Two days after a 33-point loss in which his team gave up 492 yards while missing a slew of tackles, DeShaun Foster indicated that he didn’t feel quite so bad about what might have felt like the end of days to UCLA fans streaming out of the Rose Bowl before the end of the third quarter.
What was the coach’s assessment after rewatching the game footage?
“That we were close,” an upbeat Foster said Monday evening of his team’s season-opening 43-10 setback against Utah.
Before reporters could follow up by asking “Close to what?