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Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby LA_Mustang » Wed Dec 02, 2015 2:23 pm

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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby smupony94 » Wed Dec 02, 2015 2:24 pm

He hates Cal
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby LA_Mustang » Wed Dec 02, 2015 2:28 pm

He must. Berkeley certainly isn't west Texas.
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby Stallion » Wed Dec 02, 2015 2:33 pm

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
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby StallionsModelT » Wed Dec 02, 2015 2:45 pm

Herman to Cal?

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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby CA Mustang » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:20 pm

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.
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby leopold » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:25 pm

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.
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby JasonB » Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:27 pm

They also tend to recruit locally in the east bay, and east bay (bay area in general actually) football just isn't very good.
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby Digetydog » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:44 pm

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.
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby CalallenStang » Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:31 pm

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.
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby Digetydog » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:44 pm

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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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby Pony Boss » Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:20 pm

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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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby CalallenStang » Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:43 pm

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.
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Re: Sonny Dykes leaving Cal? Interviewing with Missouri

Postby footballdad » Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:13 pm

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.
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