Archive for Cal Football
The OC (Examining Frank Cignetti, Part I)
We’re inching towards kickoff–and by inching, I mean baseball season sucks. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be eyeing several key points of Cal’s 2008 season, culminating with the crucial quarterback battle. I’ll start by discussing our new offensive coordinator and what his playcalling and personality at Fresno State was like.
Frank Cignetti’s record [...]
Tedford Tournament of Champions: Cal 2002 vs. Cal 2005
As we discovered last week, Cal 2003 was no match for the offensive potency of Cal 2007 in the Whatifsports.com simulator. This team didn’t need much impetus in flatout overpowering its way to a sweep. This led us to our next match in the series, a showdown between the 2002 and 2005 teams. How would [...]
Dining in Hell: Cal-Michigan State Preview
Eight weeks to kickoff. A tantilizingly short eight weeks. Thankfully while we have a long and warm summer to bask in before we get there…oh wait, you mean this damned city is currently undergoing frigid fifty degree weather? That students are wearing sweaters instead of sundresses? That everyone is cold and implacable to one another [...]
Cal is Michigan is Cal
I don’t think Cal fans ever have to worry about Tedford leaving, regardless of the Monday Morning QB chatter. As far as I can tell, this might as well already be the Ann Arbor of the West. Plenty of hippie chatter, good public education, inferiority complex to football factory schools, unseasonably bizarro weather, etc. etc.
Not [...]
Tedford Tournament of Champions: Cal 2003 vs. Cal 2007
Time doesn’t allow us to do everything we want. But the Internet allows us to manipulate space and time and come with all sorts of fanciful solutions for that.
Whatifsports.com is one of the best and worst sites in the world. On one hand it’s a virtual goldmine for settling questions like “Would the 18-1 Patriots [...]
BREAKING: Cal Starting Quarterback Announced
Given all the buzz behind Nate Longshore and Kevin Riley, Jeff Tedford has made a surprise decision about who his quarterback will be at a special 9 am press conference early this morning.
“After much deliberation…
Which Tedford Team Was Your Favorite?
A simple question for every Blue and Gold fan out there. Which year produced your favorite Tedford team?
The 2002 team was the virgin experience. Kyle Boller, the beginning of Geoff MacArthur’s productive career, good offensive production.
The 2003 team struggled with what one might call a sophomore slump. Took Rodgers about half the season to find [...]
Faster Than Your Average Bear
With all signs still pointing towards Jahvid Best being fully recovered for next year, and it looking like the Bears will have at least one RB with gametime experience, I found myself asking “hey, how good is Jahvid Best anyway?” My general impression is “quite good.” But with only one truncated season to judge, its [...]
2008 Pac-10 Conference Odds
Doc Rivers as usual fouled up Game 3 by underusing Leon Powe (despite throttling Black Mamba here), so we’re not discussing the NBA today. Let’s move back to the pigskin.
Thanks to VegasWatch, we now have our Pac-10 championship odds.
USC
-300
ASU
+400
Oregon
+600
Cal
+800
UCLA
+800
Arizona
+2000
Washington
+2000
Stanford
+3000
Oregon St.
+5000
Washington St.
+5000
Well, that certainly isn’t terribly surprising. 2007 was a flux year [...]
How Cal Lost in The Rose Bowl, Part IV
Click to read Part I, Part II, and Part III of the Rose Bowl series.
And now, for the last part in our series, we move onto the crucial play, the Verner interception return.
Here Cal has Hawkins and Jackson lined up to the top, and two running backs, fullback lined up on the weak side (perhaps [...]
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