The move demonstrated UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk's willingness to take decisive action in the face of a rapidly changing college sports landscape
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Colts remain in limbo over Keenan Allen's DUI arrest as UCLA names new athletic director same week.
As it ran on the front
This reporter has covered professional football since the epoch of leather helmets, and rarely has this desk witnessed a franchise suspended in quite so exquisite a limbo as the Indianapolis Colts find themselves in this September, awaiting clarity on the DUI arrest of veteran wide receiver Keenan Allen, a three-time Pro Bowler who first entered this league back in the great draft class of 2012, selected by the San Diego Chargers with the — if memory serves — eighth overall selection in that year's proceedings.
“Gus, honey, Keenan Allen went 76th overall, third round, 2013 draft, San Diego Chargers. You've got the round, the year, and half the number wrong, but otherwise a fine start to the column.” — Trudy
…(cont) Meanwhile, out on the West Coast, in the storied athletic department of the University of California, Los Angeles, the Bruins have installed Tim Harris as their new athletic director, replacing the departed Martin Jarmond in what team officials have characterized, with the sort of institutional optimism this reporter has heard a thousand times before, as a 'new path forward.' This scribe recalls UCLA last changed athletic directors amid similar upheaval back in, oh, 1998, during the Bruins' storied run to the Rose Bowl.
“There was no Rose Bowl run in 1998, sugar. UCLA went 10-2 that year, and the AD change y'all are thinking of happened in 2002, when Peter Dalis retired. Different decade entirely.” — Trudy
What we have, ladies — and gentlemen, of course, though this reporter suspects the ladies in the audience follow the salary-cap intricacies of the NFL considerably better than certain broadcast partners give them credit for — is two storied institutions, professional and collegiate, each navigating a leadership vacuum of its own making, one at the position of go-to receiver, one at the very top of the athletic department masthead.
“And both institutions, worth noting, keep their books open enough that we can actually check these numbers — which is more than you can say for a lot of athletic departments these days.” — Trudy
This reporter, for one, awaits clarity on both fronts with the patience this game demands.
“A locked receiver room and a swapped-out athletic director on the same day says the people running these programs care about optics before outcomes. Somebody's paycheck kept moving either way.”
The receipts
Despite his DUI arrest on Sunday, Indianapolis Colts receiver Keenan Allen has not yet been hit with criminal charges.
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