I'm hoping that Coach Foster has another OT to take his place. They tried him at center and I guess he didn't like it

Foster told us today they opted to do a team-bonding experience instead of a practice Thursday so this will be the last one of the spring. Addison to come.

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A pair of QBs among the Tuesday visitors

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He picked up an offer two weeks ago and will be on campus for an official visit in two weeks. Very high on UCLA.

Not a surprise given Josh Carlin’s move to center and Sam Yoon there as well

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UCLA still leads:

As many of you know, I also freelance and cover HS sports for Southern California News Group (specifically, the Daily Breeze and Long Beach Press-Telegram).

Later tonight I will be covering Long Beach Poly at Warren boys volleyball. On that Warren team is Madden Iamaleava, the 2025 four-star QB that has UCLA and Nebraska as his clear front-runners. So, that assignment is basically a happy accident.

I’ll gauge where things currently stand and the plan is to interview him and get his specific thoughts on the coaching staff, etc. and see if he’s planning to be at the Rose Bowl Saturday or on campus in the future.

They kicked us out of the Rose Bowl so won’t get a write-up until I drive back home.

Until then, here are a solid handful of shots Matt took today:

With the showcase Saturday at the Rose Bowl, that’s easily when the big wave of visitors will be taking place.

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One person for sure at Tuesday morning’s practice was Marko Luera, who previously visited for the first public practice of spring April 2.

There also were two recruits I’m trying to ID who were with CBs coach Kodi Whitfield early in Tuesday’s practice and what sounded like a transfer visitor walking by after practice with UCLA recruiting staff assistant JD Lake as we were waiting to go back inside to do interviews. So, I’ll hopefully update this once I can figure it out.

A story on the biggest development on the practice field for the past week:

Leaving the Rose Bowl, but a quick story on the news that he just released:

I’ll get to QB Ethan Garbers and DT Jay Toia soon, but for now here’s Foster:

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Until I get there later this morning, here’s a preview of the event:

Tyler Bilodeau, who started all 32 games as a sophomore at Oregon State last season, committed Saturday to UCLA.

He averaged career highs of 14.3 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 53.3% from the field.

Story to come.

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No. 15 to the Indianapolis Colts.

Since we got an assistant coach Tuesday, a bit unsure what today’s media availability after will look like going into today.

Thursdays were typically the days we got an assistant, and there’s still new assistants Tony Washington Jr., Erik Frazier and Marcus Thomas who we’ve yet to speak to since their hires. So we’ll see if another becomes made available.

Once they post the clip I’ll share it

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First, Henderson:

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It appears that we have another commit pending per the MOW cryptic messaging. If we do, and if the rumors of the combo guard from Loyola being true, we have 14 scholarship players for 13 spots. What do you suppose we do? Tell a player less than a week before the portal closes that he no longer has a spot?

What message does this send future recruits?

What happens if we go all in on mercenaries and we flop? Who will want to come here and how do we fill a roster without underclassmen in future years?

I never understood why he’s not in the NFL HOF. I have so many memories of Gabriel’s days with the Rams. All those TDs to Jack Snow, Bernie Casey, Harold Jackson.
RIP and thanks for all those Ram memories

Freelancing duties have me busier than usual at the start of a week. So instead of a write-up, here’s the full interview I did with three-star 2025 DE Chinedu Onyeagoro.

There’s still a sense he doesn’t quite know what he wants when it comes to schools atop his list (he lists several). He hasn’t provided me the dates of his upcoming visits since doing this interview but didn’t want to hold it too much longer.

Judging by the other official visit dates we’ve been made aware of, I’d say it’s safe to say his UCLA official will be around early May. I’ll provide an update once he does get back to me.

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And today’s story that went up early this morning, if you hadn’t seen it yet:

Same agents who represent Arkansas transfer left tackle Andrew Chamblee, who has his own official visit set up:

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Travis Drosos was a Mannelly Award nominee for the top player at the position in 2022.

Showing that UCLA is returning to caring about special teams more after Chip Kelly was often needled for making it an afterthought.

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