11-24-2025, 12:11 PM
(11-24-2025, 11:46 AM)Hieronymus Wrote:(11-23-2025, 10:51 PM)Giants Wrote:(11-23-2025, 07:44 PM)Hieronymus Wrote: Can Kal really do much better on a regular basis? I mean it’s good to aspire, but low level Bowls half of the time seems like a reasonable expectation. And I am not saying that as a Cardinal ripping on Kal; I am more comparing Kal to where UCLA is at and can Kal really expect to be consistently much better. Heck we are slightly excited to get to 4 wins for a change this year
Well, Rivera said the expectation is 8/9 wins a season. Like you, I think that is rather ambitious but I guess the adage, “shoot for the moon, and if you miss, you’ll land among the stars” applies in this case.
I get aspiring, but Kal certainly risks face planting instead. Their choice and they will have to live with the results either way. It was clearly different for us with Shaw - we were already a 3-9 team after many years of sliding - and Taylor obviously had to go after the abuse allegations. Kal clearly made a choice here in comparison.
I get Cal's frustration, 9 years, losing overall record, but worse, a really bad conference record.
But yeah just making a change to head coach because "we aren't winning enough" isn't really a plan going forward, it's more of a reaction.