03-15-2017, 01:49 PM
You bring up a good point, winflop. But I think that another major problem for Cal basketball and football goes beyond attracting the best players. They also need to attract the right coaches, and Dykes and Martin--who both saw a good deal of success elsewhere--really struggled in Cal's environment. I would think that the AD will want someone who "gets" Cal and has demonstrated success as a coach, but that list must be pretty short.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)