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In other news, as Cal athletics withers in the current landscape of college sports…….
"Michigan made history over the weekend, becoming the first school ever to have a first-round pick in the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL drafts in the same year.
NFL: Mason Graham (No. 5)
NHL: Will Horcoff (No. 24)
NBA: Danny Wolf (No. 27)
MLB: Mitch Voit (No. 38)
But wait, there's more: The Wolverines also had a first-round pick in the MLS Draft, with Jason Bucknor going No. 20 to the Galaxy.@
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LOL at including ice hockey, a sport that 90% of Division I schools don't have and even fewer care about, and at calling the 38th draft choice in a 30-team sport a "first-round pick".
Yet at the most critical time in the history of our athletics program we hired an AD whose sole expertise (other than US military bureaucracy) is ice hockey.
The guy before him, who hired himself, practiced with the wrassling team. Not a deep bench for the position.
If you don't look very hard, you don't find very much.
The wrassling guy, independently wealthy from wall street, couldn't find anyone who would take the job in a six month search.
He got an ovation and an award at a football game break. lol
He was AD for two years, didn't take a salary or donated it back and had the sense to step down when it was clear he was in over his head and return to being a major donor. He is still a Cal alum, one of us. Many of us might think we could do the job too.
While people focus on his hiring of Wyking Jones, it was a swing and a miss, we replaced him after two years and the roster he left was better than the one he came in with. Williams only lasting damage was his disastrous hiring of Wilcox, necessitated because of his ill-timed firing of Dykes after the cycle (see Stanford this year). It probably have been fine if we moved on from Wilcox after 4 years like every other mediocre or losing coach we have had, but Knowlton gave him a six year extension.
