UCLA is winless and they're currently ranked 84th in recruiting for 2019

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Perusing the national recruiting rankings this week, a major team jumped out to me: UCLA. The Bruins are 84th. The Bruins have eight commits, and no four- or five-stars.

The only Power 5 teams rated below UCLA are Utah, Kansas State, and Kansas.

That’s bad company as far as recruiting goes, especially because UCLA typically signs more four- and five-star players than those three programs combined.

I can’t figure out what UCLA is doing on the recruiting trail.

It’s not as if UCLA is aggressively pursuing and making relationships with a lot of elite recruits. By my count, UCLA has offered only 67 players. That’s fewer than Stanford, which is historically as stingy as anybody with its offers, due to the difficulty of players gaining academic admission there. And it’s far fewer than Pac-12 foes like Utah and Arizona State, both of whom have offered more than 200 players.

"I think the staff believes it’s doing better with certain recruits than we believe.

For whatever reason, they aren’t recruiting with the persistence of other programs. It’s uncertain if they perceive it that way -- whether they believe they are recruiting as persistently as other programs or they are knowingly choosing not to."

There’s a huge difference between not wanting to play the recruiting game and not showing enough love to prospect after prospect.

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