The UCLA Football program is currently at a fork in the road. Should the Bruins continue straight ahead? Should they continue on the path they’ve been on for almost 100 years? Or should they begin to veer?
Straying from the path has plenty of risks and there’s comfort in the familiar. However, if the Bruins are ever going to reach their full potential, and there’s no reason they can’t, they’re going to have to get the nation to forget almost a century of history.
Let’s look at the first major contributor to the “gutty little Bruins” perception.