staying the course: Safety Chris Conte nearly transferred when his career hit a snag. page 3

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Cal Looks to Bounce Back After Crushing Loss at USC

Last Saturday, the Cal football team walked dejectedly out of the tunnel of the L.A. Coliseum, its 48-14 loss to USC still fresh and raw.

Walking with the Bears were the Trojans, bath-ing in the cheers of their home crowd. One team had just erased the memory of its first losing streak in 10 years. The other, still trying futilely to forget the worst halftime deficit in school history.

Heading into Saturday’s game against Arizona State, Cal (3-3, 1-2 in the Pac-10) is threatening to finish with the lowest mark of coach Jeff Tedford’s tenure.

The Pac-10 is now arguably the top conference in the country, and a stiff upcoming schedule pro-vides little room for error. As the Bears step back into Memorial Stadium this weekend, most will likely sense the urgency.

“Yeah, I feel that way,” senior safety Chris Conte said. “Every game in the Pac-10’s rough and it can kind of go either way. There’s no guaranteed wins. We’re not going to have another game where we blow a team out like UC Davis or Colorado ... Every game’s going to be rough.”

The Bears totaled an astounding 104-10 point differential through those first two home games, romping over the hapless Aggies and Buffaloes to raise the hopes for a little-hyped season.

It’s been quite a turnaround since then.Cal’s conference-best defense was violated by

the Trojans. Quarterback Matt Barkley gave a Heisman-worthy performance, throwing five touchdowns in the first half to tie a program record. USC totaled an all-too-easy 602 offensive yards that day — the most given up by a Bears squad since 2001.

“That wasn’t who feel like we are ... I would say that’s a bad game that we had,” said Conte, who

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logged a career-high 16 tackles against the Trojans. “It really was just a combination of various things that kind of built up and amounted to, overall, just not a good performance.

“We can’t let that get to us and really have to bounce back and respond and say, ‘That’s not us,’ and know that’s not us.”

Within the friendlier confines of Strawberry Canyon, the Bears will have ample opportunity to prove it.

The Sun Devils (3-3, 1-2) have exceeded pre-season expectations, but have suffered through heartbreaking losses of their own. They dropped three straight by a total of 15 points — including losses to No. 10 Wisconsin and top-ranked Oregon — before mustering a 24-14 win over Washington two weeks ago.

Newly hired coordinator Noel Mazzone has revamped the team’s offense, increased the team’s use of the no-huddle and spread to jump-starting its passing attack to second in the Pac-10 — up five spots from 2009.

Still, it’s fair to say that results have been some-what mixed. Although quarterback Steven Threet leads the Pac-10 in passing yards per game, he’s matched his 11 touchdowns with a conference-high 11 interceptions.

Kevin Riley, who has thrown an equal number of scores this season, will be starting for Cal as Threet’s counterpart. Tedford stressed that the fifth-year senior will retain his job for the rest of the year unless he gets injured.

Riley likely won’t face a defense as brutal as the one he saw last Saturday, but there’s one player he and the rest of the offense will have to keep an eye on: Vontaze Burfict.

The sophomore linebacker has his own share of maturity issues — he headbutted Oregon State quarterback Ryan Katz — but wields a frightening balance of power and speed.

If Riley doesn’t end up getting YouTubed, he might get to relive the game-winning drive he led at Arizona State last season.

“Hopefully, we have a lead before that,” he said.”

Jack Wang covers football. Contact him at jwang@dailycal.org.

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Achoo! Sorry about that. Cough cough. Sniffle sniffle.

I apologize again. I haven’t been able to shake off this bug that’s been going around, but it’s slowly dis-sipating.

On Saturday, we’ll have to see if Cal’s sputtering condition subsides too — and you’d have to think of a whole new term for what ailed it at the Coliseum.

The physical toll was unmistak-able: Shane Vereen got his bell rung against the Trojans. Darian Hagan cramped up and required an IV. Chris Conte could barely walk the next morning.

