Pierre Ingram, Cal’s wide receivers coach and recruiting extraordinaire, was arrested last Thursday after allegedly soliciting a prostitute. Before this column can go on, I have to say how sorry I am for Ingram’s wife and two children, for the players he recruited and mentored and for the Cal community as a whole. This is a sad and serious story, and it will have a huge impact on many people’s lives, especially Ingram himself.
That said, this is a football column. Let’s talk about how Ingram’s departure (his contract, which lays the groundwork for terminating a coach for this kind of thing, will not be renewed by the university when it ends at the end of the month) will affect Cal football this season and beyond.