the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (with limited 2025 high school schollys reserved for those that wanna build generation wealth developing nfl upside with coach bloesch/coach saffell & also working hard in the classrooms of berkeley) https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/
Another major talent from Minnesota is Meyer Swinney 6’3” 205 athlete Edina HS. And all-around talent who dominates at wide receiver but can also play several other positions. Superior route runner with strong hands and good leaping ability.@meyer_swinney very impressive. pic.twitter.com/9l5lIWVFyv
elite 2025 tight end prospect (bastian's way faster bro)#
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (where r the freezing azz badgers ranked?)# https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/
note: the following evaluation is based on multiple sources & my personal observations:
*****ryan longwell is a paid special teams consultant that lives 3000 miles away from berkeley that shows up around once a month, his personality is such that he is not really nurturing/encouraging in his coaching style which is kinda mind boggling from someone who is a scratch golfer who should understand the mental fragility of golf swings/kicking motions
*****the kicking during the longwell era other than mateen bhaghani have been been beyond breaking bad with his unreal loyalty to the 3 iron trajectory dario longhetto which cost the bears multiple games in every season of his cal career
*****the punting during the longwell era has been somewhere north of mediocre with inconsistent distance & hang time
*****mateen bhaghani wuz a perfect 27 of 27 on extra points & 8 of 9 on field goals, he wuz not given any opportunities to kick any over 50 yards...he is now the ucla kicker, his 2024 big 10 season will be interesting to track
*****mateen bhaghani wuz given the assignment to kick off in only one game, his pregame instructions were to "kick the ball high & to the right" which wuz not practiced during the week...the dumb azzs will tell you he failed to kick the ball deep & lacks leg strength based upon this
*****it wuz a major 2024 recruiting miss & poor player evaluation of personnel by the staff not to offer all american punter kanyon floyd who will be heading to hometown asu with a full scholly...kanyon would've given the bears a potential 4 year all acc punter who with his current 4.73 gpa would've been a strong candidate to gain acceptance into the haas biz school
*****coach so'oto is nowhere in sight during special teams pregame warm ups (presumably vic is with the outside linebackers room), anyalyst zack tinker handles the warm ups
*****tinker preps during the week the punting & kick off coverage & return gameplans
*****the usc special teams play wuz terrible under coach so'oto (coach wilcox referenced his "experience" when he assigned the room to vic)
*****no team fair in the nation fair catches punts more than cal, the decision to have sure handed jeremiah hunter as the punt returner despite lacking lateral explosiveness to make the 1st tacklers miss is mind boggling
*****kickoff returns other than the epic jaydn ott touchdown return in the rose bowl have been non existent
*****shocky bumped into the former special teams coach charlie ragle & then recently hired bill musgrave in february of 2021 outside of the raucous world famous 16th hole of the phoenix open, both guys were absolutely **** faced & mostly incoherent during our 5 minute conversation...the person with me noted that both of them had the bulbous red noses of those with major drinking problems
*****former special teams analyst michael barton is "a terrible communicator"
special teams bottom line: cal has fielded the worst special teams units in college football during the coach wilcox era, a full time special teams coach needs to be hired
welcome new special teams analyst/quality control coordinator michael frisna to the california golden bears football program
this is a MAJOR step in the right direction after multiple years of ****show performances by the bears special teams, frisna wuz a successful 75% field goals made placekicker at boise state back in the day...unlike vic so'oto, zack tinker, charlie ragle & michael barton, michael understands kicking/punting & will be available for daily mentoring of our specialists
Ok, it's not a quarter but my SF Resident card gets me weekday green fees at GG for $23, and my kids play for $12. That is not bad!
I figured I'd pay $40 bucks for a Saturday tee time. Oh well. Life in the big city.
Website says it's $50...not that far off!
Only $5+ per hole.
Lol, yeah. I guess compared to other courses around here (e.g. Gleneagles which is much worse and only 9 holes is $36 or $50 to play it twice for a total of 18 holes), it still seems like a good deal to me. That being said, I don't golf that often and if I did I would not want to routinely pay $50 for the pleasure.
Ok, it's not a quarter but my SF Resident card gets me weekday green fees at GG for $23, and my kids play for $12. That is not bad!
I figured I'd pay $40 bucks for a Saturday tee time. Oh well. Life in the big city.
Website says it's $50...not that far off!
Only $5+ per hole.
