Cal Football: Bear Insider Video: CAL offensive -Lines trainer Famika Anae

The new offensive coach Famika Anae is at a young age after he graduated from the BYU in 2014, but he also brings a wealth of experience with him to Berkeley.

Anae signed at BYU outside of the high school and started the Cougars in the second year and received an honorable mention. He also grew up in football and came from a football family, starting with Father Robert, who trained at BYU when his son was there, and most recently the offensive coordinator in the state of North Carolina until 2024.

“In my redshirt -he was the end of his first stay as an offensive coordinator (at BYU) and then he went to the University of Arizona during my career and then returned to BYU when I was done,” remarked Anae. “So I had to work for him. I was a Scout team redshirt newcomer when he coordinated to Byu.”

The new bear trainer learned inspired by his father, with lessons he brought to Cal.

“I did it,” said Anae. “My father is my biggest mentor. I learned everything I do – resilience, toughness, grit, all of the stuff. But I come from a line of coaches. My grandfather was a long -time coach Punahou High School in Hawaii. So and it is a great source of motivation and strength for me.”

Anae got his feet Nass trained in Dixie State, Campbell and Texas-Commerce before taking his job in New Mexico last season.

It was a difficult mission for the new OL trainer, with only two returning Linemen, which did not play in 2023 and saw little time on the field last season after his arrival.

Nevertheless, Anae, with the Lobos to edit a real miracle, helped negotiate a line of small programs through the portal and build a unit that the nation allowed in sacks with only five and took the fourth overall on the offensive.

“Oh, my goodness, yes, that was a big task,” said Anae. “What happened in this offensive line last year was a transfer. And you know that I have always attributed to recruitment and evaluation of the right person. The way I recruit things and look at things is different. I really don't take care of measurement templates first, and it is really important to me, how pretty, how pretty, and it is up to this group. has contributed.

“Basically, I have five really hard children, and they endured everything I enforced. They endured everything the season gave them and they simply flourished in all these situations. I will get text messages and calls from you if this article comes out if I did not arise that none of the five starters were able to prevent this boy from the beginning until the end of this year. “

One of the players who brought anae out of the portal with the Redshirt Frosh Lineman Lajuan Owens‍, who started for him in 2024 at OT in New Mexico.

“Yes, young guy,” said Anae. “I had recruited him in the high school and knew what he was about. In the end he went to Tulane. I was in Texas Commerce at that time. So he went to Tulane.

“And that was the same here. She recruited here and then told them: 'Hey, you already know how this thing is going, what I expect, but now we are talking about an elite training beyond.' Everyone worked and I told him and his mother: “I was hit by a bus on my way home. So I have a very close relationship with his mother and everything worked out when he was here at Cal. “

When assessing Cals returning Linemen and the new players he brought on board, he is excited to see what he has to work with.

“Very sporty, very clever,” said Anae about his new charges. “You are smart. You know how to process a game book and is where it should be. And for me it was a kind of connector. I think I became for a certain reason how to do these things right, but they showed a really strong capacity to be very talented, sporty and a strong capacity to get information.

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After the new head of the trenches at Cal saw the new offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin in Boise State, he is happy to learn from his new OC and compete with him.

“It was great,” said Anae. “This type is extremely detailed. You can see why he was head coach at Power 5 schools. There, or you can see it from our side.

The new trainer is not according to the book to judge what makes a Lineman a right man for him, but hardness is always a necessary ingredient for one of his players.

“Well, in the recruitment process it was always the third for me,” said Anae. “The school is mandatory.

“The normal is (has) a job, because if you get football, high school, high school and work at Dairy Queen or something – there is now a measure of Grit, but for me it was always the third thing and then a trainer who takes enough care to move them into these situations and see how they react. I think it was always number one when you are here, or guys you inherited and that now belong to you.

“I think it is the task of the O-Line trainer to bring you into compromising situations every day and see how you react to these things. So I check, check, check and check the entire business in terms of measuring where our toughness level is. And you know I said the boys yesterday – man on our run, did we do well enough to earn individual time? And your answer was no. So she pushed up £ 45 plates up and down the sidelines. Did you choose that correctly? And I think that the stuff begins for me to develop a mentality of toughness and grit through adversity just because they are tired in the course, this does not mean that they can get worse in their job. You know what I mean? And if you don't have this relentless way of thinking, oh man, it is no longer fun to play more. “

Be excited about further new coaching and player views in the days before the Spring Ball and beyond.