Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Fox Sports: Cal Team Report

The beat goes on for Cal. Coach Jeff Tedford pulled in his fifth consecutive top 20 recruiting class, which puts him in great position to continue as the second-best program in the Pac-10, looking up at USC.  Tedford signed 26 players, including eight from southern California. While he continues to do well in that fertile part of the state, it's interesting to see that the Bears, perhaps cashing in on their reputation of excellence, went more national this year.  Cal signed players from Brooklyn, Chicago, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii -- basically covering all corners of the U.S. map. "We're going to be a little bit more proactive with recruiting out of the state," Tedford said. "We're not going to saturate the United States. We're still going to make sure that we saturate California and the western United States with our resources. There are certain areas where we've made some inroads and we're going to continue to go to those places.  "We have a lot of guys in the summer who visit us from out of state on unofficial visits, which gets the recruiting process going. In the last three years, I have seen our out-of-state recruiting really grow."

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