Shouldn't we be happy that Ron Rivera was brought in, at all. Some people on here were happy about the fact that Rivera reports directly to Lyons (makes sense in terms of broader outreach). What do they want (besides Knowlton fired?)? They want Rivera reporting to Knowlton and Wilcox reporting to Rivera (as at StanfUrd)? Doesn't that put…
Shouldn't we be happy that Ron Rivera was brought in, at all. Some people on here were happy about the fact that Rivera reports directly to Lyons (makes sense in terms of broader outreach). What do they want (besides Knowlton fired?)? They want Rivera reporting to Knowlton and Wilcox reporting to Rivera (as at StanfUrd)? Doesn't that put the onus on Rivera? Is that fair?
Is cutting the donations off really the right thing to do? If you want Knowlton fired, then say that, or propose what exactly you want (not this gray area sh*t)....
The best thing about the Rivera hire is that it finally brought the situation to a head and demonstrated to the top donors that they needed to revolt or else the Cal administration would just keep shuffling along with the status quo again. Cal miscalculated and thought this PR move would placate them. Nope. They want Ron to have real power.
I'm pretty sure they *are* saying they want Knowlton fired. There's not future where the GM reports to Lyons indefinitely, what AD would want to join a program where they have to keep their hands off of football?
We want Wilcox reporting directly to Rivera, who would report to Lyons, completely excising JK from Cal Football. More broadly, we also just want JK gone. He should have been gone years ago.
Also, to clarify: Luck does not report to Stanford's AD. He reports to the University President.
But...would it not be completely strange to have your football coach operate outside the purview of the Athletic Department? Seems like a strange remedy given that football would still rely on AD logistics.
It would be strange -- but strange times are ahead for college sports in general. it doesn't seem to odd to have an individual that is directly under the chancellor at the same level as AD to handle football and basketball, the revenue-generating sports, and having an AD that manages everything else.
Not to mention JK has shown incompetence at the task at hand, so just from a pragmatic point of view I'd take it even if "strange".
Desperate times call for desperate measures. If Cal is not willing to eat Knowlton's buyout, then restructuring him out of responsibility is the next best thing.
Shouldn't we be happy that Ron Rivera was brought in, at all. Some people on here were happy about the fact that Rivera reports directly to Lyons (makes sense in terms of broader outreach). What do they want (besides Knowlton fired?)? They want Rivera reporting to Knowlton and Wilcox reporting to Rivera (as at StanfUrd)? Doesn't that put the onus on Rivera? Is that fair?
Is cutting the donations off really the right thing to do? If you want Knowlton fired, then say that, or propose what exactly you want (not this gray area sh*t)....
The best thing about the Rivera hire is that it finally brought the situation to a head and demonstrated to the top donors that they needed to revolt or else the Cal administration would just keep shuffling along with the status quo again. Cal miscalculated and thought this PR move would placate them. Nope. They want Ron to have real power.
I'm pretty sure they *are* saying they want Knowlton fired. There's not future where the GM reports to Lyons indefinitely, what AD would want to join a program where they have to keep their hands off of football?
We want Wilcox reporting directly to Rivera, who would report to Lyons, completely excising JK from Cal Football. More broadly, we also just want JK gone. He should have been gone years ago.
Also, to clarify: Luck does not report to Stanford's AD. He reports to the University President.
100%.
Knowlton should be nowhere near Cal revenue sports.
OK. Thanks for clarifying the StanfUrd hierarchy.
But...would it not be completely strange to have your football coach operate outside the purview of the Athletic Department? Seems like a strange remedy given that football would still rely on AD logistics.
It would be strange -- but strange times are ahead for college sports in general. it doesn't seem to odd to have an individual that is directly under the chancellor at the same level as AD to handle football and basketball, the revenue-generating sports, and having an AD that manages everything else.
Not to mention JK has shown incompetence at the task at hand, so just from a pragmatic point of view I'd take it even if "strange".
The worst case would be RR reporting to JK.
I know who RR is. Who is AK? Did you mean JK?
Oops, yeah. No idea why I typed AK lol my bad
It's the AD and JK mixed into one
that's... that's probably exactly what my brain did. lol
Not sure why, but for some reason for a brief second I thought Rich Rod...
I think I'm just tired, lol
Desperate times call for desperate measures. If Cal is not willing to eat Knowlton's buyout, then restructuring him out of responsibility is the next best thing.
Typical for the bureaucratic mess that is Cal athletics ;-)