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tHe one to watcH: Steve Williams has Cal coaches and players salivating as a freshman. page 4

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Bears Look to Colorado for Stauncher Test of Offense The Keenan Allen bandwagon

started rolling last week. If Cal’s freshman receiver can replicate his debut this Saturday against Colorado, it’ll pick up the speed he showcased on the field.

After Tuesday’s practice, the Cal football team’s new media darling was besieged by nearly every local news outlet. Cameras pointed, mics inched towards his face and questions pelted him from all sides.

He’s earned his fair share of ink — both real and virtual — but there isn’t much surprise left surrounding Al-len now, not after the way he so easily found extra yardage and the endzone his first time around.

“He’s a very good football player, no question about it,” coach Jeff Tedford said. “It’s one game, though, so we have to make sure not to get too car-ried away with it.”

So now fans, some perhaps already carried away, wait to see where Allen

by Jack WangDaily Cal Staff Writer Cupcakes Can

Make the Tastiest Meal

KatieDowD

E very year, you hear complaints from fans who think their team should be playing a tough non-

conference schedule. Build up your repertoire, earn some respect, get your program more credibility.

Why bother?Run down the list of the top-25

teams in the country right now. Look at the teams they played last week, and the teams they’ll play this week. With a few notable exceptions, ranked squads are generally beating up on teams like San Jose State.

There are good reasons for that. In our heads, we love the idea of playing an incredible slate of non-conference teams. There’s extra honor involved; you don’t get to choose how competi-tive your conference is. You do get to volunteer yourself for a challenge outside of it.

We want to award brownie points to teams who volunteer for that challenge, but when you’re looking at a bunch of inflated box scores, the blowouts are almost undoubtedly more memorable, if only purely from a statistical standpoint. Think about the scores you remember from last weekend. I bet Oregon’s 72-0 flaying of New Mexico was on your mind pretty quick.

Perfection just looks better. The Cal

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and the Bears go from here. And at 12:30 p.m., tomorrow, they’ll see what kind of encore Cal (1-0) gives its fans against a BCS conference team.

Allen still opens up the field, even if the fireworks are more of the backyard variety than Disneyland. Junior Mar-vin Jones can put on his own theatrics on the opposite side.

Tailback Shane Vereen is still a le-thally effective workhorse, lest anyone forgets, and the receiving talent could give him new avenues to run through. He’ll almost certainly see more than 14 carries against the Buffaloes.

But there’s some distance separating Colorado (1-0) and UC Davis, not just the 1,000-plus miles between the two.

Start with their cornerback duo, comprised of seniors Jalil Brown and Jimmy Smith. The latter is on the watch list for the Thorpe Award, given to the nation’s top defensive back. Both corners measure over 6-feet and weigh in past 200 pounds.

“Those guys can challenge you,” Tedford said. “You’re not going to big-boy those guys. You’re not go-

ing to run into a 5-foot-8 corner that you go over the top of. They can run, they’re a good size, they can play the ball very well.”

Then there’s the receiving counter-part, the Buffaloes’ own Scotty McK-night. The playmaking slot receiver doesn’t share the Cal tandem’s size ad-vantage — he is listed at 5-foot-11, 185 pounds — but he has made a catch in 37 consecutive regular season games to lead all active NCAA players.

The Coto de Caza, Calif., native also broke his school’s career reception re-cord last week with a 27-yard touch-down against Colorado State.

In the backfield, Colorado should be noticeably more bruising than the Aggies were last week. Junior Rodney Stewart is one of only two players to lead the Buffs in rushing in both his freshman and sophomore seasons.

Even quarterback Tyler Hansen managed a rushing touchdown in the season opener, although he only picked up two yards in eight carries.

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football team could play Oklahoma, Alabama and Nebraska. The Bears might squeak out a victory over one, but they’d probably lose to all three. That’s not going to get Cal a spot in the top-25.

Especially in a year when the Bears start the season unranked, an easier non-conference schedule is the way to go.

Three big wins draws attention. By the end of the season, most people won’t remember whether it was TCU or Oregon State that won in week one. Incredible blowouts will still be tossed around, though. It’s human nature. Bigger is just better.

