My favorite part is about Wilcox "continues to build the foundation." After 6 seasons, we are still working on the foundation? Great. So I guess that also means Fox is still clearing and grading the site, or he is just surveying the landscape?

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My favorite part is about Wilcox "continues to build the foundation." After 6 seasons, we are still working on the foundation? Great. So I guess that also means Fox is still clearing and grading the site, or he is just surveying the landscape?

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Fox is digging a fox hole to defend his bank account and Knowlton is In it with him.

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From the latest, after addressing the McKeever situation:

Looking to the future, I acknowledge that there have been evolving standards in intercollegiate athletics when it comes to how we develop our student-athletes to be their best, on and off the fields of competition. While we have strong, existing policies that cover a wide range of unacceptable conduct, I believe areas remain where there is a lack of consensus and clarity, areas where practices acceptable in the past need to be updated. I will lead a collaborative effort across the Cal Athletics community to develop updated guidelines that will allow coaches to mentor and challenge student-athletes in an environment that enables our young women and men to thrive.

Seems to me that could apply to MBB.

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Let me guess, this collaborative effort will take 6 months (i.e. 2+ years)?

There is nothing more that Knowlton could do for our student-athletes than stepping down as the AD.

If his goal is to run our revenue programs to the ground he is doing so brilliantly.

Headline:
UC Berkeley is taking additional steps beyond Teri McKeever firing
University is implementing steps 'outside of the scope of the investigation' of McKeever

Probably behind a paywall:
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/03/02/uc-berkeley-is-taking-additional-steps-beyond-teri-mckeever-firing/

The questions are what to do about Knowlton and Simon-O'Neall. No answers yet.

Jim: " I am making progress in killing off our revenue-making sports, but it will take a while longer."

Carol; "Nice work, Jim. How much longer?"

Jim: "Probably about nine years."

Carol: " Contract extension granted."

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Seems like Christ's words are sports positive (except when she says winning isn't important), but in a political manner. Her actions however seem to be otherwise. Some claim that her actions of shifting stadium debt were pro football. However, methinks that was done primarily to silence the supporters who were using the argument that we HAVE to have a revenue generating football team to pay the debt. That argument is not as relevant anymore.

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Don't we still NEED the revenue sports to...well...generate revenue? And doesn't it behoove her to maximize that? And isn't it common knowledge, even amongst the village idiots, that winning is directly related to revenue?
I mean, I can't believe we are having this discussion in 2023 with the chancellor of a division 1 university?

And, if she thought that she could not replace Knowlton, she might be right because she doesn't seem capable of much in the area of athletics. I will be cracking a bottle of champaign when she is gone and I don't drink. But I'm also not holding my breath.

For these very reasons, I'm sure everyone involved in hiring and/or retaining Christ just loves her. What a sh*tstorm Cal is right now.

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BeachedBear said:

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Seems like Christ's words are sports positive (except when she says winning isn't important), but in a political manner. Her actions however seem to be otherwise. Some claim that her actions of shifting stadium debt were pro football. However, methinks that was done primarily to silence the supporters who were using the argument that we HAVE to have a revenue generating football team to pay the debt. That argument is not as relevant anymore.

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Don't we still NEED the revenue sports to...well...generate revenue? And doesn't it behoove her to maximize that? And isn't it common knowledge, even amongst the village idiots, that winning is directly related to revenue?
I mean, I can't believe we are having this discussion in 2023 with the chancellor of a division 1 university?

And, if she thought that she could not replace Knowlton, she might be right because she doesn't seem capable of much in the area of athletics. I will be cracking a bottle of champaign when she is gone and I don't drink. But I'm also not holding my breath.

For these very reasons, I'm sure everyone involved in hiring and/or retaining Christ just loves her. What a sh*tstorm Cal is right now.

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Exactly right. She is not getting enough heat and blame. We should be destroyiing UCLA in the academic rankings and at least be competitive in athletics. She is losing on both fronts.

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heartofthebear said:

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BeachedBear said:

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Seems like Christ's words are sports positive (except when she says winning isn't important), but in a political manner. Her actions however seem to be otherwise. Some claim that her actions of shifting stadium debt were pro football. However, methinks that was done primarily to silence the supporters who were using the argument that we HAVE to have a revenue generating football team to pay the debt. That argument is not as relevant anymore.

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Don't we still NEED the revenue sports to...well...generate revenue? And doesn't it behoove her to maximize that? And isn't it common knowledge, even amongst the village idiots, that winning is directly related to revenue?
I mean, I can't believe we are having this discussion in 2023 with the chancellor of a division 1 university?

And, if she thought that she could not replace Knowlton, she might be right because she doesn't seem capable of much in the area of athletics. I will be cracking a bottle of champaign when she is gone and I don't drink. But I'm also not holding my breath.

For these very reasons, I'm sure everyone involved in hiring and/or retaining Christ just loves her. What a sh*tstorm Cal is right now.

