Theme of the Day:

study, study, study, facebook, study, study, facebook, study, facebook, facebook, facebook, stu- faceboo- eff it. imma hit the sac- facebook, facebook, faceboozzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

Yay Bowl Eligibility!!

well, not yet, but we're just THAT close to it. Today's win over ASU in such a dominating fashion furthere convinces me that we're just a top 10 team at home, while we play like pansies away. what is that?! anyway. not we're sitting at a somewhat uncomfortable 4-3 (2-2 in PAC-10), needing just 2 wins out of the remaining five that we have for the bowl eligibility. Suddenly having a postseason game scheduled doesn't seem so difficult, as we should hopefully win at Wazzu and pull out a win over either UDub or Big Game. Good stuff.

it feels like most of the Pac-10 teams this year are having trouble winning on the road... Oregon State lost @ Udub in double overtime, Stanfurd has lost @ Oregon, UDub has lost @ BYU, $C has lost @ stanfurd, Arizona State has lost to us, Wisconsin and Oregon state... and of course, UCLA has lost to Kansas State and to us on the road.

Good teams win on the road as well as at home. so far, the only team in the Pac-10 that has done that is Oregon. Hopefully we'll be able to to do the same for the remainder of our season. *sigh*.

If we go to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl...... sigh...

why are things in life never easy? we have to work so hard to gain something so small or so little.. but we are so fragile in the process that all it takes is one little screw-up, one little awkwardness, and we lose everything. Competition exists to push each other to become better, but what if the other has already started out with so much more advantage? what do we do then, do we keep competing until we lose or do we strike a preemptive end to the fight? If only the other side knew of how much we go through... if only. 

Give it Away

that has to be one of the most annoying songs of all times by RHCP. honestly. the beat is funky, there's no melody and you're just yelling into your mic the entire time. what a terrible song (to play on rockband. haha)

anyway.

quote of the day:
"it's okay man. i'm your coach."
"F*** that, i'm calling an audible out there."
"Yeah, it'll be like Brad Childress and Brett Farve. WTF is going on?!"

This ASU game has to be THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF OUR SEASON. (during preseason it was determined that the Arizona game would make or break our season, and it keeps getting pushed back. haha.) But seriously. this game is the most significant game for us. Hey Cal fans, if you want to see the chances of us going to a bowl game so you can make plans for the winter, well, you best be showing up/checking up on this game, because, if we don't win this, i dunno who else we're gonna beat in the remainder of our season.

btw, who's quarterbacking that team, Rudy Carpenter? he's in his 10th year, right?

side note: even UCLA scored a field goal and were only (?!) down 32-3 at the half against Oregon. that's 10 less points that were given up by UCLA's D compared to that of ours and 3 more points scored by their offense compared to that of ours when we played last week, i mean, er, did we play last week? i think we've only played against UC Davis and Colorado and UCLA this season...

Which Riley will show up? the one that has a near-70% completion rate or the one that has a near-40% completion rate? i guess we'll find out on saturday.

p.s. it's supposed to be showering and in the low 60's in Berkeley. that should trip up our southern fellows from the desert.

Go Bears, let's shoot for something better than the New Mexico Bowl (i'm SO not going if we get invited to that piece of crap bowl. what a joke.)

Wow.

As our friendly California Golden Blogs posts, i don't think there's any better way to describe the game today other than how they did it here.

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.

guyz. i got this. you just throw to whoever's open. lolz.

i'm starting to like that picture of kevin riley better. at least it's funny. sigh.

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

Organic Chemistry

can S a D. yes. a big fat one. OChem is the worst nightmare of all nightmares, and even if you're awake it still haunts to a point where you're begging for that reaction to stop so you can just go home back to your children and your wife. (or... something that dramatic...) I, for one, couldn't care less about why a C=O bond turns into a CH2R group when Zinc (Mercury), Hydrochloric Acid and heat is added to a phenyl group. i just don't care! ugh. (i don't even know if that was the right synthesis for that.. *shrug*)

not that physics is any better. electrostatic potential? induction? INDUCTION?! electromagnetism?

speaking of which, after my physics midterm i definitely did some of these:

Physics definitely just trolled me.

while physics is just sitting there, doing this

Trollolololololol

ahem. anyway

Quote of the day: "we should hack into someone's FB account that posts a lot and upload a piece of S*** and you can comment on it saying "stop posting so much S***!!!" -Matthew Abell and Griffin Hosseinaterroristzadeh.

And because i'm obssessed with the mighty trojans of the south, here's the top 10 (somewhat legitimate) reasons why we will win that game.

