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Football: Arizona State game thread
By Jeff Faraudo
Saturday, September 29th, 2012 at 11:48 am in Football, Gameday.
FINAL SCORE: Arizona State 27, Cal 17. Bears drop to 1-4, 0-2 in the Pac-12. Would need to win five of final seven games to become bowl eligible. But December football is not part of the Bears’ thought process right now.
“As far as making a bowl,” linebacker Nick Forbes said, “that’s a little farther down the line than I’m thinking about. I’m thinking about the next one.”
Here’s my game story.
5:56 4th Q: Cal offense goes 3 and out and punts.
6:17 4th Q: ASU answers back with 74-yard scoring drive. Kelly pasases 22 yards to WR Ozier and ASU leads 27-17.
9:33 4th Q: Keenan Allen’s right toe scratches turf on 10-yard reception in the left corner of the end zone — incomplete call overturned for TD on video review. Cal trails just 20-17.
11:27 4th Q: Nick Forbes gives Cal a chance by blocking 38-yd FG try by Garoutte. Bears still down 20-10.
1:12 3rd Q: Tedford opts for FG on 4th-and-7 from the 18 and Vincenzo D’Amato delivers 35-yarder. But will it be enough? Cal trails 20-10.
4:28 3rd Q: Alex Garoutte’s 33-yard field goal makes it 20-7. Cal in a deep hole, with just one TD over nearly the past seven quarters. The Bears need two more today to win.
HALFTIME: ASU 17, Cal 7. Bears leave field to smattering of boos after Tedford tells Maynard to take a knee with 25 seconds left one play after 34-yard pass to Chris Harper was wiped out by holding call vs. Jordan Rigsbee. Sofele has 12 carries for 89 yards with a TD and a lost fumble. Maynard is 3 for 8 for 63 yards. Brendan Bigelow has not carried the ball — hasn’t been on the field on offense as far as I could tell. Total offense: ASU 184 yards, Cal 139. Cal will get the ball to open the 3rd Q.
0:53 2nd Q: Taylor Kelly throws 9-yard TD pass to WR Kevin Ozier, capping 37-yard drive after lost fumble by Isi Sofele.
6:08 2nd Q: Alex Garoutte kicks 28-yd FG and ASU leads 10-7. Sun Devils goes 52 yards in 12 plays.
13:06 2nd Q: Isi Sofele runs 24 yards up the middle for the TD that ties score at 7-all. Maynard-to-Allen for 44 yards helps set up score. Cal goes 76 yards in 3 plays.
7:11 1st Q: ASU goes 67 yards in 7 plays with Taylor Kelly passing 1 yard to TE Darwin Rogers for the TD. Sun Devils lead 7-0.
MSG AND RODGERS UPDATE: OT Matt Summers-Gavin making his first start since the opener vs. Nevada. He did allow a sack on Cal’s first possession. TE Richard Rodgers also playing, although freshman Maximo Espitia started. Scoreless after one possession by each team.
TIPOTI OUT: Cal DE Aaron Tipoti will not play. Mustafa Jalil starts.
COIN FLIP: Cal wins flip and defers. Will kickoff, defending north goal. Game captains for Cal: Keenan Allen, Josh Hill, Brian Schwenke, Kendrick Payne.
WVA-BAYLOR FINALE: Mountaineers hold off Bears 70-63. Geno Smith 8 TD passes for West Virginia, giving him 20 with 0 INTs for season.
LINEUP CHANGE: Sophomore safety Avery Sebastian will make his first career start for the Bears in place of Alex Logan.
PSA: In case you’re missing it, Baylor just scored again and trails West Virginia 63-56 with 10:49 left in the 4th Q. That’s right: 17 touchdowns! Game is on FX.
WELCOME: We’re back at Memorial Stadium after treks to Ohio State and USC the past two Saturdays. Perhaps the homecoming is just in time for the Bears (1-3, 0-1 Pac-12), who have little margin for error but are unbeaten at home against the Sun Devils (3-1, 1-0) since 1997.
If the Bears don’t win this one, things could get ugly fast.
Gonna be a warm, sunny day in Strawberry Canyon. Will update as we get closer to kickoff.
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September 29th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Jeff has bigelow got his 4 carries done yet so he can go study?
September 29th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
kick some but Avery!
September 29th, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Juancho, that’s funny – unfortunately. Like it that Avery is getting the start.
Call me a dumb ass but 2 green on our Bears -2.
Go Bears! Never give up. Keep fighting!
September 29th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Happy for Avery. I used to twitter with him. Smart kid.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Eddie Money’s still alive? Good god.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Espitia in the game. another true freshman seeing time.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
MSG back not helpful. Onyeali only 245 lb. More poor O-line effort. Great to see Sebastian playing. No idea why Logan had been starting.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Dj foster a direct result of tosh gate. Sucks to see him for asu
September 29th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Anyone notice logan is back in? What the avery thing because of a punishment to logan. Our program is an effing mess.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Opposing TE’s have killed us for years. Pendergast effect has not worked out as well as I think we all first thought/hoped it might given the talent we have recruited.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
FINALLY Sebastian gets a start and he already has 5 tackles including another great kickoff tackle and 2 open field tackles. No challenge on what should have been a touchback. No bigelow. And a nice pass into double coverage from zm after a beautiful run. I can’t take it anymore! Nice play by zm and Harper there tho.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
we have no o line.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Im goung to start calling keenan slips.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Let me guess were going to kill this drive by running too many times up the middle. And a sack
September 29th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Second down maynard ran it up the middle for no gain. Third down sack. The fact this is so predictable makes it worse.
On defense well give up yards on crossing routes underneath
September 29th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
There’s no way we’re going to be able to run these 4-5 WR patterns with the O-line we have. Every pass play is going to need to involve TE/RB staying home to block or 3 step drop, ball out.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Jeff holmoe has sucked a lot of the life out of our program.
From the boring and predictable play calling to the bigelows rotting on the bench to the same old boring uniforms. Why no throwback helmets. Why no polar bears. Why no golds.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Our first play on offense. Run up the middle ?
September 29th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
in the old days w/ tedford, punt returns did not get called back for illegal blocks.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Happy i was wrong
September 29th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Nicely designed run
September 29th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
nice drive. no pocket passes. quick hitters. we can run at these guys.
September 29th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Our whole defense has regressed this year. But i think the secondary might be what has done the worst.
September 29th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
As a coach you cant kneel the ball after you just went down 17-7. It tells your team there is no need for urgency. Jeff holmoe better wake the f up. Hasnt he realized the sideline looks dead half the time. Doesnt he realize hes created a passive “all we can do is try” attitude.
He left his balls in corvallis when riley lost that game. And our programs accountability never made it on the plane back either.
He blamed desean and removed names from jerseys. What a chicken shit.
Guess what desean wasnt the problem. The problem is still in berkeley. Hiding behind sunglasses and a tarp of a white jacket.
September 29th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
I like Isi. He maximizes his potential and he doesn’t fumble much. But he wiffed on at least 1 blitz pick up. You want to take pressure off zm? Run Bigs. So, to revive the loop, why isn’t Bigs getting carries? Once – as a decoy? WTF?
September 29th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
iss fumbled alot last year. in the old days w/ tedford, you fumble, you sit.
September 29th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Isi broke some but he still gets taken down for a loss too often, stalling drives. At least the announcer learned his name after a quarter . . .
I have invested no energy into this game. I’m watching, but I don’t care.
I watched every game I could throughout even the Holmoe years, and I cared. We’d get hammered, but I had players I’d watch develop and I could find moral victories on single plays that would bring enjoyment.
Tedford has taken that from me. Well, I do like the freshman WRs. Otherwise, it has been like watching paint dry, complete with annoying FOX broadcasting.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Covinard is right. I remember Marshawn sitting out the rest of the game after a couple fumbles.
