by Morris Phillips

BERKELEY–Cal Bears assistant football coach Pierre Ingram who admitted fault in his recent arrest on April 16th in a prostitution ring to solicitation and lewd acts will be evaluated by the Cal program his contract ends on April 30th and he will have to pay back his signing bonus of $20,000 if he is fired by the team before April 30th. Ingram accepted full responsibility when his lawyer Darryl Stallworth said, “he is embarrassed and remorseful to have brought this type of attention to his family and the school. He is deeply apologetic and seeking counseling. Right now he is asking for his family’s privacy.”

It’s hard to tell how this is all going to play out, Ingram has been suspended and put on administrative leave indefinitely for the arrest he’s the recruiting coordinator currently at the football program. Ingram has recruited in the year long process at Cal and this no doubt will impact recruiting and they’ll have to put different people in now so they can continue to recruit new students into the program.

More than anything it’s depressing news for the Cal football program that’s desperate for good news, their desperate to make inroads on the football field, sad news for Ingram’s family he’s got kids and all of that. He was not around for the spring game at Cal on Saturday he was suspended prior to that.

You can’t make a definitive statement right now how this will impact the program but it’s not good news for the program that’s looking to have as much good news as it can. For Cal head coach Sonny Dykes he brought Ingram to Berkeley as they worked together in 2013, Ingram was the offensive coordinator there.

Dykes would want his guy who was at Louisiana Tech with him for three years and has been three years at Cal and was promoted within the staff a couple times. You would expect that’s the guy you would be able to trust that you could believe in and somebody who can really get the work done and this really takes all that away.

Morris Phillips discusses the arrest of Cal assistant coach Pierre Ingram and Cal’s recent spring game last Saturday on his podcast today at http://www.sportsradioservice.com please listen below