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The All-American alum officially came home last week, an announcement more about reminiscing than restructuring.
But don’t get it twisted.
After more than 30 years in the NFL, Ron Rivera is the new general manager at his beloved alma mater California for the same reason Stanford named retired NFL legend and Cardinal alum Andrew Luck in November as its general manager.
These two bastions of academia, left for dead after the fall of the Pac-12 and the reorganization at the Big Ten and Pac-12, may finally be serious about football.
With so much on the line in this ever-changing new frontier, we’re about to see just how committed the lovable eggheads are to embracing big boy football.
“Just because I’m here doesn’t mean anything,” Rivera said last week when he was named Cal’s first general manager. “The thing that means, is we’ve got work to do.”
It starts with personnel and coaching decisions, it ends with the all-encompassing heavy lift of financial commitment. Both are critical to the process, and work off each other.
Rivera has a coach (Justin Wilcox) who hasn’t had a winning season since 2019. Luck just fired coach Troy Taylor, who won six games in two seasons and was twice investigated by the university for, among other things, bullying and belittling female staffers.
If you think Rivera and Luck don’t have to power to push drastic change, take a glance at the org chart. Rivera reports to the California chancellor, not the athletic director. Luck reports to the Stanford president, not the former athletic director, current interim athletic director or anyone else who will be hired permanently.
The magnitude of…
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Publish date : 2025-03-26 10:07:00
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