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Football: Oregon State game thread
By Jeff Faraudo
Saturday, November 17th, 2012 at 6:21 pm in Football, Gameday.
FINAL: Oregon State 62, Cal 14. Here’s what you’re waiting to hear: Athletic director Sandy Barbour had no announcement immediately after the game regarding the future of coach Jeff Tedford.
“Now that the season is over, Jeff and I will get to work tomorrow on what the solutions are for us to get better. We will start the conversation . . . to what the answers are, what the solutions are to put us on the right path to being a better football program.”
Pressed on when she might have a decision, Barbour merely repeated those words several more times. If she has made up her mind, she wasn’t saying so Saturday night.
Tedford, asked about the game in his postgame session, said, “Not very good. It’s not something we’re not used to. It’s obvious we have work to do. I will say this about these kids – these are good kids. Through tough times they’ve kept it together and I appreciate that.
“It’s absolutely not something we’re used to and don’t ever want to get used to.”
Asked if he expects to be back next year, Tedford said, “I don’t know. My job is to develop players. We have work to do. We’ll go back to work tomorrow and get ready to get going.”
Asked he if thought his players finally cashed it in Saturday when the score got out of hand, he added, “You didn’t see that in their eyes. We’ve got a lot of guys banged up. Oregon State was hitting on all cylinders. We had way too many penalties (15-172 yards) and turnovers (4). I really don’t believe it’s a lack of effort. I don’t think they ever quit. They just were outmatched tonight.”
THE NUMBERS: Cal finished 3-9 overall, 2-7 in the Pac-12. It was just the seventh time in the Bears’ 130-year football history they lost as many as nine games in a season.
It also marked the first time in 28 years they lost the final five games of the season. The combined margin in those five: 212 points to 74.
Cal had not surrendered 50 points in back-to-back games since 1973.
A pair of East Bay products delivered for OSU against the Bears. Quarterback Sean Mannion, formerly of Foothill HS in Pleasanton, finished 24 for 34 for 325 yards and four touchdowns. Sophomore tailback Terron Ward, an Antioch native who prepped at De La Salle HS, ran for 128 yards and two TDs.
Cal junior quarterback Allan Bridgford, starting in place of injured senior Zach Maynard for the second straight game, was 18 for 31 for 132 yards with an interception. He scored his first career touchdown on a 1-yard sneak.
“He needs some more experience,” Tedford said. “He kept plugging away in there, always was attentive to what was going on. He made some good throws and did what he could.”
HALFTIME: OSU 35, Cal 7. Mannion is 18 for 24 for 239 yards with TD passes to four different receivers. Total yards: OSU 333, Cal 202. Sofele has 15 carries for 63 yards. Bridgford is 11 for 21 for 94 yards with an INT. Cal has six personal fouls and three turnovers in the half. Some sort of record, don’t you think?
7:13 2nd Q: This is quickly getting out of hand. Mannion throws his third TD of the night, a 14-yarder to Connor Hamlett, and the Beavers lead 28-7. A six-play, 69-yard drive. Mannion is 13 for 17 for 203 yards.
10:56 2nd Q: At exactly the same moment Stanford kicks a game-winning FG to upset No. 1 Oregon, Mannion throws a 48-yard TD pass to Brandon Cooks and OSU leads 21-7. Big cheer for Cooks’ TD. Bigger cheer moments later when the crowd learns that the Ducks lost.
END OF 1ST Q: Cal had 132 total yards in the quarter, 88 rushing, 44 passing. OSU had 156, with 106 passing, 50 rushing. Cal had 44 yards in penalties.
4:34 1st Q: Tyler Anderson scores on a 1-yard plunge and OSU leads 14-7. Beavers go 68 yards in five plays, including a 38-yard run by Storm Woods. OSU leads 14-7.
6:30 1st Q: Isi Sofele scores his 15th career TD, running 9 yards to tie the score. Sofele had two runs totaling 30 yards to cap the nine-play, 82-yard drive — one of their best possessions of the season. It’s 7-7.
7:10 1st Q: Senior RB C.J. Anderson, after runs of 11 and 5 yards, shaken up. Looks to be OK.
9:10 1st Q: Mannion throws an 11-yard TD pass to Markus Wheaton, capping five-play, 44-yard drive. OSU leads 7-0.
10:35 1st Q: The Bears giveth back. Allen Bridgford picked off by safety Jordan Poyer, who returns it 4 yards to the Cal 44. Poyer’s sixth INT of the season.
