UCLA’s juniors participated in the team’s senior-day sendoff last season at the Rose Bowl, something interim coach Jedd Fisch asked them to do even with so much uncertainty hanging over the program in the wake of coach Jim Mora’s dismissal only days earlier.
“A lot of us didn’t know what the future was for any of us,” receiver Christian Pabico, now a senior, said this week.
Pabico had to tell confused family members that he was coming back for the 2018 season, but he’ll be among a small group of seniors and graduate transfers making their final appearance at the Rose Bowl on Saturday when the Bruins (3-8 overall, 3-5 Pac-12 Conference) face Stanford (6-4, 4-3).