re: What's going on with UCLA?

I have been to eery corner of the lower 48 over the coarse of a decade and will tell you that UCLA has everything that a stud prospect should want in an opportunity to expand his comfort zone and explore the rest of the country. Unlike most universities, a student is not confined to a limited mindset of that college town. In other words, there is always a dozen totally different things to do no matter who you are. Whether you are a beach person, forest/wildlife type who camps, Big City Lights type, you will always have something very cool to do. Gay or straight doesn't matter either. Even if you are a soft spoken guy who just enjoys the little things, it's all good in LA.

The bottom line is that some kids are seriously longing to experience the bigger world. LA is a great place for a stud prospect to do exactly that as long as he chooses the right place for himself on a team that has a definite need for his services because the last thing that any kid wants is to be passed up way out there with little to no family support system. As long as he can successfully navigate the life of a student athlete, I could not blame a kid at all for going to LA. It's when they choose the other SEC schools that are a big old FU in LSU's face and those players should essentially not ever expect any kind of business success in La after they chose SEC rivals over the LSU Tigers.