11:21 1st Q: Pleasanton’s Sean Mannion completes a 48-yard pass to Markus Wheaton on OSU’s first play of the game. Two plays later, Josh Hill intercepts a pass that went through the hands of Beavers TE Colby Prince. Cal starts at its own 23.
COIN TOSS: Oregon State wins toss and defers, so Cal will get the ball first. Senior OG Dominic Galas, who missed much of the season after tearing a pectoral muscle during summer workouts, then had an emergency appendectomy in Salt Lake City on Oct. 27, was among four team captains at midfield. And Galas is starting.
WEATHER: Been dry at Reser Stadium for the past hour or more. With kickoff looming, it’s beginning to rain.
INJURY UPDATE: Besides QB Zach Maynard (knee), WR Keenan Allen (knee) and OT Matt Summers-Gavin (knee), the Bears have several other surprise absences. OLB Brennan Scarlett (infection in right hand), DT Viliami Moala (concussion) and S Avery Sebastian (knee) did not make the trip.
WELCOME: We’re here at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Ore., as the Bears (3-8, 2-6 Pac-12) play their season finale against OSU (7-2, 5-2). Cool and windy, but it hasn’t rained in more than an hour and reports are it may be dry the rest of the evening. We’ll have more as we approach kickoff.
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November 17th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
I’m assuming JT is gone tomorrow – which could be a mistake on my part. If he is, let’s hope lame and $c beat ND or else – according to more than a few la sportswriters – lame is gone, too. According to la time’s plaschke, AD p haden’s first choice for hc is – surprise, surprise – c peterson.
If pku gets to bcs game, wouldn’t be surprised at all if chip goes to nfl this time. If chip bails, you know pk will make huge move to get c peterson.
The pressure is on sb big time$$$
Go Bears! Beat osu! Never quit!
November 17th, 2012 at 6:47 pm
hire Kiffin!
November 17th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Good evening wehofx.
Covina. You are. My arch …
November 17th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
another gametracker game. this PAC 12 network is off to a slow start.
November 17th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
On the radio a couple days ago jon wilner said he thinks chip kelly goes to the nfl this year. And oregons first choice… Chris Peterson
November 17th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Even an obscure after-thought like Jim Mora can instantly turn a program around and win his division (with a redshirt freshman QB!). Instantly! Sure, we beat the crap out of UCLA but they kept going and won when it mattered. With our new facilities, beautiful weather and world class academic reputation, there’s no reason why we can’t do the same next year (with a redshirt freshman QB!!!) with a new start at head coach. Stanford was instantly transformed with Harbaugh, same but to a lesser extent at UW with Sark. More of the same at ASU and U of A. So envious here it makes me sick. It’s our turn!!!!!
Sandy, do something really impressive and get this turned around by tomorrow night!!
November 17th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Please, please fire Tedford.
Hey Moren -
How did ucla’s dung taste?
November 17th, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Yeah, Roxy Bernstein is so right- Jeff Tedford is a winner and can absolutely turn this around.
35-7 at the half to OSU. Add the Beavers to the growing list of Conference teams that absolutely BLOW OUT Tedford’s Bears. Pathetic once again.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Moron is wimping out as usual after the Cheater$ lose. 4 conference losses for the Cheater$ that the Moron predicted as National Champs. What a cowardly LOSER.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Brutal.
Guess chip k isn’t going to nfl this year. I know this will piss off a lot of you but I was rooting for furd. Love the way they play on both sides of the ball. Fun game to watch.
Greg Romans?
November 17th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Oh brother…
This old bear is heading into hibernation.
See you all at the spring game.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
#9 Dan, count on moron making lame appearances using one of its multiple sn aliases.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
If Sandy doesn’t fire the loser tomorrow, she should be fired Monday morning. This program is just as bad as it was in 2001.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:37 pm
If Sandy B. doesn’t fire Tedford tomorrow, fire her then fire Tedford. Fire this overpaid fraud! Fire Tedmoe! The circle back to Holmoeville is now complete, 11 years in the making. And Stanford just beat the #2 ranked team in the land to add salt into the gaping Cal wounds. Fire Tedford. End the misery! Fire him on the plane ride home. Cal would be better with just about anyone coaching them now. This is a joke.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
I, too, was rooting for Stanford because I despise the arrogance of Chip Kelly. Stanford’s defense is the best I have seen in the conference since the 91 Washington team.