There’s a strategic advantage, too, one that Cal coach Jeff Tedford has mentioned (albeit not in direct reference to playing UC Davis or Colorado). Playing easier squads gives you more time to work on your own team.

Instead of spending hours watch-ing game film of another squad, you can focus on what’s happening inter-nally. That’s what the Bears got to do last week against the Aggies.

Young players like Keenan Allen, Isi Sofele, Steve Williams and David Wilkerson all saw valuable playing

time in a low-pressure situation, en-abling them to get used to the speed of a real game.

“It was good for everybody just to go out there and play a game, get some kinks out, have some drives, moving the ball,” Cal quarterback Kevin Riley said at this week’s weekly press conference.

Playing cupcakes gives teams the op-portunity to try new looks, perfect old ones and establish the depth chart by putting players in real-game situations.

Of course, there are exceptions. It’s hard not to applaud Boise State’s scheduling bravado. But the Bron-cos need it. Their conference slate is always going to be mediocre and they are always going to get knocked for it at the end of the season. For them, it’s go big or go home in the first few weeks of the season.

For teams like Cal, though, it’s counterproductive to load up on ranked teams when it has so much incentive to play it safer. Sure, in a few years it will be fun watching the Bears play Oklahoma and Texas. But when they slump out of non-conference play with a black eye and imperfect record, Cal fans might be wishing they’d start-ed the season off on a gentler note.

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T he night before his father died, Dasarte Yarnway fell asleep in a black shirt and black shorts, already mourning a man who was not

yet gone. He was 12, and his father had fought pancreatic

cancer for seven years. But that morning, when he woke up and his mother told him that his father had passed away, it was still a shock. Inside, his mother and five older sisters wept. Outside, Yarnway stood alone in front of his basketball hoop.

“I remember walking outside, shooting hoops, thinking, ‘What do I do now?’” he says.

With the pain that raw and immediate, Yarnway told himself to focus. Bounce the ball, bend the knees, release. A near-death experience is supposed to make your life flash before your eyes. A death, in general, can do that too.

Yarnway thought about how, just months earlier, his dying father helped him enroll in private school. He wanted Dasarte to escape the cycle of violence and poverty he saw streaming out of the nearby pub-lic schools. Yarnway didn’t understand why he had to change schools, but as he grew older, he understood.

“A lot of things when you’re young aren’t spoken to you because you’re young,” Yarnway says. “For me, a lot of the things I learned were from observation. My dad’s sickness, my mom and dad’s relationship … They taught me a lot just from seeing.”

He thought about his crying sisters and mother, how they needed him now to become the type of man

by Katie DowdDaily Cal Staff Writer

his father was.“I think collectively I felt that I would have to

choose something different than what was surround-ing me,” he says. “Not the streets, not the type of things that go on in the neighborhood. I would have to choose something that would better myself, better my family, and something that my dad would be proud of.”

The choice he made was football.

Yarnway started playing football a few years earlier. Growing up near Candlestick Park in

the rough streets of Visitacion Valley, he dreamed of being like Jerry Rice. But he was the biggest and strongest, even then, so his Pop Warner coaches put him at linebacker and kicker.

“I cried,” Yarnway says. “I wanted to play receiver so bad … My dad said, ‘Well, you’re going to be the best kicker if you want to play football. Do you want to play?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I want to play.’ And he said, ‘Then we’re going to make you the best kicker.’”

They drove to a sporting goods store and bought Dasarte a tee and ball. That afternoon, they spent hours in the backyard kicking.

“He would push me to be the best at what I chose to be,” he says. “Every day, I carry with me that this is the life I chose. I want to be the best I can be at it.”

It wasn’t long before Yarnway had to give up Pop Warner, though. His father had six months to live. Every day, Yarnway came home from school and went to the back room where his father lay in bed. They ate their meals together and watched 49ers games. And

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Keenan Allen is sitting on the short steps just outside the east rim of Memorial Sta-dium, slouched forward against his knees.

