TFANIIIASV B E IFII ES IR EAITII]'V TIHIE TorP 32 '{T UCLAS LIANT Ilr IN P48 "THIS SUMMER FEELS LIKE THE ENE OF SOMETHING, LIKE YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS ABOUT TO EHANGE." BRETT rM!!E-Y I and coru losing out to Arizona, The next weekendlrc miu his grandmother, KaronJones, outside sees "st. Houston. He hangs out oo Lake Conroe, thel where as a boy he? lose rods in struggles he UC1 w I larsemouth bass. This year is a gift and "Wt eave hiirself by postponing rhe draft junior ierurning to UCuA for his redshirt of season, and he is wringing the most out of fup Scherer, an it. I{e stops t5' the offlce he associate athletic director who used to be an offensie assistantwith the Browns and the Pantlers, and asks,'What's the usual workday like in the NFL? Eow did Tient de- Dil fer study? How did Jake Delhomme reloo camaraderie with receivers?- He has if a lot on his mind, so it! understandable something such as dre needle 'l he olerlooks :. on the gas gauge. as Andrew Luck and Matt Barkley would gladly attest, a return to scbool doesnt guarantee a joyride Obstacles arise. Improvisation is required When Hundlev's black Honda Accord comes to his hazard a halt on lefferson.he flips on rl lights, hops out of the car arrd directs traf- fic around him. He sends his passenger, Massington-who conveniently runs a pattern 4.4-second 40-yard dash-on a fly Massington to the nearest Chevron sation Neuheisel's decision to redshirt him prob- red containers of un- THROWBACK the og returns toting two arm' cost t-he coach his job, but it helped WLth hi5 qulcl^ness and strong ablv 1r: calnoly fills the tank They 41 er,can recorded Ieaded. Hundley HurdreV recal,s tne lasl Afr rcan olair and the program. Hundley passlnq si beat the rush back to Westwood' ouarteroacktoleadrLeBrul^si' tlelheiset's soliloquies in quarterbacks lackie Robinson (opposlte, near rightl hi meetings and transcribed the tapes into of classes for HundleY junior H AST WEEK notebooks. He stood next to QB through ;lc at UCLd and he bounds on the sideline and decon- vho posted a 3'9 grade Kevin Prince in fliP-flops. He car- linebacker. Hundley, Haines Hall structed plays as they occufied' "[Brett] z"r5 average at Chandler, saw UCL'A as a backPack and Doint E ries a camouflage t}le future starj' says center Jake Bren- place where he could accomplish both his was Blo swigs from a gallon ofArrowhead spring all ttre pictures and on a premed del. "but after he took his first week of underqraduate goals: to srudy Er war r. He remembers kissed all the babies, he put in the work " was track and defibrillate a dormant football itt classes, in JanuarY 2011, when he was named the starter stood on t}Ie sideline at When HundleY lectue and a rpom- team. As Hundley 5a sitting in a phitosophy in 2op, he wept again. He called pastor Dralc Stadium during a subsequent visit, Eb en's volleybalt player asked him.*You're at River of Life Church in the Brujns scrimmage in the Brvan Pace Brett Hundley, the savior?- The Bruins watching phoenix patched into :r! him, -Come here and asked to be season had sunset" ieuheisel told Ea were coming off a 4-B Yet service so he could thank e change everything Your face the Sunday fi dual-threat and vou will :p imorobablylanded a ve-star the congregation that had prayed for willie on billboards." He committed the EO quarterback recruit from Chandler, Ariz' voted Hundley a team and covered his ears.when him. Teammates hoPe. following month Bt Hundley signifled captain beforc he took a snap He rushed his mom ftiends told him that he was crazY' nt Ee visited UCI,A only because first play, a zone read were so high, he foi 7z vards on his coach Rick Hundley's erpectations Qt hooked up the ftee flight. Head against Rice. and he set the school re- cried on the bench during an intmsquad Neuheisel sent Hundlev on a tour of Mattel yards in his flrst season when it became cord for passing Reemtsen, a game at the Rose Bowl Et Children's Hospital v/ith Bdan (3,740 yards), outgunning Troy Aikman ;har he would not start as a mre fieshman' pediatric hean surgeon and former Bruins 50/ sponrstt lusrureo / AUGUsr4,2014 and Cade lt4cNown. UCLA beat USC in started 30 games or more in college. Only step drops between the hoops and fires consecutive years for the first time this two, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Bledsoe, 20-]ard out patterns tlat smack into Steve millennium and won 10 games in 2013. started fewer than 30. The