The penalties are ridiculous.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
This program is rotting before our eyes.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Guys, just tuned in. No Bigelow I assume?
September 29th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Treggs is in for Keenan on punts…Interesting…
September 29th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Claw bigelow has zero carries.
Keenan is apparently puking so treggs is returning for him. I think allen may be out altogether
September 29th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Cj slllooooow moooo anderson
September 29th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Screw it start taking a knee on offense. Can we tyrn the new memorial into a baseball stadium ?
September 29th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
This is bordering on unwatchable.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Do I bring up the “Q” word yet? Is this team done with Tedford?
September 29th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
The Bigelow freeze out would be comical if it didn’t up my blood pressure. Strawberry Canyon has become the Twilight Zone. I’m scared.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Im rooting for arizona state to put it out of reach. Maybe just maybe tedford will give another qb some time.
Otherwise what the hell is left to look forward to this year or next
September 29th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
And the A’s are losing to Seattle.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Juancho I thought the same thing. But in the Twilight Zone, JC-level quarterbacks are untouchable.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:16 pm
How hungover must keenan be to be puking. I once went to puke during a midterm. You get your puke out then you get back to work. This is cal. Not chico state. We push through hangovers.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
This is pathetic, did they put a film room in that new stadium because these guys look like they don’t know what the Hell is going on out there.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Damn the A’s are losing ?
September 29th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Glad tedford went to visit the patriots bc this new way were using tight ends is so GREAT. Richard rodgers is the best tight end in the history of football. How dynamic our tight ends have been. Sooo proud
September 29th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
With Cal barreling towards intolerability the A’s really need to squeeze into the postseason for my sanity’s sake.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
I really am finding it hard to believe that this is the best they have to offer after all the crap Coach Tedford talked about his team
September 29th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Maynard is unbelievable
September 29th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Tom Holmoe prepared his team better than this _hit
September 29th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
When is the last time anyone saw jeff holmoe gather his team and fire them up on the sideline or talk to them as a group.
I miss that.
He always seems to be in his own world. Disinterested. Passive. Coaching not to lose.
We need tosh back.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Maynard took a knee on a non existent offsides. Even if they did jump you play through it. It’s a free play. I’ve never, ever seen that before. He’s a birdbrain. It’s the Twilight Zone, I’m telling you.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
So at the end of three quarters, excluding Maynard’s “runs” (i.e., sacks) – we have run 23 times for 125 yards. That is a 5.4 yard average. Without Bigelow.
So why is the QB “guru” insisting on throwing?
When Joey Harrington is calling you out, you it is bad.
September 29th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
This is how im going to feel when we play washington and shaq thompson is flying around making plays
September 29th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
GUYS MAYNARD TOOK A KNEE BECAUSE HE THOUGHT – HE THOUGHT!!!! – THERE WAS AN OFFSIDES!!!! EVEN IF THEY WERE OFFSIDES IT”S A FREE PLAY – AND HE TOOK A KNEE! AND NO OFFSIDES! I CAN”T TAKE THIS SHIT ANYMORE!!!!!!
September 29th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Athletics tied it with a ninth inning bomb !
September 29th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Huge Juancho, huge. Need to steal this one.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Maynard is essentially jamarcus russell. No more. No less.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Nice run cj!
September 29th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
C.J. Anderson is like a poor man’s – make that a guy on welfare’s – Ron Dayne.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Happy to see tedford show some positive emotion there. The stoic look doesnt help him
September 29th, 2012 at 4:06 pm
I like that series – a win here would be exciting and its quite possible. The only negative is someone foolish like our AD might think Tedford gets the credit.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Did you see that drive? Extension!
September 29th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Bigelow is not showing me anything today.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Remember when Cal used to play with heart like ASU is? Tedford’s first 3-4 years.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Mossy wins it with a walkoff for arhletics !
September 29th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Sebastian probably won’t start next week. Bigelow still invisible. jT is beyond embarrassing. And leaving an injured Anthony in to get burned twice? Wtf? Of course they passed his way. This is just sad
September 29th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Go A’s!!!! Huge W! How about Billy Beane replacing Barbour as AD!!!!
Oh, The Tedford era is officially deceased.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Bigger payroll for beane with tedfords salary
September 29th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Third-and-twelve. Why bring the pressure on third-and-twelve?
This defense doesn’t make stops when they need them.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
P U N T ???????????????????
September 29th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Who are we losing to in another boring fashion next week ?
September 29th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
If Munchie Lagaux becomes a star in the NFL, he so gets his own candy bar.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Hey Losers
I just got home from the CCSF game at ARC. Daddy saw me and said “I think I saw your cousin wearing a brown paper bag at the Cal game.”
HAHAHAHAHA
September 29th, 2012 at 4:30 pm
1-4. We win three games this year if we’re lucky.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Wow! This is serious
September 29th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
If im kline i start looking at transferring. Things are not going to improve under jeff holmoe.
If im jared goff i stick with cal but for baseball.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Daddy just called your HC “Jeff Teevans”.
HAHAHAHAHHA
September 29th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Sun Devils have as bad a field goal kicker as we do.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Bobby, BoaltBlue, H8sred, Covinared,
Is the fat lady singing on your defense of Tedford? Or on your personal attacks for those who criticized Tedford in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011?
September 29th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
UCLA has a fire under them, and the games @Utah and @WSU are going to be difficult road trips. Those are the only legitimate games to think the team has a non major upset chance in, and none of them look good. 1-11 looks very possible.
I have to admit liking this ASU club. They really did remind me some of Tedford’s early clubs. New blood has that effect, especially compared to stale bread.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
The ineptitude of our program complicates the washington game for me. I want tosh et al back.
Offer wilcox the hc job kiesau and tosh o and d coordinators.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
If anyone still believes Tedford should be coaching this team, I have to assume that they are Furd alums.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I think my game balls go to richard rodgers for being the most dynamic tight end ever and forever amen. And to bigelow who was electrifying with his mathematically non existent yards per carry on his zero carries.
Jeff make sure in this weeks article you mention how theyre going to continue to work bigelow into the offense. Because we COMPLETELY believe thats true and not that its a standard tedford talking point meant to keep alumni at bay.
Keep up the good work jeff holmoe and sandy rick moranis.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Not keeping Rogers, Lynch, Jackson, Best and Vereen for their senior years. Ayoob, playing Longshore hurt and Kevin Riley. The Oregon State loss. Losing to USC 8 straight times. Toshgate. Need I go on?
Thanks for the stadium and the memories Coach but it’s time for you to go.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Fire Tedford. Fire Tedfraud. Fire Tedford!!!!
This team’s passing O stinks. It’s QB stinks. It plays undisciplined. And a lot of that falls on the stoic man in sunglasses purporting to be a good college football coach named Jeff Tedfraud!!!
September 29th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I wish Sandy would have the common decency to at least admit his seat is warming up, if only so the rumors can start.
I can imagine a lot of top coaches would be interested in Cal with the new facilities, getting to live in the Bay Area. If Barbour will finally admit he’s in hot water, we might learn who may be interested, and that always gets the boosters excited, which fuels the fire and leads to more rumors.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Easy ed we have the second worse graduation rate in conference as well and lets not forget the debt problem of the new stadium that the wall street journal talked about.
And throwing desean under the bus.
And closing off practices.
And zero wins over chip kelly lane kiffin steve sarkisian david shaw todd graham.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
I was afraid the rancid football that is Cal would ruin my DVR so I watched Jeff Holmoe’s team on fast forward most of the 2nd half. Misery over today, when is the AD finally canning Jeff Tedfraud?? I don’t want to hear # years remaining on the stupid contract she signed her buddy too. Fire ‘em both – get Pete Carroll in here before you have more hot dog vendors and players parents at the home game versus paying customers.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Barbour’s silence is becoming completely intolerable. If she continues to flash her remote control grin beneath that overstyled moussed up coiff I’m going to lose it. Act like a big time AD and at least address the goddamned situation.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Thank goodness the San Francisco Giants play disciplined, inspired, winning baseball. The anti-Giants reside in Berkeley in blue and gold uniforms throwing an oblong shaped brown ball around meekly.
