Comments on: Pac-10 picks

By: Ken Crawford

Ken Crawford — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:50:02 +0000

Hey Michael. I’ll leave the comments about the specifics of the Tenn. game for a new post. But the first thing to remember is that one game is just one game, particularly a game early in the season. I’d really like to replay that game in a month or two in a neutral stadium. Although I don’t know if we’d win, it would at least be a game between equals: two experienced QB’s. Two experienced secondaries, etc. We were not on equal footing in any regard this past Saturday.

And yeah, Cal definitely didn’t help the Pac-10’s image this week… althou in my defense, neither did WSU.

But don’t worry about Cal’s longterm success yet. If they have a 10 win season, recruiting will be great.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:40:22 +0000

PS – WSU making the Pac-10 look bad? Heh. Man I wish UCLA would have lost. Now I have to endure their arrogance until they play Cal again.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:38:49 +0000

Hey Ken! I haven’t spoken to you since, well, since the end of last season. I just don’t know what to think about this Tennessee game. Is it just that they were really, really good? Or are we just really, really bad? I used to frequently denounce the idea that any particular conference, say the SEC, was always and tremendously better than another, say the Pac-10, but, uh, unless we go 2-10 (beating Stanford and Portland St), proving that it is WE who are overrated and not our conference, that seems to be the obvious case. U$C can claim to beat SEC teams regularly, but one can do that when they get all the top talent in the country.

So…is it about talent then? Is Marshawn only good when compared against mediocre defenses? Is Tedford perhaps not the great offensive mind we credit him to be? (Where were the trick plays…the handoffs to Marshawn that he then threw downfield…heck, even some play action?). Or…are we a team that could have won that game but just let the crowd and the expectations and the humidity get to us?

Considering how this game will definitely affect our recruiting and recruiting is the key to success in the long term, are we destined to be a mid range P10 team forever…when will be able to stop saying “next year will be our year!”

Hopefully I’ll see ya at Memorial next Sat and we can watch the Bears wake up and dismantle Minnesota, although I’m not as sure of that as I was a week ago.