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A break for summer vacation
By Jeff Faraudo
Monday, June 11th, 2012 at 10:34 pm in off-season stuff, Uncategorized.
Hoops are a memory. Spring sports are over. Football season will be here before we know it.
In the meantime, I’m off for a bit of vacation with the family.
I’ll tell you all about it upon my return. Hope all of you find some time to exhale and recharge.
And try to get along with each other while I’m gone.
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June 12th, 2012 at 7:42 am
Have a good time Jeff.
June 12th, 2012 at 9:20 am
Have a good vacation Jeff.
June 12th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Enjoy your vacation, JF. Well deserved.
Here’s a tweet from JT y’all might find interesting:
@coachtedford: #CalFamily, Im doing a video Q&A. Send me ur questions about the upcoming season & we’ll post answers on Friday #AskCoachT
Go Bears!
June 12th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Enjoy your time off Jeff. I looking forward to this season’s banter.
June 12th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
All that will coming from moron this season will be trash talk, not ‘banter’.
June 13th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
So … With football seasn around the corner what would each of you vonsider a successful season? I say 8 wins and Keenan coming back for a senior year with Kline.
June 13th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
I would take that! I think we get 9 though , and Keenan leaves. Unless he gets hurt and has ti come back again, he’s gotta know he’s not going to get all the passes without Maynard.
June 13th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
We are just one big disfunctional family! And Amy is the child that was dropped on her head as an infant. I don’t see any way Keenan is coming back. Only a rare few do that anymore and that doesn’t seem to fit his MO. I think we need to expect 8 wins. Anything else and we are falling back deeper into the pack and it will be extremely hard to climb back. The only benefit to any downturn would be if JT let’s Kline get some reps this year so that he will be poised to explode next year. Let’s do something that gets recruits excited about coming here! That’s what I want!
June 14th, 2012 at 9:09 am
Pretty sure Ohio State is selling the tickets that should have been allocated for the Cal ATO, on Ebay. Tons of seats up in the corner of the stadium being sold on stubhub in pairs with the row listed as ‘TBD.’ Pretty disgusting.
June 14th, 2012 at 9:17 am
Nobody is looking forward to anything you have to say, troll.
You are universally unwanted here.
June 14th, 2012 at 9:18 am
So here is the schedule and what I think the result will be. It’s sort of silly to make predictions on these games since they’re so far out, but if I had to pick ‘em right now, this is it.
So I predict 7 wins in the regular season.
WIN – Sat., Sep. 1 vs. Nevada
WIN – Sat., Sep. 8 vs. Southern Utah
LOSS – Sat., Sep. 15 at Ohio State
LOSS – Sat., Sep. 22 at USC *
WIN – Sat., Sep. 29 vs. Arizona State
WIN – Sat., Oct. 6 vs. UCLA
WIN – Sat., Oct. 13 at Washington State
LOSS – Sat., Oct. 20 vs. Stanford *
WIN – Sat., Oct. 27 at Utah *
LOSS – Fri., Nov. 2 vs. Washington *
LOSS – Sat., Nov. 10 vs. Oregon *
WIN – Sat., Nov. 17 at Oregon State *
June 14th, 2012 at 9:48 am
wow! looking at that schedule again, i find it hard to take even 6 games. if it’s not freezing, we might get past WSU, but it wouldn’t surprise me to lose that one, and the utah one. i think we’ll beat washington, though. i take back my earlier comment. i think we finish 6-6 and play at AT&T. if we lose to oregon state and end up 5-7, tedford gets fired.
June 14th, 2012 at 9:49 am
what are the odds of game 1 being played at mt. davis or candlestick? i’m putting that at even money right now.
June 14th, 2012 at 11:37 am
The season will be a success if we beat lsju AND Tedford gets the boot or resigns at season’s end. It is disgusting to write that but how true it feels to this jaded Bears fan. The whole season used to come down to the big game, looks like we are back at that point… GRRRRR… ;(
June 14th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Can you imagine the dissapointment if the opener isnt in memorial ?
Has tedford beat sarkisian yet ? Or chip or lane kiffin ? I think washington beat us last year with a freshman qb. I dont see us beating them.