If I’m a Stanford fan I’m watching Teevens II taking roost in Berkeley right now.
At least Tedfraud won’t pretend appearing in the Spic and Span Toilet Bowl or the Polian Weedeater Bowl masquerades as a good season.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432704577350214257041598.html
Harrowing.
September 29th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Re: the way over used definition of insanity, thy name is jt:
Zero carries for Bigs.
Starting zm again next week. He did get the crap beat out of him. BUT. Reasons to bench zm: brain cramp on offsides/kneeldown 2nd qt. zm acting like a petulant bitch numerous times after sacks instead of trying to rally the o line. zm’s numerous high overthrows because of bad mechanics and panic.
Time to give Slo Mo release Bridgford or hinder a shot at starting. the only reason I hesitate to start kline is whomever starts is gonna get beat up unless jm works a miracle this week.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Woj –
No need to venture across the bridge to find inspired baseball play – The Oakland Athletics – 4-time world champions – are all you need….Lowest payroll in MLB. Again, Billy Beane for AD.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
wehofx – Stop analyzing the crappola. You are going to drive yourself insane. Cal football is like trying to clean a toilet with a brush while there is 1 large turd floating around that won’t go down. That’s turd’s name is Jeff (How do you like my $2.2M annual contract now) Tedfraud.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
calbearclaw – - Agreed!
I’m a Giants fan but admire the 2012 Oakland A’s bound for the playoffs. I’m be cheering for a 2012 Bay Bridge World Series with of course, a far different outcome as the Giants win their 2nd WS title in 3 years.
If Sandy AD doesn’t call these men this week about becoming the Cal HC in 2013 she is not doing her job –
Pete Carroll, Jon Gruden, Hue Jackson, Chris Petersen, Bobby Petrino.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
In his post game interview with joe starkey when asked about keenan jeff holmoe said this
“He was sick today with i dont know what”
That my friends is a hangover.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Crickets from the Tedford kool aid drinkers
September 29th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
God bless you Woj, can’t argue with that perspective. Bay Bridge Series II would be awesome for all involved.
I was 14 years old when I had to dive under the dining room table in my folks Berkeley house before the A’s Giants quake game. The decorative plates came flying off the walls as the Coliseum shook. I definitely remember the sheen being taken off of that series – and the glorious A’s sweep – because of the the quake. The remaining games became a sort of weird formality.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Now, now, Eric. Don’t gloat.
I’ll tell you what I say quite often to my wife, “you were right.”
Now what? I said last week this was the most important game in JT’s time at Cal.
Question:
Has the USS Tedford struck the iceberg or is there time to move away? Has UCLA now become the most important game in the JT Era?
September 29th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
I was in the Clark Kerr dining common for that quake, and I don’t care who the Giants beat in the WS (though, I too, respect the Beane A’s a great deal), so long as Bochy retires afterwards. He and Tedford can go antiquing next summer.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:31 pm
From the Wall Street Journal:
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As state legislators shrink its appropriations, it’s hard enough for the University of California-Berkeley to maintain the nation’s highest academic ranking among public colleges.
But there now looms a financial threat from another, somewhat unlikely quarter: the university’s football program.
Until now, the years-old effort to renovate the school’s football stadium, which sits on an earthquake fault line, never raised many alarms. Although its $321 million price tag would make it one of the most expensive renovations in college sports history, the university said the project would be funded privately, largely through long-term seat sales and naming rights.
But three years into the fund-raising effort, the school was far from its goal of raising $270 million from the sale of seats. At the end of December, the school had collected $31 million in cash. It had secured another $113 million in long-term seat agreements, the majority of which will be paid over 30 years and all of which are nonbinding. In recent interviews, university officials acknowledge that if revenue projections fall short and won’t cover the bond payments, the shortfall “would have to come from campus.”
The idea that money for the football stadium could come from campus funds, which include student fees, is an admission likely to stir outrage at a school that’s already facing possible double-digit tuition increases. “It is disconcerting that the university may be gambling with student fees and other academic funds to cover a massive financial commitment for a football stadium,” said Cal computer-science professor Brian Barsky.
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Memorial Stadium sits on the Hayward fault line.
John Wilton, the school’s vice chancellor for administration and finance, said the stadium project is “a fairly complex project and financing model that has many moving parts” that should be judged over the long term. He said that under most projections, the school won’t have to dip into campus funds for many years.
“We’re not asleep at the wheel here,” said Sandy Barbour, Cal’s athletic director.
To outsiders, what’s surprising is that this expansive project is happening at Cal, a school that hasn’t had a powerhouse football program in years. Cal hasn’t played in the Rose Bowl since 1959 and doesn’t routinely sell out its stadium. (The school is reducing capacity in the renovation to roughly 63,000 from about 72,000.)
Unlike some athletic powerhouses, Cal’s athletic department isn’t self sufficient. From 2003 to 2011 it stayed solvent only by receiving a total of $88.4 million in campus funds, according to research by Barsky. Wilton, the vice chancellor, said the figure doesn’t account for donations to the university that might be inspired by the school’s athletic programs.
The stadium situation comes at a time of financial anxiety on campus. After the state legislature last year slashed $650 million from the University of California system’s previously $3-billion budget, tuition at UC schools rose 17% for in-state students and 5% for nonresident ones, prompting student protests and sit-ins on the Berkeley campus. With California already leading the nation in tuition increases, the UC system has said that annual tuition spikes could range from 8% to 16% over the next four years.
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Cal computer science professor Brian Barsky has been a vocal critic of the university’s stadium financing plan.
Also controversial is a plan to open the gates to more nonresident students—who pay higher tuition. At Berkeley, the proportion of undergraduate students who pay nonresident tuition is 16%. The school said its goal is to increase that figure to 20%.
The nearly half-billion-dollar Cal athletic project encompasses a $321 million renovation of Memorial Stadium that opens Sept. 1 and $153 million for a new multisport training facility. That’s far more than Stanford University spent building a new stadium in 2006.
In public pitches for the project starting in 2006, university officials talked about raising hundreds of millions through an “Endowment Seating Program” that was to endow all 29 of Cal’s varsity sports and more yet by selling naming rights to various components of the stadium. The official name will remain Memorial in honor of war veterans. But the economic downturn hindered sales and by November 2010, Barbour had posted online a letter to fans saying she was “heartbroken that the program’s intentions will, in all likelihood, not be fully realized.”
Cal always intended to borrow most of the $474 million needed to renovate the stadium and build the training facility, and the project’s total bonded debt will be $447 million. That’s apparently an unprecedented amount of borrowing for a college-sports project, far above the $220 million that Minnesota borrowed to build a new stadium in 2009, the $200 million that Washington has borrowed for its stadium renovation and the $148 million that Michigan took out to add luxury seats that opened in 2010.
Cal officials acknowledge that making debt payments without help from outside the athletic department will likely require success on the field. Last year, the football team went 7-6. In January, an assistant coach defected to Washington and three prized recruits changed their minds. “We recognize fully that football success is a key driver in our financial success,” Barbour said.
Even some ardent fans say they’re confused and concerned about how the renovation will be funded. “If you read what they say, they always say, if there’s a problem and things aren’t going to expectations, we’ll make adjustments,” said Hank Gehman, a longtime season-ticket holder and retired contractor. “I’m just wondering what those adjustments will be. Where will they get millions of dollars a year to cover the shortfall?”
