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wut up swan??



when madsen wuz hired hoop dreams & me chatted with him in the north end zone tunnel on a september fall cal football gameday (the above foto wuz taken then) right before the bears ran onto the field...mark wuz very gracious & the monster made the following 5 recommendations:

1) demand that cal marketing administration (keep in mind at that point shocky wuz the only person on planet earth who wuz lobbying for markeisha everrett & general knowlton to be fired) offer FREE tixs to all students on cal men's basketball gamedays as a critically needed pipeline for future season tix buyers/donors (emphasized that the current mbb excellence in basketball donors are rapidly aging out)

2) bring in a poly basketball player as an identifiable fan favorite to facilitate student interest in men's basketball at a university with demographics of a student base that is just south of 50% asian...explained how shocky researched nor cal asian basketball prospects with the assistance of multiple sources including lou richie & justin labagh and gave this recruiting information to cuonzo martin & tracy webster which ultimately resulted in the signing of me & my daughter's lifelong brah half japanese/half black brenden glapion wuz as a walk on whose entry into games wuz met with spirited bedlam by the students & his teammates...yeah brenden graduated from berkeley, then the boalt law school & is today getting minted as a imminent domain attorney in san francisco



3) prioritize fundraising for a dedicated basketball practice facility & demand a detailed update from general knowlton who wuz flat out lying to madsen & alums about the progress (or lack thereof) of fundraising according to my multiple sources within the athletic department who hated the former athletic director

4) build a coaching staff with younger (mark fox had the oldest assistant coaching staff in d1 basketball in the nation, a fact that wuz never reported upon in cal men's basketball coverage) berkeley grads...tole mark that joe pasternack had called me asking for my support (got my phone number from his brother in law roxy bernstein) & in response to my questions re: building a staff would've hired berkeley grads theo robertson & richard midgley as assistant coaches & lou richie as an academic mentor (all 3 of these guys are close friends with dennis gates who would've become a behind the scenes advocate for mbb)

5) transparently build fan & recruits interest in the program by publicly sharing recruiting information via FREE social media & message board outlets ala cal's monster class...tole him that i had written "welcome to berkeley" emails to his newly hired assistant coaches & didn't get a response from any of them other than matt scherbenske

in retrospect NONE of these 5 points got followed up on and/or completed: cal is currently 17th outta 18 teams in acc attendance, there are no plans for shovels in the ground with the failed leadership of jay & jenny and maddog don't got the nil dollars to recruit mcdonalds all americans...honestly got no interest these days in a program that turns over the roster every season with guys that are not earning berkeley degrees...jaylon tyson (just like his bro wr jordyn at asu who will be drafted in the upcoming nfl draft) had zero academic ambition, he didn't declare for the nba draft as much as tyson wuz basically flunking out in berkeley

my guess is that shocky will meet/our paths will cross with tosh in person at some point this fall when he attends every fb game on the 2026 schedule, lupoi clearly understands the importance of recruiting with young hungry assistant coaches that wanna sell berkeley's degree opportunities in conjunction with the recruiting leadership of marshall cherrington & benji palu as we target high gpa prospects with academic ambition

when shocky & cal's monster class wuz tole to **** off back in the day, cal athletics not only lost the dumb azz but also his yoga buddy jaylen brown & quite a few other former bears hoopers who could've helped the mbb program in moving forwards on an upwards trajectory in terms of recruiting, gameday attendance metrics, mcdonalds all american prospects nil fundraising & the critically needed dedicated basketball practice facility fundraising

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socaltownie said:

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Guess? Our guards are pretty good defenders and our bigs are not. So who gets hacked are their bigs...who are less likely to be great FT shooters. I would think a more meaningful statistic isn't FT defense it is MADE FTs....and my guess is Cal is about middle of pack.

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calumnus said:

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I do think there are games where we were fouling poor FT shooting bigs intentionally.

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calumnus said:

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socaltownie said:

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Guess? Our guards are pretty good defenders and our bigs are not. So who gets hacked are their bigs...who are less likely to be great FT shooters. I would think a more meaningful statistic isn't FT defense it is MADE FTs....and my guess is Cal is about middle of pack.

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We are #126 in fewest opponent made FTs per game (14.0) which is still relatively low, but we are #250 in fewest opponent attempted FTs per game (21.9) which is relatively high.

I do think there are games where we were fouling poor FT shooting bigs intentionally.

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bearsandgiants said:

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I cannot get enough of those celebration videos. This team is so freaking awesome.

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BeachedBear said:

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bearsandgiants said:

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I cannot get enough of those celebration videos. This team is so freaking awesome.

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Remember all those great videos of Fox in the locker room after a gutty win?!?!? Nothing like great and positive player engagement.

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