At just 24 years old, Zach Yenser had it all — the girl and the job. The girl was Beth, a recent college grad and a high school teacher. The job was head offensive line coach at Henderson State in Arkadelphia, Ark. With both girl and job in hand, Yenser Read More…
Pierre Ingram started coaching football before he finished elementary school. Playing football in the backyard of his Texas home with his friends, Ingram was always the one to organize and facilitate — picking teams and telling all of his friends where to properly line up for the next play. All Read More…
There are few coaches in college football who are more familiar with Mike Leach’s Air Raid offense than Cal’s Sonny Dykes. And with the Bears set to square off against Washington State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday at 1 p.m., most would expect Dykes — who coached with Leach during Read More…
A loss to the Cougars obviously means a couple of things: It’s a loss to a Pac-12 North rival and guarantees the Bears will toil at the bottom of the conference for another week. Beyond a minor setback, however, the loss carries much more significance. Read More…
On Sunday afternoon, Sonny Dykes drew a line in the sand. In making the decision to dismiss junior defensive end Chris McCain from the team, Dykes provided a clear illustration that he is going to do everything in his power to ensure the 2013 Cal football team in no way Read More…
Last Saturday, Cal wasn’t the only Pac-12 team catching a beating in the Pacific Northwest. While Cal stumbled to a 55-16 defeat at the hands of Oregon, Washington State was in the midst of its own embarrassing loss to Stanford at CenturyLink Field. But No. 2 Oregon and No. 5 Read More…
Cal defensive end Chris McCain was removed from the football team for “conduct detrimental to the team,” Cal Athletics announced on Sunday evening. Read More…
Prior to Cal’s first conference matchup with No. 2 Oregon, offensive coordinator Tony Franklin offered up a prayer to the rain gods. “We hope it pours — we hope it has sheets of rain, monsoons of rain,” he said Thursday. “We think it helps our offense tremendously.” As Sonny Dykes Read More…
EUGENE, Ore. — The pregame video that blasts across the jumbotron at Auzten Stadium proclaims it is the arena “where great teams come to die.” If that’s true, then Autzen is also the place where teams like Cal go to get buried six feet under. Saturday night was predicted to be Read More…
It’s almost too easy to frame Cal vs. Oregon as an offensive love affair. After all, the matchups practically write themselves: Jared Goff vs. Marcus Mariota, Brendan Bigelow vs. De’Anthony Thomas, Chris Harper vs. Josh Huff. But when Cal travels to Eugene, Ore., to take on the No. 2 Ducks Read More…