soft and Tennesse just “out muscled and out hit” the more talented Cal team. Cal scored a bunch of points late in the game to make the final score semi-respectable…but most of the nation had already turned the channel….final impression. Cal was a fraud.
2. 2004 Holiday Bowl Texas Tech 45 Cal 31
Cal was robbed of the opportunity to play in its first BCS Bowl game by Texas and the national media was emphathetic to the Cal situation. Many viewers had never seen Cal play and wanted to see if the 4th ranked team in the country was for real. Cal featured a balanced offensive attack with Aaron Rodgers at QB and the nations leading rusher JJ Arrington who ran for over 2,000 yds. (Still don’t understand why he did not get much Heisman hype) Cal played the game without 3 or its top 4 WRs due to injuries. As the game started it became clear that Cal could not stop the long passing game of Tech, but Tech could not stop the running game of Cal. Cal jumps to a 14-0 lead, primarily through its strong running game. Tech answered back with long passing plays and tied the game at 14. So what did Tedford do…he focuses on the passing game…by calling 42 pass plays instead of relying on the ball controlling running game. The little used WRs were not in sync with Rodgers and dropped a bunch of balls, which allowed more possessions for Tech. Mike Leach called a full air attack on the overwhelmed Cal secondary and racked up over 500 yards in the air. Even the announcers were puzzled at Tedford’s decision to pass the ball instead of running down Tech’s throat. Net impression…Cal was out-coached and was over-rated. To add insult to injury, Texas defeated Michigan in one of the greatest games ever played at the Rose Bowl.
3. 2008 Maryland 35 Cal 27
Cal had won its first two games in convincing fashion (Michigan St. and WSU). Meanwhile, Maryland had just lost to Middle Tenneesee St. Cal came in a 14 pt favorite. Jahvid Best was an eary Heisman candidate. In the first qtr, Maryland hits Jahvid Best so hard it forced Best to lose his lunch…which was caught by the close up cameras during the ESPN telecast. This play became the highlight on SportsCenter and symbolized the state of Cal and Pac-10 football. Cal got blitzed and fell behind 28-6…although a 4th qtr flurry made the final score respectable…but lasting impression had already been branded.
4. 2009 Oregon 42 Cal 3
For West coast fans, this was a more humiliating loss…but since no one east of Nevada watches Pac-10 games unless they are on Thursday night…this game went unnoticed by most of the country. But Cal came in a 5.5 pt favorite and Oregon had lost to Boise St. and suspended their RB LeGarrette Blount. But Cal gets blown out and was not taken seriously the rest of the year (or since).
5. 2010 Nevada 52 Cal 31
By this time, Cal was no longer a program with any relevancy on a national level…but since this was a Thursday night game on ESPN…there was a national audience. Cal gets blown out by a better team. Nevada simply out-schemed, out-coached and out played the Pac-10 team. This game really cemented Cal current status as a mediocre football program
November 1st, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Thanks everyone for the kind words. Unfortunately, I was a victim of company-wide layoffs today. I really enjoyed my time on this beat and hope I satisfied your appetite for Cal football. Not sure yet what my next move is but hopefully you’ll see my name attached to Cal football from time to time in some capacity. Take care, everyone.
November 1st, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Kent,
I, too, suffered through your five worst losses. I wanted to add a few of my own:
2009: Cal v.s. USC. Cal goes scoreless in the first half. I walk out in the middle of the second quarter.
2010: Cal v.s. USC. Cal goes scoreless in the first half. I walk out in the middle of the second quarter.
2011: Cal v.s. USC. Cal goes scoreless in the first half. I walk out in the middle of the second quarter.
I am not making any of this up. I literally walked out of the stadiums in disgust in the second quarter in all three games. Tedford’s inability to be competitive with USC is the most frustrating thing of all to me. I live in Southern California and hate all things USC – far worse than anything Stanford.
November 1st, 2011 at 10:32 pm
This season just keeps getting more unpleasant by the hour.
How ironic that a hardworking reporter making minimal money gets abruptly terminated while our ill-tempered despot rakes in $3 million a year with zero accountability.
Tedford should shave a few digits off of his bloated Wall Street salary to keep Okanes employed.
There goes my lone reason for EVER clicking on this paper’s network of sites.
