When the shocking news broke that Lindsay Gottlieb accepted a job in the NBA, I’m a little bit disappointed in myself to admit that my first reaction was similar to the reaction I had when Joanne Boyle was hired away from Cal by Virginia. That is to say: I wasn’t heartbroken.
That seems harsh. After all, Coach G is a wonderful person who also took Cal to heights the program had never experienced before. An honest-to-God conference title and a Final Four!
But it’s also true that since that Final Four season, Cal has barely been above .