Then, there was the mental break-downs. Bryan Anger’s leg and Marvin Jones’ hands were no longer auto-

matic. Spencer Ladner’s hands never opened.

And we haven’t even started on Cal’s severely wounded pride, which is still reeling after the team surren-dered the largest halftime deficit in program history against USC.

Luckily, the Bears return home to Memorial Stadium this weekend to seek what has been a traditionally fail-proof cure — Memorial Stadium.

“It’s nice to be back home,” quar-terback Kevin Riley said during Tuesday’s media press conference. “We’ve been getting on people early and that’s the plan, just get on people early and kind of make them play out of their game.”

Indeed, it’s remarkable the kind of elixir Cal consumes here in Berkeley — and what happens to their oppo-nents.

The week before their humiliation in Berkeley, UCLA marched into Austin, Texas and badly hooked coach Mack Brown and company. (Yes, Texas is clearly a shell of its for-mer self, but how many people would have pegged Cal to put up a road vic-tory over the Longhorns?)

As has been the case with other middling conference opponents, the Bruins began to self-destruct shortly after entering the Bears’ lair.

This is not to say that Arizona State visits the Bay Area as after-thoughts.

Cameron Jordan seems to save his best games for when the Bears play ASU. As a freshman, he returned a fumble for a touchdown, and as a sophomore, he earned Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Week with eight tackles.

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BETTER WITHTIME

T he NCAA Transfer Guide is 30 pages long and printed in tan and black, as if bright colors

would add to the anxiety of the reader. The chapters are helpfully titled things like ‘First decide which school is right for you’ and ‘Then learn about the division.’

As Chris Conte turned to the chap-ter called ‘So, you are thinking about transferring,’ he must have been over-whelmed by the surrealism of it all.

Three years ago, he was sitting at the kitchen table of his home in Los Angeles, re-reading two offer letters. One was from UCLA, his dream school from the time he was old enough to have a preference. The other was from Cal.

As much as he loved UCLA, he felt sure that he wanted to learn how to grow up away from his family. Conte picked up the phone and told the Bears he was signing.

There, he thought, he could live out his dream.

But this, he knew, wasn’t it.After playing in all 13 games as a

freshman at Cal, Conte looked around and hated what he saw. He was riding the bench behind a carousel of defen-sive backs who were, it felt like, all see-ing more playing time than him. Near the end of his sophomore season, he broke his thumb. He was stagnating.

“I was playing corner, I was playing nickel, I was playing safety, I was play-

ing a little of everything,” Conte says. “Which is hard to do because they’re very different positions. Then injuries set me back.”

As Conte began his junior year, he felt the depth chart swallowing him alive. He questioned himself, his desire, his place on the team.

He wondered if it was worth it.

S ix-year-old Conte must have been a tough kid.

His 12-year-old brother Kevin roamed the neighborhood with his friends, playing sports that Chris was too small for. But that didn’t stop him.

“I think that’s where I got my ath-leticism,” Conte says. “If I wanted to hang out with anyone, I had to be able to play sports with them.”

The lessons he learned proving himself to boys twice his size and twice his age stayed with him. He grew up determined, brave and rowdy, and that was the personality he brought to Cal when he arrived on campus in 2007.

“He’s a wild boy. He likes to have a little fun,” senior cornerback Darian Hagan says. “He’s always up to no good. He’s that kind of person.”

When things were going well, that frenzied energy served him well. He flew around the field on his way to 32 tackles and an honorable mention freshman All-American honor from Sporting News in his first year with the team. Off the field, he was a self-ad-mitted hellion too, spending more time tearing up the streets of Berkeley than keeping an eye on studies and football.

When times got hard, though, he didn’t have the discipline to take the struggles gracefully. Behind stand-out corners Hagan and Syd’Quan Thompson, Conte saw his playing time dwindle. His busy freshman year fizzled into reserve anonymity, so he turned away from the game. He was restless in his limited role and the un-certainty of whether or not he would start demoralized him.

