For a fiscally conservative program, it’s mind boggling that we’ve paid close to $8 mil. to the man to get us even backwards from a spot I think we wouldn’t have guessed possible to move backwards from. Entitlement of the highest order.
Okay, and hear me out...Maybe the Chancellor's problem is not figuring out "the brand." Maybe it's not about how do we merge "Cal" and "UC Berkeley." Maybe, it's that she hired a bad A.D. Maybe, she should be focusing on getting people hired into the Athletic Department that have some minimal knowledge of how to manage NCAA Division I athletics at Cal, because maybe Jim Knowlton was very competent and good at the job at another university.
Maybe the Chancellor's AD is too slow out of the blocks in hiring and firing coaches who cannot be successful at Cal.
IMHO, being Athletic Director at Cal has never been an easy job. I think everyone knows this. Everyone knows the budgetary issues, also. But if Cal wants to play men's football, basketball and women's basketball at the Division I level, I think the problem here has nothing to do with whether a task force figures out how to marry "Cal" and "UC Berkeley."
There is only way out of this mess and that's by Cal athletics winning. Of course, Cal is not going to be Auburn. No one expects that. Of course, winning isn't everything-again, people who support Cal Athletics already believe this.
Maybe you don't need a task force to tell you the obvious-merging names does not help you to win. Winning, not every game but some, because performing well is how you win. You can even end up losing by a basket or two in overtme-no one is going to walk away from a team that loses in that manner.
But you cannot lose as much as Cal revenue sports + women's basketball do and not have a problem that a task force is not the vehicle for solving.
The 4th and 5th graders who played at half time were far more cohesive and skilled as a team. If the hoop/game was scaled to their size they would’ve handed both stanfurd and us an L.
Maybe Knowlton actually hates Fox and wants him to look as bad as possible before he cuts loose. Would have been better for both sides to have parted ways early in the Pac-12 season.
I still cannot believe I unironically went to this game. Silly me.
Mozilla.
That is all.
Hey, it's not like Cal lost by 30.
This has gone on too long. Get fox out of here NOW!
This headline does not adequately capture what happened. We should just forfeit and save gas money.
I know these reports are a labor of love for the kind, Cal-loving writers, but can’t we catch the easy ones like “fifth straight in a row”?
Can we start talking about who replaces Fox?
For a fiscally conservative program, it’s mind boggling that we’ve paid close to $8 mil. to the man to get us even backwards from a spot I think we wouldn’t have guessed possible to move backwards from. Entitlement of the highest order.
Okay, and hear me out...Maybe the Chancellor's problem is not figuring out "the brand." Maybe it's not about how do we merge "Cal" and "UC Berkeley." Maybe, it's that she hired a bad A.D. Maybe, she should be focusing on getting people hired into the Athletic Department that have some minimal knowledge of how to manage NCAA Division I athletics at Cal, because maybe Jim Knowlton was very competent and good at the job at another university.
Maybe the Chancellor's AD is too slow out of the blocks in hiring and firing coaches who cannot be successful at Cal.
IMHO, being Athletic Director at Cal has never been an easy job. I think everyone knows this. Everyone knows the budgetary issues, also. But if Cal wants to play men's football, basketball and women's basketball at the Division I level, I think the problem here has nothing to do with whether a task force figures out how to marry "Cal" and "UC Berkeley."
There is only way out of this mess and that's by Cal athletics winning. Of course, Cal is not going to be Auburn. No one expects that. Of course, winning isn't everything-again, people who support Cal Athletics already believe this.
Maybe you don't need a task force to tell you the obvious-merging names does not help you to win. Winning, not every game but some, because performing well is how you win. You can even end up losing by a basket or two in overtme-no one is going to walk away from a team that loses in that manner.
But you cannot lose as much as Cal revenue sports + women's basketball do and not have a problem that a task force is not the vehicle for solving.
The 4th and 5th graders who played at half time were far more cohesive and skilled as a team. If the hoop/game was scaled to their size they would’ve handed both stanfurd and us an L.
Maybe Knowlton actually hates Fox and wants him to look as bad as possible before he cuts loose. Would have been better for both sides to have parted ways early in the Pac-12 season.
Does this mean that Fox isn't getting an extension?
*sigh
Just when one thought Fox was safe.
El Zorro must go.