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Duck Hunt: Cal prepares for Oregon’s dizzying offensive attack. page 2 Lone Ranger: Kenwick Thompson has
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High-Flying Offense Comes to Cal by Katie Dowd Daily Cal Staff Writer
Understandably, Cal football coach Jeff Tedford had nothing but nice things to say about No. 1 Oregon’s offense this week. “They just have so many weapons,” Tedford said. “They make huge plays in the run game … “I have great respect for (Jeremiah) Masoli — Masoli was a tough, hard runner — but (quarterback Darron) Thomas I think even brings more to that offense because he’s so elusive and so fast in the open field.” One state north, Ducks coach Chip Kelly wasn’t quite as impressed with the Bears’ signal caller, Brock Mansion. “For the first time starting a college football game, I thought he did a decent job,” Kelly said. At 4:30 p.m., at Memorial Stadium this Saturday, Mansion and the Bears will have a chance to show Kelly that they’re capable of something better than just decent. But, at least on paper, that seems like it could be a nearly insurmountable task. Undefeated Oregon’s 54.7 points per game ranks first in the conference and first in the nation. Their quick-strike, no-huddle offense, helmed by Thomas and kept rolling by standout running back LaMichael James, averages 567.2 total yards per game. They haven’t been held under 40 points yet this season. They’ve scored often, and they’ve scored quickly. Twenty-nine of their 58 touchdown drives have taken five plays or fewer to complete. They’re outscoring the competition 87-7 in the fourth quarter alone. Which begs the question: Can Cal, or anyone, stop them? “We’re going to find out,” Tedford said. “The thing is, they average over 50 points a game. That would be a huge feat for us to do that. I think we need to keep the score low and keep the game close to be there to win the
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and averages 44.4 yards rushing per game. Seven players are averaging double-digit receiving yards, the most prominent being wide receiver Jeff Maehl. The senior easily leads the squad with 10 touchdown catches and averages 82.9 yards per game receiving. In the backfield, James already has 1,331 yards on the ground this season. The Heisman candidate is 420
f you have tickets to today’s game against Oregon, consider yourself lucky; you’re in for a show. To prepare yourself, look down at its sideline tomorrow. Here are a few things you’ll probably see. Chip Kelly. Gatorade coolers. Benches. The Burger King. Eh? You see, the Ducks don’t run their offense the way anyone else in the country does. Therefore, the Ducks also don’t call their plays the way anyone else in the country does. Instead of having quarterbacks try to look for hand signals or rely solely on small, hard-to-read wristbands, Oregon has someone raise up a large, poster board. Divided into four sections, the placards are covered with everything from a photo of a battleship to one of a fat beaver to the word “glycerine.” They all unite to indicate one of the team’s endless list of lightning-quick maneuvers. Faster playcalling, faster plays. That no one else will know what the hell anything means is just an added bonus. Chip Kelly doesn’t get full credit for this. His team lifted the idea from teams such as Oklahoma State, who used six-part cards against the Ducks in the 2008 Holiday Bowl. Similarly, there’s very little about the offense that’s original. These are plays that have been run by spread teams for years. Shotgun formations aren’t
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Junior Marvin Jones caught four balls for 101 yards at Washington State last weekend. game.” The Bears (5-4, 3-3 in the Pac-10) have statistically the best defense in the Pac-10 and they haven’t given up more than 17 points at home all season. But the offense that gave them the most trouble was Nevada’s pistol. And if they thought the Wolf Pack had athletic options, they ain’t seen nothing yet. Thomas can pass and run; he has 22 touchdown passes to six picks
