The use of y’all from a guy who spent much of. his career in Northern California, upstate New York, and Wisconsin was kind of unexpected.
Seems like a good guy, it will be interesting to see how he does.

understood. Really at the recruiting stage the teams interested is more meaningful than the rating but even that doesn’t correlate with what their career turns out to be.

Ernesto Nava, was on Azusa Pacific roster 2020., so he’s one of several now with us.

Where did Andre Crump get rated as three stars? 247sports said he walked on there with no stars

https://247sports.com/Player/Andre-Crump-46058949/

That’s definitely an argument for it, but the usual approach for teams that can’t recruit big linemen out of high school is to draft kids whose frame can carry the weight and then they add mass through weight training. Teams that follow that approach kick our butt. Our linemen are light and short for a passing team. Guys can be big and lean but they need to be big.

How big the guys holding down the bench are only matters to guys building the bench.

We have offensive linemen who stay the same or get lighter as time goes by. I think it’s a preference as the trend is so definite , but it is definitely unusual. Connor Petteck went from 305 lbs as a freshmen to 280.Jake Parks went from 290 to 285.
The only player that played much that added significant weight was Colton Lamson, who went from 235 to 296. All the above weight changes are over multiple years.

Statistics as a whole don’t look good, probably because of the way they finished the season.
For the season our opponents beat us in rushing yards, average per rush, passing yards, yards per attempt, threw fewer interceptions and more first downs by penalty.
We need to replace guys who caught 103 passes, and our leading rusher.

I think the extended eligibility is misleading, and should not be counted on in the case of players who are making regular progress to a degree. An exception to that might be a JC or other transfer who still has three years of eligibility. He’ll probably still be around because it’s hard to graduate in two years after transferring as units don’t match up in most cases so staying an extra quarter is natural. There are some of those guys because JC players also got additional eligibility for 2020 and may still have three years of eligibility after playing for two years.
Maybe we’ll see some FCS transfers, but when have we ever had one that played?
FBS transfers will likely stay within FBS, as they no longer need to sit out.. As a consequence we’re less likely to get one than in years past.
I think transfers will look at our team as being in a rebuilding year. We don’t have a settled QBs, we don’t have a returning top running back, we are graduating key receivers, other key players are transferring, we lost our last three games, so I don’t think we’ll get the graduate transfer who is looking to step into a winner. We shouldn’t be looking for that guy either, we need to get good young players who will be here for a while.

If they don’t add some quality freshmen they are going to be looking at a major rebuilding effort in a year or two when all the guys who’ve already spent 3 or four years with the program are gone. I don’t think many players are going to hang around for six years regardless of eligibility especially if team isn’t doing well. Gilliam and Perryman illustrate that. The class of 2021 didn’t show much and wasn’t that big of a class. Even some of our redshirt freshmen from last year may start to graduate after one more academic year.
Adding upper classmen transfers won’t balance the roster, need new freshmen every year.

Tysean White’s eligibility illustrates the importance of picking the right school if you want to have much of a playing career.
He’s played a season at Navy’s prep team, a season with Navy and no stats, and fragments of three games for us. Seems unfair that he has only one year of eligibility left considering some guys play more than fifty games.

Sure, a second string guy at Cal would be a great pickup for us, but what would motivate him to transfer here ?
Castles is an outlier, like Lekkerkerker from UCLA twenty years ago they came here for academic or quality of life issues. Two starters from UC transfers in twenty years are fairly rare. I don’t see that suddenly changing because we didn’t sign many high school guys. Point being we will occasionally get an impact transfer but can’t count on it and the incentives are less than they were in years prior for those guys to come here.

More typical transfers for us are the QB from Boise, the running back from Fresno that were just distractions here. And we had the Nevada wide reciever who now only runs track, the former walk-on at Oregon State or UCLA that are backups for us, a QB from Georgetown who never played, a offensive tackle from Cornel that redshirted there and didn’t get on the field for us, a linebacker from Navy who never played for Navy but just their prep school. I’m sure we’ll continue to get those kind of transfers.

Castles was a very highly regarded recruit who wasn’t happy at Cal, reportedly mostly for non football reasons. We get very few guys who transfer for quality of life reasons. Berkeley not to everyone’s tastes. Would he have transferred here if he could have transferred to another FBS school without sitting out a year? Maybe, but there are certainly a lot of small town schools he could have chosen from.
I guess I’ll clarify my reference to impact as meaning at our level. Of course the incentives for someone who is an impact player in FBS to transfer to FCS are few. We only get a player who transfers down and makes an impact here once a decade or so.

I agree this isn’t a major impact recruit but he does have a record of some long plays and some speed. We do lose two starting receivers so maybe this will be a good pickup.
San Jose’s football stats seem unavailable so I don’t know what he did that’s not in his bio. I don’t know what he means by “all money in” but maybe he got a scholarship with us. Don’t know that he had one at SJSU
If we pick up one FBS transfer who makes an impact, I.e. not a former walk-on who never plays, that will unexpected to me. I think the odds of getting an FBS transfer are lower than in the past. Maybe we’ll get an FCS transfer, although we have no history of that except for guys who didn’t earn playing time after they got here.

South Dakota State, that team with the reported advantage over us in scholarships due to COVID exemption rules signed 14 for the December signing day.
So we have some catching up to do, if we plan to compete.

I may be wrong but I don’t see the transfer changes helping us much attracting transfers. Rule changes eliminated the advantage FCS schools had as transfer destinations for FBS players wanting to play immediately. The rules make it easier for someone to transfer from an FCS school but no difference for FBS transfers moving down, because they didn’t have to sit out before. . Those guys can now go to another FBS school and play right away. On the other hand our players can go to FBS and play right away now. So net result is we’ll lose more transfers and gain fewer over the long term. We’ve hardly ever had a player transfer from another FCS program and make an impact.

According to the huddle stats, he’s reasonably fast, not so much in the 40 as the 100. His bench press is pretty pathetic as listed, might be a typo. Pretty good vertical.
The bar is very high to get a scholarship.

Just for clarity I’m not talking about coaches not having played at all, but rather if they are position coaches did they play the position they coach.

Maybe those are school years and not seasons, one year at each place. It’s actually Victor Valley College..

I fear we have too many inexperienced coaches, some of whom have not had a lot of success as players at the position they coach. Maybe that doesn’t matter, maybe anyone can coach anything if they’ve been around the subject. Kind of like your math teacher doesn’t really need to be any good solving problems if she can present the lesson plan.
However, I think playing gives insight into subtleties about individual skills that might help the position players.

I hope they get an experienced receivers coach as a replacement. The program has replaced several departed experienced coaches with guys new to the role or new to this level of football.
Arceneaux was one of the more experienced recent hires.
We haven’t seen much productivity from young receivers aside from CJ Hutton, and maybe he was just ready to play. Some receivers who haven’t played much thus far are going to have to fill Vaughn and Harrell’s shoes.