hehatenate said:

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Let's take it out on Utah

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lol

What would be ideal ACC schedule next year? Who would y'all like to see come to CMS?

JRL.02 said:

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What would be ideal ACC schedule next year? Who would y'all like to see come to CMS?

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FSU, Clemson, Duke, Louisville, North Carolina, Miami, Notre Dame.

DoubtfulBear said:

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bearchamp said:

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Disturbing observations.
1) The coaches took half the season to recognize Mendosa's abilities,
2) The defense puts no pressure on the qb, AND doesn't blitz, why?
3) Cal doesn't run wide often enough for the opposing defense to think about it.
4) Kickoffs have to go out the back. Use a different kicker for kickoffs and field goals.
5) Underneath crossing routes showed some success, but not utilized much,

I don't pretend to be a coach, or know the answers, but these are obvious to a casual fan.

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1) 1/3 of the season.

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1/3 if you have any delusions that we will make the PAC 12 championships and a bowl game. For a mediocre team like us, game 6 is halfway through the season already.

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Without bowl game, it is 41.6%. with bowl game, it is 38%.

JimSox said:

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bearchamp said:

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Disturbing observations.
1) The coaches took half the season to recognize Mendosa's abilities,
2) The defense puts no pressure on the qb, AND doesn't blitz, why?
3) Cal doesn't run wide often enough for the opposing defense to think about it.
4) Kickoffs have to go out the back. Use a different kicker for kickoffs and field goals.
5) Underneath crossing routes showed some success, but not utilized much,

I don't pretend to be a coach, or know the answers, but these are obvious to a casual fan.

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#4 Solution--Use Luckhurst for kickoffs. He was kicking them deep.

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Exactly. It's amazing that our idiotic coaching staff can't recognize that.

Golden One said:

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JimSox said:

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bearchamp said:

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Disturbing observations.
1) The coaches took half the season to recognize Mendosa's abilities,
2) The defense puts no pressure on the qb, AND doesn't blitz, why?
3) Cal doesn't run wide often enough for the opposing defense to think about it.
4) Kickoffs have to go out the back. Use a different kicker for kickoffs and field goals.
5) Underneath crossing routes showed some success, but not utilized much,

I don't pretend to be a coach, or know the answers, but these are obvious to a casual fan.

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#4 Solution--Use Luckhurst for kickoffs. He was kicking them deep.

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Exactly. It's amazing that our idiotic coaching staff can't recognize that.

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Wasn't he doing kickoffs against Arizona State, what the hell happened

BearoutEast67 said:

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The Bears didn't back down. Let's go with Mendoza and let the O gel around him. Our D has seen two best QBs at Wash and OSU. If our O can deal with Utah's aggressive D and the crowd noise, we can steal a win next week if we score half the points we scored today.

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If Cam Rising starts, we are dead at Utah next Saturday. Then, we face Caleb Williams, who will absolutely demolish this weak Cal defense.

Golden One said:

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BearoutEast67 said:

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The Bears didn't back down. Let's go with Mendoza and let the O gel around him. Our D has seen two best QBs at Wash and OSU. If our O can deal with Utah's aggressive D and the crowd noise, we can steal a win next week if we score half the points we scored today.

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If Cam Rising starts, we are dead at Utah next Saturday. Then, we face Caleb Williams, who will absolutely demolish this weak Cal defense.

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Check the news but his injury was much more severe than originally reported and the attitude with him and the program is that he is not coming back. Then there's SC...

Strykur said:

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Golden One said:

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BearoutEast67 said:

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The Bears didn't back down. Let's go with Mendoza and let the O gel around him. Our D has seen two best QBs at Wash and OSU. If our O can deal with Utah's aggressive D and the crowd noise, we can steal a win next week if we score half the points we scored today.

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If Cam Rising starts, we are dead at Utah next Saturday. Then, we face Caleb Williams, who will absolutely demolish this weak Cal defense.

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Check the news but his injury was much more severe than originally reported and the attitude with him and the program is that he is not coming back. Then there's SC...

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we will need to win a shootout against USC. Let's hope Mendoza develops during the Utah game and puts us in a position

Let's hope the coaches develop first...oops wait, Wilcox has been here 7 years.

We might steal one with Mendoza but even with Luckhurst booming the kickoffs, the defense has to be able to get off the field. If we can't, then it doesn't matter what the kickoffs look like.

Disagree with the 1/3 the way into the season correction.

Practice, training, evaluation and coaching doesn't start at game one. No, it starts in the spring, then resumes for summer camp and THEN the football playing season starts. But they've been preparing "all season" for the fall games. Coaches looking at film, scheming, working on the depth chart, etc.

I did some quick numbers. First spring practice was March 11. Last game is Nov. 29. That's 37 weeks of "football" at Cal. And no, the players are not practicing all that time; but the coaches ARE working during that time period. After yesterday's game, there are seven weeks left of football.

There's only about 18% of the "season" left!

No, at this point, the coaches are about four fifths the way through the football training & playing year, so it makes it far, FAR WORSE!

But wait, THERE'S MORE! Mendoza committed to Cal in Feb. 2022, so the coaches have seen his skills for TWO YEARS NOW!

Wow, this is bad. Very bad.

The guy is a redshirt freshman, and the two veterans ahead of him are decent. Mendoza has gotten a shot to lead the team in his first season in week 6 as a redshirt frosh. As well QB is the position where the difference between practice and actual gametime performance is the widest, and where experience counts a lot, so it's harder to make significant roster decisions solely based on practice.

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westcoast101 said:

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A change has to be made before the ACC. Get Wilcox out of Berkeley ASAP.

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This is a bowl team in the ACC right now. Half that conference would be at the bottom of the P12.

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Oh come on now. Let's get real.

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If you matched up P12 teams head to head vs the ACC equivalent on the conference totem pole, the P12 would win 9 or 10 games out of 12.

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Pac-12 is better but that doesn't mean we are better.

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We are a mid-tier ACC team right now - and a bottom third P12 team. Sagarin has the P12 slightly below the SEC as the top conference, followed by the B1G, the B12, and the ACC, which has the lowest P5 conference rating.

Midway through the season Sagarin has us at #56, ahead of Colorado, ASU and Furd in the P12, but ahead of Wake Forest, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, V. Tech, BC and UVA in the ACC.

http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm

Experience is over valued by coaches. Coaches are stubbornly conservative and thus, rely on what is most familiar. One can observe the limitations of ability verses experience in Cal's current season. Neither of the experienced QBs demonstrate any advantage over Mendoza, but Mendoza's skill is a significant advantage over the experienced QBs. Good coaching recognizes when skills are better than experience.

bearchamp said:

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Experience is over valued by coaches. Coaches are stubbornly conservative and thus, rely on what is most familiar. One can observe the limitations of ability verses experience in Cal's current season. Neither of the experienced QBs demonstrate any advantage over Mendoza, but Mendoza's skill is a significant advantage over the experienced QBs. Good coaching recognizes when skills are better than experience.

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We clearly don't have good coaching.