\u201cEverybody in town knows the Bachmeiers, and everybody follows all of them,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755951433_959_UHKGP77IT5E3JLPDLCGEIU5ZBI.jpg\"\/)
<\/p>\n
Special Collector’s Issue: “1984: The Year BYU was Second to None”<\/p>\n
Get an inclusive look inside BYU Football’s 1984 National Championship season.<\/p>\n
In an interesting twist, the starting quarterback who preceded Bear at Murrieta Valley, Brandon Rose, was Utah\u2019s starting quarterback last year<\/a> when it lost 22-21 to BYU<\/a> in Salt Lake City. Rose hit the transfer portal, as Bear did after going through spring practices at Stanford, and earlier this week was named the first-game starter for UMass.<\/p>\n As the Deseret News outlined earlier this week<\/a>, Bear was a three-year starter at Murrieta Valley, which is 65 miles north of San Diego and 85 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The 35-year-old school sits at the base of the Santa Rosa Plateau and its most famous alum is probably professional golfer Rickie Fowler.<\/p>\n Bear and his brother, Tiger, who is a graduate transfer with two seasons of eligibility remaining, announced their transfer to BYU in early May. Bear will be the first true freshman QB<\/a> to start in an opener for the Cougars when he takes the field Aug. 30 against Portland State.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not surprised at all that he is starting,\u201d Wilson told the Deseret News on Wednesday. \u201cHe was a national recruit. He could have basically went to any school in the country. \u2026 Off the field, he\u2019s a really humble kid with high moral character. He\u2019s just a good, down-to-earth human being.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bachmeiers entered the portal after Stanford fired coach Troy Taylor due to alleged ongoing concerns about his hostile and aggressive behavior toward female staff members. Their older brother, Hank Bachmeier, is also a legend in the area and quarterbacked the Nighthawks for four seasons \u2014 throwing for 13,150 yards \u2014 before playing collegiately for Boise State, Louisiana Tech and Wake Forest.<\/p>\n Hank threw for 172 yards in Boise State\u2019s 26-17 upset of then-No. 10 BYU in 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cThe great thing about Bear is he had two older brothers that were Division I football players. So he grew up knowing that is what he wanted to do,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWhen he was in junior high, he was going to their practices. He was around it for a long time, so he is really calm, and he is just used to it. He is used to college football. It is not a big thing for him.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilson said Bear regularly played against some of the best teams in California, if not the nation, for three years (he made one start his freshman year) and is as equipped to handle Power Four competition as any freshman QB in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wilson would say, tongue only partly planted in cheek, that Murrieta Valley\u2019s best plays the past few years happened when everybody else was covered.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause then Bear runs with the football, and no one can tackle him,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n \u201cOn paper, he is a true freshman quarterback, but I think mentally he is a lot further along than that. He is really smart, and he is not bright-eyed. He expects to play. \u2026 He is a quiet leader. He is not a big yeller or anything like that. He is just very quiet, very likable.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 \u00a0Murrieta Valley coach George Wilson, on his former QB, Bear Bachmeier<\/p>\n The coach said one of Bear\u2019s greatest strengths is his intelligence.<\/p>\n \u201cOn paper, he is a true freshman quarterback, but I think mentally he is a lot further along than that,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cHe is really smart, and he is not bright-eyed. He expects to play. \u2026 He is a quiet leader. He is not a big yeller or anything like that. He is just very quiet, very likable.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilson also coached Hank and Tiger Bachmeier. Tiger was a senior when Bear was a sophomore<\/a>. Another brother, Buck, is on Murrieta Valley\u2019s freshman team this year as a left-handed quarterback. Their sister, Ella, recently completed a standout career in track and field (multiple events, including pentathlon) at Division III University of Redlands and was named West Region Women\u2019s Field Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have to say that Bear is a different player than Hank,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cBear has a lot more athleticism. Hank is a very accurate pocket passer, a great pocket passer, where Bear has that added dimension where he is so big and strong that he can bring the ball down and pick up a first down very well.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilson said a common characteristic that all the siblings possess is their determination and grit.<\/p>\n \u201cBear\u2019s physical toughness is as good as I have ever been around,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, unless it is catastrophic, he is going to take hits. He is a tough, tough kid.\u201d<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ENMQNA3QDRBJPJDRGX64EIEICY.jpg\")
BYU wide receiver Tiger Bachmeier catches a pass during practice Aug. 15, 2025, in Provo. The Stanford transfer is expected to play a key role in the Cougars’ receiving rotation. | Jaren Wilkey\/BYU Photo <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Wilson, 12-year head football coach at Murrieta Valley High School in Southern California, was in the administrators\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,3309],"class_list":{"0":"post-311149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news-feed-local"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115078040769425336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}