Comments on: Basketball: Top-100 SG Jordan Mathews commits

By: Calduke

Calduke — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:18:40 +0000

Is Jabari Bird a SG or a SF?

By: SteveNTexas

SteveNTexas — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:15:41 +0000

Yoda If I ever posted here under another name -it would have been in the beginning when I may have forgotten my password info.

I challenge you find another post on here from me.

Yoda you conveniently forget you were one of the ones saying Cal BBall was better than IU.

As for Texas Milo and Yoda – you do know that Cal has played UT at least 3 times in football and lost each time. I guess it sounds good on a Cal Board to talk about how much better we are but I’m the one who has to take crap when UT or Tech beats us-lucky we beat A&M.

By: BlakeStreetBear

BlakeStreetBear — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:09:13 +0000

I think it will be Marcus Lee who also commits. He plays with Mathews on AAU and he looks very good as well – he would greatly benefit from Monty’s coaching.

Cal basketball is gonna start resembling the Monty-lead ljsu juggernaut of the last couple decades. But I think Monty will get even HIGHER rated athletes to come to Cal and should be able to put on a better show than just watching Mark Madsen (or the 2 sets of UGLY twins) offensive rebound to victory. That was boring.

Bird, Mathews, Tyrone Wallace, Cobbs, Solomon, Crabbe, Kravish, Kreklow. I can’t wait to see these guys jelling together as Monty’s teams seem to do. Add a couple of capable bigs to the mix and the Pac12 should be ours for the taking. Monty is the man – were is the Cal football version?

By: milo

milo — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:06:10 +0000

Texass…spelled properly.

BTW, the Pac 12, conference of champions.

By: Yoda

Yoda — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:29:32 +0000

Steve, you have been negative far longer than the last couple of years, and I’m laughing at your rip on anonymous posting. You’ve posted under different names on Cal boards in the past, and you’ve never been positive about much of anything.

Just go watch Indiana do whatever it does.

Texas is a sports mecca state? Not compared to California it isn’t, unless you’re talking about high school football crowd sizes.

By: SteveNTexas

SteveNTexas — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:39:04 +0000

Otro I have been negative the last couple of years, and I try to look at things differently from my fellow Cal students and alums. Thanks Juancho.

Part of the reason I see things differently is because I live in a sports mecca state far from Cal and I notice when Cal really makes news on a national scale. Its perspective,sort of like when I was Cal student working on the McGovern for President Campaign. Of course we hardly ever met a Nixon person in Berkeley and were sure that the rest of the country would join us in getting rid of Nixon…

The other perspective is from the other schools I attended.

Just by the law of averages Cal should have been winning the Pac 10 ( pre 12) once every ten years in bball or football. We have more advantages than some Pac schools ( OSU , WSU) and maybe less vs others.

I was negative on Monty because the last few years were the WORST in Pac 12 history ( as far back as I could remember) we should have done better.

NOw I will watch and see. Loving your school does not mean you worship each coach no more than loving your country means you had to like George W Bush.

By: Otro Dan

Otro Dan — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:04:44 +0000

I’m proud that I’m an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, Steve. Thank you.

And I can read, I’ve read scores of posts where you’ve trashed Monty for his supposed inability to recruit. Mea culpa that I didn’t read your comment on the previous post regarding Jabari Bird’s commitment.

The fact remains that you’ve been stridently and consistently negative with regard to arguably the best coach Cal has had since Pete Newell.

By: wehofx

wehofx — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:58:43 +0000

Juancho, R Gorcey tweeted, “Tedford on sideline tiff with QB Zach Maynard: “Nothing. Just game stuff.” I asked with #Cal #CalFootball if he asked tough follow up ?’s. He said, “Yes” but hawking it with podcast on his pay site. I’ve never read it and have no idea what kind of reporter rg is or is not. But my guess is anyone who makes his nut on a pay site doesn’t have the stones to ask jt the ?’s. There’s a d bag on la times named tj simers who I can’t read because he thinks way too much of himself. But in this case, I’d love to hear him interview jt about zm hissy fit. For those of you on previous thread who tried to re-invent history, zk’s tantrum had nothing to do with the wimpy-ass-punt on fourth and short.

Steve, Facebook? You don’t think people like the troll have fake fb accounts?

By: Juancho

Juancho — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:35:37 +0000

With all due respect takeoff i do not respect your comment.

Steve contributes quite a bit to this blog and has for years. Get off his back. Focus on tedford and how he shoved maynard on the sidelines saturday yet nobody in the media will bring it up.

By: SteveNTexas

SteveNTexas — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 01:36:30 +0000

“Gracious” was the correct word because I was not happy with our choking last season. Nor have these recruits played for us yet. Some think we should be getting recruits out of our backyard as we have lost a bunch of them.

So yes I was being gracious and optimistic -the way I think a Cal fan ought to be. I give Monty-Tedford or any Cal coaches and players the benefit of the doubt.