Interested in being part of the @CalMBBall team?
— Cal Basketball (@CalMBBall) August 24, 2023
We’re having a walk-on tryout September 5th @ 2pm.
Make sure to fill out the form below, print it out, and bring it with you to be considered. #GoBears https://t.co/AEGVTqstdr pic.twitter.com/wS3JtDKgjS
mhiver is an endeavor (run by berkeley grad karen brodkin) troll who makes **** up that is consistently wrong (then deletes his inaccurate tweets) that then gets repeated by jacob & mike silverShocky1 said:If ACC can't seal the deal in the next several days, Big 12 is ready to take the rest of the PAC-4 per sources
— Jacob Lee (@CAL_SPORTS_) August 26, 2023
Travel would be way better for the student athletes
sorry jacob but cal is not gonna join either the big 12 or the big cities conference
Shrooms are hitting. See you tomorrow.
— Tony Kransinski (@wetbeefs) December 10, 2022
Brooklyn Cheek. Monster.
— West Coast Preps Sacramento (@WCPSacramento) August 26, 2023
TFL.
Cal commit pic.twitter.com/eYdm6orrpM
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has published a paper demonstrating that the travel distance from Stanford and Cal to the ACC isn’t that bad. pic.twitter.com/AgBmUqM22l
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) August 8, 2023
This photo of our Skillet Cookie is giving us all the feels this #NationalChocolateChipCookieDay. 🤤😍 #drool pic.twitter.com/6eSssWGCxb
— Shoney's (@Shoneys) August 4, 2023
Join @MaxHoma23 & his PGA Coach @BlackburnGolf for a fun guessing game, a quick tip and a signature sip of @Elijah_Craig. pic.twitter.com/ZhFsxRT882
— PGA of America (@PGA) April 18, 2023
agreed durant, gt is an elite academic institution & roadtrips to atlanta every 2 years would be fun plus there's decent golf within an hour or twoDurantAve said:
GT would be my number one. ATL is fertile yet under sourced recruiting grounds for Cal. Plus GT has a great Eng program, with a fair amount of Bay Area based alums. 2)Mia, 3) BC 4)UVA/VaTec (recruiting potential if you expand to broader DMV area) 5) UNC/NCState (also for the recruiting, the state that gave us Keenan Allen after all)
DurantAve said:
GT would be my number one. ATL is fertile yet under sourced recruiting grounds for Cal. Plus GT has a great Eng program, with a fair amount of Bay Area based alums. 2)Mia, 3) BC 4)UVA/VaTec (recruiting potential if you expand to broader DMV area) 5) UNC/NCState (also for the recruiting, the state that gave us Keenan Allen after all)
Shocky1 said:Join @MaxHoma23 & his PGA Coach @BlackburnGolf for a fun guessing game, a quick tip and a signature sip of @Elijah_Craig. pic.twitter.com/ZhFsxRT882
— PGA of America (@PGA) April 18, 2023
pga tour championship: 4th round
max with a strong 68 with a lotta credit to his swing coach mark blackburn in getting homa's swing plane on a flatter trajectory & colin with a putting rollercoaster 72 but regardless is gonna get fantastic news tomorrow with the public announcement of the 2023 usa ryder cup team
max is already committed to defending this title at the fortinet at silverado on september 14th-17th before the ryder cup 2 weeks later...fully expect michael kim & byeong hun an to also represent the bears...would be a major coup for tournament attendance if colin morikawa decides to enter the field to avoid not playing any competitive golf for almost a month
yeah shocky is gonna be there on 14th & 15th before the bears football game on saturday the 16th...say hello if ur there too (gonna be wearing my cal golf cap) & the monster will be sure to give you a free monthly pass to my upcoming t-rex yoga studio in yountville, ok? (handstand workshops will NOT be included at this time)
https://instagr.am/p/CZUlDjQrySJ
https://instagr.am/p/CtLMRC4r-SQQuote:
Agree. Let's play USC and UCLA. If we beat them it gives us good recruiting fodder for recruits from SoCal. In any event the travel is reasonable.
Wearing the C’s on their chest 🫡
— Cal Football (@CalFootball) August 27, 2023
Our 2023 team captains!#GoBears pic.twitter.com/kWHm2FRlNM
acc update: acc prezs got a zoom call scheduled for this evening re: potential expansion invitations to calford & smuShocky1 said:Shocky1 said:monster gameplan:Shocky1 said:
the monster gameplan for the cal athletic department:
there's gonna be significantly less revenues for the athletic department in the forseeable future & that's why knowlton's decision in fiscal year 2022 to borrow $11,000,000 (which he directed his staff to try to keep secret which necessitated multiple public records requests by me) wuz malpractice...apologists will argue that borrowing money from the central campus is a standard operating mechanism, these are not ordinary times & the "good ol' days" of collegiate athletics (for schools not already in the sec or big 10) are firmly in the rearview mirror
the financial reality for the cal athletic department is significantly less revenues in the future primarily from reduced acc media rights revenues & non football specific donations to the athletic department due to the growth of nil fundraising & the aging berkeley donor community which is not gaining any traction (building a pipeline) with younger future megadonors...the fake "light a hole in ur wallet" berkeley fundraising numbers are not dollars that are actually collected, got it?
