Cal Football! 2006! Uh…2006? Anyone?
It’s a quiet time of the year around the Berkeley blogosphere. Most students are out toiling away at fruitless internships, slowly coming to the horrible realization that they hate the career they’ve sought after (which is cool–your editor figured that out at his position last year). Others are slowly crumbling under the fact that they wasted a whole summer to get slamjammed by Chem 3A. The rest are probably vacationing elsewhere throughout the world, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
But the blog world hasn’t taken a rest, especially with football season only a month and a half away. Losing track of things to talk about, they’ve gone back into the vault and…re-enacted every game of last year. God. The only way we’d want to re-enact last season is by having Marshawn glide that cart around Memorial Stadium on loop. Nevertheless, there are braver souls in the Golden Blogosphere, and we’ll take them to you right after the hop. You can discuss Cal’s offseason on the message board thread.
Ken Crawford of Bear Territory has impressively decided to go through every game of last year’s campaign, starting with our horrendous thrashing at Rocky Top, and just mows down the list. He’s at Washington State right now, so we haven’t yet reached the crescendo of heartbreak. Apparently his analysis goes something like this.
(1) Forsett will be less spectacular but more durable to Cal football’s success. Marshawn might have been a more explosive player, but he was injury-prone.
(2) The Dunbar hybrid offense was exposed as gimmicky at best against the Vols, and Tedford’s traditional schemes should hold better this year.
(3) We’re a pretty good home team.
(4) If teams decide to key in on the run game, Longshore should have his way against the defensive spreads. However, with Forsett manning the lines now and Jackson now the primary offensive threat, the run offense will probably be the key. If the numbers can be kept up at the same pace, then the Bears are likely to vie for the Pac-10 crown again.
(5) Cal decided to show up for its tense matchup with Portland State.
The California Golden Blogs aren’t just intent on looking at how the past will affect the future, they’re also looking at how the past affects the past. Apparently, our criticism of Dunbar’s convoluted offensive schemes was overhyped and deeply flawed, especially in light of his dominating Holiday Bowl performance. Although some could consider this just a case of being overmatched (Cal was clearly on another playing level than Texas A&M), it seems what we should have drawn from this game was that…
…We needed to criticize Tedford more?
Well, that’s apparently the underlying conclusion. Apparently, while Cal football fans reverentially refer to Tedford as God, the man put too much power into the hands of someone who treated the playbook like it was Webster’s. Nevertheless, the Blogs definitively show he did call a flawless Holiday Bowl.
But it was the HOLIDAY BOWL. What about USC and Arizona?
Never mind. Let’s just forget about this season before we start hunting wildcats in Tilden.
Looking Back on 2006 [Bear Territory]
Holiday Bowl Recap [The California Golden Blogs]
Loading ...
Leave a Comment