“He had some games where he might have 35 snaps, some games where he might have five,” defensive backs coach Al Simmons says. “I think that’s what was really tough.”

Conte decided he had to transfer. He spent long nights on the phone with his parents, discussing his op-tions. As his frustration threatened to boil over, the message from his mother was persistently clear: Don’t quit.

“My mom’s a very strong-willed person. She’s very influential in just about everything,” Conte says. “She’s so smart. … It’s hard to go against what she wanted me to do, what she thought was best for me. It was hard to be like, ‘No, I can’t do that.’”

His freshman year, Conte had tried to go home every weekend. Now, he turned his focus back to what was right in front of him. He rededicated himself to football — spent more time studying, more time watching film. He asked questions in team meetings. And as Conte’s senior season drew closer, the coaches took notice.

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“In the meeting rooms and on the field, I could see his growth and see his maturity,” Simmons said. “Taking a lot of notes and really focusing on his assignments and what he has to do on the field. He’s matured a lot.”

One of the reasons Conte chose to come to Cal was that the coaches promised he could stay at cornerback, where he’d played all through high school. He feared making a change.

This summer, he was told that he would be moving full-time to safety for the duration of his senior season.

His reaction?“He was fired up,” Simmons said.Conte, at last, had grown up.

Conte’s light eyes, sometimes so raw with focus, are serene as he

looks out onto the field from his perch in the stands of Memorial. His arms are wrapped loosely around his knees and his face is relaxed.

“I feel a lot more at home here than I ever did before,” he says. “I feel com-fortable here, I feel at home here now. I thank Berkeley a lot for helping me become my own person and finding myself. It helped me grow a lot.”

There’s still too much football left to be played for Conte to start reflecting on his college career, but he’s quick to pick out his favorite game.

“The Arizona game was probably one of the most fun games I’ve ever played in, even though it was one of the most disappointing games I’ve ever played in,” he says. “Having that interception … That one was a fun one

for me. Even though we lost.”It speaks volumes about Conte that a

game that left him in tears a month ago has become his favorite Cal memory. Af-ter all he has gone through, there might be no greater sign of his maturity.

He wears the reminder of another loss — his cleats and ankle braces are still streaked Trojan red from the field of the Coliseum. He may never top the career-high he recorded last week, but he knows different, better things await him in those stained shoes. Last week’s defeat will stay with him, to drive him, even as he walks further away from it.

It’s the embodiment of what Conte has done at Cal.

Taking the bad and making it good again.

Katie Dowd covers football. Contact her at kdowd@dailycal.org.

M arc Anthony and Cameron Jordan are cousins. Just ask them.

“Marc is pretty much the closest family I got, really,” says Jordan.

Growing up in Chandler, Ariz., Anthony and Jordan sent significant time together wrestling, playing video games and eventually playing football. Both of their mothers recall the count-less hours of roughhousing, compet-ing and participating in the type of horseplay that will get an upbraiding if a mom sees it.

Sure, they would eventually become teammates at nearby Chandler High and Cal, but the genesis of Anthony and Jordan’s relationship goes beyond the shoulder pads and mouth guards.

Their relationship is one that only family could share.

But that is the ironic secret: Marc Anthony and Cameron Jordan are not actually cousins. Despite the aunties and uncles, the godparents and the close upbringing, Anthony and Jordan are, in fact, not related by blood.

Anthony and Jordan’s relationship starts before either was born. It started among a group of friends that attended South Mountain High in Phoenix.

Asking Loretta Evans-Jason or Anita Jordan about their past,

makes you wish that you will someday recall your own so joyfully.

Their descriptions are vivid with nostalgia, but without any of the melancholy that tends to accompany descriptions of memories past. No stumbling over words, no finger snaps to try to spur the memory. Both enthusiastically talk about when they initially forged their friendship at South Mountain and how that would blossom into the family atmosphere that they have created today.

Evans-Jason and Jordan were friends in high school along with Cameron’s father, Steve, who was a standout tight end. The elder Jordan played at Brown and would eventually become a six-time Pro Bowl tight end for the Minnesota Vikings.