so whether it be the con artist & his evil as **** confidante jennifer simon-o'neil (both of them got their days numbered in berkeley) continuing their bureaucratic wayward lack of vision or new leadership such as andrew mcgraw as the next (perhaps interim until adela de la torre hopefully comes on board in july of 2024) athletic director, cal will no longer be able to field 30+ teams (many of them underperforming for years) & will need to cut teams/reduce expenses
the next athletic director will need to quickly work within title ix constraints in revamping the currently bloated athletic department bureaucracy with the following teams in a new much more streamlined operation that focuses resources on football thereby facilitating the competition for championships in all remaining sports that will be competing in the west coast conference:
1. football
2. men's basketball
3. men's swimming & diving
4. men's water polo
5. men's golf
6. men's tennis
7. women's basketball
8. softball
9. women's soccer
10. women's swimming & diving
11. women's water polo
12. women's volleyball
13. women's golf
14. women's tennis
15. women's rowing
16. women's gymnastics
notes: baseball & both track and field/cross country programs would be terminated with current schollys honored thru graduation & the valuable land upon which evans field & edwards stadium r situated would be repurposed...men's soccer, women's lacrosse & women's field hockey would be shuttered...women's beach volleyball players would be offered roster spots with the failing women's volleyball program thru graduation...men's rugby, men's rowing & men's gymnastics would become club sports, fully expect jack clark to go nuclear on this necessary decision in his predictable myopic rage to defend his turf
a new dawn in berkeley with financial accountability#
the latest version of the donor mandated (in exchange for direct football funding) cost cutting of the knowlton/lowry financially undisciplined debt riddled spending is to the reduce the number of sport teams in berkeley from 28 to 22 & not the 16 monster endorsed number of teams as outlined above...furthermore, despite 53 counters (which is the key metric for title ix compliance) for rugby & 78 counters for men's rowing they would not become club sports at this time due to internal politics/pushback
the remaining 22 teams would send 4 teams (men's & women's swimming/diving & water polo) to the mountain pacific sports federation...of the other 18 teams football would charter flights for the 4-5 acc road games every season & the other 17 programs would compete in the acc & co charter flights with stanford for east coat travel
the wcc will likely not be a home for the non rev teams at this time but fully expect this still to happen as ncca conference rules are adjusted to the new financial realities for schools outside of the p2 (sec & big 10)
got it?
https://instagr.am/p/CEdiU-3AzZkWhile SMU has agreed to take zero for 7 years, Cal & Stanford are expected to start at a 30% Tier 1 share (roughly $8-10M each).
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) August 23, 2023
The schools, joining in all spots, would sign the Grant-of-Rights thru 2036 & would earn a full share by the contract’s end.https://t.co/JBSAB4DG8g
acc update: the reality is that if cal is fortunate enough to receive an acc invitation (the other alternative is the end of football as we know it) it's gonna take a major financial hit, the other reports that calford wuz gonna receive near full shares wuz just wishful best scenario thinking
cal has minimal bargaining power in these negotiations & continued concessions have been necessary to get the flip vote(s)
that's why reducing expenses now needs to happen, knowlton's failure to take action is moving the department's finances into a deeper hole...that's why the last update here of 22 sports is not realistic, it needs to be trimmed to 16 as outlined in the 1st post here
and the plan to share charter planes with stanford wuz a dumb as **** plan for anybody who got access to a map, got it?...unlike the pac 12 the acc schools are generally speaking not closely situated to one another...miami is not a 20 minute bus ride away from tallahassee, jim
lastly it's also not financially feasible for cal's non revenue sports teams (other than the one's joining the mountain pacific sports federation) to travel to the east coast...at the end of the day only football and both men's & women's basketball programs should be joining the acc
knowlton & his confidante in crime jennifer simon-o'neil need to be terminated as quickly as possible, his continued financial irresponsibility makes him the wrong person to navigate the department thru the upcoming tumultuous times, the con artist's solution to this mess would be to just borrow more money...appoint andrew mcgraw as the interim athletic director & beth tafolla-voetsch in charge of women's sports until such time that frontrunner adela de la torre is announced as the next chancellor of berkeley in june of 2024
my 1st post in this thread continues to stand as the most accurate & likely outcome re: conference alignment courses of action...football and men's & women's basketball invitations to the acc, the majority of the other teams to the west coast conference & cal sport teams reduced from the current 28 to 16
Shocky1 said:
https://instagr.am/p/Cnsy9Gdr5dC
also congrats to +1 athlete kaleb elarms-orr on earning an inside starting linebacker, keo will benefit (get coached up) playing next to all american candidate jackson sirmon
staying home for moms (20 minute drive from hayward to memorial stadium on gamedays)#
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (including the east bay)
