Bobodeluxe said:

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I stated "anywhere between 3-9 and 9-3", so on average, I got it right.

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I predicted somewhere between 12 - 0 and 0 - 12, so on average, I was spot on.

^ We have been playing at the level of a top 25 the last 3 games. UCLA came into this game at #27 Sagarin, and WSU gave UW all it can handle yesterday.

The Pac was crazy good this year, that and the fact that we have had to break in a new freshman QB means we are better than our record.

I predicted 7-5. I thought our defense would be much more consistent. We gave away the USC and Auburn games and should be 8-4. Even if we were 8-4, we weren't competitive with the better teams in conference which I was expecting us to be. Really strange season. I think many things in the program need to change, but one thing Wilcox should get credit for is all of his teams exemplify ""The Bear will not quit. The Bear will not die."

my prediction wuz that bobo, doubtful & blueblood wouldn't go to a single cal football game in person this season but continue to pontificate in their predictablely negative whiny azz voices

Blueblood said:

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Shocky1 said:

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my prediction wuz that bobo, doubtful & blueblood wouldn't go to a single cal football game in person this season but continue to pontificate in their predictablely negative whiny azz voices

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What proof do we have that Shocky1 attended any games?

I don't see the relevance in doing so which makes me wonder if Shocky1 has heard of TV?

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watching tv (other than bosch: legacy & selling sunset, read books & ****) is for losers#

Honestly, before the season started, I thought likely would be 5-7 with a possibility of going 6-6 by beating UCLA in the final game. But for most of the season, even that 5-7 looked improbable, especially as Cal got blown out by UW. The fact that Cal also gave away winnable games against USC and Auburn was lamentable, even if I had chalked those games up as losses in August.

In retrospect, had Nando started every game this season, it's possible Cal could've gone 8-4 or even 9-3. I never would've expected that before the season. I'm very goad Cal seems to have found its next QB in Fernando Mendoza. I just hope he and Jaydn Ott remain at Cal next year!

Before the season, I made a FUTURES wager on Cal to OVER 5 games … which I am happy to say I get to cash in (it wasn't a huge amount but it was 3 digits worth)

Whoop!!!!!

I predicted 4-7. I think we played some teams at the right times. Wazoo and UCLA particularly. But 2 wins better than I thought.

I said it depended on the health of the team but I thought something like 4 or 5 wins. The team did suffer quite a few injuries throughout the season but seemed to avoid catastrophic long term injuries to key players with the exception of Cindric, SJV and Sirmon. Normally injuries like that would have derailed the team and, for a while , the Sirmon injury seemed to have a deeply negative effect on our defense and the season. But the emergence Of Ulluave, the resilience of our OL under our new OL coach and the emergence of Mendoza kind of blunted those impacts. Injuries to Iffanse, Thomas and Cardwell (preseason) also were blunted by Ott's toughness and consistency and the incredible depth overall at RB.

In other words, the players stepped up and the new coaching hires panned out. Also, winning last night was the result of a perfect storm. Cal benefitted from the Garbers injury and some timely plays and turnovers. But I will never say Cal got lucky. Cal has been one of the unluckiest organizations in all of sports throughout it's history. The kind of luck they had last night was more kharma than anything else, balancing out Cal's history against UCLA, Cal's history in the pac-12 and the pac-12 history itself.

After our bowl win, it will be time to move on, but, ironically Cal may benefit as much as anybody from this re-alignment. Other than Arizona, one of the hottest teams in the NCAA, Cal is probably as likely to win a conference as anybody. Oregon will have to find a QB through the portal yet again, and they will have to face Ohio St. et al to win the conference. What will Washington be without Penix is anybody's guess, although their HC knows what he is doing. But most of Cal's key players will return and QB is secured for the foreseeable future, especially if SJV returns to provide depth and variety.

Notice I did not mention Utah as a likely to have a conference title. I am not convinced that Utah will continue to be the giant that they were the last decade plus. That is because Utah is likely to lose Wittingham sometime in the next few years and I don't think they will be the same afterwards. Wittingham is absolutely the best HC the pac-12 has ever seen, including Tedford, Pete Carrol, Don James and other future hall of famers. Utah, based on their talent pool, had no business being more than a mediocre team every year. Wittingham not only elevated them above that in some years, he elevated them nearly every year to near the top of the conference and he did it regardless of injury issues, assistant coaches leaving and recruiting limitations. He consistently not only beat the top teams in the conference, he frequently blew them out, especially in Salt Lake. And he put a ton of players in the NFL. I imagine that he is working hard on developing and mentoring a quality replacement that will keep Utah relevant. And they will be. But they will not win another conference title without Wittingham unless they start to recruit better, which could happen with the move to the Big 12. We'll see. The only other coach out there that could rival Wittingham is Smith, but he is now gone to Michigan St. The Arizona coach is pretty good too but needs to do that consistently for about a decade to be in the same ballpark as Wittingham.

chazzed said:

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Shocky1 said:

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my prediction wuz that bobo, doubtful & blueblood wouldn't go to a single cal football game in person this season but continue to pontificate in their predictablely negative whiny azz voices

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Which trolls are worse: tools such as ducktildeath or trolls from within like bobodeluxe and blueblood?

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chazzed, to be honest with u i like both bobo (he got a good ponytail & is not racist) & blueblood (he sometime kinda funny with his clever fotos), just wish both of them wuz on xanax or something for their eeyore views re: cal football