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Wang from Page 2 exactly rare in college football; after all, it’s one of the main knocks on quarterbacks trying to transition to the NFL. It’s the dizzying speed that makes gives it the potential to be a gamechanger for years to come. This is the no-huddle spread after chugging a can of Four Loko — then spitting it out in the face of time of possession. A touch of brute strength doesn’t hurt either. A burly offensive line has paved gaping avenues for LaMichael James, who boasts enough muscle to bowl through Owen Marecic. You may have read this elsewhere but the stat is so absurd, it bears repeating: 29 of 58 touchdowns have come in five plays or fewer. Then again, so many of their stats are. Over 567 yards per game. An offense that runs plays 35 percent faster than normal teams. Almost one point per minute. The scariest one? Five of their six leaders in all-purpose yards are either sophomores or freshmen. I’m near the back of the line of those who fawn over Oregon. Jon Gruden, who won Super Bowl XXXVII as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, almost took a gig as an offensive coordinator just for the opportunity to learn it. (His wife was relieved he didn’t.) So when the Cal defense starts to look helpless against the Ducks — and at some point in the game, it will — don’t despair. Just try and soak in the chance to watch the No. 1 team in the country. It’s good for the Pac-10. For all of commissioner Larry Scott’s slick efforts to revamp the conference’s image, it is winning that’s finally stealing some of the shine from the SEC — where I’m told the best football ever is played. And with the way Auburn seems to be on the verge of implosion, you’ll be watching a team that should be the first to break the South’s stranglehold on the national title. When both the FBI and TMZ are breathing down your neck because of what your star quarterback may or may not have done, it hasn’t been a good week. So for one day, don’t worry about your midterms or papers. (You’re probably doing better than Cam Newton.) Just sit back and enjoy. Fawn over Oregon’s offense with Jack at sports@dailycal.org.
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yards away from become the program’s all-time leading rusher. He’s a sophomore. “I’m not sure if you can really slow them down,” senior linebacker Mike Mohamed said. “They really pride themselves on fast tempo. But what we can try to do is try to hang with them.” That task also falls on Cal’s offense and much of that depends on how Mansion plays in just his second career start. Last week in the Bears’ 20-13 win against bottom-dweller Washington State, Mansion went 14-of-24 for 171 yards. He’ll have to do a lot better if Cal hopes to keep pace with the Ducks (9-0, 6-0). Mansion, for one, seems confident he can. “There’s nothing daunting about it at all. It’s a great opportunity,” Mansion said. “Everybody on this team is excited. “We haven’t come out and practiced with this much enthusiasm since probably the first week of fall camp, so I was really excited.” The odds are not in their favor — quite literally. Las Vegas has Cal as the 20-point underdog going into the contest which, some might say, is a generous margin of defeat. The Bears have played a No. 1-ranked team 11 times in their history. They’ve never won. “We’re the only team playing the number one team in the country this week,” Mohamed said. “This is basically our BCS game. “It’s going to be awesome to just go out there and play them.” Katie Dowd covers football. Contact her at sports@dailycal.org.
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he sick feeling in the pit of Kevin Daft’s stomach derived partly from the McDonald’s breakfast he had eaten and mostly from the interceptions he’d just thrown. As UC Davis’ junior quarterback looked around the locker room at halftime, he felt his heart sink further. “I just felt like I was going to let the whole team down,” Daft says. All because his alarm hadn’t gone off. “We missed the wake-up call,” Daft says. “We missed breakfast and everything. It was close to being the most miserable day of my life. We got a call and everyone was already on the bus ready to go to the game.”
