KoreAmBear said:
Cal8285 said:
KoreAmBear said:
Northside91 said:
socaltownie said:
https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/article/Wyking-Jones-using-tough-love-in-bid-to-inspire-13539817.php?t=2a5c1f952a
Seriously - I feel really bad. He is learning on the job. Do the players get lollypops for not using 2 hands to dribble?
Look - we were always going to be bad. But having experience in the top job is so important.
Pretty ho-hum stuff from a head coach who's flaming out. I wouldn't expect him to be heavy on personal accountability, b/c that doesn't appear to be who he is. Hopefully, going forward, he keeps his comments to a minimum and just plays it out. Unfortunately, playing it out might include the remainder of this season and all of the next.
There's absolutely no way an AD of a Pac-12 program like us can retain him past this year. But who knows, if we retain BB after what he did to the football team, we are capable of doing such things in all areas.
What happened to the KoreAmBear who won MOC? Your first sentence is sufficiently optimistic. Your second sentence, however, is downright pessimistic and incredibly depressing.
I remember the days when, if at all possible, I would schedule any weekends away around Cal basketball. I would miss regular Thursday night obligations to attend conference home games. This year, I'm not bothering with Thursday night games and I'm missing at least one weekend game because I'm going to schedule departure and arrival for out of town trips at the most convenient times without regard to the Cal basketball schedule. I arrive at the conference games I do attend with no hope (although depending on what happens tonight, maybe I'll have hope vs. WSU) -- I attend wondering how interesting the train wreck will be to watch. And then if things are at least briefly competitive in the first half, I start to think maybe we can win. And then reality sets in.
I find hope in your first sentence, but you largely destroy that hope with your second. Sigh.
@8285 all these decades of losing and feeling like we're cursed have beaten me down. And even when it looks like we have something special brewing (the defense in football) we seemingly have an all-time horrible offense. Then we have this debacle in men's basketball. Believe me, I want to be MOC again. Right now, that outfit has been put in the storage bin until I have reason to go get it.
Sorry that reality is getting you to feel like most of us die-hard fans.
As a Cal fan, my emotional side always hopes for the best and expects the worst, while also trying to be a realist. For this basketball season, however, I am just resigned to the worst. Just because weird things happen, the realist in me says we could win 1 or 2 conference games, but 0 seems a very strong possibility. And if we went 0-18 while being entertaining and players seeming to give max effort, I'd be OK with it. That's not happening.
This is my 45th year of following Cal football and basketball. That's 90 seasons between the two sports. This basketball season is easily the worst of the 90. If we had MOC for this basketball season, I don't think anybody could win, because nobody is optimistic. Maybe we could have a LPC (Least Pessimistic CyberBear), but not MOC.
I remain hopeful, however, that in a future season, you can remove your outfit from the storage bin.