June 14th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Juancho, your prediction looks pretty reasonable, although there usually is at least one Tedford-team brainfart in there. So that would make it 6 wins. We’ve dropped back into complete obscurity despite all these players going to the NFL. I hope somehow things jump back on track because otherwise I think the Tedford era is on a fast decline and we’ll have to hold out that some new coach in a couple years can put some excitement back into the program.
June 14th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Please keep Teddy…please.
Signed
All Pac 12 fans
June 14th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
You know what’s troublesome to me Daredevil. What if the pipeline of NFL players stops because Tosh and Kiesau are gone? Then what will we have to fall back on?
June 14th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
That’s exactly my concern and I think it is a realistic one. All we can do at that point is to try to bring in a new hot name at coach and maybe some new young blood here and there and try to do what Washington and UCLA are doing. I think we got complacent and we seem old and stodgy now. Of course California budgetary concerns are quite a bit to blame, but it also feels like our Athletic program is out of touch. At least we aren’t run by liars and unethical folks like Carroll or Kiffin.
June 14th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
The loser mentality on here is amazing!!!
Hilarious.
I hope our players know how soft the internet people think they all are.
But, only way to silence critics is to prove them wrong…
June 14th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Bozeman = Liar (Gardiner)
Holmoe = Liar (Davenport & Ainsworth)
Current Football Staff = Liars (Ask C. “Cal did me dirty” Tupou)
June 14th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
#20 – Amen and Amen! This board is full of a bunch of loser mentality and I am just about ready to leave for good.
June 14th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
moron has been ‘just about ready to leave for good’ for about nine years and counting….
June 14th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
But, since moron has no other life, it stays and stays, despite its frequent ‘threats’ to leave. Must be a really pathetic existence to be a life long troll.
June 14th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
The “loser mentality” on this board is a product of watching the games – not some knee-jerk reaction or “the sky is falling” mentality. Does anyone remember how absolutely awful the ucla and texass games were last year? Not to mention the $c and ljsu games.
The early Tedford teams ALWAYS COMPETED!! That just doesn’t seem to the be the case anymore despite seemingly MORE talent than ever. What gives JT? Glad you got twitter figured out, yah, that will help out bigtime come gameday. Grrrrr…
June 14th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Couldn’t agree more BlakeStreet. Facts and numbers don’t lie, only Amy and OJ do.
June 14th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Well Moron did leave law school, if you can count being told to take a “medical leave” because you’re mentally unstable — leaving. When you going back to finish that degree, Amy? Or is the travel agent business just too lucrative?
And then, he also keeps telling us he’ll go out with on New Year’s Eve,and yet each year he stays home alone posting online. See, to go out on NYE you need friends or a gf — and that’s not gonna happen with our little freak troll. Maybe one day he will actually find friends. Maybe he’ll find someone other than Boyson to obsess on. But I doubt it — 15 years and counting! Pity the troll — this and hating on Boysonis all he has.
Now come on, Amy — post your old Boyson links again.
June 14th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Concord so how many wins do you predict and against which teams? I disagree with the loser mentality comment. Cal stands for pursuit of excellence always. And the program has been mediocre and not living up to what Cal stands for. When anything about my school is less than excellent and worst of all when anything about my school seems complacent and okay with ho hum results then i will voice my dissapointment.
Parking sucks in berkeley. It sucks that its become so expensive to go to school there now, and it sucks that our team has been consistently mediocre since Aaron Rodgers left.
June 14th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
And it sucks that when you voice your opinion that the program has been mored in the doldrums of mediocritynfor half a decade – which is a fact based in numbers – suddenly youre the one who has a loser mentality or is anti-Cal. Cal teaches you to be intensely analytical and objective. And for me this makes me look at recent data like our past few seasons to base my projection for this year.
I stick by 7 wins.
June 14th, 2012 at 9:48 pm
My my my…I am in so many heads around here. another sign of a loser mentality. I findit funny that the guy who invented the “Block Amy” tool got run off by his own fans who told him to take a hike.
Losers…a bunch of losers.
June 14th, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Amy is a great example to my kids…..of what not to become…..lack of integrity, of no value to the world…..I tell them if they ever sink low enough to spend their time trolling another school’s blog, then just stick the tailpipe in their mouth
June 14th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Notice the lack of denial.
New Year’s Eve postings.
Law school flame out.
