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SBGold said:

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Chapman_is_Gone said:

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HoopDreams said:

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Back in the day of the original Monster, the Shockster was at every home game, and invited me to sit in his courtside seats. During warm-ups, the players would come by and acknowledge him with a fist bump or nod and he always had encouraging things to say. At half time he introduced me to several Cal sports luminaries including the WBB head coach.

The Shockster always brought his A game

So it wasn't a surprise when I saw him lead the court storm after the epic win over ranked Arizona in a Gold-out, packed Haas Pavillion

But I wasn't the only person in Haas who wasn't surprised. His daughter Taylor tried her best to stop him as you can see by her hand firmly holding his wrist

But he would not be denied

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OMG, what an ass kisser you are.

Shockey himself has posted about his game and posted the video multiple times, so that he can feed his ego. We certainly don't need you posting on his behalf.

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The Shockster is one of the best fans Cal has. it's ok to celebrate him early and often

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That totally depends on your personal definition of a fan. He certainly hasn't been around very long.

It is awesome to have him on ignore, for many reasons. One is that when you come into this Thread to His Ego with the author on ignore, it is an odd sight: you immediately notice that about 9 out of every 10 posts is collapsed, and you realize that Shockey accounts for like 90% of the hits on the thread. Sad.

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Chapman, as you perhaps know, I'm a fan of your posts on other threads, in general. That said, I have to ask you about something:

You have Shocky on "ignore", but you visit his thread on a regular basis? That seems odd... do explain.

Shocky1 said:

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https://instagr.am/p/CSfX1t1LPtj
as russian points out there are a lotta applications to the #1 ranked public university in the world, in fact there wuz 147,586 applicants for the 2022/2023 year...the overwhelmingly majority of these applicants got harvard/stanford like high gpas, not many students wanna waste their time (and application fee) tryna get in if they know they got almost no chance of gaining acceptance, ucla is a excellent safety school

but cal got a silver bullet admissions process for prospective student athletes with gpas under 3.0...during my time with cal's monster class i wuz involved in a couple of these deals most notably jaylen brown

this process includes components advocated by jb & big c as it takes a holistic approach in an endeavor to take a deep dive beyond the sub 3.0 gpa...feedback from teachers & coaches is solicited in painting a picture re: the student's circumstances...during the official visit to berkeley the prospect is often interviewed in person by admissions & the athletic study center (which is separately funded than the athletic department) which is chaired by dr derek van rheenen & transition/curriculum development director dr kasra sotudeh (who is an amazing person)

the silver bullet admissions process graduation results as it relates to the football program are kinda a mixed bag, some of the players referenced in the above departure post (10 of the 27 don't got degrees) that are often tragically leaving berkeley without a degree were accepted thru this process...an interesting footnote is that 7 of the 10 students without berkeley degrees who opted to enter the portal are offensive skill players (did u know that the con artist tole me to my face that billy m is "a genius?")...and yet there are also many graduation stories of magical victories in beating the statistics which is a critical mission of the university of california, berkeley to afford degree opportunities to those who are the 1st in their families to earn college degrees which is an altruistic approach to reshaping society & wealth distribution in breaking decades long patterns of familial poverty for those willing to do the arduous long hours of academic work...in life u gotta go thru something to get something which is why shocky can't do a handstand (headstand no problemo) with his t-rex arms

but make no mistake about it, high gpa bobo kinda look like a substitute teacher at modern yoga with his man bun ponytail, shake that tail, bobo, shake that tail



beat the statistics, **** the opinions and the logistics#

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wuz advised today by a major donor that converses with both fox & the con artist that they are putting out there the 100% FALSE narrative that the basketball record is a function of the challenges of berkeley admissions

fox & the con artist want u to believe that the record is NOT a function of abysmal recruiting by the oldest (200+ years plus) coaching staff in the united states that is also unlikeable other than coach francis

beth tafolla-voetsch recently sent me the inner department document re: the silver bullet admissions process, there are 300 student athletes affected by this policy which has been available to the basketball program for years

not gonna lie to you, the more one learns about the con artist, the more twisted his propensity for telling FAKE NARRATIVES is apparent

andrew mcgraw for athletic director (vote early, vote often)#

It's crazy that he's trying to push the academics narrative... just within our own conference, Stanford has some of the most restrictive academic requirements in the nation, and UCLA is a similar UC with similar standards (even if they maybe make a couple more exceptions than us). Both programs recruit really well (even though Haase kinda wastes it).

