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Mission objective 1 - beat the quacks and send the seniors off with a victory in their last game at Haas - check

Mission objective 2 - beat the wildcats and send the seniors off with a victory in their last game at Haas, including 5 year starting pg, and certified warrior, Leilani McIntosh

Sunday 11:30am senior ceremony


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HoopDreams said:

when you got a job. do it right

perspiration management





Real Men of Genius

(my favorite of the old Bud Light commercials, Mr. Court Sweat Wiper Upper. "While they soak up the glory, you soak up . . . everything else.")
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On the fan table at the WBB game


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On the fan table at the WBB game
thanks HD. for convenience..
https://calegends.com/calegendsdonate/donate-mens-basketball
https://calegends.com/calegendsdonate/donate-womens-basketball
...
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Jaylon Tyson = more than a basketball player


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when is the last time a Cal player has lead any of the key stats?

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HoopDreams said:

when is the last time a Cal player has lead any of the key stats?




7 years ago, Ivan Rabb also lead in rebounds per game
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calumnus said:

HoopDreams said:

when is the last time a Cal player has lead any of the key stats?




7 years ago, Ivan Rabb also lead in rebounds per game

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the magic of cal basketball (starts with an engaged head coach)#
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he hands out problems ...


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Cal great returns to Haas sporting his conference championship ring...

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Cal commit in the Haas!



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defense wins (and loses) college basketball games (particularly on the road)#
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tough loss at Colorado ... 5430 feet above sea level

but this should cheer Jaylon up (a little)

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2024 acc basketball season: the most exciting schedule in the history of cal basketball (duke/north carolina roadtrip)#
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ESPN Top Ten Plays!




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everyone knows Jason Kidd, but who is the other player whose jersey hangs from the Haas rafters?

Meet Mr. Grigsby a power forward from Houston, Texas, who played for Cal over six seasons and had to fight through multiple injuries, including 2 sweet sixteens





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Lamond Murray deserves his Jersey to be retired. He was a bad man. Murray and Kidd were an amazing duo at Cal. Having them and Grigsby was a tough team. My favorite Cal team by far for me. I hope someday Madsen could replicate having the accumulated talent at Cal. Go Bears!
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Quote:

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cal's monster class exclusive update:

the cal athletic department has borrowed $11,000,000 from the central campus instead of cutting teams/rightsizing the internal bureaucracy

cfo tom lowry has responded to my public information requests with the following statement:

"In FY 22, Cal Athletics borrowed $11M from Central Campus to help offset short term revenue losses, and properly characterized the loan for NCCA and external audit reporting. Campus agreed to provide an $11M interest only/forgiveable loan (FY22), with a 29 year loan (FY22-FY51), interest/payment free for ten years (FY22-32), at a 3% interest rate."
https://instagr.am/p/C2X8Kues1uD
MAJOR cal's monster class exclusive update ii:

last week requested from cfo tom lowry a one or two sentence update (no attachments) re: whether or not the athletic department has requested or received any loans for fy23

lowry has opted to NOT respond to this simple question & directed department coordinator delaney heller to once again require me to go thru the public records information process

so shocky called delaney this afternoon and she tole me this is the standard process for any questions that don't got answers online

asked delaney why isn't the athletic department divulging major loans online?

asked delaney if someone without internet access (on a cruise ship, etc.) calls up the athletic department & asks wut time is the basketball game friday nite is that person also gonna have to file a pra?

worthless & corrupt bureaucrats try to obfuscate & NOT transparently share basic financial information

yeah kinda curious how many donut zeros there are with the current cal athletic department debt...

delaney assured me she will get this information to me in an expedient manner

this **** is NOT going away#
OFFICIAL RESPONSE FROM THE CAL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT:

delaney heller sent me an email today advising that pra requests are taking around "10 weeks" at this time but that she will try to expedite that timeline

asking a cfo how many millions of dollars they've borrowed from the central campus should take about as long as asking a football head coach how many scholly linebackers do they got on the roster, both requests should take 60 seconds

updates will continue to be posted here re: this CRITICAL piece of information that affects the FUTURE of cal athletics

bureaucrats non transparently withholding information#


cal's monster class state of the union re: the future of cal athletics

athletic department financials: the department is heading towards an EXISTENTIAL FINANCIAL ICEBERG due to the covert borrowing tens of millions of dollars that will never have the future funding for repayment...it's been almost 6 weeks since my public information request re: these loans, shocky will send an update request this morning to delaney heller with a carbon copy to beth tafolla-voetch & richard lyons and will transparently reprint delaney's response