Though Jordan lived in Minnesota while his father was playing for the Vi-kings, the families remained close and would reconvene after Steve retired and moved back to Arizona.

That is when Anthony and Jordan would cultivate the relationship that they have today. The relationship that drives them to call one another “family.”

“They say that blood is thicker than water,” says Jordan trailing off, real-izing that the cliche does not apply to his relationship with Anthony. “But Marc? That’s family right there.”

That’s when Cameron and Marc, became cousins, and football was just one part of their upbringing. In fact, it was not until high school that the two would find success on the gridiron.

Just like it was the last activity that brought them together as kids, foot-ball seems to be the last talking point between the two.

Cameron Jordan is a well-known charmer around campus. A

favorite among students, players and even reporters because of his affable demeanor, Jordan finds his feroc-ity between the sidelines, and stays

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friendly outside of them.Anthony’s mother recalls a driveway

football game that resulted in a broken rear windshield on the family truck, a moment that kept every kid quiet except Jordan.

“Cameron has always been the attorney,” says Evans-Jason. “He’s very up front and honest. All the kids froze when I walked out, but Cameron very tentatively said ‘Auntie, I hate to tell you, but somebody just busted out your window, and I just want to tell you that it wasn’t me.’”

A vocal leader on the field, Jordan’s play has done most of the talking since he’s been at Cal. Conversely, Anthony is unassuming — that is, until he gets around his cousin.

Anthony is quieter, but still maintains a quick-witted aura about him that immedi-ately makes you comfortable in conversa-tion. While Jordan was rationalizing the broken windshield, Anthony was the type to stand button-lipped to the side.

The two will talk and inevitably laugh about anything. One second it’s “Call of Duty,” then girls; a few minutes later Jordan almost keels over in describing Anthony’s official visit to Cal in September 2007.

“During his official, there weren’t too many places that we didn’t go,” says Jordan amidst uncontrollable laughter. “And we ended it right. At Kingpin Donuts at 2 a.m.”

When Jordan committed to play for Cal in 2007, Anthony was a lauded defensive back recruit being courted by several Pac-10

schools as well as high-profile schools like Michigan and Nebraska.

But if you ask Jordan, Anthony’s college destination was all but a sure thing once the defensive lineman suited up for the Bears.

“When I came to Cal, Marc pretty much came to Cal,” says Jordan. “He was up four or five times. He knew what college life was like before he even got here.”

When speaking with either Loretta Evans-Jason or Anita Jordan, you can

immediately feel the closeness that their families have maintained over time. Wheth-er it is recalling a yo-yo breaking a ceiling light or the chance to watch their sons play together on Saturdays, both mothers speak with unmistakable pride.

“Now that they’re grown playing on the same team, I have to keep from crying,” says Jordan’s mother. “It’s like I am in this dream seeing them grown and seeing them be great young men. It’s just been an amazing journey.”

The title of godmother should not be underestimated. Both Evans-Jason and Jordan talk about raising “them”— referring to both Marc and Cameron— not just their own sons. Both grew up in the same familial atmosphere that meant the same love and the same punishment for everybody, regard-less of who was watching.

“My oldest son Joffrey, Cameron and Marc were always together and they always cov-ered for each other,” says Jordan’s mother. “If

one got a spanking, they all got a spanking.”For the mothers, it’s been a long time since

the spankings and the scolding. Now, Satur-days are a family affair, a time to watch their children excel on the Division I playing field.

“To see them is just a joy,” says Evans-Jason. “It’s an absolute joy and a blessing.”

With their paths bound to split soon, Jordan and Anthony are enjoying the one season that they have starting together on defense. Jordan, a senior, is likely bound for the NFL next year while Anthony, a redshirt sophomore, has a couple more seasons to line up in the Cal secondary.

But the opportunity to start together on the same unit recalls fond memories of high school and always provides extra incentive.