10. Presidential Elections are over.
Since McCain already lost to Obama, the trojan fans will have no one else to offend. They will then try to think of a more recent country/world issue and try to voice their opinions against a general Democratic opinion, until they realize they have no idea wtf is going on in the world, and let alone their own lives, since their lives are littered with the ideology of a trojan - douchebagginess. On second thought, they might actually think our president's still Mr. Reagan... Regardless, they will remain more quiet than usual because of their lack of intelligence, until they realize they can only make baby noises, at which we will hear the stadium with a thunderous roar of goo-goo ga-ga. their team will be distracted, and we will prevail. GG.

hopefully their knowledge of our current president won't be this bad.

9. Time of Game
Let's face it, even if they are douchebags, they may have been good at football. so good, in fact, that they've hogged a lot of the primetime games, which almost always kicks off at 5:00 pm. (or sometimes 7 pm for a marquee Pac-10 match-up). This game, however, is scheduled to kick off at 12:30 pm. Their team will still be trying to wake up and leave for the field to warm up, while our players, having already been adjusted to this kickoff time, will be fired up and ready to go. (which is why i'm convinced we dropped the game at Nevada - our players must've thought 7 pm was bedtime after a long hard day of football). Expect the Bears to jump out to a quick 28-0 lead by halftime, and expect the Trojans to maybe wake up and cut the lead down to 7. But we will preserve win when, at the CAL 10 yard line with 1:23 left, Allen Bradford trips up on his own pair of snuggies that he forgot to take off and fumbles because he held on to the snuggie instead, because it's so gosh-darned soft and comfortable. Billy Mays 1 : 0 Mattress King.

And, if you call now, we will give you TWO snuggies, at the price of...

8. Fake Agents.
College Football nowadays are under scrutiny for the roles Agents play for the benefit of the player. The most famous case would be the best damn running back in the whole wide world, Mr. Reggie Bush, who had his Heisman trophy taken away from him (he actually gave it up, and tried to sound like an intelligent human being who knows what's right and what's wrong. Needless to say, he F'ed it up big time. you can read the story here.) Anyway, agents are now bribing players to take a lot of money and personal gifts to be able to play in the NFL, which would give the agents a solid job (security) and get paid big time. It is this trait that Cal students will use; expect some to bribe their way into the Coliseum and past the security and confuse some key $C players by throwing big words at them like Legislative Powers, and take them away from the game only to be locked up in van with justin bieber blasting the crap out of the speakers inside. man, talk about torture. oh wait, they might like that stuff since he's a little girl... hmm..

7. Matt Barkley vs. Kevin Riley.
Here's where some of you stop laughing and say wait, what? how can you even compare the two?! it's easy, you just look at the physical facts, i.e. statistics. etc... but with all joking aside, This is a key match-up which i believe we have the advantage in. How, you may ask? Well, remember that movie Saving Private Ryan? I'm sure you guys would know a little chump named Upham that pooped his pants at the very end, leading to two kills of his own dudes?

someone please make me a sandwich... T_T

After he has his little psychotherapy session with himself, he's found to be behind enemy lines, and rolls on a familiar face; a German POW that, of course, came back to kill more Americans. Upham, this time, does not poop in his pants and instead proceeds to blow the German's head off. Riley is Upham, and Barkley is the German. (No, Loggy is NOT Matt Damon... because we all know he can kick some ass out on the field without any protection). Barkley is obviously tougher, better, and more accurate with his weapon than Riley is. But when things count, when it's clutch time, Riley will unleash the (small) force of terror within himself, stop pooping himself, and will make all the right decisions to end Barkley's life. (that probably made zero sense, i just wanted to talk about Saving Private Ryan because it was a frigging awesome movie. and Nazis can S a D.)

6.Kiffin vs. Tedford.
This one is actually kind of serious. I myself wasn't aware before of the fact that Kiffin was a QB under Tedford at Fresno State, when Coach T was the offensive coordinator while Kiffin was a brilliant, phenomenal QB... a brilliant, phenomenal BACKUP QB, that is. Coach T knows Kiffin's ways, he knows the mentality of Kiffin and the grudge that he has held against Tedford. Tedford will use this to gain an upper hand in coaching, and will read Kiffin's eyes (literally, like how a DB reads a QB's eyes and makes a big play) and draw up the exact defensive scheme that will roflstomp the Trojan offense. Kiffin will then proceed to cry at being the best 2nd-stringer there ever was. It's okay Kiffin, not all of us can shine like a bright star you were in your collegiate career. That's because no one from the University of California, Berkeley have been anything but perfect.

5. Trojan marching band vs. Cal Band
Now, this is a no-brainer for anyone. Hell, even the Santa Clara band is probably better.

and that's just 1/2 of the band...

When we play any of our packet songs just once, people will start freaking out about the fact that bands in other places are capable of playing more than three songs and still sound good. Such concept would be so unfamiliar that $C fans' heads will undergo spontaneous combustion, which will probably distract the Trojan marching band enough so that we can sneak in and steal Tommy Trojan's stupid-ass sword, and proceed to cut more people with it.

