Only half the job has been done

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Stupid T-Shirt Cannon
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And I'm not talking about Wilcox being forced to retire.

No more outside of the box hires like Michael Williams, the original architect of Wilcox's fully guaranteed contract. No hiring athletic directors from mid-major universities. No prioritizing things like race, gender, or sexual orientation to virtue signal to the parts of the university that want athletics destroyed.

The pressure campaign to wrest control of the Athletic Department from Jim Knowlton cannot stop there. Left to their own devices, Cal will do the Cal thing and hire somebody who doesn't understand the modern demands of running a D-1 athletic program. We need someone who comes from a school that prioritizes the revenue sports, who knows how to fundraise and do donor outreach, and someone who has shown that they know how to run a proper marketing department. Anybody that can't fulfill all three requirements need not be interviewed.

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Given how the donors (including those who run this site) seemed to pressure the administration into doing the right things with Rivera, I'm optimistic that this can actually happen now. Hopefully the pressure can be kept up to make it so. The new AD needs to be, at minimum, someone who understands basketball and how to resource/market it. If Rivera is running football then this is the next priority.
BearSD
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Fred Bear said:

who knows how to fundraise and do donor outreach


This is, by far, the most important thing. Claiming that we are so smart and clever that we can "do more with less" might have worked in college athletics in the 1950s, but this sure as hell isn't the 1950s anymore. Winning consistently requires far more money from donors than Knowlton's regime raised.
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