The way I see is, if we win, we enjoyed the festivities before and after the game. If we lose, we at least enjoyed them before the game, and more importantly, we get to enjoy again prior to the next game. Until all our games are done with a close loss in a nearby bowl game.
All this fan (villain?) fiction reads like the Big Cigar updates on Barking Carnival long time ago. People were eating it up until it proved to be mere storytelling loosely based on fanciful personal proclivities and navel gazing.
Very strange opinion.
academics: number 1 public school, one of the top overall.
location: Berkeley by the bay, probably the top location overall.
Athletics: 4th overall in Olympic medals (the top 3 are all California schools).
other stuff: food, fun and nature, probably the top location overall
football: the teams have sucked but they have their share of NFLers despite the university not caring about football.
This discussion is about the overall university. According to this criterion, Berkeley may be number 1. (I live close to Stanford and would vote for Cal over it.)
9/21/2025 BLIND ranking (1. win-loss record, 2. margin of victory, 3. points scored). Indiana moves to the top and Texas Tech drops to number 3. 30 undefeated teams left.
Since these are still students, doesn’t the university have a limit on how many years you take to graduate? In’t it 5 years for bachelors and 2 years for masters? Also, you need to be pretty good in studies to get admitted to masters. So, a maximum of 7 years? If someone wants to do a PhD in addition or instead of masters, you have to be a very good student. In other words, being in a university should naturally limit the number of years one can spend there even if NCAA completely loses any say in the eligibility duration and hence cannot become a professional league of its own.
This seems to be a general malaise across all social media. Almost every post that has a tiny bit of information starts with “I am astonished that …” or “It beats me …” to list a counterpoint to what they are going to say. Reddit and Quora are full of this pomposity. Just state your one bit of fact that you most likely picked up from an earlier comment in the same thread or when this was posted multiple times earlier and don’t act like you are special.
He is probably feeling overwhelmed, which often leads to indecision and anxiety, which piles up more stuff to do and leads to a vicious cycle. My approach when there is too much to do at work is to choose a couple of things to do and tell all other project heads to take a hike. Arch should tell coaches that he will only practice a couple of pass plays until he feels comfortable and coaches see the improvement. He is trying to process the whole playbook and is unable to act on even simple stuff.
Vince's strength was obvious (running around and over anyone) and zone read immediately simplified and leveraged his advantages. Coaches need to find something similar that Arch is good at and simplify the offense to be just that (look for one thing and do A or B based on that one decision). Other options can be added once the basic play is mastered.