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Who else thought that this was going to be about his belly?

The poncho lives

Good for Coach Tedford. Best coach at Cal in decades. Miss him. Let the rants begin.

Exactly. Hope things work out for him.
Not everyone works because they are broke. Some people actually enjoy their jobs.

KoreAmBear;842672304 said:

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Who else thought that this was going to be about his belly?

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Me, definitely thought a fat boy pic was coming

Wow, the disrespect for Cal's coach with the most wins ever is amazing. Show some class, folks.

MinotStateBeav;842672329 said:

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Good for Coach Tedford. Best coach at Cal in decades. Miss him.

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I'm with you. He just got burned out at Cal, but his winning track record at Cal was the best in the last 50 years.

I'd like to think he's spying on those douchenozzles at UW and will report back to us shortly.

Expect the Huskies to run a lot of draw plays on third and long.

MinotStateBeav;842672329 said:

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Good for Coach Tedford. Best coach at Cal in decades. Miss him. Let the rants begin.

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Great guy. Represented us well. From 2004-2008 he had us in the BCS convo year in year out. After that the wheels came off, he was stubborn and lost his way. I only wish him the best.

MinotStateBeav;842672329 said:

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Good for Coach Tedford. Best coach at Cal in decades. Miss him. Let the rants begin.

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+1

+1

Also the most losses ever.

dajo9;842672332 said:

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Wow, the disrespect for Cal's coach with the most wins ever is amazing. Show some class, folks.

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6164bear;842672380 said:

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Also the most losses ever.

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And the highest W/L percentage since Waldorf, so your point is moot.

Tedford also put Cal in more bowl games than all the other coaches combined in the last 65 years.

Oh please let UW be featured on "The Drive" this season.......complete with footage of JT lurking in the background, wearing his poncho, and occasionally making discreet comments into a microphone concealed within it (which, unknown to everyone, links directly to Sonny and the Cal coaching staff)

There's a contingent of Huskieie fans who are horribly dissatisfied with OC Jonathan Smith, and would love to have a grownup running the offense. Tedford's name has been floating around up there for a while. I tend to think that the game has passed him by and he's unlikely to recapture the magic of his days as Oregon OC/early Cal HC, but I certainly wish him well.

KoreAmBear;842672351 said:

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Great guy. Represented us well. From 2004-2008 he had us in the BCS convo year in year out. After that the wheels came off, he was stubborn and lost his way. I only wish him the best.

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Of all his years 2002 and 2003 are my favorite. I had never known Cal to beat Washington. I pulled over on 880 when the game ended....it was so crazy, I had to take a minute.2004 was fun, but nothing as shocking to my Fandom as 2002/3. That's when Tedford was the most "Tedford" to me.

JT's tenure during the Tree sitter Protest, the stadium rebuilt and dislocation during the stadium rebuild, sucked the life out of him. After that it was all downhill. Closed communications, yeah and being stubborn, wore him down.

I credit JT for the stadium rebuild and his successful years. I wish him all the best.

I wish nothing but the best for tedford. BOTH sides needed to move on. I do wish we had done better than the clown crew.

Geez @ clown crew

socaltownie;842673042 said:

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I wish nothing but the best for tedford. BOTH sides needed to move on. [U]I do wish we had done better than the clown crew[/U].

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okay until the end ...
so, FYI, clown crew chief thrown out, adults in charge now, students in attendance and winning.
Cal = Berkeley again.

Tedford was Cal's coach for 11 years, his tenure was like a Shakespearian tragedy--5.5 years on the rise followed by 5.5 years of decline. The pivotal moment being the 2007 OSU game--Cal momentarily #1 but RS freshman QB in his first start makes a mistake and then is benched for the rest of the season as we proceed to go 1-5 the rest of the way playing the injured starter, losing the Axe and almost losing the bowl game until finally the backup is given another chance. The rise was amazing--teams full of future NFL Pro-bowlers--including a team that had Aaron Rodgers and Marshawn Lynch in the same backfield and a Top 10 defense in only his third year. The fall was tragic--including getting stabed in the back by the young coach that, of hundreds of kids that had played for him, he had given a shot "et tu Tosh."

calumnus;842673283 said:

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Tedford was Cal's coach for 11 years, his tenure was like a Shakespearian tragedy--5.5 years on the rise followed by 5.5 years of decline. The pivotal moment being the 2007 OSU game--Cal momentarily #1 but RS freshman QB in his first start makes a mistake and then is benched for the rest of the season as we proceed to go 1-5 the rest of the way playing the injured starter, losing the Axe and almost losing the bowl game until finally the backup is given another chance. The rise was amazing--teams full of future NFL Pro-bowlers--including a team that had Aaron Rodgers and Marshawn Lynch in the same backfield and a Top 10 defense in only his third year. The fall was tragic--including getting stabed in the back by the young coach that, of hundreds of kids that had played for him, he had given a shot "et tu Tosh."

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We know it. Don't tell the story.

510Bear;842673290 said:

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We know it. Don't tell the story.

