After participating in spring football with California, senior linebacker Hardy Nickerson, Jr., has announced that he will graduate from Berkeley this spring, and then transfer as a graduate student to Illinois, to join his father, Hardy Nickerson, Sr., who was named the Illini's defensive coordinator on March 14.
Nickerson, Jr., did not play in the spring game, though he was suited up.
Nickerson, Sr., who coached linebackers on Lovie Smith's staff with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was formerly Hardy, Jr.'s coach while at Oakland (Calif.) Bishop O'Dowd. Nickerson, Sr.