The only people who care about who's daddy came from where are furd legacy trust fund children.

Tracklife, thank you so much for posting his email address.

Here's my email to him:

Dear Mr. Corrente,
I was amazed that the Pac 12 referees missed the obvious targeting and helmet-to-helmet penalty in last Saturday's Big Game. Shane Skov absolutely nailed Cal's Jared Goff and got away with dirty play, Scott free. This is unacceptable. Play like this should result in the usual 15 yard personal foul penalty as well as expulsion from the game. I'd propose the player sit out the following game as well - similar to red card penalties in soccer matches.

I would anticipate these stiff penalties for flagrant dangerous play will be enough of a deterrent to change the behavior of players prone to "dirty" play. Their teams will not tolerate egregious play, knowing they'll be missing a valuable player in the following football game.

Either way, the Pac 12 needs to do everything in its power to discourage helmet-to-helmet contact during games.

I am very concerned about the concussion and brain injury issue in football (and all sports, for that matter). I think it is especially incumbent upon college football to take the lead on resolving this issue as soon as possible. To that end, the Pac 12 conference can quickly institute rules that make it absolutely clear that it takes brain injury very seriously. After all, we're talking about student athletes here. They come to great universities like Cal for an excellent education. We cannot accept the fact that many players are leaving their schools with lifelong brain injuries.

I'd also like to see the University of California take a leading role in researching and resolving the brain injury problem we're seeing in top-level sports today. I understand concussions are problematic in other sports as well, specifically women's soccer. My daughter plays soccer and I'd like to know she's playing a sport without abnormally high incidence of brain injury. If heading the ball needs to be a thing of the past to significantly reduce concussions, I'm all for it.

Whatever the sport, our student athletes should not be at greater risk of brain damage playing the sport he or she loves. We owe at least this much to them.

So please take my concerns into consideration for the next Pac 12 athletic season. I'd like to know that I am cheering for teams and players who are not risking permanent injury playing for my alma mater.

Best regards and Go Bears!

conservativebear;842232218 said:

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I completely understand your sentiments XXXBEAR and you're right on the safety issue. It should have been called targeting. Not disputing that. My point is, since it wasn't ,cool, we'll take care of it ourselves by making sure we try to run up 70 on them next year, at least that's the mindset I want our team to have, is that we don't need external help to ensure that the other team knows that trying that against Cal, will not go without consequence. We'll take care of the problem ourselves within the rules. I believe that firmly.

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That's the attitude our team should have. But the fans and admin, who don't play the game and really have nothing positive to contribute at this point apart from money and bad advice, can and should raise a stink about this with the Pac12 as a way of supporting our team and enforcing safety in this league. We had a player kicked out of a game at a crucial time for what turned out to be a non-penalty, and we've been called for this on numerous occasions. There's no reason we shouldn't demand fairness in our officiating. At this point it isn't complaining - the game's over - it's about making sure the refs are calling it fair next season.