Not a whimper…

@BSB well played sir!

Let’s talk about what it means to be “mediocre”. I have been amazed by the many sportswriters who point to Tedford as the champion of the turnaround. That needs to be examined more closely.

When Tedford took over Cal state was a perennial bottom 10 worst team in the nation. So any improvement at all put him as the second coming of Bruce Snyder (who by the way was a friend of mine and asked me to be the asstnt manager for the summer camps). Staying out of the Pac 10 cellar and not being the butt of so many jokes by the other team’s fans would be considered an improvement.

Now when he took over the Cal state program the Pac 10 was poor – very very poor. The only really great team was USC and it was just beginning with its run of championships under Pete Carroll. Let’s remember what these teams were like.

Stanford – pathetic and it got even worse until Harbaugh came in with guns blazing.

UW – a shell of its former self and ready to go belly up under Gilby (ex UCB coach)

WSU – arguably the worst team in America under Wolfe who was left an empty bucket under Dumbba

Arizona State – couldn’t win a game in California under Koetter

Arizona – fired their coach (who beat you guys by the way) and hired Stupid

It was no big deal to beat these teams even if you were the laughingstock of college football under Holmoe and Gilby.

Here were the mediocre teams:

Oregon – mediocre and inconsistent under Bellotti

pucla – Radio was as laughable as the guy he was named after

Oregon State – Riley made them achieve more than their talent would allow

Teddy could always be counted on to beat the patsies of the conference – Stanford, ASU, UA, UW, WSU. Those are 5 easy wins right there.

Teddy normally split games against the mediocre teams and sometimes teams like OSU put the hurt on his teams.

So right there, the “turnaround” had more to do with poor competition than it had anything to do with his coaching. The problem is – It raised up your expectations and hopes that maybe winning football had returned to Cal state. No sir!

Because if you really want to judge just how good your program was just put it up against the great USC teams under Carroll. You won exactly one game and that was during a season when Carroll was just beginning his dominance and the team was rolling into shape. It never happened again.

You guys were mediocre even during your best years. Now the competition has stiffened with better coaching and you go back down to being a bottom feeder.

There is a script to block you. MikeD writes – 8/22/2012 Update: New version of the script is now available, the change being that troll poster “MoreSanctionsComing” is also blocked! Good Times!

How sad that a fan of a team is punked and blocked by his own fans. You aren’t wanted here by your own fans. LOL.

However maybe if you talked about football JUST ONCE then your own fans might show you some grace. Think about it.

You are nothing but a coward but even cowards get a chance to make things right. Let’s make a deal.

Post your final score of the UCB-Nevada game this Saturday. (You do know there is a football game don’t you)?

If you guess the exact score (just like I did for the 2004 Holiday Bowl beatdown by Texas Tech and the 2006 beatdown by Tennessee) AND/OR you guess the exact amount of points combined by both teams, I will leave this forum for good.

However if either one of them is wrong you leave the forum much to the delight of all of the other posters.

Do we have a deal…coward?

Crap, Whiteside ineligible, maybe he learns from this and turns into a total monster for the remainder of his Cal career. He still has 3 years left then right? I liked that guy last year…

Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins

Even though I have successfully installed SIMBL, there is no SIMBL folder in my application support folder. So there’s nowhere to paste this greasy icon. Any help would be appreciated.

Can’t wait ’till saturday either, and plenty of pac12 action just 2 days away as well. I LOVE this time of year. Go Bears.

What about now???