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If Cal coach Sonny Dykes believes Northwestern defenders were faking accidents in the second half of Saturday night time’s sport to slow down his offense, he wasn’t prepared to say so postgame, but he got here close.
Northwestern beat Cal forty four-30 in a recreation that featured Cal running ninety nine offensive plays in its up-tempo offense.
At instances, Dykes appeared visibly frustrated on the sidelines as Northwestern players had been tended to on the field by the Northwestern medical staff.
“It affected it a lot,” Dykes stated of how the rash of Northwestern accidents affected his offense. “It was just unusual. It appeared like each time we got a first down they had an damage. I hadn’t seen that, wasn’t expecting to see that, was dissatisfied that I noticed that. But that’s the way it goes typically.”
A reporter advised that Cal fans within the stands appeared to imagine Northwestern was faking accidents and asked the first-yr Cal coach if he believed that was true.
“It’s most likely better that I don’t say,” Dykes said.
That in all probability won’t go over well with Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald who bristled on the notion his gamers had been faking accidents to slow down the Bears.
“If anyone have been to query the integrity of myself, our program or our gamers, I question theirs,” Fitzgerald advised the Chicago Solar-Times. “So that’s all I say. Our guys get dinged up. They get dinged up, they’re instructed to go down. You’ve by no means walked in and heard me say that ever, have you? I have a tough time with that. But if our guys get dinged up, they’re instructed to go down not hobble of to the sideline.”
Dykes didn’t make an enormous deal out of the state of affairs and gave Northwestern loads of credit in his postgame comments. He did not deal with the subject till he was asked about it 7 minutes into his press conference.
Meanwhile, Cal followers shared their disapproval on Twitter.
The odd factor about all this is that Cal, underneath former coach Jeff Tedford, was accused of doing the same factor three years in the past in a low-scoring sport towards Oregon.
Did Northwestern fake injuries at Cal? Sonny Dykes takes the high road
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