UCLA doesn’t play Axl Rose and Snoop Dogg songs at earsplitting levels in practice to better familiarize itself with the lyrics.
The Bruins are girding themselves for the noise they will hear at various stadiums throughout the season. Nowhere on their schedule figures to be as loud as Texas A&M’s Kyle Field, where a crowd of more than 100,000 is expected for the Aggies’ season opener against UCLA on Saturday.
Bruins Coach Jim Mora has favored using music at volumes suited for MTV’s “Headbangers Ball” instead of the simulated crowd noise preferred by some of his counterparts.