Just thinking……does anyone want to make the argument that a new Cal coach is going to inherit a bunch of talented players next year? Some skill players, yes. In the trenches, not so much.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
Has Tedford been fired at halftime??
Why wait. This is a dead man walking wearing a garbage baggie for a coat.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
I agree Woj. Sandy should come onto the sidelines and just fire him now. What a pathetic joke this team has become. I honestly think Tom Holmoe is a better coach than the Jeff Tedford of right now.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
I think the team is making the decision for Sandy. Its one thing to lose a lot of games. Its another thing completely to not even be in most of them. This is disgraceful.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
I hope Sandy B has made the call to Cal’s Athletic Department’s IT staff to do the following:
- Cancelling ‘JTedford’ on the mail and network servers, – Remove the former coach’s badge access to the high performance and stadium facilities
- ordering a couple of empty boxes to clean up JT’s office. The new coach is going to need that space
- having security ready post meeting tomorrow to supervise Tedford cleaning up his office. Cal wouldn’t want JT to 5 finger lift the Rose bowl trophies he won .. .oh that’s right, that’s never happened.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Can I have the # of Tedfraud’s agent. I want to know how I can get paid multi millions of $$ to stink at my job and then millions more to leave that job so someone else can have it?? Please post his agent’s # here so we all can benefit from such superb tomfoolery.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
6 personal fouls?? This team is beyond out of control, and Oregon State may pin a bigger loss on us this week than the Ducks last week. Please end this nightmare. Oh wait, we can still win the 2nd half.
November 17th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
Does it count as a moral victory if Cal ties the last 1 minute and 4 seconds of the game? What Tedfraud cliches is he going to lay on the fan base for this toilet of a game? Note to Tedfraud – your time is up, use any and all clinches tonight post game while you still can. The Athletic Director cannot wait to meet you Sunday morning.
November 17th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Just remembering the last time #1 and #2 lost in the same night. Isn’t it funny that, despite his monumental last second screwup, Kevin Riley showed a lot of promise and moxey before the guru started spending time with him. Then the downward spiral for his career began.
November 17th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
We can beat their 3rd sringers, I know we can!
November 17th, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Kind of fitting that it’s pouring rain up there because the captain is going down with the ship tonight.
November 17th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
A 43-17 win over the Pac 12 South Champs! Go Bears! Extend Tedford!
The ball isn’t round. It’s the only possible justification.
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Laughed myself a hernia (not really, but hard enough to hurt) watching Stanfurd beat Oregon in spite of several bad coaching decisions (going for the FG mid 4th Q, calling a TO with too much time left only to save Oregon clock, etc). Funny how quality OL and DL play can make a coach look good even when he makes mistakes.
Then, there was Cal v. OSu.
Sandy, realize not all of us are going to live forever, so the longer you keep Tedford around, the more Cal fans that will die without going to a Rose Bowl.
November 17th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Wow! They just laid down and died like dogs. No discipline, pride, guts. I gotta hear JT explain this one.
November 17th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
Cal’s getting clobbered and yet grease monkey is not blocking any posts . . .
Go figure.
November 17th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
That long TD run by OSU in the 3rd quarter reminded me of a Holmoe coached defense, bo effort and shoddy tackling. WTF! See you guys in the spring.
November 17th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
And Brandon Bigelow still with 1 run. Brilliant
November 17th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
A game this ugly, I would expect to see $C fans on this board. Oh wait… LOL
November 17th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
The lamestream media will wax nostalgic about Tedfraud being fired tomorrow. Remember he is the losingest coach in Cal history too. He is paid top 10 money – is the program Top 10, has it been in last 5 years? will it be again in our lifetimes with Tedfraud coaching it?
November 17th, 2012 at 10:47 pm
Has anyone texted the Cal AD Bobby Petrino’s # yet?
November 17th, 2012 at 10:48 pm
5 – 4 for the former #1 Trojans and Heisman hopeful. Ouch!
November 17th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Cal 2013 season tickets now on sale!! – Call 1-510-DOOR-MAT. If that line is busy, call 1-800-PATSY13
November 17th, 2012 at 11:03 pm
What time is Sandy Meeting Jeff tomorrow? I’m more anxiously awaiting that pending announcement that I was back waiting for the Rose Bowl announcement that Mack brown hijacked.
November 17th, 2012 at 11:10 pm
As I have said for 4 years, the most overpaid coach in the country. Just think about, he has flat out sucked for the past 3 years and was paid $6.9 mil. If he was the CEO of any public company performing as Cal has, this would be national news.
