The reason @writeforcal.com exists: because this is what Cal fans get from national reporters (in this case, one that I actually like) that has ~2.5 things wrong with it & no real insight. It's clear this person doesn't have the time or sources to cover Cal with insight, but had to say *something*

If Cal decided to hire Rolovich (to be clear, they won't) it would only be the 2nd worst hire of the cycle.

Oh fuck it here’s my post game recap. Cal beat an SMU team with something to lose. Louisville in overtime, into the Big Game debacle, into the firing week then this. Stadium on a fault line stuff. Never change open.substack.com/pub/writefor...

Last year Cal went 2-5 in one score games to blow a shot at a special season. This year the bears went 4-1 in one score games just to achieve averageness. Go Bears!

Look Cal fans we all know this season was disappointing, but ending a season with a rivalry week win over our rivals makes it feel better

Lololol Cal you stupid beautiful weirdos

When your win in your final game of the season with an interim coach has the potential to cause the entire ACCmosphere to ignite, ending all life in the conference

Look if you let Cal into your conference then you have to deal with the chaos we’re gonna cause, no cowardly backing out of it now

SMU running the “free Palestine, and I’m a Cowboys fan” play

Something I hadn't really thought about but might be worth a column: Cal's current Kenpom ranking (#67) is roughly equal to Cal's rank in their final seasons under Cuonzo and Monty. After 8 years in the wilderness, Cal has an average, garden-variety power conference basketball team again.

If Tosh to Cal wasn’t such a fait accompli I’d be at the front of the Jason Eck bandwagon

This is kinda like Cal hiring Tosh Lupoi to be their head coach . . . if it happened in 2012

Teams that go deep on 4th and short have the mandate of heaven

Honored that the New York Times has memorialized this particular opinion:

@edsbs.bsky.social @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I believe the Calgorithm book guys are exploring interest in another print run, but either way we need to get you a copy so you can enjoy the story of the Cal fan who got arrested for rushing Auburn's field then got sound legal counsel via Cal twitter

Mike Williams, Wyking Jones, Jim Knowlton, and Mark Fox put years of effort into killing Cal men’s basketball BUT IT STILL LIVES

ACC BASKETBALL CANNOT BE DENIED

Just saw the Morisot + Manet special exhibit at the Legion of Honor in SF, and it was one of the very best conceived and presented art exhibits I’ve seen. Highly recommended, and mandatory if you have any interest at all in Expressionism

/hits publish on an article about likely Cal football coaches “Let the Lupoi wars begin!!!”

According to research by @writeforcal.com we’ve never had an interim coach, but ARE 18-4 without a head coach. In this column, I will argue that Cal football needs to return to communal decision making, via people’s committees, a central 5 year planning system and rule by the Party

Anyway here’s the column that I rushed out last night, as I wasn’t able to get in front of a computer til like 9:30 pm. As a result I felt like I didn’t really do the last nine years justice. writeforcalifornia.com/p/justin-wil...

Cal’s challenge is to prove that the consensus of the rest of the country - that aspiring to anything better than .500 football in Berkeley is a fool’s errand - is wrong.

At a bar celebrating @aek2005.bsky.social’s birthday as the Wilcox news breaks and this picture at the bar feels like an appropriate metaphor

I mean I like him better than Harsin I guess? Whatever.

S O O N

Why we decide to do it this way, and specifically why we decide that everybody has to stare at each other like it’s the border between North and South Korea I’ll never understand

Re-upping on this one

Justin Wilcox’s primary (only?) selling point is that he beats Stanford. Take that away and what are you left with?

The Stanford band is using their halftime slot to literally just list the names of their seniors, which is so on the nose for the most self-referential, look-at-me band in the country

Current status: chanting “Peter Thiel” at the Stanford tailgate next to us

Somebody came by asking if our tailgate had ketchup and we’ll look our tailgates are different here on the west coast

This is what USC/UCLA/Larry Scott stole from us

Here’s another reminder that you cannot understand Cal’s season without the context of a rock bottom strength of schedule

NOT ANY MORE STINGERS UP BABY

2022 really was the greatest ‘horseshoe up your ass’ season in CFB history

Seeing USC fans in ponchos in the Coliseum is deeply jarring. Surprised so many of them even HAVE ponchos!

I don’t know what kind of attendance I’d expect for Ivy League football, but this is shockingly bad for a conference winning team that’s good enough to make real noise in the FCS playoffs

Two years of watching Fernando and JKS playing QB for Cal has already rewired my brain to expect better when I watch other college football QBs who aren’t nearly as good

Dabo acting like he just won a title, man Cal looked better against this team than Clemson did

Earlier in this game the announcer praised Brohm for not going for 2 and ‘chasing the point.’ And, well . . . don’t look at the score now.

I would once again like to thank Jeff Brohm for only giving this nasty dude 14 carries against Cal

#RelegateTheQuakes #TheMovementIsGrowing

Bears win!

Nolan Dorsey and Rytis Petraitis are the nerdiest version of the Bash Brothers you’ll ever see and I love it

Well, if nothing else, Justin Wilcox has unwittingly broken the brain of a man in Teaxs.

Contacted my congressional rep for the first time, let her know I’d be campaigning for her challenger if she doesn’t demand the removal of Schumer and Jeffries as dem leaders. Felt good.

My sense with this Cal WBB team is that they're already a plus defensive team, and the question is how quickly the offense comes along when they're going to be relying on freshmen and with less shooting to call upon. But I'm OK with the talent level for what should be a (mild?) rebuilding year.

oh yeah baby nothing like some California Fried Cardinals

In important news, with today's win Cal has clinched a higher ACC finish than Florida State

Apparently the answer to this question is from the stupid COVID year when we beat #23 Oregon and I got buzzed on Snoop Dogg wine. You could also go all the way back to 2019 UW, though they didn't finish the season ranked. The last time Cal beat a team that ENDED the season ranked was 2018 UW.