Salute to all of you still here. Good luck not having a heart attack and/or getting divorced although I strongly suspect those remaining are the slave/bottom/subordinate type.
No more money ever to this university.
Unfor fucking giveable what this university has become.
First Tosh, now Troy…
People don’t Judas you repeatedly because you’re a swell dude.
different take, same outcome. If Knowlton were a mole/a plant meant to destroy the dept. from within, he could hang the 'mission accomplished' banner right now. [Heck, how would he act any differently?] The sport was changed forever by the transfer portal, the org that oversees it is almost as corrupt and malevolent as FIFA, and there's not 1 damn thing we can do about it. Another tragedy on the long road of suffering = what it means to be a Golden Bear. Had I won the ~$2B lotto last month, I would've paid any & all buyouts to rid our beloved community of Knowlton, Fox, and maybe even Wilcox (esp. if it meant Taylor would be his replacement).
I still feel for the players, though, who've been abandoned by the "greatest" public university (same goes for MBB). Could write forever about the ills of this forsaken program, but trying to find the positive -- a tall order -- I no longer have to spend my fall Saturdays wondering or worrying about Cal football. Thankfully, we can all look forward to the sun exploding in about 5 billion more years; not the merciful ending we deserve but the one we need.
This is your weekly reminder that Justin Wilcox took home about 47000 dollars after taxes this week while a guy who stated “Cal is my dream job, I love public education, and I’m happy just being able to go to Starbucks once a day” took home a meager 3200 bucks and is about to go coach “Cal’s arch rival” and the complete antithesis of public education.
Also doesn’t have 10 transfers out and 0 transfers in.
troy taylor is a hidden gem.. everywhere he's gone has been succesful and I can't seem to grasp why cal hasn't gone after him.. fire wilcox and bring in troy its not rocket science.. troy will make everyone regret not getting him including cal.. please go get him I beg u
Am I the only one who isn't that enamored with Taylor? He was at Cal when I was at Cal, so I get it. But still...I'm not that scared of him at the Farm.
This is all Bob R's fault for not being persuasive and forceful enough in his emails to Knowlton. Perhaps our consolation prize will be a multimedia interactive statue of Starkey outside the stadium with a large button you press to hear him call The Play with clips playing on waterproof TVs that flank the statue. Except every nth time someone presses the button, two little doors open up in the statue and a spring-loaded boxing glove pops out and nails you in the face.
The implication is Knowlton should have never extended Wilcox, fired him this year, and hired Troy Taylor. People have been talking about TT for a couple years now, and plenty wanted Wilcox out well before Knowlton extended him.
I for one never expected Troy Taylor to be an OC again, not sure who did.
As a Cal fan, I'm trying to make "wait and see" attitude be my m.o. But if he becomes the head coach at Stanford, I'm going to howl at just the thought of Jim Knowlton for not managing to get Taylor at Cal, somehow, under his being AD. I'm already wanting Knowlton gone.
It's only fitting that Knowlton does serious, long term damage. I've been 100% expecting this to actually happen the moment I heard Taylor was being considered for that job.
There is are reasons why Shaw left Stanford. Taking that job is a head coaches death wish given the portal and NIL environment. Stanford has not accepted the fact that college football has put the player before the coaches and the school.
This was not only feared but expected based on some pretty open chatter.
I could see why he'd be tempted by the Furd job despite it being the source of all evil and whatnot. They seem to not have high expectations for coaches, a lot of patience, etc. I wanted Taylor as Wilcox's replacement but that's not happening this year. Granted, Taylor's success isn't guaranteed at Cal because Cal itself has administrative problems that coaching can't fix.
I wish him success but really want it to come at Cal someday instead of Furd today.
If Taylor goes to the farm, & Knowlton/Fox are still employed, Cal might as well forget P5 relevance & petition to join the Ivy League. Not that we'd beat any of their MBB teams, but just to have some connection to a few like-minded souls, to feel a sense of purpose again. Otherwise, tee up another Taylor [Twellman gif: "What are we DOING?!" & play it on a loop] cuz nothing else matters at that point. Revenue sports are a joke of a mockery of a sham of a farce of a mockery of a sham.
They've simply helped condition and ready me for all of the other soul crushing disappointments that life can throw at you. I suppose that's something.
It's helped me survive cancer, the collapse of a marriage, divorce, and the death of both of my parents, fwiw!
Heck, the 2013 Big Game was easy, by comparison. Other fan bases are absolute wusses when their team suddenly sucks--U$c under Clay Helton, for instance...
Nothing is guaranteed, and recruiting and winning at the P5 FBS level is a whole different animal, but he's built programs into national powers at the high school and FCS level, so I believe pretty strongly he could do it at Cal given the opportunity. He's a great guy, coaches for the right reasons, loves his players, runs an exciting system, and most importantly, loves Cal. If furd gets him, I will puke.
I am officially done with Cal athletics!
Salute to all of you still here. Good luck not having a heart attack and/or getting divorced although I strongly suspect those remaining are the slave/bottom/subordinate type.
No more money ever to this university.
Unfor fucking giveable what this university has become.
First Tosh, now Troy…
People don’t Judas you repeatedly because you’re a swell dude.
different take, same outcome. If Knowlton were a mole/a plant meant to destroy the dept. from within, he could hang the 'mission accomplished' banner right now. [Heck, how would he act any differently?] The sport was changed forever by the transfer portal, the org that oversees it is almost as corrupt and malevolent as FIFA, and there's not 1 damn thing we can do about it. Another tragedy on the long road of suffering = what it means to be a Golden Bear. Had I won the ~$2B lotto last month, I would've paid any & all buyouts to rid our beloved community of Knowlton, Fox, and maybe even Wilcox (esp. if it meant Taylor would be his replacement).
