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...Looks like Cal is blowing up **** all over the recruiting trail.


How do they do this? I just don't get it.

Hey, great academics, I love Berkeley, even if it's not my fav city in the world. It's across the water from SF, killer weather, maybe the best climate in the world actually.

But they score big with all these defensive lineman and linebackers. Not so much QBs!!

Meanwhile the Duckies can't score a DL class to save it's life. Been what? Six or Seven years since we've had a real DL class?

Berkley, the Bay, is a very appealing place for a kid from CA to spend their college years, for all sorts of obvious reasons. Beyond that the reputation of the school is sterling from an academics standpoint, which is a big factor in winning over parents - and Tosh is young and easy to relate to for these kids.

But who cares - they're going to get their guys like they always do, and now more than ever we have even more to pick from. Lose Barr, Moala, Bigs etc and win with a whole different set of talented guys in spite of it - Simmons? Carson? Heyward? Shelton? McReynolds?

Plenty of kids out there regardless of who Cal pulls.

I think they have been the main benefactor from USC's probation.

Cali kids still want to stay local...... most of them can't get into Standford.... and UCLA is so bad that they could have a new coach in 1-2 years.

They get some better recruits, but they don't always fit his system and don't end up hurting Oregon too badly. Oregon has better coaches that coach up our supposedly lower-rated recruits enough to beat them. With Oregon winning and getting to BCS games, it's only a matter of time before players start seeing Oregon in a much better light than Cal.

Who have they gotten recently? Just Gibson? I know they lead for Bigelow now supposedly.

there's a lot of rumors that they are going to pull a bunch of blue-chippers like Moala, Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, etc. but none of them have pulled the trigger yet and for some the 5-7 record might a big enough deterrent to keep them away. I wont worry about them until they get someone to play QB, though if they can do that they might be someone to reckon with.

duckydoug wrote:there's a lot of rumors that they are going to pull a bunch of blue-chippers like Moala, Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, etc. but none of them have pulled the trigger yet and for some the 5-7 record might a big enough deterrent to keep them away. I wont worry about them until they get someone to play QB, though if they can do that they might be someone to reckon with.

Yeah, but those rumors have been around for a while. All of those guys were Cal "locks" 3-4 months ago as well.

duckydoug wrote:there's a lot of rumors that they are going to pull a bunch of blue-chippers like Moala, Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, etc. but none of them have pulled the trigger yet and for some the 5-7 record might a big enough deterrent to keep them away. I wont worry about them until they get someone to play QB, though if they can do that they might be someone to reckon with.

Please, Cal has sucked for a while now and keeps piling on the good recruits. These kids keep drinking the kool-aid and i wouldn't be surprised one bit if all of those listed went there.

I guess NOT even playing in a bowl game is as fun as playing for the National Championship. Go figure.

UofO8 wrote:

duckydoug wrote:there's a lot of rumors that they are going to pull a bunch of blue-chippers like Moala, Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, etc. but none of them have pulled the trigger yet and for some the 5-7 record might a big enough deterrent to keep them away. I wont worry about them until they get someone to play QB, though if they can do that they might be someone to reckon with.

Please, Cal has sucked for a while now and keeps piling on the good recruits. These kids keep drinking the kool-aid and i wouldn't be surprised one bit if all of those listed went there.

I guess NOT even playing in a bowl game is as fun as playing for the National Championship. Go figure.

im sure there are other kids, besides the one's that are rumored to be Cal leans, out there that would love to play for Cal for the same reasons the Cal leans want go there but they cant get over the record and how many times theyve been blown out recently.

here's a comment from a USC commit, Steve Dillon, i read on the SC boards last month who was deciding between Cal and SC and went to the game at the Coliseum where Cal trailed 42-0 at half : "That was a big factor knowing I didn't want to be on a team that's going to get beaten like that," Dillon said.

Phenom wrote:

duckydoug wrote:there's a lot of rumors that they are going to pull a bunch of blue-chippers like Moala, Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, etc. but none of them have pulled the trigger yet and for some the 5-7 record might a big enough deterrent to keep them away. I wont worry about them until they get someone to play QB, though if they can do that they might be someone to reckon with.

Yeah, but those rumors have been around for a while. All of those guys were Cal "locks" 3-4 months ago as well.

I just found out that Avery Walls might be heading to Cal.

Phenom wrote:

Phenom wrote:

duckydoug wrote:there's a lot of rumors that they are going to pull a bunch of blue-chippers like Moala, Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, etc. but none of them have pulled the trigger yet and for some the 5-7 record might a big enough deterrent to keep them away. I wont worry about them until they get someone to play QB, though if they can do that they might be someone to reckon with.

Yeah, but those rumors have been around for a while. All of those guys were Cal "locks" 3-4 months ago as well.

I just found out that Avery Walls might be heading to Cal.

That would really suck. I definitely thought that Walls was coming here.

I think that Cal will end with Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, and Moala. All of these guys have long been considered Cal leans. Disappointing, but Cal always pulls good recruits. Even though Gibson was considered a Cal lean, I thought we had a shot at him. Guess not. Unfortunately for them, Tedford is a terrible coach. Tedford does less with more than any coach in the Pac 10.

Tedford is the 'Ernie Kent' of PAC-10 football.

Cal gets great recruits and does fn squat. I mentioned awhile back that they do less with more than anyone. Of course people mentioned ND. But in the pac 10 they do less with awesome talent than any other school. IMO

duckydoug wrote:

UofO8 wrote:

duckydoug wrote:there's a lot of rumors that they are going to pull a bunch of blue-chippers like Moala, Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, etc. but none of them have pulled the trigger yet and for some the 5-7 record might a big enough deterrent to keep them away. I wont worry about them until they get someone to play QB, though if they can do that they might be someone to reckon with.

Please, Cal has sucked for a while now and keeps piling on the good recruits. These kids keep drinking the kool-aid and i wouldn't be surprised one bit if all of those listed went there.

I guess NOT even playing in a bowl game is as fun as playing for the National Championship. Go figure.

im sure there are other kids, besides the one's that are rumored to be Cal leans, out there that would love to play for Cal for the same reasons the Cal leans want go there but they cant get over the record and how many times theyve been blown out recently.

here's a comment from a USC commit, Steve Dillon, i read on the SC boards last month who was deciding between Cal and SC and went to the game at the Coliseum where Cal trailed 42-0 at half : "That was a big factor knowing I didn't want to be on a team that's going to get beaten like that," Dillon said.

Hope they enjoy getting a good education because their not going to be winning any football championships.

Phenom wrote:

Phenom wrote:

duckydoug wrote:there's a lot of rumors that they are going to pull a bunch of blue-chippers like Moala, Bigelow, Barr, Gibson, etc. but none of them have pulled the trigger yet and for some the 5-7 record might a big enough deterrent to keep them away. I wont worry about them until they get someone to play QB, though if they can do that they might be someone to reckon with.

Yeah, but those rumors have been around for a while. All of those guys were Cal "locks" 3-4 months ago as well.

I just found out that Avery Walls might be heading to Cal.

wow this is starting to just become laughable.