His PFF numbers are not so overwhelming, but again, some people take PFF with a grain of salt.

Bears playing well, up 18-11. Askew not playing for some reason.

I guess he is taking the Covid year. TD catches in his last two games of the season in addition to be the best WR blocker. This is good .. que no?

From his twitter seems he got his BA awhile ago. Wonder how many certificates/Masters he is getting.

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He had some nice moments down the stretch, good for the WR room.

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I think Gorney did a pretty good job of evaluating how I think Wilcox and staff did this cycle.

https://n.rivals.com/news/pac-12-spotlight-grading-the-2023-class

the Pitt coach makes a brutal call on 4 and 1 deep in UCLA territory and lets UCLA pull ahead by a point. then the UCLA D BLOWS IT (prevent D preventing the win) and Pitt hits a FG w 4 sec left to win it! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH

yes this is petty, but it's all i got right now for college football thanks to Wilcox

Interesting write-up on a guy who has turned around programs at 3 levels of college basketball.

“After the 2020 COVID-19 shortened season, another startling development took place.

The University of California entered into a 15-year contract with the California Baseball Foundation that the baseball program would be once again funded by the University. Under conditions of the contract, the baseball program could not be eliminated during the next 15-year period (2035).

As part of the contract, the baseball program is responsible for coming up with $600,000 a year, plus 3 percent, every year during this 15-year period of time, according to Stu Gordon of the California Baseball Foundation.”

Thoughts?

Eat your heart out, Droski, good sir

Lol Rams.

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Thoughts?

A random youtube video popped up on my feed about whether Bronny James is really that good or not.

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As you may know, he is one of the few undecided players in the 2023 class and currently ranked 61 in the nation. He also supposedly has offers from UCLA, Kentucky, Ohio State, USC, etc… and yet those programs have already filled up the classes with relatively better talent than Bronny.


So the conspiracy theorist in myself suspects Bronny doesn’t actually have an actionable offer from those schools. This is largely because up until this point, he was a role player on his respective HS team (granted, they were always composed of 5 star talents). This year is his first year as the primary ballscorer and so far it hasnt look that good.

Anyways I bring this up because I got to ask — would it be worth it to bring Bronny to Cal?

A) It would bring fans to the games. Imagine Lebron sitting courtside to watch his son while wearing a Cal shirt.

B) It may align well with a potential Nike deal?

C) It’s not like our recruiting is amazing anyways
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As for Bronny, it would be a good fit insofar he wouldnt be overshadowed by other players and he’ll get plenty of playing time, expectations wont be too high on him.

So what do you think? Is it worth it for Cal to bring in Bronny?

I just received such report, along with Jim's happy holidays' card, via UPS overnight. There are some interesting data in such report, such as total funds raised $39.6 M; $11.7 M for endowments and $14.4 M for operations; 10,882 total gifts by 5,926 donors who break down as 4,293 alumni, 1,064 friends, 510 parents and 45 corporations/ foundations. The relatively small number of donating alums is shocking, considering how many there are in existence. Mega gifts specifically recognized for rugby, men's water polo and women's lacrosse. Revenues break down as 23% philanthropic contributions; 26% from UC; 11% royalties, advertising and sponsorships; 7% ticket sales; 20% media rights; 1% parking and concessions; and 1% other. Expenses are 11% athletic student aid; 24% sports-specific costs; 43% for coaching support staff and administration compensation and severance payments; 3% medical insurance; 2% campus fees; and 17% for other athletic department expenses. The comparison of funds supporting athletes versus coaches and administrators is an eye opener when I must consider where my donated $s are being spent and makes donations to NIL even more attractive if we want winning football and men's basketball teams.

To each of my fellow Golden Bear fans and friends, I wish you health, happiness and more Cal victories next year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

I'm not expecting any surprises today. We'll track the signings as they're announced from the 10 commits (including JUCO DB Matthew Littlejohn).

Oregon St. is on a Roll.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nc...0f6a145dba076df110074c37d&ocid=winp2fptaskbar

Felt like a thread— RIP to my Giants.

Struck out on every big name free agent this offseason despite having the funds. Today’s Correa news is the nail in the coffin of how pathetic this once-great club has fallen.

Is Mark Fox secretly the GM for the Giants?

Devin Askew is out after sustaining the foot injury the other night.

RB JoJo Solis

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He's made 20 starts at left tackle for Harvard.

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I was watching the early signing day results on ESPN yesterday.

75 of the top 300ESPN players signed with the top 5 recruiting teams in the SEC (Bama, GA, LSU, Florida, Tenn.).

If you add Clemson and Ohio State then those 7 schools signed about 100 of the top 300.

Bama had 22 alone. (Roll Tide).

USC, the great recruiting school with the great new coach and Heisman winner, had 5 of the top 300. This was the same number as the other USC (South Carolina).

Once Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC this is going to get worse.

I basically think we are looking at one conference being the league that matters and almost everyone else is irrelevant.

From this point of view maybe it is good for Cal that USC and UCLA join the Big 10 (where they are going to mostly be mediocre I think). Then perhaps the Pac 10 (or whatever it will be) becomes more reasonable for Cal to actually compete year to year since all the teams in the league will eventually be weaker and no one in the PAC10 any of the other leagues -- with an exception or two like Clemson or OSU perhaps and some flukes in a given year -- are not competing for a national championship anyway so the only thing that could matter to CAL is winning the PAC 10.

I still think this sucks, but Go Bears.

He's not wrong!

Lots of speculation in Louisville that Plummer will be joining Jeff Brohm, his old HC at Purdue.