The interview is starting late, so he’s been waiting.Out of pads, he’s surprisingly thin, not nearly as

imposing as he looked while towering over defend-ers a week ago. The freshman wide receiver hasn’t truly put on college muscle yet, and the Under Ar-mour accentuates his wiry frame. He looks too lean to withstand the tackles of 250-pound linebackers.

Allen doesn’t talk much either. He’ll stop at a sentence or two, then perhaps trail off into a half mumble begging to be drowned out by passing cars. He bites his tongue slightly in between questions.

Can’t be more than a day beyond his 18 years, you think.

It’s a different story on the field. There, you’ll see the Keenan Allen that resembles a veteran wideout when he runs routes. The one that can turn a stretch a short screen pass into a 45-yard gain with one move.

This Allen is a star in the making.That much was evident in his spine-tingling

collegiate debut, where he was one reception away from breaking DeSean Jackson’s freshman single-game receiving record. That mark would have come with a spectacular, diving 45-yard catch that bounced out when he hit the ground.

There was the broken play that set Allen up to pass after sweeping behind Kevin Riley. His targets covered, he reversed and ran in an 18-yard touchdown. The team had only practiced it twice.

“It kinda felt like high school,” he says. “Yeah, it felt like high school. I dunno. It was just UC Davis.”

He’s dismissive, but even DeSean had his share of cupcakes to dine on. Fact is, Allen’s 158 total yards and two touchdowns wrote a stunning entry into the annals of Cal football, one that breathed hope into an ever-beleaguered fan base.

In camp, the Greensboro, N.C., native had earned a starting spot in three days despite never having gone through a single prep school receiving drill.

“He can do anything,” coach Jeff Tedford says.

by Jack WangDaily Cal Staff Writer But there’s the part of Keenan Allen that makes

you think he’s the same as any other college freshman.

He feels like sleeping through most of his classes, all except Swahili. He chows down on four bowls of Lucky Charms during every meal at Clark Kerr. (“I love it ... It’s all I eat.”) He’d rather all the football players lived in one big, brotherly building together.

Allen has to deal with those pre-game jitters too, even if it doesn’t show. (He uses a calm-down soundtrack of Trey Songz and Chris Brown, if you were wondering.)

“Everybody’s nervous,” he says. “It’s part of be-ing a football player. If you’re not nervous you’re not alive. Yeah, I’m always nervous.”

There’s no trace of the diva stereotype so often tacked on to his position. Ask about the absurd 53 touchdowns he scored his senior year and he shrugs it off, saying he had good blockers. He’s all smiles and laughs, says fellow receiver Marvin Jones. He’s a better person than a player; his high school coach Johnny Roscoe repeats the phrase something like seven times in seven minutes.

His 6-foot-3, 208-pound frame hardly blends into the crowds, but he hasn’t been stopped around campus yet. That figures to change soon.

“I don’t think they know my face,” he says. “Which is pretty good, because I don’t really like talking about that. I try to stay out of that stuff.”

Talk to him and you get the sense that all he really wants to do is play football. It doesn’t mat-ter much whether he’s being watched by 100,000 crimson-painted fans or the crowds at Northern Guilford High. He just wants to put on pads and feel his cleats sink with satisfaction into the green turf. After all, this is the player who spurned pow-erhouse Alabama without a second thought.

It started because his half-brother Zach May-nard, Buffalo’s then-quarterback, decided to

transfer after coach Turner Gill left for Kansas. He’d grown up with Zach, his parents divorcing when he was two and his birth father dying from a stomach virus when he was 16.

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They should all give Cal defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast a bet-ter chance to show off some different looks.

“I’m looking forward to it,” de-fensive end Cameron Jordan said. “They’re a little bit more physical, a little more downhill. Anytime you’re going downhill, it’s always going to be a battle. As D-line, that’s what we do. We fight.

“Anytime you can actually get some-one who’s willing to fight back, it’s go-ing to be fun.”

There is, of course, also the Pac-12 looming over the horizon, with Colora-do poised to enter the conference with Utah in a year or two.

Does that add anything to this game that will barely be a blip on the nation-al radar?

“No, not really,” Tedford said. “That’s not something — it doesn’t really mat-ter when they’re coming into our con-ference.

