Golden Nuggets: Sonny Dykes on Cal's Quarterback Competition, Plans for Fall Camp

Sonny Dykes held a teleconference with the media on Monday. Not surprisingly, one of the major topics was the quarterback competition. The coaches would like to name a starter during week one of fall camp, but they recognize it may not happen until week two or three. Here are his thoughts on the QB competition.

Clearly, Dykes wishes he had a No. 1 headed into the summer. He wasn’t so clear about whether having three players competing for the job is a bad thing.

"I kind of believe in the old adage that if you have two quarterbacks, really means you don’t have any. So if you have three that means you really don’t have any," he said. "We’ll see how it plays out.

"I hope one of them ends up being really, really good and playing good, and the others continue to get better and better, and we have a quarterback competition that plays out from year to year. That’s what you’d like to have.

"Whoever the starter is, you’d like to have the backup right at his heels, constantly nipping and fighting and battling and never letting the starter get too settled."

Prodded further to explain those remarks, Dykes condeded it may not be immediate smooth sailing for the new man.

"I think whoever the starter is is going to go through some growing pains. They’ve never started a college football game," he said. "But when you sit down and say what makes a good college quarterback, the guys certainly possess the qualities.

"It’s going to be up to us to bring out the best in them, put them in situations to be successful. It’s going to be up to them to play well and take the job over and be a great leader. I think all three of these guys have what it takes."

Football

• Sonny Dykes talks a bit about his recruiting plans for 2014. He wants to sign two running backs and five defensive backs.

Basketball

• Roger Moute a Bidias has committed to the Bears as the fifth commitment of the 2013 class. The three-star prospect is the brother of the Milwaukee Bucks' Luc Richard Mbah a Moute.

Golf

• The top-ranked Bears earned the #1 seed at the NCAA Regional in Pullman, WA.
• Michael Kim won the team MVP award at the team's annual banquet.
• Cal pulled off another historic feat: Cal became the first team ever to sweep the Pac-12 Player of the Month awards after Max Homa won in April.
• In addition to his many honors in the past week, Max Homa was named the Muscle Milk Student Athlete of the Week.
• The women's team earned a trip the NCAA West Regional. Unfortunately this means they must visit a certain unmentionable campus in Palo Alto.

Track and Field

• Jaci Powell finished 4th at the Pac-12 Heptathlon, the highest finish from a Bear since 2005.

Softball

• Darkness prevailed as Stanford swept the Bears with a 7-5 win on Sunday.

Baseball

• Cal notched more hits than the Beavers but fell 4-6 to no. 5 OSU.

Gymnastics

• The women's team held its annual awards banquet on Saturday.