I still feel for the players, though, who've been abandoned by the "greatest" public university (same goes for MBB). Could write forever about the ills of this forsaken program, but trying to find the positive -- a tall order -- I no longer have to spend my fall Saturdays wondering or worrying about Cal football. Thankfully, we can all look forward to the sun exploding in about 5 billion more years; not the merciful ending we deserve but the one we need.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM Troy Taylor gonna kill us isn't he?
Stanford hired him. Still not really tripping.
This is your weekly reminder that Justin Wilcox took home about 47000 dollars after taxes this week while a guy who stated “Cal is my dream job, I love public education, and I’m happy just being able to go to Starbucks once a day” took home a meager 3200 bucks and is about to go coach “Cal’s arch rival” and the complete antithesis of public education.
Also doesn’t have 10 transfers out and 0 transfers in.
#fireknowlton #firechrist #firefox #firewilcox
#notanotherpennydonatedtothisclowncircus
troy taylor is a hidden gem.. everywhere he's gone has been succesful and I can't seem to grasp why cal hasn't gone after him.. fire wilcox and bring in troy its not rocket science.. troy will make everyone regret not getting him including cal.. please go get him I beg u
He's not hidden.
Am I the only one who isn't that enamored with Taylor? He was at Cal when I was at Cal, so I get it. But still...I'm not that scared of him at the Farm.
What did I tell you guys 3 weeks ago?
Troy Taylor will be the next furd coach per very reliable sources.
I hope Jim Knowlton and Carol Christ are fired with cause for this shit show they’ve forced upon the athletic department and larger university.
We have literally zero transfers in but 10 plus out.
Our basketball team is 0 and <I stopped fucking counting>
And Knowlton uses our donations to fund shit dick coaching and absolutely zero pr in a metro area sans a pro sports team other than the A’s
Enough!
This is all Bob R's fault for not being persuasive and forceful enough in his emails to Knowlton. Perhaps our consolation prize will be a multimedia interactive statue of Starkey outside the stadium with a large button you press to hear him call The Play with clips playing on waterproof TVs that flank the statue. Except every nth time someone presses the button, two little doors open up in the statue and a spring-loaded boxing glove pops out and nails you in the face.
It's Bob's fault for only emailing Knowlton. Bob should have directly emailed Troy Taylor and persuaded him to come to Cal.
Haha, for real! It was this easy:
Step 1. Email this to Knowlton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Taylor_(American_football)
Step 2. Email this to Troy Taylor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Knowlton
Step 3. Email this to both of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_Golden_Bears_head_football_coaches
* Mark all emails as "Urgent" and BCC Gavin Newsom.
The implication is Knowlton should have never extended Wilcox, fired him this year, and hired Troy Taylor. People have been talking about TT for a couple years now, and plenty wanted Wilcox out well before Knowlton extended him.
I for one never expected Troy Taylor to be an OC again, not sure who did.
As a Cal fan, I'm trying to make "wait and see" attitude be my m.o. But if he becomes the head coach at Stanford, I'm going to howl at just the thought of Jim Knowlton for not managing to get Taylor at Cal, somehow, under his being AD. I'm already wanting Knowlton gone.
It's only fitting that Knowlton does serious, long term damage. I've been 100% expecting this to actually happen the moment I heard Taylor was being considered for that job.
There is are reasons why Shaw left Stanford. Taking that job is a head coaches death wish given the portal and NIL environment. Stanford has not accepted the fact that college football has put the player before the coaches and the school.
This was not only feared but expected based on some pretty open chatter.
I could see why he'd be tempted by the Furd job despite it being the source of all evil and whatnot. They seem to not have high expectations for coaches, a lot of patience, etc. I wanted Taylor as Wilcox's replacement but that's not happening this year. Granted, Taylor's success isn't guaranteed at Cal because Cal itself has administrative problems that coaching can't fix.
I wish him success but really want it to come at Cal someday instead of Furd today.
Taylor’s a free man in Paris, unfettered and alive.
“...Paris...has always been the capital of refugees and exiles as well as of France.”
Am I wrong that the buyout for Wilcox is only $3.6 million?
If Taylor goes to the farm, & Knowlton/Fox are still employed, Cal might as well forget P5 relevance & petition to join the Ivy League. Not that we'd beat any of their MBB teams, but just to have some connection to a few like-minded souls, to feel a sense of purpose again. Otherwise, tee up another Taylor [Twellman gif: "What are we DOING?!" & play it on a loop] cuz nothing else matters at that point. Revenue sports are a joke of a mockery of a sham of a farce of a mockery of a sham.
Cal sports no longer cause me nightmares, Avi.
They've simply helped condition and ready me for all of the other soul crushing disappointments that life can throw at you. I suppose that's something.
Same. I got over the collapse of the Seleção today in record time. Thanks, Cal Football!
It's helped me survive cancer, the collapse of a marriage, divorce, and the death of both of my parents, fwiw!
Heck, the 2013 Big Game was easy, by comparison. Other fan bases are absolute wusses when their team suddenly sucks--U$c under Clay Helton, for instance...
Aside him going to the rival, are we sure Troy would have succeeded here anyways?
Nothing is guaranteed, and recruiting and winning at the P5 FBS level is a whole different animal, but he's built programs into national powers at the high school and FCS level, so I believe pretty strongly he could do it at Cal given the opportunity. He's a great guy, coaches for the right reasons, loves his players, runs an exciting system, and most importantly, loves Cal. If furd gets him, I will puke.
yes. Hypothetical, & moot, but yes