Kenny Young lays out the truth as easily as he does quarterbacks, freely dispensing the lowdown on himself and his team no matter how painful it might be.
The UCLA linebacker tells it like it is about the Bruins’ most one-sided rivalry (“It’s time we beat Stanford,” he said before the season), falling short of his own standards (“If I have a terrible practice, I have a terrible game”) and what it felt like to be .500 after the season’s first month (“I’m just tired of losing at this point”).
Honesty serves as Southern self-comfort for the native of a New Orleans suburb who lived with adoptive parents for much of his childhood after his mother was evicted from her apartment.