4thGenCal said:

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GoBears72 said:

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Without a new practice facility, and Mark Madsen starts winning, he will be gone. Maybe a new chancellor will make the difference and save the day. All about fund raising.

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No question NIL fund raising is #1 and #2 in importance. However Coach Madsen is all in (and pushing hard) for a new (and dedicated facility) to be built. He has clearly stated w/o a dedicated practice facility, the program is at a huge disadvantage recruiting. Cal is one of just 5 D1 programs to not have a dedicated facility. While its not mentioned - several times Haas has been booked/not available and RSF has been used. Even off site practices have been set up due to scheduling conflicts in the past.

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Of the 351 D1 basketball schools, which are the 4 other programs that we are saying do not have dedicated practice facilities?

Sac State has to be one of them. They play in a 1000 seat 1951 gym although they are converting part of their "RSF" facility called the WELL into a new gym for the Hornets to play in with more seats for spectators (have not heard of how many more seats) which will cost $5m.

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matt, the cal athletic department is heading towards an existential financial iceberg, nobody gives a **** about men's lacrosse or the majority of the olympic sports except knowlton

solution: fundraise the $ from former lacrosse alums & remain a financially independent club sport

money does not grow on trees#

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Shocky1, did you actually read trueblue's post? It says they do raise money and are self-supporting. The program doesn't cost the Athletic Department anything. They actually receive money from the Lacrosse team for administrative overhead. I have no problem with Cal having no cost club teams.

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sunriver, the complaint states they wanna use memorial stadium, these irrelevant to most fans teams utilize major facilities & then the football team is practicing at bay meadows or something

potentially displacing the football team is not a "no cost club team"

and that's why the basketball team can't always practice as haas pavilion which is truly mind boggling & it's also why the dedicated basketball practice facility is never gonna get built during the knowlton era...his latest artist rendering included a 3 story facility that housed men's basketball on the 1st floor, women's basketball on the 2nd floor & olympic sports on the 3rd floor...literally nobody on planet earth is gonna donate a dollar to pay for this $200,000,000+ con artist shell game

look matt seems like a good guy but there's limited practice facilities on campus & they need to be 100% prioritized for the revenue sports, not a club sport or olympic teams that got a near zero fanbase

save cal football & basketball (the only revenue drivers)#