We have gone from 1 to 5 to 6 wins (and counting) and are now bowl-eligible for the first time since 2011.
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Dykes is the son of Spike Dykes, who retired as Texas Tech’s all-time wins leader in 1999.
Yahoo Sports is reporting the Cal football coach Sonny Dykes is interviewing Tuesday in Denver with the University of Missouri, where he would replace longtime coach Gary Pinkel.
Rhoades also has a history with Dykes, dating back to his days at Houston. He won 10 games last season despite using four quarterbacks because of injuries.
But Missouri is coming off a tumultuous season in which more than 30 African American football players boycotted practices and threatened to sit out a game pending the resignation of school president Tim Wolfe, whose reaction to several racial incidents on campus was considered inadequate by some students.
Cal athletic director Michael Williams did not take over the full-time job until last spring and did not hire Dykes, who was brought on during Sandy Barbour’s tenure as athletic director.
Dykes and Williams have refuted media reports this fall that there is an uneasy relationship between them. He has two years left on his five-year contract. According to a USA Today survey, Dykes is the lowest-paid coach in the Pac-12 at approximately $2 million a year.
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Dykes has led an academic turnaround with the football program after Tedford’s final teams scored among the nation’s worst by the NCAA’s graduation figures and Academic Progress Rate. As were Air Force Academy’s Try Calhoun, Utah State’s Matt Wells and on Tuesday, California coach Sonny Dykes. While there is an extension which has been offered by the school, Dykes has yet to agree. Only Stanford among Pac-12 schools has an admissions standard that stringent. Finally, current Missouri defensive coordinator Barry Odom is in the running for Mizzou’s head coaching job.
