I drink your milkshake. I drink it ALL up.

For those of who you are unlucky (or lucky in probably more aspects) enough to go to a college that really doesn’t have any kind of football tradition, this post will probably turn you off. However, for people like me, the start of a new school year brings in the breezy, sunny weather of Berkeley, yawn-inducing classes, and the college football season. Yeah, yeah, so highschool football in Cupertino never really amounted to ALL that much (no knocks to all you former MV players), but you don’t know what football REALLY is like until you’re in a crowd of 70,000 screaming your heads off as DeSean Jackson easily weaves his way through the defense of Tennessee to score on a 77-yard punt return. (For all of you who doubted him, DJax is going to have a solid first year with the Eagles. Mark my words.) College football season is more intense than the NFL in my opinion, as your school pride is on the line every single week and the word “upset” is commonplace in the realm of NCAA. *See post before this*

That being said, I am not going to lie when I say that both my grades and heart faltered when our Cal Bears tanked to a 1-6 second half after starting the season 6-0 and being ranked #2 in the nation. A shitton of analysts have written us off as a being an overhyped school and some have ranked us as low as #39 in the polls. I’ve been following the training camps pretty religiously this spring/summer, and I am not exaggerating when I say that this team looks hungry as heck this year. We have a load of offensive/defensive firepower that barely anyone talks about, including the likes of Marvin Jones/Michael Calvin/Nyan Boateng at WR, Jahvid Best/Shane Vereen/Tracy Slocum/Covaughn Deboskie at RB, Darian Hagan/SQT/Nnabufie/etc.etc. on defense. As my awesome and cute roommate would say, this Cal Team is going to be THE REAL DEAL.

The real reason for this post, however, is the breaking news. As you might or might not have known, we’ve had a bit of a crisis at QB. We have Nate Longshore, the two year incumbent who played an incredible sophomore campaign but just blew chunks last year as he choked on important games every week. We also have Kevin Riley, who’s a redshirt sophomore this year, and famous for this “boneheaded” play:

Sweet last-minute play against OSU, mere minutes from being crowned #1 in the nation.

Beyond that though, he was a top recruit out of Oregon, in the same EA Elite-11 QB class as Tim Tebow, Mitch Mustain, Matt Stafford, Jake Locker, and an all around super talent. Simply put, Riley = future.

With that in mind, he’s been named the STARTER for Aug 30’s opening matchup against Michigan St. Good god, we better win. My grades are on the line.

(Lesser news: David Seawright, walk-on kicker, claims job from Jordan Kay. Good-freaking-riddance.)

More updates to come later. :)