Greetings from Woodland Hills...

Well, what can I say? Of course its disappointing, we came so close! But on a scale of 1 to 10, how disapponted am I? I'd say.....maybe a 4 at most.

By all measures other than the score (which of course matters most) we were the better team. It was a hostile away environment, that obviously screwed with the minds of our special teams. Kudos to the Trojans for getting their whole crowd into the game, it was LOUD in there.

....but some of their fans were just as bad as my weeks-worth of trash talk posts from the SC boards would lead you to expect. Their alumni threw nasty insults as our band marched into the stadium pre-game. I personally was called a dirty hippie, a communist, and so on after the game. "Go back to NorCal Hippy!" (gladly! who wouldn't want to go back to the better half of the state...booya!) Of all the Pac10 teams, SC has some of the most vile I have encountered. Stanfurd fans never stoop to their level....too apathetic.

(of course, our student section's "f*ck the trojans" cheers probably didn't help the situation. Which btw, this catholic-school-kid never participated in. Way too unoriginal. Something I hope we can do away with as our team improves. Nevertheless, it's an instance of the pot calling the kettle black if Trojan fans think they're any "classier" than us. bull. there's a reason they're the most hated team in the Pac10...and it predates their current success.)

So in the end.....what did I expect out of this? I expected a hard fought, close game. A nail biter. And that's what we got. Cal played its heart out. I cheered my heart out. Victory was always within reach, and Cal never gave the Trojans a break. It came down to the last play, and Cal just couldn't pull it off. We beat them in every other aspect, and we should get due credit for that. Cal shouldn't drop from #7, in fact, some people are saying we should move up. As long as USC either stays at #1 (or screws up royally..not likely) the Rose Bowl is ours for the taking.

But what an exciting, awesome game.

Go Bears! Beat UCLA!