Archive for Archive for October, 2008

Watching Cal-Arizona Online or At the Bars

Sorry I’m late with this guys, I was supposed to post it this morning and I didn’t notice until now that it apparently was posted for Sunday. That wouldn’t have been much help to anyone. Cal football meetups: View Larger Map Arizona football meetups (if you can’t get to the Cal football meetups): View Larger […]

Posted by: Avinash on Saturday, October 18th, 2008

The Bears are Roaring: Arizona Previews

The Bear Will Not Quit talks on Arizona’s spread offense “How do you defend against [archnemesis/former Texas Tech OC’s Sonny Dykes’s spread] offense? 1. You must limit yards after the catch. When this offense racks up 40+ points, it is due to big gains off short passes. Think of how the Patriots used Wes Welker […]

Posted by: Avinash on Friday, October 17th, 2008

My Contribution To the Infinite Regress

At 4-1 with seven fat Pac-10 games to go, Cal is once again ranked, once again in first place in the conference, and once again besot with a doubting fanbase wondering just how good (or bad) the team really is.  Why are we still wondering?  Because college football is epistemologically… well, complicated.  The future is […]

Posted by: Tony on Friday, October 17th, 2008

The Line: Cal -2 at Arizona

This opened at Pick’em, but some sportsbooks have moved the line up. I wasn’t terribly surprised with the line, given all the staistical indicators seem to point toward this game going either way. Why? Just look at Sagarin. Sagarian has these teams on equal footing this week. Although they have California ranked at #15 and Arizona […]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Is Nate Longshore A Better Quarterback Than A Machine?

(Started a thread about cardinal sins for Cal fans last night over at CGB. Come take a gander.) Lowell Cohn provides his bizarro logic as to why he rides the Nate Hate Train. I am not a Nate Longshore fan. I admit that. It’s nothing personal because he seems like a nice young man, polite, […]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Cal-Arizona Broadcasting Information

California Golden Bears at Arizona Wildcats Time: 7 PM Networks: CSN+ Bay Area (channel 400 something on Comcast for most of us in the Northern California/Bay Area, who knows what for everyone else), FSN Pacific, FSN Arizona, FS Northwest, FCS Pacific. All sorts of madness to try and figure out how to watch the game […]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Weekly Cognitive Bias: Regression to the Mean

Image above originally found here. This article (hattip via EDSBS) caught my eye this past weekend. One week after defensive end Greg Hardy dismantled Florida with his pass rushing ability, the talented junior seemed invisible during the Rebels’ 31-24 loss to South Carolina on Saturday. By the second half, Hardy was rarely on the field […]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Change, Change, Change Some More

After Rob Calonge gave this site massive props in putting us in the “Best Blogs” category with other worthy contenders and adding us to his Oski’s Favorites linkroll, it was time to return the favor. I wrote up an article in the SF Examiner discussing the divisive nature of Cal fans and the quarterback debate […]

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Week 7 Preliminary Blogpoll

Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama 1 2 Texas 3 3 Penn State 1 4 Oklahoma 3 5 Utah 3 6 Florida 5 7 Southern Cal 2 8 Oklahoma State 7 9 Brigham Young 1 10 Texas Tech 3 11 Missouri 8 12 LSU 6 13 Georgia 1 14 Ohio State 1 15 Boise State 1 […]

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Inside the Playbook: USC 28, Arizona State 0

After starting the season on a fairly upbeat note, the Arizona State offensive line has again crumbled into a jumbling mess, giving up ten sacks in its last three games and turning Rudy Carpenter into the Incredible Human Punching Bag. One has to wonder where exactly ASU’s pass protection is going for the second straight […]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, October 13th, 2008