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The Good: the perforance of Carson Schlesinger, the dude was all over the place with 12 tackles and 2 sack. Our defense held the high flying offense to a measly 234 total yards and scoreless in the first half. Garbers played well, keeping drives alive with his passing….25 OF 36, 295 yards and 1 TD…unfortunately he also had 3 costly INT that cost UCLA a win. Kudos to J. Michael for having a great game!

The Bad: Our running game… 36 rushing yards. Harden had only 7 carries for 15 yards or 2.1 ypc. Berger had 8 carries for 20 yards.

The Ugly: the penalties…UCLA had over a 100 yds of penalties that stalled drives or helped Minnesota offense.

DeShaun Foster:

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QB Ethan Garbers and LB Carson Schwesinger:

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USC got screwed in OT twice. Now they blew a big call that led to an OSU touchdown. Sometimes I wonder if there is a far larger shady underbelly to that profession across major sports. There is so much money riding on outcomes. Gambling money, tv money, athletics departments money…

This time to Penn State. That’s 3 losses thus far and counting. Well deserved! Their website is in meltdown!

I don’t have my finger on the pulse of how happy Dodgers fans and management is with him.

It seems like it really is the premier conference from top to bottom. The PAC schools that joined have underperformed for the most part and previous Big 10 teams that UCLA has been on par with or better than have shown they aren’t rollovers.

We have to find a way to win. Get some pride and kick their butt. Bruins win at home!!!!!

The CIF Southern Section denied Long Beach Poly quarterback and UCLA 2025 commit Madden Iamaleava’s push to be cleared for immediate competition after transferring from Downey (Calif.) Warren after one game.

In the notes on the transfer portal section of the CIF-SS website it states: “Denied athletic eligibility in all sports at Poly/Long Beach or any CIF high school until October 1, 2026.”

This kid was a walk-on two years ago to our starting LT in just 10 games?? I’m getting ahead of myself BUT can Coach Castillo develop him into an NFL caliber OLman? Will he be the cornerstone of our OL for 2-3 years?

Intriguing questions

From Rivals national recruiting analyst Greg Smith:

I’m back on campus this morning. Practice gets going at 9:15 a.m., with DeShaun and likely one player speaking afterward.

Will keep an eye out for Garbers’ activity and do my best to keep tabs on the far corner of the field to see if anything’s changed on offensive line as far as reps and Reuben Unije’s availability.

Jeff Ulbrich, for those that remember, was UCLA's Linebackers coach then DC for a year or two under CJMjr. I was a fan, despite one immature public dust up he had
with CJMjr on the game sideline.

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UCLA was the latest program to offer La Mirada (Calif.) Glendora four-star shooting guard Gene Roebuck.

He’s ranked 19th nationally in the 2027 class.

He also has offers Cal and Kansas over the last two days.

After a proposal to eliminate the spring transfer window, the NCAA DI Council announced Tuesday it will remain but the transfer window’s number of combined days was reduced from 45 to 30 days.

The dates are:

December 9-28 and April 16-25

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As things near the home stretch for the 2025 class before early signing day in December, the UCLA staff extended an offer Tuesday to Sanger (Calif.) receiver Bryson Baker.

Baker has seen interest in him pick up lately, with Cal, Michigan State and Washington State among the notable programs who offered him in September.

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Dealing with a stiff neck so I won’t be there this morning.

I’ll pass along UCLA Athletics’ video of the interviews after practice and produce a story off that.

It will be another 9 a.m. PT kickoff when UCLA heads to Rutgers on Oct. 19

I thought we're the only one with OL problems. They're welcomed to steal ours

UCLA will practice at 5:15 p.m. tonight and we’ll talk to DeShaun just before practice

I think UCLA will play better...perhaps not win it, but they won't be quite as ragged. I think attendance will be roughly the same as the Indiana game...45K plus. I think that UCLA will have a better distribution at the RB plus Harden is a little beat up so Jones and Berger will probably get the ball more. I think that UCLA has finally took a oline that they like with Prongos, Holstege, Sam Yoon, Carlin and DiGiorgio. I believe that Garbers will return to the starting lineup.
Your thoughts on the game?

How the mighty has fallen

The great thing about a morning kickoff is early grades filed by PFF.

I’ll have those posted within the hour or around the top of the next hour. Sorting through them now. Spoiler alert: Justyn Martin was the second-highest graded player on offense and fourth-best overall.