2024 berkeley chancellor: outgoing carol christ will thankfully (thx god) retire july 1st, there is currently a candidate search by the board of regents chaired by rich leib (undergrad ba from uc santa barbara) that will make recommendations to uc prez michael drake (sacramento city college then a ba from stanford & a md from uc san francisco) in may for a june nomination to the board for approval in june for a july 1st starting date

2024 chancellor candidates: shocky has done extensive background checks on all 3 finalists & the university's 1st innovation & entrepreneurship officer richard lyons (bs from the haas biz school like the monster, phd from mit) is the only one with any apparent passion for athletics

general james arthur knowlton: the colorado springs worthless bureaucrat is the ONLY athletic director in the nation that refuses all media interview requests, he will remembered for not only his financial incompetence but also his role in the mckeever scandal, the hiring of beyond breaking bad bureaucrats like the obstinate markeisha & enron level cfo tom lowry while also retaining the evil as **** jennifer simon-o'neil as his right arm confidante & the mind boggling contract extension of mark fox

cal's next athletic director: assuming richard lyons is the next berkeley chancellor (if he's not, then cal revenue sports as we know them are done forever), the next athletic director needs to be someone with an already strong knowledge of the inner workings of the corrupt department & nearly bankrupt financials...there is no time for an outsider like patrick chun, etc to figure **** out...andrew mcgraw is my #1 candidate & jay john should also receive serious consideration in the inevitable rightsizing of the department & # of teams (relegation to club sports status is unavoidable)

cal football: shocky is gonna watch every single second of the 2024 inaugural acc season in person, this is the most exciting road game schedule in the history of cal football & we got all the necessary talent (at least on paper) for a wildly successful season for the ages...but as sebastapol has accurately pointed out, there is cal football nil donor fatigue so the time is truly now for everything

cal basketball head coach: barring an unforeseen changing of circumstances mark madsen will be the next stanford head basketball coach (the gang of 6 affluent stanford donors have already raised $40,000,000+ in nil support for cards basketball & football players with no end in sight)...mark wuz lied to from day one by knowlton re: the status of the critically needed basketball practice facility (he wuz tole by the con artist that groundbreaking construction wuz imminent when in reality not a single dollar has been raised, doug goldman tole me at the game i attended this season at haas that his former $10,000,000 lead donation is off the tables due to the current leadership in the department)...mark wuz also tole no re: FREE tixs for students to all games in his valiant effort to build a haas of pain by markeisha with the full support of knowlton

cal basketball starting line up: with madsen gone, there is ZERO chance jaylen tyson (who is not an engaged student) is gonna return to berkeley with a 90%+ probability of declaring for the 2024 nba draft...lefty jalen celestine will be the only returning starter of the current starting 5 next season

cal basketball nil fundraising: it's not happening right now & the fanbase/donor is aging out...the only way that's gonna meaningfully change is if jaylen brown (current $305,000,000+ nba super max contract, could write a check in 2 minutes that would place cal near the top of acc nil fundraising) becomes the face of cal basketball with direct engagement with the next bears head coach...but that's not gonna happen until his yoga buddy shocky also returns as a floor seat donor & right now he's further afar from any real interest in cal basketball due to the people involved in the program (not talking about you: harebear, hoop dreams, califortunate & 4th gen bear...ur my people)

cal women's basketball: coach charmin smith finally put together a roster that is willing to play defense but the lack of development of generational +1 athlete michelle onyiah is disappointing

cal softball: so much FUN & energy!!!

cal golf: head coach walter chun (his position endowed by my memorial stadium 50 yard line seats neighbor alec & marie shipman) is building another national championship team in berkeley & regardless of the future of cal athletics shocky's #1 favorite fan hobby (modern yoga & playing the world's top 100 courses are athletic endeavors not a hobby) is gonna continue to be to attending/following max, collin, ben & michael in person at FUN faraway pga tour events in 2024 & the limitless future beyond the flashing blue light in the horizon

https://instagr.am/p/CuxKIOEIazx
VOILA (our time on planet earth is limited, follow the sun with an open heart)#
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Shocky1 said:

Quote:

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cal's monster class exclusive update:

the cal athletic department has borrowed $11,000,000 from the central campus instead of cutting teams/rightsizing the internal bureaucracy

cfo tom lowry has responded to my public information requests with the following statement:

"In FY 22, Cal Athletics borrowed $11M from Central Campus to help offset short term revenue losses, and properly characterized the loan for NCCA and external audit reporting. Campus agreed to provide an $11M interest only/forgiveable loan (FY22), with a 29 year loan (FY22-FY51), interest/payment free for ten years (FY22-32), at a 3% interest rate."
https://instagr.am/p/C2X8Kues1uD
MAJOR cal's monster class exclusive update ii:

last week requested from cfo tom lowry a one or two sentence update (no attachments) re: whether or not the athletic department has requested or received any loans for fy23

lowry has opted to NOT respond to this simple question & directed department coordinator delaney heller to once again require me to go thru the public records information process

so shocky called delaney this afternoon and she tole me this is the standard process for any questions that don't got answers online

asked delaney why isn't the athletic department divulging major loans online?

asked delaney if someone without internet access (on a cruise ship, etc.) calls up the athletic department & asks wut time is the basketball game friday nite is that person also gonna have to file a pra?

worthless & corrupt bureaucrats try to obfuscate & NOT transparently share basic financial information

yeah kinda curious how many donut zeros there are with the current cal athletic department debt...

delaney assured me she will get this information to me in an expedient manner

this **** is NOT going away#
OFFICIAL RESPONSE FROM THE CAL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT:

delaney heller sent me an email today advising that pra requests are taking around "10 weeks" at this time but that she will try to expedite that timeline

asking a cfo how many millions of dollars they've borrowed from the central campus should take about as long as asking a football head coach how many scholly linebackers do they got on the roster, both requests should take 60 seconds

updates will continue to be posted here re: this CRITICAL piece of information that affects the FUTURE of cal athletics

bureaucrats non transparently withholding information#


cal's monster class state of the union re: the future of cal athletics

athletic department financials: the department is heading towards an EXISTENTIAL FINANCIAL ICEBERG due to the covert borrowing tens of millions of dollars that will never have the future funding for repayment...it's been almost 6 weeks since my public information request re: these loans, shocky will send an update request this morning to delaney heller with a carbon copy to beth tafolla-voetch & richard lyons and will transparently reprint delaney's response

2024 berkeley chancellor: outgoing carol christ will thankfully (thx god) retire july 1st, there is currently a candidate search by the board of regents chaired by rich leib (undergrad ba from uc santa barbara) that will make recommendations to uc prez michael drake (sacramento city college then a ba from stanford & a md from uc san francisco) in may for a june nomination to the board for approval in june for a july 1st starting date

2024 chancellor candidates: shocky has done extensive background checks on all 3 finalists & the university's 1st innovation & entrepreneurship officer richard lyons (bs from the haas biz school like the monster, phd from mit) is the only one with any apparent passion for athletics

general james arthur knowlton: the colorado springs worthless bureaucrat is the ONLY athletic director is the only ad in the nation that refuses all media interview requests, he will remembered for not only his financial incompetence but also his role in the mckeever scandal, the hiring of beyond breaking bad bureaucrats like the obstinate markeisha & enron level cfo tom lowry while also retaining the evil as **** jennifer simon-o'neil as his right arm confidante & the mind boggling contract extension of mark fox

cal's next athletic director: assuming richard lyons is the next berkeley chancellor (if he's not, then cal revenue sports as we know them are done forever), the next athletic director needs to be someone with an already strong knowledge of the inner workings of the corrupt department & nearly bankrupt financials...there is no time for an outsider like patrick chun, etc to figure **** out...andrew mcgraw is my #1 candidate & jay john should also receive serious consideration