“This is all about just this week, not about the future.”

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

Jeremy Ross returned three punts for 55 yards, one of which went for 37, in Cal’s 52-3 victory over UC Davis last Saturday. The senior wide receiver also caught two passes.

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every day, they shook hands.“He had the hardest grip,” he says.

“In the midst of all the trouble, all the anxiety, everything that was going on in the family, he would always give me the hardest handshake. That moti-vated me to stay strong.”

Yarnway became known for that strength at Sacred Heart Cathedral High. On the field, Yarnway’s incred-ible physical skills made headlines (As a sophomore, he rushed for 201 yards in Sacred Heart’s victory over then-undefeated Salesian High. Salesian’s running back, one Jahvid Best, had 106), but off the field, his maturity was on true display.

“We were doing a Martin Luther King celebration one year and he got up and spoke in front of the whole student body and told us all about his father,” Irish football coach John Lee says. “And how losing his father as a young man really made an impact on him because he had to grow up faster … We knew you couldn’t go wrong with this guy.

“Everything he did for us was just unbelievable.”

In three years at Sacred Heart, Yarnway racked up almost 5,000 rushing yards. His senior year, he led the Irish to their first playoff appear-ance in 40 years.

When Yarnway remembers that time, he comes back to one of his favorite memories. Coming off a foot injury, he began his sophomore season as a big, bruising scout team running back for the varsity squad. Two weeks later, Yarnway was named the starter.

After his first varsity game, Yarnway cried for hours. They were tears of pain and longing for the man who could not be there.

But they were also tears of joy, be-cause he knew that if his father were there, he would have been proud.

A t family barbeques, Yarnway runs after his 15 nieces and nephews

while the older folks talk about how much Dasarte is like his father.

‘(My father) was the type of guy that no matter what time it was, no matter what he was doing, if he didn’t have the money to provide for you, he

would find a way,” he says. “He was a shoulder to lean on throughout the Li-berian community. He wasn’t Lonbaye Yarnway Sr. It was, ‘The Godfather’s here.’

“As people see me on the field, as people see me at family events, they kind of see me as the Godfather Jr.”

Yarnway wants to be that. He already carries their burden on his shoulders, and he takes pride in his family looking to him as they once looked to his father.

“One of the reasons I picked Cal, in addition to the academics, was the future of being able to achieve for my family,” he says. “Let my nieces and nephews see me achieve right in front of them. They don’t have to go far to see me do great things.”

Last Saturday, Yarnway’s mother and sisters watched as he ran out of the north tunnel of Memorial Stadium for the first time. Yarnway looked up at the blue sky and marveled. He ran and didn’t stop until he reached the far endzone. Then, he took a knee and spoke to his father. He prayed:

Just guide me.

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

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Allen had a chance to relive the high school days he spent with his brother, and he wasn’t about to let it slip. Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide didn’t have an extra scholarship for Maynard, so they lost their top recruit.

The brothers had both attended Cal’s football camp in the past, and the experience stuck with them as they toured for a new home.

“We knew we always had a chance because he enjoyed himself a lot (here),” receivers coach Kevin Daft says. “We were able to hang out a lot, play video games together. It was a fun deal.”

When Signing Day finally rolled around in February, it became official. With a scribble of Allen’s pen, Cal landed its best prospect since 2005.

He had worked his way to being the fifth-ranked player in the nation

from everywhere on the field. The quintessential athlete, Allen’s physical gifts were the sort that let him mold himself to whatever was asked of him.

“The thing Keenan told me, he said, ‘Coach, I don’t wanna come off the field,’” Roscoe says. “And I said, ‘That’s one thing I can guarantee.’”

He saw the time at quarterback — his favorite position — tailback, and wide receiver. He haunted opponents as he patrolled the secondary, earning himself the nation’s top safety rank-ing. He even kicked.

“Our placekicker moved. He told me, ‘Coach, that’s no problem. I can placekick,’” recalls Roscoe, who swears Allen could be a college punter. “I was like, ‘Aw, you can’t.’ So he put it in, kicked a 40-plus yarder right there.”

