Im headed to Lincoln this weekend to watch the Bruins in Memorial Stadium. Is there a UCLA tailgate happening or any pre-game event for traveling Bruins?

Visiting fan coming in peace, my whole family will be driving down from the Bay Area so I can bring my 2 daughters (5 and 6) to their first Iowa football game next Friday.

We've bought parking passes and plan to tailgate a bit with some friends before the game but I was hoping to partake in other experiences for my daughters. I thought watching the Iowa team arrive and walk into the stadium might be fun but can't find any information regarding this. Any idea from prior experience when and where we can try to catch the visiting team's arrival?

Also any other cool traditions I should checkout with my kids?

Looking forward to the trip and hopefully an entertaining game for all!

I know this has been a rough season for our Bruins. Am I the only one who actually smiles when I see USC right next to us in the Big Ten standings at 1-4? I love watching them lose almost as much as watching us win. Go Bruins!!!!

Maybe we slide into a bowl game with 5 wins?

Last week we choked against Minnesota, this week we almost choked against Rutgers… but we didn’t! A win is a win!

4 of our losses were against great teams—I still think Indiana is underrated and will finish top 10, but I also think LSU is overrated and won’t.

Iowa will be tough, Nebraska will be tough, $C will be interesting. If things go right for the rest of the season… I think we could make a bowl.

Bruins win! Bruins win! Bruins win! Damn it feels good to say that!!!! Still alot to improve upon (I'm looking at you dbs) but a victory still! Garbers surprised me today, and we avoided the second half meltdown. Damn I'm stoked! So what do you all have to say? Go Bruins!

Is Rico Flores in the doghouse, or did he just get played out of the lineup ?

Hello again Bruins, it's gametime once again. I'm really still not used to these early kickoff. Well, honestly we are desperate for a victory and any type of success. As I say every week, I hope this team just plays hard and shows improvement. I also really hope Garbers stays off the field. I can't really stomach another game like last week. So with that, here is your game thread for all in game discussion, cheers, jeers, observations, and hot takes. Enjoy the game! Go Bruins!

Here to see UCLA face Rutgers for the first time ever in Piscataway, NJ. Let’s do this!

Hello Bruins. Another early kickoff, so another early pre-game thread. It is getting hard to get excited about any of these games now, but I will hope for the best. I'm just honestly hoping as a fan for a damn victory. I think these players deserve it, and I think Coach Foster does as well. I'm curious about the QB situation, Garbers, I like him but at this point in a lost season, I'd like to see someone else under center at this point. Now, here is your pre-game thread for all pre-game predictions, discussions, expectations, and gameday plans. As always, Go Bruins!

We're witnessing the salt he sowed into the earth in Westwood before departing.

Unreal.

We constantly talk about what coaches should come into the program and what UCLA deserves. I'll throw my coaching make-up (based in reality) for what I would like to see.

DC: Jimmy Rogers (South Dakota)

I would hire Jimmy Rogers, the current HC of the SDSU (South Dakota) Jackrabbits. Dude has a 20-1 record and HC, and has a salary of $310k/year. He was a LB position coach, which has always been a strong point of UCLA defense, and is winning games by 40 points.

HC: Brent Vigen (No. 1) OR Jimmy Candle (No.2)

Brent Vigen - $210k/year - HC at Montana State and boasts a 39-9 record in the Big Sky conference. Has been coached at North Dakota, Wyoming and now Montana. Dude seems to shit out championship teams. Dude had Wyoming as division champions in 2016 as OC/QB coach, and has been coaching at Montana State since 2021 and has a 32-9 record there. He clearly is recruiting, and his team is a top contender in the conference each year.

Jason Candle - $1.1Mil/year - HC at Toledo, who always runs a pretty decent program. Comes from the cradle of coaches in the MAC, and has consistently taken his team to a bowl game. Toledo is good, maybe not the best, but has good pipelines from Ohio, Penn, and around the Mid-West. Dude has a 69-37 record with Toledo, so I think he would be good at the next level.

OC: Eric Bienemy

I would keep Bienemy. Two superbowls with the chiefs, decent play calling, and can teach guys for the next level. I'd even keep him just because of his experience overall as Assistant HC.

Anyway, curious to hear everyone else's thoughts.

PS: I still love the Fos, but I am sending in an early X-mas list.

