No One Is Coming to Toledo’s Defense

I see how Coach Bob Toledo’s UCLA football team is currently working on some innovative defensive schemes. After watching the last two Bruin seasons, I have one suggestion: Bruins, learn how to tackle.

Jack Wolf

Westwood

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The college football season is still three weeks away, yet the excuses for a mediocre season are flowing out of Westwood before their first missed tackle. Who came up with this year’s team motto, “If we stay healthy”? Doesn’t every team want and need to be free of injuries?

“The key is to keep our best football players healthy,” Coach Toledo said.

And I suppose the Bruins were the only team with key injuries last season? Were injuries the driving force behind a loss to the last-place Trojans? Perhaps their record would have been better had the defense not given up more than 400 yards and 30 points a game.

As a Dodger fan, I’m sure glad Manager Jim Tracy and his squad didn’t quit after losing three of their best starting pitchers early in the season. If the Toledo-UCLA leadership mentality was in place at Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers would be 20 games out, instead of battling for first place, and the pitching coach would be fired at the end of the season.

Wah! Wah! Wah! Now I know why the Bruins wear baby blue uniforms.

Joe Huisenga

Moorpark

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I recently received the UCLA football ticket brochure. I am absolutely flabbergasted to see that the student section at the Rose Bowl has been shrunk to three sections near the end zone. This is to make room for additional donor seats. I am ashamed. The students deserve better. Remember this: The current students will be graduates, and I doubt if they’ll be donating any money to UCLA, considering the way they’re being treated as students.

Michael Yanez

Manhattan Beach