Supported by daddy.
Virgin, unless he paid for it.
And he calls others losers? Bahahahahahahah.
You can post all you want, little freak, but we know you and what your life is like and all we do is pity you.
Now go book me a cruise.
June 15th, 2012 at 7:15 am
Please oust the Moren troll …please.
Signed
All BearTalk fans
June 15th, 2012 at 7:22 am
I find it hilarious that a person with nothing better to do with her life than hang around a blog of a team she hates, being an unwanted nuisance for years on end, offers commentary on “losers”.
Looking for losers, Amy? Take a long look in the mirror if you can stand it.
June 15th, 2012 at 10:32 am
It’s funny that Amy thinks it funny that someone got run off by his own fans.
There is no Morencsarecoming on WeAreSC or any other SC message board. They punked his freak ass and banned him a long time ago. Amy doesn’t even go to SC games down south, in spite of a rich daddy who could afford to send him. Why would he want to go to a game ALL ALONE, which is what he has to do.
How pathetic do you have to be when your own fan base punks you? Well, with Moron, you can MUCH more pathetic. WE ALL KNOW THAT.
June 15th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
LOL I see that Moren has posted a couple of times. I’m sure she wants to have a frank discussion about this class act?
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/ncf/story/_/id/8056698/ex-usc-trojans-star-safety-kevin-ellison-says-god-drove-arson
June 15th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
That Ellison guy must be moron’s dealer. Maybe he supplies Pastor Rick too…
June 15th, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Well, at least Ellison is going to get some psychiatric help after this, with no one ending up significantly injured. Moren on the other hand still refuses to see a shrink…
June 15th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Is this the same guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA7iUhVqiEw
HAHAHAHA
June 15th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
MoreNCS_are_ignored and sanctioned! troll post blocked
What’s that, Moren? You’re still in denial that you need a shrink? LOL. Go get some help before you go off the edge like Ellison.
June 15th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Not sure of the answer, Moron. Why don’t you ask one of your friends what the answer is …, oh, that’s right. Well how about one of the law school classmates you graduated with might know and…oh, that’s right. Well, what about someone you met at the New Year’s Eve party you went to last…oh, that’s right as well.
Maybe you could ask by posting on BI and…oh, that’s right too.
How about at WeAreSC…oh, wow — that’s right.
Sorry, Amy. Got no answer for you.
June 16th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
So i decided to do a little research project.
Here is coach Tedfords record against the current pac12 coaches.
Sarkisian, 0-3. The closest loss being by 3 and the biggest loss by 32.
Kiffin, 0-2. Closest loss by 21 biggest loss by 34.
Kelly, 0-3. Closest loss by 2, biggest loss by 39.
Riley, 3-6. We beat them once in the past five years.
Rodriguez, null.
Mora jr., null.
Shaw, 0-1.
Wittingham, 1-1.
Leach, 0-1. We should have been in the rose bowl that year.
Graham, null.
Embree, 1-0.
June 16th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Here is another stud from your own backyard you losers are about to lose.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/16/4566305/hometown-report-vanderdoes-to.html
June 16th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
MoreNCS_are_ignored and sanctioned! troll post blocked
Get your meds, buddy, before you set fire to something LOL
June 17th, 2012 at 12:33 am
No friends
No law degree
No sex
Nothing.
Yeah, we’re the losers. Right.
Happy Hew Year’s Eve, Amy
Don’t you want to tell us how wonderful you life is?
June 17th, 2012 at 5:01 am
Gee the guy is going on a vacation- its not about you Amy. If I read a USC Journalist every day and never paid a dime, I would do the classy thing and wish him or her a nice vacation.
Whether USC graduates folks who can write and if they would have anything interesting to say is another question but I said “If”.
June 17th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Amy couldn’t get into $C. Even with all of “daddy’s” money. LOL.
That’s why he’s the next Kevin Ellison – a psycho.
June 18th, 2012 at 7:34 am
Why is the latest image on the CMS webcam from June 6th? I’d kind of like to see what’s going on in there.
June 18th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Bey moron, your article says that vanderdoes is ‘curious about’ the u of sleazy cheaters. Perhaps he wants to know if they can successfully compete without either breaking the rules or looking the other way when others do so?
