Saw this on sfgate.com . Story about Gould and his influence on Bryce Love and several of the Cal backs. Glad to see him doing well at Stanford and getting recognition for being a really good guy, and running back coach
Love's a great talent, and Gould is an elevator. Great year for them both, too bad former Aggie coach Gary Patterson got the best of them. Love looked beat up, long year.
Gould as great recruiter is based largely on players that didn’t stick around. If he could recruit any position you would think it would be running backs and who did he leave us with? Justin Williams and Mitchell Layton. I like what Justin gave us but he wasn’t a talent beyond what we usually have had.
Tehran Thomas was a Gould product I believe.
He could be quite the RB. Did you see the Sac game, where he took a lateral or pass in the backfield, and went 90 yards out running the Sac DBs? And, then later, he runs over guys and gets extra yards. Also, after he went 90 yards outrunning the DBs, the Sac announcers say something like he is a big bruising back without exceptional speed. Umm, was he watching the game?
He landed Josh Kelley. Would have been a stud at the FCS level. Never got a chance to shine before he transferred to UCLA when Gould got fired.
@ Davis
2015: 5 yards per carry as a true frosh (530 yds)
2016: 7 yards per carry as a soph (609 yds) (Luuga 1,077 yds- 5 yds per carry)
Was on the short side of a platoon (well, actually RB 2) with Luuga. IMO Kelley was the premium RB of the 2. I guess we'll never understand why Luuga was used more- perhaps it was purely class status.
I would like to think Kelley would have gone for 2,000 in 2016.....and who knows last year with our passing attack to balance.