UCLA Bruins' Culture Shift Echoes Past Rose Bowl Glory

How about them Bruins? Yeah, man. Love it. I talked to Dynamite Stevens, old linebacker Ray Bell, and the boys, Theodore Nichols. The crew to have the 50th anniversary of the Rose Bowl victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes upcoming. And it's Dick Romell, all the guys that went through that journey, was special. And this team, they have a lot of similarities. to that and just go out and get the job done. And they seem fearless, and it's been fun to watch them. What was the difference when you were there at UCLA when you had Dick Romell, and then eventually Terry Donahue took over for that program? And it just seemed to be a different UCLA, and it's been wobbling in the desert for the last 30 or 40 years here, Doc. And now all of a sudden, you bring Chesney in. You know, he just changed the culture. Is it really just a culture thing? Yeah, well, you mentioned Vermeule and Donahue. Who's duplicated them? Nobody. And Chesney comes in. He's got the same kind of traits. There is always a great leader that takes you to levels you haven't been before because so many guys that get those positions aren't worthy of them. I mean, you know it. You know it just like I know it. And a lot of the industry is just buddy, buddy, buddy, and they're just not good at their jobs. So when you get a guy that's really committed, and especially when he's a fundamentalist, like Terry Donahue, offensive line, You got to get people. It's blocking and tackling. You don't block and tackle well, you got no shot. And you attract, you know, we had John Shire, every program's got to have a quarterback. That's the one thing about this equation, it never fails. Nobody's successful with a bum at quarterback. And if you get that going and running back, we had Wendell Tyler, Eddie Ayers, those guys, everybody's got to have backs. Because the game hasn't changed that much. It's still, can you control the line of scrimmage? And then can we put pressure on your quarterback? When that changes, holler at me. Let me know. Wake me up. Wake me out of my coma.