AP photo: University of Hawaii head coach Nick Rolovic (left) and Cal Bears head coach Sonny Dykes (right) receive souvenir surf boards from their hosts in Sydney Australia

On the Cal Bears podcast with Miguel the Bears are opening the season in Australia in talking with Bears SID Kyle McCrae about how stats were going to be done in Sydney there was that remote possibility that our author Michael Duca would have to go out and cover that game for ESPN. ESPN decided to do it with what is called remote integration where their going to do a lot of it from Bristol Conn the ESPN headquarters.

McCrae had that look about how he had to get a stats system to Australia and how he was going to take his staff over there it turns out to be quite the logistical nightmare to ship a set of goal posts over to Australia because there’s no NCAA regulation goal posts in Australia that are three feet wider than the NFL goal posts. The University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Cal Bears kick off at 7:00PM PDT on Friday night