Hopefully, Fox is not the only person that is fired. Knowlton needs to be fired also. If the school were to hire an AD that is as good as its academic reputation I believe that would give fans hope of turning this around. Too bad the basketball program is and has been pathetic the past few years and the football team has been average …
Hopefully, Fox is not the only person that is fired. Knowlton needs to be fired also. If the school were to hire an AD that is as good as its academic reputation I believe that would give fans hope of turning this around. Too bad the basketball program is and has been pathetic the past few years and the football team has been average in its best years and downright embarrassing in its worst years during Wilcox's tenure. If this were not the case Cal would be joining UCLA and USC in the Big 10. I'd say the women's basketball coach should be fired also and Wilcox unless he has a winning season should not return for the 2024 season. Cal is too good of a University to be this pathetic in the two sports that matter most at the D1 level.
I think recruiting a new AD to Cal might be more difficult than a basketball coach. Being AD at Alabama, Texas A&M, Ohio St, etc must be a dream job. The leadership, administration, faculty, alumni and students are all 100% dialed in on the (over) importance of the athletics program. Coming to Cal, you know every day will be a battle, with only snippets of support here & there. Other schools know how tough the job is at Cal, Penn St hired Sandy Barbour after she was fired! Someone who's really good fails at Cal and is considered a wild success at an athletics-positive university. See the problem?
Sandy's crimes were less than Knowlton's and she actually presided over a ton of success (hired Monty and kept Tedford happy and well resourced) unlike Knowlton. She whiffed on Sonny (although he's making a case that "it's not me, it's you") and she got hit with poor luck/timing regarding the stadium project (I give her a pass). Even Knowlton's gold-flaked wraparound porch is starting to burn (McKeever).
They'll be fine when Durant gets back. I trust Milwaukee and Boston more obviously, but I trust the Nets more than the Sixers, for instance, regardless of the disparity in seeding.
I don't think it will happen, though it should. However, having to let go of his only major hire in combination with the McKeever situation certainly has to put him on watch. Still he's curiously locked up for longer than a tenured professor or supreme court justice and I think the grid club folks like having him in their pocket.
Hopefully, Fox is not the only person that is fired. Knowlton needs to be fired also. If the school were to hire an AD that is as good as its academic reputation I believe that would give fans hope of turning this around. Too bad the basketball program is and has been pathetic the past few years and the football team has been average in its best years and downright embarrassing in its worst years during Wilcox's tenure. If this were not the case Cal would be joining UCLA and USC in the Big 10. I'd say the women's basketball coach should be fired also and Wilcox unless he has a winning season should not return for the 2024 season. Cal is too good of a University to be this pathetic in the two sports that matter most at the D1 level.
I think recruiting a new AD to Cal might be more difficult than a basketball coach. Being AD at Alabama, Texas A&M, Ohio St, etc must be a dream job. The leadership, administration, faculty, alumni and students are all 100% dialed in on the (over) importance of the athletics program. Coming to Cal, you know every day will be a battle, with only snippets of support here & there. Other schools know how tough the job is at Cal, Penn St hired Sandy Barbour after she was fired! Someone who's really good fails at Cal and is considered a wild success at an athletics-positive university. See the problem?
Sandy's crimes were less than Knowlton's and she actually presided over a ton of success (hired Monty and kept Tedford happy and well resourced) unlike Knowlton. She whiffed on Sonny (although he's making a case that "it's not me, it's you") and she got hit with poor luck/timing regarding the stadium project (I give her a pass). Even Knowlton's gold-flaked wraparound porch is starting to burn (McKeever).
Would Sean Marks come on board? All meetings would be at Henry's.
He might have taken our bait a couple of months back, but the Nets are back from the dead.
well about the Nets.......
Whoah, never mind! Just checked in at ESPN.
Who has Sean Marks on speed dial?
They'll be fine when Durant gets back. I trust Milwaukee and Boston more obviously, but I trust the Nets more than the Sixers, for instance, regardless of the disparity in seeding.
I don't think it will happen, though it should. However, having to let go of his only major hire in combination with the McKeever situation certainly has to put him on watch. Still he's curiously locked up for longer than a tenured professor or supreme court justice and I think the grid club folks like having him in their pocket.