SAN JOSE, Calif.- Bay Area native Ron Caragher was introduced as the football coach at San Jose State on Monday.
Caragher, who spent the past six years at San Diego, replaces Mike MacIntyre to become the 28th coach at the school.
MacIntyre left to take the head job at Colorado. The Spartans finished the regular season 10-2 and will play in the Military Bowl.
Caragher replaced Jim Harbaugh, who is the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, at San Diego, where he compiled a 44-22 record with three conference titles.
Caragher attended Bellarmine Prep in San Jose before going on to UCLA, where he was a backup quarterback for four years.
Ex-Cal assistant Gould hired as UC Davis head
DAVIS, Calif. - Former California running game coordinator Ron Gould has been hired as the new head coach at UC Davis.
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Athletic director Terry Tumey announced Monday that Gould would replace Bob Biggs, who retired after the 2012 season.
The 47-year-old Gould called it a "dream come true" to coach the Aggies.
Gould was a highly respected assistant on former Cal coach Jeff Tedford's staff. He helped develop nine 1,000-yard rushers during his final 11 seasons with the Golden Bears. Six of the program's top 10 all-time rushers played under Gould, including NFL players Marshawn Lynch, Jahvid Best and Shane Vereen.
N. Alabama player booted over racist Obama tweet
FLORENCE, Ala. - The University of North Alabama says a walk-on football player is off the team after sending a racist tweet about President Obama.
The university said coaches made the move after Bradley Patterson described Obama with a racial slur while complaining that the president's speech about the Connecticut school massacre pre-empted an NFL game Sunday night.
Sports publicist Jeff Hodges said the school found that there's no question the tweet was issued by Patterson. Patterson couldn't be reached by The Associated Press for comment Monday.
Hodges says Patterson joined the team as a walk-on after the fourth game of this season.
Extra points
• Caleb Schreibeis was recruited to walk on to the Montana State football team, eventually earned a scholarship, was named a captain and, on Monday, was named the top defensive player in the Football Championship Subdivision. The Sports Network announced that Schreibeis, a senior defensive end from Billings, is the recipient of this year's Buck Buchanan Award.
• Western Michigan has hired 32-year-old Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant P.J. Fleck, making him the youngest coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Fleck has worked for Bucs coach Greg Schiano the past three years. Fleck was the receivers coach at Rutgers before following Schiano to Tampa Bay this season to do the same job.
