Comments on: Basketball: Marcus Lee picks Kentucky

By: SteveNTexas

SteveNTexas — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:11:26 +0000

Jauncho sorry just saw your post and have been in Houston campaigning.

Of course I’m disappointed about Lee- Even though Kentucky backed down on continuing the home and home series with Indiana they are still competitors -so it stings double.

I give Monty some credit for coming in second for Lee If he can be in the hunt for top recruits I am happy- as long as we get some.

What made me critical is for a couple of years we were at or near the bottom of the conf in recruiting.

By: BlueNGold

BlueNGold — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:56:05 +0000

These memories make for great Big Game week reading. Too bad this thread was not posted in the ‘football’ section so more people could add their stories.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:58:33 +0000

One more amusing memory. In 1993, I was on RallyComm to get free tickets. Against (I think) Washington State, PowerBar had us give away 20,000 bars, but only 16,000 people showed up. So we had boxes and boxes of PowerBars left over. The Cal women’s tennis team showed up, batted their eyes, and kindly asked if I had help them out by giving them a box or 20. How could I say no?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:56:39 +0000

1992 – 10 year Play anniversary, and Mark Bingham destroyed the Tree at half time. Mega slingshots were launching the oranges and bananas at the bands. Yes, we lost, but as a freshman it was freakin awesome to watch.

By: BlueNGold

BlueNGold — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:15:23 +0000

Oh I forgot to mention my freshman year when some rally committee types did a stealth mission down to the furd farm and stole the axe from its display case. It remained hidden until the BG bonfire rally at the Greek where it was displayed to a delirious crowd.

By: BlueNGold

BlueNGold — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:10:31 +0000

I can recall going to a lot of games as a kid, including the BG, and then during my Cal years and afterwards. As a kid, it was an impressive and somewhat overwhelming spectacle, and I do recall going to the old furd stadium and huge crowds would swarm the field after the game and tear down the wooden goal posts. During college it was the whole package of getting big groups together to walk up to CMS or travel down to the farm together. I had good friends from home who were furdies and that added a lot to the rivalry aspect. Of course there was a lot of drinking, and I also have fond memories of some students bringing laboratory tubing into the game and using it to launch water balloons at the dreaded furd band and yell leaders.
The best memory from the post college years has to be The Play, even though I was sitting in the northeast corner and was not able to see the TD very well(due to the stupid furd band!)There have been a lot of ups and downs with Cal through those years, and the down years are still painful to recall, so I try not to remember the BGs during those times.

By: clonedoc

clonedoc — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:50:08 +0000

Blakestreet,

Although there were several years when students would jump out of the stands to go after the tree, you may very well be referring to 1994, my senior year. We drove to Stanford Stadium to watch that awesome spectacle of the tree getting it’s ass kicked, won the game as well which I think ended a Big Game losing streak for us, and to top it all off we all rushed their field after the win and started tearing up grass from the end zone. I had some colored turf in a plastic cup from that day which I kept on my shelf until graduation the end of that year. GOOD TIMES!

By: Juancho

Juancho — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:07:09 +0000

Daredevil rest assured i was hammered that day freshman year. Most of that year actually.

By: BlakeStreetBear

BlakeStreetBear — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:01:52 +0000

I remember, not sure when, maybe 1994, when a couple of students sprinted from the student section and absolutely destroyed the tree mascot during a tv timeout. They beat him up bad and the whole “costume” was destroyed too. I hate that “tree”, I hate its annoying bouncy eyes, I hate its weird acid-trip “dance”, I hate it hate it hate it. I would love to see a repeat of that on Saturday…

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:48:55 +0000

My best big game memory was finally seeing the stadium full. We absolutely sucked when i was there, so it was a big deal to finally see some bodies in there.