On that day in 1997 — the first game of the Division II playoffs — the UC Davis team bus made what was probably its first, and likely its last, pregame stop at McDonald’s. Daft and his roommates, the starting tailback and starting tight end, ran inside and ordered breakfast. Awake more from shock than from real alertness, Daft scarfed down his meal on the way to Texas A&M-Kingsville. He went through the motions of warming up, but for a man who’s known for meticulous mind, it was a waking nightmare. Jolted out of his routine, he couldn’t refocus. Daft threw three picks and the Aggies stumbled their way to a 9-9 tie at halftime. In the locker room, his head spinning, his coaches calmly re-
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emphasized the game plan. He went back out, clean slate, and threw four touchdowns in the final two quarters. They won, 37-33. “I would never want to let anyone down,” he says. He didn’t, and he still doesn’t. hen the Cal wide receivers talk about Daft, they wear big smiles. “He’s got microscopes for his eyes,” Marvin Jones says. “He can see if we cut a route a yard short or even a half yard short. Everything. Even if it’s not football. If there’s a mark on the board, he can’t stand it. He has to wipe it off.” “We always get on him,” Jeremy Ross says. “As receivers, you have those moments where you’re like,
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enwick Thompson’s recruiting career began 12 years ago at Birraporetti’s, an Italian restaurant in his native Houston. It was spring break and the Cal linebackers coach, then working at Texas Southern University, finally had some much needed time off from the job. Thompson spotted his target at a table, surrounded by a group of friends. He made his move. “I just kind of said, ‘OK, that’s the
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Daily Cal Staff Writer one I want,’ and then I started recruiting,” he says. “I told her the advantages of coming to my program in compared to somebody else’s. We went on an official visit, took us a date.” Wait a second — her? “My first recruiting job was my wife, and then I went from there.” It’s fair to say that Thompson has been doing this for quite a while. And as successful has his 10-year marriage with his wife Monica has been, the Bears might be more in love with him. Cal hired Thompson away from San Jose State in 2007 to replace the retiring Bob Foster. In five years prior, the
program had totaled just one Texas recruit: Justin Forsett. Since then, the Bears have nabbed a full dozen — and the 2011 class isn’t even complete yet. verything’s bigger in Texas, starting with the state itself. Attempting to sew together a cohesive cultural fabric to cover the largest state in the continental U.S. is a near-impossible task. But from the corporate hub of Houston, to the vibrant music festivals of Austin, to the rusty pumpjacks of West Texas, one common thread has always run thick and strong.
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eff Genyk was a businessman out of college. A quarterback and punter at Bowling Green State, he went on to a career in materials management and international purchasing for the automotive and oil industries. 10 years later, Genyk was at the bottom rung of college football. On the staff at Michigan’s Grand Rapids Community College, he worked with signal callers and tight ends. For some, it may be a major downgrade. For Genyk, son of a Michigan football captain and longtime coach, it was a chance to enter the coaching ranks. “I was really fascinated by the strategic part of the game,” Genyk says. “I realized that I really wanted to have the opportunity to do
something that I had a passion for.I had a great passion for sports and working with young people.” ryan Anger and Giorgio Tavecchio received a light reading assignment recently, and it wasn’t from a UC Berkeley professor. It was from Genyk, now a special teams coach for the Cal football team. He handed out a Sports Illustrated article detailing the spike in explosive plays from NFL special teams. The message was not so subtle. “You have to develop an environment where special teams is a wantto and not a have-to,” Genyk says. “That happens by understanding the important aspect of those plays.” Special teams are all too often a lose-lose proposition: The unit hardly ever gets noticed ... unless something goes wrong. In his first year at Berkeley, Genyk has been passionate about changing the culture of football’s most thankless aspect. He has done plenty since his
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arrival in January to emphasize how the entire squad is affected by special teams. “The most significant aspect I enjoy is, you really develop repoire with all the players,” Genyk says. “Because virtually everyone on the team is involved in some shape or form with the special teams.” At every meeting during spring practices, Genyk showed video of a bowl game that was impacted by a special teams play. Other pressure simulations were more direct. Genyk would arrange cones into a box, often along the end zone, and have his placekickers tee off. Every kickoff that landed inside the square meant one less team sprints. The same went for field goals at the end of practice. “The whole team was watching, the coaches would bang on your helmet as you’re taking your steps, poking at you, yelling at you,” Tavecchio recalls. “You just got to execute your fundamentals, do
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coming to Davis. Fans came up to Daft on campus to shake his hand. “Which is neat,” he says, “but I don’t really like that much attention.” That spring, Daft was drafted by the Tennessee Titans. His rookie year, he stood on the sidelines for the Music City Miracle. The next year, he went to NFL Europe. When he came back to the States, he played for the Chargers, 49ers, Falcons and finally the Titans again. In his final years playing, Daft used the offseason to volunteer with the UC Davis football team. When he retired for good, he left with a picture in his head of the coach he wanted to be. “I played on a bunch of different teams and bounced around a little bit, so I was able to see different kinds of coaching styles,” he says. “When I got closer to the end of my career, I understood I would probably coach. I learned more from the ones who weren’t good coaches than the ones who were.”