Injuries, academics, practice facility... does he ever say anything that's not an excuse for the results?!

and guess what eastcoastie, that's not even the most DISTURBING FALSE NARRATIVE being promoted by fox & the con artist at this time

they are selling the 100% inaccurate story that the reason jaylen brown is not supporting/donating to the mens basketball program at this time is because he "had a bad basketball experience" at cal & "an intense dislike of coach martin"

the truth is that jaylen loved his time in berkeley & has told me that when he returned for the football game he tried to explain directly to knowlton the importance of having a supportive black head coach as a mentor/life coach like cuonzo but that he could tell that the con artist didn't really understand what he wuz saying

once fox & knowlton are gone, full expect jb (whose is now eligible for a nba "max contract" of $290,000,000 over 5 years from the boston celtics) & shareef (would not even send his own son jabri to play for fox despite his wife dee dee being from oakland & a berkeley grad) to invest both their time & money in the cal basketball program

Shocky1 said:

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Shocky1 said:

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https://instagr.am/p/CSfX1t1LPtj
as russian points out there are a lotta applications to the #1 ranked public university in the world, in fact there wuz 147,586 applicants for the 2022/2023 year...the overwhelmingly majority of these applicants got harvard/stanford like high gpas, not many students wanna waste their time (and application fee) tryna get in if they know they got almost no chance of gaining acceptance, ucla is a excellent safety school

but cal got a silver bullet admissions process for prospective student athletes with gpas under 3.0...during my time with cal's monster class i wuz involved in a couple of these deals most notably jaylen brown

this process includes components advocated by jb & big c as it takes a holistic approach in an endeavor to take a deep dive beyond the sub 3.0 gpa...feedback from teachers & coaches is solicited in painting a picture re: the student's circumstances...during the official visit to berkeley the prospect is often interviewed in person by admissions & the athletic study center (which is separately funded than the athletic department) which is chaired by dr derek van rheenen & transition/curriculum development director dr kasra sotudeh (who is an amazing person)

the silver bullet admissions process graduation results as it relates to the football program are kinda a mixed bag, some of the players referenced in the above departure post (10 of the 27 don't got degrees) that are often tragically leaving berkeley without a degree were accepted thru this process...an interesting footnote is that 7 of the 10 students without berkeley degrees who opted to enter the portal are offensive skill players (did u know that the con artist tole me to my face that billy m is "a genius?")...and yet there are also many graduation stories of magical victories in beating the statistics which is a critical mission of the university of california, berkeley to afford degree opportunities to those who are the 1st in their families to earn college degrees which is an altruistic approach to reshaping society & wealth distribution in breaking decades long patterns of familial poverty for those willing to do the arduous long hours of academic work...in life u gotta go thru something to get something which is why shocky can't do a handstand (headstand no problemo) with his t-rex arms

but make no mistake about it, high gpa bobo kinda look like a substitute teacher at modern yoga with his man bun ponytail, shake that tail, bobo, shake that tail



beat the statistics, **** the opinions and the logistics#

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wuz advised today by a major donor that converses with both fox & the con artist that they are putting out there the 100% FALSE narrative that the basketball record is a function of the challenges of berkeley admissions

fox & the con artist want u to believe that the record is NOT a function of abysmal recruiting by the oldest (200+ years plus) coaching staff in the united states that is also unlikeable other than coach francis

beth tafolla-voetsch recently sent me the inner department document re: the silver bullet admissions process, there are 300 student athletes affected by this policy which has been available to the basketball program for years

not gonna lie to you, the more one learns about the con artist, the more twisted his propensity for telling FAKE NARRATIVES is apparent

andrew mcgraw for athletic director (vote early, vote often)#

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Reading about him just makes my anger grow. But what can be done? It's all up to Christ right now and she clearly isn't listening to our prayers.

econ, the 78 year old chancellor christ is receiving a lotta negative feedback re: the con artist but her time in berkeley is limited, assistant vice chancellor dan mogoluf in charge of campus legal counsel issues could be the person to take down the con artist but his inexplicable defense of knowlton's public apology to the swimming families right after the mckeever termination & his abject failure to require the law firm of munger, tolles & olson to investigate as part of the mckeever report if senior administration of the cal athletic department wuz aware of any wrongdoing/engaged in a cover up suggests that the fix is in at least for right now in berkeley

once again donating to the cal athletic department (other than buying football tickets) is kinda like burning ur money in the dumpster behind haas

the sound of worthless bureaucrats#

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Chapman_is_Gone said:

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Back in the day of the original Monster, the Shockster was at every home game, and invited me to sit in his courtside seats. During warm-ups, the players would come by and acknowledge him with a fist bump or nod and he always had encouraging things to say. At half time he introduced me to several Cal sports luminaries including the WBB head coach.

The Shockster always brought his A game

So it wasn't a surprise when I saw him lead the court storm after the epic win over ranked Arizona in a Gold-out, packed Haas Pavillion

But I wasn't the only person in Haas who wasn't surprised. His daughter Taylor tried her best to stop him as you can see by her hand firmly holding his wrist

But he would not be denied

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OMG, what an ass kisser you are.

