So much for keeping the coaching staff together. California Golden Bears offensive coordinator Tony Franklin has resigned his position with the Bears. Franklin will accept a similar position at Middle Tennessee State.
Hopefully this was pre-planned and Sonny Dykes has a new hire in place as soon as possible. There are big questions now as to whether the Tony Franklin System will be the offense for the Bears going forward, because the architect of Cal's elite offense the last few years is now gone. Cal had a top 15 to 20 offense by most statistical measures the last two years, partly in thanks to the great Jared Goff and his stable of amazing wideouts, but also because the TFS was quite stable in producing strong results.