Big C said:

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calumnus said:

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BearlyCareAnymore said:

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southseasbear said:

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oski003 said:

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If we pay the 15 million dollar buyout to replace him, I hope we offer the next coach more resources than we offered Wilcox. This means lots of money for coaches and other support staff as well as more field use. The University needs to understand that football is big business and we need to play in it. We can't have hour long lines to get into the stadium. We can't have poor publicity. We can't rely on private individuals to promote the team. We need to act more like a private school than a bungling bureacracy. How do Ohio State, Penn St. and Michigan doing it? Why did Sandy fail here but succeed at Penn? We should fire Wilcox because we want better than 6-6 and are willing to make changes to get that. We can't merely pretend he is horrible because he is not.

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He is not horrible but he is mediocre, which should never be acceptable at Cal.

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Not to argue semantics, but mediocre means middle. Mediocre would be .500 record in conference. He isn't mediocre. He may not be horrible, but he is on the line between horrible and well below average.

I do not think people understand how easy our schedule was this year and how much of a missed opportunity this year was.

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100% This season was set up on a platter and it was critical opportunity to save the program. Instead Wilcox squandered it with his lazy non-search for an OC and then going conservative with leads.

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The four-game losing streak was devastating. Here are our opponents this season, top-to-bottom, according to their current national ranking by the Athletic:

SMU . . . . . . 8
Miami . . . . 13
Syracuse . . 20
Pitt . . . . . . . 45
NC State . . 58
Auburn. . . . 60
Wake . . . . . 84
Oregon St . 89
Furd . . . . . . 95
Florida St . 105
SDS . . . . . .126
Davis . . . . . NR

Basically three good teams, three mediocre teams and six crap teams. If we had just beaten every team we played that was ranked lower than 50th, we'd be 8-4. What a lost opportunity, especially when you consider the highs of GameDay, the Calgorithm, etc.

What might have been...

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Our loss to FSU didn't seem so bad at the time, but got worse every week as everyone else had no trouble taking them out

DoubtfulBear said:

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Big C said:

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calumnus said:

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BearlyCareAnymore said:

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southseasbear said:

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oski003 said:

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If we pay the 15 million dollar buyout to replace him, I hope we offer the next coach more resources than we offered Wilcox. This means lots of money for coaches and other support staff as well as more field use. The University needs to understand that football is big business and we need to play in it. We can't have hour long lines to get into the stadium. We can't have poor publicity. We can't rely on private individuals to promote the team. We need to act more like a private school than a bungling bureacracy. How do Ohio State, Penn St. and Michigan doing it? Why did Sandy fail here but succeed at Penn? We should fire Wilcox because we want better than 6-6 and are willing to make changes to get that. We can't merely pretend he is horrible because he is not.

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He is not horrible but he is mediocre, which should never be acceptable at Cal.

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Not to argue semantics, but mediocre means middle. Mediocre would be .500 record in conference. He isn't mediocre. He may not be horrible, but he is on the line between horrible and well below average.

I do not think people understand how easy our schedule was this year and how much of a missed opportunity this year was.

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100% This season was set up on a platter and it was critical opportunity to save the program. Instead Wilcox squandered it with his lazy non-search for an OC and then going conservative with leads.

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The four-game losing streak was devastating. Here are our opponents this season, top-to-bottom, according to their current national ranking by the Athletic:

SMU . . . . . . 8
Miami . . . . 13
Syracuse . . 20
Pitt . . . . . . . 45
NC State . . 58
Auburn. . . . 60
Wake . . . . . 84
Oregon St . 89
Furd . . . . . . 95
Florida St . 105
SDS . . . . . .126
Davis . . . . . NR

Basically three good teams, three mediocre teams and six crap teams. If we had just beaten every team we played that was ranked lower than 50th, we'd be 8-4. What a lost opportunity, especially when you consider the highs of GameDay, the Calgorithm, etc.

What might have been...

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Our loss to FSU didn't seem so bad at the time, but got worse every week as everyone else had no trouble taking them out

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As the saying goes: "If only we had known they were that sh***y, maybe we could've beaten them."

DoubtfulBear said:

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Big C said:

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calumnus said:

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BearlyCareAnymore said:

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southseasbear said:

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oski003 said:

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If we pay the 15 million dollar buyout to replace him, I hope we offer the next coach more resources than we offered Wilcox. This means lots of money for coaches and other support staff as well as more field use. The University needs to understand that football is big business and we need to play in it. We can't have hour long lines to get into the stadium. We can't have poor publicity. We can't rely on private individuals to promote the team. We need to act more like a private school than a bungling bureacracy. How do Ohio State, Penn St. and Michigan doing it? Why did Sandy fail here but succeed at Penn? We should fire Wilcox because we want better than 6-6 and are willing to make changes to get that. We can't merely pretend he is horrible because he is not.

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He is not horrible but he is mediocre, which should never be acceptable at Cal.

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Not to argue semantics, but mediocre means middle. Mediocre would be .500 record in conference. He isn't mediocre. He may not be horrible, but he is on the line between horrible and well below average.

I do not think people understand how easy our schedule was this year and how much of a missed opportunity this year was.

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100% This season was set up on a platter and it was critical opportunity to save the program. Instead Wilcox squandered it with his lazy non-search for an OC and then going conservative with leads.

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The four-game losing streak was devastating. Here are our opponents this season, top-to-bottom, according to their current national ranking by the Athletic:

SMU . . . . . . 8
Miami . . . . 13
Syracuse . . 20
Pitt . . . . . . . 45
NC State . . 58
Auburn. . . . 60
Wake . . . . . 84
Oregon St . 89
Furd . . . . . . 95
Florida St . 105
SDS . . . . . .126
Davis . . . . . NR

Basically three good teams, three mediocre teams and six crap teams. If we had just beaten every team we played that was ranked lower than 50th, we'd be 8-4. What a lost opportunity, especially when you consider the highs of GameDay, the Calgorithm, etc.

What might have been...

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Our loss to FSU didn't seem so bad at the time, but got worse every week as everyone else had no trouble taking them out

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It was pretty bad even then. FSU was winless, including having lost to Georgia Tech. (GT happened to be a lot better than expected, but their defeat of FSU was largely unexpected.) Memphis and Boston College were also not football powerhouses. FSU should've steamrolled them. When FSU came up on the short end of those contests, it was apparent FSU was not good. Then Cal rolled along and gave FSU life. That was a really bad loss, even back then.