June 18th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
you can ‘HAHA’ all you want at old game footage, moron, but the fact remains that D. Jackson has a successful career in the NFL while K. Ellison is about to go away for awhile because he deals drugs and is a washed up psycho.
June 18th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Washington Friday night game info:
Just off the phone with the ticket office:
Parking passes do NOT cover the UW game. They said they may try to use Golden Gate Fields with shuttles.
Another reason why college football should only be played in the afternoons on Saturdays.
Go Bears!
June 18th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Well if you want to talk about college football players turning into good NFLers then let’s start with USC which has the most players in the Hall of Fame.
Here you go – USC 11, N. Dame 10, Mich (8), Ohio State (8), Pitt (8), Bama (7)
HAHAHAHAHA
June 18th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Gee, Amy – - you mean you don’t want to talk about law school graduations? How about we talk about who has the most friends (anyone with one friend beats you right there and then). How about we talk about how you can’t post on WeAreSC or BI?
Here you go: My friends? 489 Amy? 0. Mom and dad don’t count, Moron.
You will die all alone after living a lonely life.
Pity the troll folks — SC fans punk him, he’s all alone on New Year’s Eve, he can only find work at a travel agency his daddy uses, — his hate for Cal is ALL he’s got.
Pity him.
June 18th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
You talked about how you like that Cal fans ran off one of their own — so how come you don’t like to talk about how SC fans ran off YOU?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
How pathetic do you have to be Amy, when your own fellow fans PUNK you out?
All alone.
June 18th, 2012 at 11:50 pm
It takes a fool to argue with a fool.
June 19th, 2012 at 6:35 am
Well Jeff as you can see we took your ( and Rodney King’s) advice to all get along..; “while the cat’s away…
June 19th, 2012 at 7:54 am
You like links, Moron. Here’s one to the SF Chron where you also obsess about Cal and post on New Year’s Eve. It says seniors who are alone die early. After your parents die, since they are your only friends, that doesn’t say good things about any chance of you living long:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/19/MN311P40AV.DTL&tsp=1
Pity the troll folks. He will die alone and before his time.
June 19th, 2012 at 10:34 am
I just read where the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the country’s Prime Minister dismissed from office for failure to comply with its laws. Is there any chance that the Supreme Court of BearTalk Blog can order that moron be dismissed from it?
June 19th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Ouch Juancho, that is some ugly research results. Do you work like Arthur Andersen? Can I just tell you what I want the answer to be next time? I understand that expectations can’t be high this year. But given the underachieving in recent years, I need to see Tedford exceed realistic expectations this year, or I will join whatever movement is out there to move him out. Nothing personal, but if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. But maybe in a year with low expectations, he can bring back some early Tedford magic. I will endeavor to remain hopeful. Go Bears. FUSCK.
June 20th, 2012 at 8:10 am
Congrats. You guys recruited and signed a punter and a field goal kicker. With the stale Tedford offense you will need both. Wasn’t it Tedford who said “Punting is winning”?
June 20th, 2012 at 8:12 am
Lovely article. I like to read about “winners” and not losers.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/18/SPKE1P3R75.DTL
June 20th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
And the bad news keeps coming. I wonder what spin you losers will put on this one.
According to Jon Wilner, the latest APR scores have been published. Here is what he said about UCB.
“*** Cal posted 936 multi-yr and 923 single-yr scores, continuing a downward trajectory: In the past four years the Bears’ multi-year score has dropped from 970 to 969 to 949 to 936.
This comes on top of the Bears having a Graduation Success Rate of just 54% in the latest GSR report (for the 2001-04 entering classes).
That’s much lower than Cal’s GSR from either of the past two years and lower than those of UCLA, Fresno State and San Diego State.
(Before Old and Young Blues alike start bashing me for bashing Cal, I’d like to point out that 2.5 years ago I wrote a lengthy, and admittedly glowing, article for the Merc about Jeff Tedford’s successes on the academic front. At the Hotline, we address the good and the bad. That was the good, and this is the bad.)”
Here is the article. Now read it and go apologize to Fresno State and San Diego St for your arrogance. You rank lower than they do.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2012/06/20/cal-stanford-and-san-jose-state-football-the-latest-apr-scores/
June 20th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Imagine if this trollish resourcefulness was put to use making the world a better a place.
