Let's see if I understand the mood ...
With our players healthy,
with a scattering of JC transfers,
with a year's experience,
with a year's weight room bulk,
and with a few tweeks to the innovative Bear Raid Offense,
and modest refinements to the clever Bear Defense,
the Bears are a playoff team in 2014.

Did I understand everyone?
I'm in.
Where's the Kool-Aid?

Dykes will lead the county in championship game wins one day.

If 4 wins is a renaissance then yes, I agree.

BerlinerBaer;842235780 said:

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If 4 wins is a renaissance then yes, I agree.

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You're four times as optimistic as I am.

CaliforniaGoldenBear;842235773 said:

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Let's see if I understand the mood ...
With our players healthy,
with a scattering of JC transfers,
with a year's experience,
with a year's weight room bulk,
and with a few tweeks to the innovative Bear Raid Offense,
and modest refinements to the clever Bear Defense,
the Bears are a playoff team in 2014.

Did I understand everyone?
I'm in.
Where's the Kool-Aid?

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Upside in 2014 is 2-10. That's a 100% improvement over 2013. Dykes is the man! :bawl:

Would Cal be crazy enough to retain a coach that went 5-19 in two seasons. :rollinglaugh::rollinglaugh::rollinglaugh:

Dude if you're talking conference playoffs that's not Kool Aid, that's Ever-Klear Punch you're trying to sell.
Forget the Renaissance: I'd be happy with a few enlightened scribes—Monks in monasteries, copying subversive, but TRUE tales of Bears competitive in a majority of games!

The Renaissance will be when Sonny Michaelangelo paints Bears on the ceiling of the 'Furd Chapel and we get the Axe.

In other words, the Enlightenment is still far away, but we are moving away from the Dark Ages.

Well, I say you are a little short-I say win the Conference Championship game.
If I want reality, I will read something other than BI. Since '75, Cal football is about unconditional hope, daily optimistic day-dreaming, all leading to yearly rationalization.