Cal may cut Men's Track and Field

No big deal. They can join the UofU who cut their team when they figured out they wouldn't have enough to bring in a top-tier football coach after Meier left.

Nothin' like having a football coach as the top earner on the state payroll.

The school was ahead of the curve in setting up a separate track facility from the football stadium like most colleges have now done (including Stanford). It's a beautiful, historic stadium and next to the tennis center, baseball diamond, the gym, etc.

This reminds me of an effort to cut baseball a few years ago. The reality is, most D1 schools lose money on athletics.

The campus would be better off developing housing elsewhere and offering a transportation service to campus or passes for the public transportation system.

The city may not want a big high rise (presumably) complex at that site that could be an eyesore and add to the congestion at that corner of campus with the city.

The Stadium is a run down piece of crap! It lies close to the earthquake fault, the team is horrible, the coach is.......fill in the blank, many have.

yt they have the #1 high school female recruit going to the school, go figure.

Go Bears Go... wrote:

The Stadium is a run down piece of crap! It lies close to the earthquake fault, the team is horrible, the coach is.......fill in the blank, many have.

yt they have the #1 high school female recruit going to the school, go figure.

The stadium isn't run down it is actually in good condition and the track is in great shape.

F**k off dufus wrote:

Go Bears Go... wrote:

The Stadium is a run down piece of crap! It lies close to the earthquake fault, the team is horrible, the coach is.......fill in the blank, many have.

yt they have the #1 high school female recruit going to the school, go figure.

The stadium isn't run down it is actually in good condition and the track is in great shape.

dufus is correct. The track was resurfaced with Beynon BSS-2000, the exact same surface that is at Hayward, in the summer of 2012. The track dimensions (curve radius and lane width) are fully to the IAAF Standard. The HT is held inside the oval, not out in a pasture.

The stadium itself is okay, but only a few thousand can be seated in the benches that are installed; the rest of them were removed due to deterioration and AFAIK they were not replaced, so you're sitting on the concrete in most of the stadium. No need to do anything about that unless they hosted the NCAA or USATF meet.

Its U of Oregon's fault ! Rest of the conference can't keep up cuz Uncle Phil dumps billions into Nike U sports.

Seen this before wrote:

Agree with this post,

The land that this stadium sits on is very valuable, men's sports are expendable, men's everything especially in Berkeley is expendable. Student housing is like printing money at universities.

This has happened elsewhere including places like Georgetown that had a track on the roof of a parking garage. Parking also is sparse as available land to build is both scarce and valuable on urban campuses.

I concur. Certain college sports facilities are being forced off campus due to space.

U. Texas tennis facility went under due to new UT medical building.

AZ State losing revered baseball stadium to shopping & entertainment complex. Baseball now played miles away from campus.

Don't know future of Sun Angel track or Whiteman tennis center. The new reality college are in the business of BUSINESS.

I thought Sandoval was a doctor, the good marathoner.

ck3237 wrote:

I thought Sandoval was a doctor, the good marathoner.

Solid thonner, just hasn't had the same consistent results from his charges.

You guys do realize these are two different Tony Sandoval's you're talking about right? The marathoner is not the coach at Cal. The coach at Cal had a stint as a mid-d guy at New Mexico.

Big Man On Campus wrote:

What's up with this? Isn't Cal one of those "loaded" rich-boy schools? 🤔

No. It's public. Its endowment is unimpressive.

The person posting under different handles as "Cal alum" is not a Cal alumni, they're just trolls. Their information is bunk.

Show me the money!

Oh, that's right, T&F doesn't make any. Buh Bye!

Seeing the obvious wrote:

The person posting under different handles as "Cal alum" is not a Cal alumni, they're just trolls. Their information is bunk.

And what bunk info would this be specifically?

Berkeley's housing market is god-awful because landowners have conspired to restrict supply, keep out minorities, and keep their property values high.

It's really a grade A example of regulatory capture.

Thankfully people are waking up and there's more development. Still never enough to catch demand but hey, maybe they can pray for a recession to knock rents back in line.

F#$%*&^ Communists!

Oh those Stanford Alum... Which proves the point that not everyone affiliated with Stanford is either intelligent, tactful, or informed. Yes, Cal has a track team. They are the ones that handily beat your Stanford Cardinal last year.

T&F Supporter wrote:

Oh those Stanford Alum... Which proves the point that not everyone affiliated with Stanford is either intelligent, tactful, or informed. Yes, Cal has a track team. They are the ones that handily beat your Stanford Cardinal last year.

And 3 out of the last 4 years at the Big Meet.

Old Bear Alum wrote:

T&F Supporter wrote:

Oh those Stanford Alum... Which proves the point that not everyone affiliated with Stanford is either intelligent, tactful, or informed. Yes, Cal has a track team. They are the ones that handily beat your Stanford Cardinal last year.

And 3 out of the last 4 years at the Big Meet.

What about NCAA's?