Justin Wilcox doesn’t want to be positioned as a hero.
Even as he begins helming the football team of the nation’s most debt-ridden athletics department — the program that Cal Athletics desperately hopes can scrounge up enough money to help end the financial disaster — Wilcox wants the attention to be on everyone else. He even refused to have a photoshoot centered on him accompany this story.
No, Wilcox, who comes to Cal after years as an acclaimed defensive coordinator, is more concerned with espousing the ever-important cliches desired of a new head coach. Who can blame him?