Archive for Coaching
The OC (Frank Cignetti at Fresno State, Part II)
After about a month’s break since publishing Part I of the series, we’re going to dive back into the basic tenets of what we can expect from our new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti. You’re getting all the nice political answers from Frank at Ted Miller’s blog, but here we’re going to dive into the trenches [...]
Them Shores Be Long: Pac-10 Quarterback Analysis, Part I
Part-time BN contributor Danzig wrote a killer post on CGB discussing the merits and demerits of Nate Longshore. There are a few parts I want to analyze and some other issues I’d like to expand upon, as I look across the state of Pac-10 QBs this week going into 2008.
Passing efficiency:
Also notice that versus certain [...]
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 [...]
Should College Athletes be Booed?
So I’m staring at pictures of 3-4 defenses, trying to dissect what exactly to expect from next year’s defensive them, when Hydrotech comes along and troutslaps me with these nuggets from the San Francisco meeting.
*Tedford emphasized that no player on the team should ever get booed. The players are giving their best and have [...]
No Stars, Better Team?
As spring moves along, we get the usual, upbeat note, after a season relegated to the Dark Ages.
Sure enough, senior linebacker Zack Follett said he first noticed an uptick in the team’s mood even before spring ball.
“Right when we hit the weight room,” he said.
But this good vibe seems to transcend what happened last year, [...]
Cal Sports Weekend Links
As much as I’d like to, I can’t report on everything…and for some reason, my auto del.icio.us weekly responder didn’t report the links I compiled last week. So here are spring links on Cal from a week ago.
Mad Dog Blog - Mike Montgomery to Cal Berkeley!
Mark Madsen has some preliminary thoughts.
to mikemontgomery markmadsen californiagoldenbears [...]
Tha1 Plays Decoy (Robert Jordan TD versus TN)
This weekend I went about twelve rounds with Hydrotech from the California Golden Blogs over my playcalling posts (Part I & Part II of his ripostes are here). We both had errors in our logic (I think I said USC was in a 5-2 when it was clearly a 4-2 on the Forsett TD, he [...]
Repetition Is Bad (3rd and Goal vs USC)
(It wasn’t planned for me to diagram gamefilm about Montgomery the day after he decided to transfer. So consider this summary an unintentional coincidence.)
Now, some of you might think that I was too complimentary toward Tedford in this week’s earlier gamefilm summary. Well, for every good call, there is a bad call, and there was [...]
Doing What You Least Expect (Forsett’s TD vs. USC)
Tedford didn’t have too many great moments of playcalling this year (that crazy sheet he held during every game looked like it held the nuclear missile codes)–he had to do to much. But one thing that didn’t really lose substantiality was the art of misdirection (Apologies for the quality of these images, these are from [...]
We Have a New Enemy
Rick Neuheisel’s hiring at UCLA has everyone talking with excitement at Westwood about how the Bruins will finally supplant the Trojans as the best team in the Pac-10, become a football empire and establish dominance in both of the big major sports for the next decade.
Okay. Stop laughing. I might have exaggerated a bit, but [...]
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