“Player safety is at a premium,” UCLA Head Coach Jim Mora said regarding the Breland Brandt incident at his weekly Monday press conference. Brandt was called a “quitter” by an unnamed UCLA Football staffer, whom Mora said was “not a coach,” after the Bruin linebacker made the decision to medically retire from football. Unsurprisingly, Mora took an apologetic tone towards the incident. But, because the employee still appears to be employed by UCLA, it may simply be too little, too late for many Bruin fans.
Mora’s full statement on the Brandt incident:
Yeah I had heard that there was an exchange, an unfortunate exchange, between one of our staff members that was not a coach and Breland that took place.