’s $75-million Wasserman Football Center comes with a lounge — for high school recruits. Current players can get their hair cut in a barbershop or drip their way from a hot pool to a cold pool to a custom pool designed to assist with therapy and fitness. They may feel like a lengthy soak after a few hours practicing in redesigned uniforms awash in what’s being called powder-keg blue.
As striking as it may be, the new look of UCLA football has not obscured one simple truth.
“I mean, the new buildings and jerseys don’t mean anything if we don’t go out there and win games,” receiver Darren Andrews said this week as his team prepared for the start of training camp Wednesday evening on its two new artificial-turf fields.