Don’t waste any time JO – pay a Cal student a few hundred dollars for a decent web design and start an independent Cal football site ASAP. The demand is massive right now and the competition is all but nil.
You have the advantage of a built in audience already and can attract some advertising off the bat with some minimal marketing.
I’m guessing your coverage would be a bit more biting if you weren’t tethered to the stuffy restrictions of a metro paper.
Get it up and running in a few days and get cracking. Start a Pay Pal account so we can donate to smooth the transition a bit and maybe raise enough funds for some road game coverage.
All that said, hang in there. Something tells me this is a blessing in disguise. Stay up man.
November 1st, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Mr. Okanes,
I am sorry to hear about your job. You will definitely be missed on these pages!
November 1st, 2011 at 10:44 pm
I Agree with Calbearclaw! Start your own site…I bet many fans would subscribe! I know I would! In fact I’ve got a few questions for you…that I suspect you could not fully answer while working for your former employer.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:15 am
I third the motion for an independent Okanes!
I’d pay for his coverage and have no other interest in the rest of the paper either.
I thought his recap of the FUCLA debacle was awesome, but it’s tone warned me that the end was near.
Maybe some partnering with CGB?
November 2nd, 2011 at 5:14 am
can you fourth a motion? I think at this point all are in favor, and we all say aye. only thing is, you can’t post the site here or you’ll violate a non-compete agreement, i’m sure. so somebody figure out where the site is and post it on the chron comments for a cal article. if you want. i’ll still come here for the basketball coverage, but maybe if they’re friends, jeff should cut bait and join up with JO to make their own mega site.
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:18 am
Kent: Another excellent post. Picking the best games is easy. Picking the worst is hard – too many to choose from.
November 2nd, 2011 at 8:48 am
just read the crumpacker article on sfgate. he quotes the cj anderson tweet about having maynards back, but leaves out the one about the politics in the locker room. also, the twitter account is now gone.
i have a question. if tedford guaranteed zm would play qb, in exchange for his brother coming to cal, can’t he be fired for violating his contract? you’ve gotta figure there’s an integrity clause in there, at least.
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Thought I’d share some great stuff from the “Coaches Hot Seat Blog”. Nothing to do w/ Cal and Tedford, but about SC and Stanford- a Cal fan’s 2 biggest enemies? I know, we don’t like the Ducks much either. Anyhoo, I really enjoyed this, perhaps you will too …
Keep in mind our Bears as you read the part about the “little things”. SO TRUE in that we do SO MANY of the little things poorly and have for several seasons, but it gets worse with each passing loss.
Also pay attention to their their take on the Cardinal’s effort in LA Saturday night. Don’t you all long for us to be able to say that about the Golden Bears?
Also some good chuckles at Lane Kiffin’s expense that make reading it alone worth it … enjoy …
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“Deep into Saturday night and Sunday morning Coaches Hot Seat celebrated that BIG Stanford win over USC with lots of spirits, good food, laughs and impersonations of Lane Kiffin at the end of the game which we all got to see when watching a replay of the game that night. Oh, that look on Kiffin’s face when USC fumbled the ball in the third overtime that…
“Those SOB’s beat us again.”
… is what we would call PRICELESS and we are already planning to get that picture of Kiffin blown up to put on the wall at Coaches Hot Seat Central!”
Early on Sunday morning while discussing the Stanford win over USC one CHS member recalled a lunch a few of us had almost a decade ago with one of the top professional golfers in the world and during that lunch one of us asked that well-known golfer what was the difference between the No. 1 player in the world and the No. 200 ranked player in the world.
That well-known golfer put his thumb and forefinger as close together as humanly possible without them touching and said….
“That much if not less.”
Anyone that has played golf on a competitive level knows that 1 stroke a round difference between two players is a lot when added up over 4 rounds of a golf tournament and the Stanford – USC game was just another great example of the very small differences between college football teams and how very small things done by small players on a football field can in the end make the difference between a team winning and losing a game.
We would have been proud of Stanford football whether they had won or lost on Saturday night against USC because they played hard, they played with guts, they left everything they had on the field and they showed pride in the way they played and what more can fans, a coach or anyone else expect from a football team and the individual players beyond them giving it all which Stanford is now doing on a regular basis which is sadly not the norm very much in the game of college football anymore.