“If Cameron didn’t get a sack in high school then I’d end up picking a ball or doing something with it,” says Anthony. “It’s always fun to have somebody in your family on your team that can create havoc.”

Watch any Cal game and you’ll see the two occasionally check up on one another.

“You’ve probably seen us during the game,” says Jordan. “We’re always going up to each other, ‘Let’s make this play, cuzzo’ or ‘Let’s do this, fam.’”

When on the field, they’ve always got one another’s back.

Why? Because that’s what cousins do.

Cameron Jordan and Marc Anthony Say They Are Cousins. They’re Not Related, but Their Bond Extends onto Field as Starters on Cal’s Defense.

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Unlike their hosts, the Sun Devils have shown some fortitude in hostile territory — see the team’s 10-point victory over Washington in Seattle and a near-toppling of No. 10 Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium.

Still, Dennis Erickson’s club seems like the perfect candidate to suffer the same fate as Memorial visitors from Saturdays past.

Arizona State quarterbacks, in par-ticular, have traditionally wilted in the face of blue-and-gold-clad specta-tors — combining for just three touchdowns to seven interceptions in the team’s last three excursions to Berkeley.

Andrew Walter may still remember Cal cornerback Tim Mixon, who returned an interception 58 yards in

the Bears’ 2004’s shutout victory.Rudy Carpenter, as much as he

may try to surpress the though, will definitely remember Daymeion Hughes. And Cameron Jordan. Zack Follet, too.

And despite his Big 10 pedigree, current Sun Devils quarterback hasn’t exactly been a model of consis-tency. His 11 touchdowns? Evened out by 11 interceptions, which have added heavily to the team’s -7 turn-over margin.

Not exactly a recipe for success in the place where middle-of-the-pack teams go to die.

So let’s sit back and relax a little for a week; after all, the Bears head to Corvallis next week.

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J arred Price got a little carried away ... okay, really carried away.Cal’s football team was just one day removed from annihilat-

ing Colorado, and the Bears’ senior linebacker turned in quite the afternoon.

Price brought Buffaloes’ quarterback Tyler Hansen to the turf twice at Memorial Stadium, following both plays up with his signa-ture hammer drop sack celebration.

He also hounded Hansen into a pair of ghastly interceptions.Two sacks in hand, Price decided to make a statement at the fol-

lowing practice: he was gunning for Terrell Suggs’ Pac-10 and NCAA sack record.

With the season half-way over, he still stands 22 away from Suggs’ mark.

He’ll laugh when asked about his premature declaration — but you can’t really blame Price for thinking big.

For those who religiously follow media guides: you have been deeply deceived about Price.

Listed at 5-foot-11 in a gameday program, the stocky Dallas, Texas native is a good two inches shorter.

That diminutive stature, along with his Lone Star State upbring-ing, limited Price’s athletic choices growing up. Neither baseball nor basketball stuck for too long. (“No, I don’t think I’ve ever been dunked on,” Price says).

The gridiron began as a place to unwind for Price — “I was a bad kid,” he quips — and eventually turned into a platform for proving people wrong.

“I play with a big chip on my shoulder,” Price says. “I always have it in my head that people think I can’t do something because of my height.”

As a defensive end and rush linebacker, Price made the perfect underdog. Pass-rushing involved regularly lining up against the op-posing team’s tallest, largest player.

It was a challenge Price relished.Sitting in the Memorial Stadium stands, he insists that he would

rather get sack than score on a fumble return. (In his ideal world, Price would combine the two, but he stands by

his desire to take down quarterbacks.)Still, passing up the endzone? Much like his promise to match

Suggs’ record, you are incredulous when hearing that declaration — until you consider his point of view, and the enormous pride that must come in storming past players a whole foot taller.

“In football, at certain positions height is a factor,” he says. “At tackle of course its a factor, at quarterback it might be a factor, but really on the defense you don’t have to be tall. If you’re fast, strong, quick and smart, you’re good.”

