LOS ANGELES — Whether we just met L.A.’s next great coach or just the latest, merely mortal UCLA football head man, I don’t know.

I do know that the Bruins’ band played Bob Chesney on stage Tuesday for his introductory acceptance speech, as if hoping the 48-year-old Pennsylvanian’s list of thank-yous grows exponentially by the season and that he’ll stay as long as he likes, and that that’s a long time.

Time, of course, is the only thing that will tell how Chesney’s Bruins will do at the box office. We’ll have to wait and see whether UCLA fans will be buying tickets for another of his successful sequels following his successful indie projects Salve Regina, Assumption, Holy Cross and, his latest hit, James Madison.

Tune in to see whether the coach who can do a lot with a little can also

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