florida state seminoles 14
california golden bears 9

prayers up for sioape vatikani, he is a true warrior but the truth is that none of us are unbreakable physically in life, hoping the updates will be as positive as his thumbs up signs to his teammates

this team battled 100% all nite in a hostile faraway venue against a program with the best defensive line in collegiate football which dominated our offensive line...after road games at auburn & tallahassee the o-line will not play in another venue even remotely as loud with crowd noise but the silent snaps need to be worked upon as the false starts are something within the o-line room's control

strongly disagree with coach bloesch's now systematic failure to incorporate even a single PITCHOUT during his 5 games as the cal play caller, this decision on mike's part is gonna potentially cost jaydn ott millions of dollars if our elite playmaker can't do his magical thing on the edges in wide open spaces...intentionally running cars into telephone poles is not a winning strategy for the program or showcasing our all american running back to nfl scouts

the bears best offensive set at this time is the jumbo package with the 2 dynamic tight ends corey dyches & jack endries coupled with the most physical wideouts nyziah hunter & mason starling...and yeah fernando mendoza is not only continuing to improve with his accuracy/ball security but is also revealing a sneaky fast heart of gold running style with mlb sliding too!!

defensively coach sirmon is continuing to develop in his craft, his 4th and short all out blitz with teddye buchanan blitzing up the middle wuz shades of morgan scalley, the bears d will keep us in every game this season

Went up and got it 👊@Miles_Williams2 with his first INT of the season.

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the bye is coming at the right time, this team is kinda fatigued with the travel & the academic workloads of the new scholastic calendar

time to get the **** outta florida, rest up & get ready for them miami hurricanes at memorial stadium on saturday october 5th

oskiswifeshusband said:

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Shocky, maybe we are a basketball school now ?

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The ACC is a tougher basketball conference and the travel will be harder on the basketball team than the football team.

Knowlton extending Wilcox out 6 years after 5 years with a losing record is was insanity. He is not improving as a program manager, if anything he is getting worse. He did not even bother with an OC search this time and in the process we lost Bloesch as our full time OL coach. We are squandering the HUGE opportunity we have been given.

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monster analysis of cal special teams:

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 understands 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 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 last 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 as the bears can no longer afford the luxury of 2 defensive back coaches

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coach wilcox gotta longtime friendship with ryan longwell, just like justin gotta blind spot re: the power of PITCHOUTS on offense (right now he's wasting the generational talents of jaydn), he's also gotta blind spot re: special teams

1st of all, huge props to australian lachlan wilson on his confident booming punts with both distance & hang time & also long snapper david bird who is money

mateen bhaghani's parents unilaterally reached out to me (which is a common occurrence with quite a few bearents) after last season to share with me their concerns re: their high gpa son (who wuz striving to gain admission into the haas biz ad school) & his "unhealthy treatment" by multiple members of the cal staff including longwell

mateen luz 8 for 9 on field goals last season & this season in a ucla uniform is 6 for 7
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/5161141/mateen-bhaghani

justin, luv u man but the bears didn't lose tonite because of the defense, u lost because ur offense line wuz not properly prepared for silent snaps, ur wasting the outside running talents of jaydn ott & because u ran off a mentally tough as nails high gpa kicker/young man who loved berkeley

time to wake the **** up & quit blaming the d, maybe look in the mirror or get a yoga/meditation practice before u stroke out, ok?

Shocky1 said:

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https://instagr.am/p/B_x-EwfJ1rC
brisk walking twosome 18 holes at seminole golf club (she has never sparkled so brilliantly with the recent restoration work by coore & crenshaw to expose the sand dunes of arguably the donald ross masterpiece) with "key largo" on our bags who is a greens reading wizard

afterwards over an early lunch of delicious pan seared cod in a white wine tomato sauce in the iconic pink clubhouse hard by the atlantic ocean asked the member if it might be possible to attend a yoga class tomorrow in tallahassee before the 7:00 pm kickoff which resulted in mr big explaining to me that many longtime (i.e. bluebloods) floridians do not consider the florida panhandle (which includes tallahassee) as part of the "real florida" but rather part of the "deep south" where nascar rivals college football in popularity

apparently shocky don't know **** about geography in this part of the world

namaste



80,000+ loud drunk azz nascar fans tomorrow (practice the silent count)#

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^ "practice the silent count"

that did NOT sufficiently happen with enough reps & that's just really bad gameday prep work, cal's monster offensive line got some of the smartest/high gpa true student athletes in the program so it's not due to a lack of intelligence or discipline

stubbornly ineffective playcalling + bad offensive line gameday prep work + failure to audible outta blitz packages=a cal loss

honestly it seems like mike bloesch might be in over his head tryna handle both oc & ol duties but if we've learned anything during the ryan longwell consulting era is that the head coach will NOT intervene unless it's a defense related issue

this is cal football (but it can change in a moment's time if the hc is committed to growth & the unsuccessful ongoing mindset that the d gotta throw a shutout every time on gamedays in order to emerge victorious)#

in his role as one of the world's top 5 golf course architecture critics/enthusiasts shocky plays a lotta golf, 100+ walking rounds a year

the last couple of weeks shocky had architecturally important (to him) rounds at peachtree in atlanta, brambles in middletown & seminole outside of miami which are all firm & fast linksy designs which celebrate the ground game...in preparation for these rounds the monster played all of his short game shots with his putter (unless there wuz a bunker directly between him & the pin) for a month

and yeah shocky putted well from off the greens in these 3 rounds including multiple 100+ feet 2 putt pars at brambles during his 36 hole pure golf experience

now shocky in the next couple of weeks got important (to him) rounds at the renovated olympic (lake), merion & oakmont which historically got punishing lush rough around the greens...so starting with today's late afternoon round here back in the desert shocky is gonna pitch/flop every shot around the green instead of putting

wut's ur point, shocky (nobody gives a **** about ur golf game)??

coach bloesch should've practiced the silent count throughout the 2024 spring & fall camps and then played the uc davis game with the silent count instead of waiting until the bears 2 games in the deep south against 70,000+ insanely loud crowds...the issues that surfaced last nite with illegal motion/pre snap movement would've surfaced against uc davis in a still winnable game & been correctable

instead cal's monster offensive line wuz not comfortable/poorly prepared for the silent snap count & that wuz a major factor in last nite's loss along with the ongoing failure to dial up even a single PITCHOUT (which honestly is probably never gonna happen at this time & it's gonna cost jaydn millions of dollars in the 2025 nfl draft)

my biggest lesson/takeaway from graduating from the haas biz school other than learning how to decipher the hidden numbers in a financial statement is to always be the most prepared person in the room when entering a business meeting...that didn't happen last nite in tallahassee

it's pretty obvious that mike bloesch got too much on his plate right now, it's the head coach's responsibility to find constructive solutions to that problem or we can just keep on doing the same old **** until eventually justin strokes out in a post game press conference, self awareness goes a long way in life

https://instagr.am/p/C_oOjWbAewC

Defenders have at least a two-step head start toward ott and everyone else thanks to the freaking RIDICULOUS inability of literally anyone to snap the damn ball properly, imagine if our long snapper looped it up like that for punts ans placekicks. It's maddening.