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Man, I LOVE, and I mean LOVE that last paragraph. That’s what I want out of the Golden Bears, that’s what I want out of my Alma Mater (SDSU), out of my kid, out of myself. What a great thing to aspire to, what a great thing to execute and know that you did your absolute best … that you really left IT ALL on the field.
I know a lot of Cal fans hate the “Furd” but I admire what they are doing on the field and how they are doing it. I want the Golden Bears to be like that. I want my Aztecs to be like that. Win or lose, if we do that, truly do that, we have every reason to be proud, and have no reason to be disappointed- WIN OR LOSE.
See, for me over the past several seasons, this has been BADLY missing. People on here that criticize Tedford criticizers, and think we expect too many wins for Cal completely miss the point- or at least have missed the points I have tried to make here over the past many seasons. I want them to PLAY HARD, to show PRIDE, to show GUTS, to leave IT ALL on the field. When is the last time we saw Cal play like that, even in a win? In 2007 in Oregon? Almost 5 seasons ago?
And THAT, is why, to me, that Tedford should not be coach anymore. When is the last time we were proud of our Golden Bears on the field, even in a win? I guess the Big Game 2 years ago was pretty good- I’ll grant Tedford that one blip in the past 5 years- but I even saw that one slipping away until Harbaugh outsmarted himself with his playcalling on the last few plays..
I think this is the essence of what I want, what many alums, fans, supporters want from our beloved Golden Bears. I feel like we saw that with early Tedford, and as a result, we were just so fired up with excitement, promise, optimism, and pride. Sadly, that is ALL gone. ALL GONE. There is no hope this can be recaptured with Tedford. We have WAY too big a sample size that states otherwise.
I hate to just be in the problem, I have learned I need to be in the solution. The only good end to this is Tedford going bye bye. Sadly again, this may not happen for several years for contract and money reasons. So finally sadly for all us who care, we are stuck where we are with the temporary diversion of a remodeled Memorial Stadium and other facilities next season. The play on the field won’t be re-modeled however, and that is what matters most. I don’t see guts, optimism, pride and inspiration in our near futures.
November 2nd, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Dan, I couldn’t have said it better. I completely agree w/ the points you make.
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Dan: +1 Very nicely said.
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:42 pm
I think what Dan is talking about is playing with “heart” and passion. This can happen for a game or two per season by playing on pure emotion. To play with heart for an entire season requires:
• each team member knowing they are playing their best because the coaching staff has optimally identified and refined each players skills. The coaching staff has also put the team in the best possible position to win by:
o selecting and using players and resources wisely
o creative and well thought out offensive, defensive, and game strategies
o Wise and creative play calling
Teams and players stop playing with heart when they believe artificial self-imposed road blocks are erected that prevent them and the team from doing their best. I think the later describes the Tedford teams for most of his tenure. This is why selecting the “right” coach is so important and why I believe Tedford needs to go.
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Here, Here Dan and Greid! Well stated! The Cal teams have had chemistry issues for years now…and someone within the Athletic department has to recognize that Tedford is a big reason why the team has issues.
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Jonathan: I have followed your column on a daily basis for over three years. I thank you very much for the enjoyment it has given me. I am sorry for the loss of your job, and wish you all the best in the future. Your work here will be missed.
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Jonathan Okanes- Best of luck to you in all of your future endeavors. I hope your future includes Cal sports in some format. It would be a shame to see all the work you have done here to come to a complete stop. I will look forward to your next endeavor.
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:09 pm
so, where’s the best place to go for practice updates and the like? bearinsider?
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:12 pm
It’s a shame that you were let go, Jonathan. I wish you well.
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Jonathan, I’m sorry to hear we’re losing you. I enjoyed reading your coverage of Cal football. Best of luck to you!
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Again, Jonathan, best wishes. Because of the quality of your work, you will end up in a good place.
So, anyone have a guess what’s going to happen to this blog?
It wouldn’t surprise me if “they” screw Farudo and make him do double duty.
Or, no more blog? I do like the above suggestions about JO starting his own. Or maybe he’ll end up with yahoo, espn or Fox as their web reporter. JO, you do have a brand and a following.
November 3rd, 2011 at 4:38 pm
JO, you will be missed. True quality work. Make sure you keep us posted on your next move on Twitter