GAME WEEK 😤#GoBears pic.twitter.com/R66AqWDFoP
— Cal Football (@CalFootball) August 28, 2023
Shocky1 said:
calumnus, my daughter taylor & me wuz at the cal basketball banquet back in the day hugging it out with my yoga buddy jaylen brown who made a point to travel to berkeley for the evening despite a busy schedule with multiple individual nba team workouts that week with franchises that had the first 5 picks in the upcoming nba draft...football assistant coach/world class recruiter/wide receivers coach jacob peeler (my source/conduit to prospect information at the time including gpas) wuz in my ear earlier that day about consensus 5 star all american demtetris robertson
so i asked jaylen if had called fellow georgian demetris back yet...jb apologized & said he had forgotten to do so (and that demetris had left him several messages re: the berkeley experience) but promised me he would call him the next morning
peeler calls me shortly thereafter with thx, demetris wuz gonna commit to the bears after talking to jaylen & getting all his questions answered with positive encouragement to head to berkeley
https://bearinsider.com/forums/8/topics/11616/320
in the recruiting world this is connecting the dots utilizing any & all relationships (peeler knew that my friendship with brown could get the phone call done) to get deals done, only dumb azzs think recruiting should be some super secret enterprise
demetris later tole jaylen that a key factor in his transferring back home to them georgia bulldogs wuz his twin sister shanetris not getting a track scholly at cal, the original plan wuz for the two super close siblings to live/study together in berkeley but she ended up going to junior college for a year in the bay instead
One. More. Week.#GoBears pic.twitter.com/xqJyCqu80M
— Cal Football (@CalFootball) August 26, 2023
Shocky1 said:Shocky1 said:
https://instagr.am/p/Cnsy9Gdr5dC
also congrats to +1 athlete kaleb elarms-orr on earning an inside starting linebacker, keo will benefit (get coached up) playing next to all american candidate jackson sirmon
staying home for moms (20 minute drive from hayward to memorial stadium on gamedays)#
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (including the east bay)GAME WEEK 😤#GoBears pic.twitter.com/R66AqWDFoP
— Cal Football (@CalFootball) August 28, 2023
**** gonna get real this saturday, it's gameday baby
let's ******* go#
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jaden rashada has won the starting qb job at asu
when the sun devils visit berkeley on september 30th coach sirmon gotta dial up the pressure to force the inexperienced qb into costly turnovers...last season against notre dame peter dialed up a candy azz soft bend but don't break scheme which wuz intended to not win the game but rather not to lose the game...and then the irish qb who had never played a down of college football drew pyne (who is now the back up in tempe due to a hamstring injury) got comfortable over the course of the game with minimal pressure & made a couple of plays late in the afternoon
and the bears lost (again)
let's ******* ago (knock somebody on their azz)#
Only 3⃣ more Saturdays between us and game day.
— North Texas Football (@MeanGreenFB) August 12, 2023
🎟️ https://t.co/iEqL1tuAwg #GMG x #TakeFlightUNT pic.twitter.com/nZYsaMsmq4
During orientation week they have workers approaching students with a $125. deal for all home football (plus the Stanford away game) and basketball tickets. Thats about $5 per game. i dont know how much less expensive it could be.Shocky1 said:Quote:how much of a bill do y'all think i can rack up on his tab before it becomes impolite?Quote:I'd be camping outside his office every day at 11:30 and then following him for a free lunch.Quote:
Daughter is at the new student convocation this morning. She said Madsen gave a 90 second speech. " I wanna see you at the games this year! If you see me on campus, give me a high five! See me at lunch? I'll pay!" Then he left. Classic mad dog.What a convocation!!! 9,000 students packed in Haas Pavilion.
— Mark Madsen (@madsen_mark) August 17, 2023
A warm welcome to the vibrant @UCBerkeley class of 2027. Nearly broke the record for all-time applicant pool.
Lunch is on me @ Mezzo! Just find us there! pic.twitter.com/g2rYMJo9Sc
yeah coastie over a free lunch at mezzo with coach is gonna convince him that the key to student attendance is offering free tickets to all students, reality is that berkeley gotta lotta 4.5+ gpa 1st generation college students from lower socioeconomic communities that didn't go to their high school's football or basketball games while studying 24/7 amassing the world class academic accolades that are necessary for admission into berkeley
we gotta get students going to games during their berkeley days thereby imprinting their gameday behavior for a lifetime & that's the key to building a pipeline of future season tix buyers/donors...and the reality is that there's been near zero effort by anybody to build the fanbase since cal's monster class
knowlton & his clueless marketing director markeisha everett will tell you that giving away free tixs undermines the value of tixs but that's just tired azz dumb as **** thinking from outta touch bureaucrats rather than the saavy promoters like the staff at san diego state which offers all students free tixs in an inclusive fun party atmosphere which has resulted in attendance records & a final four appearance this season
the magic of cal basketball (is a grassroots process that grows the fanbase one at a time)#
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (that should be inclusively offering free tixs to all students on gamedays)