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09-28-2010, 04:05 PM #1
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Bad News for Cal Bears Baseball & other sports
It was announced that the California Golden Bears will cut 5 intercollegiate sports at the end of this school year. They are Baseball, Gymnastics (Men's & Women's), Lacrosse (Women's) and Rugby which has won 25 National Championships over the last 30 years or so.
I am curious if the current MLB Cal players and alumni will rally and try to save the baseball program with donations.
Dark day in the Cal sports today...Here is a link to the story:
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09-28-2010, 04:52 PM #2
Re: Bad News for Cal Bears Baseball & other sports
Well for baseball there's always USCB, they aren't cutting it there I hope?
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09-28-2010, 04:53 PM #3
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09-28-2010, 05:00 PM #4
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Re: Bad News for Cal Bears Baseball & other sports
UCSB is my alma mater and they run a good program their too. I work on the Cal-Berkeley campus so it will be weird not to have baseball anymore especially since it's been a very competitive program and has put a number of players into the professional ranks.
I guess my Cal Bears bat collection will stop with any position player draft picks from next June's draft.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]www.alamedasportsproject.com
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09-28-2010, 06:29 PM #5
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Re: Bad News for Cal Bears Baseball & other sports
I would say more people might start going to Cal State Fullerton, but Cal is where all the kids that aren't good enough for Fullerton go.
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09-28-2010, 06:51 PM #6
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Re: Bad News for Cal Bears Baseball & other sports
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09-28-2010, 07:52 PM #7
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09-28-2010, 08:16 PM #8
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Re: Bad News for Cal Bears Baseball & other sports
Following up, just spoke to someone close to the Cal program and was told the kids can transfer in the spring without penalty but the regents are "up in the air" about letting kids leave now.
Like I said earlier, I would think the administration would be "forward thinking" enough not screw with the future of these kids caught in these tough circumstances.
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09-28-2010, 08:54 PM #9
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Re: Bad News for Cal Bears Baseball & other sports
That stinks. It is the era I live in I guess, every place is cut, cut, cut. Its a real shame. It happens everywhere now. My alma mater is Hofstra University in Long Island, New York. They cut their football program last year despite the fact that alumni were in the midst of playing key roles on two straight super bowl teams. Willie Colon was a starting guard on the 08 Steelers and Marques Colston is obviously a star receiver on the Saints. Other NFl players who attended Hofstra are Kyle Arrington (Current New England Patriot) and Stephen Bowen who is a Cowboy. Wayne Chebret, Dave Fiore and Lance Schuttlers, who both played many years in the NFL also attended there. The team was not division I but with talent like that it wasn't exactely a waste.