California head football coach Justin Wilcox waves at the end of a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. California officially introduced Wilcox, hoping the long-time defensive coordinator can help revive the struggling program. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Newly hired head coach Justin Wilcox is someone that the University of California at Berkeley is looking forward to. We in the press look forward to see what it will be like to work with Wilcox. Right now it’ll be a process and right now it doesn’t look like he’ll be able to put the Bears into a New Year’s Day bowl situation in his first year as head coach. He will put that program on some solid footing defensively.

Wilcox will be working to get Cal out of the 125th place in defense in the country and if he’s willing to work to get that defense up 30 spots a year you got something going. If you can move them up so they can be a top ten defensive in three years which is what recruiting show be able to do then you’ve got something to nibble on there. There’s no reason Cal can’t have a good defensive team their two previous coaches have been offense designers and now the Bears have to build with Wilcox a defensive designed team.

Michael Duca does the Cal Bears podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com