In 2013, Sonny Dykes came to the California Golden Bears with a clear vision—build an offense that could overrun the rest of the conference, utilizing a total offense approach that helped bring Louisiana Tech one WAC title and placed them on the verge of another.
Dykes just need to find the right defensive coordinator to ensure that his team would not have to play in constant track meets, but also knew how to recruit California effectively. He found Andy Buh, a one-time hire of Jim Harbaugh at Stanford and also of Nevada. Buh then hired Randy Stewart and Barry Sacks, and had to insert Dykes’s good friend Garret Chachere into the mix.