Yes, JT has Fresno State (8-1) climbing the top 25 and play the Broncos (7-2) Friday. Following week is SD State. Go JT, run the table!!
Have you seen Fresno State play this year? Do you really want to tempt the gods vs JT???TouchedTheAxeIn82 said:
I think the MWC champ still plays the Las Vegas Bowl. I doubt Fresno can pass UCF to make a NY6 bowl.
I've seen projections that USC will play Fresno in Las Vegas. I'd love to see a Cal - Fresno matchup rather than the matchups I've seen in various projections against various uninteresting teams.
Word. No Tedford means no stadium renovation which very well could have meant no more Cal football. In many ways, Jeff Tedford is the man who saved (or at least preserved) Cal football. He might not have gotten us to the promised land, but he gave us a shot at getting there.HungryCalBear said:
I still like Tedford and root for him all the way. He did struggle the last few years at Cal, probably due to his health and poor stress management. But he did turn the program around, winning enough games to help initiate the construction. Can't blame him for struggling with all the distractions of stadium building, home game relocation to ATT park, Berkeley politics, tree huggers, Cal anti-sports professors, etc. As some mentioned, the low APR score was due more to lack of support from university than Tedford's lack of attention to academic. Plus he lost good coaches due to lack of funding for assistant coaches. I could go on and on ...
Anyway hope he does well at Fresno State until retirement - he deserves it.
Sebastabear said:
Word. No Tedford means no stadium renovation which very well could have meant no more Cal football. In many ways, Jeff Tedford is the man who saved (or at least preserved) Cal football. He might not have gotten us to the promised land, but he gave us a shot at getting there.
EricBear said:
I listened to Tedford's weekly radio show last night (940 ESPN out of Fresno.) First time I'd caught it. The host was asking him about rankings, what they mean at this point in the season, etc.
Tedford began his response with typical coach-speak, then began reflecting on his time at Cal, particularly the 2004 squad. Said he should have done "a lot more politicking" at the time. That Mack Brown did "a lot of politicking and it cost us the Rose Bowl." Said he thought the team's performance spoke for itself, but learned a hard lesson that year about politicking and swaying voters.
It was good to hear him.
Given our game against BYU was just this year I'm going to go with a Joseph Smith/ Brigham Young analogy, but yeah you got the drift.01Bear said:Sebastabear said:
Word. No Tedford means no stadium renovation which very well could have meant no more Cal football. In many ways, Jeff Tedford is the man who saved (or at least preserved) Cal football. He might not have gotten us to the promised land, but he gave us a shot at getting there.
Wait, so Jeff Tedford was Cal's Moses? Does that mean Justin Wilcox will be our Joshua (hopefully)?
(As a fan of Cecil B. DeMille's _The Ten Commandments_, I would also suggest that Sonny Dykes was our Dathan.)
Sebastabear said:
Given our game against BYU was just this year I'm going to go with a Joseph Smith/ Brigham Young analogy, but yeah you got the drift.
At least we weren't the Baker-Fancher party...01Bear said:Sebastabear said:
Given our game against BYU was just this year I'm going to go with a Joseph Smith/ Brigham Young analogy, but yeah you got the drift.
Sebastabear said:Word. No Tedford means no stadium renovation which very well could have meant no more Cal football. In many ways, Jeff Tedford is the man who saved (or at least preserved) Cal football. He might not have gotten us to the promised land, but he gave us a shot at getting there.HungryCalBear said:
I still like Tedford and root for him all the way. He did struggle the last few years at Cal, probably due to his health and poor stress management. But he did turn the program around, winning enough games to help initiate the construction. Can't blame him for struggling with all the distractions of stadium building, home game relocation to ATT park, Berkeley politics, tree huggers, Cal anti-sports professors, etc. As some mentioned, the low APR score was due more to lack of support from university than Tedford's lack of attention to academic. Plus he lost good coaches due to lack of funding for assistant coaches. I could go on and on ...
Anyway hope he does well at Fresno State until retirement - he deserves it.
Those years from 2004 - 2009, when big crowds and excitement ruled Memorial... when it felt like we had finally arrived on the scene to stay... they were just magical.Sebastabear said:Word. No Tedford means no stadium renovation which very well could have meant no more Cal football. In many ways, Jeff Tedford is the man who saved (or at least preserved) Cal football. He might not have gotten us to the promised land, but he gave us a shot at getting there.HungryCalBear said:
I still like Tedford and root for him all the way. He did struggle the last few years at Cal, probably due to his health and poor stress management. But he did turn the program around, winning enough games to help initiate the construction. Can't blame him for struggling with all the distractions of stadium building, home game relocation to ATT park, Berkeley politics, tree huggers, Cal anti-sports professors, etc. As some mentioned, the low APR score was due more to lack of support from university than Tedford's lack of attention to academic. Plus he lost good coaches due to lack of funding for assistant coaches. I could go on and on ...
Anyway hope he does well at Fresno State until retirement - he deserves it.
100% italics above!Hail2Calif said:Sebastabear said:Word. No Tedford means no stadium renovation which very well could have meant no more Cal football. In many ways, Jeff Tedford is the man who saved (or at least preserved) Cal football. He might not have gotten us to the promised land, but he gave us a shot at getting there.HungryCalBear said:
I still like Tedford and root for him all the way. He did struggle the last few years at Cal, probably due to his health and poor stress management. But he did turn the program around, winning enough games to help initiate the construction. Can't blame him for struggling with all the distractions of stadium building, home game relocation to ATT park, Berkeley politics, tree huggers, Cal anti-sports professors, etc. As some mentioned, the low APR score was due more to lack of support from university than Tedford's lack of attention to academic. Plus he lost good coaches due to lack of funding for assistant coaches. I could go on and on ...
Anyway hope he does well at Fresno State until retirement - he deserves it.
Agreed. After Holmoe, I recall some talk of Cal dropping out of D-1 and going to D-3, more like the Ivy League or UChicago because there was no chance of us ever winning. JT came in, talked about competing for Championships (which drew laughs from media at that point), and proceeded to give Cal fans hope.
I would say some of the anguish on today's boards is due to fan expectations ratcheting way up because of what JT built.
Who remembers laughing at Cal's bowl ban prior to his arrival (as if we would ever get to a bowl) only to then lament in JT's first year how we had to stay home.
Mack Brown isn't anyone Cal fans care about if it weren't for the fact JT had led us from bottom feeder to Rose Bowl contender in 3 seasons.
I think greater awareness of the off-field dysfunction at and around Cal regarding athletics resulted as well - because when 3 wins is the expectation, there's no felt need to look at the whole picture.
Today, I am as optimistic as I ever have been about the overall direction of Cal Athletics. I feel we have a supportive Chancellor, a "get it done" AD, and a first time HC who has changed the culture and expectation within the program.
Talk about changing expectations (and for the better, IMO) and for all that I really appreciated Tedford's tenure at Cal.
72CalBear said:
100% italics above!
Some things never changeBadNewsBear1 said:
Apparently tedford still thinks you can carry over timeouts to the second half. Absolutely the worst time management skills I've ever seen.