Tedford Out at CAL
Glad we didn't hire him.
November 20th, 2012 at 3:43 PM ^
Cal-Stanford is referred to as "The Big Game"....which I just scoffed at when I was there. So close (and absurdly inaccurate), but technically different than "The Game."
November 20th, 2012 at 8:03 PM ^
Cal-Stanford is the Big Game. Can't forget the "Big" part.
November 20th, 2012 at 3:52 PM ^
Per Wikipedia, Tedford was 82-57 at Cal. He was one of only three coaches to have a winning record while at Cal since 1956, and the other two were only ten total games over .500 in their eleven total seasons.
Fun fact: The most recent Cal coach with a better record than Tedford's was Pappy Waldorf, who went 67-32-4 from '47-'56. Who didn't love Pappy Waldorf? The Commies, that's who.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Golden_Bears_football#Season-by-season_records
November 20th, 2012 at 4:06 PM ^
That's exactly why, as an alum, I'm not all fired up about him being gone. It could be worse. It could be a LOT worse. And, it probably will be.
November 20th, 2012 at 4:13 PM ^
I see Cal bringing Steve Mariucci back!!!
November 20th, 2012 at 8:00 PM ^
Ahhhh Steve Mariucci, the guy who's name used to always come up for every coaching vacancy before Gruden was on the market.
November 20th, 2012 at 4:23 PM ^
What about Tom Bradley?
November 20th, 2012 at 4:26 PM ^
Didnt a wr we were recruiting pretty hard choose them over us?
November 20th, 2012 at 4:29 PM ^
Darius Powe?
November 20th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
Yea it is Powe. I'm thinking about the kid that went to ucla
November 20th, 2012 at 4:43 PM ^
Jordan Payton?
November 20th, 2012 at 5:23 PM ^
yeah it could have been him, I was thinking further back to Devin Lucien who went to UCLA. This was when I first started following recruiting, but if i remember correctly he was a guy who referrenced this blog in one of his interviews and that turned this place around when talking about recruits cause they look at the stuff talked about on here. I could be wrong but he visited and was talking about committing here and was told we were full
November 20th, 2012 at 10:17 PM ^
Maybe you're thinking of Desean Jackson. He was about to commit to M, but we took Leterryal(sp?) Savoy before he could commit.
November 20th, 2012 at 5:48 PM ^
I think that's match made in heaven. Petrino is perefect for big time SEC football at an institution that loves nothing more than looking the other way.
November 20th, 2012 at 5:55 PM ^
What a stupid ass move! They we competitive most years and had a coach who never wanted to leave a B rated football school. They had some big recruits coming in as well. Dumb move Cal!
November 20th, 2012 at 6:32 PM ^
Who wouldn't want to coach at Cal? Great location, Pac12 conference, expectations aren't ridiculously lofty....
Hell, sign me up.
November 20th, 2012 at 8:54 PM ^
This is just like Minny firing Glen Mason. A coach turns a perennial doormat into a team that is slightly better than mediocre, but it isn't good enough. Instead of realizing that the coach has reached the program's ceiling, the fans and admins become entitled and arrogant, and decide that they "deserve better."
Be careful what you ask for...
November 21st, 2012 at 2:03 AM ^
Sure, you can be 2-10, 1-11, or 0-12, but 3-9 means your team is absolutely terrible. Glen Mason went 3-9 his first year, then never worse than 4-7 after. He got fired at 6-7. There's plenty of room to fall from mediocre (as Illinois found out this year). There's no room to fall from 3-9.
November 20th, 2012 at 9:17 PM ^
I remember reading that one reason UCLA has problems getting bigtime coaches is because it is part of the California university system, so their hands are quite tied as far as what they can offer for salaries. I believe that heads/assistants are quite poorly paid in relation to other private schools for comparable talent.
November 21st, 2012 at 1:06 AM ^
which is more than what Hoke signed on for (~$2m), but less than RR ($2.5m). You can definitely get a good coach at that price, although it probably needs to be a Hoke type situation with a coach that has a relatively unproven track record but high upside in the intangibles department.
November 21st, 2012 at 9:01 PM ^
The assistants make squat compared to private schools, so a HC can't build and keep a good staff. Salaries are contolled by the UC system and Tedford was the highest employee in the system.
November 21st, 2012 at 12:48 AM ^
Huh, the kicker for Stanford was named Mark Harmon (but not that Mark Harmon). Never noticed that before.