Big congrats to Matt Bradley for leading his team to the national title game. No one was going to beat UConn this tournament. He definitely made the right choice to leave Cal and picked the right school to transfer to. Best wishes in his future career!

"During that time with COVID and stuff I was really ready to just stop playing."

Powerful words from Matt Bradley. He said getting taken in by Brian Dutcher, and being welcomed into a brotherhood at San Diego State changed the direction of his life. pic.twitter.com/fsMsFlXnRg

— Darnay Tripp (@DarnayTripp) April 4, 2023

Great job supporting our players JK and MF (/s)

bluehenbear said:

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"During that time with COVID and stuff I was really ready to just stop playing."

Powerful words from Matt Bradley. He said getting taken in by Brian Dutcher, and being welcomed into a brotherhood at San Diego State changed the direction of his life. pic.twitter.com/fsMsFlXnRg

— Darnay Tripp (@DarnayTripp) April 4, 2023

Great job supporting our players JK and MF (/s)

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Such an indictment of MF. Matt seems like a great guy. Driven. Competitive. Smart (to get to Cal). The fact that MF ran a program that left MB feeling this way is just criminal and I hope that man NEVER coaches BB again. ****er.

socaltownie said:

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bluehenbear said:

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"During that time with COVID and stuff I was really ready to just stop playing."

Powerful words from Matt Bradley. He said getting taken in by Brian Dutcher, and being welcomed into a brotherhood at San Diego State changed the direction of his life. pic.twitter.com/fsMsFlXnRg

— Darnay Tripp (@DarnayTripp) April 4, 2023

Great job supporting our players JK and MF (/s)

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Such an indictment of MF. Matt seems like a great guy. Driven. Competitive. Smart (to get to Cal). The fact that MF ran a program that left MB feeling this way is just criminal and I hope that man NEVER coaches BB again. ****er.

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Agreed. The last four years I have been saying that is who Mark Fox is, why people left immediately and why those who stayed were leaving the team, why he could not recruit no matter how many great salesmen are added to his staff. It is criminal that he got over almost $10 million (?) to do this to our team and our players. As 8283 said, "He won, we lost."

Like with McKeever, there are those who defended the bully and attacked the messengers, though in this case it should have been more obvious. Plus, unlike McKeever, he was setting records for losing in a far more visible sport.

We've had a lot of coaches and players cycle through Cal over the years. While hitting on a winner for every player is unlikely due to a range of issues (I.e., injuries, academics, fit), when we miss hitting a winner on our coach we immediately run the risk that the coach's failures become propagated through the players they bring into the program. The same is true for our AD. A bad AD is likely to pick a bad coach. A bad coach is bad because of their inability to recruit to and apply a system that makes their players successful.

Cal's problems have and will continue to be its administration. Some on this board note that Christ has done more for Cal sports than any previous Chancellor, but there is something afoul when that same Chancellor hires a bad AD who hires a bad coach, who ends up running off the good players and employing a system that doesn't fit the players we do have. Christ may have made some positive choices about the balance sheet of the athletic department, but she has also made some historically bad choices regarding staffing. What this leads to is a failed program.

You can't look at the collective history of Cal Basketball and not see that our problems start at the top. You can't look at Cal Basketball and not see that we have been more in a mode of cleaning up the problems of our past rather than making decisions that seed our future for success. Building a winner is not done through a single coach, but through a succession of good coaches. The same needs to happen with the Chancellor and AD roles.

Be happy for Matt Bradley. He was smart enough to see Cal Basketball for what it isn't.

CALiforniALUM said:

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We've had a lot of coaches and players cycle through Cal over the years. While hitting on a winner for every player is unlikely due to a range of issues (I.e., injuries, academics, fit), when we miss hitting a winner on our coach we immediately run the risk that the coach's failures become propagated through the players they bring into the program. The same is true for our AD. A bad AD is likely to pick a bad coach. A bad coach is bad because of their inability to recruit to and apply a system that makes their players successful.

Cal's problems have and will continue to be its administration. Some on this board note that Christ has done more for Cal sports than any previous Chancellor, but there is something afoul when that same Chancellor hires a bad AD who hires a bad coach, who ends up running off the good players and employing a system that doesn't fit the players we do have. Christ may have made some positive choices about the balance sheet of the athletic department, but she has also made some historically bad choices regarding staffing. What this leads to is a failed program.

You can't look at the collective history of Cal Basketball and not see that our problems start at the top. You can't look at Cal Basketball and not see that we have been more in a mode of cleaning up the problems of our past rather than making decisions that seed our future for success. Building a winner is not done through a single coach, but through a succession of good coaches. The same needs to happen with the Chancellor and AD roles.

Be happy for Matt Bradley. He was smart enough to see Cal Basketball for what it isn't.

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Absolutely. And I again return to my constant theme that the disconnect is between an administration (and a general student body) that sees itself as a world class elite R1 educational instiution at which ANY student would give their eye tooth to be a part of and a revenue sports school at which Cal is "meh" and is largely a regional play. Over and over that disconnect expresses itself.

I have high hopes for Madsen. He is absolutely hitting the right notes. I do want to see him reach out to the soliders and prolic prep....and while I want traffic jams on the bay bridge and the Tunnel to see Cal what I REALLY want is for Cal to the be go to program for East Bay hoop fans can that is the "fence" we really need to put up in our recruiting battles.