Here is the opening to my Tuesday column about Cal football coach Sonny Dykes:

SAN FRANCISCO

On Monday, they held the Bay Area College Football Media Day in San Francisco. Sonny Dykes was there. He’s the new coach at Cal. In the Cal handout introducing Dykes you could read, “The Sonny Dykes Era begins in 2013.”

As you well know, there are eras and then there are eras. Cal hopes the Sonny Dykes Era is a good era as opposed to an eerie era.

Cal’s last season was the pits and that put an end to the Jeff Tedford Era, which was a good era until it became a not-so-good era. Dykes was attractive to Cal because he’s an offensive wild man. He coached at Louisiana Tech for three seasons, and in 2012 his Bulldogs led the country in scoring offense with 51.5 points per game. That’s not merely scoring. That’s like watching an overeater stuff his face at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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