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As UCLA players and coaches milled about on the field a half hour before the team’s spring showcase at the Rose Bowl, the present met the future.
Nico Iamaleava and his younger brother, Madden, emerged from a tunnel in one corner of the end zone.
The transfers who could immediately become the team’s top two quarterbacks once they enroll this summer exchanged hugs with their new coaches Saturday afternoon before watching the final practice of spring.
“It just feels good because you know you’re around somebody that you can tell he has presence,” UCLA coach DeShaun Foster said of visiting with Nico Iamaleava, the newcomer from Tennessee.