Rumors No Longer Abound
It’s all confirmed now.
*Littlejohn and Ferrigno were released from their position coaching duties.
*Delgado left to take a job at Louisville.
*Coach Daft will now coach the WRs.
*Former Graduate assistant Tosh Lupoi has been promoted and will now coach the DL.
*Frank Cignetti (the 49ers QB Coach last season) will become Tedford’s offensive coordinator.
*Al Simmons will become the new Cal DB Coach.
I would provide some thoughts and analysis but I’m not familiar with Cignetti or Simmons. The BearInsider did a great job conjuring up information. You can read their article here.
The only thing I can add is regarding Tosh Lupoi. I find it no coincidence that Lupoi was promoted to DL coach. He’s been working with Delgado on coaching the DL for the past two years. I never really thought much of seeing Lupoi work with Delgado. I guess I just thought Lupoi was apprenticing. Which of course, he was. But I never really thought one day he’d become Cal’s DL Coach. But after hearing that Delgado had left the team, Lupio seemed like a reasonable in-house hire if Tedford wasn’t going to bring in someone else from outside. And now that it’s confirmed that Lupoi is the new DL coach and I reflect upon my memories, it almost seems like Delgado was grooming Lupoi to be the next in line. Delgado would often let Lupoi assist in certain drills during practices. For example, Lupoi would often put on some foam arm pads and pretend to be an offensive lineman for the DL guys to bypass after hitting the sleds. In other situations, he’d use a deflated football and imitate QB snap counts to try draw the DL off the line. And during 11 on 11s, Lupoi would also assist on monitoring substitutions and signaling in the play to the DL. I suppose what Lupoi was doing was no different from anything else that other graduate assistants would do. Afterall, they have to do something to learn. But Delgado seemed to allow Lupoi to be very hands on and not just an observer.
Come clean, Hydrotech!
What exactly did you do for the Cal Golden Bears? Were you a coach? A GA? A water boy/girl? Are you secretly Sandy Barbour in disguise?
Please give us some full disclosure!
Comment by Mo Rocca — January 7, 2008 @ 5:17 am
Mo Rocca, I’d like to keep some of my anonymity. But I will admit that I am not a coach or a GA. I’m just a huge Cal Football fan just like everyone else who probably reads this blog.
Comment by HydroTech — January 7, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
Must have been fun reading about what Tedford said about your Trent Dilfer as OC rumor!
Comment by Patrick — January 7, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
Patrick, the Dilfer rumor was not my rumor. It was something I had heard and which came from the same source which reported the Littlejohn and Ferrigno firings.
Comment by HydroTech — January 7, 2008 @ 9:18 pm
Hey Mo Rocca - the only thing u need to know about HyrdoTech is this: http://chucknorrisfacts.com/ - replace “Chuck Norris” with “HyrdoTech”. One heck of a blogger - happy I randomly came across his stuff.
Comment by MysteryFriend — January 8, 2008 @ 8:59 pm
Isn’t it obvious? ***HYDRO***tech. He was a waterboy. Or is Mo Rocca just kidding?
Comment by nikhil — January 8, 2008 @ 11:02 pm
Coaching…Overhaul?
(I’m in the process of moving out, so my posting will be sporadic for at least the next week or two. Since it’s the offseason now, there will be plenty of spare time.)
A few weeks ago, I said the following.
Wide receivers: Dan Ferrigno has …
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