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Coach Fox in the postgame interview sounded beaten. And not just in one game. It was sad even though our Bears are woeful on a good day. Hard to see Fox recovering from this. Perhaps the decent thing to do is to let him go.

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What's to recover from? He's making bank courtesy of an incompetent AD (and a Chancellor who does not care about winning in the Revenue sports).

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He should resignā€¦

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He should, but he has million $ reasons not to.

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If only weā€™d have had DeJuan Claytonā€¦.

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If only we had a Chancellor that gave a darn....

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Dec 11, 2022Liked by Rick Chen

KenPom model remains irrationally optimistic.

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has to be a Cal bot doing the coding...

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We faded and are losing by a bundle. 82-56 with a minute to go

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Our big lacks basketball skills.

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Nothing against Thieman but he and most of our players are 3rd stringers in the Pac. Itā€™s so sad that on top of the lack of quality, I donā€™t see any individual improvement or teamwork.

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I think itā€™s fair to say Lars has legitimately improved in his time at Calā€¦.itā€™s just still not good enough.

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Yes I agree with this. But heā€™s not a college level player.

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Since Lars starts for Cal, (through the associative property), does that mean Cal b'ball is not a college level program? (could we not beat the Little Sisters of the Poor?)

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Agreed. Lars has made significant improvement to his game, such that he'd be fine in the Mountain West.

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Heā€™s a lesser skilled Kenyon Jones

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well sure, didn't say he'd be a star* or even start, but he'd be a fine addition to several of the WCC schools.

*Jones was WCC PoY after he transferred to USF

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Ya I know. Iā€™m agreeing with you.

;-)

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Gawd this is unwatchable. The first time for me in 40 years. Why donā€™t they pull the plug and get Monty and or Ben Braun to come in and be interim or permanent coaches! I bet they could fix the lack of everything literally like in one week.

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Cal is down but competitive in the first half.

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How does Butler have any wins? They also are having injury problems, I thought it was impossible to win a basketball game unless your entire roster was healthy.

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there was no covid in Indiana.....

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Thatā€™s actually partly true. ;-)

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Go Bears! Surprise us all. And damn Furd

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CAL SEEMS TO BE A BASKET CASE WHEN IT COMES TO BASSKETBALL. GERBEAR

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Dec 10, 2022Ā·edited Dec 10, 2022

This crowd is an embarrassment, GERBEAR!

Whatā€™s going on here???

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The home team is an embarrassment.

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Your starting PG still shooting just 50% from the FT line is too.

That remains horrific.

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I'm a really old Blue and can still hit ~50% from the charity stripe. (Of course, I shoot underhanded like Rick Barry.)

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Do you have any eligibility left?

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Iā€™m so jaded on this athletic department right now. I have zero desire to watch this game knowing how poorly the administration is run. Really sucks for the kids.

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Itā€™s horrid. Iā€™ve been going to Cal games for over 40 years and I am frigging embarrassed of this athletics administration. Embarrassed.

Carol Christ, Jim Knowltonā€¦they should be ashamed of themselves.

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