This is a pathetic performance by our team

I'm a class of 2008 alum and this is the emptiest student section I've ever seen ever.

pic from the game

https://imgur.com/a/mQjzkaV

btw there was also a tweet displayed on the screen that said something like "we're getting clobbered again". why do we allow that stuff to appear in our stadium???

Good - no one should be subjected to this.

I mean we're 42 minutes into the game and have been able to muster 6 first downs.

Do you blame them?

eabandit said:

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pic from the game

https://imgur.com/a/mQjzkaV

btw there was also a tweet displayed on the screen that said something like "we're getting clobbered again". why do we allow that stuff to appear in our stadium???

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Haha this is great. This is totally why we suck. - the entire administration is useless.

loudest the crowd got was for the fan that had to kick a field goal to win a prize during a time out

eabandit said:

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loudest the crowd got was for the fan that had to kick a field goal to win a prize during a time out

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Did he or she make it?

dimitrig said:

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eabandit said:

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loudest the crowd got was for the fan that had to kick a field goal to win a prize during a time out

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Did he or she make it?

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was REALLY close but it fell just slightly under the crossbar. a little more oomf and it would have doinked in

the students are much smarter than in our day.

fat_slice said:

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Good - no one should be subjected to this.

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Well this stance blows Trupanzee's philosophy away that "A fan should be 100% committed to their team, good and bad."

eabandit said:

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dimitrig said:

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eabandit said:

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loudest the crowd got was for the fan that had to kick a field goal to win a prize during a time out

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Did he or she make it?

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was REALLY close but it fell just slightly under the crossbar. a little more oomf and it would have doinked in

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They should make it a real challenge. Bring out three fans... first one has to snap the ball to the second one (holder), then the third one kicks it. If they make it, their prize is athletic scholarships.

This goes beyond having a bad team. I've seen Cal student sections back bad teams until the end in games with far less hope than this one. The spirit has been dying in the student section for several years now.

kal kommie said:

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This goes beyond having a bad team. I've seen Cal student sections back bad teams until the end in games with far less hope than this one. The spirit has been dying in the student section for several years now.

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Gee, I can't think of anything that has been going on in the world that might be affecting the students for the last couple of years.

dimitrig said:

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kal kommie said:

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This goes beyond having a bad team. I've seen Cal student sections back bad teams until the end in games with far less hope than this one. The spirit has been dying in the student section for several years now.

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Gee, I can't think of anything that has been going on in the world that might be affecting the students for the last couple of years.

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It's got nothing to do with that

Yeah. It's like "Covid has affected me to the point where I'm going to go to the game and sit in the student section, but I won't cheer and I'll leave in the third quarter."

eabandit said:

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pic from the game

https://imgur.com/a/mQjzkaV

btw there was also a tweet displayed on the screen that said something like "we're getting clobbered again". why do we allow that stuff to appear in our stadium???

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Well, the team plays like a high school team, why wouldn't the crowd look like a high school football crowd.

eabandit said:

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I'm a class of 2008 alum and this is the emptiest student section I've ever seen ever.

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I haven't seen a stadium section that empty since Milli Vanilli headlined a Day on the Green.

Our fans are social distancing, 400 feet between each fan.

eabandit said:

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pic from the game

https://imgur.com/a/mQjzkaV

btw there was also a tweet displayed on the screen that said something like "we're getting clobbered again". why do we allow that stuff to appear in our stadium???

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Please, please tell me this didn't actually happen. Or if it did, did anyone get a photo.

This along with Free Falling...

Every time I think we've reached a nadir...

Cal****ingmarketing.

TheFiatLux said:

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eabandit said:

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pic from the game

https://imgur.com/a/mQjzkaV

btw there was also a tweet displayed on the screen that said something like "we're getting clobbered again". why do we allow that stuff to appear in our stadium???

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Please, please tell me this didn't actually happen. Or if it did, did anyone get a photo.

This along with Free Falling...

Every time I think we've reached a nadir...

Cal****ingmarketing.

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I saw that tweet on the board, but caught only a fleeting glance. Was this the tweet?

C’mon Bears!! Offensive line had to play better. Garners getting clobbered again. #gobears pic.twitter.com/jJiTe4ur84

— GeoffinCarlsbad (@gmlcarlsbad) October 2, 2021

Yeah, I saw that on the board. And jeezus f'in christ....it's GarBers.

eabandit said:

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pic from the game

https://imgur.com/a/mQjzkaV

btw there was also a tweet displayed on the screen that said something like "we're getting clobbered again". why do we allow that stuff to appear in our stadium???

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We played free falling for this game, wolves vs NV, and they post tweets dunking on the program.


