Archive for Archive for May, 2008

KC Cal’s Weekly Super Fantastic Happy Explosion Awesome Article: On Bloggins and Hearing From Nasty Nate

Yesterday, Avinash wrote a trite and insightful piece on his take about the Bissinger-Deadspin controversy. It is true that sometimes we like to mock and joke on our favorite team when they’re down in the dirt just a little. Yet at the same time, I also ask the question: is that so bad? Lately, there […]

Posted by: KC Cal on Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Outsmarting the Enemy (Three Fake Handoff, Cal at UCLA)

Last week we went over attacking the Cover 2 scheme, which is to look for the mismatch on the field (read where the safeties will bite to) and to attack where the safeties aren’t in a position to make a play on the ball or the receiver. Today’s post is a little more of a […]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

The Noodles at Cal (Wonderlic Scores)

(This is 90% Danzig, with some great data; my small contribution is the Analysis section after the scores and before the sources) I was catching up on my RSS feed yesterday and I came across a report that Mario Manningham of Michigan scored a ‘6’ on his Wonderlic IQ test. A fricking ‘6’?? I thought […]

Posted by: Danzig on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Preliminary Cal Football TV Schedule

This is getting updated as the times come along. All times are PST. Saturday, August 30: Michigan State at Cal, 5 PM ABC Saturday, November 8: Cal at USC, 5 PM ABC Saturday, December 6: Washington at Cal, option for ESPN/ESPN2/FSN Interesting that we draw the ABC slot opening week, considering neither Michigan State or […]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, May 5th, 2008

Can Cal Win State?

Does anyone else suspect that the Coach Taylor character on Friday Night Lights (awesome show, great job) is at least partially based on our beloved Coach Jeff Tedford? Consider the evidence: He’s a handsome, 40-something offensive mastermind, known as a quarterbacks guru, runs a pro-style offense with west coast elements, achieves early success as a […]

Posted by: Tony on Friday, May 2nd, 2008