The formula worked to perfection at Madison High School, where Price terrorized opposing signal-callers with his agility off the edge.

With 4.4 40-yard speed, he developed a lethal first step; quite fit-tingly, Price likens the entire pass-rushing operation to taking apart a bomb.

“You got two seconds to disarm it,” Price says. “You got two sec-onds to get to the quarterback, if you don’t get to him, the ball is out

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SAN FRANCISCO — A large, color-coded map was propped up next to Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott dur-ing Thursday’s press conference at the Fairmont Hotel. Cal and Stanford were backed by blue, marked as part of the Pac-12 North. USC and UCLA floated over the gray of the Pac-12 South.

Scott and Arizona State president Michael Crow officially announced the future alignment of the Pac-12, which will become effective July 1, 2011. The university presidents and chancellors of the conference unanimously voted for the geographical split over what Scott said were about half a dozen other plans -- a decision that was based pri-marily on preserving traditional rival-ries, along with balancing competitive-ness and fan-friendliness.

“Our ambition is to really broaden the following of this conference on a much more national basis and even global basis,” Scott said. “Top of mind for us in thinking about how to create these divi-sions, how to label them, was simplicity.”

Under the new schedule, both Cal and Stanford will be guaranteed annual games with both Los Angeles schools. The Bears have played the Trojans every year since 1926, and the Bruins every year since 1933.

The Northwest programs will visit Los Angeles once every other year.

The new slate for every conference team will consist of five games against divisional opponents, along with four cross-divisional games.

A Pac-12 championship game will be hosted by the team with the best overall conference record, with the first tie-breaker being head-to-head perfor-mance. Although the commissioner acknowledged there would be logistical difficulties in having less time to plan a conference championship game, he believed the pros outweighed the cons.

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“We looked at it the same way the NFL looks at it,” Scott said. “Commercially, there’s no doubt we may leave some rev-enue on the table in terms of not playing, guaranteed every year, in a 70,000-seat venue or 90,000-seat venue.

“From my perspective, the idea that a collegiate atmosphere, a full-house with the kind of atmosphere that you want, rewarding the fans that have sup-ported that team every year by playing that home venue, having it be some-thing you earn were higher priorities.”

The potential for hosting the game in bad weather was a lesser concern.

“This is football,” Crow said. “That was part of the answer also.”

There will be no divisions in any other sport, but both men’s and wom-en’s basketball will adopt an 18-game schedule that will include six home-and-home conference games and four single-play games. These will rotate within a 10-year calendar.

Equal revenue sharing will be effec-tive in the 2012-13 academic year when the conference finishes negotiating new, aggregated media rights. In years that revenue totals less than $170 mil-lion, USC and UCLA will receive a $2 million payout.

The idea of a Pac-12 television net-work was also popular, but will not be addressed after negotiations take place with incumbent partners.

“We’ve got not just financial goals, but some very, very important non-financial goals that could be addressed through a network,” Scott said. “I’ve said all along that one of the main sources of pride for the Pac-10 is our success in Olympics sports, in women’s sports in particular, and I think it’s critically important for us going for-ward that we give more exposure for our programs.”

Scott expects the 2011 schedules to be available in 30 to 45 days.

Jack Wang covers football. Contact him at jwang@dailycal.org.

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saver. Price recorded 24 quarterback take-downs in his final season at Madison, while leading his team to a District title.

If only more people had noticed.Coming off of his stellar senior

campaign, Price drew little interest from Division I schools. After only Ar-kansas and SMU came calling, Price took his trade to Blinn College, where he continued to hone his craft.

He had yet another outstanding final season, racking up 21 sacks and earning Southwest Junior College Football Conference Defensive Player of the Year at one of the country’s elite junior colleges.

It was there that he caught the eye of Bears’ linebacker coach — and Texas native — Kenwick Thompson.

“He’s able to get off the ball, rip, and counter,” Thompson says of Price. “Because of his height, it makes it dif-ficult to get your hands on him.”

Now at Berkeley, Price still fights an uphill battle.

