Sebastabear said:
My interest in Justin's success is 100% on whether he can bring success to Cal football.
Sebastabear said:
We are a few years from the realignment wheel spinning again and the television networks picking winners and losers. We are 100% going to be a loser unless we field a better team with better results.
So no I don't care if Justin Wilcox looks good.
1) The Ultimate Goal: becoming a Realignment Winner (RW).
2) What Minimally would it take to become RW (following the next 6 years given the gutter-level national perception of our potential and of our commitment to belonging in an upper tier "power" conference): playing in the conference title game in 3 of those 6 years, or in 2 of the last 3 ante-realignment seasons. Note: this is not about what is a Realistic Best-Case Scenario (RBCS), but what Minimally it would take to become RW.
3) Has JW shown himself in 8 seasons that with the help of some more transfer-4* he is the type of HC who is capable of achieving not mere RBCS but what Minimally it wd take to become RW?
4) If with the help of the collective's signees and retainees JW wins 8 regular season games both in '24 and in '25, will JK, Travers fam, et al., extend the contract for all intents and purposes to the next Realignment? This scenario looks HIGHLY LIKELY to me. This scenario would end all possibility of Cal becoming RW. So this scenario must be avoided at all costs. How? We all must communicate CLEARLY, OFTEN, and LOUDLY to JK, Travers fam, other mega donors who would finance that extension that JW must be dismissed, and that the increased NIL donations are definitely not a vote of confidence greenlight for another extension.
5) The Ultimate Priority: Dismissing JW within the next 1-2 years. Never allowing another extension to be contemplated. Hiring a proven power conference HC capable of achieving the Ultimate Goal. Impossibly expensive, you say? Then, becoming a RW is itself an impossibility and we might as well just give up. We can't afford to **** around in these crucial next 6 years with coordinators unproven as HCs and non-power level HCs. If we continue to **** around as in the last 6 decades, then come 2030/2031 we'll be begging the Mountain West to take us.
TLDR ("Too Long, Didn't Read" summary): The Ultimate Goal is for Cal to become a Realignment Winner (RW) following the next 6 seasons. The Ultimate Priority (in order to achieve the Ultimate Goal) is to have in position w/in the next 2 years a HC who can realistically achieve what Minimally it would take to become RW.
