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Notre Dame Transfer Long Snapper Rino Monteforte Commits to Cal

David Bird, the Bears' long snapper the past two seasons, entered the transfer portal after the 2024 season

Jake Curtis

Rino Monteforte
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Every football team needs a reliable long snapper, and Cal apparently will have one in Notre Dame transfer long snapper Rino Monetforte, who announced on social media on Tuesday that he has committed to Cal.

David Bird was Cal's long snapper the past two seasons, and did not have any errant snaps. But he entered the transfer portal following the 2024 season.

Monteforte was a walk-on at Notre Dame, but he served as the Irish's long snapper for every game in 2024, and he played in three games as the team's long snapper in 2023.

He did not appear in a game as a freshman in 2022, so he has at least two years of college eligibility remaining.

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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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