Hey jacketree. Yeah, I thought about including the postseason in my analysis, but it occurred to me that it's the regular season--and really the conference season--that gets folks excited for the postseason. Not the other way around. But if I had included postseason facts, I would have noted that the conference was *really* weak during parts of Dawkins' tenure. But I didn't see the point, since Dawkins is gone.
This was more an exercise to calibrate my expectations for the next coach. As I wrote earlier, it's the consistent winning conference record that Montgomery accomplished, even during his first nine years at Stanford (and before that at Montana), that's the standard to which the next coach should be held, IMO.
This was more an exercise to calibrate my expectations for the next coach. As I wrote earlier, it's the consistent winning conference record that Montgomery accomplished, even during his first nine years at Stanford (and before that at Montana), that's the standard to which the next coach should be held, IMO.
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)