2012 is a lost year. I hope Cal cans Sandy Barbour too. Tedford can give her a ride home off I-680 as both clean out their shiny new desks in Nov. 2012 at Memorial Stadium.

And yes, hiring Mike Leach would have been WAY! better. He’s a proven winner ina tougher conference with less resources than Tedfraud. Good hire by Wazzu. Rich Rod as Cal head man sounds great too. He’s hungry wants back in as a HC and won multiple conference titles at W. Virginia something Tedfraud never did.

Here and amen. Couldn’t agree more. Your type of strong criticism would have gotten you much flak 2 years ago- even though what you say was just as true then. We now have 2 more years of lousy results in which to ame the case that Tedford’s best days are way behind him.

To me, getting or losing these recruits are irrelevant. Losing them stings, but no coach in America gets less from what they have then Tedford and no coach is more overpaid (thanks Sandy). Next season will more of the same under-achieving with uninspiring play calling, many mental mistakes, subpar special teams, erratic QB play- all while Tedford stands there with that giant poster board of plays, scowling and tightlipped behind those shade- oh yeah, getting blown out, embarrasse and humiliated on national tv in losses to Oregon, SC, Ohio State- and likely now UW and eventually the U of Mike Leach and God know who else.

But hey, we’ll have a gorgeous Memorial Stadium at the entrance of Strawberry Canyon to watch it all go down. By the end of the season there should be plenty of great seats available.

Not me.

That would mean real change is underway in Berkeley. Cal football has received some superlative players since 2005 and the results are mediocre, Fight Hunger Bowl worthy. 1 more or less highly touted high school player coming to Berkeley won’t change anything. Big time change and movement up the conference occurs when a new, vibrant, exciting coach takes over for Tedford and eliminates the complacency, plain vanilla play not to lose mentality, and quality of QBing where fans actually expect 2 or 3 throws a game to land in the hot dog vendor’s lap.

Look at Cal in 2004. An unrecruited JC QB (Rodgers)a JC transfer running back (Arrington), walk on WR’s (Lyman & Toler), JC transfer safety (Giordano – still in the pros) and 2-3 star recruits like Ryan Riddle, Sid Slater. It was attitude and coaching and the expectation of winning. of course it didn’t hurt that Rodgers ended up being so good and a real leader. THey were as good as any team in the country and should have gone to the Rose Bowl.

Tedford seems to longer expect to win. The team plays the same way but it starts at the top.

My point? Having 4-5 star recruits line up to play for your school doesn’t mean a BCS bowl game, and NOT having them doesn’t mean no BCS games. It boils down to the head coach.

Another side note, how many recruits has Tedford personally recruited? Besides Zach Kline, I can’t think of any. If he does show up at the 4-5 star recruits’ homes, hopefully he is much more warm and fuzzy than his demenaor on the sideline. Robotic. Take off those damn sunglasses and spread the attaboys!!!