University officials say they had no choice other than to launch a major renovation. Long known to stand above a geological fault, the stadium was declared unsafe in a seismic review, said Barbour, who added that about 70% of the project’s construction cost comes from safety upgrades.
The new Pac-12 television-rights deal will nearly double Cal’s broadcast revenue before expenses, helping the athletic department not only to make debt payments but also to wean itself from university support.
But the television deal also requires Cal to do something unprecedented: play a Friday night home game every other year. This change recently created more controversy on campus after an academic official asked instructors not to schedule midterm exams on Nov. 2, the date of the first such game.
“To ask people not to have midterms seemed like the inappropriate thing to do,” said Alice Agogino, a professor of mechanical engineering who sat on the stadium committee in its early planning stages. Balancing the athletic books “shouldn’t change academic priorities for the campus,” she said.
Write to Rachel Bachman at rachel.bachman@wsj.com
Corrections & Amplifications
The University of California-Berkeley always intended to borrow most of the $474 million needed to renovate its football stadium and build an athlete-training facility. An earlier version of this article incorrectly implied that Cal was taking on more debt than originally planned. Also, in noting that Cal had raised $31 million of a proposed $270 million endowment for the stadium, the article failed to mention that the school had gained nonbinding commitments of an additional $113 million, the majority of which will be paid over 30 years. In addition, in 1975, California and UCLA shared the Pac-8 football title. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said California won the title outright.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:32 pm
#41. Juancho.
Please do not dis Chico.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:39 pm
Yes, I was 20 years old when the ’89 Quake hit. It put into perspective quickly how important baseball was when the loss of life and property was so severe. The Giants were put into a tough spot b/c the A’s had better #1/#2 starters than the G’s but not so much at #3/#4. The quake allowed the A’s to bring back Stewart/Welch and close out the ’89 WS in an odd formality.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
did anyone else have a problem with the punt with 6 minutes left and down 10???????
I thought that was INSANE.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
@ Calfan1
did anyone else have a problem with the punt with 6 minutes left and down 10???????
I thought that was INSANE.
LOL. Most Cal football fans are beyond micro-analyzing game time decisions by Tedfraud that make no sense. You get a couple of those per game with him and you just accept it.
Most Cal fans yearn for the macro-analysis which says this team desperately needs a good innovative proven better Head Coach.
September 29th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Well I just quickly went through the DVR of your game.
You guys stink. You really do on both sides of the ball.
2-10. Enjoy it. It beats the last year Holmoe coached at UCB state.
September 29th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Sadly, the Moron is probably right – 2 wins is all I would expect now.
@707 – no, this was the most important game in Tedford’s career (not the most important in the Tedford era, but the most important for his career). And he stunk it up. Even if we pull off a few upsets, everyone will wonder why he let this one go.
September 29th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
The season is over in my view, and the UCLA game is meaningless. This team has no pass rush, the worst quarterback in the conference and a seive for an offensive line. And a burned out, out of shape and overpaid HC who is blocking a chair, as we like to say in the business world.
I saw lots of empty seats in Memorial today, and I am guessing a bunch of fans will find reasons to avoid Berkeley for a night game next Saturday.
September 29th, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Sandy B as Macbeth:
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly:
Are we there yet?
September 29th, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Moron is too generous. My bet’s on 1-11. Tedford is a joke. Sandy needs to fire him or Birgeneau needs to fire her. I’m done with this program. What a laughable joke we’ve become.
September 29th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
I was listening as closely as I could and I thought I heard the first boos about the time when you guys took a knee at the end of the first half.
Then I distinctly heard the booing in the third quarter when Wayward overthrew a couple of WRs
Finally a whole chorus of boos in the 4th Q when you guys punted on 4th down.
Can you tell me if there was any booing before the first half and was it fairly constant?
Also it looked like the one end zone was completely empty as it stretched over to the student section. I also saw quite a few empty seats in the rich ESP section. Is that true?
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September 29th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Moron for AD!
September 29th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
No one is more focused on our program’s flaws than our local moron!
September 29th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
So Moron, help us fix this program. You are the resident football savant, what do we need to do to save the program?
September 29th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
My apologies jim. I think tedford is having a negative effect on my performance and discipline on this blog.
September 29th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
#113
1. Fire Jeff Teevans now;
2. Appoint an interim head coach;
3. Sit Maynard – his career is done;
4. Build for next year. Play your young guys at least one half of every game
5. Pray
6. Go to church
7. Hire Pete Carroll (although he wouldn’t come and I have that on good word too)
September 29th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Juancho, thanks.
I share your frustrations even though I have not voiced them on this blog.
I got re-energized in 2003 when AR made a difference. He was from my kids high school. I watched him play and he was special. I expected that the program would progress but other than the rebuilt stadium, it has not. I went to the camps in 2007 and 2008. I enjoyed meeting the coaching staff and players. I was disappointed Cal did not continue the fantasy camps and this have may been an indication of things to come.
September 29th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
On being 1-4 for the first time in his tenure:
“We have got to get better. We got beat by a team who played better than we did. We have to improve and keep working. Each and every week is a different week. That is a good football team. I’m not going to take anything away from ASU. They played a very physical game, did a good job. The only way we are going to get better is by working at it.”
No, the only way Cal is going to get better is by firing Jeff Tedford. Period, full stop, end of story.
September 29th, 2012 at 7:47 pm
After today’s loss there’s still hope…that we can go 1 & 11. Even his main support, Sandy Barbor, will have to step-up and dump Tedford. If not, she’ll be gone herself.
PS – Nice use of Bigelow as in no touches and…are there two worse O linemen in the Pac-12 than the Rigsbee bros.?
September 29th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
It is now known how inept Maynard, the O line, and Tedfraud are. So, let’s examine the schedule and game location and opponent and find out how low Cal can go. And the lower Cal stinks the better for Tedfraud to be gone by season’s end.
Sat. Oct. 6 vs. UCLA (LOSS, UCLA is playing well, coached far better than Cal and this will be a resounding L)
Sat. Oct. 13 at Washington State (I’m worried about this one, WSU looks bad but it is on the road, call this one a close loss b/c WSU hasa much better coach and is home)
Sat. Oct. 20 vs. 8 Stanford (No doubt, a loss, could get ugly except Stanford’s QB looks inept at times, I hate to predict a loss against the red menace but it is coming, Stanford will be motivated)
Sat. Oct. 27 at Utah
(see WSU comments, likely a close loss but a little worried Cal may get this one)
Fri. Nov. 2 vs. Washington 6:00 PM PT (LOSS, Sarkisian treats Tedfraud like his dog)
Sat. Nov. 10 vs. 2 Oregon (BLOWOUT loss, moving on)
Sat. Nov. 17 at 18 Oregon State (Riley has always owned Tedfraud, LOSS)
So that’s a loss in every game. I’ll assume Cal splits with WSU and Utah finishing 2-10. THAT will get Tedfraud canned for sure and there will finally be hope in Berkeley again.
September 29th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
1. Thank you for instinctively answering to “Moron.” At least that part is settled.
2. I agree with your first four suggestions completely.
3. Your fourth and fifth directives are also duly noted except for the fact that the Golden Bear family encompasses people of all faiths.
4. Pete Carroll is doing just fine in Seattle. Let’s be a little more creative in fantasizing about our next head coach.
September 29th, 2012 at 8:17 pm
1. Should we be concerned that a national newspaper penned an article about the fiscal fault line Memorial sits on? I mean Jesus, that was a scary article.
2. Is anyone else wondering about Tedford’s mental health? The sunglasses, the girth, the steakhouse lifestyle, the robotic, autopilot post game quotes, the closed practices, etc.? There must be a clause in his contract that protects the university against mental illness.
I’m actually kind of serious.