cal football: shocky is gonna watch every single second of the 2024 inaugural acc season in person, this is the most exciting road game schedule in the history of cal football & we got all the necessary talent (at least on paper) for a wildly successful season for the ages...but as sebastapol has accurately pointed out, there is cal football nil donor fatigue so the time is truly now for everything

cal basketball head coach: barring an unforeseen changing of circumstances mark madsen will be the next stanford head basketball coach (the gang of 6 affluent stanford donors have already raised $40,000,000+ in nil support for cards basketball & football players with no end in sight)...mark wuz lied to from day one by knowlton re: the status of the critically needed basketball practice facility (he wuz tole by the con artist that groundbreaking construction wuz imminent when in reality not a single dollar has been raised, doug goldman tole me at the game i attended this season at haas that his former $10,000,000 lead donation is off the tables due to the current leadership in the department)...mark wuz also tole no re: FREE tixs for students to all games in his valiant effort to build a haas of pain by markeisha with the full support of knowlton

cal basketball starting line up: with madsen gone, there is ZERO chance jaylen tyson (who is not an engaged student) is gonna return to berkeley with a 90%+ probability of declaring for the 2024 nba draft...lefty jalen celestine will be the only returning starter of the current starting 5 next season

cal basketball nil fundraising: it's not happening right now & the fanbase/donor is aging out...the only way that's gonna meaningfully change is if jaylen brown (current $305,000,000+ nba super max contract, could write a check in 2 minutes that would place cal near the top of acc nil fundraising) becomes the face of cal basketball with direct engagement with the next bears head coach...but that's not gonna happen until his yoga buddy shocky also returns as a floor seat donor & right now he's further afar from any real interest in cal basketball due to the people involved in the program (not talking about you: harebear, hoop dreams, califortunate & 4th gen bear...ur my people)

cal women's basketball: coach charmin smith finally put together a roster that is willing to play defense but the lack of development of generational +1 athlete michelle onyiah is disappointing

cal softball: so much FUN & energy!!!

cal golf: head coach walter chun (his position endowed by my memorial stadium 50 yard line seats neighbor alec & marie shipman) is building another national championship team in berkeley & regardless of the future of cal athletics shocky's #1 favorite fan hobby (modern yoga & playing the world's top 100 courses are athletic endeavors not a hobby) is gonna continue to be to attending/following max, collin, ben & michael in person at FUN faraway pga tour events

https://instagr.am/p/CuxKIOEIazx
VOILA (our time on planet earth is limited, follow the sun with an open heart)#
Lots of interesting items. I wish I shared your optimism for the upcoming football season. They have improved but IMO just marginally. How they close the Spring transfer portal will be crucial. Impact positions on this team are still unmet. LT, Pass rusher, interior run stopper and a #1 WR still are missing IMO. Also a proven QB. Mendoza certainly has promise and Rogers has shown promise (and production) but at the G5 level. And until we see otherwise the staff is at best mid tier in the ACC. Probably lower. Ott is great, but he cannot do it by himself. IMO the roster still needs help. Especially at certain key positions.

Madsen to Stanford. I do think it is possible. Stanford is gearing up for a change. I expect them to go after Mark hard and it likely will be tough for him to pass on his alma mater. There needs to be more support for hoops from Cal. Both from the administration and the collective. I liked his hiring but this was always a potential happening. Just for fun Amir Abdur-Rahim (who I wanted) has South Florida at #25 with a 22-5 record. They are a for sure post season team. Will be interesting to see if the NCAA passes on them if they do not win the AAC tourney They were 14-18 last season. If he is open to leaving (who knows) there will be a longer line of potential suitors now than last year. I hope Mark stays. He has a chance to be pretty successful here. But we may come to regret not hiring Amir Abdur-Rahim .

Tyson IMO was always a one and done sort at Cal. He is here to hoop. I expect him to be gone. Cal will need to first off keep Madsen. Then find some more NIL $. The program needs to replace 4 starters and also find a bit more depth. The ACC is a better hoops league than the P12 and the current depth is not even close to being good enough to make an impact. Madsen if he leaves will set the program back at a time when they need to be moving forward.

