BERKELEY, Calif. - Though Cal athletics director Sandy Barbour fell in love, in the professional sense, with her new football coach last month during a three-hour interview, Sonny Dykes should know he won't have it so easy with everyone else. He's not a marquee name from a high-profile school, so he'll need to be quickly sensational to win over skeptical Cal alumni and discerning Bay Area football fans. He's a native Texan who has spent his life and entire 19-year career roaming the red states, so he'll have to make profound adjustments for the peculiar culture and social rhythms of the deep blue People's Republic of Berkeley. Inasmuch as Dykes arrives after a very good three-year turn, it...
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