This is a fantastic summation Avi. Your listing of all the terrible stats under JW is absolutely damning, and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cal has a non-winning coach, even given a much easier schedule in 2024. I would ask chancellor Lyons to defund all DEI programs and staff at Berkeley and use these funds to buy out Knowlton …
This is a fantastic summation Avi. Your listing of all the terrible stats under JW is absolutely damning, and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cal has a non-winning coach, even given a much easier schedule in 2024. I would ask chancellor Lyons to defund all DEI programs and staff at Berkeley and use these funds to buy out Knowlton and JW - and bring a winning coach to Cal. The longer Cal stays with these two, the closer we are to relegation when realignment happens again. And fully agree that a nice family day for old alums (like me) to enjoy the campus - while witnessing a losing football team is not ok!!!
Ok I'll bite. Out of curiosity how much do you think DEI programs are costing the University? Also, assuming the DEI program is somehow costing the university the amount needed to buyout Wilcox, how is firing what would presumably be dozens of people who had absolutely nothing to do with Willcox's failure specifically to help pay a multi-million dollar buyout to said unsuccessful head coach fit within your ethical and moral framework? Or am I asking the wrong question and this is about your political views guiding you to the institutional version of killing two birds with one proverbial stone?
Not only that but Wilcox had no prior HC experience before being hired and Knowlton was never an AD at a P5/P4 program prior to coming to Cal, as he came to us from Air Force Academy.
We hired two people with no experience for the jobs they currently have and then we doubled down with extensions to both! They are the poster children of DEI hires.
Hiring a coordinator from a P5 program to be a head coach at another one is a perfectly normal move. I wouldn't read too much into that. Jeff Tedford had no HC experience either.
Sure it is and Tedford was but Tedford was a successful OC. Wilcox was never a successful DC. He failed at his two highest profile jobs, Tennessee and USC. Given all the resources of those two schools and he was fired by both programs.
Wilcox was basically a journeyman DC when we hired him.
A career coordinator, and a completely overrated one at that.
At least with an offensive minded coordinator—-> HC, you always have a shot, and the games are usually entertaining. Even Wilcox’s wins are difficult to watch…it’s like a 4-hour visit to the dentist on a Saturday.
This is a fantastic summation Avi. Your listing of all the terrible stats under JW is absolutely damning, and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cal has a non-winning coach, even given a much easier schedule in 2024. I would ask chancellor Lyons to defund all DEI programs and staff at Berkeley and use these funds to buy out Knowlton and JW - and bring a winning coach to Cal. The longer Cal stays with these two, the closer we are to relegation when realignment happens again. And fully agree that a nice family day for old alums (like me) to enjoy the campus - while witnessing a losing football team is not ok!!!
Ok I'll bite. Out of curiosity how much do you think DEI programs are costing the University? Also, assuming the DEI program is somehow costing the university the amount needed to buyout Wilcox, how is firing what would presumably be dozens of people who had absolutely nothing to do with Willcox's failure specifically to help pay a multi-million dollar buyout to said unsuccessful head coach fit within your ethical and moral framework? Or am I asking the wrong question and this is about your political views guiding you to the institutional version of killing two birds with one proverbial stone?
Wilcox and Knowlton are the DEI hires.
That was funny! Only in DEI is a 1-5 conference record considered a success...
Not only that but Wilcox had no prior HC experience before being hired and Knowlton was never an AD at a P5/P4 program prior to coming to Cal, as he came to us from Air Force Academy.
We hired two people with no experience for the jobs they currently have and then we doubled down with extensions to both! They are the poster children of DEI hires.
Hiring a coordinator from a P5 program to be a head coach at another one is a perfectly normal move. I wouldn't read too much into that. Jeff Tedford had no HC experience either.
Sure it is and Tedford was but Tedford was a successful OC. Wilcox was never a successful DC. He failed at his two highest profile jobs, Tennessee and USC. Given all the resources of those two schools and he was fired by both programs.
Wilcox was basically a journeyman DC when we hired him.
A career coordinator, and a completely overrated one at that.
At least with an offensive minded coordinator—-> HC, you always have a shot, and the games are usually entertaining. Even Wilcox’s wins are difficult to watch…it’s like a 4-hour visit to the dentist on a Saturday.