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And it’s ridiculous imo, USC has never struggled to attract talent. They have a coach and culture that doesn’t care about defense, that won’t change.

How much did Beavis pay their great QB this year? UCLA? You still have to be good at it…it’s just a different level of strategy.

They’re running out of dudes, I think Fisch may be in play at multiple places.

Cute they think there’s a P5

On another front, I think I pieced together that Beavis’ new coach has never been responsible for calling plays at the college level. Pretty weird if you think about it.

My tea leafs indicate it is between those two almost for sure. Important to remember there are also other suitors for both of them, including PSU and either Ole Miss or LSU depending on how Lane breaks. Fisch being distracted at the very least 😂

My review is we have another year where we improve enough to have 12+ losses and be a bubble team that might win in the round of 64. Salty? Yep. But lobbing it into Ewing just doesn’t work anymore imo.

Anything to mitigate the beauty contest that still exists. If there was a “perfect” way to get to 8, it would probably be enough, but there isn’t.

Beavis hired a guy that may have been fired if he stayed and Alabama lost the Iron Bowl…and might have been on the chopping block anyways. Funny how much they once again try to copy us but can’t quite get it right. Saban adjacent does not equal Saban tree.

Wilcox! 🤣

Increased hand wringing in Seattle

JS was 7-17 his first two years at Beavis in what I would say was a more favorable situation (at that time), then he faces now. Beavis went 4-5 in conference his second year which was apparently good enough for 2nd place in the north. He was 34-35 overall at Beavis, and a not so great 24-31 if you throw out the one year they won the Vegas Bowl. Before the vacated wins, he was at 8-15 to date in year 2 at MSU. Pattern? Beavis really tried to pump themselves up as a big time program (as one would expect) as the conference crumbled, but it really was the same pattern of the last 30 years. One legitimate PAC contending team every 10 years or so. Not exactly great numbers.

Impossible for that many G6 teams to make noise, especially from the same conference…but I admire your enthusiasm.

I never thought of him as a Beavis honk as much as a driving narrative to preserve himself honk. My lack of regard stems from how frequently he’s just flat out wrong with his “scoops”. I swear I have better connections than he does.

Wilcox has had a very solid D most of his time at Cal with pretty mediocre talent overall. He really had their D humming at an elite level, then cratered in the immediate post-pandemic world, but had built it back up. In the 2024 season, the Cal defense ranked 14th in scoring defense, 2nd in turnover margin, and 23rd in sacks nationally during the season. At Cal! Now he wasn’t DC, but it’s clearly his trademark. I think he’d be an upgrade personally.

For me, we’ve been mostly borderline unwatchable since 2020, we just don’t play a modern brand of basketball imo. My expectation every season, was/is/and continues to be 12+ losses and being on the bubble. I’ll continue to watch, but we don’t seem to be very serious about basketball overall. If we’re cool with the above, it is what it is. Love me some historic Dana, but I’m not sure about 2025 Dana if we want to ever actually pursue a title.

Funny how becoming DC for OBD could make it wane.

I’ve heard that’s a no.

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I’m with you. Just pointing out there are some pretty big pluses in the macro if we somehow make the conference title game. I’m personally not in accounting with the athletic department, so windfalls don’t really get me anything selfishly. The path with a home game is probably the easier path with the current format, so that is 💯 what I want!

Also, occurs to me that with the new seeding format a 3 game post season path is now possible. Conference champions aren’t guaranteed anything other than entry into the tournament. Say all goes to form, UI beats tOSU and we beat UW handily…pretty good chance that at 11-1 with our only loss being to undefeated 13-0 UI, that could land us in the top-4.

All good points, but define “helps us”. The conference potentially getting 4 teams in the playoff would definitely help us financially and with recruiting versus the SEC for conference supremacy narratives. That being said, in the here and now, conference championship games are a penalty if you’re already in as an at large host. Either path leads to being 4 games away from a championship, (up to 5 more (!) if you lose the B1G game), but one of those paths includes a home game Pretty sure I prefer the path with a home game and a cap of 4 more games.

Funny, in Beavis fan sites they don’t want to include him in their search cuz they’re being super selective 😂 Loved Chip’s time here, but we can go ahead and cross him off the list for any potential openings imo…oh, and cross off Brooks and Bellotti while we’re at it.

Sounds on brand for Cal.

Yeah, I believe we’re in against Indiana if tOSU loses and everything else goes as planned. Whole lotta rivalry games this week, could get crazy.