[Embo]

12, 8, 8, 8, 3, 9

Those are Cal’s recruiting rankings during Wilcox’ tenure at Cal.  He has *never* had a winning conference season, and has had a winning season twice in five years.  He is 26-28 overall, but that is mostly padded by going 11-3 against non-conference opponents; he is 15-25 in the PAC-12.  By comparison, over the same period, Shaw is 22-20 in conference (29-28 overall against a much tougher non-conference schedule) and that has prompted calls for major changes “or else” in these parts.  True, Wilcox didn’t “inherit a Ferrari”, but in his fifth year in the program, with 100% his own recruits, he went 5-7.  The best thing you can say about him is that he is incrementally better than Sonny Dykes (19-30, 10-26), and Dykes has shown that outside of Cal, he can win, going 30-18 at SMU.

I think if you had Cristobal’s recruiting with Wilcox’ coaching, you would probably have a juggernaut.  The rose-colored view if you are Oregon is that Wilcox is a good coach, and Oregon will recruit itself, and that as an alum, he won’t leave (unlike Taggert and Cristobal). The pessimistic view if you are a Duck fan is that Wilcox will do just well enough to compete but won’t recruit enough difference makers, especially on offense, to compete with the big boys, and as an alum, the school will find it hard to fire him.


How did that highlight reel not include Sean Barton’s Joey Alfieri's fumble return for a touchdown when Oregon was about to take an insurmountable lead in the second half of our 2018 game.

BC

Fixed it for you.  I do agree that it was the key of the game.
And it was Sean Barton who recovered the fumble by CJ Verdell on a play that Cristobal never should have called.

[Embo]

12, 8, 8, 8, 3, 9

Those are Cal’s recruiting rankings during Wilcox’ tenure at Cal.  He has *never* had a winning conference season, and has had a winning season twice in five years.  He is 26-28 overall, but that is mostly padded by going 11-3 against non-conference opponents; he is 15-25 in the PAC-12.  By comparison, over the same period, Shaw is 22-20 in conference (29-28 overall against a much tougher non-conference schedule) and that has prompted calls for major changes “or else” in these parts.  True, Wilcox didn’t “inherit a Ferrari”, but in his fifth year in the program, with 100% his own recruits, he went 5-7.  The best thing you can say about him is that he is incrementally better than Sonny Dykes (19-30, 10-26), and Dykes has shown that outside of Cal, he can win, going 30-18 at SMU.

I think if you had Cristobal’s recruiting with Wilcox’ coaching, you would probably have a juggernaut.  The rose-colored view if you are Oregon is that Wilcox is a good coach, and Oregon will recruit itself, and that as an alum, he won’t leave (unlike Taggert and Cristobal). The pessimistic view if you are a Duck fan is that Wilcox will do just well enough to compete but won’t recruit enough difference makers, especially on offense, to compete with the big boys, and as an alum, the school will find it hard to fire him.


How did that highlight reel not include Sean Barton’s Joey Alfieri's fumble return for a touchdown when Oregon was about to take an insurmountable lead in the second half of our 2018 game.

BC

Fixed it for you.  I do agree that it was the key of the game.
And it was Sean Barton who recovered the fumble by CJ Verdell on a play that Cristobal never should have called.