Longtime UC Davis football coach Bob Biggs, who told his team this week he'll retire following the 2012 season, isn't sure what he'll do once he hangs up his whistle, but here's a thought: concert tickets, anyone? Biggs, who has been known to play some air guitar, wants to learn to play a real one.

"I'm an old, closet rock and roller," said Biggs, 60. "I've thought about that – going to concerts. I saw them all back in the day."

His concert tour included the infamous Rolling Stones gig at the Altamont racetrack – a surreal setting of music, chaos and mass humanity – when Biggs was a UCD student-athlete in 1969.

"There was a throng of people … crazy," Biggs said.

Turf talk

With field turf coming in this winter to go with a general facility overhaul, Hughes Stadium will be a gem of a field on which to play football. But most area preps may never do so.

The Sac-Joaquin Section championships are entrenched at Sacramento State for at least three more seasons. Sacramento City Unified School District high schools – Kennedy, Sacramento, Johnson and McClatchy – cannot afford rental and security costs to play at Hughes, and have played home games on campus for years.

There's even discussion of the annual Holy Bowl between Christian Brothers and Jesuit leaving the old horseshoe-shaped stadium at Sacramento City College.

Hughes, as storied as it gets, will have a facelift with almost no one to admire the results.

Comeback quarterback

Adam Kennedy realized his Division I football dream when he became Utah State's starting quarterback after sitting on the bench for most of the season. Adversity has inspired him before. Kennedy overcame a hamstring tear so severe when he played at Franklin High that it went from his pelvic bone to the back of his knee. He bears 100 stitches after surgery as proof. The 6-foot-5 junior has keyed three fourth-quarter rallies for Utah State and is 4-0 as a starter.

Hot commodity

It's no surprise that UCLA immediately targeted Chris Petersen after firing Rick Neuheisel.

A former star quarterback at Yuba City High, Sacramento City College and UC Davis, Petersen has been firm on living the good life in a small city with big hopes at Boise State. Petersen doesn't chase jobs and wants to build on his 71-6 record with the Broncos.

Wulff's exit

Davis High graduate Paul Wulff was recently fired as Washington State's head football coach after four years and nine wins. The subsequent hiring of Mike Leach was in large part to inject life into an apathetic fan base. It was hard not to root for Wulff otherwise. His mother went missing when he was 12 and was never found. His first wife, Tammy, died from cancer in his arms when he coach- ed at Eastern Washington last decade. Wulff, as he's always done, will recover.

Small-college bigs

Whitworth junior tailback Ronnie Thomas of Granite Bay and American River College made first-team All-Northwest Conference. Lewis & Clark College freshman kick returner Curtis Shirey (Franklin) was a second-team selection.

One more year

Biggs' retirement announcement makes us think of John Gagliardi. The 85-year-old coach will return for a 60th season at small-college power St. John's in Minnesota. Gagliardi is college football's winningest coach (484 wins), including the 1963 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics title game at Hughes Stadium. He told the media recently, "What else should I be doing? A trip to Italy or go climbing the Himalayas?"

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