For all his God-given talent, it’s the way he seems starved for coaching

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

that sticks with people. Allen pauses for a few seconds when you ask him what his favorite part of football is.

“Learning,” he decides.It’s the same now as it was in high

school, the back of his jersey still emblazoned with his father’s 21. He began absorbing the playbook before he flew out to the West Coast, asking Jones to help keep him up to date. Those X’s and O’s turned into plays Maynard threw to him.

“Any free time, he’s always in the meeting room watching film,” Daft says. “Have a folder that has all the different receivers, even has their high school highlight film and all their one-on-ones and, since they’ve been here, all their catches. He watches all of them.

“You just can’t keep him out of the meeting room.”

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With a 27-yard touchdown catch in his team’s 24-3 victory over Colorado State, Colorado wide receiver Scotty McKnight became the Buffaloes’ all-time receptions leader, solidifying himself into Buffs’ lore. McKnight’s catch him put him ahead of former Colorado legend Michael Westbrook, who enjoyed a seven-year NFL career with the Washington Redskins and the Cincinnati Bengals. Ever since his true freshman season, McKnight has had little trou-ble establishing connections with whoever trots out under center for the Buffs. A childhood friend of former starter and current backup Cody Hawkins, McKnight has led the team in receiving every season since 2007. After seasons of 488 and 519 yards receiv-ing respectively, McKnight’s numbers shot up his junior year. The Coto de Caza, Calif. native caught 76 balls for 893 yards and nine touchdowns last sea-son. McKnight’s production improved with fellow target Markques Simas lining up beside him, and with the addition of USC and Michigan transfers Travon Patterson and Toney Clemons, McKnight becomes an espe-cially dangerous downfield threat.

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A Look at Cal

• Coloradodefeatedin-staterivalColoradoState,24-3,lastweekend at Invesco Field in Denver, Colo., home of theDenverBroncos.TheBuffaloesused68playersintheirrompover theRams, themost players that they used in a gamesince2001.

• The Buffs aremired in a 12-game road losing streakthatdatesbackto2007.SinceheadcoachDanHawkinsinheritedtheprogramin2006,Coloradohascompiledanabysmal2-19recordawayfromhome.

• Usually a perennial college football powerhouse,Colorado has struggled mightily under Hawkins. Theformer Boise State head coach is the first coach in theuniversity’s history to openwith four consecutive losingseasons.

• KickerAricGoodmanreturnstofootballafterbeingtoldby doctors that he had a 15-percent chance of ever kickingagain.Goodmanhadrighthip surgeryona torn labrumsix

• With last Saturday’s victory over UCDavis,CalheadcoachJeffTedfordrecordedhis68th career victory at the helm of Bears. ThevictoryputshimaheadofthelegendaryPappyWaldorfandthirdontheall-timewinslist.• Cal is 15-20-1 all-time against Big 12opponents. When Cal travels to Boulder, Colo.next fall, however, it will be a conference game.

ColoradoannouncedtheirswitchtothePac-10thissummer.

• New defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergastbrought out one of, if not the best defensive performancefromaCaldefenseinoveradecade.UCDavis’s81yardsoftotaloffensewasthelowesttotalbyaCalopponentsinceSanJoseStatemanagedonly147in1994.

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In the press conference preceding this week’s game aginst Colorado, Cal head coach Jeff Tedford commented that quarter-

back Kevin Riley will have to deal with bigger defensive backs than he saw against UC Davis.

That may mean more touches for Anthony Miller.

The junior tight end was Cal’s third-leading receiver last year and

effectively demonstrated his pass catching abili-ties during his first two

seasons in Berkeley. Miller leads a strong group of tight ends that also includes

Jarrett Sparks, Spencer Ladner and true freshman Jacob Wark.

The San Jose, Calif. product garnered signifi-cant attention when he caught the game-winning touchdown pass in the 2008 Emerald Bowl against Miami (FL), and impressed last season with both his receiving and blocking prowess. If the “big” Buffalo corners of which Tedford speaks create problems for starting receivers

Marvin Jones and Keenan Allen, then look for Riley to start aiming throws to one of his other favorite targets in Miller.