So long, Allan Bridgford. CBS’s Jeremy Fowler reports that the senior quarterback will be transferring after speaking with head coach Sonny Dykes this morning.
It was well known heading into spring practice that the Bears’ quarterback position would be a competition between Zach Kline, Jared Goff, Austin Hinder, and Allen Bridgford.
Kline looked like the front-runner and Goff was a longshot. Bridgford, as the only returning quarterback with any experience playing quarterback at Cal, was assumed to hang around at least until the fall competition.
When new head coach Sonny Dykes and Tony Franklin began to divvy up the reps in practice, Bridgford was clearly behind Kline, Goff, and Hinder. Bridgford left the team this week to talk to his parents about possibly transferring.
Bridgford threw for 277 yards in 2012, with one TD and three interceptions. He replaced Zach Maynard and almost led a last-second comeback against Washington after Maynard went down with a knee injury.