DeShaun murmured in a soft voice almost an afterthought partway (5:38) through the video interview…
“Most definitely, we will have a 100-yard grass field."
What? Say again?
A dish towel dropper announcement buried within his usual repetitive banality boilerplate.. …
…. something actually worth hearing …
Always believed practicing on an 80 yard
field put a subtle crimp psychologically on the team’s mental prep as well as its optics .. It provided an anecdotal recruiting kneecapper..
“Look at UCLA with the 80 yard practice fields ….any wonder they always fall…..short?”
Perhaps not as extreme as practicing basketball with lower rims but possibly low bridging practicing of plays that require a whole field, such as kick off returns or deep post bombs where players may unconsciously pull their punches…
..then game day the team steps on 100 yard gridirons needing a mindset “adjustment ” they shouldn’t have to deal with.
Why does Spaulding field suffer from shrinkage? Look no further than
the space hogging Meyer Lansky Center …er Luskin …..
Frankly I never understood the need to cram this unnecessary structure into the already “postage stamp” sized campus and particularly within the petite footprint area of the athletic complex.
(that postage stamp bromide was minted by the departed “Ne’er Do Well of Westwood” Donuts Guerrero…which should’ve been marked “return to sender” ).
…like, UCLA has neither a baseball field nor football stadium to call its own,,,
so we needed a frickin’ Hotel?
Which incidentally provides views of the football field that an ambitious opponent could easily surreptitiously book to surveil the practices.
Could they not have least configured it say 20 yards north or narrowed the walkway to Lot 8 so as to not condemn the football team forever wander in a shortchanged grid with funny lotto scratcher yard markers that don’t add up.
Lansky, er, Luskin would’ve served better as the real first class football facility with the luxury space, team dorms and and kitchen galley of the type say Boone Pickens built for lowly Oklahoma State…Let’s face it, it would elevate the program’s game beyond the kinda underwhelming, vertically cramped, kitchen-less Wasserman. (The omission of a galley justified Chipper spending $5 mil a year to ship in his upscale take out catering ..which come to think of it, could have paid for a galley wing being built on it…oh well.)
Yeah I know Wasserman is a vast improvement over the former Cal State level football facilities which were the retired Acosta center. But imagine if it were in
the Lansky…..er Luskin.
Anyhow, Foster divulged a glimpse something ambitious here, even an intangible. He noticed something “off” and by gawd did something about it.
100 yard practice field. ..Perhaps recalling the 100 yard games he used to routinely break off. .
Can it mean “something’s coming,” as in the old “Westside Story” sung by
Tony …(who unfortunately died at the end…)
-Could Be. Who Knows……
-Sondheim (apologies)
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