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So tired of hearing about Sonny. In terms of fit, he didn't want to be here and Justin seems to want to be here. Happy for Dykes spring-boarding into success. That doesn't mean it would have happened here had we retained him. But, acting like he wouldn't have bolted for basically any TX P5 school the second it was viable is a fever dream.

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LOL...I would want to be in Berkeley, too, if I was pulling in $4 million a year with very little negative scrutiny save 50 or so disgruntled posters on this blog and Bear Insider. And it's pretty clear it would take a complete Mark Fox level face plant before he's shown the door. It's very sad to me, and I am not even a Cal alum.

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I think more like....Kate Dykes did not want to be far from "home" with young kids. Ever had a pissed off wife before? You would understand.

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His personal reasons for his persistent wandering eye are irrelevant. I'm not judging him or his family for longing for their home state. It just is what it is, and the fact of the matter is that no matter what Dykes @ Cal had an expiration date.

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Yeah man I get that. Just surmising that there may have been more to the story. with Sonny, and this is an angle that nobody really considers.

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Well truthfully I don't think it's the place of a fanbase to start trying to discern the internal goings-on of his family. In my mind him personally not wanting to be in CA or his wife not wanting to be in CA are equivalent from the perspective of a fan. We should respect their privacy in that regard and when they decide something as a family, it is what it is and ultimately what that means is Sonny wasn't interested in the long haul at Cal and that's OK, can't fault him for knowing what he wants. What I respect is that he never seemed to half-ass it here, even if he did have a wandering eye.

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