09-20-2011, 06:31 AM
Cal gave up a blocked punt TD and a pick 6 to Presby. Only Cal could hold a team to 8 yards total offense in one half and find a way to give up 12 points. It would have been 14 had Presby made their XPs. I've never heard of a team having more points than yards.
As for the Gatorade bath, it just shows how much Cal and its soft fan base embraces, even celebrates mediocrity. No winning program would ever give a coach until year 10 of his tenure to win 75 games. Cal fans hope to eventually get to the Rose Bowl, but they have no concept of the culture and performance standards needed to get there. Not only does the fan base and administration not demand more, but Tedford doesn't have any coach on his staff that has been on a team that has won anything. He has one coach that coached in the NFL, his OL coach that was with the Raiders for one season.Â
Dumping Gatorade on a coach who wins his 75th game in his 10th year, against a horrible FCS school, is just one more in a long and sad list of reasons Cal will never win at a high level in sports that matter.
The ESP seating disaster was predictable. Who in their right mind would give money to Cal? It's right up there with the Pentagon in terms of government bureaucracies that piss money away. Cal should have bulldozed Memorial stadium and started new, like Stanford did with its stadium, but people at Cal are more interested in holding on to a symbol of an irrelevant past, than they are saving money by starting over. Cal has to spend probably well north of $100 million more to keep the old Memorial Stadium facade intact and earthquake retrofitted than it would have if it just made the tough choice to raze Memorial and start over. And if Cal did start over, the SAHPC wouldn't have had to been built underground, and that too would have been a lot cheaper. If Cal had done the practical thing, the cost of new facilities might have been $200-300 million, rather than the $500 million price tag they have.
Hell, if they did opt for the cheaper, less nostalgic option, they might have had money to buy out the coach last year and also avoided the embarrassment of giving him a Gatorade bath for getting win #75 against Presbyterian.
As for the Gatorade bath, it just shows how much Cal and its soft fan base embraces, even celebrates mediocrity. No winning program would ever give a coach until year 10 of his tenure to win 75 games. Cal fans hope to eventually get to the Rose Bowl, but they have no concept of the culture and performance standards needed to get there. Not only does the fan base and administration not demand more, but Tedford doesn't have any coach on his staff that has been on a team that has won anything. He has one coach that coached in the NFL, his OL coach that was with the Raiders for one season.Â
Dumping Gatorade on a coach who wins his 75th game in his 10th year, against a horrible FCS school, is just one more in a long and sad list of reasons Cal will never win at a high level in sports that matter.
The ESP seating disaster was predictable. Who in their right mind would give money to Cal? It's right up there with the Pentagon in terms of government bureaucracies that piss money away. Cal should have bulldozed Memorial stadium and started new, like Stanford did with its stadium, but people at Cal are more interested in holding on to a symbol of an irrelevant past, than they are saving money by starting over. Cal has to spend probably well north of $100 million more to keep the old Memorial Stadium facade intact and earthquake retrofitted than it would have if it just made the tough choice to raze Memorial and start over. And if Cal did start over, the SAHPC wouldn't have had to been built underground, and that too would have been a lot cheaper. If Cal had done the practical thing, the cost of new facilities might have been $200-300 million, rather than the $500 million price tag they have.
Hell, if they did opt for the cheaper, less nostalgic option, they might have had money to buy out the coach last year and also avoided the embarrassment of giving him a Gatorade bath for getting win #75 against Presbyterian.