Prominent donors to Cal football name, picture and equality collective said that they will not give more money to the organization until former NFL head coach Ron Rivera gets the authority to run the Golden Bears program, SFGATE reported.
Rivera, a former All -American linebacker at CAL, was hired March 20 as the school’s first football manager. He was commissioned to focus on building the program to “compete and win at the highest level” as well as collection.
But it is not enough for two board members in California Legends Collective, a third party Nil Collective, who wants Rivera to hold a role similar to Andrew Luck in Cal’s Bay Area Neighbour, Stanford, and shares that idea with other donors.
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“I think we feel a certain sense of obligation to inform the donors that we have taken in and cultivated in recent years who have helped to finance the collective and help generate the success we have generated,” Kevin Kennedy, president of California Legends Collective, told SFGATE. “We owe them full insights about what we personally do with our investments. I think it needs us all, and we are convinced to have just clear reporting lines and it is clear that it is clear that Ron Rivera has control over football.”
At Cal, Rivera reports to University Chancellor Rich Lyons. Head coach Justin Wilcox reports to athletic director Jim Knowlton.
Kennedy said that is not true.
“You don’t hire Mario Andretti and ask him to sit in the passenger seat, right?” he told Sfgate. “There is a reason why you bring any such person: to give him control.”
In response to questions asked by SFGATE, Lyons answered this statement:
“I am convinced that we have the right people, in the right places, do the right things to support a football program for Cal Athletics that can and will distinguish themselves. The world of inter -college sports will change rapidly and Cal will continue to adapt quickly to it.”
Cal ended the 2024 season with a 6-7 (2-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) record. Stanford was 3-9 in total and 2-6 during the first year of the ACC.
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