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Wilcox and Thoughts on the New Defensive Staff
Bob Gregory is Petersen's assistant head coach. He was the DC at Cal when Wilcox was his LB coach. Tosh also played and coached under Gregory. Just a guess, but I think Wilcox and Tosh will be on the new staff. Gregory will replace Sirmon. Lake (good resume with NFL experience) replaces Heyward. I know some of you are underwhelmed by Tosh's DL, but I actually think they got better as the season went on, and he is a very good recruiter. I would be happy with this defensive staff.
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Tosh will have more firepower recruiting now too, he will be big asset if we can hold onto him.
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Peterson has some nice assistants. I'm guessing he brings his DC and Wilcox parts ways with UW. Lupoi could stay on which is fine even though I think his recruiting at UW will never measure up to the legend he formed at Cal. I also like what I've read about the secondary, RB and OL coaches at Boise.
The big thing about hiring Peterson is that it mostly quelled any reasons for concern about the assistants. He has a pool to hire from and has a fat check book to work with.
Cal's defense was 1st in the conference the last two years Tosh was there and it was because of the DL. I'm not convinced he's a great DL coach yet but he is definitely a great recruiter. In his limited time he's gotten excellent results. There is talent in the DL pipeline with Qualls, Mathis and Farria.
If they can retain Tosh and hire a similar guy for WR or RBs (an aggressive recruiter who can close) then it will be a fantastic complement to Wilcox & Peterson who are primarily about coaching.
I seriously would start going full doog and predicting a pac-12 north win.