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On-Field Dispatches From the First Practice of UCLA's Chip Kelly Era

For all the talk in recent years around quarterbacks arriving in Westwood as potential saviors (Brett Hundley and Josh Rosen), UCLA football received its biggest jolt in years when the Bruins beat out Florida and other top programs in the battle for Chip Kelly last winter. I’ve lived in Southern California for close to 20 years, and this is the first time UCLA has generated more buzz than its crosstown rival USC. Kelly was last seen on a college sideline dominating the west at Oregon, where he went 46–7 and finished with the No. 3, No. 4 and No.