Cal QB Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele Knows This Season Is Different

Kieran Guave-Sangapolitelli noted on Friday during the media event in Charlotte, North Carolina that his role is very different now. Last year at this time he was battling Devin Brown for the starting quarterback position and it looked like to a lot of people that Brown really had the edge and was likely to get the nod. But Sangapolitelli won the job, not much pressure on him at that point, nobody knew what he would be able to do or even whether he would hold on to the job the entire season. But he was really good from the very start, never showed problems of being a first year starting quarterback, never gave Devin Brown a chance to get on the field really and was outstanding. Things are very different now. I mean he's the face of the program now. He's expected to be very good and if Cal is going to be any good he has to be very good and he knows it and Cal fans know it. So there's a lot of pressure on him now and it's a much different role and he knows that a lot of his success will depend on how the running game goes. Cal was a terrible running game of running team last year, second last in the FBS in running off and rushing offense. They have to be better in that regard. Sangapolitelli says that the addition of running backs including Adam Muhammad should help in that regard. He really focused on the offensive line and tight ends and how the blocking has to open up things and not only will that help the Cal offense but that will help Sangapolitelli in his passing game a lot. Cal's offense was more than 77 percent based in the passing game last year and that's a big imbalance.