September 29th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Somebody explain this to me. I played 3 years HS Football, 2 yrs JC Football and rode the bench one year at Cal. I thought I knew something about football but clearly I don’t. How can a team with a 2 million dollar a year coach be this bad? I’m serious, explain this to me.
September 29th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I love how the announcers are starting to make all of our points for us. Sloppy, undisciplined team. Questionable play calls and decisions. Lack of aggressiveness. Why are they not blitzing and adjusting to the game situation? The kids at times show their potential. But the coaching is so benign. This is the opposite of what we need. We need to capitalize on our new facilities with excitement. Instead we have dead man walking. At this point, I believe it is obvious to all around college sports that JT has lost his edge and needs to go. The new realization maybe that Sandy needs to go. All of this is on her watch and what we have is disaster. You need to divest yourself of those who make all kinds of bad decisions. Time for new blood and energy at AD too.
September 29th, 2012 at 8:51 pm
If Maynard got permanently sat down for the rest of the season, I wonder how long he would continue to go to classes, or indeed even stay at the university. I say he is outta here after this semester no matter what. To me, he totally fits the description of a mercenary who is not truly invested in the team or the school.
September 29th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
Here’s the sad part – JT’s departure didn’t necessarily need to be this ugly. He energized the program, he led us to some good years, he put us on the map, etc. He’s etched himself on the Mount Rushmore of Golden Bear coaches, there’s no doubt about that. But it’s become clear that his tenure has run its course and that it’s time for a change. There is no shame in that whatsoever. The shame comes in his not recognizing that the program is reeling under his leadership. He escorted us from the early Internet years into the Twitter era and it’s time for him to hand off the baton. Tedford is like a boxer who does’t know when to hang up the gloves. He can either exit with some modicum of grace or leave us cringing at him being pummeled on the ropes.
September 29th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
I am sad about JT. Maybe he should have left after 2007. It seems that JT took Maynard to get Keenan so the good news is that you get a great receiver the bad news your quarterback sucks. some package
September 29th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Whoa!!!
Just saw the awesome post by Calbearclaw #100…Holy crap!
Tedfraud’s pathetic football program is not only an embarrassment but is costing all of Berkeley’s students as well?!?!
Tedfraud and Sandy Barbour HAVE TO GO NOW!
I’m effn pissed.
September 29th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Please tell me someone at the press conference asked why bb didn’t get a single touch.
September 29th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
From SF CHRON Bruce Jenkins: Pay attention to the last three paragraphs:
The novelty of a renovated stadium has worn off quickly in Berkeley, where a month of bad football has plunged the Cal Bears into irrelevance.
Memorial Stadium remains a priceless venue for Bay Area vistas, and they say the place can stand up to an earthquake, but you wonder how long coach Jeff Tedford can stand up to scrutiny.
His team is 1-4 after a gravely disappointing 27-17 loss to Arizona State on Saturday, a game the Bears had to win and yet lamely gave away, serving up every known brand of mistake. It’s not such a catastrophe on the Bay Area sporting landscape, not with the Giants, A’s and NFL teams drawing such richly deserved attention. Nobody pegged the Bears as a Rose Bowl contender, and with Ohio State and USC on the schedule, a few setbacks seemed likely at this stage.
It’s the quality of the Bears’ play – especially in pressurized situations – that’s disturbing. They let their fans down from the very beginning, losing the stadium-unveiling opener to Nevada, and haven’t offered more than scattered, fleeting glimpses of hope since that colossal downer.
The Ohio State game, while thrilling, became a referendum on Tedford’s crunch-time play calling. The Bears were within striking distance against a vulnerable-looking USC before coming up small. On Saturday, they were up against an Arizona State program that had gone 1-8 against Tedford’s Bears, with five straight losses in Berkeley. “It’s the weirdest thing,” ASU President Michael Crow surmised in a weekday interview with the Arizona Republic. “It’s like a hex.”
So much for science fiction. The Sun Devils deserved their win, simply on the basis of pure execution, but they were helped immeasurably by a Cal team sadly lacking in that department.
There were 12 penalties for 119 yards, covering the spectrum: grabbing the facemask (twice), interference on the punt returner, roughing the passer, too many men on the field – you name it. Isi Sofele’s lost fumble led directly to an ASU touchdown (and a 17-7 lead) just before halftime, and after all that talk about an improved offensive line, quarterback Zach Maynard – while being wildly inaccurate most of the day – was sacked six times, for a total of 19 over the past three games.
These Bears will always have their moments, and sure enough, there were some inspiring long-distance forays involving Sofele, C.J. Anderson and Keenan Allen, who played gallantly through an illness and was virtually absent for two quarters. But the truth was in the trenches, where the Bears were outclassed, and also in the stands, where thousands of empty seats revealed the growing exasperation with this Cal program. There were occasional boos, and cheers of derision, and that’s a heartbreaking development when a bunch of college kids are trying their best to win.
As someone who has followed the Bears for 50 non-Rose Bowl years, including a memorable undergraduate experience in the turbulent late ’60s, I have a simple motto for Cal football: It never ends well. Simply never. As such, I look merely for entertainment on autumnal Saturdays, and in recent seasons I’ve found Tedford to be an honorable, likable man with a knack for recruiting talent. He conducted a calm, forthright news conference after the game, assuring everyone that “we’re not gonna quit,” and I would find it distasteful to call for his head.
Then again, that’s not my call. I’ve heard that the Cal alumni haven’t mustered sufficient anger to force a coaching change and that the university wouldn’t consider buying out Tedford’s contract, paying him some $2.8 million annually through 2015. But that’s not what I was hearing Saturday.
Before the game, I visited a tailgate party full of wealthy, influential alums. One of them, particularly well-connected and in the know, cast a grim outlook on Tedford’s future. He asked not to be quoted by name, and that’s always an unsatisfying experience for the reader, but there are times when off-the-record comments reflect the tone of a crisis, and that could well be the case here.
“I’m the last one off the bus when it comes to (firing) Tedford,” he told me. “But we have to move on. His game management has been awful. I mean, that 4th-and-1 call at Ohio State (opting for a field goal) when we’d already racked up 500 yards! I like the guy, personally. This beautiful new stadium doesn’t get done without him. But it’s so frustrating. If this doesn’t turn around, I really think they’ll buy him out. I’m predicting that if we finish under .500, he’s gone.”
A .500 record would be considered an outright triumph at this point. So would a bowl game, which would require five wins in the next seven games. It all seems a bit far-fetched just now in Strawberry Canyon, land of gorgeous views, a handsome venue and fallen expectations.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/college/jenkins/article/Latest-letdown-turns-up-heat-on-Tedford-3905721.php#ixzz27vNkq3Oi
September 29th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
If im kline i have a serious sit down with tedford. All bs aside just a confidential talk. And i need to know if im starting next year or not. If so i ask to play a series a game down the road.
If tedford is vague or intimates bridgeford will get the first crack next year i transfer immediately and play at a football power like auburn.
As much as i like kljne the tedford mess really has the potential to ruin his potential career. No play this year. Then sitting behind bridgeford next year. Then tedford is fired and the new coach runs an oregon style offense kline doesnt fit. Or he brings in his own qb and kline becomes another in a long list of never weres in tedford qb recruits.
September 29th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
maybe a good move for him personally, but maybe a bit of panic. There are guys in the nfl who never took a snap in college. If he’s that good, he’ll play, and he had a better chance of playing with a different HC, I think.
September 29th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Check that, Matt cassel just didn’t have any college starts. And he’s the only one to do it.
But still, I think Kline will be fine. Goff could beat him out anyway. Who knows? I think Kline takes his team to the rose bowl tho.
September 29th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
Can’t sleep. Looked at the DVD of Cal 2004 season. What the hell happened to that lean and hungry coach whose team played like crazy and was super aggressive?
