After the first practice of Big Game week, Cal head coach Justin Wilcox called for linebacker David Ortega Jr. to break down practice - a role normally reserved for captains and position-group leaders. No one even questioned why was a scout-teamer, who has played in only one game during his four-year career, was leading the practice-closing huddle. There’s not a player on the roster who understands the Cal-Stanford rivalry better than Ortega, a guy who literally grew up at Memorial Stadium and whose family has been part of the Berkeley community for 30 years. “I’ve wanted to be a Cal football player ever since I was born,” Ortega Jr.