03-02-2021, 11:28 AM
Right, Mick and I should have connected the dots. To get to the conference finals--whether or not it gets a first-round bye--it is extremely likely that Stanford will have to win two upset games, something Stanford has never done in the 22 year history of the tournament. This is a counter to my (naive) belief that we haven't seen Stanford at its full potential, and this is the year that we can make history if everyone is healthy.
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)