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Cal Reportedly Set to Hire Sacramento State DL Coach Eddy McGilvra

McGilvra has always been a defensive line coach, but it's unclear what role he would have on the Cal coaching staff
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Cal is expected to hire Sacramento State defensive line coach Eddy McGilvra to the Golden Bears coaching staff under new head coach Tosh Lupoi, according to Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports.

However, it’s unclear what coaching role McGilvra would have with the Golden Bears if he is hired as reported.

Darrion Daniels, who has been a defensive analyst at Oregon the past two seasons, has already been named Cal’s defensive line coach and pass-rush specialist.

McGilvra’s specialty is teaching pass-rush techniques, and he has worked with a lot of NFL players in that regard.

He helped Sacramento State record 38 sacks this season, and that ranked sixth in the nation among FCS schools.

He has spent just one year on the staff at Sacramento State, an FCS school that finished with a 9-4 record.

Before that McGilvra was on the coaching staff of two junior college programs. From 2019 to 2024, he was the defensive line coach at College of the Canyons, and he was the defensive line and special teams coach at at Moorpark Junior College from 2015 to 2017.

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Jake Curtis
JAKE CURTIS

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

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