Lol, yeah. I guess compared to other courses around here (e.g. Gleneagles which is much worse and only 9 holes is $36 or $50 to play it twice for a total of 18 holes), it still seems like a good deal to me. That being said, I don't golf that often and if I did I would not want to routinely pay $50 for the pleasure.
Gleneagles is way too hard for me now. We used to play it in the 12-13 year old flight of the SF Junior. You had to bring a few extra golf balls (not kidding) and your mom had to be a bad ass (kidding). A Gleneagles redo would make for a fantastic golf course. It's just in the wrong part of town. It's the only place my wife and I had to alter our SF walk due to, well, riff-raff. I was dieing to show her another one of my 'where it all started' haunts. She loves those. (very much kidding)
https://calegends.com/donation/ Do it now. Text every Cal fan you know, give them the link, tell them how much you gave, and ask them to text every Cal fan they know and do the same.
terrific charity event in support of junior golf (tho west palm beach is NOT exactly a low income zip code)...golf needs more affordable FUN playable public access designs like this course, papago, morro bay, wine valley, rustic canyon, commonground, the winter park 9 & the par 3 course at golden gate park to grow the game
and a shout out to max for making the volunteer trek from arizona to florida to support this wonderful cause
3.6 gpa preferred walk on from caldecott tunnel high school#
Please give to Cal Legends at https://calegends.com/donation/ and encourage everyone you know who loves Cal sports to do it too.
To be in the Top 1% of all NIL collectives we only need around 3% of alumni to give $100/mo. OR 6% to give $50/mo. Please help spread the word. "If we don't broaden this base we're dead." - Sebastabear
For the love of branding, please tell me this is not one of our recruits who doesn't know what the name of our university is!
Give to Cal Legends!
https://calegends.com/donation/ Do it now. Text every Cal fan you know, give them the link, tell them how much you gave, and ask them to text every Cal fan they know and do the same.
https://calegends.com/donation/ Do it now. Text every Cal fan you know, give them the link, tell them how much you gave, and ask them to text every Cal fan they know and do the same.
look joshua lewismight not be a future berkeley geography major studying maps like us americans but he's NOT a dumb azz, he got a 4.0 gpa & 21 on the act, got it?
joshua should do his academic rankings homework (see link below to forbes national collegiate rankings), he's visiting a lotta **** & mediocre schools that's for sure which is a big waste of time for those seeking to build generational wealth in a highly competitive global economy that unremorsefully favors the well educated
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (including cal state & gonzales, louisiana) https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/
shocky getting ready (it's also how he preps for modern yoga) for his roadtrips to every cal game in 2024, the best collection of exciting FUN faraway adventures in the HISTORY of cal football, and particularly our saturday 21st roadie to tallahassee
r u gonna be on cal bearlines flight #69 heading east this fall?
Just don’t move here. And leave the old suitcases. Welcome to the ACC, I guess. While it lasts.
— Gabriel Isasi V, Attorney at Law (@GabrielIsasiV) February 24, 2024
florida state nil fundraising: the fsu collective is bringing in 40 major donors/boosters for "official visits" this week, these -1 athletic sub 3.0 gpa beer belly rich guys will wear uniforms, tour the facilities including the field & meet with all the coaches & staff...and yeah eating 4,500+ calorie steakhouse dinners with multiple screaming eagle bottles of wine & chocolate molten cake for desert is also part of their officials...and handwritten notes & a plate of freshly baked peanut butter cookies on their pillows that nite
Forget the culture wars, and get to Tallahassee for what is one of the greatest football experiences. If you are a football fan, visiting Doak should be on your bucket list per my college football loving cousins (they are big Ohio State fans), who live about an hour away from Tallahassee.
Before you enter the stadium: Yes get there early for the tailgate scene. The band, which is huge, will go around visiting tailgates, and then finish the last hour or so in front of the stadium to serenade fans going in. If you go to the student union you will hear the War drum playing, which it does constantly 24/7 for the week before the game (that could get real tiring). The tailgate scene starts around 5 hours before the game and it gets jammed real fast. Given we are not Clemson or Florida, our fans should get a warm welcome of Southern hospitality, and get invited to tailgates. Be prepared to eat plenty of good food, drink, and party as hard as you want to. Do not under any circumstances wear Florida or Clemson colors (I got this from a friend who attended Florida). That said, I have also heard from a friend that went to Florida that he found tailgating you typically have to either be in a frat or know someone. It is more of a group/family- it's not really like a communal tailgate like in the SEC. But he went there as a Florida student. There are places you can go to pre-game like Madison Social (Madso), Township, Potbelly's (Pots), or Gordo's.
