Hypothesis: UC Berkeley has more cultural capital than any other US university. Discuss.
— Rich Lyons (@richlyons) May 26, 2024
ECF MVP 🏆@FCHWPO x #GoBears pic.twitter.com/x1rkaqRmld
— Cal Basketball (@CalMBBall) May 28, 2024
ur gpa matters in life & yeah shocky knows ur gpaShocky1 said:
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a sr exec of a nba organization (client of mine) is advising that their scouting dept has been told that bronny james jr will be leaving his name in the 2024 nba draft
sorry oski
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welcome 5'11" 165 lbs oakland native grand canyon transfer point guard jovan blackshear jr to the cal basketball program for his final year of eligibility
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shocky's been to several lopes basketball games (fun environment with loud as **** sold out crowds, all students get FREE tixs) the last couple of years as a cinderella ncca tournament team last season & coach madsen is getting a high basketball iq floor general that naturally/unselfishly facilitates his teammates (unlike jalen cone) that got a pure shooting stroke (41.0% on 3 pointers last season on a limited # of shots & a career 80%+ free throw shooter)...blackshear is not a lockdown defender due to his size & will need to be coached up by the staff in order to compete against acc competition, he anticipates ball movement well & will be a legit passing lane ball stealing threat for the bears
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jovan is currently recovering from a right knee injury (check out the brace in the foto below) that limited his minutes last season (played 15.4 mpg, he wuz named the wac preseason player of the year) & recently became a dad ...his reputation among the gcu staff is a hard worker that is receptive to coaching/development...played high school ball in phx for bad dude henry bibby jr (forced out for sexually harassing a teacher) at powerhouse shadow mountain (teammate of low gpa eddie house jr)...blackshear earned a bachelor of science degree in sports management from gcu & will be enrolled in berkeley's grad cert program
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lopes up#
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foxy, jovani ruff would be a transformational cornerstone foundational building block for a 2025 cal's monster class plus he got mcdonald's all american upside
Four-star guard Jovani Ruff will announce his commitment this afternoon. The 2025 recruit will pick between Cal, Kansas, Oregon and USC. Here's what he told our @MattRMoreno about the Bears and his process to find the right school ahead of his decision.https://t.co/9met7eHycm pic.twitter.com/GhkxqadAP0
— Cal Rivals (@CalRivals) June 5, 2024
The moment 2025 four-star guard Jovani Ruff announced his commitment to Cal becoming the highest-rated Bears HS addition since 2018. pic.twitter.com/iZb8Q68SEU
— Cal Rivals (@CalRivals) June 5, 2024
His dad actually played for 5 NBA teams, and finished his career in China, and was a bit of a legend there. His dad was a NY Playground legend, and would go on to play one year for great NYC recruiter Bobby Cremins at Ga. Tech...Shocky1 said:
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stepson marbury ii wuz lightly recruited outta high school, he reclassified to the 2025 class & played this season at the dme academy in daytona beach which plays a national schedule kinda like prolific prep
marbury is 6'3" & ambidextrous, his dad played for the phoenix suns back in the day
solid acquisition as a preferred walk on
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cal's monster class exclusive announcement:
french big man olivier sarr made a secret official visit to berkeley with his maman et papa which included the colorado game on super bowl sunday...he's originally from toulouse (located in southern france near the spanish border) & has played for insep & the centre federal du basket-ball
sarr's build is very similar to marcus lee, my take in seeing him in person is that he's 6'11"+ & around 210-215 lbs...as the video shows he's an explosive shot blocker with instinctual timing & an active rebounder/defender along with an aggression for slam dunking (that's something i'm trying to coach up the king, don't dribble just flush the ball)
olivier is a 2017 prospect that's articulate (stanford has been in the mix), a true citizen of the world & plays with the elite hops needed for cal's go all the way up class (2017)
the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public (#3 overall) university in the world (including paris which is the san francisco of europe)
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cody & jalen williams:
at nooner modern yoga today my brah elite basketball skills/development coach padraig o'brien (works with multiple nba, college & high school players, we worked together back in the day to deliver kingsley o'koroh to coach martin despite padraig telling me the king gotta be more of a bad azz) told me that his client 6'8" 180 lbs 5 star #14 ranked player in the 2023 class cody williams of perry high school (same hs as brayden rhome) committed to colorado ($100,000+ nil)5⭐️ Cody Williams just committed to Colorado‼️🚨 @slam_university pic.twitter.com/zDgBh96FFg
— SLAM HS Hoops (@SLAM_HS) November 9, 2022
cody got a 3.8 gpa & his lead cal recruiter was andrew francis who is highly regarded by the family but the failure to recruit his older bro back in the day hurt the bears...reality is that in speaking with numerous aau, high school & trainers/development coaches the current men's basketball staff is not considered active or particularly likable with the exception of andrew francis...quite a few past & current players actually strongly dislike marty wilson whose got the same stern non relatable personality as the head coach
jalen also had a 3.8 gpa & wuz very lightly recruited out of high school despite padraig telling me about his absolutely pure shooting stroke (anybody with a basketball iq will honestly tell you that more than half of the guys on this year's roster got uncorrected crooked azz shooting mechanics), i can tell you with 90% confidence that if i had not been terminated from cal basketball that jalen williams would've been a california golden bear...bet
jalen williams ended up at santa clara & was drafted #12 in the 2022 national basketball league draft
