{"id":973372,"date":"2026-08-01T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/973372\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:12:16","slug":"letters-is-ucla-doomed-with-bill-plaschkes-bold-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/973372\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Is UCLA doomed with Bill Plaschke’s bold prediction?"},"content":{"rendered":"

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text”> <\/p>\n

I was feeling good about UCLA football, until Bill Plaschke promised Bruin greatness<\/a>. Hey, Uncle Bill, could you please retract your prediction, considering your track record? Maybe then, the Bruins will have a chance!<\/p>\n

Jack Wolf
Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Despite his middling record, Times columnist Bill Plaschke has once again entered the prediction business. Unrestrained as ever, he predicts greatness for UCLA football, courtesy of its new head coaching hire, Bob Chesney. However, Bill fails to quantify what he expects the team to achieve? Is it simply a winning record? A victory over crosstown rival USC? Or, dare I mention, a national championship? I guess we\u2019ll all have to wait.<\/p>\n

Rob Fleishman
Placentia<\/p>\n

Bob Chesney has won before. Winning at UCLA is another matter. But when Bill Plaschke starts pumping sunshine, history warns against climbing aboard the Bruin bandwagon unless it comes with an extended warranty and roadside assistance. Until then: \u201cWestwood Ho!\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Ross
Carmel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text”> I was feeling good about UCLA football, until Bill Plaschke promised Bruin greatness. Hey, Uncle Bill, could…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":973373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[69110,167851,19161,390650,1582,276,390649,5991,5605,2961,3363,19945,224,2444,5337,13009,3007,2501,5223,1628],"class_list":["post-973372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-andrew-friedman","tag-bill-plaschke","tag-bold-prediction","tag-bruin-greatness","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dodger-player","tag-july","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-la","tag-lebron-james","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-number","tag-team","tag-ucla","tag-white-house","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117019957427266028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}