How is UCLA so bad at Football and Track & Field

This is a lie and negative recruiting at its lowest form. There is no noise about dropping the program. The truth is worse, Mia's story is not unique, many top level athletes have wanted to come to Westwood over the last 7 seasons, only to either be ignored, or for the staff to drop the ball. The current regime is treading water, and trash! It is why I stopped giving money to them decades ago, unlike bball.

Alumni base is delusional and really thinks in 1970s terms. They believe UCLA should be able to exist on its name, like back in the day when everyone aspired to be a Bruin. They were years slow in embracing NIL and still fight it. A huge reason Chip Kelly left. As for track, it is bad management that led to bad to bad hires and stupid philosophies. The result is a mediocre mentality that can only put relays on the track

Who in the world is Mia?

Chip Kelly was smart to jump off a sinking ship. Management in Athletics at UCLA is beyond repair. They need to clean house with all the upper level management in athletics. The coaches in Track & Field get the sh!t end of there stick at UCLA. They are under paid and have to answer to oblivious associate AD's and oblivious AD himself that have their hands tied.

The problem at UCLA comes from the top.

Both Chip and UCLA AD are at fault. Chip has 0 motivation for recruiting. Every class of recruits under his tenure were much worse than when Mora was the HC. Keep in mind Chip's early years were before NIL, so NIL only compounded Chip's problems but he absolutely is at fault for low effort pre NIL and then not adapting to NIL.

UCLA needs a new athletic director as well, current AD has already fumbled a lot of critical decisions. Like extending Chip after the 2022 season, which is why UCLA wouldn't fire Chip- he had to leave on his own because they didn't want to pay his guaranteed money. He doesn't have the support of the donors anymore

UCLA was founded in 1881 as a teacher's college to educate secondary school teachers for millions of new Californians.

The founders never imagined that Los Angeles would become the center of world and the most advanced civilization in the history of mankind.

UCLA should form it's own for-profit Professional College league with six football, six basketball teams. The franchises would be bought and sold on the open market.

UCLA should fire the administrators. Time to stop checking the boxes and get those associate AD’s, compliance officers’s and the AD the heck out of Westwood. UCLA athletics are being ruined by these jack@sses. It’s sad to watch and getting old.

What's really disappointing is that UCLA athletics could be profitable if ran well. I wish we would take notes from Michigan for what a academic and sports powerhouse can be

Oh dear.

In the ‘80s snd ‘70s ucla had free tuition for Californians (free tuition!), anybody could get accepted, and scholarships (for room or board) were unlimited. If you’re wanting to “make ucla great again” like back then, you’re going to have to find an AD who has a time machine.

How come UCLA has no NIL money?
UCLA has a massive alumni base in one of the wealthiest parts of the country.

Chip Kelly knows what's up. So many cross country road trips where travel will be a lot of the players and home games at the Rose Bowl are BORING! With how much Big 10 alumni is already in So Cal that will attend games in LA and sprinkle in that awful commute from Westwood to the Rose Bowl in weekend traffic....literally every game will be an away game. Big 10 fans travel much better too! This is only going to get worse.

They don’t give a sh!t about sports. They live in the past with the 70’s and 80’s and think kids will pick UCLA because of the name. At the end of the day money talks and UCLA and its degree doesn’t mean as much anymore. They won’t play the NIL game and have terrible athletic management

UCLA basketball just lost to USC at home.

WTF is going on on Westwood. They literally suck at every sport

The men’s basket ball just lost 4 in a row. Way to go Westwood. JW is turning in his grave. This AD is destroying UCLA

This will be the trend moving forward. Not just UCLA, but any school that doesn't want to play the NIL Game. ULCA does not care about athletes or athletics and it's obvious. The UC's care more about diversity then hiring who's actually qualified. The NCAA is losing power day by day.

Look at this article about Dartmouth Basketball.

washingtonpost.com

Analysis | After a historic union vote at Dartmouth, what’s next for college sports?

Dartmouth men’s basketball players voted Tuesday to form a union, and the fallout will help determine the future of college sports.

Link:www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/03/...

UCLA women’s Basketball number 2 seed choked in the tournament. Westwood is becoming more embarrassing year by year. Time to give the boot to Martin Jarmond.

Reason why UCLA track is bad:

Sean Brosnan isn’t coaching it

lolz

This will undoubtedly be the downfall of all UC schools and all other California schools. The only California University playing the NIL game is USC.

I graduated from HS in '81, and went to another UC. "Anybody" couldn't get accepted, UCLA was fairly competitive, second only to Berkeley in difficulty to get in. There was tuition, though nothing like today, and "scholarships for room and board" were only for the lowest income students.