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If you can’t score and can’t play defense, you get a 3 win season. Does anyone care at Cal? The Chancellor the AD? Wait, they have injuries, should have 5 wins..

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I've been saying it for years now: Joe Pasternack for Cal's next coach

Understands the UC system: check

Understands the Pac-12: check

Understands Cal: check

Proven Winner at UCSB: check

HC experience: check

Russell Turner would also be a great option. He coached for Monty

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Good thing we have UCLA on Saturday.

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How about Theo Robertson?

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The correct answer for the next coach is Joe Pasternack. Although the Pathetic 12 soon to be Pathetic 10 is the worst P5 conference, it is still a step up from the one bid league that is the Big West where the only way you can make the tournament is winning the conference tournament. Cal could also triple his current salary. The question is, does he want to take what is viewed by many as one of the worst P5 jobs in the country (terrible AD and Chancellor, does not have its own practice facility) or what to see what happens at LSU after next season since he is a Louisiana native and has coaching experience in that region. The program and this university in the sports that matter to most (CFB and CBB) are such an embarrassment. I would not be caught dead wearing any Cal BB or FB gear.

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter.

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Coach Rod Benson.

It would be an unmitigated disaster given his total lack of coaching experience (and presumed disinterest in that career path) but who wouldn't be curious about a Coach Boomtho experiment?

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Nice article, BP.

You don’t sound like a grumpy old man…you sound like a legitimate, knowledgeable fan that can recognize the stubborn Fox does NOTHING different. My guess is he doesn’t really know HOW to coach anything different, which both data and the eye test tells us is likely the case, because this is basically what he’s done for 17 years…

As you said, the small lineup gave them a spark, yet it was nowhere to be found. Fox can’t gameplan for schitt.

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