Sun Bovrl was Clarkson's gloves. Clarkson's patter follovE "Stanford turned the corner because Hundley'E 27th start. eadl pass: Sackfoot at9o degrees. Your they had a guy like Andrew Luck," says Aweeklater Hundley oudined a speech shoulder is a scope. Stride shaight at my UCLA athletic directol Dan Guerrero. in a notebook, to be delivered at a press nose. Dont waste any motion." "We view Brett the same way." conference the next day. Bullet points Clarkson was a quarterbacks coadr be- included: "Bringing UCLA fore that became a cottage industry, Over back to national promi- nearly tlree decades he assembled a client nence..,. Developing to list headed by Ben Roethlisberger, Josh be the best quarterback Freeman, Maft Leinart and several other Ican....Enjoyingwhat pros. In February 2o1o) Clarkson launched Ihave....Gettingade- the Dreammaker Tour, which was sort of gree." Hundley majors in hkeAmerican ldoltcxtur$r school QBs. The sociology, having backed fiISt of 16 tour stops was at tlrc Rose Bowl, off premed, and expects where on a stormy Sahrrday morning ap- to graduate in the fall proximately 600 aspiring signal-callers after completing a to-be- showed up to throw, run and interview determined independent with tfie Dreammaker himself. study project. "He's got Clarkson had never heard of Brett, who two insurance policies," failed to win the sta4ing quarterbackS job says Brett Sr, "One that's at C,lEndler as ajunior and fumed when he $10 million, and one that's was moved o wide receiler. He resisted the four letters: UCI-A." urge to transfer, but he didn't embrace the First, Brett needs ti) position switdq didnt delete the Donovan pass Sociology 102. He sits McNabb screen saver ftom his computer. in the middle of the room hr the second game of the seasou Chaudler and picks from a bag of trailed highty regarded Peoria Ceuteunial dried fruit. He turns on hs 34-6 at halftime, and coach Jim Ewan told I prob- Coach Jim Mora, to extend the anal- MacBook Pro, and Arizona State game his assistants,'We have to see what Brett's rcd the ogy, is UCLlfs answer to Jim Harbaugh, tape flashes ou the screen. He minimiz- got." In the second half Brett completed 14 aorded with staying power. when Mora signed a es it and opens a Word document. The of18 passes for 204 yards and rushed for 6acks six-year extension in December, rebuffng professor, MarkJepson, stands in front 83 more. The Wolves lost, but they scored :s into his alma mater, Washington, he called of the blackboard in a beige polo shirt 32 points and found a quarterback. glasses. The only camp Brett attended after the or QB Hundley before he called his owa wife. "I and wire-rimmed He describes lecon- knew she was coming back " Mora says. a sociological perspective called symbolic season was Clarkson's. "Sometimes you Brettl "I wasnt as sure about him." interactionism. "The sell is a process, not a find kids who are intelligent, and other Bren- On the eve of the Sun Bowl, Hundley thing," Jepson explains. "The self is never times you 6rd kids who are ph1'eical speci- s and lounged in Morab room at the Marrion in complete, never flnished. It's always a work mens," Clarkson says, "But if you ever rork" El Paso and discussed whether he should in progress." Hundley nods as he q?es. flnd one who is bot[ then you've identi- hrter turn pro. Mora, who coached the Falcons fled somebody truly special." At t]Ie end astor ard the Seahawks, belieyed Hurulley could UNCH IIOUR in Santa Monica, and of that Rose Bowl pageant Brett called ch in be the first quarterback drafted. the more patronE at the Lazy Daisy Cafe hear his dad who was staying dry in the press box. I won this thing," Brett said. L into important question was how he'd fare what sounds like a series of small "I tlink hank afterward. Mora showed Hundley a 6o- explosions coming from aqoss Pico Ttre Dreammater Tour had lived up to its rl for page PowelPoint study analyzing all 35 Boulevard. Hundley crouches between a name. In dne months Brett went from a team quarterbacks picked in the first round purple artd a pink hula hoop on the grass second-stringer to a five-star recruit. shed from 1990 through 2005. The QBs were at Virginia Avenue Park, still damp with Ewan, who had planned to retire, read broken into three groups: blue for long- dew as tlrc lingering fog breaks. T\vo boys hung on another year at his quarter- I re- term gtarters, purple for backups or spot play soccer. A man reads a book under a back's behest.