Carol Christ is leaving. The replacement is crucial. I do not expect Lyons will get the nod. I hope he does, but expecting immediate improvement seems unlikely. He will have many projects to tend to and as important as athletics is to folks on this board (and him) it seems like they won't be a top priority and he will have to fight the entrenched bureaucracy. But if they go with somebody else then yes it puts Cal's revenue sports in peril. Which then in turn puts many sports teams in peril as well.

Getting Knowlton out of here is a top priority. I appreciate how dogged you are in exposing his many missteps and outright lies. Not sure there is the will to remove him. It seems there is enough evidence to do it yet here he still is. The next Chancellor will have to make that happen. If not Lyons will there be anyone that cares enough to pull the trigger?

Realignment remains a big topic. While the GOR and exits fees seem to be a major impediment for ACC team movement there continues to be rumors regarding more change. Not in 2036 but much sooner. Cal needs the ACC to stay intact a few years. That seems likely but so much has happened in the past 12 months, I am far from certain it will.

The next few months will be critical for Cal football and basketball. Good luck on getting your information requests fulfilled.
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Vegas baby!



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6956bear said:

Shocky1 said:

Quote:

Quote:

Quote:

cal's monster class exclusive update:

the cal athletic department has borrowed $11,000,000 from the central campus instead of cutting teams/rightsizing the internal bureaucracy

cfo tom lowry has responded to my public information requests with the following statement:

"In FY 22, Cal Athletics borrowed $11M from Central Campus to help offset short term revenue losses, and properly characterized the loan for NCCA and external audit reporting. Campus agreed to provide an $11M interest only/forgiveable loan (FY22), with a 29 year loan (FY22-FY51), interest/payment free for ten years (FY22-32), at a 3% interest rate."
https://instagr.am/p/C2X8Kues1uD
MAJOR cal's monster class exclusive update ii:

last week requested from cfo tom lowry a one or two sentence update (no attachments) re: whether or not the athletic department has requested or received any loans for fy23

lowry has opted to NOT respond to this simple question & directed department coordinator delaney heller to once again require me to go thru the public records information process

so shocky called delaney this afternoon and she tole me this is the standard process for any questions that don't got answers online

asked delaney why isn't the athletic department divulging major loans online?

asked delaney if someone without internet access (on a cruise ship, etc.) calls up the athletic department & asks wut time is the basketball game friday nite is that person also gonna have to file a pra?

worthless & corrupt bureaucrats try to obfuscate & NOT transparently share basic financial information

yeah kinda curious how many donut zeros there are with the current cal athletic department debt...

delaney assured me she will get this information to me in an expedient manner

this **** is NOT going away#
OFFICIAL RESPONSE FROM THE CAL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT:

delaney heller sent me an email today advising that pra requests are taking around "10 weeks" at this time but that she will try to expedite that timeline

asking a cfo how many millions of dollars they've borrowed from the central campus should take about as long as asking a football head coach how many scholly linebackers do they got on the roster, both requests should take 60 seconds

updates will continue to be posted here re: this CRITICAL piece of information that affects the FUTURE of cal athletics

bureaucrats non transparently withholding information#


cal's monster class state of the union re: the future of cal athletics

athletic department financials: the department is heading towards an EXISTENTIAL FINANCIAL ICEBERG due to the covert borrowing tens of millions of dollars that will never have the future funding for repayment...it's been almost 6 weeks since my public information request re: these loans, shocky will send an update request this morning to delaney heller with a carbon copy to beth tafolla-voetch & richard lyons and will transparently reprint delaney's response

2024 berkeley chancellor: outgoing carol christ will thankfully (thx god) retire july 1st, there is currently a candidate search by the board of regents chaired by rich leib (undergrad ba from uc santa barbara) that will make recommendations to uc prez michael drake (sacramento city college then a ba from stanford & a md from uc san francisco) in may for a june nomination to the board for approval in june for a july 1st starting date

