Cal Football Coaching Staff Kicked Off 2027 Recruiting With Bay Area School Tour

The California Golden Bears visited local football programs like De La Salle, Archbishop Riordan, Bishop O’Dowd and McClymonds.

Tosh Lupoi@CoachLup

In the spirit of Dr. King, the Cal Bears blitzed the Bay today. South Bay, the City, the Town & the East Bay—thank you for welcoming our family. Bay Area ballers: this is HOME. Stay in the Bay. Build it with us. 🐻✊ #GoBears

12:51 AM · Jan 20, 2026 · 36.5K Views

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The California Golden Bears kicked off recruiting efforts last week with a full-on blitz of high school visits.

@coachlup

Coach Tosh Lupoi on Instagram: "Bay Area Blitzin’ 🐻

#GoBears"

You can see in these photos the coaches you’d expect to be doing the heavy lifting in recruiting. 10 coaches are allowed to do offsite visits per NCAA rules. Joining Tosh Lupoi on the road were the following staffers:

• Assistant head coach/Quarterbacks coach Nick Rolovich

• Offensive line coach Famika Anae

• Offensive tackles coach/run game coordinator Viane Talamaivao

• Offensive coordinator Jordan Somerville

• Co-defensive coordinator/Defensive backs coach Da’Von Brown

• Running backs coach Keith Bhonapha

• Tight ends coach Steve Haunga

• Defensive coordinator Michael Hutchings

• Defensive line/Pass rush specialist coach Darrion Daniels

• Safeties coach Connor Boyd

De La Salle High in Concord

Thomas Dunn@Thomasdunn24

Cal HC Tosh Lupoi and staff were not playing around with their Bay Area tour Lupoi and company got to his alma mater of De La Salle High School today, the pillar of NorCal HS football 📸: @KasselMedia

12:18 AM · Jan 20, 2026 · 16.9K Views

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Serra High School in San Mateo

Serra Padres Football@PadreFootball_

Special thank you to the new @CalFootball Staff and @CoachLup for making Serra their first stop this morning on their Bay Area tour. We are excited for our Student-Athletes and the opportunities created by this staff! #GoBears

6:00 PM · Jan 19, 2026 · 24.3K Views

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Bishop O’Dowd in Oakland

Jess Brown@JessBrown2027

Wanted to say thank you coach’s for coming up to the school and speaking to us really means a lot #gobears @CoachLup @CoachDBrown27 @JordanSom_CAL thank you coach’s

8:25 PM · Jan 19, 2026 · 2.55K Views

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This figures to be a very active Cal recruiting staff in the coming weeks as they turn their full attention to the 2027 recruiting class. More stories to come.