Shockey himself has posted about his game and posted the video multiple times, so that he can feed his ego. We certainly don't need you posting on his behalf.

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The Shockster is one of the best fans Cal has. it's ok to celebrate him early and often

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That totally depends on your personal definition of a fan. He certainly hasn't been around very long.

It is awesome to have him on ignore, for many reasons. One is that when you come into this Thread to His Ego with the author on ignore, it is an odd sight: you immediately notice that about 9 out of every 10 posts is collapsed, and you realize that Shockey accounts for like 90% of the hits on the thread. Sad.

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Chapman, as you perhaps know, I'm a fan of your posts on other threads, in general. That said, I have to ask you about something:

You have Shocky on "ignore", but you visit his thread on a regular basis? That seems odd... do explain.

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I've got no beef with Chapman either but if Shocky ever goes missing we all know how that Dateline is gonna play out...

Got the Axe in #OurHaas 🪓@CalFootball x #GoBears pic.twitter.com/ZAc2MIN3yc

— Cal Basketball (@CalMBBall) February 10, 2023

Shocky1 said:

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Got the Axe in #OurHaas 🪓@CalFootball x #GoBears pic.twitter.com/ZAc2MIN3yc

— Cal Basketball (@CalMBBall) February 10, 2023

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The only ones who deserve the axe are Knowlton and Fox.

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questions for s&c coach brian johnson:

do you feel that the granite statue lack of bend, mobility & quick twitch movements last season of cal's monster offensive line is somehow related to the type of work that you are in charge of with respects to the o-line room????

why is that the every single player in the top 8 of the o-line room's playing rotation wuz significantly injured at some point last season causing them to miss games (the season)???

and yet ur not materially changing the o-line workouts for the current winter conditioning???

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Very good question...I recall that when Furd had a great offensive line, they did a lot of flex work (along with a lot of roid use) and generally managed to stay healthy. I've always heard that major roid use makes athletes susceptible to injury. Anybody with better med knowledge than me have an answer?

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Steroid use and injury can be because of a couple of things - overuse and muscular strength growth curve outstripping that of ligaments and tendons. Roids let you recover quicker and put in more work, which can lead to overuse areas where the roids aren't as effective. Muscles become much stronger much faster than ligaments and tendons, due to the fact that they are highly vascularized and receive a steady flow of nutrients to recover and grow, the tendons and ligaments are much more slower growing, so they can't keep up with the strain and demands of the muscles. Also training imbalances, if the lifter is only focusing on the major muscles and doesn't continue to work the accessory muscles, that imbalance is amplified by the steroid growth/recovery and may lead to being more injury prone.

All that being said, most performance enhancers aren't going to make you more injury prone just by themselves, afaik. It more of a going too fast too soon, or not having good comprehensive programming.

Shocky1 said:

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Shocky1 said:

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https://instagr.am/p/CSfX1t1LPtj
as russian points out there are a lotta applications to the #1 ranked public university in the world, in fact there wuz 147,586 applicants for the 2022/2023 year...the overwhelmingly majority of these applicants got harvard/stanford like high gpas, not many students wanna waste their time (and application fee) tryna get in if they know they got almost no chance of gaining acceptance, ucla is a excellent safety school

but cal got a silver bullet admissions process for prospective student athletes with gpas under 3.0...during my time with cal's monster class i wuz involved in a couple of these deals most notably jaylen brown

this process includes components advocated by jb & big c as it takes a holistic approach in an endeavor to take a deep dive beyond the sub 3.0 gpa...feedback from teachers & coaches is solicited in painting a picture re: the student's circumstances...during the official visit to berkeley the prospect is often interviewed in person by admissions & the athletic study center (which is separately funded than the athletic department) which is chaired by dr derek van rheenen & transition/curriculum development director dr kasra sotudeh (who is an amazing person)

the silver bullet admissions process graduation results as it relates to the football program are kinda a mixed bag, some of the players referenced in the above departure post (10 of the 27 don't got degrees) that are often tragically leaving berkeley without a degree were accepted thru this process...an interesting footnote is that 7 of the 10 students without berkeley degrees who opted to enter the portal are offensive skill players (did u know that the con artist tole me to my face that billy m is "a genius?")...and yet there are also many graduation stories of magical victories in beating the statistics which is a critical mission of the university of california, berkeley to afford degree opportunities to those who are the 1st in their families to earn college degrees which is an altruistic approach to reshaping society & wealth distribution in breaking decades long patterns of familial poverty for those willing to do the arduous long hours of academic work...in life u gotta go thru something to get something which is why shocky can't do a handstand (headstand no problemo) with his t-rex arms

but make no mistake about it, high gpa bobo kinda look like a substitute teacher at modern yoga with his man bun ponytail, shake that tail, bobo, shake that tail



