It wasn’t the loss to Indiana that bothered me — a lot.
It was the way we lost:
At home.
After a bye week which gave us an extra week to prepare.
In blowout fashion to an average team that also had a new coach.
I loved Deshaun Foster as a player, as a running back coach and was happy to see him take over as head football coach.
But barely two games into our foray into the Big 10 it’s painful to admit he’s not prepared for this. He had never done it before. Being a head coach is a craft and a UCLA head coach should have sone head coaching experience.
In the post game presser CDF didn’t have any answers other to say the players failed to execute.
That was an understatement.
But it was more than that.
Indiana beat us up physically in the trenches on both sides of the ball. They gave their QB all day to find his wide open receivers and gave Garbers almost no time to operate.
Our defense couldn’t get off the field; our offense couldn’t stay on it.
We’ve just finished the easy part of our schedule.
Going to be a long season.
It was the way we lost:
At home.
After a bye week which gave us an extra week to prepare.
In blowout fashion to an average team that also had a new coach.
I loved Deshaun Foster as a player, as a running back coach and was happy to see him take over as head football coach.
But barely two games into our foray into the Big 10 it’s painful to admit he’s not prepared for this. He had never done it before. Being a head coach is a craft and a UCLA head coach should have sone head coaching experience.
In the post game presser CDF didn’t have any answers other to say the players failed to execute.
That was an understatement.
But it was more than that.
Indiana beat us up physically in the trenches on both sides of the ball. They gave their QB all day to find his wide open receivers and gave Garbers almost no time to operate.
Our defense couldn’t get off the field; our offense couldn’t stay on it.
We’ve just finished the easy part of our schedule.
Going to be a long season.
