Like a desert sunset awash in soft shades of bluish purple and red, the hues of UCLA’s football team are changing by the moment.
What you see now quickly melds into something different. Eventually it will fade to black, heralding the start of a new dawn.
Players and coaches repeatedly have said it’s the 2017 UCLA Bruins who will face Kansas State in the Cactus Bowl on Tuesday before the Chip Kelly era fully gets underway. But these Bruins are quite unlike the ones who opened the season with so much promise.
Coach Jim Mora and two assistants are gone as a result of the team’s fading fortunes.