What Happened to UCLA Football? 

I'm hearing excuses

@@madhatter1110 honestly i just think he's saying it like it is. i'm a UCLA student and i love my bruins, but for LA sports the turnout just isn't that great if you're not great unless you're the Lakers. not having a stadium on campus definitely hurts tho which is why more of the undergrad population seems to like basketball due to pauley pavillion being a 5 minute walk from the dorms

@@InterLangCenter 3 miles away from campus sounds pretty good. we're 25 miles away from our stadium

i've always thought that this is an underrated reason why UCLA just can't get off the ground in football, yet noone raises it (except you). if you live in westwood or anywhere on the westside out here, going to the rose bowl is an all day adventure for you with regular l.a. traffic. for a 1230 kickoff say, you would have to leave from westwood no later than 1045 to be in your seat by kickoff. if you're stopping to get gas, money or food to smuggle in (coliseum food is way better than the rose bowl's offerings), you have to leave earlier. then you have to turn around and do it all in reverse to get all the way back out to west l.a. after the bruins lose. if the game ends at 400 let's say, you aren't getting back until 600 at the earliest, and that's IF traffic is o.k. and there's nothing else going on on your way home (USC traffic, dodgers, kings, lakers, accidents, etc.). the rose bowl is hard to get into and hard to get out of. UCLA home games are an all day thing, and a ton of people (students and fans) don't want to put in the time for that for a bad team, even when tippety top opponents like oklahoma comes in. i've never been able to figure out why they can't get a 50-55,000 seat stadium up and running on campus. they already own the land there (drake stadium makes the most sense to me for a site), have a zillion high roller alumni who'd be happy to donate i think. sure, the neighbors would raise a fuss, with bel air right on the other side of sunset and westwood right there) but if a school like baylor or the u. of minnesota can get a stadium up a running (and baylor's stadium is gorgeous), there is zero reason why UCLA can't. i know their lease with the rose bowl has like 20 years to go, and there's no opt out, so i looks like they're screwed. to that end, i think they should tarp off some seats in the end zones near the top at the rose bowl with huge banners with their rose bowl wins, conference titles, retired #s on them to make the place a little more homey. 90,000 seats clearly aren't needed, except for big-game non-cons and USC. i drive uber part-time. on the day of the texas a&m game, i got a ride to take a couple to the rose bowl about 3 hours before the game. i was expecting traffic, but there was none. none. we just pulled right up to as close to the front of the rose bowl as we could get, they got their stuff out of the trunk, and went in. this was like, as i said. 3 hours before kickoff of your opener against a fairly high-profile opponent. also, i don't know how many 17-18 year old guys dream about playing at the rose bowl in 2020. maybe their dads do. but they don't. the rose bowl is part of the problem for UCLA, not the solution. this new AD they have needs to make getting an on campus stadium up and running, as high school kids see 50,000 empty seats on tv, and half the people who are there cheering for the other team and UCLA losing, and look elsewhere, even with all the obvious advantages that a place like UCLA (and USC for that matter) have. tv exposure. great weather. hot girls. a path to the nfl if you're lucky. but watching a game at the rose bowl on tv is borderline depressing. the empty seats are way more obvious during the day than at night. it's so quiet, in a way that the coliseum isn't, even when there's a small crowd at the coliseum too. the stadium is a bigger problem for the bruins than UCLA lets on, largely for political reasons. they need to get out of the lease with the city of pasadena, even if it's to go to sofi stadium out here for 2-3 years as a bridge to an on- campus stadium. it needs to be priority one.

I have only missed two games since they moved to the Rose Bowl in 1982

Now both the football and bball team are trash

Just finished watching that rivalry game. Great game. Best I’ve ever personally watched. But........ FIGHT ON!!!!! ♥️💛♥️💛♥️💛♥️💛♥️💛♥️💛♥️💛♥️💛✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼

Haha I just started watching All-American today, Spencer Paysinger went to Oregon though.

LMAO

the funny thing is, in the real world , most Pac 12 schools recruit the heaviest out of Southern California...

lol lol

😂😂😂

I appreciate that, I'm glad you enjoy them!

@@JKJ002 you need to learn the difference between less and fewer.

Agreed. I'm one of the Semi OGs. Jason, we headed to 100k

Jason0662 hey man I’m a huge fan, love the videos. One thing that may help you though is adding a style or something to your videos that make them unique. Like Jxmy had Trap sax, some sort of intro like that.

there is enough talent in cali to go around!i ps i hope they continue to to underperform it helps my wolverines get commits out of cali! lol

Washington in the 90s is considered one of the greatest teams in college football. And in the 80s and 90s UCLA was the school in LA. ASU was great in mid 90s as well playing for national title

Wait lol you think all those teams rose up because of “USC’s Downfall” This isn’t the early 2000’s anymore the pac12/10 historically has been pretty balanced USC definitely has had some of the more dominant teams recently but they’ve had down times too.

During the Dick Vermiel and Terrry Donaugh (bad spelling)UCLA was a power house program.Were always a ranked program.But since then not so much to talk about.

UCLA in basketball.

Well of course ... USC was a dynasty back in the early 2000s with reggie Bush and Matt lienart

@Skip slick, USC is a blue blood. Been successful before Pete Carroll. The late 1920s to 1940s, early 60’a to late 80’s (Howard Jones, John McKay, John Robinson). UCLA is a basketball blue blood, USC is a football blue blood

@@mattrancho if we're being honest here UCLA hasn't had much more success than USC in basketball in recent years.

