Cal Director Tony Sandoval Asked to Retire.

Will the new head coach be:

M or F

Seasoned D1 Vet

D2/d3/naia/juco/high school

Inside hire

Hungry unqualified youngster

Local nor cal coach

Out of stater

I say young d1 female gets the job.

Finally someone answers the question...

Deduction is fun... It is Cal Berkeley, which is quite liberal. I'm going with a non-white male coach. Helen at USF, now UO has been brought up a few times. She is an assistant at UO, could be Director at Cal. She graduated from Cal. Perfect fit?

Go Bears! wrote:

So who is going to lead the Renaissance at Cal?

He wasn't asked to retire, he's been planning this for a while now.

No a fan of TS, teams were bottom feeders of the Pac 12 year after year , but just wondering what other D1 head coach as been at his school for 37 years?

She has a LOT of baggage that will ring alarms at The Communist University of Cal @ Berkeley.

Go Bears! wrote:

Finally someone answers the question...

Deduction is fun... It is Cal Berkeley, which is quite liberal. I'm going with a non-white male coach. Helen at USF, now UO has been brought up a few times. She is an assistant at UO, could be Director at Cal. She graduated from Cal. Perfect fit?

Doadeer wrote:

Used to he a decent coach, but started mailing it in 20 years ago when he realized he was basically unimpeachable due to tenure. About time he retired.

How does he have tenure if he's not faculty?

1st of all... Tony wasn't asked to retire.

secondly, the obvious candidate is one of his head coach for xc, who happens to be female and is also connected into the running community. Pretty sure Shayla has been there for at least six years, know's the Cal system, was a professional runner herself and has family members who are current Olympians. This seems like a no-brainer hire within.

yes true but but I heard Shayla is too young and unexperienced. She acts more like part of the team, than their coach.

The jumps and multi coach. Smooth accent, decent twitter feed and kickboxing background. Sign him up today.

If the administration is serious about its track program will clean house and hit the reset button by hiring a big name. Not a rocket science.

Ryan and Sara Hall as my dark horse picks.

Cal has a great opportunity right now. There are so few female directors and being the progressive university that Cal claims to be should hire a female. I love the Helen, Shayla and Sara ideas!! time for a TITLE9 to actually MEAN something!

How bout they go the diversity & female route w/Diljeet Taylor? Team doing well at byu.Driector experience. From the area

OPPORTUNITY wrote:

Cal has a great opportunity right now. There are so few female directors and being the progressive university that Cal claims to be should hire a female. I love the Helen, Shayla and Sara ideas!! time for a TITLE9 to actually MEAN something!

-30/10

hardset nipples wrote:

Definitely not, he's an MD.

I've long wondered why the two most prominent UC's - UCB & UCLA - just couldn't consistently produce compared to Pac10/12 brethren like Stanford and Arizona State. Good training weather and a fine education, it only leaves poor/unmotivated administration and coaching.

No, there’s more to it than that.

The top two public universities in the US are required to have a little something called Admissions Standards. Compare Cal’s admission standsrds to another public university, say Oregon, and one university can get nearly every athlete admitted (not just distance athletes), while the other can barely admit half tbe athletes they’d hope to recruit.

Public universities such as Cal and Ucla have a constraints on tbeir athletic budget for state employee salaries that other private universities do not, like Stanford and USC. While a head coach’s salary may be robust, there is no money left over for assistants to be able to live in or near Bel Air/ Santa Monica or Berkeley (unless you live is some of the rough areas of Oakland. (Stanford does not offer assistant coaches a good salary for living in or near Palo Alto, either.) Seattle is also quite expensive for state employees. Oregon, Arizona, Washington State, and Oregon State all have a more normal cost of living to attract a deep coaching staff.

Ucla does put money into their athletic program for overall university identity, but Cal is notoriously ambivalent - and sometimes hostile - about athletics in general. The TF program has literally been on the chopping block in the past.

So know there are a lot of reasons these two programs struggle to be like the others. And while the vision and actions of the AD can make or break these any program, the reality is Vin Lanana wouldn’t work at Cal or Ucla because the constraints are real and too big to ever become an Oregon.

Cal has an AD who has been there less than a year, whose only other DI experience is Air Force. My understanding is he inherited some budget issues and a host of problems, and he was exactly the conservative planner that Cal was looking for.

He does not exactly seem like he really likes to move things around, given that he renewed a .500 football coach for five more years. I think it is doubtful that Sandoval was pushed into retirement, and very likely the AD goes with someone they already know and trust.

My guess is it goes to an inside hire if one of the assistants have stood out and impressed him. Or maybe a Mountain West coach who impressed him while at AF. Some good teams in that conference.

I think the hire will have more to do with fitting the AD's vision as opposed to what all these posters see as Cal Berkeley's culture and potential.

BigTones wrote:

I always thought he was THE Tony Sandoval

- just learned something

+1

Me too.

Small world, huh? Two Tony Sandovals, and in Cali no less.

they also both have New Mexico connections. Truly is a small world.

ryguyftw wrote:

Ryan and Sara Hall as my dark horse picks.

My dark horse pick is to get a cal alumni from outside of the NCAA coaching system. Magda has professional experience at a high level in a different industry, is an Olympian, and coaches a private club locally.