Funny, those are the things that make me crazy about Tedford. Name a championship level coach that doesn’t relish putting his foot on an opponents throat and watching them twitch?

Pat Riley, Phil Jackson, Bob Stoops, Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Pete Carroll?

They all love winning, and winning big. Kids like winning big too. Don’t confuse weakness with “class”. Class is going out and shaking your opponents hand without throwing him in the dirt like Harbaugh. That guy lacks class.

I would have liked for Tedford to fight a little harder in the PR sphere for our first Rose Bowl in half a century, but maybe I’m the only one who cares.

A very accurate assessment, though I think Longshore could have made the pro’s, but not started, had he not hurt his ankle.

Longshore, Reed, Riley, Mansion, Bridgford, Hinder, Kline (not necessarily in that order). Yes, that adds up to seven.

@Kasaja – I wasn’t entirely sure whether you were asking a rhetorical question or seeking responses, but there is no doubt Barkley will have done substantially better than any Cal QB since Aaron Rodgers, and it is not surprising that the guys behind him haven’t gotten a chance yet. And as much as I dislike U$C, Slippery Pete, and Kiffie, Barkley could have left last year, or this year, in the face of the sanctions, but has stuck it out. So on the QB question, it isn’t close.

I’ll take your word for it, but I still need to compute the total number of Elite 11 QB’s, by school, since Tedford came to Cal (or maybe start a year afterward). Anyone other than USC who now has three Elite 11 QB’s on their roster?

There are too many variables for me to judge Tedford. I once thought he was a great recruiter but was corrected by fans who say it was his assistants. He seems to be classy – I like the way he handled the Mack Brown affair and that he didn’t run up the scores on poor opponents. Others criticize him for being too tough on players. Therefore I read more than I comment this year on football- We will see what happens.

Takeoff was lying about me again when he said I was the most negative poster about Cal Sports. He can’t discern that I am not sanguine about Monty but often post about other sports. We have the best softball team in the country – and we may be dominant this year> I’ve posted that several times -when we swept Stanford at Stanford and last week when we swept #3 Washington.

As for football its a new season- I’ll observe and see.

Here’s the link anyone can use to compile the list, as I’m hoping someone else will take it on before I get to to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_RISE_Elite_11

Other than Longshore, before he got hurt, nothing exceptional has developed from our Elite 11 QB’s. Not to say that being an Elite 11 QB means you’re automatically destined to be a great player in college, but if rankings of players mean anything (and I think they do, on an aggregate basis), then the odds are that the more higher ranked players you have the better you are going to do, and the same should be true position by position.

Right now we have three Elite 11 QB’s on the roster, Bridgford, Hinder, and Kline. I challenge anyone to come up with any other school that matches that total. All of the others we have had have not been very good (with the exception of Longshore, before his injury; Riley was just good, not very good, and Reed and Mansion were busts).

It is time Cal produced a very good QB from their stock of Elite 11 QB’s, or using Boehm. We are probably going to have to wait still another year for that to occur, as Maynard will probably be our QB next year. As it looks now, only Elite 11 Kline has the potential to develop into a very good QB, and hopefully, a great one.