And now could be paid another $6.9 mil to go away. That’s almost $14 mil to be garbage for 3 years.
And who negotiated that contract.
This whole thing borders on criminal.
November 17th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
So this is worst loss?
November 17th, 2012 at 11:13 pm
They’re all the worst Eric. This is just the abysmal exclamation point on the Tedford era.
November 17th, 2012 at 11:16 pm
Did you all see the Tedford-Riley handshake at the end of the game? Tedford didn’t even look at Riley, barely acknowledged Riley. I know he’s probably spinning, but show some class, even in this bad a defeat. Good riddance.
November 17th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
Dan
I think that had more to do with Riley piling it on late in the 4th with some passes when they were already up 55-14. The screen pass for a TD happened with less than 3 min left in the game. Pretty classless if you ask me.
November 17th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Stay Golden- I hear you.
But, I never buy the “running it up” thing. In this case, we still had our starters in, they had their 2nd and 3rd stringers in. What is Riley supposed to do, decline the ball or take a knee? It’s not like they were airing it out, a la Spurrier at Florida. They were primarily running, we just suck and can’t stop anyone.
If I’m a 3rd stringer getting in late, I want a chance to show what I can do and score a TD if I can.
If we don’t like it, buck up on D and stop them.
Again, Tedford maybe going out getting humiliated once again, and then showing no class or respect for Riley.
November 17th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Fire Tedford. We are back in Holmoeville. Where are Tedfraud backers tonight?? Please offer us up some meaningless platitudes and cliches about Tedford having take nthe program from the depths of Holmoe. Well he’s come full circle. Cal is an undisciplined doormat joke of a football team that gets routed weekly or is that meekly. Oh who cares, just can Tedfraud and get a real coach in here pronto.
November 18th, 2012 at 12:01 am
We’ve got to get back to work tomorrow. THERE IS NO TOMORROW! WE ARE DONE WITH WORDS. I DON’T WANT A NICE/GOOD MAN AS OUR HEAD COACH. I WANT SOMEONE WHO ONLY CARES ABOUT WINNING, BUT IS AT LEAST SMART ENOUGH TO DO IT LEGALLY. SOMEONE WHO WILL PUT THE BEST KIDS ON THE FIELD, WILL BE ARROGANT WITH SWAGGER. I WANT A ROSE BOWL. SO I WANT TEDFORD GONE TOMORROW. YOU EITHER ACT LIKE YOU ARE ONE OF THE BEST UNIVERSITIES, OR YOU BASICALLY ARE TELLING THE WORLD YOU ARE NOT.
November 18th, 2012 at 1:59 am
I went to go watch the abraham lincoln movie instead of the cal game. Just finished watching the dvr.
I believe tedford is coming back. Bc we are a passive fan base and have a lot of other interests. Very important interests like professions families and community invilvement.
The more i gear sandys “weve got to talk to figure out the plan” message the more i think of how thats a plattitude a lot of us have used in the professional world to buy time.
I sadly think shes buying time. We’ll go back to our busy lives. The spotlight will move on. And tedford will be back.
This wouldnt happen in the sec. But were not an sec school. If this kind of thing would happen anywhere its at cal.
Where you keep ben braun year after year.
Where you let your best recruiter leave over peanuts.
Where you throw a star player under the bus and remove names from jerseys.
Where players graduate at the lowest rate in conference.
Where you cut rugby and baseball.
Where top dog is cash only.
Where we didnt even wear the joe roth jerseys this year.
November 18th, 2012 at 2:10 am
1. The lincoln movie is great
2. In president trivia. Did you know barack obamas grandma (that raised him) went to Cal.
3. Sandy Barbours email athletic.director@berkeley.edu
4. Tedfords snub of riley shows hes coming back and hes already talked to sandy. Thats why sandy keeps saying her AND tedford need to work to figure it out.
November 18th, 2012 at 2:23 am
I cant stop analyzing tedfords comment from the post game press conference. “My job is to develop players”.
Anyone ever remember him saying that? I dont. His talk has been about being a ceo and winning. I thought it was weird.
Maybe its a message Sandy told him to use. Deceloping players means time. As in i need more time to develop kline and bigelow.
Develop players opposed to develop young men since our graduation rate sucks.
I just thought it was a weird comment.