The Stadium: FSU actually has the use of the Seminoles namer and image as authorized by the Tribe and the Tribe are full participants in university activities, as will become apparent on game day. They have one of the greatest and iconic openings in college history (get to Doak Stadium well before kick-off), where a Seminole warrior riding a horse with a flaming spear charges out and throws the spear into the FSU logo as the horse leaps, and the sell out (and it will be sell out) crowd goes ape for about 10 minutes. The crowd will be the loudest Cal fans have seen since maybe the away game at Tennessee (FSU could be louder). The crowd will be doing the war chant and/or the Tomahawk Chop -right hands only- depending on game circumstances and on offense Cal better be ready for deafening noise. And then there is that famous drum beat behind the chant. The whole thing is so amazing that visiting teams have been known to join in for fun pre-game. Here is glimpse of pre-game.
The is a ton of traditions. One is FSU players line up shoulder to shoulder at midfield, raise their helmets, then walk from the middle of the field to the endzone while the Band plays the theme from "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The band usually is about 450 strong (comparisons to weak arse Pac bands are depressing) and there is very little piped in anything. They are known as "the band that never lost a half time." In some ways I can see why FSU is looking to go the SEC, they are somewhat a throw-back. It really is a unique game experience.
Doak stadium is very cool and is the largest brick structure in the world outside the of the Great Wall of China. Food and drink are plentiful and good in the stadium but if you did the tailgate scene, not sure it matters. You can buy booze at the stadium.
Warnings and a suggestion:
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Book the hotel asap, hotels in Tallahassee are notorious for gouging people
Driving/parking isn't bad supposely if you want to go to resort towns such Destin or Panama City. I think you have to buy a pass in advance, if you want to park right in front of stadium. GET THEIR EARLY!
It could be warm and humid, though the game is late enough that it could be decent weather.
Tallahassee can get very packed on the night before and game day. Plan to walk a lot if you are staying in town. Lines at bars can get long.
Forget the culture wars, and get to Tallahassee for what is one of the greatest football experiences. If you are a football fan, visiting Doak should be on your bucket list per my college football loving cousins (they are big Ohio State fans), who live about an hour away .
Before you enter the stadium: Yes get there early for the tailgate scene. The band, which is huge, will go around visiting tailgates, and then finish the last hour or so in front of the stadium to serenade fans going in. If you go to the student union you will hear the War drum playing, which it does constantly 24/7 for the week before the game (that could get real tiring). The tailgate scene starts around 5 hours before the game and it gets jammed real fast. Given we are not Clemson or Florida, our fans will get a warm welcome of Southern hospitality, and get invited to tailgates. Be prepared to eat plenty of good food, drink, and party as hard as you want to. Do not under any circumstances wear Florida or Clemson colors (I got this from a friend who attended Florida). That said, I have also heard from a friend that went to Florida that he found tailgating you typically have to either be in a frat or know someone. It is more of a group/family- it's not really like a communal tailgate like in the SEC. There are places you can go to pre-game like Madison Social (Madso), Township, Potbelly's (Pots), or Gordo's.
FSU actually has the use of the Seminoles authorized by tribe and the tribe are full participants in university activities, as will become apparent on game day. The have one of the greatest and iconic openings in college history (get to Doak Stadium well before kick-off), where a Seminole warrior riding a horse with a flaming spear charges out and throws the spear into the FSU logo as the horse leaps, and the sell out (and it will be sell out) crowd goes ape for about 10 minutes. The crowd will be the loudest Cal fans have seen since maybe the away game at Tennessee (FSU could be louder). The crowd will be doing the war chant and/or the Tomahawk Chop -right hands only- depending on game circumstances and on offense Cal better be ready for deafening noise. And then there is that famous drum beat behind the chant. The whole thing is so amazing that visiting teams have been known to join in for fun pre-game. Here is glimpse of pre-game.
The is a ton of traditions. One is FSU players line up shoulder to shoulder at midfield, raise their helmets, then walk from the middle of the field to the endzone while the Band plays the theme from "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The band usually is about 450 strong (comparisons to weak arse Pac bands are depressing) and there is very little piped in anything. They are known as "the band that never lost a half time." In some ways I can see why FSU is looking to go the SEC, they are somewhat a throw-back. It really is a unique game experience.
Doak stadium is very cool and is the largest brick structure in the world outside the of the Great Wall of China. Food and drink are plentiful and good in the stadium but if you did the tailgate scene, not sure it matters. You can buy booze at the stadium.