2024 chancellor candidates: shocky has done extensive background checks on all 3 finalists & the university's 1st innovation & entrepreneurship officer richard lyons (bs from the haas biz school like the monster, phd from mit) is the only one with any apparent passion for athletics

general james arthur knowlton: the colorado springs worthless bureaucrat is the ONLY athletic director is the only ad in the nation that refuses all media interview requests, he will remembered for not only his financial incompetence but also his role in the mckeever scandal, the hiring of beyond breaking bad bureaucrats like the obstinate markeisha & enron level cfo tom lowry while also retaining the evil as **** jennifer simon-o'neil as his right arm confidante & the mind boggling contract extension of mark fox

cal's next athletic director: assuming richard lyons is the next berkeley chancellor (if he's not, then cal revenue sports as we know them are done forever), the next athletic director needs to be someone with an already strong knowledge of the inner workings of the corrupt department & nearly bankrupt financials...there is no time for an outsider like patrick chun, etc to figure **** out...andrew mcgraw is my #1 candidate & jay john should also receive serious consideration

cal football: shocky is gonna watch every single second of the 2024 inaugural acc season in person, this is the most exciting road game schedule in the history of cal football & we got all the necessary talent (at least on paper) for a wildly successful season for the ages...but as sebastapol has accurately pointed out, there is cal football nil donor fatigue so the time is truly now for everything

cal basketball head coach: barring an unforeseen changing of circumstances mark madsen will be the next stanford head basketball coach (the gang of 6 affluent stanford donors have already raised $40,000,000+ in nil support for cards basketball & football players with no end in sight)...mark wuz lied to from day one by knowlton re: the status of the critically needed basketball practice facility (he wuz tole by the con artist that groundbreaking construction wuz imminent when in reality not a single dollar has been raised, doug goldman tole me at the game i attended this season at haas that his former $10,000,000 lead donation is off the tables due to the current leadership in the department)...mark wuz also tole no re: FREE tixs for students to all games in his valiant effort to build a haas of pain by markeisha with the full support of knowlton

cal basketball starting line up: with madsen gone, there is ZERO chance jaylen tyson (who is not an engaged student) is gonna return to berkeley with a 90%+ probability of declaring for the 2024 nba draft...lefty jalen celestine will be the only returning starter of the current starting 5 next season

cal basketball nil fundraising: it's not happening right now & the fanbase/donor is aging out...the only way that's gonna meaningfully change is if jaylen brown (current $305,000,000+ nba super max contract, could write a check in 2 minutes that would place cal near the top of acc nil fundraising) becomes the face of cal basketball with direct engagement with the next bears head coach...but that's not gonna happen until his yoga buddy shocky also returns as a floor seat donor & right now he's further afar from any real interest in cal basketball due to the people involved in the program (not talking about you: harebear, hoop dreams, califortunate & 4th gen bear...ur my people)

cal women's basketball: coach charmin smith finally put together a roster that is willing to play defense but the lack of development of generational +1 athlete michelle onyiah is disappointing

cal softball: so much FUN & energy!!!

cal golf: head coach walter chun (his position endowed by my memorial stadium 50 yard line seats neighbor alec & marie shipman) is building another national championship team in berkeley & regardless of the future of cal athletics shocky's #1 favorite fan hobby (modern yoga & playing the world's top 100 courses are athletic endeavors not a hobby) is gonna continue to be to attending/following max, collin, ben & michael in person at FUN faraway pga tour events

https://instagr.am/p/CuxKIOEIazx
VOILA (our time on planet earth is limited, follow the sun with an open heart)#
Lots of interesting items. I wish I shared your optimism for the upcoming football season. They have improved but IMO just marginally. How they close the Spring transfer portal will be crucial. Impact positions on this team are still unmet. LT, Pass rusher, interior run stopper and a #1 WR still are missing IMO. Also a proven QB. Mendoza certainly has promise and Rogers has shown promise (and production) but at the G5 level. And until we see otherwise the staff is at best mid tier in the ACC. Probably lower. Ott is great, but he cannot do it by himself. IMO the roster still needs help. Especially at certain key positions.

Madsen to Stanford. I do think it is possible. Stanford is gearing up for a change. I expect them to go after Mark hard and it likely will be tough for him to pass on his alma mater. There needs to be more support for hoops from Cal. Both from the administration and the collective. I liked his hiring but this was always a potential happening. Just for fun Amir Abdur-Rahim (who I wanted) has South Florida at #25 with a 22-5 record. They are a for sure post season team. Will be interesting to see if the NCAA passes on them if they do not win the AAC tourney They were 14-18 last season. If he is open to leaving (who knows) there will be a longer line of potential suitors now than last year. I hope Mark stays. He has a chance to be pretty successful here. But we may come to regret not hiring Amir Abdur-Rahim .