beat the statistics, **** the opinions and the logistics#

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wuz advised today by a major donor that converses with both fox & the con artist that they are putting out there the 100% FALSE narrative that the basketball record is a function of the challenges of berkeley admissions

fox & the con artist want u to believe that the record is NOT a function of abysmal recruiting by the oldest (200+ years plus) coaching staff in the united states that is also unlikeable other than coach francis

beth tafolla-voetsch recently sent me the inner department document re: the silver bullet admissions process, there are 300 student athletes affected by this policy which has been available to the basketball program for years

not gonna lie to you, the more one learns about the con artist, the more twisted his propensity for telling FAKE NARRATIVES is apparent

andrew mcgraw for athletic director (vote early, vote often)#

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Andrew McGraw for AD and Andrew Francis for interim BB HC immediately.

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Chapman, as you perhaps know, I'm a fan of your posts on other threads, in general. That said, I have to ask you about something:

You have Shocky on "ignore", but you visit his thread on a regular basis? That seems odd... do explain.

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Big C,

I owe you a response since you're one of my favorite posters.

I have three main problems with this Thread to Shockey's Ego.

1) This thread sucks the oxygen from the rest of the Growls board. While it is very easy to ignore Shockey's posts (and I do), other posters who I like and would like to communicate with are sucked into this dirty brown hole of a thread, along with their interesting and informative posts. Yet the importance of this idiotic thread is blown way out of proportion, since Shockey is responsible for 80%-90% of the posts and clicks on this thread. Nave Cyberbears feel like they're missing out on something if they don't read this thread when, in reality, they're missing out on nothing but the pathetic ramblings of a Phoenix insurance salesman who spends WAAAY too much time online and steals all of his "content" from Twitter and other social media. The fact that this thread sucks the energy out of the rest of Growls, I believe, is a reason the thread was shut down the first time. It is not healthy for the free board as a whole to have a thread like this. The owners of this board have made a mistake allowing this weirdo back onto the board.

2) This thread causes me to lose respect for the other Cyberbears who seem to enjoy it and seem unable to see beyond the curtain. There are two freaks on this board who have been employing the same tired shtick for years and years: Shockey and Cal Strong. I despise both of them. And I despise anyone who can be entertained by such ****ty shtick for years and years. I feel the same way about people who still watch Survivor in its 22nd year. A rhetorical question: Is your life so devoid of meaning and entertainment, and are you as a person so devoid of creativity, that you enjoy such banal drivel?

3) This is a guy who *****s out his daughters, and was so annoying at Cal games courtside that his right to purchase tickets there was taken away from him. He never shuts his mouth, and I wouldn't be surprised if his distraction cost our basketball team a win or two over the few years that this guy has been a Cal fan. He is a narcissist. I've sat near this guy at games, and I despise him and his smelly, sockless shoes.

Big C, I used to allow this thread to get to me, which is unhealthy. But then I did the rational thing and joined the premium board. I only stop by this thread about once per month, just to see if the pile of bull**** has reached the ceiling.

Shocky1 said:

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and guess what eastcoastie, that's not even the most DISTURBING FALSE NARRATIVE being promoted by fox & the con artist at this time

they are selling the 100% inaccurate story that the reason jaylen brown is not supporting/donating to the mens basketball program at this time is because he "had a bad basketball experience" at cal & "an intense dislike of coach martin"

the truth is that jaylen loved his time in berkeley & has told me that when he returned for the football game he tried to explain directly to knowlton the importance of having a supportive black head coach as a mentor/life coach like cuonzo but that he could tell that the con artist didn't really understand what he wuz saying

once fox & knowlton are gone, full expect jb (whose is now eligible for a nba "max contract" of $290,000,000 over 5 years from the boston celtics) & shareef (would not even send his own son jabri to play for fox despite his wife dee dee being from oakland & a berkeley grad) to invest both their time & money in the cal basketball program

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Wow, Knowlton is about as horrible a fit for Cal AD as possible.

Chapman_is_Gone said:

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I used to allow this thread to get to me, which is unhealthy.

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you still do, and you waste others time with your unhealthy responses

stay on premium, let us poor slobs be

A poster on another thread said he witnessed KJ Roberts and Monte Buckley after the game near exits door. He advised Monte Buckley giving Knowlton an earful, while making Knowlton uncomfortable. The poster said, Knowlton's response was "all the Cal fans feel this way," as Knowlton tried to walk away. Monte shouted out "you need to listen to this."

Love Buckley for this. I'm sure many alumni, former players, fans feel this way. Too bad Knowlton is not man enough to hear it. Let's go Bears.

Woman's Softball team won 4 game in two days. We haven't won 4 games all year. Pull the trigger Knowlton stop being a .