It is hard being a UCLA football fan and no one knows that better than Jake Merrifield, UCLA alum, season ticket holder since 1998 and one of the hosts/creators of ‘What’s Bruin Show’, a podcast about anything and everything Bruin sports.
In this very special episode of WBS, I tag along with Merrifield as he chronicles the UCLA football program over the last 20 years, venturing from the Bob Toledo era all the way up to the start of the 2018 season, the season Chip Kelly takes over.
For Bruins fans, the last 20 years have been hard to deal with whether it is UCLA’s loss to Miami and the underwhelming Rose Bowl in 1998, or three underperforming coaches that have not exactly kept the Bruins up to the standards of a premier college football program.