Can’t recruit or develop an offensive line. Can’t develop a quarterback. For the sake of his future nfl prospects, he’s probably making the right decision. Really tough to blame him given this dumpster fire of a coaching staff and the absolute refusal by the worthless assclowns running the athletic department to make any changes.
This is embarrassing for the program. We're getting outspent in NIL by UCLA. A program with the same academic requirements, same school system, and same conference (for now). This is nothing more than abject failure of leadership.
With Knowlton at the helm we're heading for the sky, the Big Sky. Fire him now.
I get that the offense is in transition, but Spavital is going to run a fast-paced offense that throws the ball a lot. Seems like that would be a good system for Sturdivant and others. Bummer.
For those of you blaming Wilcox and the bad year...stop. J Mike is getting money whipped, reportedly 2x his current NIL haul. Now that he is in the portal, Miami and others have jumped in so his price is getting jacked even higher. I suspect the Cal backers are passing the hat to see if they can hold onto him but until we find a Casey Wasserman, who is single handedly bankrolling UCLA's NIL, this kind of stuff will happen. If we want a bright side? WR is the easiest position to fill with talented replacements. Maybe not J Mike good but not FCS level either.
For players that leave via poaching...err the portal, teams should receive a transfer fee like they have for pro soccer in Europe. Yeah, that's the ticket!!
There is no good way to spin this, only mitigating factors for the upcoming season... WR is the deepest room on the team, and Hunter is our best WR (although JMike will likely eclipse him once it's all said and done). This makes us worse, but likely doesn't mean much in the W-L column.
The worse news is the reality check that we are officially a farm team and we are going to hemorrhage our halfway decent players every single year. It will be near impossible to be competitive under those circumstances.
So the portal by itself is not evil, but the portal + NIL is going to destroy football at many schools. If you support this as a Cal fan you are a masochist.
I have entered the transfer portal. *receives no offers.
Well shit
Can’t recruit or develop an offensive line. Can’t develop a quarterback. For the sake of his future nfl prospects, he’s probably making the right decision. Really tough to blame him given this dumpster fire of a coaching staff and the absolute refusal by the worthless assclowns running the athletic department to make any changes.
This is embarrassing for the program. We're getting outspent in NIL by UCLA. A program with the same academic requirements, same school system, and same conference (for now). This is nothing more than abject failure of leadership.
With Knowlton at the helm we're heading for the sky, the Big Sky. Fire him now.
I get that the offense is in transition, but Spavital is going to run a fast-paced offense that throws the ball a lot. Seems like that would be a good system for Sturdivant and others. Bummer.
This is a very very bad sign.
For those of you blaming Wilcox and the bad year...stop. J Mike is getting money whipped, reportedly 2x his current NIL haul. Now that he is in the portal, Miami and others have jumped in so his price is getting jacked even higher. I suspect the Cal backers are passing the hat to see if they can hold onto him but until we find a Casey Wasserman, who is single handedly bankrolling UCLA's NIL, this kind of stuff will happen. If we want a bright side? WR is the easiest position to fill with talented replacements. Maybe not J Mike good but not FCS level either.
Congrats UCLA. say hi to Femi.
He was All PAC12 First Team....wants that NIL money. We're gonna be ok.
Ugh I hate this. He's got legit star potential and we need him. Sigh.
For players that leave via poaching...err the portal, teams should receive a transfer fee like they have for pro soccer in Europe. Yeah, that's the ticket!!
annnnnddddd Jermaine Terry to the portal
There is no good way to spin this, only mitigating factors for the upcoming season... WR is the deepest room on the team, and Hunter is our best WR (although JMike will likely eclipse him once it's all said and done). This makes us worse, but likely doesn't mean much in the W-L column.
The worse news is the reality check that we are officially a farm team and we are going to hemorrhage our halfway decent players every single year. It will be near impossible to be competitive under those circumstances.
I need to just turn off my Substack notifications and come back in July.
So the portal by itself is not evil, but the portal + NIL is going to destroy football at many schools. If you support this as a Cal fan you are a masochist.
This is a HUGE loss.
Alright. Fire Wilcox.
With Hayes and now JMike leaving, Cal has lost something you can't coach: speed.
I do wonder if teams were poaching JMike??