TBH, it is amazing if it is not intention. It is hilarious if it is.

kal kommie said:

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This goes beyond having a bad team. I've seen Cal student sections back bad teams until the end in games with far less hope than this one. The spirit has been dying in the student section for several years now.

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If we are being honest, Tedford's success (and the fair weather it brought) destroyed the heart of Cal fandom, shifting it from an act of community and loyalty to a financial transaction: we pay, you win, and it paid off for a while.

But keeping Tedford a decade ago killed the momentum he built. Suddenly the winning was gone, and we had a decade of dismantling the community and loyalty experience, so there was nothing to fall back on.

The good fans, including us, were gone. They took the core of our desire to be at the games and replaced it with a transaction.

In that time they even took away the stadium for a year. During the worst of the Tedford years, there wasn't even a stability in the game-day location.

The Dykes hire certainly didnt deliver on the "we pay, you win." But Cal also didnt back off of its predatory schemes to make the even transactional; "LISTEN TO OUR ADS, F*** YOUR BAND." But they didnt uphold their end of the "we win" side either. They let it linger for years... Wilcox is more of the same with a slightly better record (for now). But for Cal's anti-fan|pro-customer stance, it needs to be significantly better. We need to win, and mediocrity breaks the unwritten contract Cal has fostered for 20 years.


TBH, Cal has to either return to fan service (refusal to play late games, refusing to move the big game, turning down ads in favor of the band, etc), or focus 100% on winning (including dropping standards for athletes and developing programs to shove them through to graduation). Cal will do neither, and thats why the program wont recover over the next few decades, without an accidental hire that borders on magical.

The worst thing to happen to Cal football is that it sold its soul when they found success.

LunchTime said:

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kal kommie said:

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This goes beyond having a bad team. I've seen Cal student sections back bad teams until the end in games with far less hope than this one. The spirit has been dying in the student section for several years now.

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If we are being honest, Tedford's success (and the fair weather it brought) destroyed the heart of Cal fandom, shifting it from an act of community and loyalty to a financial transaction: we pay, you win, and it paid off for a while.

But keeping Tedford a decade ago killed the momentum he built. Suddenly the winning was gone, and we had a decade of dismantling the community and loyalty experience, so there was nothing to fall back on.

The good fans, including us, were gone. They took the core of our desire to be at the games and replaced it with a transaction.

In that time they even took away the stadium for a year. During the worst of the Tedford years, there wasn't even a stability in the game-day location.

The Dykes hire certainly didnt deliver on the "we pay, you win." But Cal also didnt back off of its predatory schemes to make the even transactional; "LISTEN TO OUR ADS, F*** YOUR BAND." But they didnt uphold their end of the "we win" side either. They let it linger for years... Wilcox is more of the same with a slightly better record (for now). But for Cal's anti-fan|pro-customer stance, it needs to be significantly better. We need to win, and mediocrity breaks the unwritten contract Cal has fostered for 20 years.


TBH, Cal has to either return to fan service (refusal to play late games, refusing to move the big game, turning down ads in favor of the band, etc), or focus 100% on winning (including dropping standards for athletes and developing programs to shove them through to graduation). Cal will do neither, and thats why the program wont recover over the next few decades, without an accidental hire that borders on magical.

The worst thing to happen to Cal football is that it sold its soul when they found success.

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I will add, that Cal has no say in the game times. Those are contractually agreed upon by the conference.

MinotStateBeav said:

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LunchTime said:

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kal kommie said:

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This goes beyond having a bad team. I've seen Cal student sections back bad teams until the end in games with far less hope than this one. The spirit has been dying in the student section for several years now.

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If we are being honest, Tedford's success (and the fair weather it brought) destroyed the heart of Cal fandom, shifting it from an act of community and loyalty to a financial transaction: we pay, you win, and it paid off for a while.

But keeping Tedford a decade ago killed the momentum he built. Suddenly the winning was gone, and we had a decade of dismantling the community and loyalty experience, so there was nothing to fall back on.

The good fans, including us, were gone. They took the core of our desire to be at the games and replaced it with a transaction.

In that time they even took away the stadium for a year. During the worst of the Tedford years, there wasn't even a stability in the game-day location.

The Dykes hire certainly didnt deliver on the "we pay, you win." But Cal also didnt back off of its predatory schemes to make the even transactional; "LISTEN TO OUR ADS, F*** YOUR BAND." But they didnt uphold their end of the "we win" side either. They let it linger for years... Wilcox is more of the same with a slightly better record (for now). But for Cal's anti-fan|pro-customer stance, it needs to be significantly better. We need to win, and mediocrity breaks the unwritten contract Cal has fostered for 20 years.