Tyson IMO was always a one and done sort at Cal. He is here to hoop. I expect him to be gone. Cal will need to first off keep Madsen. Then find some more NIL $. The program needs to replace 4 starters and also find a bit more depth. The ACC is a better hoops league than the P12 and the current depth is not even close to being good enough to make an impact. Madsen if he leaves will set the program back at a time when they need to be moving forward.

Carol Christ is leaving. The replacement is crucial. I do not expect Lyons will get the nod. I hope he does, but expecting immediate improvement seems unlikely. He will have many projects to tend to and as important as athletics is to folks on this board (and him) it seems like they won't be a top priority and he will have to fight the entrenched bureaucracy. But if they go with somebody else then yes it puts Cal's revenue sports in peril. Which then in turn puts many sports teams in peril as well.

Getting Knowlton out of here is a top priority. I appreciate how dogged you are in exposing his many missteps and outright lies. Not sure there is the will to remove him. It seems there is enough evidence to do it yet here he still is. The next Chancellor will have to make that happen. If not Lyons will there be anyone that cares enough to pull the trigger?

Realignment remains a big topic. While the GOR and exits fees seem to be a major impediment for ACC team movement there continues to be rumors regarding more change. Not in 2036 but much sooner. Cal needs the ACC to stay intact a few years. That seems likely but so much has happened in the past 12 months, I am far from certain it will.

The next few months will be critical for Cal football and basketball. Good luck on getting your information requests fulfilled.


Good post. I agree, we said at the time the risk of hiring Madsen was him jumping to Stanford when that job opened up. Knowlton is just not a strategic thinker and he is clueless about Cal and Stanford.

I agree, the next few years will be critical and events over the next few months will be most critical.

Where we differ is I believe that If we survive and thrive in the ACC over the next few years we will not need the ACC to survive because we would be well positioned for further B1G expansion. Carol Christ, who pissed off Silverman with her efforts to block UCLA, will be long gone. We are not getting full ACC money for awhile anyway. And if we don't survive and thrive in the ACC, it won't matter to us if the ACC survives without us.
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Big Game vs Stanford in Palo Alto

Lots on the line besides Bay Area pride, including a Pac12 top half finish


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We need this win against Furd today. Feels like a momentum shift and better turnaround finishing 500 instead of under 500. This will also persuade the McDonalds All Americans we are involved in to come to Cal as we are on the brink of making a deep tourney run.
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all in.



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HoopDreams said:

all in.






This is great but was that "don't settle" speech just before we laid the egg down on the Farm? Just hoping they wrote off the last three games to save up for the next 4, but they played like middle-aged men trying to keep up with their kids on driveway after a hot day. That's not gonna get it.
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Shocky1 said:

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WUT WUT WUT Da FORK Shocky...OWN IT

cal basketball head coach: barring an unforeseen changing of circumstances mark madsen will be the next stanford head basketball coach (the gang of 6 affluent stanford donors have already raised $40,000,000+ in nil support for cards basketball & football players with
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How do we get Tyson to stay one more year? Wonder what the differential is between non-lottery 1st round and his NIL. Is he 1st round good?
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Econ141 said:

How do we get Tyson to stay one more year? Wonder what the differential is between non-lottery 1st round and his NIL. Is he 1st round good?


A friend told me he has been offered $1,000,000 nil to stay. Not sure if true but likely.
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oskidunker said:

Econ141 said:

How do we get Tyson to stay one more year? Wonder what the differential is between non-lottery 1st round and his NIL. Is he 1st round good?


A friend told me he has been offered $1,000,000 nil to stay. Not sure if true but likely.


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Woah! that's awesome if true. But NBA calling.
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A late first round draft pick makes 2 million. If I were Tyson, if I won't get drafted in the first round, I'm coming back to Cal
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Johnfox said:

A late first round draft pick makes 2 million. If I were Tyson, if I won't get drafted in the first round, I'm coming back to Cal


Now that there are no longer any rules for ncaa basketball, he should just see if he gets drafted and decide at that point, based on the offer.
 
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