In Reply to: When we didn't beat Stanford in the Pac-Champ game with posted by Enlightened on August 31, 2025 at 19:11:43
I graduated at the end of the '80's with Aikman and I just wanted two things in my sportsfan life, a UCLA basketball and a UCLA football national title. BB delivered in '95 but FB has been a heartbreak, and it seems we're further away than ever. Not only are we not competitive, the landscape has changed in a way that hurts us. Our fanbase has never and will never care as much about football as the big boys, and we'll always have inferior facilities and less NIL money.
The better approach for a UCLA football fan, one that preserves mental and emotional well-being, is to just enjoy the victories when they come and the rose bowl tailgating experience. Anything else is just wishful thinking and self defeating.
That's my 2 cents after 40 years of suffering.