GMP said:
SFCityBear said:
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Not sure I'd recognize Jerrod Haase.
LOL, Monte Buckly and KJ Roberts wouldn't recognize Jerrod Haase these days.
Bobby Hurley looks exactly the same. He hasn't aged a bit.
All the former players need to write a joint letter to knowlton basically telling him there was once a time that cal basketball was great and that he is single handily ruining the legacy they worked so hard to build.
It's still unclear to me if knowlton really understands what he's doing to cal basketball
Knowlton is a know-nothing. He is a hockey guy. He knows nothing about the revenue sports and probably thinks Cal basketball is just like Air Force basketball where he also sat smiling through 3 years of single digit win seasons doing nothing because, Air Force.
Pickin' cherries. You might have written "single digit CONFERENCE win seasons", to be more accurate. In the 43 years that Air Force has been playing conference basketball, in the WAC or MWC, there have been only 3 Air Force teams to register "double-digit" winning conference seasons.
Overall, Air Force's BB teams under Knowlton's AD tenure won 5, 4, and 6 conference games, averaging 5 wins per year. And in those 43 years, there have been 27 AF teams who racked up fewer than 5 conference wins in a season.
Overall, in the Knowlton era, Air Force won 14, 12, and 12 games in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. In the last 43 seasons, there are only 6 Air Force teams who have won 14 games or more, and only 12 Air Force teams who have won 12 games or more.
Air Force obviously is not a premier college basketball program, or even an average one, with very little success to show for all its years of trying to compete in the sport. There have been a few good players: NBA Coach Greg Popopvich was a star playing for Air Force, and Tom Schneeberger played on the US Olympic team in 1978, and another player made it to the D League and is playing pro in France.
Military Academies are very handicapped when it comes to recruiting. There are height and weight restrictions. The maximum height for a cadet applicant is 6'-8". Entrance requirements are stiffer than Cal's, though Cal's acceptance rate is 11%, Air Force's 10%. A cadet also needs to be nominated by a senator or congressman, I believe. Graduates have been restricted from delaying their military service to turn pro after graduation. In 2019 President Trump issued an order to the Defense Department to rescind this requirement and allow cadets to delay service to play pro ball, but in 2021, the DOD denied a Navy cadet his request to delay service to play pro, and I heard that the DOD is being asked to write new rules rescinding the Trump order.
Knowlton had one of the best records of Air Force ADs as to basketball, and I suspect there was no pressure on him to do more than any AD prior to him. He had a very full plate. Did you know that every single cadet must take PE classes every semester? And did you know every single cadet is required to play a team sport? Either NCAA sports, Club teams, or Intramural teams. Isn't that all voluntary at Cal?
I think Cal hired him to concentrate more on the non-revenue sports, and maybe de-emphasize the revenue sports. Since the latter part of the Waldorf era, with the recruiting scandals, there has been a tug of war between those who want to emphasize academics and those who want to emphasize sports. Throw in Title IX, and the withdrawal of State funding, and you have big problems for any AD. Knowlton is just a pawn in the game, in my opinion. The power to change direction lays with Christ or those above her, the Regents, the Legislature, and the Governor.
You're right. Knowlton is excellent and so is the Cal basketball program.
Not really. I was just thinking with Knowlton, as with Fox, what's the point? Both already have made bad enough records to get fired, so why add misstatements or distortions of their records to your case? Which is what this poster does over and over. Doesn't that weaken or make it seem like the case against either one is not strong enough to stand alone on its own? I guess it is just after writing so many hundreds, and maybe more, words for four long years, to make cases against these two men, it has to be frustrating for him if not even one them is fired. I understand that. I find it all offensive, but maybe worse, it is ineffective. The AD is a person who has the authority to fire the main guy we want removed, so why offend him by personally attacking him? Why go about it like this, with the constant bi*****ing and whining, attacking this guy in a public forum. Get creative about it. Figure out how to get an appointment with him. If UrsaMajor were still here, he used to have lunch regularly with the Chancellor, and it could be done through her. You need to cozy up to either one, and see them face to face. Express your point of view. Find out what their reasons are for keeping Fox around. Convince them, sell them. If that doesn't work, swamp the Ad's office with snail mail, and his residential mail as well Tie up his e-mail with messages, tie up his phone (get a hacker to get his number) Failing that, you can try the Buckley approach, get in his face, but not just one guy, get a group together. If you can't get a bunch of Cal grads together to take action, then you not a true Cal activist. Posting whines on the BI forum is not the way to do this. I'd guess neither one of the objects of the poster's ire even read these forums. He and all of you have a good case, so just organize, plan, and take action. I had a boss once who told me there are two kinds of people in this world: There are those who do the work, and those who criticize the ones who do the work. The critics. So don't be critics, you and the poster, all the posters. Get together and take some action.
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