Warnings and a suggestion:
[ol]
Book the hotel asap, hotels in Tallahassee are notorious for gouging people
Driving/parking isn't bad supposely if you want to go to resort towns such Destin or Panama City. I think you have to buy a pass in advance, if you want to park right in front of stadium. GET THEIR EARLY!
It could be warm and humid, though the game is late enough that it could be decent weather.
Tallahassee can get very packed on the night before and game day. Plan to walk a lot if you are staying in town. Lines at bars can get long.
Go to the infamous Gordo's and order smash.
Travel director out. [/ol]
These are the sort of traditions that make college football special. Cal fans will get treated to some different types of traditions, weather and food as members of the ACC. Should be fun.
— Gabriel Isasi V, Attorney at Law (@GabrielIsasiV) February 24, 2024
florida state nil fundraising: the fsu collective is bringing in 40 major donors/boosters for "official visits" this week, these -1 athletic sub 3.0 gpa beer belly rich guys will wear uniforms, tour the facilities including the field & meet with all the coaches & staff...and yeah eating 4,500+ calorie steakhouse dinners with multiple screaming eagle bottles of wine & chocolate molten cake for desert is also part of their officials...and handwritten notes & a plate of freshly baked peanut butter cookies on their pillows that nite
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INNOVATION in tallahassee nights?#
I suppose no one in Florida wants to compare credentials with the lawyers from Cravath (the equivalent of Alabama football in the legal world) who trashed FSU's filing on behalf of ESPN.
^ yeah getting accused of the felonious release of espn highly sensitive trade secrets is why florida state attorneys are cursing their malpractice carriers escalating premiums & ordering a 5th round of bacardi chasers in cipriani's basement
ESPN says Florida State and its attorneys may have committed felonies by releasing the media deals. FSU's legal capades are off to a GREAT start! https://t.co/HqLlQjg6kg
alec, ur vivid descriptions of the florida state gameday experience got me fired up for my 1st visit to doak stadium...not sure yet but maybe we should wear nascar hats to fit in with the locals?
100%, Shocky! I know the ACC thing was a fallback plan, behind a real Pac 12 and the B1G, but some of these new opponents are actually pretty cool... and I've hardly visited any of these places before. Go Bears!
look joshua lewismight not be a future berkeley geography major studying maps like us americans but he's NOT a dumb azz, he got a 4.0 gpa & 21 on the act, got it?
joshua should do his academic rankings homework (see link below to forbes national collegiate rankings), he's visiting a lotta **** & mediocre schools that's for sure which is a big waste of time for those seeking to build generational wealth in a highly competitive global economy that unremorsefully favors the well educated
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (including cal state & gonzales, louisiana) https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/
^ goldy, did not know that, 21 is usually a pretty good # at the casino de monte-carlo (mandatory dress code, jackets for all gentlemen, this is not shreveport)
^ blue, luv that video, glad the cart wuz charged up for the escape before dinner at lubys
https://instagr.am/p/C2lHU6HxLur ur rite about florida, my favorite public golf on the east coast (excluding cabot cliffs in nova scotia) is at the streamsong resort which is halfway between tampa & orlando in the middle of nowhere with these amazing 60+ foot massive sandhills & a zillion natural lakes (with gators) with zero homes or golf carts...which is shocky's kinda place until the reptiles of death r chasing u...my caddie zack attack once tole me mid round that he don't gotta be faster than a gator, he just gotta be faster than me
https://instagr.am/p/C2vU8Rqx3d_ don't be a dumb azz (and turn your vision away from lakes when hitting your shots next to water hazards)#
https://instagr.am/p/CmpNizQPclZ both leidy & shocky r apparently big fans of carbone which is only a couple blocks away from taylor's home in the west village, yeah the tortellini al ragu is phenomenal
https://instagr.am/p/CvWU2gXp3hY the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (including new york city & the bros of wall street)
https://instagr.am/p/CmpNizQPclZ both leidy & shocky r apparently big fans of carbone which is only a couple blocks away from taylor's home in the west village, yeah the tortellini al ragu is phenomenal
https://instagr.am/p/CvWU2gXp3hY the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (including new york city & the bros of wall street)
You'd enjoy Dr. Peter Attia's videos where he discusses the centenarian Olympics, where you set physical and mental goals for what you want to be able to do in your 70s, 80s and 90s. Correspondingly, he shows you what you need to be doing starting in your 40s (in some cases) to achieve those goals. You are well on your way if you can pack your own bag on the golf course and do headstands. Congratulations, Shocky.