both cody & jalen williams should've ended up in berkeley (it should also be pointed out that 2 of padraig's biz partners are cal grads that also run the section 7 recruiting extravaganza in glendale arizona), the point here is that it takes a lifetime to build a love affair with cal basketball but only 2 emails to terminate that love
this is cal basketball#
The future is now 🙌
— Cal Basketball (@CalMBBall) June 27, 2024
Jaylon Tyson has been selected 20th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers!#GoBears pic.twitter.com/Yt6oml7FUs
Got'em😂😂 #DriveByDunkChallenge pic.twitter.com/nBnCWGhdQF
— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) July 22, 2017
The Isiah Harwell sweepstakes just got more interesting https://t.co/2KggiqxEbe
— Cal Sports (@CAL_SPORTS_) July 5, 2024
Econ141 said:The Isiah Harwell sweepstakes just got more interesting https://t.co/2KggiqxEbe
— Cal Sports (@CAL_SPORTS_) July 5, 2024
Can't hurt
Would love to see Haas this packed for every basketball game🤷🏾♂️ https://t.co/WaJm89cuzs
— Christian Tucker (@Ctuck_10) August 23, 2024
ACC ready https://t.co/m7cvajBAac pic.twitter.com/ETIRRwbdri
— Jut (@cg_jaytee) August 28, 2024
California has been working nonstop as they prepare for their first year in the ACC.🔥
— GREENLIGHT MEDIA (@atlgreenlight) September 4, 2024
Year two of the Mark Madsen era and they’ve brought in the no. 12 ranked Portal class in the country.📈 (via ON3)
The Bears have added a lot of depth after losing Jaylon Tyson (Rd1 Pk20) and… pic.twitter.com/YgDhqxbg4k
as mentioned above there is some really BAD NEWS barreling towards berkeley, some of the tsunami has already arrived on campus in the eradication of the men's & women's basketball fanbases (which is basically a core of loyal old blues in their 70s/80s with no material growth in the development of a younger fanbase due to incompetent ineffectual marketing/branding which also means there aren't any future Builders of Berkeley in the pipelineQuote:update: in speaking with MULTIPLE sources the cal internal nil fundraising will be led by beth tafolla-voetsch who wuz the lead person on the zoom call...ron rivera did not participate on this callQuote:
MAJOR CAL ATHLETICS ZOOM CALL:
is scheduled for this thursday by beth tafolla-voetsch with donors re: the future of cal athletics (tryna get fundraising going for non revenue sports, good luck with that "time share sales pitch"), the participants will include chancellor lyons & ron riviera but most notably NO JAMES ARTHUR KNOWLTON!!
is this **** getting live or not?? (as the world turns in berkeley)#
knowlton did speak in his nasal blah blah blah which is a clear indicator that lyons does not intend to commission dan mogoluf to terminate him at this time...a complicating factor is the women's swimmers lawsuits costs if both jimbo & jenny are fired for failing to protect the best interests of berkeley students which they have clearly done on a borderline criminal level
lyons outlined some of the existential financial challenges heading towards berkeley with reduced future state of california support & downsized federal grants projected in the future...yet the chancellor has not given a clear mandate that the financially hemorrhaging (via loans from the central campus that will never have the future revenues for repayment) athletic department needs to cut sport teams (teams such as rugby should be club sports with zero university funding) & reduce bureaucratic costs at this time but unrealistically thinks donors are gonna continue to donate to the athletic department
lyons made it clear that he supports the revenue sports but that there will be consequences if they don't win big in the very near future...but he's gonna keep knowlton which means markeisha will continue to not offer FREE tixs to all students...as a failing worthless bureaucrat everett has done absolutely nothing to brand/market/grow the cal football fanbase at memorial stadium while increasing the # of tarps...and both the men's & women's basketball programs are also not generating more gameday revenues with an empty haas pavillion despite clear demand for affordable basketball tixs in the bay area (the valkyries got 20,000+ season tix deposits)The best fans in the game – period.
— Golden State Valkyries (@wnbagoldenstate) November 12, 2024
20,000 season ticket deposits and another day closer to tip-off at Chase Center. Let’s keep making history together. #JointheAscent pic.twitter.com/vMOlRc6qk3
lyons favors reducing costs for programs that cannot raise enough funds to operate autonomously but that is flawed reasoning...for instance the baseball team has spent nearly all the original funds raised by stu gordon & next season the ncca is increasing the # of schollys from 11 to 34 which will be necessary in order to be competitive in the acc...so instead of just cutting baseball which got minimal fan interest for a roster that is predominantly middle class white young men and repurposing evans diamond for the greater good of the berkeley campus, the lyons plan would just reduce their schollys to some minimal # which would result in them losing big time in the acc with exponentially increased travel costs
lyons is willing to fund the internal nil for the upcoming year & realizes he's gonna take a lotta heat from the greater berkeley academic community but isn't willing to make a change in the failed leadership of the athletic department today & then transparently cutting sports (self sufficient club sports)/reducing costs immediately
bottom line, after decades on the berkeley campus rich wuz in a position on day 1 to direct dan mogulof to terminate knowlton & jenny while demoting markeisha but he's opted to instead further fund & allow the irresponsible financial spending of the athletic department to continue while asking non receptive fatigued donors for bail out money to pay for the current bureaucratic bloat
shocky loves rich's spirit & good intentions but 100% disagrees with his non transparent plan to not replace immediately replace failing management & streamline costs in the athletic department...the lyons plan would never work in the REAL WORLD or corporate america & it's not gonna work at the current #1 ranked public university in the world
rich is an outstanding human being on planet earth & we're very lucky to have a FUN chancellor who truly bleeds blue & gold, just hoping he will reconsider his strategic direction, go bears!!
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am tip off, this event predates markeisha)Too much defense 😤 pic.twitter.com/IdVevI1lEj
— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 22, 2024