4. The Power of 3.
Lane Kiffin, so far, is 0-2 in october at $C as a head coach. With Cal coming into town, that number can very well become 3. Also. The Trojans band has a 3-song repertoire. any more or less will lead to the destruction of the coliseum, banning $C from participating in any future athletic events, for safety hazards. USC is a 3-letter acronym. field goal is worth three points, and $C has lost their last two games by a combined number of 3 points. (and something more about how #3 is so prevalent everywhere and its linkage to SC sucking.) also:

 

yes, you just got trolled. three times.

3. Offense vs. Defense match-up.
Trojan offense has been rolling. it has put up a lot of points on the board, and do it in a seemingly effortless fashion. Matt Barkley is a solid QB, WR Ronald Johnson has plenty of talent to make plays both on offense and on special teams, and the trio RBs of Bradford, Marc Tyler, and FB Stanley Havili (of whom, btw, i'm convinced that this is his 9th year playing) will always be threat for both up-the-gut and screen plays on the edge. Not to mention an elite front-5 O-line. Our defense isn't so shabby either. Front seven has putting consistent pressure on opposing QBs, while the secondary has been as solid as ever, with depth and talent for our CBs and safteies. Many have experience under the belt, as well as the physical talents and the intelligence to stay on their assignments and thwart the offensive attempts. This is your classic sword vs. shield match-up. which side will tire out first, and which will make big plays?

on the other side, things are a lot less exciting. Trojans' secondary has looked God-awful so far this season, giving up tremendous number of yardage. the inexperience as well as lack of depth is what hurts them there. Our offense, however, isn't exactly the firepower that can overpower and expose that flaw. Riley is (still) inconsistent, while Marvin Jones is looking for help to relieve his pressure as the #1 WR that the defense knows and can place double-coverages on him. Keenan Allen needs to be more like an oldman and not like an uppity newman, while the O-line must protect Riley and open up holes for our hero, Shane Vereen. If we can take advantage of the spotty coverage, then we can maybe post up some points, becuase we all know the front seven will stack the box to prevent Shane from cutting loose. Bottom line is, our defense is good enough to hang with their offense, while experience gives our offense a slight edge over their defense. Let's see what you can do, Andy Ludwig.

2. Rivlary game
Plain and simple. Will we be subject for more pain from being defeated by a team that we probably hate more than 'Furd? Will we let them gain some momentum heading into their 3-home game streak by letting them stomp all over us? Will Tedford finally get a W in the Coliseum, having already won at the Rose Bowl last year? The Bears need to maintain the mindset of a Big Game, and come out fired up and be ready to put these silly kids in their place.

1. Oski > Tommy Trojan and his retarded horse.
Bears eat humans. Humans eat horses. By what i learned in my math class in 7th grade, Bears should eat horses. But how often do we see that? actually, bears prolly don't eat horses, but it still can scare the S*** out of them by growling and threatening to F your S up. Oski and the California Golden Bears will storm into the Coliseum, scare the crap out of Tommy Trojan and his horse, and we will claim victory over these silly, silly people that call themselves the best football team in the country.

Oski says OMNOMNOM HORSES

i probably should have just done my post-lab for Ochem, but whatever. this was so worth it.


GO BEARS, LET THE COLISEUM'S JUMBOTRON SHOW THE WORDS 'GG, no RE' AFTER THE GAME!!

First Post! and with that...

the bestest university in the whole wide world.

you might be wondering, first blog post and a big fat symbol of SC? WTF?!

that's right, folks. it's that time of the year again... IT'S SC WEEK!!! boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! this is the time to start rocking that blue and gold and start (or increase) your hate for the red and gold! (or just play HELLA starcraft)

as a person who lived in westwood for EIGHT years (and that as a first exposure to the land O' opportunities), it's safe to say that i've been a trojan hater. not necessairly a bruin fan, but i definitely knew i didn't like the red and orange. it also didn't help with the fact that my high school color was blue and gold...

anyway. well, 8 years of exposure to the heart of the UCLA campus naturally brought some light about the heated rivalry that was of the two Los Angeles schools, but, honestly, i couldn't careless about what the big deal was. why would i care that tommy trojan was a douche and joe bruin was burly and good? i'm having enough troubles on my own, you know, like trying to freaking learn how to speak english without pooping in my pants to other people... (not that that ever actually happened, just sayin)

coming to cal changes zero feelings of what i felt for $C. if anything, college has shown me how much of a douche that college actually is. seeing the coliseum and the life of $C in front of my very own eyes certainly didn't help, either.

... i just threw up in my mouth.

quote of that LA trip two years ago:
""YEAH! GO MCCAIN! F*** CAL! YOU TREE HUGGERS! YES ON PROP 8!"

... wonder what we're gonna get this time.

GO BEARS, CRUSH THE TROJANS!

.

Fight! for California for we're California Through and Through!

p.s. Dear Kevin Riley. Step yo S*** up. kthnxbai.