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Weird situation at Cal.

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He hates Cal

He must. Berkeley certainly isn't west Texas.

Its perfect example of a poor cultural fit. Get Coaches that are comfortable in the area they are going to live and recruit. This isn't the NFL where each job is almost identical to the other

Herman to Cal?

smupony94 wrote:He hates Cal

LA_Mustang wrote:He must. Berkeley certainly isn't west Texas.

It isn't a like/not like situation, but rather a combination of off-field (AD that hired him is gone, new academic requirements and relatively low pay) and on-field (0-12 vs. Oregon, Stanford, UCLA & USC) factors. Due to the on-field results, Cal fans are mixed on him (see the comments).

Stallion wrote:This isn't the NFL where each job is almost identical to the other

I doubt NFL coaches would agree.

Cal's one of those programs that everybody wonders why they aren't consistently better, and then you take a closer look and go "Oh. I get it now."

The academic standards are up there with Stanford's, you have an apathetic fan base with plenty else going on in Berkeley, a mediocre budget, and they are staring a program like USC (and other solid ones like Arizona and Washington) in the face.

Stallion's right, they need a better fit for the job to make that work.

They also tend to recruit locally in the east bay, and east bay (bay area in general actually) football just isn't very good.

CA Mustang wrote:

smupony94 wrote:He hates Cal

LA_Mustang wrote:He must. Berkeley certainly isn't west Texas.

It isn't a like/not like situation, but rather a combination of off-field (AD that hired him is gone, new academic requirements and relatively low pay) and on-field (0-12 vs. Oregon, Stanford, UCLA & USC) factors. Due to the on-field results, Cal fans are mixed on him (see the comments).

Stallion wrote:This isn't the NFL where each job is almost identical to the other

I doubt NFL coaches would agree.

They also spent a lot of money on the stadium with no real support from the student body.

Digetydog wrote:

CA Mustang wrote:

smupony94 wrote:He hates Cal

LA_Mustang wrote:He must. Berkeley certainly isn't west Texas.

It isn't a like/not like situation, but rather a combination of off-field (AD that hired him is gone, new academic requirements and relatively low pay) and on-field (0-12 vs. Oregon, Stanford, UCLA & USC) factors. Due to the on-field results, Cal fans are mixed on him (see the comments).

Stallion wrote:This isn't the NFL where each job is almost identical to the other

I doubt NFL coaches would agree.

They also spent a lot of money on the stadium with no real support from the student body.

They had to. The stadium was being split apart because it was built on a major fault line. Most of the money spent was on retrofitting it for earthquakes. If they hadn't spent it, a large earthquake during a game would have been beyond catastrophic.

CalallenStang wrote:
They had to. The stadium was being split apart because it was built on a major fault line. Most of the money spent was on retrofitting it for earthquakes. If they hadn't spent it, a large earthquake during a game would have been beyond catastrophic.

Facts do not matter to the Safe Space crowd. I guess they expected someone else to pay for it.

Digetydog wrote:

CalallenStang wrote:
They had to. The stadium was being split apart because it was built on a major fault line. Most of the money spent was on retrofitting it for earthquakes. If they hadn't spent it, a large earthquake during a game would have been beyond catastrophic.

Facts do not matter to the Safe Space crowd. I guess they expected someone else to pay for it.

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Digetydog wrote:

CalallenStang wrote:
They had to. The stadium was being split apart because it was built on a major fault line. Most of the money spent was on retrofitting it for earthquakes. If they hadn't spent it, a large earthquake during a game would have been beyond catastrophic.

Facts do not matter to the Safe Space crowd. I guess they expected someone else to pay for it.

Perhaps Cal shouldn't have spent it so 75,000 people could die in a future earthquake.

The problem with many people is that their attitude is that bad things can happen, just not to them.

Probably time to move half of California because of those future earthquakes.

Luckily we moved all those people and businesses away from the coasts years ago, so they weren't all underwater from that catastrophic climate change thing.