While listening to the postgame Bruin talk show Saturday, host Brian Fenley summed up this UCLA team best: they’re consistently inconsistent. Thing is, you can say that has been the programs mantra since the Toledo era.

After 98, team starts off 3-0 or 5-0, then loses to a team they should have beat, then gets blown out by one of the Arizona schools, and ends up 7-5 or 6-6 and loses in 3rd tier bowl game.

Despite the years of talent they’ve had and the number of players they’ve sent to the pros, In the 25 years I’ve rooted for this team, they are consistently inconsistent.

On to Rutgers!

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2024-10-15/ucla-football-deshaun-foster-martin-jarmond

Anyone got any insight or news? Should we be expecting to see him play?

This weekend was a perfect snapshot of everything that's wrong with UCLA Football and the long downward slog it took to get here. While Oregon was at the center of the national conversation, UCLA is an irrelevant footnote. How did we get here?

Oregon has spent the last 30 years building their football program. UCLA has spent this century dismantling football year by year.

Oregon treats football as a priority. They invested in facilities. They courted donors. They hired top flight athletic directors. They hired good coaches... Rich Brooks, Mike Bellotti, Chip Kelly, Mario Cristobal and Dan Lanning.

They've won league titles and Rose Bowls and New Years 6 games.

On Saturday night Autzen Stadium was the center of the football universe, with College Gameday in the house and the Ducks beating Ohio State in a nationally televised game. The Ducks woke up Tuesday morning to find themselves ranked #2 in the AP poll.

In 1998 UCLA was a game away from playing in the BCS title game against Tennessee. Since then, UCLA has spent nearly 3 decades taking apart the football program.

They hired incompetent ADs, who in turn hired a series of bad coaches who had few options or were not qualified... Karl Dorrell, Rick Neuheisel, Jim Mora, zombie Chip Kelly, and stuck with these coaches despite poor results because of crippling buyouts. The administration tightened academic requirements on football, meaning players with offers from Michigan, Cal, Stanford and Texas could be admitted. What other school has done this?!

UCLA had 2 years to prepare for the B1G, and did nothing at all. They started this season with a running backs coach with no coordinator or head coaching experience. It is obvious to everyone outside of UCLA that this is a disastrous hire, that Foster is not qualified and in over his head. The results are as expected,. UCLA is now 1-5, the latest loss in an empty Rose Bowl to a middling Minnesota team. The program is now hitting bottom. 1-11 is definitely on the table.

This didn't happen overnight. Oregon spent years building. UCLA spent years doing nothing.

Hi! Is the game on 11/23 more likely to be noon or afternoon or night, given how things are shaking out so far? Asking because I'm figuring out if it makes sense to book flights for the game on a tight schedule.

Ok, now I'm pretty confident we can all be pissed off.

Minnesota ain't no shitty team, but it sure as hell isn't the last top 25 teams that we faced.

There was still a little portion of the fan base willing to give this coaching staff a chance and give them more time but the coaching job during this game was inexcusable.

We all know we're here because Jarmmond did not have the guts to fire Kelly, and because Block just does not care about athletic enough to do anything about Jarmond

But man coaching staff deserves all the blame for this one.

Offense and QB play : We live by Garbers and die by Garbers

Our QB has the fate of the programm in his hands and keeps killing after keepingt it alive game after game. They executes flawlessly on the first drive. He throws a beautifull ball of the Sturdivant touchdown. And nothing else except mistake after mistake.

Oline is trash, everybody knows that, but for whatever reason he decides to chill in the pocket like a statue waiting to be toppled. Dude waited 4 full quarters before remembering that he had legs and he could use them when nobody was open and pocket was collapsing. His picks are just the tip of the iceberg. He makes so many mistakes, misses wide open receivers so many times. He's a 5th year senior playing like a freshmen. A few flashes here and there but that's it. This dude's costing us way more than what he's bringing right now and that's why everybody is calling for Martin. Martin is not necessarily better than Garbers, he didn't do anything amazing last week against Penn State. We we're scoreless until the last drive where they put their 2nd strings in the game and were just managing the clock. But this Penn State defense was miles ahead of Minnesotta's, and Martin did one thing that Garbers seemed incapable of, taking care of the ball. I would gladly take a QB throwing for 5 yards each and everytime but takes care of the ball rather than what Garbers is doing this season. He's not even getting picked on risky plays down the field, the guy is throwing INT's on routine pass plays. That is disgusting to see. But as I'll go into later, I'm pretty sure this coaching staff is way too coward to do anything about it and I'm preparing myself for a full season of that. I don't think they have the guts to make the change at QB.

