Alkiadt said:
helltopay1 said:
This hurts me . Can you find the Haas lobby????My name is on the wall.
A lot of people's names are on that wall, but the classy ones don't need to advertise it.
As for Fox, I am in the camp that he will win 12-14 this year.
The preseason schedule is pretty weak, (and I am not upset about that...they need wins anyway they can get them and this is a year they should have a weak schedule)... He and the team suffered more from loss of development last year than any team in America. Lars and a few others could not even be here for summer development last year. They could not even handle a basketball (outdoors, on a blacktop) until October of last year. Cal was (is) very young, and it showed. Losing Bradley? Others will step up, they'll have to. I think many will be surprised.
As for losing Mahaney, I'll be more upset if they don't land the other PG recruit. I have always preferred him over Mahaney. My opinion, no sour grapes.
1. Under NCAA rules, teams cannot practice before October. Many teams have traditionally had "Midnight Madness" on that date. This year it is October 14. They then have 42 days to conduct a maximum of 30 practices. Cal starting practice in October is normal.
2. Santa Clara county had worse restrictions than Alameda County and the City of Berkeley. Los Angeles County was bad too.
3. Cal played as many or more preseason and regular season games as any other PAC-12 team. We played 27 games before the PAC-12 Tournament. UW and UCLA played 25. Oregon played 24. Utah and ASU played 23. We had 14 home games. UW had 11. Stanford had only 10 "home games" only 5 at Maples. They played 5 home games at Kaiser Permanente Center in Santa Cruz. Their first game at Maples was Feb.7
4. We were not young. 5 of our 6 with the most minutes were upperclassmen. 3 seniors, 2 juniors and 1 Sophomore.
5. This year that rotation, replacing Bradley with 6th year grad transfer Shepherd and Celestine starting looks to to be 4 seniors (including 3 super seniors in their 5th or 6th years) 1 junior and 1 sophomore in top 7. That is the opposite of young. It will likely be the oldest main rotation in Cal history, well at least in my memory. We will be much older than our competition.
Our 2021-22 Roster:
4 seniors (3 super seniors)
8 juniors
2 sophomores
3 freshmen
Again, this is not a young team
6. I agree Cal State LA, UCSD, USD, Southern Utah, Idaho State, Santa Clara, Dartmouth and Pacific, all to be played at Haas, is a weak schedule and should all be wins. That is 8. (Though Pacific and Santa Clara may be tough). We would then only need 1 more win to match last year's win total. With a few upset wins at Haas we should be able to exceed that, though the other bottom dwellers in the PAC-12 look to be improved and we are likely worse.
7. I am very grateful to you and everyone who supports Cal athletics. We will need our donors to dig deep in the coming years I suspect, though I'd love to be proven wrong. Go Bears!
