UCLA continues to identify players its targeting at Mater Dei, this time it’s by extending a scholarship offer to 2024 defensive back Jeilani Davis

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After already securing one preferred walk-on offensive tackle earlier this month, UCLA has offered another.

Miles Medina of Buena HS in Ventura picked up one yesterday.

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Most importantly for UCLA: Edge rusher Laiatu Latu was not on it so any worries about him leaving for the draft are now put to rest

Football Natty v Basketball Natty - Which would cause you more happiness.

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This week, Bruins head coach Mick Cronin said he expects to go deeper into his bench early tonight since ASU regularly has 10 players in its rotation. He acknowledged it can be tough for young players to get in a rhythm without consistent playing time.

“It’s tough because they don’t get a lot of extended minutes,” Cronin said of his freshmen on the bench. “Our starters are not going to be able to log and play the ironman-type minutes against Arizona State. So, I would say a big key against Arizona State is going to be Dylan (Andrews), Will (McClendon), Abramo (Canka), Kenny (Nwuba), Mac (Etienne). Those guys are going to have to give us some quality minutes.”

Mater Dei’s Khristian Dunbar-Hawkins, a four-star cornerback in the 2024 class, has UCLA on his list of 11 schools

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Jaden Reddell, a 2024 wide receiver from Missouri, picked up an offer today.

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Right here:

According to longtime college basketball and March Madness bracket projector Joe Lunardi of ESPN, a sweep of the Arizona schools would vault the Bruins into a No. 1 seed

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I would think that if any athlete at a P12 or Big 10 Program was involved in a shooting, there would be serious consequences within/for the athletic program. I mean what kind of kids are they admitting to the university and allowing into the program? THAT falls on the HC, AD and ultimately the President of the school. What parent would knowingly want their young adult child to attend Alabama and be anywhere near the athletes in their athletic program? Same goes for any SEC school until I was shown otherwise. And, it goes for non-athletes as well. I have a daughter that's a Jr and will be applying to colleges next year. I want her to have a full college experience, but I'd honestly prefer her not be on campus at a university with a big-time athletic program...save
UCLA as I more or less know the score there...

UCLA senior forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. and junior guard Jaylen Clark are among the 50 players on the midseason watch list for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, given annually to the most outstanding men’s college basketball player from the U.S. Basketball Writers’ Association,

They represent half of the players from the Pac-12 on the list, joining Arizona’s duo of Azuolas Tubelis and Oumar Ballo.

The full release is coming this week after approval by the ADs in ranked choice voting, according to longtime writer John Canzano. Nine-game conference schedule again.

UCLA’s schedule will end the season with 8 consecutive games after its open week in Week 5 of the season.

So the Bruins won’t have the fortune of having their schedule split down the middle like this past season. Health down the stretch will already be something to watch for a program that prides itself on conditioning.

Kind of surprised when Jaime Jaquez Jr. brought it up that it sounds like it was the first anyone had heard of it.

Mick Cronin seems to have always been big on deflections based on everything I’ve picked up on less than a full season into covering the team, so this being a fresh angle about the team kind of caught me off guard considering how long some of the others had been on the beat:

RB Delon Thompson of St. Bonaventure, the state’s third-leading rusher, is a physical back at 5-foot-9 and 196 pounds. Watched his team play Inglewood in August and he ran for 200+ yards and 3 TDs. He’s a workhorse.

He’s widely considered one of the top uncommitted RBs in the area. Thompson is from the same program that produced Florida State star and former NFL running back Lorenzo Booker, who mentors Thompson.

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Here is a different point of view.

https://www.lafbnetwork.com/la-foot...-day-to-declare-for-the-nfl-draft-latu-going/

Latu was the third-best in the country, according to Pro Football Focus

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UCLA pivotal game this week.

Will he be eligible for spring practice?

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No real shock here, but Zach Charbonnet has announced his plans to forgo his remaining eligibility at UCLA in favor of entering his name in the NFL draft. Today is the last day for early entrants to make a decision.

Mick speaks in 5 mins