Offense and RB play : What the hell happend to Harden

TJ is the biggest mystery of this season. Last year, dude was so good that he took the spot of a guy currently starting in the NFL for the Chiefs. He's unrecognisable this year. Like David Woods said on one of his podcast, dude is so undecisive. Doesn't matter if he's facing a wide hole or open grass, he seems super hesitant every time he doesn't get stopped immediately. Berger showed some promise but he was not able to do anything today. I get that we don't have any rush blocking ability on the line but just last season Harden was basically turning shit into gold. What the hell happened with him, it's almost as if he's entirely different player this year.

Offense and WR play : Feed Sturdivant and the other

That dude is a baller. Again, Oline can't block so he'll never get the deep ball but coaching staff finally understood that he was also very good with short and medium passes. He showed today how good he can be which makes last week and the whole season so far even harder to understand, he never gets the kind of targets he got today, sometimes I'm not even sure he's actually on the field. Titus Mokiao-Atimalala is back from injury, hopefully Flores will also be soon, Loya is still super reliable, Matavao is another weapon. Even backups like Keegan Jones out of the back field, Carter Shaw and Kwazi Gilmer look like good options. Gameplan seems so straightforward, Dink and Dunk teams into oblivion Dillon Gabriel / AJ Rourke style. We literraly had 2 teams in a row showing us the blueprint but our offensive coaches are too blind / dumb to see it.

One word on Gilmer though, 2nd time in a row he does something dumb on special teams. He barely avoided ejection last time but did not escape it this time. It was almost an exact copy. We get it, he plays with energy but that's just dumb. He could have been helpfull during the 2nd half but he was sitting on the bench instead.

Defense : Schwessinger and penalties

Defense stepped up today. I don't even blame them for the last TD, guys were exhausted, They were on the field for almost 3 quarters. They are to blame for the penalties though. They need to fix their discipline issues. Score might be different without some of those stupid calls.

Schwessinger is a killer. I can't believe this guy was a walk-on. Medrano is already really good but seeing him flying on the field and takcling almost everybody is one of the only positives this season. I'd say they did their job. Before the last TD they held Minnesota to 14 points. They completely shut down their running game. The 2nd touchdown was an obvious coverage mistake but appart from that, performance was solid. A competent offence could have used all those oppotunities to put us ahead 30 points and give them more time to rest but today's lost is absolutely not on them.

Coaching staff : Just a bunch of cowards

The clock management at the end of the game was criminal. Like a commenter said on the r/cfb post game thread. 4th and 1 with 2 minutes left you have to go for it. Worst case scenario, turnover on downs, they score, we still have 1:30 and our 3 timeouts to score. Instead, they punt like cowards and like they've been doing the whole season. Surrender punts during blowouts even if there's still enough time for a comeback are outrageous enough. But this decision added to all the other poor management should be a fireable offense in any properly managed programs. This staff also bears a lot of responsability for Garbers poor play. Quoting David Woods again but in order for this offense to work, Garbers has to execute it flawlessly and he's clearly not capable of it. They showed last week with Martin that they could adapt, but for whatever reason they refuse to do so on offense with Garbers. They had a great first drive. Then Minnesota adjusted. Then nothing, as soon as we saw some defensive pressure, we we're done. We had no ability to adapt, we just got outcoached, and this isn't on the players, this isn't on Jarmond or Block, it's 100% on the coaching staff.

They have the talent, but they have no right to waste it like they are currently doing. Honeymoon period is 100% over, Foster is definetly not fit for the job. Fucking tired of hearing opposing teams treating the Rose Bowl like some kind of pilgrimmage where they all get to come, have a good time and go back home with a win and lifelong memories. Fuck this, fuck finding excuses for this staff. The current situation is now also on them.

I know it won't happen cuz our athletic department is too cheap, but MAN it would be cool. I love the guy's confidence and he seems to be the next big-time coach in CFB. Wish we could grab him now (I know he just started at IU, so likely unrealistic) before a much more endowed school picks him up.

literally bruh