California Golden Bears Football

[RallyMo]

Yep. All commits at this point are for the class that signs in 2018.

All the commits are from... California. Weird. And they're well regarded OL and defensive players. Weird again.

Apparently they have four new guys committing this weekend. Good stuff.

[Tank]

so how is this different from letter of intent day?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Once a player signs a National Letter of Intent, from that point on he is committed to play at that school. Nothing is final until the player signs the LOI, and anything else is a verbal commitment - a statement of a player's intent to sign somewhere, if you will. Verbal commitments are not binding. Players often withdraw their verbal commitments and sign elsewhere. Verbal commitments are nice, because they give you some idea of what you have coming in for a particular class, but nothing is final until the ink is dry.

[Tank]

good explanation, Vegas. Thanks, and thanks to the others who replied.

[RallyMo]

Wilcox and Co. now have commitments from 4 of the top 11 OL recruits in CA. That's a switch.

[yk9001]

Cal looks F'd.

http://deadspin.com/the-desperate-future-of-cal-athletics-is-here-1797944572

[RallyMo]

5 hours ago, yk9001 said:

Cal looks F'd.

http://deadspin.com/the-desperate-future-of-cal-athletics-is-here-1797944572

We'll see. It's not good, that's for sure.

One thing that is intriguing is that mention of ditching Edwards Stadium and building housing. He seems to write it off as being inconsequential even if they do that, but that's a fairly large parcel of land not getting much use on an increasingly crowded campus, and I'm pretty sure it's under control of the AD. To build housing there, it'd have to be transferred out of the AD, and I imagine that will involve a shift of a considerable amount of funds from the general campus to the AD. It's not like the AD would be building a dorm on its dime and then trying to recoup the cost on that. I think such a deal could make a significant impact on the outlook here. Then again, maybe not.

Whatever the case, it is and will continue to be ugly.

GO BEARS!

[Lou]

Go Bears!

 

please 

[Spirit]

Love College Game Day!

 

 

[RallyMo]

1 hour ago, Geoff said:

Love College Game Day!

 

 

That's more or less what happened today.

[RallyMo]

This apparently just went up right outside the visiting locker room. I love it:

 

[Tank]

"do not fall into the fault line."

sage advise.

[nate]

Cal taking on a true power house in Weber State this week

[Lou]

6 hours ago, nate said:

Cal taking on a true power house in Weber State this week

Weber St 20
Cal 17
3rd 7:46

[nate]

1 minute ago, Lou said:

Weber St 20
Cal 17
3rd 7:46

Weber st taking on a true lightweight in Cal

[RallyMo]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

Weber St 20
Cal 17
3rd 7:46

 

[Lou]

@RallyMo @mrwicked 

Go Bears!

any other Cal folks here? 

[RallyMo]

This is a really interesting game. I was so convinced that it would be over quick after how the first quarter looked, but the Bears have hung in there. Shea Patterson's arm is absolutely ridiculous.

[Lou]

"So he's got the leg to do it"

lol 

[RallyMo]

That wasn't a very good kick.

[RallyMo]

That wasn't a very good kick.

[RallyMo]

I'm starting to have a good sense of confidence in the feeling that our new coaching staff is an improvement over the previous regime.

Next week will be tough. I hope we're able to better hang with USC than in recent years, or at least limit the scale of the blowout.

[mrwicked]

I missed the game - was in Scandinavia. Was gonna go with my Ole Miss alumni friends - they are not happy. Haha.

But from hearing and reading, my main takeaway so far this season is how much our D has improved. I mean it was just so bad last year. We still seem to love to give up the big play, but we also actually make stops now. 

I don't see us beating USC but whatever, at least it should be entertaining.

[RallyMo]

Wilner wrote something nice about Cal.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/18/cal-football-report-card-grading-the-win-over-mississippi/

WTFunk?

[nate]

Holy shit what are these uniforms.  They are fugly