With questions being raised about Sandy and her role in Tedford’s guaranteed contract, I’m starting to think SHE needs to be fired. Look, you’ve got TWO revenue sports. Just TWO. could you at least oversee crap like this basic scheduling? It’s appalling. You are supposed to be building a brand and generating revenue like a for profit business. That is the role of an AD, to bring in moneys there to support the other sports, and bring prestige to the university. No?

Sandy Barbour should take note of that fact when considering whether it’s too expensive to buy out our washed up football coach. Reality is, when you look at the long term effects it is too expensive not to.

From a business perspective it’s a missed opportunity in a lot of ways. If we look at it from the perspective of what real effect does it have on anything important on the world, then yes, who cares.

But my critique on this is that there are people who are paid very handsomely to not miss these opportunities. You host this on a saturday night. You plan years ahead to host a high school tournament the same day between the local bay area powers, and the main event is a Cal inter-squad.

Or like my friend Rob Bear says, if this really is about getting your team to not gain weight on Halloween, then don’t host an open practice. Just have your regular practice and don’t incur all the added cost of an event.

Either way the team should be pretty good this year. Hoping we can finally make that next step in the tourney.

These type of decisions shouldn’t be made by coaches. These are AD decisions to build the brand and grow our ability to recruit and gain relevancy.

If anything this has the smell of something that was contractually obligated, and the staff found the least painful way to comply with that stipulation.

They should have just had regular practice. Otherwise this is something where the school will not recoup the money they spend to host something like this.

Seriously, what genius in the Cal Athletic Department came up with this idea?

The good news if you get 50 more fans, it’ll be very much like Cal’s first few OOC games at home. Ghost Town then too.