June 20th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
I wonder how many hours a day moron spends searching for more material on which to base its non stop, boringly repetitive trash talk trolling?
June 20th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
#63 & 64 – Is that all you got? Let’s hear your spin on the APR report by Wilner.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Fortunately, all visitors to this blog except one have a LOT more than this.
June 20th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
#66 – Cute but no cigar. Let’s hear your spin on the APR.
June 20th, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Ted Miller’s espn.com blog had some interesting facts about Pac-10 team’s success against top-25 foes since 2008. Since it is the 2008 season for me that caused me to go rogue on Tedford (after trying to give him the benefit of the doubt for the 2004 Holiday Bowl through 2007), I find this particularly intriguing for the ongoing coach debate.
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12
Juancho – I predict 7 wins. Maynard will be improved. We won’t get to 8 or better because we won’t beat any of the top Pac-12 teams and we’ll find a way to lose to one we should beat. What will make or break the season is if we beat Ohio State.
June 20th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Anybody know how many tickets for the oh state game were gobbled up today?
June 20th, 2012 at 6:11 pm
The APR scores were released today and Cal looks pretty good, but then again I only looked at Cal and Indiana. UCOnn and 9 minor schools are banned from postseason. Kentucky scored 963 for Bball but that sounds odd-next year will be lower.
http://web1.ncaa.org/maps/aprRelease.jsp
June 20th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
MoreNCS_are_ignored and sanctioned! troll post blocked
If Moren ever stop posting on here, it’ll be for one of two reasons: his daddy finally checks him into a mental institution, or he sets a house on fire and gets thrown in jail like the $C Toejam he idolizes, Kevin Ellison. Psychoooooo LOL
June 21st, 2012 at 6:31 am
#70 – Seriously?
UCB football multi year rate APR
2004-05 – 945
2005-06 – 965
2006-07 – 967
2007-08 – 970
2008-09 – 969
2009-10 – 949
2010-11 – 936
Second lowest in the Pac 12. Lower than pucla, Fresno State and San Jose State.
Perhaps the esteemed advisor to the football players who frequents this board can make a contribution. Hopefully he can use his collective wisdom on this board rather than trashing innocent female students using racist, misogynist words with potential physical altercations.
BTW where is Inspector Clousseau hiding?
June 21st, 2012 at 6:35 am
Because of your deplorable APR the really funny thing is that your football team is a lot closer to getting disqualified b/c of academics than you are at making it to a Rose Bowl.
What a bunch of losers.
June 21st, 2012 at 7:07 am
A loser is someone who takes a postulation from bearinsider and then passes it off as his own.
from “The Duke!” at bearinsider.com, at 3:49am..
“…The really disturbing thing is that Cal is a lot closer to getting disqualified b/c of academics than we are at making it to a Rose Bowl…”
Pity the troll.
June 21st, 2012 at 7:14 am
#74 – But is true or not. Is the football team closer to getting disqualified because of academics than it is of making it to a Rose Bowl?
Amazing isn’t it how you focus on the sawdust in someone’s eye but ignore the forest in your own.
June 21st, 2012 at 8:20 am
MoreNCS_are_ignored and sanctioned! troll post blocked
Moren likes copying what other people do? Uh oh, maybe he’s closer to pulling a Kevin Ellison than I thought. LOL
June 21st, 2012 at 8:57 am
Since you want quotes here is one:
“Let’s take the bad with the good and this is bad. If what has influenced the downward trend of the scores are the number of “stars” who went NFL before graduating then it doesn’t speak well for our performance on the field.
Let’s face it. I just don’t see where our players are taking highly competitive academic courses and programs. Now maybe we can argue that even in the easier classes it is still harder than what are the same offerings as what USC and Arizona and ASU would offer but that isn’t going to fly with me. This is bad. TedFURD needs to go.”
HAHAHAHA…I love that TedFURD. HAHAHAHA.
Where is the esteemed advisor to the football players who seems so distant at this moment? I like Pastor Rick because he preaches the truth and preaches it so directly. Unfortunately as we all know the advisor is a coward.
June 21st, 2012 at 9:02 am
Here is another quotable found on the same thread on BI
Originally Posted by OdontoBear66
I sense you do not know Cal fans that well even though you are one. I know none at Cal that would accept a Miami/Oklahoma type environment with very marginal student/athletes. Most Cal fans I know want it fair and square with pride in the academics of our student athletes.