November 18th, 2012 at 2:25 am
If Tedfraud is brought back today and the AD and Tedford are not fired for that idiotic decision I pledge to not watch a single minute of putrid Cal 2013 football on TV as my protest. I’ve already wasted 5 years of my football passion on that overpaid ignorant stuborn dolt named Tedford and I’ll choose not to waste part of 1 more season on him or his lousy stupid team.
November 18th, 2012 at 6:21 am
My guess is that a few years from now someone is going to talk about why this thing unraveled from 2007 to now and when they do, we’ll all shake our heads and say, “Wow! That makes sense!” Something is very wrong in Berkeley and I’m afraid the fish rots from the head down.
November 18th, 2012 at 7:20 am
A tough, tough season for all of us. Lost of warranted criticism of Tedford and his staff above. I too have a DVR like many of you and at the end of the day, in all of the years of playing and coaching this sport like many of you, it boils down to playing as cohesive units on both sides of the ball and on special teams. Long story short, the pundits were spot on with us this year: a 4th / 5th place finish in the PAC 12 North. The winds of catastrophe kind of all came together when the unknowns became knows and the end product not only lost but lost ugly:
1. Maynard did not progress much from his first year. Many can argue that he regressed when you throw in the variable of already having live experience with the first unit.
2. The O-Line was simply atrocious. As stated before, Barry Sanders would have a hard time running behind that line. Poor Isi and CJ.
3. Our tight ends and receivers other than Keenan were non-existent in many games. Harper came on in the end, but Harris and Powe fell short. So much for not playing freshmen. Was this a shortcoming or simply the effect of poor O-Line and / or QB play or all of the above? I pick the latter.
4. D-Line was inconsistent at best. Got pushed around by the better teams and as the season wore on was decimated by injury.
5. Linebacker core is literally all sophomore and freshmen with the exception of 1 or 2. Again, injuries were not kind to this group.
6. Secondary is where we really looked awful in my view. How many blown coverages did we see this year? As per the rest, was it due to a lack of pass rush, passive blitz scheme and / or all of the above? Again, I pick the latter.
7. Special Teams: Our punt team was poor and our punt return team is spotty at best with such a dangerous returner as Allen.
8. Coaching:I Read Wilner’s article and went back to read some of the preview articles and they are all spot on. Tedford is the guy in charge. His name is on the product and if it means that he is gone, then so be it. At the end of the day, in hindsight, I nor anyone else should be surprised. We were pretty much par for the course this year.
With that said, whatever the AD does, GO BEARS! BEAT OUR NEXT OPPONENT WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE! I’M GETTING OLD AND I AM NOT MISSING ANY FOOTBALL GAMES BECAUSE I NEVER KNOW WHICH IS GOING TO BE MY LAST AND AT 49 YEARS OLD, I HAVE A LITTLE WISDOM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS ONLY FOOTBALL, NOT CANCER, HURRICANE ANDREW OR USC LOSING 4 GAMES AFTER BEING RANKED #1. HA!
November 18th, 2012 at 7:57 am
Just disgusted with that game, and I didn’t even watch it. Juancho, I totally agree with your analysis on “developing players”….The spin has already started. I will say this, if he is not fired, I refuse to watch another game until he is gone. My mother in law, has already vowed to not renew her season tix she has had for 30 years……I am very anxious today, feels like xmas already and I can’t wait to hear he is gone….HOPEFULLY.
November 18th, 2012 at 8:09 am
Turned off the Cal game and saw Oregon give away a national title to the pukes instead. Oh well. At least Cal basketball is undefeated.
November 18th, 2012 at 9:04 am
It’s just pitiful. Letting him finish the season without telling him he’s gone, in hindsight, was even worse than making an announcement and letting him finish the season with dignity.
November 18th, 2012 at 9:20 am
OK OK I will return to take my lumps.
Yes. I was wrong.
I predicted that UC East Bay would be 6-6 at best this year and 4-7 at the worst. I was wrong! Never did I think Oregon State would paint 60+ on your pathetic defense. If I recall correctly the last time that was done was when we beat you 61-0.
Your program has now reverted back to the sewer of the Pac 12. What a laughable joke you have become. Some of your fans are now wishing Ay-Boob was your QB. That maybe the solution too.
I hear he throws a pretty good paper airplane.
I am done with you guys for the year. Oh I may jump in once and awhile but why? I get enough laughs thinking how hard it must be for Sherm. After Teddy gets canned, his Social Welfare hold on football players is just about ending. The only thing he will be clustering is his band memories.
