I think kline runs the risk of being the biggest collateral damage in this flux. If tedford gets canned and we hire someone who wants to run a spread option like oregon then he doesnt fit.

And if tedford is playing the kline card with sandy and donors then kline needs to play and not burn another year on the bench.

If jt finishes 5-7 I’d say it’s 50%/50% because that means beating utes and u dub, or, utes and a osu/pku ie, top ten team. An iffy proposition at best. But like a like of you said, even with zk, treggs, harper, rodgers and bigs, recruiting for the coming year promises to be dismal.

If we go 4-8, then sb has no choice but to fire jt – because of the cms tix gun to her head – the day after the season ends. Just like d guerrero(sp) did with slick rick. It gives her a coupla weeks to hire new hc who can then put together a staff and get to recruiting through bowl season like mora did.

A coupla regulars mentioned how jt started going down hill when he hired dunbar in ’07 to oc, install some parts of the spread and call the plays. In retrospect that seems like the correct analysis/post mortem.

jt’s greatest successes were when he called the plays out of a pro set like $c, udub and furd now. Pro set was the base and out of it he threw in the unexpected wrinkle that fooled the D and delighted us Old Blues.

With dunbar and every oc after that the O became kinda pro set, kinda spread, kinda this’n that, kinda sh*t. It was neither fish nor fowl.

In hindsight, if I were jt’s agent, after 5-7 in’10, I would of told him to junk the “elements of the spread option” and start calling the plays again out of the pro set.

SteveW, sadly I agree with you. Also Palo Alto, Westwood and Berkeley are all the polar opposite of Boise in terms of life style and, especially, traffic.

longer he stays deeper the hole to dig out of …
money is not going to be the only concern

The bottom line is Cal is never going to be good, consistently good, let alone great under Tedford. That is obvious. So with that being the case, the decision should clear and swift. And if Cal has to eat MIILIONS of dollars of Tedford’s ridiculous contract, the person who put it together and offered that contract to him has to go to. It’s inexcusable and unforgivable.

Should be very interesting.

I think tedford should be fired. But i dont see i happening. Barbour gave him that ridiculous extension. So her firing him is her weakening her position in the administration. And if she fires him thats step 1 to her losing her job. Which i want.

At the baseball alumni game yesterday you couldnt pay someone to say something positive about sandy.

Sandy knows shes not in a strong position. Shell refuse firing tedford bc she knows that brings her end near. I know some people think shes done a good job. I dont. And montgomery will be tedford in a few years. This recruiting class could have helped him.