Recap: Skewered by the Silver Swords

The question I am asking myself at the moment is whether or not we should have expected something like this.

I’m defining ‘something like this’ as a game in which Cal loses in a fashion that would have seemed inconceivable in previous years. Because losing to DII Chaminade by 24 points is not something that I ever anticipated having to type.

Argument for why we should have expected something like this:

We knew this season was going to be rough. The roughest in modern memory, presumably. This is what I wrote back in August:

You see, I’m worried that the 2016–17 athletic season will be one of the ugliest in the recent history of Cal revenue sports . . . which is saying something.

As it turns out,…