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... A:link { TEXT-DECORATION: none } A:visited { TEXT-DECORATION: none } A:hover { TEXT-DECORATION: underline } Sport | INS News Cal Tiring of Has-Ben Days Mar 30, 07:46 AM MAYBE IT'S the anxiety that comes with visualizing a future without star forward Leon Powe.

Maybe it's the low-grade shame that comes with being paddled by their despised rivals at Stanford.

Or maybe it's envy, seeing their favorite team, Cal, booted from the show, as another rival, UCLA, slides in to command center stage.

It's likely, though, that each of these factors contributes to the rumble of discontent among those who follow Cal men's basketball.

There is notable dissatisfaction and debate among alumni, among those who are or have been connected to the program and among those within the local sports community.

The general conclusion: Cal should be better, certainly should have been better in 2005-06.

From the final minutes of Cal's last game -a 58-52 loss to North Carolina State in the first-round of the NCAA Tournament on March 17 - until Tuesday afternoon, there has been no shortage of e-mail, voicemail and off-the-record in-my-ear mail related to the Golden Bears.

Though dissent is not unusual in the wake of bitter defeat, some of it has an objective ring.

Much of the biting commentary was present during the season.

Nearly all of it sinks its teeth into coach Ben Braun.

He can't coach offense.

Why won't he hire an assistant whose background is offense?

His players ...

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