that had to be, HAD to be, one of the WORST performances by our football team that i have ever, EVER seen. It was completely disordered, our secondary seemed lost and confused the entire game, and Riley looked like he didn't even know how to work the football (i.e. passing? what's that? oh, you mean throw to the people with red shirts? oooohhhhhh......)
pretty much everything that could have gone did go wrong, and once again the Trojans have trolled us. or actually, i think Riley has trolled us for one last time.
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| guyz. i got this. you just throw to whoever's open. lolz. |
Enough of our Cal football performance talk. let's talk about some other football games around the world. (Trojans can S a D.)
1. Ohio State 18 : 31 Wisconsin.
talk about another upset of #1 ranked team in the country for the second week in a row. Ohio State has looked as dominant as ever, putting up a whopping 161 points over three mighty opponents that dare challenge the #1 spot of the AP polls. (eastern michigan, masrhall and ohio. *sarcacsm*) Then they go on the road and get flat out beaten by a team that i personally thought was overrated all season long. well, i guess if you beat a #1 team you deserve some respect now, right? Just ask the South Carolina Gamecocks, who seemed to be riding off the high note until the Kentucky Wildcats came back from behind to score twice in the fourth quarter to win against the Gamecocks... Seems like someone had been a little too hungover for this game.
2. Texas 20 : 13 Nebraska.
If someone can legitimately explain to me what kind of a team Texas actually is, i'll buy you dinner. in fact, actually, just tell me wtf is up with that team, and wtf is up with our team. i mean, seriously. DOUBLE U. TEE. EFF?! The team that just couldnt' get anything rolling against UCLA (which we dominated), and got flattened out by the Sooners in the Red River Rivalry, comes back with a strong running game performance to beat the #5 team in the nation?! This is the team that boasts one of the best defenses in the country, as well as putting up big numbers in offense in their past six games of the season. This was the team that was 5-0 after beating some quality foes like Western Kentucky and South Dakota State by... oh wait, they only scored 66 points... i guess they didn't deserve to be #5 in the team since we scored over 100 over an FCS and a FBS team... but anyway. they did roll up huge numbers against the Huskies at the Husky stadium, and were ranked 2nd in rushing yards per game, rolled up a ghastly 125 yards against a Texas defense that EVEN UCLA ROLLED UP 264 YARDS ON. bottom line is, college football this year (more than any year, it seems like) is SOOO outta whack, and it can't all be explained in numbers.
3. Auburn 65 : 43 Arkansas
holy balls. when are WE going to see that type of games been played in Memorial stadium? over 1000 yards of total offense combined from both teams, constant lead changes and two outstanding QBs constantly dueling one another... i'm convinced that this type of games that almost exclusively occurs in the east coasts is what's feeding into this "east coast bias," where poll takers tend to favor East coast teams more so than the west coast teams in the rankings. sigh. (whatever, like we were anywhere close to entering the top 25 at all this season anyway. qq)
still happening is the Udub vs. Oregon State, and i'm very curious to see how this one turns out.
before i go sleep my problems away... here's my last lil bit of rant.
Dear Coach Tedford,
I, and most other Cal fans, i'm sure, cannot be most pleased that you turned this program from a laughable matter into one that has some national reputation. I'm very happy that yourself also has a reputation for having a creative and opportunistic offense, and i'm very happy that you've managed to create some fabulous QBs that are thriving in the NFL right now, as well as a constant production of the duo running backs that always perform at their best.
However, we, as human beings, always strive for more, always want that last piece of chocolate cake, even though we were told to stay away. It just looks too delicious, too tempting, and we all want it so, so bad. But it can't happen without you, we're also convinced, because you have the power to turn the program 180 degrees around.
WE. NEED. TO. GO. TO. THE. ROSE. BOWL. BEFORE. THE. WORLD. ENDS. (according to the mayans, at least. which says the world will end sometime on december of 2012, so that means there's no rose bowl for the 2012 season. Damn you Mayans, you just wanted to screw us over, didn't you?) In order to do that we must win road games, we must play every game like as if it's our rose bowl appearance. we need that fire in the player's hearts, we need to see it in their plays and on the field. This sort of lackadaisical "performance" that we somehow managed to post is absolutely inexcusable. you must, MUST coach them, so they have something to play for, so they don't just get flattened out by a mediocre team in the first 5 minutes of the ballgame. Players MUST play with the same kind of passion and dedication that they have showed during last years big game for EVERY GAME, in order to be able to compete at the higher level. we must take this program and take it a step forward, a step into the right direction, and i'm positive that losing by 34 points on the road is not that direction.
I like how you said that you should make football more fun. but that doesn't mean players can get lazy and comfortable, by any means. There should be NO excuse for the defense to blow coverages and lose their assignments; there should be NO excuse for the poor performance by the offensive line to never even give a chance to Riley to throw in the pocket without it collapsing on him and forcing him to make a play with his arm, becuase, let's face it, we all know that when that time comes you just cross your fingers and hope that ball ends up in the sidelines. There should be NO excuse, absolutely none at all, for our players to play like the way they played today.
Experience is a valuable thing, and that's pretty much the only reason Riley is QB-ing our team right now, and i'm fine with that. so long as he knows what not to do, and fix the things he can. This program still has a chance to finish a strong season and end up in a decent quality bowl game. But now is the absolutely critical time, the make or break time, the gut check time, the whatever you want to call it time. If our players don't come out fired up and ready to play by 12:30 pm next week (of course it's another 12:30 game. sigh.), then, well, i don't know what else to say, because I, and most other Cal fans, won't be so forgiving for a losing season, which would be your very first at Cal.
so please, Please, help us, help yourselves, and help the Bears overcome this to still achieve their goal, in becoming, hopefully, one of the national football power sometime in the future. and we only have this one rose bowl to go to, before the Mayans end the world. (not that actually believe that, just sayin.) I"m sure there's a limit where a human reaches its limit of emotional trauma, and alcohol helps for only so much. Please don't make any of us sell/lose our souls. You give us a passionate performance on the field, and we'll cheer for you and make Memorial the loudest it's ever been .that's a promise you know we can keep.
Go Bears, let's keep the axe for another year!
-Koo
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