The lobby of UCLA’s Wasserman Football Center this week revealed a blend of old and new, past and present.
Along a bank of windows sat a passel of Pac-10 Conference championship trophies, none more recent than 1998. Plastered on a nearby wall were pictures of legends from what felt like a long-lost era. They included Gary Beban, the school’s only Heisman Trophy winner, more than a half-century ago, and pre-civil rights movement racial pioneers Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode and Kenny Washington.
Overlooking it all above a receptionist’s desk was a massive video board flashing a series of images.