04-17-2015, 11:41 PM
(04-17-2015, 09:36 PM)winflop link Wrote:If Stanford does not make the tournament next season - which I highly doubt it will given what the roster looks like - I don't think he will have a choice.
What's wrong with the roster? Here is returning top-100 talent, according to a website that some folks on the CARDBoard despise/Rivals:
2012 class: Rosco Allen #78/73, Grant Verhoeven #79/132
2013 class: Marcus Allen #47/131
2014 class: Reid Travis #38/44, Robert Cartwright #50/82, Michael Humphrey #72/47, Dorian Pickens --/136
2015 class (incoming): Marcus Sheffield #93/103, Cameron Walker --/72, Josh Sharma --/84
As best as I can tell, each of the above players was rated in the top 25 for his position as a recruit.
The cupboard is not bare next year, and I think this team has the talent to finish in the top half of the conference and make the NCAA tournament. I was pissed off when the team folded in the second half of conference play this year (and in 2013, and in 2012, and in 2011...), and I'll be just as pissed off if it happens again in 2016. But then again, I'm pissed off for greatness.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)