surprised no one posted sooner (actually, no I'm not) but one of our best defensive starters portaled and committed to UCLA within hours this morning. not at all weird or sketchy!

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EDIT: it WAS posted sooner. Bae caught me sleeping!

Bears down 49-37 early in the second half.

I've been on bowl game Zoom calls. Will tune in for the second half to see if they can make a run.

Devin Askew has 16 points (5 of 12 shooting) and Lars Thiemann has 10 points.

Anyone read the Cal versus Arizona game review on ESPN.com? Here’s the key piece:

California: Injuries have kept the Golden Bears from having their full compliment of players. Including Sunday, Cal has had scholarship players miss a combined 27 games, with part-time 2021-22 starter Jalen Celestine and Hartford transfer Dejuan Clayton yet to play.

Fox has his built in excuse for this year! Just watch, he will be back next season.

The transfer portal officially opens Monday and it's already been incredibly busy. We have you covered. Rivals has all the latest news on the biggest transfers, we're now ranking every entry into the portal and we also have a message board to talk about everything portal-related.

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The Championship Caliber fund was created a year ago to provide a discretionary fund (I prefer war chest) for our head coach to close the gap between Cal football’s budget and other P12 programs. To date, close to $2 million/year for the next 3 years has been pledged.

Additional contributions to this fund are needed NOW in order to help Cal hire the best possible Offensive Coordinator available. Are you tired of seeing a struggling offense? So am I, which is why I give to the fund.

There are important benefits to the various levels of giving. More information: https://calbears.com/news/2021/12/20/championship-caliber-initiative-to-support-cal-football.aspx

I can do my best to answer questions, but I highly suggest you reach out to Adam Brooks to learn more about the program and sign up if possible – 559-389-1853 or atbrooks@berkeley.edu

was nice to see $C get run over by that Utah team last night, although how much money does the conference lose by missing out on the CFP once again? I never thought $C was that good, but it was certainly confirmed when Cal was able to put up points on them.

Sonny a slight dog against K State... forgot how hilarious that dude's face is when he's upset.

This is beyond embarrassing. No one is being helped by Jim Knowlton continuing to be the leader of our athletic department. Beyond the indifference to giving Wilcox (a coach who has a 6-25 record against winning FBS teams) an insane contract extension, beyond the Teri McKeever allegations of mishandling, he has proven he cannot hire nor keep his coaches accountable for results as evident by his refusal to fire Fox yet. And most importantly, his reckless handouts of extensions not only cost Cal $$$ but also craters fan support even more.

Cal sports hit an all-time low tonight and it's past time for a change.

Share your thoughts with Carol Christ - chancellor@berkeley.edu

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Just have to get through this Pac-12 championship game tonight -- been a whirlwind 36 hours -- but I'm going to start working tomorrow on a full end-of-season PFF breakdown, and we'll do some 2023 roster pieces as well.

A very good breakdown here from Jesse. I started on this initially and just felt he'd be able to bring more insight to this particular matter, and I think he did a great job.

Thoughts?!

sad

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Punter Jameison Sheahan has declared for the NFL. He had a great season. Very athletic for a punter. Hope he makes it.

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I'll be writing off this when I get a chance later tonight.

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No better time for a win than tonight ...

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LOL

UC Regents are meeting today to make a determination on UCLA leaving for the B1G.

The consensus seems to be that they let them walk, but many folks think the Regents will impose some kind of financial penalty on UCLA to be paid to Cal. There is also the chance they do nothing.

Some figures:

The B1G deal numbers have been inflated - the average per year per school take home is $62.5M. UCLA released a report estimating increased travel costs in the neighborhood of $10M by switching conferences (this number almost certainly is a lowball). If you figure the take home, less increased travel expenses is somewhere in the neighborhood of $50-52M AND the Regents impose some kind of financial penalty on UCLA for leaving (say, $5-7M per year), now all of a sudden UCLA's take home is in the $45-47M a year range. Most estimates have a Pac12 that retains the LA market bringing in distributions north of $40M per year on new media rights. All of a sudden, UCLA is faced with a decision to leave the Pac12 for relatively small increased revenues (at least in the near term - 8-10 years) and deal with significant political blowback from fans, stakeholders all while separating the UC schools athletically. Not to mention aligning UCLA with midwestern schools rather than their traditional counterparts on the west coast.

Meeting could get interesting. It's being live streamed if people want to watch it.

Howdy folks!

I'm putting together the list of names that I've been able to sort of weasel out as legitimate vs illegitimate/full of nonsense right now, I'm somewhere near ~50% done with it after all the hits my list took following Black Sunday.

In the meantime, if you've got any questions about the situation, feel free to pop 'em below. I'll be checking on this thread more frequently than the others - though it might make sense to consolidate a bit.

Berkeley High receiver Jackson Harris has put together an impressive senior season but has flown mostly under the radar. That changed last week as he picked offers from both Cal and Stanford, and now the two rivals are battling it out for the hometown prospect. Harris has built a strong relationship with Burl Toler, and he has a great feel for what the Bears are about being from the area. He is still learning more about Stanford and will take an official visit to the school later this month. He says there is no ill will about Cal taking its time to offer him. He understands that there has been limited room at his position and that the staff still wanted to see more from him. He says the Stanford coaches have pointed out how they don't understand why it took Cal so long to come around. So, that is interesting.

He is set on the two Pac-12 schools right now but says Oregon and Washington State have been communicating with him recently as well. Cal has done a good job of positioning itself well, but he geninuely seems very intrigued by the Cardinal.

Still, Cal provides him with a comfort level he doesn't have anywhere else.

"There's a lot of love there. Everybody's real cool. Everybody loves the sport, and it feels genuine. Coach Toler is obviously a legendary receiver coach. He played at Cal with Aaron Rodgers. He keeps it a hundred. We always talk. Even if I weren't to go to Cal, I'm sure we'd still talk because he's just a great mentor to have. Then all the other staff. Coach [Marshall] Cherrington, that's my guy. We talk all the time. Just fun people. Enjoyable people to be around."

Read the full update at the link up top.

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I think Wilcox is a good guy but personality wise, energy wise and being a great motivator his is not. Players need and want to be pushed and motivated to bring the best out of them. Their going to have to transfer because their not going to get it under Wilcox. So how many guys and who do you expect to leave?

Time to start looking within our alumni base and adding some folks that want to see our program take the next step. No way should we allow him to go to Stanford or any other direct competitor.

poll will be open until Sep 1. reserving my right to change my guess through end of fall practice

6 wins.

Sep. 3 UC Davis - W
Sep. 10 UNLV - W
Sep. 17 Notre Dame - L
Sep. 24 Arizona - W
Oct. 1 @Washington State - L
Oct. 15 @Colorado - W
Oct. 22 Washington - W
Oct. 29 Oregon - L
Nov. 5 @USC - L
Nov. 12 @Oregon State - L
Nov. 19 Stanford - W
Nov. 25 UCLA - L