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Yup, calumnus, your post is a bit of a micro aggression on this board (I can't believe I just said that). He did us well for five years, did us not so well for five years and in the end took us to the cleaners on his contract, but all is supposed to be peaches and cream. It was what it was, and in the latter part, not pretty.

calumnus;842673283 said:

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Tedford was Cal's coach for 11 years, his tenure was like a Shakespearian tragedy--5.5 years on the rise followed by 5.5 years of decline. The pivotal moment being the 2007 OSU game--Cal momentarily #1 but RS freshman QB in his first start makes a mistake and then is benched for the rest of the season as we proceed to go 1-5 the rest of the way playing the injured starter, losing the Axe and almost losing the bowl game until finally the backup is given another chance. The rise was amazing--teams full of future NFL Pro-bowlers--including a team that had Aaron Rodgers and Marshawn Lynch in the same backfield and a Top 10 defense in only his third year. The fall was tragic--including getting stabed in the back by the young coach that, of hundreds of kids that had played for him, he had given a shot "et tu Tosh."

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I almost shed a tear. Crap, I'm sensitive today.

NYCGOBEARS;842673311 said:

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I almost shed a tear. Crap, I'm sensitive today.

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What aww shh

Phantomfan;842672996 said:

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Of all his years 2002 and 2003 are my favorite. I had never known Cal to beat Washington. I pulled over on 880 when the game ended....it was so crazy, I had to take a minute.2004 was fun, but nothing as shocking to my Fandom as 2002/3. That's when Tedford was the most "Tedford" to me.

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Yup that was the Fighting Tedfords period, no doubt about it. 2004-2008 was the BCS period. 2009 and beyond was the flying around out there period.

KoreAmBear;842673457 said:

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Yup that was the Fighting Tedfords period, no doubt about it. 2004-2008 was the BCS period. 2009 and beyond was the flying around out there period.

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2005 Ayoob was getting boo'd and eventually benched, 2007 we won only 3 Pac-10 games and finished near the bottom of the conference. 2008 was Longshore vs Riley QB controversy...and a trip to the Nut Bowl. 2004 and 2006 were the near-BCS years. So close.

Sorry for the microagression!

Will be always be grateful to Coach Tedford, and in association, Sandy Barbour as well. Did they both make some bad decisions. Yes, I can't deny that. They also both made some great decisions whose positive effects we're still seeing on campus today. Want them both to be successful (until we line up against Washington and/or Penn State).

calumnus;842673464 said:

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2005 Ayoob was getting boo'd and eventually benched, 2007 we won only 3 Pac-10 games and finished near the bottom of the conference. 2008 was Longshore vs Riley QB controversy...and a trip to the Nut Bowl. 2004 and 2006 were the near-BCS years. So close.

Sorry for the microagression!

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Facts are such nasty things but useful to avoid drifts into mentally revised history.

calumnus;842673464 said:

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2005 Ayoob was getting boo'd and eventually benched, 2007 we won only 3 Pac-10 games and finished near the bottom of the conference. 2008 was Longshore vs Riley QB controversy...and a trip to the Nut Bowl. 2004 and 2006 were the near-BCS years. So close.

Sorry for the microagression!

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That was a great 2005 team with one missing piece, at QB. Oregon, OS(U), and UCLA would have been wins were it not for lousy QB play; the difference between Cal and USC that year was that they had a QB and we didn't; the rest of the team played them extremely tough, even though it wasn't reflected in the final score. 2004-6 were all near-BCS years, IMO.

2003 is still my favorite year. Tedford miracle after the seniors graduate and he has to patch things together with jucos (Cal was expected to go 4-9 by at least one pac-10 pundit), starting 3-5 and finishing 5-1 after things came together, and full of hope for a monster season in 2004. When's the last time Cal had a better record in November than in September? Oh, and I *heart* me some Vinny Strang.

BearsWiin;842673544 said:

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That was a great 2005 team with one missing piece, at QB. Oregon, OS(U), and UCLA would have been wins were it not for lousy QB play; the difference between Cal and USC that year was that they had a QB and we didn't; the rest of the team played them extremely tough, even though it wasn't reflected in the final score. 2004-6 were all near-BCS years, IMO.

2003 is still my favorite year. Tedford miracle after the seniors graduate and he has to patch things together with jucos (Cal was expected to go 4-9 by at least one pac-10 pundit), starting 3-5 and finishing 5-1 after things came together, and full of hope for a monster season in 2004. When's the last time Cal had a better record in November than in September? Oh, and I *heart* me some Vinny Strang.

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'02 and '03 were awesome. Nobody had any expectations whatsoever the first two years, so anything Tedford did was gravy. And there was plenty of gravy.....70 points against Baylor, win on the road against Michigan State, beating UW for the first time, blowing out furd, and of course one awesome night against USC.

I'm not sure why our last two years (5-7 and 8-5 after 2013's 1-11) haven't quite had that same "anything is possible" feeling. Maybe I've just turned hard and cynical.

Ahhh..the Tedford thing again..All I know is that most of us would not be here today on this board - craving to launch upward from those incredible Tedford raised expectations. The bastard teased us, and many of us are still here!!!

Tedford was great but the game passed him by. He tenure left us with great wins and great/borderline epic seasons. The legacy of SAHPC despite the lawsuits and tree people belongs to him. Cal FB is the better for him.