UCLA football special teams analyst Tucker Meyer had spent fall training camp at full volume.
“This is what happens when you wake up hydrated,” he’d shout at the specialists as he hurled a football to a long snapper with so much force that it was a wonder he didn’t tear a labrum.
He brought the same energy to special teams periods, scampering around the field with hair flaring out of his visor, shouting instructions at 100 decibels.
And yet when sophomore kicker Mateen Bhaghani...