November 18th, 2012 at 9:26 am
Assuming Tedford’s gone why not replace him with Tosh?
So what if he’s never been a head coach. Tedford wasn’t when he was hired. Tosh is the best recruiter in college football. The players love him. Obviously, he knows Cal inside & out. He’s young.
All you Tosh haters need to grow up. If somebody tripled your pay and gave you a promotion you wouldn’t go? Barbour & Tedford should have anticipated that someone would come after him and should have made a pro-active move. Instead, they relied on his “loyalty”. Well, Washington’s a good school & that kind of money talks.
November 18th, 2012 at 9:38 am
Tosh is a cheat. Having linemen fake injuries. No way JT called for that. He was just sore about JT publicly humiliating him. His moral compass changes with the wind. He would be a disaster, and unless you want to pay his salary, he won’t be even considered. The donors want none of that on our staff.
November 18th, 2012 at 9:44 am
stay golden Says:
November 17th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
Dan
I think that had more to do with Riley piling it on late in the 4th with some passes when they were already up 55-14. The screen pass for a TD happened with less than 3 min left in the game. Pretty classless if you ask me.
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It’s your job to stop them. There has been only one team in the Pac10 which has consistently called off the dogs and that is USC. Carroll never ran it up and neither did Coach McKay or Robinson.
The fact that we beat you guys 61-0 a few years back was with mostly walk ons playing.
Coach McKay said the game against UC East Bay was the best time to rest all of his first string guys. LOL.
You guys are right back to those days again.
November 18th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Tennessee fired their coach after 3 pitiful seasons. Nice to see accountability occur elsewhere. Has Tedfraud been fired yet?? He’s on 5 crappy seasons in a row. Bring accountability to Cal’s athletic department. Tedfraud = Ben Braun longevity + fistful of unearned $$
November 18th, 2012 at 10:04 am
Really? Pete the Cheat never ran it up? You want to go with that Moron?
2001: $UC 55, Cal 14. Third quarter fake punt against a team with no wins and a head coach who had just resigned. As usual, Pete the Cheat was all class.
If stupidity were worth money, you could afford half of the salaries paid to $UC players. Now go back to deflating footballs.
November 18th, 2012 at 10:20 am
http://denver.sbnation.com/colorado-ncaaf/2012/11/18/3661888/jeff-tedford-fired-cal-football-colorado
Just saw a Denver article about JT, if he is let go, maybe going to Colorado to Offensive Coordinator. They better alert the printer to stock up on paper for the new over-sized playbook. And they better make room on their roster for 85,239 QBs.
November 18th, 2012 at 10:21 am
Preseason #1 taem in hte country playing in Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl? FIGHT ON! LOL
November 18th, 2012 at 10:25 am
@Moron/Adam Morrison:
Start the crying because you’re getting slapped (again). You realize that U$C’s fall from consensus #1 at the start of the season to not ranked at all may be the greatest collapse in the last 20 years? Far worse than Cal in 2007 (given that Cal started the season outside the top 15).
The only thing that could possibly redeem U$C’s terrible season is beating ND.
November 18th, 2012 at 11:01 am
I’d leave for the year too after claiming that this site is for losers, yet you repeatedly post on it. Funnier yet, claiming that your school would win the national championship and the Heisman and is currently at four losses and whose QB will get as many Heisman votes as our QB. Too funny and well, stooopid….
November 18th, 2012 at 11:02 am
WILLIE TAGGART WILLIE TAGGART WILLIE TAGGART!
OR
MIKE MaCINTYRE MIKE MaCINTYRE MIKE MaCINTYRE!
NOW PLEASE!
November 18th, 2012 at 11:14 am
#60 Daredevil, interesting. I harbor no ill will towards jt. I was one of the last ones to quit drinking the kool aide and jump off the bandwagon. He did accomplish a lot and he can be proud of leaving behind the hpc and cms reno but his time at Cal better be/let’s hope/is over.
Before I read that post, I was thinking jt could do a Dirk Koetter and go to the nfl. His massive playbook could work in the nfl. oc (vs hc) might be his natural/best position like dk. Believe it or not, dk is a hot hc prospect again for UK and a number of the nfl hc jobs sure to be open soon.
November 18th, 2012 at 11:18 am
…and in today’s la times lame k was pilloried for being dour, distant and low energy on the side lines. Sound familiar?
$c ad also said – much to the chagrin of most alumni – he will come back next year.
