read the monster

To make it easier for people to avoid the mess of the so called Monster thread. I replaced shocky with Elmo and ran his post through ChatGPT

KEY POINTS about the separation agreement between James Knowlton and the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, signed by Chancellor Richard K. Lyons:

According to Elmo who, in his infinite wisdom, just happens to have the full 7-page, 22-point separation agreement (because of course Elmo does) here are the "highlights" you apparently can't live without:
Point #2 Separation Date: July 1, 2025. Shocking stuff, really.
Point #5 Buyout Payments:
A cool $1.1 million per year, prorated, from the separation date through May 1, 2029.
And naturally, these will be paid in "substantially equal monthly installments," because heaven forbid Knowlton miss his monthly allowance.
Point #6 Duty to Mitigate (Elmo assures us this one is "hilarious"):
Knowlton is expected to try finding another athletically related job to offset the University's payments. Translation: Please go get another gig so we can stop paying you quite so much.

Bottom line, according to Elmo's grand revelation: Berkeley will keep sending Knowlton $1.1 million a year through 2029 all while forking over almost $1 million combined to the current "coAthletic Directors" Jay Larson and Jennifer Simon-O'Neil, whom Elmo generously brands as running an anti-football/men's basketball agenda.

And, naturally, Elmo closes with the sage observation that Chancellor Lyons who inherited this mess clearly hasn't spent enough time in "the real world" cutting deals… unlike, you know, Elmo.

Interesting they claim he retired.

Must be nice …

oskidunker said:

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Interesting they claim he retired.

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Right. If he really walked away from the contract we would not owe him the payments. If he really "retired" there would be no obligation to mitigate by finding another job, though clearly he has no intention of doing that because people that do negotiate that away as part of their lump sum settlement.

Knowlton was a sunk cost. Christ's error. The real increase in expense is the additional money we are paying to the new AD duo. That waste is on Lyons.

Similarly, the "cost" of firing Wilcox is not his contract, which, like Knowlton's, is guaranteed, so it is a sunk cost. It is the cost of the new coach, which could have easily been Ron Rivera this year or even last year. Most likely for something like what we are already paying him to be GM (plus the additional amounts we are paying to former head coaches as "consultants").

No your creepy photos of half naked women 50 years younger than you makes it unreadable

MiZery said:

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To make it easier for people to avoid the mess of the so called Monster thread. I replaced shocky with Elmo and ran his post through ChatGPT

KEY POINTS about the separation agreement between James Knowlton and the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, signed by Chancellor Richard K. Lyons:

According to Elmo who, in his infinite wisdom, just happens to have the full 7-page, 22-point separation agreement (because of course Elmo does) here are the "highlights" you apparently can't live without:
Point #2 Separation Date: July 1, 2025. Shocking stuff, really.
Point #5 Buyout Payments:
A cool $1.1 million per year, prorated, from the separation date through May 1, 2029.
And naturally, these will be paid in "substantially equal monthly installments," because heaven forbid Knowlton miss his monthly allowance.
Point #6 Duty to Mitigate (Elmo assures us this one is "hilarious"):
Knowlton is expected to try finding another athletically related job to offset the University's payments. Translation: Please go get another gig so we can stop paying you quite so much.

Bottom line, according to Elmo's grand revelation: Berkeley will keep sending Knowlton $1.1 million a year through 2029 all while forking over almost $1 million combined to the current "coAthletic Directors" Jay Larson and Jennifer Simon-O'Neil, whom Elmo generously brands as running an anti-football/men's basketball agenda.

And, naturally, Elmo closes with the sage observation that Chancellor Lyons who inherited this mess clearly hasn't spent enough time in "the real world" cutting deals… unlike, you know, Elmo.

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The snarkiness was NOT needed. This is a booth on Shocky's work and post. I was able to read his post just fine.

Go Bears Forever

SBGold said:

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MiZery said:

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To make it easier for people to avoid the mess of the so called Monster thread. I replaced shocky with Elmo and ran his post through ChatGPT

KEY POINTS about the separation agreement between James Knowlton and the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, signed by Chancellor Richard K. Lyons:

According to Elmo who, in his infinite wisdom, just happens to have the full 7-page, 22-point separation agreement (because of course Elmo does) here are the "highlights" you apparently can't live without:
Point #2 Separation Date: July 1, 2025. Shocking stuff, really.
Point #5 Buyout Payments:
A cool $1.1 million per year, prorated, from the separation date through May 1, 2029.
And naturally, these will be paid in "substantially equal monthly installments," because heaven forbid Knowlton miss his monthly allowance.
Point #6 Duty to Mitigate (Elmo assures us this one is "hilarious"):
Knowlton is expected to try finding another athletically related job to offset the University's payments. Translation: Please go get another gig so we can stop paying you quite so much.

Bottom line, according to Elmo's grand revelation: Berkeley will keep sending Knowlton $1.1 million a year through 2029 all while forking over almost $1 million combined to the current "coAthletic Directors" Jay Larson and Jennifer Simon-O'Neil, whom Elmo generously brands as running an anti-football/men's basketball agenda.

And, naturally, Elmo closes with the sage observation that Chancellor Lyons who inherited this mess clearly hasn't spent enough time in "the real world" cutting deals… unlike, you know, Elmo.

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The snarkiness was NOT needed. This is a booth on Shocky's work and post. I was able to read his post just fine.

Go Bears Forever

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Lyons , tigers and Bears, Oh My! I have trouble reading the monster on iPhone due to the photos. Screen keeps jumping around and will never go to the last post

More reason to dislike Christ.

More reason to hate Knowlton.

Go Bears!

Sounds like a religious revival show here.