Shocky1 said:
econ, luv u man, but that's not how things work...the chancellor of the #1 ranked public university in the world is not responsible (nor should they be responsible) for the management of the athletic department
the only person responsible is james arthur knowlton, blaming the 78 year old chancellor who got lied to by him re: the northwestern ad position that is retiring in june of 2024 is absolutely pointless
never heard from the con artist why he extended fox's contract another season only to fire him a year later...never heard from him re: his misappropriating donor funds to revenue sports to his favored sports, never heard from him re: the future costly lawsuits or the conference realignments which quite frankly he had zero involvement with as we rode the coattails of stanford's lobbying efforts...and now most critically we have heard nothing re: how the athletic department budget is going to cut costs moving forward with significantly less revenues
but did hear from knowlton today with an almost 10 paragraph email detailing his efforts to improve food service in the esp section
It shouldn't have mattered that he lied about Northwestern, he shouldn't have been hired in the first place. He was a horrible fit for Cal, without the requisite experience at a P5 conference or a school other than a military academy where you have unlimited Federal funding and no need for fundraising or marketing. Someone who gets and loves California and Berkeley in particular, not someone who officially lives and votes in Colorado. He showed his incompetence with the Fox hire and mismanagement of our COVID response.
When he went to Christ and said he had an offer from Northwestern she should have gladly let him go and hired better the next time. She NEVER should have extended his contract 8 years until 2029, 5 years after she planned to retire!!!!! That alone is fiscal malfeasance. It is unprecedented. Even if they are great, you HAVE to let the next chancellor pick their own person.
If she learned that he lied to her to get $10 million from the university, if she had bothered to call her counterpart at Northwestern to confirm, then she would know he committed fraud and should have been immediately fired for cause and possibly prosecuted. That she did not report it or do anything, and has since rewarded it, allowing him to continue to do damage: extending Wilcox to year 11, giving McKeever a $5 million contract despite complaints of abuse and racism that he brushed aside and did not even bother to investigate in violation of university, state and Federal rules and lawβ¦. Then we do a $2 million investigation of McKeever that we allowed him to specifically exclude any question of administrative wrong doing?
No she wears this. Knowlton is her fault and continues to be.
However, in this day and age of big time college sports it does not make sense to have it all rest with a chancellor hired 100% based on academics. Athletics should be separated and report to an athletics board of directors or even just an "advisory board" made up of alumni, hopefully with experience in professional sports management or be completely outsourced to an alumni run organization.