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That's why he was hired - to say what he does, behave as he does. Can't stand the idiot. Perhaps it's time we go after the person who hired him!!!
Been saying that for a while. We need the anti-Christ. Our swimming program has always been great - he gets no credit for that. He's tanking our revenue programs so our swimming program will drown along with them in due time...Christ being supportive of football is the biggest scam in Cal athletics history ..bigger than Bozeman's bucks!
If you compare Chancellor Christ with her predecessors going back 50 years or so, she is probably the most athletics-friendly, athletics-advocating Chancellor we have had... and I doubt it's close. Granted, she needs some help hiring ADs (forget if she hired the previous guy). Not to say she is great, but look at the other guys, who bordered on downright hostile to football and basketball (although Albert Bowker did attend most every home basketball game).
That's damning Christ with very faint praise. She talks a good game, but she has done absolutely nothing during her tenure to get results. Words and smiles mean nothing. Cal has continued its slide into football and basketball oblivion under her watch.
So the posts below are wrong? She didn't lead the debt re-working? Also, it's your belief that she had nothing to do in terms of supporting the grad programs to help hold on to athletes?
Okay, good to know...thanks.
The debt re-working has done absolutely nothing, as best I can tell, to improve the results on the field or on the court. And the grad programs are surely a positive, but they have had minimal impact on wins for our football and basketball teams. So, at best she has given us some frosting for the cake, but she has done virtually nothing to improve the size or quality of the cake.
They increased the assistants compensation pool...anything that possibly helped with that is a good thing.
IF you are saying you will only be happy with her if she pushes to fire Wilcox and Fox, then fine, that's at least honest, and is pre-emptive of any other discussion. But, and others can correct me if I am wrong, I don't see any one else in Cal history who has exceeded her support of the last few years. IF the results aren't quick enough for you, okay, then, hey, what else is there to discuss really....
She hired Knowlton, a bad fit with little relevant experience, gave him a big raise and then, even after horrible results, a 7 year extension. The result of that will be her legacy with regards to athletics.
While some say she is "the best" chancellor ever for athletics (seems like that is often said of whomever is there at the time), right now she looks like the worst to me.
A poster said she walks around campus in a red overcoat?
Having met her, there is no mistaking her correct color coordination and spirit about Cal. IF there was an early wardrobe discretion, then okay, serve that up as important to you.
I think the debt deal, the grad program, and her overall support in her position is significant...my opinion, and no one really cares. You hate Knowlton, and tie her to that....nothing that anyone is going to post is going to change your mind, nor is any opinion here going to matter in terms of how things shake out in the medium or long term.
I don't "hate" Knowlton. I didn't hate Gilby, Holmoe, Dykes, Wyking Jones or Mark Fox. I just think they were bad to horrible hires and bad fits who needed to go sooner rather than later. I do not blame any of them for accepting the $millions Cal gave them and doing their best. I blame the people who hired them and extended them.
Yes, I "tie her to that." Who else is responsible for hiring Knowlton above all the other possible candidates in this country and then, after historically bad results, giving him a raise and an unprecedented 7 year contract extension?
The one way I could see the next 7 years under Knowlton working out is if he takes his orders from an assertive and aggressive booster or booster group that also pushes NIL to the same legal limits as our competition will. That is where his obsequiousness and lack of ego would actually be a benefit. Unfortunately, I think, and we are hearing, that we will be one of the more conservative schools even in our own conference with regard to NIL and booster involvement. Donors will be sought for buildings, not influence. Our administration seeks to preserve the old order, with an antiquated view of amateurism with tge Ivy's as our ideal. Many would be fine with that if we just had football and basketball games with the Cal band, but unfortunately our game day traditions are being destroyed at the same time.