Amid the football recruiting gold mine of southern California, Greg Dulcich slipped through the cracks.
As a receiver at St. Francis in La Canada Flintridge, Dulcich didn’t have any college offers coming out of high school. He ended up at UCLA as a preferred walk-on, when then-Bruins tight end coach Derek Sage saw the potential in a wiry 6-foot-3, 210-pound freshman.
“You watch his high school highlight tape, he’s just running by people on deep balls consistently and making tough 50/50 catches,” Sage recalled. “I wondered why he wasn’t getting offered… He was just a classic tweener (with his size) who was super under-recruited.