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"Cal athletics needs every dollar they can get" - this crisis lands squarely at the feet of Mike Williams, Clueless Carol Christ, and Empty Suit Jim Knowlton--- these amateurs ignored / mismanaged Cal athletics and let them deteriorate to the point that Cal has very little currency in the world of intercollegiate athletics - even now, Cal is riding on Stanford's coattails (and better be gripping hard, white knuckled hard) - once Cal does settle into a new conference (unlike Stanford, Cal can't opt to go the independent route), you can bet there will be a clarion call to all alums to ante up - we're going to be dunned to cover for the endless, costly mistakes made by this trio of naif amateurs - for me to commit anything, I want the three dolts to be punished - I realize there are no stocks in any public park in Berkeley, but their "crimes" must be acknowledged in some way - Fire Clueless Carol at once (I don't care if she's got a week left, she needs to know that she screwed up) - Fire Empty Suit Jim immediately with no severance and contest his pension due to the women's swimming fiasco. Make his life miserable. - Williams? Somehow someone needs to rub his nose deep down in the shitpile he helped to create. I guess I'm too Old Testament, but these three dolts shouldn't be allowed to skate off into the sunset and live happily ever after. We're all suffering now and these oblivious perps need to suffer along with the rest of us. - Finally, the regents need to be made aware that their affirmations of the leadership nominees led directly to failures. They need to know that when it comes to leadership of a complicated institution like Cal, merit needs emphasis and prime consideration, not diversity just for diversity's sake.

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Years of mismanagement while cashing revenue sharing checks and letting the revenue sports wither finally revealed that the mighty Oz wasn't so mighty after all. Just hope either a big 12 or ACC deal is in the offing and preferably the former. Otherwise the PAC 4 will need to reboot the conference with new members.

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