Actually both those schools have higher APRs than we
HAHAHAHA…another good one!
June 21st, 2012 at 12:05 pm
well moron, if we all are a bunch of losers, and the football team that we all follow and support are losers as well, what does that say about a person(?) who has made a life over the past 8+ years trolling our sports blog and spewing endless trash talk about us and our team while doing so?
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW A LOSER, LOOK WITHIN, MORON.
June 21st, 2012 at 3:47 pm
#79 – Please remove the “if” in the first sentence. LOL.
June 21st, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Amy will never stop posting here. He has NOTHING ELSE TO DO. If you got no friends, if you are so lonely you spend New Year’s Eve posting, if your own SC fans punk you and ban you from the SC message boards, this is the only place left for him.
Pity the little freak — this is ALL he has.
June 21st, 2012 at 7:17 pm
MoreNCS_are_ignored and sanctioned! troll post blocked
“He has NOTHING ELSE TO DO.”
He can go down the path of Kevin Ellison or OJ Simpson…so we should be thankful that daddy has chained him to his desk in the basement. HAHAHA
June 22nd, 2012 at 8:44 am
HAHAHAHA…GoGo Bears! You just can’t resist. I am so in your head.
With the deplorable APR I would recommend you reply to your fellow board members why. Are advisors not doing their jobs? Are programs like Social Welfare, Ethnic studies, Sociology, American Studies just too difficult for the mentally challenged football mercenaries?
What about offering a formal course and call it “The Proper Social Dynamics for a Culture of Paper Airplane Hobbyists”. I amsure that class will be overflowing.
June 22nd, 2012 at 12:12 pm
The five year decline in apr and current PAC12 apr ranking is a big concern, bordering on embarrassment. Mike White was turning around the program when he got canned for his players’ academic performance in the 70′s. There is no way Cal fans can rationalize this away. that being said, there is not much merit to Moren’s repeated argument that the majors he list are worthless dummy majors. College is not job training. College developes and opens minds. Many smart kids, not just smart football players, major in those courses at Cal, and come out just as prepared to be productive members of society as those majoring in technical courses. Society needs more than bean counters and technonerds. Big employers realize this, and hire people that they feel can be trained. the realworld is often different than what is taught in the classroom. Those with a broad world view taught to think critically usually make up the cream that rises to the top. Trolling dweebs usually don’t.
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:41 pm
It looks like DJ Martin decommitted. He’s the running back, who was a commit for our 2013 class.
So in the past week we signed a kicker, but lost our top running back recruit.
The graduation thing…If nothing else I’ve been consistent with my stance on it.
I do not care and never will care about whether athletes graduate or don’t. They’re there on a sports scholarship. If they can’t cut it in the classroom, then guess what, fail out. That’s life. I don’t care if we have the best or the worst graduation rates for football players. That’s a nice feel good bullet point for a powerpoint slides. I want to get to a damn Rose Bowl.
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Tosh Lupoi Mishap
Tedford not allowing Kline to do interviews or talk post-practice and post-game
Kline’s bicycle stolen in week 1 in Berkeley
Worstening Graduation Rates, etc.
Whiteside booted from the team
Lackluster recruiting since Lupoi left
Wall Street Journal article showing concern over stadium’s financing
You know which one of those I don’t care about? Graduation rates.
When the season rolls around I guarantee I will not once on a gameday think to myself, man if only our graduation rates were better. And if they were the best in the conference I wouldn’t think to myself, well at least our graduation rates are awesome.
Cal is academically hard. It’s supposed to be by design. That’s why it’s hard to get in, and it’s hard to finish.
Just like a micro cell biology student who works twenty to thirty hours a week, if a football player who has that load can’t handle the academics, tough cookies.
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Moron has achieved his ultimate goal. To be ‘in the head’ of a Cal fan. Put that on your resume, moron. I am sure it will get you very far in your so-called life. And when you have earned a degree in any one of the Cal programs you listed above, come back and spew off at the mouth about it.
