Folsom QB Austin Mack commits to Washington.

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Big 6-foot-5 Snow College (Ephraim, Utah) receiver Marquis Montgomery is visiting Cal this weekend. The high three-star prospect recently included the Bears on his top 5 list over the weekend along with Oregon, Penn State, LSU and Texas A&M. Cal has been active in his recruitment as of late including having Burl Toler out for an in-home visit with him last week. USF stopped by last week and Arizona made a stop at the school yesterday.

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Miami didn’t look all that hot, especially in terms of QB usage and innovation. Any chance we might be alive here if we can get some more NIL stuff going?

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I didn't notice any major changes, but I'm sure those of you more clued in can chime in.

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Looks like two commits!

Cal had two main visitors:

JUCO OL Martin Tine (East Los Angeles College)

JUCO WR Marquis Montgomery (Snow College in Utah)

There were also two unofficial visitors:

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Cal has announced its start and end dates for spring football practice this year. The Bears will open up spring ball on March 11 and end it exactly five weeks later on April 15 with the annual Cal Football Spring Showcase. It's all free to attend and is expected to be open to the public.

Judea Milon is a 6-foot-3, 275-pound JUCO OL from Tyler JC in Texas. He committed to Memphis at the start of December. I don't know much more about him just yet.
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Aside from Milon, RB signee Jaivian Thomas is also visiting this weekend. That's all I have as of now.

I'm late, acknowledged. I just couldn't get into a writing rhythm yesterday. It happens sometimes. No excuses offered, and no, I don't want to set that tone for 2023. Took me longer to recover from all the travel than I thought, and here we are -- I hope this will prove worth the wait. It's a combination feature on Mike Bloesch and also Bloesch/Spavital's thoughts on what they have and need to do with the OL.

Max Homa about to win the Farmers Open in San Diego. Collin Morikawa will finish third. Go Bears!

All I have is a photo of him at Boise State -- Cal's sports information dept said it could get me something. So that's the wait for now -- story is done and saved. I started with Plough, will do Bloesch tomorrow. Have at least four coming. I fly back from Hawaii on a red eye tonight, driving around the island the rest of the day to check out the sights. As soon as photo comes in I'll post story.

No more red eye flights ever. ... Got back home yesterday at 9:30 am having essentially been up all night and jet lagged, and obviously didn't get any work done. Mostly slept.

We're back to normal, it's great to be home and rested. I'm working on Bloesch as we speak, plus recruiting stuff.

I'm curious why some highly rated HS players are offered. I've seen a lot of offers from Cal to different players the last week or so, and I realize that they always offer more players then they will realistically get to commit. But some HS stars have 20 to 30 power 5 offers, from the Big 10 and the SEC. The kid sets a date to narrow the list to 8, say, and after he has done so, I'll see a Cal offer to the kid. Do they talk to the kid and get a sense that Cal realistically has a shot? Or do they just have a big board with talented kids (maybe with decent gpa's) and throw offers at them hoping they get lucky? Seems like some of these offers have no chance of being accepted.

This article by Jon Wilner is fascinating. It seems that Cal athletics survives only thanks to the generosity of the University and Chancellor Christ. That may explain why the University/Carol has so much input in the decisions that are made by Cal's Athletic Department, as its major "investor".

As expected Cal is loosing. Down 60-38 with under 4 remaining. No excuse to get blown out at home to a team with only 1 conference win. Just looking forward to Fox getting fired as this point.

Askew is back but rusty. No Alajiki or Clayton. Not like it matters much as this point.

I have two interviews today that should produce compelling stories later in the week ...

Also, I have an interview with Tiu Afalava from Hawaii that I'll get posted by end of today. Hoping to get some more video of him today -- the DL did very minimal full-speed work yesterday here at the Polynesian Bowl.

Canzano has some details ...

Cal opens Pac-12 play Sept. 23 at Washington

The Big Game will be Nov. 18

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Was hoping to add more, but the last two days were largely install and walkthroughs.

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Dallas-area junior defensive lineman Caleb Mitchell Irving was offered by Cal last night, and the coveted 2024 prospect is already set up to visit the Bears in March for the team's big junior day. It will be his first visit of the new year since he doesn't plan on taking any trips this month. There's a dead period all of February, so Cal will be the first one to leave an impression on him before he makes a string of visits in March and then later near the summer.

He's intrigued by the pitch from the Bears right now and his building a solid relationship with Andrew Browning.

"So far he seems like a pretty well-rounded, down-to-earth guy," Irving said of his lead recruiter. "I like a coach who has a player's back, and he definitely seems like a coach who will have each one of his players' back. He just likes to talk ball, which is really cool.

"He's real big on the little things. That's what I really like about him."

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Starting momentarily on Pac-12 Network. Oregon has been really hit or miss this year.

Too many moving parts for me to keep track of…what does our LB room look like now?

Devin Askew remains out.

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Today was Day 1 of practice at the Polynesian Bowl in Hawaii. Defensive line signee Tiu Afalava is representing Cal at the event, and he had a solid showing on the first day. You can see clips of some of his 1v1 reps in the video above.

The latest intel is that Cal and Northwestern look to be the favorites for Boise State QB transfer Hank Bachmeier, with Stanford still on the radar.

We're trying to connect with Bachmeier for more, but that's what we're hearing as of now.