Tedford put people in the seats for 10 years, and was part of making the Pac-10/12 attractive through the years when otherwise it looked like U$C and the nine dwarfs. He was fairly compensated for his financial impact.

It was time to make a change, including for the future financial impact.

That compares to 37,657 last year at AT&T, and 57,873 in 2010 (when Memorial Stadium had nearly 10,000 more seats). In 2001, Holmoe’s last year, average attendance was a pathetic 30,123. Say what you will about Tedford — much of it deserved — but he put fannies in the seats and raised tens of millions of dollars for Cal Athletics through ticket revenues and donations.

Where are you? C’mon, rejoice with us how great the Trojans were this year. 1st time in history a projected national champion finished out of the Top 25. Clobbered by UCLA in their must win rival game, then puked on themselves on the big stage aginst the #1 team in the country. Brilliant call to go fullback pass on 4th and goal. Barkley, not a sniff of an invitation to be at the Downtown Athletic Club for the Heisman presentation despite having arguably the two best WR’s in the country to throw to. Just going to get worse with all the whiny USC alumni start pointing fingers and the scholarship reductions kick in. 150% my ass – Haden hates Kiffin. At least we kicked the shit out of UCLA. Maybe you can switch teams to sniff jocks for since USC sucks. Go troll on Kent State. USC will play them in the Meinke Car Care Bowl.

Is it still “great to be a Trojan”? USC did even worse compared to expectations this season than Cal did and your man Kiffen is hanging by a thread to keep his job. But they will probably give him one more year and THEN he’ll be gone.

BTW, it’s Bridgford, not Bridgeford. And Longshore was a great QB until Tedford continued to play him when he obviously had a bad ankle. Riley should have played then, as he would have been very good then because that would have been before he got too much QB coaching from Tedford.

Kline would have been a great QB under Tedford because Kline has too much talent to ruin.

I agree that Cal needs to bring in a name, one that can inspire ticket sales. That means a big name among the up and comers (like Wilcox) that can be sold through advertising or a name that does it all on it’s own, like Petersen or Gruden. I think SJSU’s Mac is would be a good hire, but I think he is just about on the cut-line for name recognition. He’s known locally, but only by resume in a weak conference.

I’m dying to hear rumors of people contacted and/or interviewed.

If I’m jt’s agent, I tell him to absolutely positively take 1 year off. His mega hours clearly clouded his thinking to the point that some of his decisions – zm’s 1 quarter suspension fiasco – the play calling and his answers to the press – big’s carries – bordered on the delusional. If jt can do a brutally honest post mortem on his failures, I can see him making a “retread” come back like dirk koetter.