In Reply to: Mara speaks posted by DCfan on April 20, 2025 at 04:27:46
The broskis take one in the shorts.
One thing Mara said he did not do was demand more money or lay out a series of demands that would need to be met for him to remain at UCLA. Among the purported demands detailed by Bruin Report Online were Mara remaining in Spain for the summer and returning to his home country whenever he desired, not to mention the ability to dictate his own practice schedule and pull himself out of games whenever he wished.“I feel like that’s crazy,” Mara said of the alleged demands. “For a player who is 20 years old asking a coach for not practicing or playing whenever he wants, I feel like that’s a crazy thing. If someone does that, it’s because, I don’t know, but I would never say that. It’s not true. … If someone who is 19, 20 or 21 says that, it’s because he doesn’t like basketball and I love basketball, so that’s crazy for me.”
Cronin seems pretty petty. DF lets guys continue to work out even if they've entered the portal.
Mara said he did ask Cronin if he could continue working out with Dave Andrews, the team’s director of athletic performance who had helped him round into shape from an off-season foot injury.“Dave did an unbelievable job with me,” Mara said. “The time that he spent, the work that we did, that really helped me this year, so I knew that — because I thought that I was going to stay here for two months until I finished school, so that’s what I asked him because I knew two months with him would make a huge difference for me, so that’s the only thing that I asked him, to work with Dave. I said if I can, let me know. [Cronin] told me that [Andrews] was working with the guys that were staying here, so I was good.”