In Reply to: Widly devoid of facts or logic posted by Deplorable on September 24, 2025 at 08:30:50
Chip was hired in November of 2017. NIL was not a thing until the summer of 2021. Thus, to say Chip couldn't recruit due to lack of NIL is a huge lie.
Charbonnet transferred to UCLA before NIL.
Joshua Kelley walked-on to UCLA under Mora and was gone before the NIL era even began.
I'm not sure why you give him credit for "enduring" Covid. He hardly had to work for the $6 million UCLA paid him for that (3rd straight losing) season. Did the rest of the P-12 (and the world at-large) not endure Covid as bravely as Chip did?
There was nothing "arising" about UCLA football in the fall of 2023. UCLA lost to eventual 3-9 ASU (who played a tight end at QB), at home, on November 11. Then, after beating USC, UCLA lost, again at home, to an eventual 6-7 Cal team by a score of 33-7, on November 25th.
In addition, this "arising" was largely aided and abetted by two of the easiest non-conference schedules in the history of the school in 2022 and 2023, which included UCLA's first ever game against an FCS opponent.
Please explain to me how a program is "arising" when it had the same conference record in Year Six (4-5) as it did in Year Two.
Here are the actual facts in place of your BS:
-Chip could still coach, but he hated to recruit.
-The transfer portal came along just in time to allow Chip to stay afloat.
-At the same time, he used the portal as an excuse for his neglect of high school recruiting, wrongly believing (like you and many others at the time) that "high school recruiting doesn't matter anymore" (a proposition that has since been thoroughly debunked).
-The first few years were so bad and so devoid of positive buzz about the program that it became impossible to recover.
-Chip was actively seeking to leave UCLA more than a year before he actually did.
-When Chip finally brought in his star QB of the future, he f'd it up.
-Chip left little talent on the roster.
-UCLA indulged a massive food and nutrition budget under Chip, which was all based on a bunch of kooky nonsense.
-Chip believed he had a special ability to scout players beyond the normal big/strong/fast criteria. He did not. More kooky nonsense.