Comments on: Football: A busy NFL Sunday for Cal alums

By: Steve W

Steve W — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:47:41 +0000

Larry,

How about Kelly McGonigal? Great trivia knowledge. To think that a probable Rose Bowl season was tubed by that lack of depth at a key position. When Barr came back from injury that season, they were unbeatable again.

By: SteveNTexas

SteveNTexas — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:03:36 +0000

USC just sacked Basketball Coach O’Neill saying they wanted to do this at the start of the Pac 12 Season – perhaps they can right the ship but I hope not. They were only 2-2 in Conference but had just beaten UTAH by 17.

hmmmm…

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:16:46 +0000

Steve W,

Who took over for Barr…Was it Cary McGonigal? McConigal? Or something like that?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:47:23 +0000

Yep, just read about Hooper. He will play TE there. How can you blame him- being a TE at Stanford is about as good as it gets for a kid like Hooper. Great kid, a leader and a winner at DLS, I wish him the very best. He’ll get a truly world class education, play in a BCS game or two, and have a great shot to play in the NFL.

By: Juancho

Juancho — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:28:54 +0000

Hooper: http://247sports.com/Article/Austin-Hooper-talks-about-his-Stanford-commitment-position-111178

By: Juancho

Juancho — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:26:29 +0000

Cavil is a great student. We didn’t pull his offer. He got an offer from his dream school. Simple as that. For some of us Cal was our dream school, for him it was Oklahoma. Good for him.

He runs a 4.4 40 and is 6’5″. Would have been great at Cal. But realistically until Dykes and co. show some results on the field, Cal is in irrelevance land when it comes to BCS, and programs like Oklahoma and now unfortunately Stanford are on another level.

It sucked to read Austin Hooper’s comments on his commitment to Stanford. Essentially he said, there is no better combination of academics and football. Him being a bay area kid from the east bay made it worse. Back during the Aaron Rodgers years we were that school. But now Stanford has become the dominant program here in the Bay.

Let’s hope Sunny D fixes that pronto.

By: Steve W

Steve W — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:14:30 +0000

Nope. Barnes got the nod later. The backup guy to Barr is the reason that Cal has taken so many swoons when key guys have gone down. Thought of one more: Longshore goes down in 2007 after starting 5-0 and beating Tenessee and Oregon. Another probable Rose Bowl down the drain.

By: Nor-Cal Scott

Nor-Cal Scott — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:09:22 +0000

If I’m a WR I would want to play for Sonny Dyke’s offense.

I wonder what type of student Cavil is? With Dykes commitment to improve Cal’s academics this wouldn’t be the first time a new staff discouraged a player. And we all know every football player at OU passes their tough classes. Unlike Tubberville at Cincy who just yanked guys schollies and didn’t tell them.

By: covinared

covinared — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:36:43 +0000

Pat Barnes?

By: Steve W

Steve W — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:12:20 +0000

Cov,

Great comment on depth. Maybe Cal gets to the 2005 Rose Bowl if Chase Lyman doesn’t go down early in that pivotal game against SC. And maybe Cal goes to the Rose Bowl in 1993 if Dave Barr doesn’t go down with a shoulder injury after starting 5-0, including a win over Rose Bowl champion UCLA. Cal was putting a hurt on Washington and heading for 6-0 when Barr went down.

If anyone can remember the QB who took Barr’s place in that Washington game, he deserves consideration in the Cal trivia hall of fame.