Cal Football 2021 Opponent Preview: Game 4 Pac-12 Opener at Washington
How much will the injury to standout OLB Zion Tupuola-Fetui hurt the Huskies Pac-12 title chances?
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GAME 4: CAL AT WASHINGTON
Date: Saturday, Sept.25
Washington 2020 record: 3-1 overall, 3-1/first in Pac-12 North. The Huskies had the best record in the North based on winning percentage, but did not play in the Pac-12 championship game because positive COVID-19 tests within the program prevented the Huskies from having the minimum number of players available.
Series record: Washington leads the series 54-41-4.
Cal beat the Huskies in their most recent meeting, 20-19, in 2019 in Seattle. The teams were scheduled to meet last season in Berkeley on Nov. 7, 2020, but the game was canceled because of COVID-19 contact-tracing issues within the Cal program. This year s meeting will be the Pac-12 opener for both teams.
Cal Football: Tre Watson s `Faith Journey Lands Him as Bears Defensive Backs Coach
Former Walk-On at Washington Has Never Stopped Believing in Himself
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Mar 17, 2021
In the latest chapter of what he calls his “faith journey,” Tre Watson finds himself as the new defensive backs coach at Cal. It’s not where he ever expected to be.
“He has a tremendous story,” said Cal outside linebackers coach Keith Heyward.
That story was fueled by work ethic and self belief and propelled Watson from under-recruited high school star to walk-on at Washington to two-year starter in the Huskies’ defensive backfield.
The Huskies’ coaching roster in 2012 and ’13 included three key members of Cal’s current staff: head coach Justin Wilcox (UW defensive coordinator), defensive coordinator Peter Sirmon (linebackers) and Heyward (defensive backs), who talks about Watson in the video below:
Mar 5, 2021
Justin Wilcox completed his Cal football coaching staff by hiring UNLV assistant Tre Watson as the Bears new defensive backs coach, Cal announced Friday.
Watson will replace Marcel Yates, who left Cal to become the defensive backs coach at Oregon. Tre is one the nation s top young coaches and rising fast in our profession, Wilcox said in a statement provided by Cal. He brings a high level of energy and enthusiasm to the table. Tre has always impressed me with his work ethic, knowledge of the game and tremendous attitude ever since we coached him at Washington. He developed an excellent rapport with the student-athletes he worked with at Oregon and UNLV over the last three seasons, and he took advantage of a great opportunity he had to work closely with coach Heyward at Oregon. That helped him lay an excellent foundation for his coaching career.
Cal Football: Keith Heyward Happy to Be Here, and the Bears Are Happy to Have Him
Cal s new outside linebackers coach has twice before worked with Justin Wilcox
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Feb 8, 2021
On a Zoom call with reporters last week, new Cal outside linebackers coach Keith Heyward was facetiously asked whether he’d just be swapping houses with former Cal defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter.
After all, the two have exchanged work addresses Heyward coming to Berkeley from Oregon, DeRuyter moving to Eugene from Cal.
Heyward said finding a house is not part of his job description.
“My wife, Cameo, she’s the boss of he house. I just go there to sleep,” said Heyward, who has two school-age daughters, Kendyl and Kamryn. “(Cameo) will do all the arranging, picking where we will live and what school the girls go to and so forth.”
Another Sirmon Quarterback Throws His Name into the UW Mix
Jacob Sirmon s cousin becomes a preferred walk-on for the Huskies five weeks after his relative transferred out.
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Camden Sirmon badly wants to play quarterback for the University of Washington.
So much that he moved from Washington state to Montana to finish his high school football career.
That he de-committed from walking on at the University of Montana.
That he ignored the fact his cousin, Jacob, left the program five weeks earlier and transferred to Central Michigan.
Camden Sirmon announced on Thursday that he will join the UW as a preferred walk-on and make everything happen.