TBH, Cal has to either return to fan service (refusal to play late games, refusing to move the big game, turning down ads in favor of the band, etc), or focus 100% on winning (including dropping standards for athletes and developing programs to shove them through to graduation). Cal will do neither, and thats why the program wont recover over the next few decades, without an accidental hire that borders on magical.

The worst thing to happen to Cal football is that it sold its soul when they found success.

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I will add, that Cal has no say in the game times. Those are contractually agreed upon by the conference.

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Cal didn't even try and stop it. The same negotiating got us the Big Game in October. They chased money. Money that isn't helping the fans.

Cal will decide in the next round to screw the fans for money, or thorn in the side of the conference for fans. Cause money isn't enough without additional money from fans.

MinotStateBeav said:

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LunchTime said:

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kal kommie said:

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This goes beyond having a bad team. I've seen Cal student sections back bad teams until the end in games with far less hope than this one. The spirit has been dying in the student section for several years now.

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If we are being honest, Tedford's success (and the fair weather it brought) destroyed the heart of Cal fandom, shifting it from an act of community and loyalty to a financial transaction: we pay, you win, and it paid off for a while.

But keeping Tedford a decade ago killed the momentum he built. Suddenly the winning was gone, and we had a decade of dismantling the community and loyalty experience, so there was nothing to fall back on.

The good fans, including us, were gone. They took the core of our desire to be at the games and replaced it with a transaction.

In that time they even took away the stadium for a year. During the worst of the Tedford years, there wasn't even a stability in the game-day location.

The Dykes hire certainly didnt deliver on the "we pay, you win." But Cal also didnt back off of its predatory schemes to make the even transactional; "LISTEN TO OUR ADS, F*** YOUR BAND." But they didnt uphold their end of the "we win" side either. They let it linger for years... Wilcox is more of the same with a slightly better record (for now). But for Cal's anti-fan|pro-customer stance, it needs to be significantly better. We need to win, and mediocrity breaks the unwritten contract Cal has fostered for 20 years.


TBH, Cal has to either return to fan service (refusal to play late games, refusing to move the big game, turning down ads in favor of the band, etc), or focus 100% on winning (including dropping standards for athletes and developing programs to shove them through to graduation). Cal will do neither, and thats why the program wont recover over the next few decades, without an accidental hire that borders on magical.

The worst thing to happen to Cal football is that it sold its soul when they found success.

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I will add, that Cal has no say in the game times. Those are contractually agreed upon by the conference.

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I think the way it evolved took everybody by surprise, but going forward, Cal could build a coalition with like-minded institutions and say "enough is enough".

If it wanted to...

Big C said:

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MinotStateBeav said:

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LunchTime said:

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kal kommie said:

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This goes beyond having a bad team. I've seen Cal student sections back bad teams until the end in games with far less hope than this one. The spirit has been dying in the student section for several years now.

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If we are being honest, Tedford's success (and the fair weather it brought) destroyed the heart of Cal fandom, shifting it from an act of community and loyalty to a financial transaction: we pay, you win, and it paid off for a while.

But keeping Tedford a decade ago killed the momentum he built. Suddenly the winning was gone, and we had a decade of dismantling the community and loyalty experience, so there was nothing to fall back on.

The good fans, including us, were gone. They took the core of our desire to be at the games and replaced it with a transaction.

In that time they even took away the stadium for a year. During the worst of the Tedford years, there wasn't even a stability in the game-day location.

The Dykes hire certainly didnt deliver on the "we pay, you win." But Cal also didnt back off of its predatory schemes to make the even transactional; "LISTEN TO OUR ADS, F*** YOUR BAND." But they didnt uphold their end of the "we win" side either. They let it linger for years... Wilcox is more of the same with a slightly better record (for now). But for Cal's anti-fan|pro-customer stance, it needs to be significantly better. We need to win, and mediocrity breaks the unwritten contract Cal has fostered for 20 years.


TBH, Cal has to either return to fan service (refusal to play late games, refusing to move the big game, turning down ads in favor of the band, etc), or focus 100% on winning (including dropping standards for athletes and developing programs to shove them through to graduation). Cal will do neither, and thats why the program wont recover over the next few decades, without an accidental hire that borders on magical.

The worst thing to happen to Cal football is that it sold its soul when they found success.

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I will add, that Cal has no say in the game times. Those are contractually agreed upon by the conference.

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I think the way it evolved took everybody by surprise, but going forward, Cal could build a coalition with like-minded institutions and say "enough is enough".

If it wanted to...

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If you guys think we're going to lead the way in a big stand against the primary revenue source (the same deal that USC and Oregan, et al. have, by the way) that we have as an athletic department, then i don't know what to tell you. We aren't.