June 23rd, 2012 at 8:53 am
#86 – You know the coaches aren’t pushing the players to take the hard disciplines. No coach at UCB is scolding his players saying “Now don’t take those Social Welfare classes when you can take Pre-Med or Electrical Engineering.”
The issue is eligibility and it is the same issue with every single D1 program.
Why do most of your players concentrate on those classes and programs?
Because it is the easiest way to keep them eligible.
And don’t attempt to justify the approach with the “But our Social Welfare classes are harder than the ones at Fresno State and much harder than the history classes at pucla” unless you want to lose whatever little credibility you have left.
June 23rd, 2012 at 11:53 am
What date are you returning?
June 23rd, 2012 at 12:43 pm
why don’t you decide which courses a kid should take? I thought it was a personal choice.
June 23rd, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Jeff did you decide to leave us ? I wouldnt blame you.
June 23rd, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Jeff’s vacation – the most commented thread ever!
June 23rd, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Not true steventexas. Remember the epic recuiting day thread we got to like 2 or 3 hundred comments
June 23rd, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Ahh Juancho then I would stand corrected, however Jeff still has more vacation left and the troll never seems to get any at all.
June 24th, 2012 at 1:40 am
get any vacation, or get any of…something else LOL!
June 24th, 2012 at 9:27 am
#90 – It is a personal choice but just like Frame would say it isn’t a truly free personal choice. There are constraints which prohibit the player from not taking all the courses which the others may freely choose.
Eligibility is the issue. I believe one of your own professors described the practise as “bunching”.Care to deny that?
June 24th, 2012 at 10:37 am
MoreNCS_are_ignored and sanctioned! troll post blocked
No Moren, your left hand doesn’t count. HAHAHA
June 24th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
You are soooo right Moron, Cal sucks. Oh, how I wish I could have attended the academic powerhouse that is USC. Ooops I forgot, I did get accepted to USC but I went to Cal instead. I guess I’ll have to console myself with my degree from the finest university in the world.
Cheat on!
June 25th, 2012 at 7:54 am
Does anyone know if you can get season tickets as “print at home” tickets, or if you have to get hard tickets? The cal home site talks all about how great print at home is to email tickets to your friends, but when you go to buy season tickets or partial season tickets, the only options you get are will call or mail.
June 25th, 2012 at 11:14 am
I really have to wonder what moron’s personal graduation rate is.
June 25th, 2012 at 1:09 pm
moron is spewing untruths, as usual. Coaches do not ‘push’ their players to take ‘hard disciplines’ in any sports program. Its not their function and is not the goal of any program. Besides, moron knows nothing about how Cal coaches fulfill their academic mandates. That is because moron has never been there, has no inside or personal knowledge and probably invents or imagines most of the stuff it posts here anyway. In short, moron has zero credibility, which goes hand in hand with having zero life.
June 25th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
@Juancho – while I acknowledge your view of whether the graduation rates matter, one issue you should not forget is that strong academics has been a crutch used by Tedford supporters. So even the football team had a mediocre season, the argument for strong academics was a way of rationalizing why many other teams were doing better than us. I remember getting into a heated debate in 2010 with some of the kool aid drinkers when I pointed out that Cal was at the bottom quarter for Pac-10 football all-academics.
So whether APR really is a good measurement or not, or whether we should even care about graduation rates (I personally do, because I firmly believe we should be the best at EVERYTHING), it removes another card holding up the house of cards.
June 26th, 2012 at 7:10 am
http://6ixti.com/athletes-tendencies-to-cluster-in-certain-academic-fields-problematic-some-say/
June 26th, 2012 at 7:19 am
Fujita still lying and denying….
http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=8090950
June 26th, 2012 at 11:42 am
and moron is still lying, too.
June 27th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
moron, you should have actually READ the article you posted about Fujita. It portrays him in a positive light, and also shows he has a lot of respect and support from the players who know him. Hardly the sort of moral degenerate you keep claiming he is, but we all know that truth and honesty are not your strong suits, are they? Did you know that he has both an undergrad and a master’s degree from Cal? I know its difficult for someone who never made it out of the first year of law school to show some respect for his academic achievements, but Fujita actually epitomizes the type of student athlete which you are constantly (and boringly repetitively) harping about the Cal athletic progams not cultivating or nurturing. Just more of the same hypocritical double talk from moron, but hardly any surprise there.