As a rush specialist who sees most of his snaps in passing situations, Price’s playing time at Cal is often determined by an opponent’s offensive scheme. Recent contests against pistol teams like UCLA and Nevada haven’t exactly been favorable match-ups.

“It kind of gets to me,” Price says.

“I’d like to get in on a lot more snaps. It’s hard right now still trying to ac-cept. I play my role.”

And with opponents wizening up to Price’s defensive specialty, he must work extra hard to find his way into the backfield.

Price’s technique is nothing ex-travagant — much is predicated on his lightning-quick get-off. Occasionally, he’ll slap the lineman’s arms down, and plant his foot in the ground for a shifty spin move.

Yet, it doesn’t matter that most people may predict his approach. Price may actually prefer as much. For him, executing anyway is even more satisfying and intimidating.

“I think it does make a statement,” Price says. “When I was in junior college, my last season, two dudes came at me and I split them, and went down and got the sack.

The next same play, I did the same thing and got another sack. If you can get in somebody’s head, you win.”

In the weeks since that contest and his ensuing statement, Price has backed off a bit — not that his team re-ally had a problem with his posturing.

“All the guys want be the best they possibly can,” Thompson says. “I don’t discourage that at all.”

After all, when you’re Jarred Price, it never hurts to aim tall.

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cal vs. arizona state predictions

Cal is at home. And that’s all that matters.

The Bears may have been dealt one of the most crushing losses in the his-tory of the program — or at least during coach Jeff Tedford’s tenure — last Saturday, but what happened in Los Angeles can’t counteract the power of home for Cal.

The cozy confines of Memorial Stadium should be enough to boost the Bears to a fairly comfortable victory, even if it is in front of what could be one of their saddest crowds in quite some time (bad loss plus a forecast of rain doesn’t bode well).

Add to that the fact that Cal tradition-ally plays pretty well after a blowout losses, and you’ve got the makings of a reminder that this is Bear Territory.

And anyway, Cal needs a win at home to make the loss on the road next week feel that much worse for weary Cal fans.

Cal is inexplicably horrid on the road. Like Katie said immediately to the left of this paragraph, though, the Bears are a different team in Memorial Stadium.

The defense should be amped to redeem itself after the way Matt Barkley ripped it apart.

Fans might grind their teeth over Kevin Riley’s interceptions this season, but the Sun Devils’ Steven Threet has been far worse in that category. The junior has thrown a pick for each of his touchdowns, putting him in the confer-ence lead with 11. A defensive score isn’t out of the question.

On the other side of the ball, look for Riley to have a decent game — if only because there’s nowhere to go but up. Shane Vereen should also top 100 yards.

If the team comes out with the same fire Jeff Tedford spat at one reporter on Tuesday, the Bears should put them-selves above .500.

After Cal’s 48-14 thrashing at the hands of USC, head coach Jeff Tedford compared the contest to what the Bears have done to Colorado and UCLA: jump out early and see the opponent self-destruct.

Now back at home, the Bears will once again storm out of the gates. Cal should come up a couple of early turn-overs and go up a two scores.

Kevin Riley and the receivers should have a bounce-back contest, as will the defense. Unlike last weekend, Cameron Jordan and company will consistently find the quarterback.

Arizona State will find the endzone after setting up possessions with some strong special teams returns. Its defense should also settle down after the Bears’ initial outburst.

However, early struggles have been the demise of many teams at Memorial Stadium. The Sun Devils’ afternoon will follow a similar script.

Well, my lede probably won’t much different than the other writers, but let’s face it, Cal is a different team at home, especially against mediocre opponents. Plus, they must win this game if Jeff Tedford expects any sup-port from an alumni base that he let down last week in USC’s 48-14 drub-bing of the Bears.

It will be interesting to see Arizona State’s plan to stop Cal’s offense. The Trojans brought tons of pressure, but their front seven is also more talented than the Sun Devils’. Vontaze Burfict will wreak havoc because he is one of the best linebackers in the conference, and you can expect him to blitz often.

