Should UCLA Have Your Attention?
About this episode
The episode discusses UCLA's surprising recruiting success and the impact of Bob Chesney's leadership on the program's future.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com SUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Alex and Richard start with the surprise of UCLA becoming one of the offseason’s best recruiting stories, then Alex brings on Ira Gorawara from The Athletic for a campus-level look at Bob Chesney’s first few months in Westwood. This subscriber episode is about whether UCLA’s current burst of money, attention, and salesmanship is the first sign that a program long trapped between Los Angeles indifference and its own underinvestment might finally be changing its shape. In this episode: * 0:00: Richard and Alex set up UCLA’s recruiting surge, the money behind it, and why Los Angeles is a hard place to matter unless you are winning or selling. * 10:49: Ira Gorawara joins to explain why Bob Chesney’s arrival has given the program a different feel than it had under recent coaches * 17:02: Chesney’s contrast with Chip Kelly and DeShaun Foster * 22:45: Whether UCLA’s donor alignment and roster spending are real enough to change the program’s ceiling. * 29:17: How durable the Bruins’ recruiting bump might be, and what counts as success over the long term * 34:29: The Rose Bowl vs. SoFi…
Topics covered
- UCLA recruiting
- college football
- Bob Chesney
- program development
- Los Angeles sports
- donor alignment
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