[Giants]

looks like we are indirectly causing some heartburn among Cal fans regarding how set up Andrew Luck as GM vs how they have set up Ron Rivera as GM

In the days following the announcement, Kennedy was one of two California Legends Collective board members to release statements saying that they would withhold their personal donations until UC Berkeley followed Stanford’s lead. 

Kennedy sent his message to the collective’s donor group, which he then shared with SFGATE. After complimenting Lyons and Rivera for getting this hire done, Kennedy wrote that he wasn’t fond of the lack of clarity surrounding the organizational structure of the football program. While Stanford’s announcement clearly stated that football would be under Luck’s direction and control, Cal’s, per Kennedy, left too many unaddressed concerns. For instance, how can Rivera oversee football if no one actually reports to him?

“Until I know the answers to the questions I posed above, I won’t personally invest more money in this enterprise,” he wrote. “More importantly, I cannot in good conscience ask any of you to do the same. I simply do not believe that Cal football can possibly succeed without some significant changes to how we have operated to date.”

https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/art...253399.php

It was assumed by the major donors that Rivera was brought in to oversee the football program (a la Luck).  In fact, he was not given full control by the Chancellor.  The result of the Chancellor’s misstep is a major pushback by the donor community.  It a classic Berkeley bureaucratic mess that turned what could have been a big plus into an even bigger minus.  Nothing is ever easy for our friends in East Bay.

[Giants]

looks like we are indirectly causing some heartburn among Cal fans regarding how set up Andrew Luck as GM vs how they have set up Ron Rivera as GM

In the days following the announcement, Kennedy was one of two California Legends Collective board members to release statements saying that they would withhold their personal donations until UC Berkeley followed Stanford’s lead. 

Kennedy sent his message to the collective’s donor group, which he then shared with SFGATE. After complimenting Lyons and Rivera for getting this hire done, Kennedy wrote that he wasn’t fond of the lack of clarity surrounding the organizational structure of the football program. While Stanford’s announcement clearly stated that football would be under Luck’s direction and control, Cal’s, per Kennedy, left too many unaddressed concerns. For instance, how can Rivera oversee football if no one actually reports to him?

“Until I know the answers to the questions I posed above, I won’t personally invest more money in this enterprise,” he wrote. “More importantly, I cannot in good conscience ask any of you to do the same. I simply do not believe that Cal football can possibly succeed without some significant changes to how we have operated to date.”

https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/art...253399.php

It was assumed by the major donors that Rivera was brought in to oversee the football program (a la Luck).  In fact, he was not given full control by the Chancellor.  The result of the Chancellor’s misstep is a major pushback by the donor community.  It a classic Berkeley bureaucratic mess that turned what could have been a big plus into an even bigger minus.  Nothing is ever easy for our friends in East Bay.