November 18th, 2012 at 11:48 am
Has Tedford been fired yet? No? I’ll check back later.
November 18th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Absolutely LOVE the idea of MIKE MaCINTYRE coming to CAL. The guy can obviously coach and develope QB’s. What he has done at SJSU is one of the most phenomenal coaching jobs I have ever seen. Imagine what he could do at CAL…….
November 18th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
that’s what people thought about JT in 2004. are you sure it’s not just a great qb making him look good? seemed so watching the game last night, but i’ve only seen one of their games so far. he’d be cheap though.
November 18th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
+1 for coach mcintyre
November 18th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
You know I like Bear INsider so much more than this board because the posters over there don’t make excuses when the team loses 62-14. Now even that has changed. They are actually championing the same empty excuses as many of you have previously done.
However I am thinking to post over there rather than here because at least they know when there are good topics. Over the past 3 months I have had a handful of posts which have been some of the highest viewed. I dare the fat man to get me banned over there. When I attempted to have blocked a couple of posters gone wild I was told that if people were blocked for posting negative things 95% of the posters would be blocked. HAHAHAHAHAHA
What a bunch of losers.
November 18th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Anyone know how much buying out McIntyre’s contract is? Signed through 2017:
http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/San-Jose-State-s-MacIntyre-gets-new-contract-2711984.php
November 18th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
JF tweeted:
“Word is Cal fb to hold team mtg Sunday at 5 pm. Figure perhaps Jeff Tedford situation may have some resolution by then. Stay tuned.”
November 18th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
@71 – no, you mostly definitely will not leave here. You enjoy it to much. You have threatened it so many times, but never carry out on it. So, another nickname:
The baby who cried wolf.
November 18th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
According to Ryan Gorcey, it’s a regular end-of-season team meeting that has been scheduled for quite some time now. Maybe we will hear something by then but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Btw a whole lot of different mood in South Bend where I go to school now.
November 18th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
I predicted that UCLA would be a surprise against the sleazy cheaters. I was right. I’m predicting an ND beatdown of the Toesucks next weekend. If I am right (again) we all will know who the real LOSER on this blog is, including loser troll itself.
November 18th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
#71
12:43am
So sad
Your posts are sounding more and more like a cry for help.
Is it because Hostess is shutting down business?
November 18th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Remember this? MoreNCsarecoming Says:
September 16th, 2012 at 10:02 am
“We still very much have a chance for the conference championship and the NC. We are SC!”
And the results of that prediction? “We are not even in the top 25 anymore.” Say good night, SC. Moron, go take comfort with your friends — oh wait, that’s right. Never mind.
November 18th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
#78 And there he is! Hi Sherm.
I know you tried to block me over at Bear Insider. LOL.
Two posts from you the entire year just about fits the cowardly way you handle a losing season.
Thanks for the huge part you played in those deplorable APR rates for UC East Bay players. I guess you can always blame the Food Appreciation course for taking away some of the clustering in your program. They give out ‘F’s unlike your department. HAHAHAHAHA
Go ahead and get me blocked over at Bear Insider.
November 18th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Gee — I thought moron was leaving.
It must be fun posting on BI when you have to totally neuter yourself and hide your identity — assuming of course you are there at all. In the same post you said you were going there, you said you were leaving here.
Lawyers are supposed to be honest and always.. oh wait. That’s right. Nevermind.
November 18th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Hey Cheeto Kid, how about a nice 8 clap, U-C-L-A!
November 18th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Hey Sherm.
Neutering oneself comes from you with first hand knowledge? LOL.
The last time I checked you set the record for hiding one’s identity over at SF Gate. And if lawyers are supposed to be honest then Social Welfare Advisors are supposed to be kind to students especially female, not racist and physically threatening.
We all know how untrue that one is.
November 18th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Grease Monkey
Peter King just said Chip Kelly is at the top of the list for nfl teams looking for new hc.
If p knight can’t get c peterson, I wonder which rock star hc they’re going to target?
C’mon Sandy, pressure is on.
November 18th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
You know what worries me. The thought wassu will fire the pirate leach and bring in petrino.
November 18th, 2012 at 5:31 pm
We need to make an announcement today and talk to Petrino and Peterson ASAP!
November 18th, 2012 at 5:32 pm
From our very own:
https://twitter.com/CalBearsBANG/status/270333386692898816
The team meeting got pushed back until Monday. Ugh. The waiting and the uncertainty..