I see Cal winning this game on defense. Steven Threet has struggled with accuracy and has thrown untimely interceptions, and ASU’s receivers are nowhere near as athletic as USC’s. Also, Cameron Jordan always shows up against Arizona State.

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Everybody get ready. Vontaze Burfict is coming to town, and he is one insanely talent-ed linebacker. Emphasis on the “insane” part. Burfict is an absolute paradox, but undoubtedly one of the most exciting players to watch in college football. The fiery sophomore from Corona, Calif., is projected as a first-round draft pick whenever he decides to leave school, but there are plenty of legitimate ques-tions about his ability to contain his anger and attitude on the field.

Burfict was benched for the first quarter of ASU’s 24-14 vic-tory over Washington on Oct. 9 because of extremely reckless, some thought dangerous play against the Oregon State the week prior. Cameras caught Burfict headbutting Beavers’ quarterback Ryan Katz, and he spent a great deal of the game taunting the audience and opposing players.

With that said, there is no denying Burfict’s raw talent. He was named Pac-10 Defensive Freshman of the Year in 2009 and has countless hits available for viewing on YouTube. Regarded as the best football player to ever sign with Arizona State, the only thing that is seemingly keeping Burfict away from stardom is his inability to control his anger.

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A Look at ASU

A Look at Cal

• ArizonaStatehashadaseasonfullofbadluckanduntimely mistakes. The Sun Devils almost pulledoff one of the biggest upsets of the season whenthey battled Wisconsin on the road at CampRandall, but lost on a missed extra-point byLouGrozaAwardnomineeThomasWeber.• Starting quarterback Steven Threet is atransfer from the University of Michigan.Threet played in eight games for theWolverines in 2008 before opting to leaveAnn Arbor, Mich. The Adrian, Mich., nativehas thrown for 11 touchdowns and 11 intercep-tionsthisseason.• Defensive tackle Lawrence Guy was named as aquarterfinalistfortheLottTrophy,whichisawardedannuallytocollegefootball'sdefensiveimpactplayeroftheyear.Cal'sMikeMohamedwasalsonamedtothislist.• TheSunDevilsarecomingoffofabyelastweek,aftertheypickeduptheirbestwinoftheseason,a24-14victoryoverWashingtoninSeattle.

• Cal returns to MemorialStadiumafteritsworstlosssincethe42-3

shellacking that it suffered at the hands of theOregon Ducks in 2009. The Bears returned to

playUSC,agamethattheylost30-3.

• ShaneVereenwasheldtoaseason-low53yardsrushinginCal’s48-14lossatUSC.Vereendidcatcha31-yardtouchdownpass

from Kevin Riley in the second half, but itwasaftertheBearsweredown45-0.

• The Bears defeated the Sun Devils onHalloween last year in Tempe, Ariz., in a sloppy23-21 win. Giorgio Tavecchio hit a 24-yard field

goalwith21secondsremainingtosecurethevictory.Thetwoteamscombinedforaneye-popping238penaltyyardsinthegame.

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It’s an easy one to pinpoint, but after last week’s debacle against USC. Without question, all eyes will be on struggling starting quarterback Kevin Riley when the Bears take the field this afternoon. In all fairness, it

was not Riley’s fault that they were so thoroughly domi-nated by the Trojans, but he still struggled to complete passes even when he did have time to throw. Both the

media and the fans have called for other quarterbacks to play, but head coach Jeff Tedford insists that Riley still offers them the best chance to win.

ASU might be exactly the team Riley needs. In Tempe last season, Riley threw for 351 yards and orches-trated a 74-yard game winning drive. Riley did not look incapable in Los Angeles, but the offense had absolutely no success moving the ball, which made for a shorter field for USC. The 42-point halftime deficit and -8 yards of first-quarter offense were some of the worst stats in recent memory, and one must believe that Riley will try and do everything in his power to erase the pain-ful memory that was the game against USC.

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