September 30th, 2012 at 12:08 am
Easy Ed @ 133- I answer your question. First he turned into a “play not to lose” puss. Then he turned into a stubborn, arrogant, obstinate, paranoid fool. Now he is a lazy, mail it in state employee… Who steals $2.7 M a year. Does that sound about right?
September 30th, 2012 at 12:16 am
Bigelow zero carries. Even as I type this, I just can’t believe it. Maybe thats because I like to think I have at least a modicum of common sense. But nothing is as it should be in Tedfraud Bizarro World- otherwise known as Strawberry Canyon.
September 30th, 2012 at 12:20 am
Meanwhile in an NCAA video game today, I plugged Bigelow into Oregon’s offense and he went off for 248 yards on 18 carries and scored 4 TDs rushing. Also put him occasionally in the slot and got him 4 catches on bubble screens for 57 yards and another TD in a 70-7 victory over the Cal “not so” Golden Bears. He is being mentioned as a dark horse Heismann candidate.
September 30th, 2012 at 12:23 am
Bigelow should be very well rested and prepared by the OSU game. In post game press conference after a 3 TD loss to the Beavers, capping a 2-10 season, Tedford states he is very much looking forward to unleashing Bigelow next year, when he will be the best college running back in America.
September 30th, 2012 at 12:25 am
John Crumpacker had a great line in his SF Chron article about Cal post game cliches and platitudes. Yep, sounds about right. Been that way for about, oh, 6-7 seasons now.
September 30th, 2012 at 12:37 am
I say if you have to pay Tedford all his remaining contract dollars, don’t fire him. Re-assign him. Make him do some $hi7 job on campus as far away from the football facilities as possible. Hopefully something really humiliating. And DON’T EVER put his name on anything as a tribute to him.
If Cal is stuck with him for another years or two, he mat large with a losing record, certainly in P10/12 play.
Anybody still read Glenn Dickey? Is he still defending Tedford, calling him the greatest coach in Cal history and saying that Cal is lucky to have him?
September 30th, 2012 at 4:07 am
Zach Maynard was 9-for-28 yesterday. I miss Kevin Riley.
The replay of that ASU DT blowing by Jordan Rigsbee like he was a tackling dummy at practice was unbelievable. Worst pass protection by a Cal line in more than a decade. They still ran the ball, though.
September 30th, 2012 at 6:31 am
Wow. 141 comments!
Too bad so many were juancho re the a’s. Or moron being moron.
But Tedford seems to be the main draw here. Sounds like he is a goner. And I’m now not surprised, as seems to lack any cheer in his persona. No fire. Mechanical.
You can’t lead troops into battle that way. At least I don’t think so. Gotta be a bit crazy with the emotions on the sleeve. Though, there are many coaches (patriots) who succeed in this game that way to prove me wrong.
September 30th, 2012 at 7:19 am
Still waiting for the Kool Aid Drinkers to defend Tedford. Bobby, BoaltBlue? You’re very good at insulting Cal fans who have pointed out for years the many flaws of Tedford, especially when there is the occasional win, but now you’ve gone into hiding? Defend this or admit you were wrong!
September 30th, 2012 at 8:14 am
Eric: I think it really comes down to money. Theder Kapp Gilbertson and Holmoe all were let go once their contracts expired. Tedford is owed about 7-10 mil once he is canned. I doubt its a personal services contract that he could be reassigned to janitorial work until he quits. Money is so tight in the state and the U that it is hard to justify eating so much $ just to please football fans. Maybe the loss of fan interest and money coming in will set off some or all of the money, but it seems that all those screaming for Ted’s head are assuming somoene else will pay his severence before we go out and get another $2 mil coach and over $1 mil for his staff. Its a big consideration.
September 30th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Yesterday’s game was so depressing to sit through. The stadium was emptier than I expected (yes the team sucks, but still, 1PM on a sunny Saturday in Strawberry Canyon, hard to beat). It was just as bad in person than on T.V.
Not too much to say that wasn’t already said. Tedford continues to coach this team passively, no Bigalow, OL pourous (#73 completely sucks), Maynard is a head case who can’t throw and continues to get pounded. Defense tires due to being out there the whole game.
September 30th, 2012 at 9:46 am
Oh yeah, one observation. They kept announcing that they upgraded 200 season ticket holders to the ESP section to show their appreciation to the fans. However, I realized these were the fans that were sold a seat that did not exist in sections U/UU etc. Nice PR. Framing it as though they upgraded out of the kindness of their hearts and not because they f’ed up placing stickers on the benches, thus overselling seats that didn’t exist. Nice!
September 30th, 2012 at 9:49 am
I also am wondering if Tedford’s trip to New England could have been a job interview for an QB coach or OC position with New England instead of the TE story Tedford gave. Not that NE would be dumb enough to hire Tedford, but just a thought. Could have been a way to have the CAL Ath Dept. pay for the trip. Just a thought…
September 30th, 2012 at 9:59 am
@Convinared – What Cal would actually owe if it fired Tedford is something that might require more analysis than simply adding up the math for the remaining years. I haven’t looked for the clause, but unless the amount owed is liquidated damages or has other odd provisions, I would think there are at least two issues:
(1) under boilerplate contract law, the amount owed is reduced to present value.
(2) Tedford has a duty to mitigate, so if he gets another coaching gig, that should offset the damages.
And think of it this way – if Tedford demands full boat given what he has been paid and his lack of success, he is likely costing himself considerable damage in re-employment opportunities.
But this debate is different than the typical Tedford debate, because rather than defending him on the merits, you are raising a purely economic argument. In other words, Tedford could equal or beat the Holmoe futility and it wouldn’t matter. So the counter is this – firing him now likely renegerates significant interest in the team, with fans coming back. But having him stick around likely continues the rapid erosion of Can fan support for the administration, and people will stay home, not buy t-shirts, jerseys, and collectible pens, and not donate any dollars.
September 30th, 2012 at 10:08 am
Eric- people that you mention, that would and did hurl insults for fair criticisms, are also the same type of people that are self-righteous cowards. I wouldn’t hold our collective breaths waiting for an admission that people like that are wrong… WAY wrong- let alone an apology. They’re bigger losers than Moren.
In reading the posts here, at California GoldenBlogs, SFGate – wow. Seems everybody has jumped way past me screaming for Tedford’s head. Listen, I believe I was one of the first to post comments about puzzling things I was seeing from the team and JT going back to what I call the pre-Mike Dunbar year of 2005. I know I was the first one to say he could be Ben Braun, and I was the first one he WAS Ben Braun- but now he IS Tom Holmoe and a lot of people have caught that as I have.
I have been commenting on a downward spiral for years, but Tedfraud’s has picked up serious momentum. If Tedford goes even 3-9, I will say that’s on par with Holmoe’s 1-10- Tedford has and has HAD way more talent than Holmoe, Holmoe never had several top 20 recruiting classes, an administration that supported the football program, or the facilities that are now in place- which Tedford has had as a recruiting tool for the past couple of years.
As far as the large buyout eliminating the opportunity to to can Tedford, I have said that all along- but I now think it can pencil out in lost revenue if Tedford stays. With the HUGE debt (that Tedford and Sandy built), you cant screw around. CMS will be a ghost town, and people won’t come back immediately once JT is gone and a new coach is here.. They still haven’t at Haas as Braun killed the program so badly as Sandy Barbour waited 2-3 years too long to ax Gentle Ben Braun.
By the way, can we help in the financial picture by canning her too? She’s horrible in too many ways to count. She’s nothing but a cliche tossing AD to match our horrible platitude tossing HC.
