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[QUOTE="Oakland, post: 819848, member: 590"]
I used to live near Cal.  Tedford took over a 1-10 program which had a terrible decade similar to what we faced recently.  He was the Jim Harbaugh of Cal before Jim became the Jim Harbaugh of Stanford.  Jeff led Cal to a 7-5 record the first year.  Almost a miracle.  He went on a good ~7 year run with a very exciting offense - lots of scoring, lots of bigs plays.  It helps alot when your first two QBs are Kyle Boller and Aron Rodgers.  The last few years the recruiting trailed off and that was that.  Cal football is back to being the Duke football of the West (except Duke for the moment is Cal of 10 years ago).  I think the same thing will happen at Stanford: their current run will peter out into a string of 5-7 seasons like it has for half of the last 40 yrs.  Just too hard for these high academic schools to consistently compete.

Late addition: I was thinking of Tedford when we hired GRob a few years later.  I was hoping he would be the early Tedford of Syracuse instead he couldn't even be the late Tedford of Syracuse.
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