Set your notifications. Check your timeline. Pull up your favorite recruiting website.
Otherwise you might miss the next high school prospect committing to play for newUCLA football coach Bob Chesney.
Over a four-day span last week, the Bruins received seven commitments. When a reporter jokingly mentioned after theBruins’ spring gameon Saturday that there was someone committing every five minutes, Chesney laughed.
“We just got another one on the field out there,” Chesney said, “so you’re right.”
Edge rusher Godschoice Eboigbodin announced that he was also coming Wednesday, giving theBruins 17 commitmentsand a class that Rivals.com ranked No. 11 in the nation.
All before any players took official visits — or Chesney coached his first game with the Bruins. The belief is strong in what this coach is already doing.
“He told me he’s building something special, and I’m up there, I see it, I see it frequently,” said Juju Johnson, a star cornerback from Long Beach Poly High, “so I trust his process and his vision — I see the same thing he does.”
Johnson, currently the Bruins’ highest-rated player, is one of eight four-star prospects who have committed to UCLA — more than the Bruins’ previous four classes combined.
Chesney’s early recruiting success is reminiscent of the job that predecessor Jim Mora did upon his arrival on campus in 2011 and a reminder that UCLA once stockpiled talent before slipping considerably under coaches Chip Kelly and DeShaun Foster.
“People are asking, ‘How is UCLA doing this?’ almost like they’re talking about Idaho State, right?” Greg Biggins, a national recruiting analyst forRivals.com, told The California Post. “UCLA actually traditionally has been a recruiting power and they’ve been so irrelevant for so long, but they have a great head coach now in terms of just the energy and how the whole staff has been really aggressive.”
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