Sometimes it just doesn’t matter how you win. Sometimes, all that matters is that you win. Period. And after watching the Washington State Cougars kick away games — both figuratively and literally — to the California Golden Bears over the years, I’m not going to spend one danged minute apologizing for that ugly slog of a win on Saturday.
Cal is presumably our football peer; we’ve got roughly the same kind of history (both in terms of accomplishments and of our acute sense of impending doom) and we generally compete for the same class of recruits.