Not much to see here after all

After a shroud of secrecy in camp, Bruins' season opener is a dud

- BEN BOLCH

From the first snap of training camp, DeShaun Foster tightly controlled any narratives about his team.

Reporters never knew how much — or little — of UCLA's practice sessions they would get to watch, one day being limited to eight minutes of stretching. Mostly they saw individual drills, field goals and — in recent weeks — one snap of the full offense going against the defense.

Photography and video were banned, even at a Rose Bowl practice open to spectators who faced no such restrictions. Foster preferred to let the team’s social media posts and internally produced video series suffice as the story of his team.

As of late Saturday night, the story could no longer be kept secret.

The Bruins don’t appear to be any good.

ALLEN J. SCHABEN Los Angeles Times DESHAUN FOSTER, left, and fellow coaches provide directions against Utah. "We just played a good team, that's it," he said after the 43-10 defeat Saturday.

In a clunker of a season opener, they couldn't tackle on defense or consistently move the ball on of life.

That came from the other team's fans, who filled the Pasadena night with the taunting chant of, "Let's go Utah." The Bruins were never in it. The Bruins never had a chance. This was dreadful.

This was embarrassing.

"Lot of stuff to learn from ... it's not going to be easy," said Foster.

Seemed pretty simple for the Utes, who scored on their first three possessions with drives of 75, 60 and 49 yards, making it 20-0 before the second quarter was three minutes old.