UrsaMajor;842232764 said:

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I tend to agree with 75, although I probably ascribe somewhat more responsibility to Dykes than he does.

What is troubling is that so many posters here apparently cannot tolerate either ambiguity or complexity. A comment such as "this is 1000% Dykes' fault" is flat out stupid (not to mention mathematically impossible). Dykes is the head coach, and ultimately responsible for the product on the field, but he also had no capacity to alter the hand he was dealt. Suggesting that part of the problem was the legacy of Lupoi should NOT mean that "it's all Tosh's fault." The season was a perfect storm: bad locker room attitude meets too little talent meets too many injuries meets a coaching staff that was both unprepared to deal with the myriad problems and had some serious strategic and systemic flaws. The best coach in the country would not have had a winning record with this team, and I doubt Dykes and Co. would have had a winning record without the injuries and some of the other problems. In other words, everything went wrong. While I realize that it is comforting to the simple-minded to fixate on a single villain, it doesn't match reality.

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Saying everything went wrong is a bit of a copout. There are more than one way to play the cards your dealt.

Things Sonny chose that contributed to the lack of performance in the field include: moving to a 4-3, musical chairs at all positions this lacking continuity and experience, waiting so late into the season to figure out backups (center, mlb), sticking with the QB, poor game mgmt (not going for 2),etc.

We really don't need to rehash all the mistakes he made but characterizing him as having no influence on the outcome of the season is misleading.

DrDanger;842232877 said:

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I'll agree.
But it becomes a problem to me when the same opinions are repeated over and over and over and over again by the same posters, on multiple threads.
Where's the give and take in that?

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Some smart folks are just idiotic on internet boards. I think you just have to take the good with the bad unless you have somewhere else you can go to discuss Cal football. My family and friends are just not that interested in Cal football, go figure.

UrsaMajor;842232764 said:

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I tend to agree with 75, although I probably ascribe somewhat more responsibility to Dykes than he does.

What is troubling is that so many posters here apparently cannot tolerate either ambiguity or complexity. A comment such as "this is 1000% Dykes' fault" is flat out stupid (not to mention mathematically impossible). Dykes is the head coach, and ultimately responsible for the product on the field, but he also had no capacity to alter the hand he was dealt. Suggesting that part of the problem was the legacy of Lupoi should NOT mean that "it's all Tosh's fault." The season was a perfect storm: bad locker room attitude meets too little talent meets too many injuries meets a coaching staff that was both unprepared to deal with the myriad problems and had some serious strategic and systemic flaws. The best coach in the country would not have had a winning record with this team, and I doubt Dykes and Co. would have had a winning record without the injuries and some of the other problems. In other words, everything went wrong. While I realize that it is comforting to the simple-minded to fixate on a single villain, it doesn't match reality.

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The 1000% cmment was specifically referring to the staff Dykes assembled.

Who exactly would you blame for the weak and slowly assembled staff if not SD? Sandy? JT? Duds like Buh and his contract are all on SD.

Feel free to continue twisting yourself into a pretzel defending Dykes' pathetic 1-11 blown out in nearly every game record. I won't be. He needs to put a competitive program on the field next year or hit the road.