‘I’m open. Throw me the ball.’ But he’s always like, ‘You know, he has to go through his reads, he has to do this, he has to do that.’ “When it comes down to those moments, he’s always taking the quarterback’s side. It’s pretty funny when we’re in there calling him a quarterback: ‘You’re a spy, man.’” Head coaches and coordinators run the big show, but position coaches like Daft are often the players’ deeper connection to the game. They’re the head of a close-knit family. And in the case of the wide receivers, they’re the head of a brash, outspoken, loud family. Luckily, Daft joined that family already knowing how to be a leader. As a junior, he set seven Division II playoff records as the quarterback for UC Davis. He entered his senior season poised to break program records in career passing yards, total offense and touchdowns. For the first time in years, NFL scouts were
He learned that the bad ones were the ones who didn’t communicate, who kept a wall between themselves and their players. He started writing down tips for himself whenever he had a coaching idea. He slept for weeks at a time in the corner of a team meeting room in Memorial Stadium as the Bears’ offensive graduate assistant. When he was named the wide receivers coach, his first step was to establish relationships. That wasn’t always easy with the personalities in the wide receiver corps. “The players who challenge you in certain ways, I’ve learned a lot from them,” Daft says. “I’ve had guys who graduated the last couple years who are different types of people you have to deal with. “You can get through to them in different ways by the way you approach them or talk to them. I think that’s something I’ve learned.” And they respected that. Going into the 2008 season, Daft inherited a group that had 13 career receptions. In 2009, they chalked up 120 catches. This year, he has two
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The important things in life there are ranked something like this: God, football, family, school, football. When high school fields are bathed in the soft light of Friday nights and teenagers kneel down to pray, the place isn’t a stadium anymore — it’s a church. California has produced more NFL talent — 211 players to Texas’ 181 — but the gridiron doesn’t grip Los Angeles or San Francisco with the same ferocity. There’s a reason the Pac-10 is still regarded as a finesse conference, one that doesn’t play real, smash-mouth football. To recruit Texans, you need a Texan. “Because of the fact he was from Houston, a Texas dude, he would know where I’m coming from …” says linebacker Jarred Price, whom Thompson plucked out of Blinn College, where he’s recruited for 15 years. “If he was from anywhere else besides Texas, I think it would have been hard for him to kind of talk to me, to relate to me. It’s all about how you can relate to the recruiter.” You can’t fake a lifetime’s worth of roots, the most valuable thing in Thompson’s recruiting cabinet. He spent his prep career at Houston’s Nimitz High, located in the same district as Klein Forest High. That’s where Thompson found safety Josh Hill and nose tackle Kendrick Payne, both two-star recruits who have now carved out part-time starting roles for Cal. “I know the kind of football that’s played there,” Thompson says. “Throughout most of those schools, I know somebody. Most of the schools in Houston, if I don’t know some-
body there, I know somebody that knows somebody there.” ut connections are only a foot in the door. It’s up to Thompson to seal the deal. The man has a way of talking to players — partially because, once upon a time, he too was pulled out of Texas to attend Arkansas’ Harding University. He claims that school’s reputation precedes itself, but once you stray too far from the Bay Area, people don’t always make the connection between “Cal” and “Berkeley.” Some credit has to go to Thompson. To hear Price say it, Thompson has “a good mouthpiece on him.” He believes in what he’s selling, figuring out what it is that stands out most about his program, wherever he’s working. (One laptop presentation starts with “California Love,” then transitions into a montage of scenery and statistics. If 2Pac and the weather can’t get someone to come out here, nothing will.) “I felt like I could trust in what he was saying,” Payne says. “I felt like he didn’t come in with a lot of BS.” Thompson prepares for who he pursues. He tries to find out the kid’s motivation, because he’s not about to waste time on someone that’s not a good fit. He pops his go-to question: “Do you always want to be thought of as a football player?” After that, the visit is practically a formality. “In my mind,” he says. “I really feel like if I can get them on the plane, we got a good chance of getting them.”