September 30th, 2012 at 11:03 am
It’ll be interesting to see how sb handles jt’s contract. The debt on cms/hpc does seem to put her into a box in cost analysis of terminating jt. Without the debt over her head, I’m almost certain he stays for the life of his contract. I know most of y’all are down on sb. I think she’s made some good hires, monty, women’s soccer and bb. (I know baseball. imo she did it right. one of the most expensive sports with virtually no revenue.) Getting anything big like cms/hpc done requires risk, now it’s time for sb to earn her pay.
From jf’s game article: “But sophomore Brendan Bigelow, who rushed for 191 yards on eight tries the previous two games, did not carry the ball. “If there’s not things we feel he’s suited for and other guys are better suited for them, they’ll be in the game,” Tedford said.
WTFGOHWTBS!!!
Michlaczik(sp) and Gould – 2 of my fav coaches – seem to have caught jt’s dissociative loss-of-stones disease. 2nd year back for jm, line should be playing better even with injuries. Maybe being oc is negatively effecting his time/work with o line?
jt is ultimately responsible for bigs not playing but rg has to share some of the blame. I sure would love to know the real story behind big’s carries going from 4 to 0 as jt’s hot seat gets hotter and hotter. Nero?
September 30th, 2012 at 11:15 am
If JT has honor he will negotiate a settlement of his remaining contract money. He can’t claim he deserves the full package, given his record, and he certainly can’t claim he has not been given ample time and opportunity. He actually is lucky that he has been able to recruit as well as he has, given the obstacles he has had to deal with and work around. Perhaps the AD should tell him he will have to stay on as an assistant OC unless he agrees to accept a reasonable buy out.
September 30th, 2012 at 11:26 am
From that quote JT gave JF about Bigelow, it sounds like the coaches don’t think he is able to play as a starting back. If that is so, they should say so. It might keep a lot of fans like Juancho complaining about it all the time.
On the other hand, if BB has limitations and can only succeed in certain types of situations, then they should be designing offensive plays that allow him to succeed in those situations. Cater to his strengths. The offensive scheme obviously needs that for all the play makers.
September 30th, 2012 at 11:34 am
We did not lose because Bigelow got no carries. Sofele and Anderson got yards. We lost because we made too many penalties, missed too many tackles and tried to pass from a non existent pocket.
September 30th, 2012 at 11:48 am
Eric: my understanding is that there is no buy out. What market exits for him as an assistant is probably not strong.
September 30th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Covinared-
I think you maybe miss 2 points-
1) Bigelow is a game breaker, Sofele and Anderson. How do you/we know he wouldn’t have broke a few longs ones if if he got 8-10 touches?
2) Bigelow getting no carries, no passes, not even being involved in the gameplan make ZERO sense and is one more symptom that this whole program is a mess under Tedford.
Everything else you said is accurate.
September 30th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
You know, I have always understood that there is no buyout or out clause- which is inexcusable. So essentially Tedfraud was/is guaranteed these tens of millions he’s “earned” and will continue to get- not matter how he did. Again, inexcusable.
The ridiculous length of this contract, the undeserved, out of context dollar amount, the lack of clauses to allow for the poor performance we are seeing now- all are just more evidence that SB made a HUGE mistake, got taken to the cleaners and is damaging the university as we all witness the implosion of the football program- despite some very good talent, beautiful top-notch faclities.
By SB’s own words, Cal’s goals are to compete for conference and national championships- I have heard her say that in interviews, I have read the same. So how does what is going on now in the most important sports program at Cal compare to her stated goals?
So she set this whole contract travesty, she has not protected the football program, the athletic program and the university. Add in the butchered dropping of the 5 sports (not the decision necessarily, but how it was mishandled initially and throughout the many months).
She has failed as badly, maybe more so, than our football “coach”.
September 30th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Ron Rivera as HC? Can he be pried from the Panthers? Probably not…oh well…just day dreaming here…
September 30th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Blakestreet i was thinking the same. Maybe we can bring in another former cal guy in herm edwards.
I was thinking about how tedford has changed his assistants on offense so much over the past ten years. My gut tells me marcus arroyo will be the fall guy who gets axed this year. Which sucks bc hes the only young and promising recruiter we have.
Im just speculating but i bet tedford makes changes to his staff again. And arroyo was the last guy in.
September 30th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
So i think most of us agree to this. Tedford isnt getting fired this year regardless.
Assuming that is true. What now? What could we do short term to improve? Here are my ideas:
1. Reduce ticket prices across the board as a showing of goodwill. Think less margin per but greater volume so the money could be about the same with more butts in the seats.
2. Work out a program where local high schools football programs get tickets to a game a year or something. Something to build our brand with local recruits and coaches.
3. Add recruiting to EVERY coaches job responsibilities. No matter of tedford and clancy not recruiting.
4. Demote michalzik from o coordinator and promote arroyo. He was a top up and coming young coordinator a couple years back. Give him a shot to fly or fail. No more of this bs where three guys share the job. As we all know those types of situations lead to nobody being accountable.
5. Fire jeff genyk. Special teams has never improved. Also hes the tight ends coach but did you ever hear him talk about visiting the patriots?
6. Scour the sec for fiery vibrant yiung assistants. Hire one to be an assistand d coordinator and one to be an assistan d coordinator and special teams coach. We need new young blood to breathe some life into these dinosaurs.
7. Change the defense. The 3-4 hasnt worked. Go back to mixing 4-3 and 3-4.
8. Open up practice. Open the program back up. Tedford isnt our program. Tedford is an employee. Not even an alumni.
9. Fire todd howard. There has to be a better d line coach. Evaluate wes chandler and consider a change as well. Their hires havent proved to be beneficial yet. This is collegebnot the pros. We need guys who can recruit and motivate.
Other ideas, beg hue jackson to be our o coordinator. Have sandy barbour play o line. Name ron gould assistant head coach. Start to make him be the face of our program.
September 30th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Here is a link to some top sec guys
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/62864/sec-coaches-assistants-to-keep-an-eye-on
September 30th, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Dan you are right- there is no buy out clause. What I was suggesting above is there may be a way to negotiate with JT to get him to accept less than the full amount due under the contract.
It is easy to criticize the contract based on what we know now. But remember that at the time JT was getting feelers from other teams and there was a big push to get him signed to an extension. I don’t recall much if any criticism of the terms then, or of SB for offering it to him.
September 30th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
LAWYERS/CPA’s in the house:
I tried to post link to coupla sites with jt’s contract. iba won’t post so you’ll have to google: “jeff tedford’s contract.” I’m looking at one dated “Sept 4, 2012″ and another “.pdf 2012.” I could easily be wrong but it seems to me that 1 mil + of the 2.8 annual salary sited by numerous sources are retention bonuses, blackhawk membership and cars.
Lawyers/CPA’s how much are we on the hook for to jt? Is it 3 x 2.8 mil? Or more like 3 X 1.6mil?
AGENTS in the house: Dan, I don’t know if you’re right about the escape/buyout clauses that should be in hc contract.
Would any agent worth their 10% let a client with jt’s record in ’09 permit any contract outs? Do they exist in any hc contracts? (rich rod, todd graham and the mad pirate all have had their seasons but were also all damaged goods to a certain extent when they joined pac12. speaking of damaged goods, I’ll google C Weiss’ contract info at Kansas.)
Dan, if contracts of hc’s like the above do have such outs, then you’re right, sb F’d up. Bad.
If not, she has one chance to redeem herself by fixing the jt situation by the end of the season. If she doesn’t, then, I’ll agree w you whole heartedly, she should be gone, too.
Juancho, agree about genyk and howard. I sorta agree with you about jm except I’m pretty sure a big reason he came back was because jt promised him the vertical move to oc. But it sure seems like money in the bank the o line would be performing better if he didn’t have the added duties of oc.
Not sure about chandler. It seems to me that the wr’s are getting better separation than last year. But that’s one of those things better judged from the stands. Also treggs and harper are balling for frosh, esp considering they have zm throwing to them.