@@westcoastnative2523 i agree that the 2010s weren't a great decade for UCLA basketball, but they still had a much better decade than USC did

Who should he hire should he fire Kelly? Where will AG Jarmond get the money to pay Kelly off when the Athletic Dept has made ZERO money since March?

Chip Kelly is the only thing keeping the program afloat.

Thank you!! Will do!

I feel personally attacked

Curt w Sorry 😂😂

Is Auburn really that bad off??

Bill Jones They’re not bad but they always fail to live up to expectations.

Real American Studios I’m a Californian but a Tennessee fan. What the hell happened to that program? Phil Fulmer that good?

I agree 100%. The thumbnails are definitely something I will look to work on. Thank you for the suggestion and the support!

@orecoast 1961 is Oregon in the top 5 AP Polls or FBS polls like they were a few years ago? No. Plus my post wasn't about Oregon, it was about UCLA and the pac 12 suffering and local LA talent leaving to go play in those other conferences. Some of the top talent has been committing to Alabama,Oklahoma etc.

Thank you!!

Yeah as an SC fan Hundley drove us nuts those yrs , on 3rd and long you knew he was gonna take off and you still couldn’t stop him.

Not when they’re good which happens every now and then.

This one actually got a copyright strike, which was unfortunate, but I generally do avoid copyright strikes by finding videos that weren't on TV broadcasts like ESPN, CBS, FOX, etc. and finding the videos recorded by the teams RU-vid channels. Basically, as long as it is not a video clip from a TV Broadcast, it likely won't get copyright striked

@The Greg As long as they differentiate between the two Jim Moras in some way, it doesn't matter to me how they do it. "Jim L. Mora" would have also worked.

Trust the Process!!!

They’ll be back soon!!

Jason0662 yeah onces I get there

Yeah that brutal November southern California weather. I can't believe outdoor games are even legal due the risk of hypothermia, frostbite and even death.

tjvw94 we had 2 games last season kickoff in the 90’s and drop below 40 by the end of the game. That’s a big dip. You’re not gunna make me feel guilty for getting cold when it dips in to the 30’s. I pay an exorbitant mortgage and high cost of living surrounded by insane neo-liberal sociopaths in order to avoid shitty weather year round. I’m not ashamed to admit it.

Pac-12 refs lol

@The Wretched Of The Earth I won't disagree with you about UCLA sports having fairweather fans. However, I'd argue that any organization/team with a legacy of success has them, and UCLA has the 2nd most national championships (in all sports combined), only behind Stanford, a title that we held until only a couple years ago. Students cheer on a competitive product. I've seen the bottom ring at Pauley sell out for Women's and Men's volleyball. There were a significant amount of fans for the gymnastics finals. Even a decent amount of people show up to baseball games despite the stadium not being on campus. Student attendance is influenced by 2 factors. 1 is obviously team success, but the 2nd reason is UCLA's quarter system. Personally, I love the quarter system from an academic standpoint, but the side effect of it is that students will have 1, maybe 2 days a week where they have a significant amount of free time. Academically, it's way less punishing for kids to go to football or basketball games if they're on the semester system because they just have more free time on their hands. And for what it's worth, I think UCLA is a better school than Duke academically, but not by much. Both are good institutions!

why he isnt touching the ball alot more. wheel routes out of the backfield. lining him up in a slot and getting a one on one with a linebacker, game over.

@@biglo9889 I believe last year he was out because of academic issues

@@nikiluskelly3973 you would be right. i forgot about that.

BIG LO plus Demetric Felton has stepped in that role

Has to be it.

What progress?

Ali Ahmed nvm you can’t see it

I see it, good things take time.

Not in the mid to late 90s. USC was struggling under Paul Hackett when Cade McNown and company were dominating at UCLA

@@meloyellowduck Exactly I dont think many of these commenters were alive in the 90s otherwise they would know. It was the rescheduled Miami game that was the start of the downfall

You may be right.

I think you have to look a bit deeper as to why the talent didn’t develop. The pattern I saw which many bad football programs do is play too many true freshmen. You go back to Mora’s years and he would play guys only a couple game but burn a year of eligibility. You go back to the 2013 season and Mora recruited 5 linebackers including Myles Jack and all 5 played as true frosh. The others were Deon Hollins, Isaako Savaieana, Cameron Judge, and Jayon Brown. When the Bruins defense started to collapse you cold see the inexperience at LB. If UCLA had 2 or 3 of these guys as 5th year seniors then they could have brought veteran leadership and maturity. And there have the issue for many years of mediocre UCLA football. They are always seen as young and inexperienced because the stupid UCLA fan bass thinks true frosh are the answer to the problems but in reality they just compound the constant same cycle of 2 mediocre years by a true frosh and true sophomore then they give up on them. The O line has always been plagued by too many true frosh and the same with many positions. There are too many UCLA juniors who leave early and don’t even get drafted or are low round picks. This is a huge problem also. Canceling the 2020 season is a blessing in disguise perhaps. Now they have another year to get better and ideally guys will stay for their 5th year. UCLA doesn’t encourage players staying and contributing for their 5th year anymore. Go back to 1998 which was UCLA’s last Pac title and you will see many seniors on that time at least on offense. The defense collapsed because yet again too many true frosh.

I thought it was all over when they got him UCLA is back !

Exactly, his last 3yrs at UCLA he had so many key injuries! To many players were getting hurt in practice with season ending injuries!

Before you were born in the 90s lol