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what you’ve done thousands of times.” Indeed, Genyk’s biggest contribution has been honing his specialists’ mental strength — helping them think of every motion as routine, regardless of their external environment. From physical presence and posture, to visualization techniques and mental checklists, Genyk leaves no stone unturned. “He’s very energetic,” Anger says. “There’s not many teams in NCAA football that have a special teams coach who knows what he’s talking about. Some people will tell you that you need to be mentally strong, but they don’t give you the tools to do it.” Tavecchio jokes that Genyk “won’t stop at anything.” When it comes to his coach’s pursuit of a football career, the kicker couldn’t have been more right. Four years after arriving at Grand Rapids, Genyk broke through the Division I level as a defensive graduate assistant for Northwestern in 1994. From there, he became director of football operations and started moving up the program’s coaching ladder. Calling him a jack of all trades would be an understatement. Special teams. Linebackers. Running backs. Safeties. Genyk coached them all throughout his tenure with the Wildcats. And during his 12 years on the staff, he never missed an opportunity to learn from college football’s brightest minds, including Gary Barnett, the late Randy Walker, and Kevin Wilson (now the offensive coordinator
at Oklahoma). “I did everything from making great coffee to calling the plays,” Genyk recalls. “I was one of the guys who try not to have anybody beat me to the office. I was just like a sponge, trying to learn as much as possible and being as hard a worker as I could.” That hard work has been shown early dividends at Cal. Heading into last week’s match-up against Washington State, the Bears ranked in the nation’s top 16 in both punting and punt returns. After finishing dead last in 2010, Tavecchio has added seven yards to his kickoff average to rank fourth in the conference this year. enyk’s decoration makes certain that everybody notices and keeps improving. Walk into the locker room and you’ll see a giant points board, filled with names of every special teams member. Anger earned points for his saving tackle on a punt return last Saturday. Tavecchio receives some for every kick-off that clocks four seconds of hang time. “It’s always the first thing you see, the special teams stuff,” Tavecchio says. “That just kind of ingrains in your mind how important this is to win games, to get that ‘W.’ It’s a way to try to incentivize focus on special teams.” He’s already speaking Genyk’s language.
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• 29 of Oregon’s 58 touchdown drives this season have taken five plays or fewer. • After Oregon State (1894), Cal is Oregon’s next oldest rival, beginning the series against one another in 1899. • Oregon has outscored their opposition 87-7 in the fourth quarter this season. • Head coach Chip Kelly is making his mark on Oregon’s record books. The second-year head coach was the first in Pac10 history to win an outright conference title in his first season at the helm and has the Ducks in position to make the National Championship this season. • Oregon has scored no fewer than 42 points in a game this season and is off to a 9-0 start for the first time in 115 years. • Of the Ducks’ top six players in all-purpose yards, four are sophomores and one is a freshman.
Player to Watch Oregon’s dizzying offensive attack is not just unique because of its number of different threats, but its geographic diversety as well. As his astounding numbers indicate, the most feared of the out-of-staters is LaMichael James. The Texarkana, Tex., native has torched defenses all season and is driving Oregon’s multipronged offense. Like several of his teammates, notably Texans Darron Thomas and Josh Huff, James spurned nearby Southern schools to travel up to the Northwest. And how all of them have benefitted from the trip. James and Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton are considered the two favorites for the Heisman Trophy at this point in the season. James is averaging over 166 yards per game for an offense that has scored no fewer than 42 points in four quarters. And don’t worry about fatigue, either. Oregon’s average scoring drive averages fewer than two minutes. Thomas replaced starting quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, who took the Ducks to the 2010 Rose Bowl, and has been dwarfing the stats that Masoli registered last season. While Masoli has had an up-and-down season at Ole Miss because of a contentious expulsion, Thomas could quarterback the Ducks to their first national championship game and third BCS game.
