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^ UCLA’s adoption of the pistol looked like an act of desperation even with Norm Chow calling the shots. If UCLA doesn’t finish strong, I think Neuweasel will be shown the door (despite the signature win over Texas).

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<p>The pistol has probably saved Neuheisel’s job. The team couldn’t run at all the prior two years. Now it can and usually quite well.</p>

<p>The problem with Prince of Bel Air at qb is he’s throwing at a 40% clip. He’s the king of overthrows right now. Good arm, good running ability, but terribly inaccurate. Granted he’s been hurt all year. Teams will stack the line to defend against the run until he (or Brehaut) can throw accurately intermediate and long.</p>

<p>I think the team finishes strong. UCLA probably has a better chance to finish stronger than Cal does. I don’t see Cal beating USC, Stanford, Oregon, Oregon State. After UCLA falls to 3-4 against the Ducks, I see the following as victories: @ ASU, Arizona, @ Washington, Oregon State. USC at home will be tough. UCLA has a better shot at home against USC than Cal has traveling to LA to face them next Saturday. But good luck… </p>

<p>Btw, I particularly like these two videos of Kevin Riley running the ball at the end of the OSU game in 07: video [url=<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwPf5iivSA&feature=related]one[/url”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwPf5iivSA&feature=related]one[/url</a>] showing highlights and lowlights including Tedford slamming down his headset - advance video to the end, and [url=<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwPf5iivSA&feature=related]two[/url”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwPf5iivSA&feature=related]two[/url</a>], just the play itself. Cal was rated pretty highly at the time, top five?, but afterward tanked.</p>

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A strong QB is great but not everything (see Washington).

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<p>Locker has all the skills except accuracy which he hasn’t improved upon in his four years of starting. If he manifested this skill even slightly, he would undoubtedly be the best qb in the nation.</p>

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With Oregon’s facilities and money it will be a strong contender for a long time IMO. Fortunately, Cal is <em>partially</em> addressing that gap with renovation of Memorial stadium and the addition of new training and locker facilities. I guess UCLA is too with some renovations to the Rose Bowl on tab.

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<p>I think a lot of football players also like the fast-break style of spread offense the Ducks run. </p>

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Competition becomes greater next year with the addition of Colorado and (esp.) Utah…along with the whole championship game structure. </p>

<p>In a sense, the Pac-12 is addressing your complaint of co-champions.

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<p>The more important thing, I think, is having a commish that will fight for more than one BCS team besides having 12 schools to promote this. I would have loved to have seen Texas in our conference, and hopefully after time and despite their being a big fish in a small Big-12 pond, revenue-wise, they’ll see the benefits of a move to the Pac.</p>