Coach Nicholas Edwards to join the Cal Poly staff

Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty ImagesWe’ve got just the most shocking shocker to ever shock the California Golden Bears: Coach Nicholas Edwards will go and follow Beau.

(For some other Cal and Pac-12 connections, his other hires include Paul Wulff [the former Washington State Cougars head coach] and Casey Petree [who spent time as a graduate assistant at California under Dykes and Wilcox and in quality control back with Dykes and the SMU Mustangs].)

Edwards joined the Cal coaching staff in 2017 for Justin Wilcox’s first year; he spent the first two seasons coaching receivers, while 2019 was his first year coaching a different group—running backs.

Edwards has been working with Beau Baldwin since…