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• Saturday’s meeting with top-ranked Oregon marks the 11th time in school history Cal has faced the nation’s No. 1 team. The Bears, who have never been ranked No. 1 themselves in the modern era, have yet to record a victory over a top-ranked squad. Oregon’s visit to Memorial Stadium marks only the third time in school history Cal has hosted the nation’s best. •
Cal is a perfect 4-0 in Berkeley this season and has dominated opponents by a combined score of 189-34. The Bears have home wins over UC Davis, Colorado, UCLA and Arizona State. • Cal leads the all-time series with Oregon, 39-31-2. Prior to suffering a 42-3 blowout loss to the Ducks in Eugene in 2009 that snapped a three-game Cal win streak in the series, the Bears had dominated the Ducks of late with four victories in the five games played between the squads from 2004-08.
Passing Yards Per Game 261.8
194.4
Rushing Yards Per Game 164.7
359.1
567.2 Total Defense
299.6
329.0
CB: MARC ANTHONY FS: JOSH HILL SS: CHRIS CONTE CB: DARIAN HAGAN
ILB: D.J. HOLT MIKE MOHAMED olB: KEITH BROWNER MYCHAL KENDRICKS
LE: DT: DT: RE:
JAMES BROOKS LAWRENCE GUY SAIA FALAHOLA GREG SMITH
NT
DE
OLB: SHELLY LYONS BRANDON MAGEE
LT LG
FS CB
CB
OLB
MLB
OLB DT
RE
DE
RB QB: STEVEN THREET RB: CAMERON MARSHALL RB: DEANTRE LEWIS
OLB
DT
CB
LE
C RG RT TE
QB
WR
LG
LT TB
RB LG: MATT HUSTAD C: GARTH GERHART RG: ZACH SCHLINK RT: BRICE SCHWAB
RG RT TE WR
QB
WR
WR: AARON PFLUGRAD KERRY TAYLOR TE: TREVOR KOHL LT: EVAN FINKENBERG
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SS
C WR
WR DB DB WR LB WR WR WR DB DB DB DB QB QB WR DB LB QB DB K DB WR LB P TE RB WR LB FB DB RB TB DB RB DB DB LB DB FB RB RB LB LB RB LB LS/LB K DL LB LB LB TE K LB FB LS LB OL OL OL DL DL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL TE WR TE WR WR TE TE DL DL DL DL DL TE DL
CB: OMAR BOLDEN FS: KEELAN JOHNSON SS: CLINT FLOYD CB: LeQUAN LEWIS
MLB: VONTAZE BURFICT
SS ILB
Position Year
Marvin Jones Steve Williams Marc Anthony Coleman Edmond D.J. Holt Jeremy Ross Kaelin Clay Alex Lagemann Michael Coley Alex Logan D.J. Campbell C.J. Moncrease Beau Sweeney Brock Mansion Michael Calvin Sean Cattouse Jarred Price Kevin Riley Bryant Nnabuife Vincenzo D'Amato Chris Conte Quinn Tedford Mike Mohamed Bryan Anger Jarrett Sparks Isi Sofele Keenan Allen Ryan Davis Will Kapp Josh Hill Dasarte Yarnway Trajuan Briggs Vachel Samuels Langston Jackson Darian Hagan Tyler York Mychal Kendricks Tyre Ellison John Tyndall David Aknin Covaughn DeBoskie-Johnson Nick Forbes J.P. Hurrell Shane Vereen Robert Mullins Clark Porter Giorgio Tavecchio Aaron Tipoti Jerome Meadows Steven Fanua David Wilkerson Spencer Ladner David Seawright Keith Browner Eric Stevens Matt Rios Kameron Krebs Justin Gates Donovan Edwards Chris Guarnero Michael Costanzo Keni Kaufusi Brian Schwenke Chris Adcock Ed Johnston Justin Cheadle Dominic Galas Mark Brazinski Sam DeMartinis Mitchell Schwartz Richard Fisher Matt Summers-Gavin Tyler Rigsbee Anthony Miller Ross Bostock Jacob Wark Ian Albrecht Spencer Hagan Garry Graffort Solomona Aigamaua Deandre Coleman Trevor Guyton Ernest Owusu Kendrick Payne Cameron Jordan Savai'i Eselu Gabe King