September 30th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
#160 agree about negotiated buyout. if jt is owed 3 x 2.8mil = 8.4mil. one time lump sum buyout payment of, for example, 6 mil can be advantageous to both parties, ie jt and cal. CPA’s?
September 30th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Wehofx i also tried to post the link to his contract.
I gleamed this. 1.8 x 6. 10.8 million plus his laughable blackhawk country club perk. And the quarter million in money to give assistants bonuses and raises. Money that would have saved the program if used for tosh.
Tedfords at 1.8 per through 2015. But has a clause that adds a year of guaranteed money for each season they win 9. That happened 3 times.
September 30th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Bluengold
The clause where if tedford wins 9 a season it adds a year to his contract is obscene and not best practices. Every season he has won 9 essentially is a 1.8 millikn doar bonus. Whoopdy do! 9 wins gets him another year of money and a bcs bowl gets him like 250,000. Talk about ridiculous incentives and poir negotiating and lack of vision by sandy rick moranis barbour.
Maybe we didnt complain bc we didnt know the details of the extension.
September 30th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Lets say we promote internal.
Who would you guys want to be the new head coach and who would you keep from the current staff
I guve it to gould i promote arroyo to run the o. I keep michalzcik and pendergast and thompson and ambrose.
September 30th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Juancho-
Maybe I am missing the obvious but you gotta clue me in on the “Rick Moranis” reference for SB. I see SB as more closely resembling a certain SNL character.
September 30th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Dan i guess i just think they look alike.
September 30th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Dan, snl character being Pat. for the time I did feed the troll, I always thought of it as pat turned dissociative sociopath but with same gut, fat ass, wearing same cowboy shirt and glasses.
Juancho, rg is still one of my favorite coaches – he’s doing hella job with isi and cj – but I think he comes in a very, very close second to jt in bearing blame for Bigs not getting any carries.
Also I’m pretty sure – but not positive – jt’s contract is only guaranteed until 15. The only 1 year automatic add occurred for 9 wins in ’08 extending contract to ’15.
September 30th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Wehofx… Bingo!
What if SB = Pat = Moren? That would explain A LOT!!
September 30th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
This is no joke…
Daddy was asked this afternoon by a very influential alum if he would be willing to contribute to a buy-out of Jeff Teevans contract.
Daddy said if the AD would contribute he would too.He would match her gift. He said he objected to the extension (and he knows others who did too). At point he said, no more money to the program.
Stay tuned.
September 30th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
JT is the highest paid employee working in any government building in California.
The bulk of his salary is paid for with alumni donations.
I’d like to hear from anyone who has paid into the Jeff Tedford salary fund. How do you feel? Do you get a private line into Sandy’s office?
With all the problems in the world, who has the means and desire to pay a king’s ransom for some Fresno State Phys Ed major?
I truly enjoy college football, but this is pure madness.
I feel better now and must divert my attention from the real problems of the world by watching the season premier of Revenge.
September 30th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Moron, “Daddy” and I were sharing Bloody Marys this morning and he was saying that his disappointment with Cal football doesn’t come close to having a loser as his offspring. “Daddy” asked me if I could perhaps hire you to do some work for me but I told him a college degree was necessary. “Daddy” said that after 6 years of college you’ve given up on a degree. I said it wouldn’t help, “Daddy” sighed and ordered a 3rd Bloody Mary. Poor man!
September 30th, 2012 at 9:35 pm
While most of the derision on this blog is deservedly pointed at Tedford, I am beginning to wonder if this is the least talented team in the Tedford era. I know there are some young players making an impact like Todd Barr, Chris McCain and Brendan Scarlett, but are there any juniors and seniors on this team that would make an NFL scout sit up and take notice? (Keenan Allen doesn’t count).
The offensive line is getting pushed around like a bunch of rag dolls. And that much vaunted D Line of Coleman, Jali, Kaufusi, King, Moala, Payne and Tipoti has two sacks – TWO SACKS! – between them in five games. I think the lack of a defensive pass rush is the number one reason that Cal is sitting at 1-4. The atrocious third down conversion rate that the defense is allowing is directly attributable to a lack of real defensive pressure on the quarterback.
The assumption is that Tedford teams are always loaded with talent because so many of his players are on NFL rosters. I’m asking, is there a lot of talent on this team?
October 1st, 2012 at 8:22 am
Steve, I think the team Tedford has chosen to field is indeed the worst in his era. Unfortunately, I think there’s plenty of talent on the team overall, and I hope we’ll finally get to see that next year with somebody else at the helm. Someone had mentioned crowdsourcing as a possible way to raise funds for a buyout. I think it’s a great idea. Embarrassing for JT, but he doesn’t seem to have a problem embarrassing himself every week anyway. I am poor, but I think $100 contribution would be worth it. Cheaper than a mental health visit, and with a far better result.
October 1st, 2012 at 9:04 am
Steve W- given that all the pre season polls had Cal in the middle of the conference, at best, I do not find it very surprising that this year’s team has some serious and glaring weaknesses.
October 1st, 2012 at 9:36 am
Steve, you’re right. (Other than ka) the only jr/sr with a shot at getting drafted mid to late rounds is steve williams.
first time in years we haven’t had a rb jr/sr rb who isn’t going to get drafted. what a great run vereen, best, forsett, lynch, ????played for cardinals…
October 1st, 2012 at 9:40 am
Steve W, I think that’s a fair point.
But – if we think about the future this is going to be the norm now. Remember Tosh left. If you’ve been paying attention to this year’s recruiting class we’ve swung and missed on all the local stars. Currently Cal’s recruiting class is ranked in the 40s (I believe). A lot of time left of course. But we lost our star recruiter.
So if Tedford can’t figure something out to get around the average talent (get Mike Riley on the phone) then what we’re seeing every week is what we’ll see next year.
But you are right that the talent on the field isn’t up there with the best years, the Rodgers teams. Other than Keenan there isn’t anyone on this roster that looks like a starter in the NFL. Not yet anyway. I think Scarlett has a lot of promise. I think another solid year from McCain and he’ll be a top pick. He is a physical beast, and plays fast and with heart.
While this season has been very dissapointing so far – Chris McCain has been the guy on defense I feel has represented our university very very well. The linebacking core got rocked with the Wilkerson loss, and with Whiteside, and McCain has become a leader.
October 1st, 2012 at 9:40 am
Wehofx – JJ Arrington.
October 1st, 2012 at 10:08 am
707 how was/ is that Revenge show? You recommend it? I’m looking for new TV stuff to watch.
October 1st, 2012 at 10:21 am
#179 – Juancho
Try the Walking Dead on AMC.
Come to think of it. Just come to CMS for your next home game and watch your HC.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
October 1st, 2012 at 10:24 am
Pat – I don’t think I get AMC anymore. I believe Comcast removed it from their lineup, or I may be wrong.
Pat, also you might as well take it down a notch. Nobody on here disagrees with you anymore. You’re wasting your time and energy.
October 1st, 2012 at 11:03 am
Pat at #180 -
Are you related to Sandy Barbour? Or are you actually Sandy Barbour?
October 1st, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Moron you are real close to crossing the point of no return. “Daddy” is already tired of being the sire to a loser and college drop out but you’re really making him mad by your constant criticism of his beloved Bears. Keep it up and you’ll be totally out of the picture. Isn’t it embarassing enough for you to have been passed over in favor of your younger and smarter sibling?
October 1st, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Hey Losers
Read my post #170 and then read this. Do you doubt me now?
http://www.bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64053
October 1st, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Easy Ed, unless you’re writing a paper on why abortion should remain legalized, there’s no point in engaging with Moren.
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:20 am
You’re right Will but the Moron is such low hanging fruit. BTW Moron, as much as I hate to admit it, thanks for the link to Bear Insider, very interesting reading.