Welcome to Andy and Ari on three.

Very fun, weird offseason news topic day, Ari.

Because when we finished the show yesterday, the news was breaking that Jim

Knowlton was retiring as Cal's athletic director.

And, you know, it was one of those things where he's not really retiring.

He's got four years left on his contract.

What happened there?

And, you know, if you've been following the Cal thing, you know that Ron Rivera got

hires at GM.

He's the former Carolina Panthers, Washington Commander's head coach,

former Cal football player. And you knew there was some pressure on the AD that some of the donors

wanted Rivera put in charge. They had the hand-wronged the Keys movement on the Calgary

well, Ari, I don't know about you, but I kept thinking, oh, these GMs that have more NFL-like

power is going to be a threat to coach.

I didn't realize they're probably a bigger threat to the ADs.

Yeah, it is an interesting thing because, first of all, what the hell is going on in the Bay Area?

Like, there's a lot happening with DMs in the Bay Area.

I was going to say, Andrew Luck has similar powers at Stanford.

I actually think they probably based it on that when they hired Ron Rivera.

They saw what Luck was doing and said, okay, let's do something like this.

And then, because remember, the couple board members of Cal's biggest collective

said when Rivera was hired, they're not donating anymore to the collective until Nolton's gone.

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