UCLA's football team engaged in brotherhood meetings to build connections among new players and coaching staff. These sessions included shared personal stories, encouraging vulnerability and camaraderie. Coach DeShaun Foster emphasized the importance of players opening up after coaches did so. Notable stories, including tight ends coach Jerry Neuheisel's anxiety about past performances, highlighted shared experiences of pressure and success. Offensive line coach Andy Kwon instilled a mentality of perseverance, stressing the need to finish strong despite fatigue or injuries, reinforcing a competitive spirit among the players.
"A lot of tears," Foster said Saturday before his team's final camp session. "So I just like that the players were being vulnerable and letting their guard down because they saw the coaches do it."
Neuheisel relayed how he was "kind of nervous just for another opportunity to happen and not being as successful the next time, you know? So that was huge because you would have never thought that with Jerry with how he is as a person."
Offensive line coach Andy Kwon told players that regardless of the situation, they needed to finish what they started.
Guard Julian Armella mentioned, "Nobody cares if you're tired, nobody cares if you're hurting, nobody cares if you have an injury that's pushable."
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