Lennox Miller, a punter, committed to the Bruins.

To avoid cluttering the other thread and make these interviews easy to find. Both were relatively short with the fan interaction going on at the same time after practice.

Foster:

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Matavao:

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I’m working on a general recruiting round-up snapshot as I go through all the interviews I still am working to get up.

I mentioned in the Rivals Camp thread that three-star tight end Vander Ploog is looking to come for an unofficial early this week. He’s extremely interested in UCLA and even already knows it’s a place he wants to add to his list of officials.

An early excerpt of what will go up later today:

Ploog has official visits lined up to Arizona State (May 31), Utah (June 14) and California (June 20). Washington, which offered last Wednesday, will also get an official sometime after Cal.

While the rule limiting official visits has been lifted, Ploog said he wants to “keep it pretty small and lock into schools I really see myself at.”

“So that’s why I’m really big on UCLA and I’m trying to lock in a visit there,” Ploog said.

Harden is on the Doak Walker list, Matavao is on the Mackey list and Ale Kaho is on the Comeback Player of the Year list.

Hours after the offer to Micah Smith, UCLA reached out to local 2026 Orange (Calif.) Lutheran four-star offensive tackle Samuelu Utu.

He’s another ranked in the Rivals250, checking in at 151st overall nationally.

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The latest from Rivals national recruiting analyst Marshall Levenson on how UCLA commits Madden Iamaleava and Colton Gumino stack up with the others committed at the position elsewhere around the conference:

He's a recent hire from McKendree as a special assistant to Coach Foster?? What are his duties??

Gets going around 8:15 a.m.

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It now looks like the Rivals redesign has corrected the issue with photo captions previously not showing up.

Here are 45 photos from Jeff McCulloch:

DeShaun addresses the media at 8 a.m.

So, I gotta say, at least on the podcast front, B10legacy podcasters are eating the shorts of P12 legacy podcasters that cover Oregon, W, SC, and UCLA. These peeps need to expand and grow their quality and coverage instead of getting subsumed. the average P12 podcaster still operates out of their apartment bedroom while the B10 guys all seem to have joined serious networks or have upped their production games. BUT, the B10 podcasters literally know ZERO about the P12. On the board front, what's the best place to go to push back on B10 storylines? Rivals only? or other good avenues?

Things get underway around 8:15 a.m.

We’ll likely get players afterward, no DeShaun until tomorrow.

UCLA center Aday Mara was on crutches and had a walking boot on his right foot as I passed by him just now while leaving campus

DeShaun addresses the media at 8 a.m.

For those that say that UCLA has no talent this coming season

Over on the USC site, Ryan Young caught up with Kyle Ford and his father, Dan, to reflect on his lone season at UCLA and the frustrations of watching the offense never consistently involving its biggest targets.

"We were assured some things over at UCLA, and I guess with the quarterback situation over there and the line situation and just Chip [Kelly] being who he is, it didn't work out," Dan Ford said. "It was early in the season, man. We kind of figured it out early in the season when [quarterback Ethan] Garbers was benched and Dante [Moore] was the starting quarterback, the line was limited -- about the third game is kind of when we started seeing ... it was just a trainwreck on offense. And then Kyle wasn't even utilized, neither was the other guy [J.Michael] Sturdivant, and we were just like, 'Dude, there is something totally wrong with this. What's going on?'"

"It was just every game continually being frustrated and not getting the results out of what you put in," Kyle Ford said. "I think it's hard to put in, put in, put in and not get anything back. Especially the caliber of player I know I am. ... Every game was frustrating. On the first drive of our year, I had two catches for 50 yards (39 yards, actually) and that's probably the most yards I had the rest of the season."

Was offered back in June

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Great shout out to Donnie Edwards for his work in supporting our Veterans during the Olympics broadcast.

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Shortly after picking up an offer Sunday night, Juju Walls told me UCLA is now one of his two finalists:

It will be the last one this week before camp resumes Monday.

Have not yet heard who we will be speaking to after today’s practice. Foster doesn’t speak again until Monday.

Big Ten Network Plus, the conference’s online streaming service, is offering a free one-year subscription ($90 value).

It automatically renews, so anyone who signs up and doesn’t want to be charged one year from now has to remember to cancel.