When Cal Has the Ball
When Arizona State Has the Ball
A Look at Cal
Points Allowed Per Game 17.7 21.3
305.4
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Earlier in the week, Brock Mansion stated that he thinks Cal has the athletes to keep up with Oregon. Sure, he has some very good receiving options, but the athleticism and performance of Shane Vereen could dictate the tempo of this game. Vereen has been Cal’s top offensive threat the whole season, and despite some struggles, has assembled fine numbers through nine games. The Ducks’s run defense has slowed down some excellent running backs, especially in the second half, but Vereen could keep the Ducks’ offense on the sideline for longer if he can find seams and break tackles. Head coach Jeff Tedford emphasized the importance of keeping the score low because of Oregon’s ability to spread the field and tire out the opposing defense. While Mansion will need to succesfully throw the ball to open lanes for Cal’s top option, it is safe to say that any quick 3-and-outs that were so common against USC and Oregon State will doom the Bears early. Cal’s best option of avoiding such a quick deficit is Vereen, though you can bet that Oregon will be looking for the run early in the game. Vereen will need a top performance out of a struggling offensive line if the Bears want to pull the upset.
Total Offense
ILB OLB
No. Name
Points Per Game 30.0 54.7
FS CB
Player to Watch
SIDE
CB WR S WR CB CB WR CB WR LB LB WR LB WR S S CB S WR QB QB DE LB CB S LB RB DB CB SR RB RB PK S LB LB WR DE RB FS P TE LS TE DE LB DL OL LB OL DE LB LS LB OL DL OL OL OL DT OL OL OL OL OL OL OL OL WR WR WR WR TE WR TE TE WR DT DL DE PK DE DE DE/LB P DL
BY SIDE
Deveron Carr Mike Willie Eddie Elder Brandon Smith Omar Bolden Alden Darby Aaron Pflugrad LeQuan Lewis Kerry Taylor Shelly Lyons Vontaze Burfict Kyle Middlebrooks Brandon Magee Gerrell Robinson Clint Floyd Keelan Johnson Samson Szakacsy Matthew Tucker George Bell Steven Threet Brock Osweiler Gregory Smith Oliver Aaron Osahon Irabor Jonathan Clark Colin Parker James Morrison Austin Williams Josh Jordan Max Tabach Deantre Lewis Cameron Marshall Thomas Weber Shane McCullen Derrall Anderson Anthony Jones Jamal Miles James Brooks R.J. Robinson Mike Callaghan Trevor Hankins Ryan Skorupka Cameron Kastl Trevor Kohl Dean DeLeone Gerald Munns Lawrence Guy Garth Gerhart Brandon Johnson Chris De Armas Jamarr Robinson Charles Beatty Thomas Ohmart Eldren Jones Jon Hargis Bo Moos Evan Finkenberg Nick Emanuele Kody Koebensky Corey Adams Trent Marsh Dan Knapp Mike Marcisz Brice Schwab Andrew Sampson Aderious Simmons Adam Tello Kyle Johnson J.J. Holliday Kevin Ozier Randy Knust Jarrid Bryant Max Smith T.J. Simpson Christopher Coyle Steven Figueroa Chike Mbanfeo William Sutton Lee Adams Jamaar Jarrett Parker Flynn Gannon Conway Toa Tuitea Junior Onyeali Lee Williams Joita Te'i
2010 Statistics
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SIDE BY SIDE
No. Name
CAL ROSTER
Saturday, NOVEMBER 13, 2010
QB: KEVIN RILEY FB: WILL KAPP TB: SHANE VEREEN
FB
WR: MARVIN JONES KEENAN ALLEN TE: ANTHONY MILLER LT: MITCHELL SCHWARTZ
LG: BRIAN SCHWENKE C: CHRIS GUARNERO RG: JUSTIN CHEADLE RT: DONOVAN EDWARDS