Hey, UCLA Bruins. Hey, Coach Skipper and Nico Iamaleava and Jer-ry Neuheisel.

It’s been a few days and I wanted to reach out and say sorry, guys, that I missed your party.

Going to be totally transparent here; I got the invitation and I tossed it in the recycling bin.

I did.

Because I saw that your special guest was No. 7-in-the-country Penn State. And that it was happening on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in my already busy week, with the Dodgers’ playoffs in full swing and the NBA teams opening training camp and even some AYSO action sprinkled in.

I just figured there were better places to be than the Rose Bowl. And I know I wasn’t alone.

Especially because we assumed we knew what you had planned, and it sounded like more of the same – same sad song about a winless, rudderless gr

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