November 18th, 2012 at 6:17 pm
The meeting being pushed back until Monday is BS. Just shows cluelessness isn’t owned only by the HC, but also the AD. Big surprise, huh?
November 18th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Good thing Barbour and Tedford are employed as public employees. This level of incompetence and delays and ridiculous financial liability signed off on by Barbour in 2007 would get both fired in the private sector.
November 18th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Woj is right. This level of incompetence from both would NEVER be tolerated in the private sector. Where’s 60 Minutes?
November 18th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
PS – Tick tock, tick tock Cal management.
This whole thing is already Ben Braun 2.0. Apparently, Cal didn’t learn one single thing from that. Cal is sliding as we speak, every single minute matters. Tick tock, tick tock.
November 18th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
I think it’s likely that they’re finalizing the terms of a settlement. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, Tedford is toast tomorrow.
November 18th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Tedford’s final comment says it all. His job is not “to develop players”, it is to win football games!! Fire Tedford and hire a coach who knows what his job is. Just win baby!!
November 18th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
sandy was about to fire him and ted pulled out a blackmail card.
November 18th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
What if the delay is bc tedford is back and they need to meet with the assistants who will be fired tomorrow before mtg with the team.
November 18th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Moren-
You’re not answering the question. How did UCLA’s a$$ taste? Beat Stanfurd and then come post on this site, dummy.
November 18th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Bye Bye Moren! Brilliant move Barkley to come back for your senior year. Just like Leinart. What is it about USC QB’s who peak at their junior year but insist on coming back. For what? No BCS bowl game. No ranking. Nada.
November 18th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
This is utter nonsense! In the private sector the dead man walking doesn’t get to meet with his secretary, hang out in the office another day surfing the Internet, pal around with his coffee buddy, check the fantasy football friends seen in the cafeteria, and certainly not embark on the ‘next’ project not visit with the other people on the firing line, etc. In the private sector, the day you are let go is not filled with delays or indecision. The decision is already made and the terminated employee has a suprise meeting show up on the calendar, meeting happens soon after, a terse 1-sided chat ensues and 15 minutes later you are handed a packet with ‘call this # if you have questions’ and a financial statement of what you can expect as far as checks in the mail. Why on Earth did this not happen today with Tedfraud?? Answer – Because his ‘boss’ is his friend and pal and she wants to be his friend instead of rack up wins for Cal football. I;m convinced Barbour is a public union lackey who listens more to Adam Duritz versus negotiating effective contracts and certainly cannot dole out accountability to her direct reports, in this case = a Failed Football coach for last 5 years called Jeff Tedmoe. Stop the madness, terminate him and move on. And get Petrino’s and Petersen’s and McIntyre and Gruden’s #s tonight! Each second is precious. Cal has a 1 week lead on hiring a much better coach since a bunch of other schools are playing 1 more game. Cal’s only competition is Tennesse for a great new coach.
November 18th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Woj great post.
Agree with the sentiment that we need to get those guys on the phone first. Before other programs do. Adding in willie “beaman” taggart.
Your point about the private world is what worries me about this delay. I just worry that this is a sign hes coming back.
November 18th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
I’m just not buying any scenario where Tedford would fire most of his assistants and stay on as head coach. What kind of assistant coach would want to come to Tedford’s staff and get blamed for everything that goes wrong and ultimately get fired? The kind that just got fired in another program and desperately needs the job. If Tedford stays on, look for him to hire assistants from programs like Tennessee, Colorado, Kentucky and Auburn.
November 18th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
#92 SBear, couldn’t agree more. That one little snippet is an indication that Tedford is too decent of a person to be a great head coach. The PROGRAM is what is important. If the program succeeds, then a whole bunch of the players succeed and those who pay your salary get their moneys worth. There will always be a few kids who inadvertently get a raw deal. That’s called life. But for the most part kids will have a great experience and the success of the program will give them an opportunity to get to the next level. Focus on wins not development. The development is a foregone conclusion with time spent. Your job is to run a program that wins games. Period.
November 18th, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Only a moron would post that it is leaving for the year and then come back and post 4 more times on the same thread. Just shows what a total JUNKY this LOSER
really is. Doesn’t pastor ricardo have a detox program? If he does you should be running to enroll.
So Barkey won’t be playing against ND. Ready for another beat down, LOSER?
November 18th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
#100, Tedford already did the fire the assistants thing in 2008 and we are even worse now.
Maybe Tedfoed should re-read his book, “Talent Is Never Enough”