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Dykes had a worse winning percentage at Cal (.388) than his predecessor (Tedford, .590) or his successor (Wilcox, .491).  In fact, other than the hapless Tom Holme, you have to go back to Joe Kapp to find a coach with a worse winning percentage.  Before that, it is Marc Levy in the 1960's.

In his four years, his defensive FEIs were: 99th, 105th, 79th, 115th

Offense was fine, with an FEI that peaked at 12th in 2015, but the air raid style left his crappy defense in a vulnerable spot.

BC

This is misleading because Dykes got fired while still building. There's no way of knowing what he would have done in his fifth year. Cal got impatient and didn't find out. What he's done everywhere else shows what kind of coach he is. Cal is like UNLV: blaming the coach for the program itself sucking. Marcus Arroyo just got fired and a 7-23 record seems AWFUL. But just looking at it in that lens leads to dubious conclusions. You also have to consider program strength/fundamentals and trajectory. Arroyo got fired after major improvement each year. Dykes got fired after two years that were better than the two prior to those.  I'm not saying Cal's regression from Dykes penultimate to ultimate year was good or that it was indefensible for Cal to fire him, but everything subsequently in the Cal program has showed Dykes wasn't the problem and everything subsequently in Dykes' career suggests he's a very good coach.

I can't believe we're actually arguing this. Sonny Dykes has TCU 12-0. 12-0! They hadn't won more than seven games in any of the previous four years. He's going to win national coach of the year. But he's the problem. People, Cal sucks.

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Dykes had a worse winning percentage at Cal (.388) than his predecessor (Tedford, .590) or his successor (Wilcox, .491).  In fact, other than the hapless Tom Holme, you have to go back to Joe Kapp to find a coach with a worse winning percentage.  Before that, it is Marc Levy in the 1960's.

In his four years, his defensive FEIs were: 99th, 105th, 79th, 115th

Offense was fine, with an FEI that peaked at 12th in 2015, but the air raid style left his crappy defense in a vulnerable spot.

BC

This is misleading because Dykes got fired while still building. There's no way of knowing what he would have done in his fifth year. Cal got impatient and didn't find out. What he's done everywhere else shows what kind of coach he is. Cal is like UNLV: blaming the coach for the program itself sucking. Marcus Arroyo just got fired and a 7-23 record seems AWFUL. But just looking at it in that lens leads to dubious conclusions. You also have to consider program strength/fundamentals and trajectory. Arroyo got fired after major improvement each year. Dykes got fired after two years that were better than the two prior to those.  I'm not saying Cal's regression from Dykes penultimate to ultimate year was good or that it was indefensible for Cal to fire him, but everything subsequently in the Cal program has showed Dykes wasn't the problem and everything subsequently in Dykes' career suggests he's a very good coach.

I can't believe we're actually arguing this. Sonny Dykes has TCU 12-0. 12-0! They hadn't won more than seven games in any of the previous four years. He's going to win national coach of the year. But he's the problem. People, Cal sucks.