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Exactly right. She is not getting enough heat and blame. We should be destroyiing UCLA in the academic rankings and at least be competitive in athletics. She is losing on both fronts.

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Christ has been a disaster as Chancellor. We haven't had a good Chancellor in over 60 years. We need someone who is a real leader. These pure academics just haven't displayed any leadership qualities.

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BeachedBear said:

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Seems like Christ's words are sports positive (except when she says winning isn't important), but in a political manner. Her actions however seem to be otherwise. Some claim that her actions of shifting stadium debt were pro football. However, methinks that was done primarily to silence the supporters who were using the argument that we HAVE to have a revenue generating football team to pay the debt. That argument is not as relevant anymore.

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Don't we still NEED the revenue sports to...well...generate revenue? And doesn't it behoove her to maximize that? And isn't it common knowledge, even amongst the village idiots, that winning is directly related to revenue?
I mean, I can't believe we are having this discussion in 2023 with the chancellor of a division 1 university?

And, if she thought that she could not replace Knowlton, she might be right because she doesn't seem capable of much in the area of athletics. I will be cracking a bottle of champaign when she is gone and I don't drink. But I'm also not holding my breath.

For these very reasons, I'm sure everyone involved in hiring and/or retaining Christ just loves her. What a sh*tstorm Cal is right now.

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As I have been saying for years, we will be lucky to have an athletics department when Christ and Knowlton move on. They came at the worst possible time for Cal in the history of college athletics.

ucLA hired Cronin on April 9, 2019. Cal hired Fox on March 29, 2019. That's one hell of a search firm result!

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ucLA hired Cronin on April 9, 2019. Cal hired Fox on March 29, 2019. That's one hell of a search firm result!

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Cronin would have NEVER taken the Cal job.
It's a dead end job. Cal's administration doesn't support the basketball program compared to other P5 schools, and coaches know that. A retread like Fox was more than willing to suffer through 4 miserable years to pad his retirement at $1.9M/year. That's how bad things are.

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sonofabear51 said:

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ucLA hired Cronin on April 9, 2019. Cal hired Fox on March 29, 2019. That's one hell of a search firm result!

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Cronin would have NEVER taken the Cal job.
It's a dead end job. Cal's administration doesn't support the basketball program compared to other P5 schools, and coaches know that. A retread like Fox was more than willing to suffer through 4 miserable years to pad his retirement at $1.9M/year. That's how bad things are.

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I don't understand what you are saying. Cronin would never take the Cal job because he was hot enough to take the UCLA job, which is a much better job. Fox would happily take the Cal job because he was not hot enough to get anything better. In fact I doubt if he could have gotten anything close to being comparable. The Cal job is a great job for someone without better options, which is most coaches at the college level or below. There were many alternatives to Fox, but Cal athletics is run by people who are so stupid that the conspiracy theory circulates that Cal is not trying to win.

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Alkiadt said:

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sonofabear51 said:

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ucLA hired Cronin on April 9, 2019. Cal hired Fox on March 29, 2019. That's one hell of a search firm result!

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Cronin would have NEVER taken the Cal job.
It's a dead end job. Cal's administration doesn't support the basketball program compared to other P5 schools, and coaches know that. A retread like Fox was more than willing to suffer through 4 miserable years to pad his retirement at $1.9M/year. That's how bad things are.

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I don't understand what you are saying. Cronin would never take the Cal job because he was hot enough to take the UCLA job, which is a much better job. Fox would happily take the Cal job because he was not hot enough to get anything better. In fact I doubt if he could have gotten anything close to being comparable. The Cal job is a great job for someone without better options, which is most coaches at the college level or below. There were many alternatives to Fox, but Cal athletics is run by people who are so stupid that the conspiracy theory circulates that Cal is not trying to win.

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Cronin left his alma mater (and a pretty good program), he was only ever going to leave if it meant a destination job.

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sonofabear51 said:

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ucLA hired Cronin on April 9, 2019. Cal hired Fox on March 29, 2019. That's one hell of a search firm result!

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Cronin would have NEVER taken the Cal job.
It's a dead end job. Cal's administration doesn't support the basketball program compared to other P5 schools, and coaches know that. A retread like Fox was more than willing to suffer through 4 miserable years to pad his retirement at $1.9M/year. That's how bad things are.

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I don't understand what you are saying. Cronin would never take the Cal job because he was hot enough to take the UCLA job, which is a much better job. Fox would happily take the Cal job because he was not hot enough to get anything better. In fact I doubt if he could have gotten anything close to being comparable. The Cal job is a great job for someone without better options, which is most coaches at the college level or below. There were many alternatives to Fox, but Cal athletics is run by people who are so stupid that the conspiracy theory circulates that Cal is not trying to win.

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Cronin left his alma mater (and a pretty good program), he was only ever going to leave if it meant a destination job.

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Agreed, more reasonable "should haves" are Kyle Smith, DeCuire, Pasternak but especially, unforgivably, Dennis Gates.