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cal's monster class EXCLUSIVE: meet the worthless bureaucratic ****tards
listening to these 2 unlikeable anti football/basketball agenda dumb azzs with degrees from mediocre skools talk about espn gameday being a highlight of their careers is just straight up lying & tryna rebrand themselves as advocates for football now that the con artist isn't there to protect them anymore
jay larson
*****the architect behind misappropriating money from football & men's excellence in basketball donations to other agendas without notifying donors
*****the catalyst for the zoom call self reporting violation which resulted in multiple football staffers being suspended
*****recently tried to significantly reduce the daily food stipends for football players which would have basically wiped out the nutrition program & effectively terminated the football program...larsons wuz overriden by lyons & rivera and this wuz the final straw that resulted in the chancellor fully turning the keys over to the fb gm
*****like knowlton has shown no interesting in building/fundraising the critically needed men's & women's basketball practice facility, cal basketball are gonna continue to be underachieving programs with poor attendance until there's a legit plan for shovels in the ground that can be shared with cal's monster class level recruits/prospects with nba/wnba ambitions
*****the co lobbyist for nil dollars to be split 50/50 between men's & women's sports in order to be in "compliance" with title ix despite the fact that there is no other collegiate institution that shares that interpretation
*****abysmal leadership of FAILING men's athletic programs including basketball, baseball, soccer & cross country/track & field
jennifer simon o'neil
*****enabled for years teri mckeever to engage is racist & abusive behavior that resulted in multiple women's swimmers having suicidal iterations...let's be very clear about this, jennifer simon-o'neil is evil as **** and the unfunded student athlete lawsuits has the potential to be a financial tsunami
*****the co lobbyist for nil dollars to be split 50/50 between men's & women's sports in order to be in "compliance" with title ix despite the fact that there is no other collegiate institution that shares that interpretation
*****demanded that the women's basketball budget be the same as the men's basketball program, again a practice not replicated anywhere else on planet earth
*****abysmal leadership of women's athletic programs:
women's basketball: failed to measurably increase attendance despite this past season's generational squad, facilitated the hiring of a head coach who is an introvert that cannot raise nil funds & the hiring of an unqualified marketing director in markeisha everrett
women's softball: hired a mentally unstable head coach, last year's entire starting line up including the pitching staff is now out of eligibility or in the transfer portal as a result of the the crazy town bus crashing in strawberry canyon
women's soccer: like swimming former berkeley student athletes filing complaints re: coaching staff abuse/bullying
https://www.ktvu.com/news/more-athletes-describe-years-of-mistreatment-by-cal-soccer-coach
women's gymnastics: head coaches left to clemson & roster retention under attack, program in upheaval
women's volleyball: 15-17 record last season & 7-13 in acc play
women's field hockey: 7-10 record last season & 1-6 in acc play
women's lacrosse: 6-10 record last season & 0-9 in acc play
women's track & field: tied for 12th place in the acc indoor championship last season
women's cross country: 15th place in the acc tournament last season
women's sand volleyball: there's no critically needed dedicated basketball practice facility in berkeley but o'neil is spearheading a new sand volleyball facility built for the maybe 100+ fans
in a performance based organization that held its highest ranking employees accountable with specific metrics both larson & simon-o'neil would already be fired for absolute FAILING PERFORMANCES
the good news is that both will be redundantly unnecessary in 12 months from now if a basketball general manager is hired along the same lines of responsibility as ron rivera for football
getting rid of jim knowlton (which involved a negotiated "retirement" severance that involved attorneys on both sides) & cfo tom lowry (who once tole me on a zoom call that he wuz tired of the football program's financial "demands," his replacement is the very capable berkeley grad sierra achin-cryns) is clearing a path to terminate both jay & jenny
unlike the worthless bureaucratic ****tards duo of jay larson & jennifer simon-o'neil who despite both collecting paychecks from the cal athletic department for a decade plus got no specifics on anything (other than that they are looking forward to working with ron rivera when the reality is that everybody associated with the cal football is fully aware of them working against the program & holds them in contempt)
on the other hand washington athletic director pat chun got a financial plan of action that he clearly articulates that centers around football & basketball:
nugget: we've been very focused on all of our revenues streams...that's why the mmr (learfield) deal was so important...that's why ticket sales are so important
nugget: (on why non revenue sports won't be participating in revenue sharing): i look at it from a different lens,...it's no secret we need to be competitive in football...we've had to resize NOTE: washington runs 22 sports programs vs the 30 programs run by cal
nugget: (on the $60,000,000 basketball practice facility renovations): basketball should open sometime this fall, it's definitely on schedule, $60 mill project...the sports world has changed, the types of players that we have now on both the men's and women's teams, they are gym rats...i can walk in here on monday morning at 7:30 am men's and women's shooting on their own just to get shots up NOTE: this would be impossible in berkeley with the unavailability of the rsf gold gym due to overscheduling...the work that it takes to get to the highest levels, we've recruited young men and women that have embraced that, so that facility is more important than it's ever been
nugget: i believe over 95% of our revenues are from the football contract and football ticket sales...i think there's a lot of implications on how these dollars are spent but we understand it
nugget: women's basketball is a huge opportunity for ticket sales...we just have to be conscientious of finding new dollars for us NOTE: this is never gonna happen with the unqualified & lazy azz markeisha everrett in charge of branding/marketing/ticket sales of any sport in berkeley