[Nan3cy]

OK, question for the fans:

Would you have traded all 5 wins yesterday (which would mean an early exit from the tournament for both soccer teams, not clinching the automatic bid for the WP tournament, losing out on a #1 seed in VB, and a disappointment in WBB) in exchange for beating Cal on Saturday?

BC

No.

After Colorado L, Stanford football going nowhere bowl-wise.  This was as good a Big Game to lose as any could have been, all things considered.

After the 1991 BG, won by the good guys by a bunch, though I don’t remember the score and am too lazy to look it up —- I was with a high school friend who is a Cal fan (great person, bad taste), and one of her tailgate friends said, in all seriousness, that he’d rather be 2-9 and beat Stanford than be 9-2 (which they were) having lost to Stanford. I told him, in all seriousness, that he was nuts. Or maybe I just thought that — my memory is a little fuzzy on that point. But I definitely thought that.

[Nan3cy]

OK, question for the fans:

Would you have traded all 5 wins yesterday (which would mean an early exit from the tournament for both soccer teams, not clinching the automatic bid for the WP tournament, losing out on a #1 seed in VB, and a disappointment in WBB) in exchange for beating Cal on Saturday?

BC

No.

After Colorado L, Stanford football going nowhere bowl-wise.  This was as good a Big Game to lose as any could have been, all things considered.

After the 1991 BG, won by the good guys by a bunch, though I don’t remember the score and am too lazy to look it up —- I was with a high school friend who is a Cal fan (great person, bad taste), and one of her tailgate friends said, in all seriousness, that he’d rather be 2-9 and beat Stanford than be 9-2 (which they were) having lost to Stanford. I told him, in all seriousness, that he was nuts. Or maybe I just thought that — my memory is a little fuzzy on that point. But I definitely thought that.