This is awesome.

uclafan11 … I seriously think the way you guys set up that dinner … had a part in our victory. Those guys looked at home and relaxed among familiar Bruin surroundings.

This is exactly why CRN had the team fly in a day early. Just perfect planning on the part of UCLA’s coaches and staff and you guys played a role in the victory.

Take a bow. I am blown away.

GO BRUINS.

How could that not have helped the team feel at home? Dunno who was luckier, 11, you or the team. Awesome!

easily a top 5 post in BN history

Jealous! They wouldn’t have gotten an answer from me had I taken that phone call, because I would have fainted.

Give a big Bruins Nation thanks to your family and thank you for sharing this with us!

Incredible stuff. I got excited just reading it.

Unbelievable! Amazing! Thank you for opening up your home to our team. I’m not surprised that you note how gracious and polite the team was, either. That’s a class team, and a class family that hosted them last Friday.

(and I think one of the three wealthy and influential alumni just got outed! haha!)

Wow. Holy sh*t, indeed.

Thank you for giving our boys a home away from home, and for sharing it with us.

How does something like that happen?! That is very gracious of you and your family for opening up your home to our team (and an amazing home it is) and smart on the part of the coaches and athletic department for taking you up on your offer. Great job and thanks for your part in our victory. You and the Bruin contingency that made it out to Knoxville (loved to see the blue in the sea of orange) turned it into a home game. Palo Alto Bruins, you’re next!

Thank you all for your comments! This is a pleasure to read! I only wish we had a home in Texas and Nebraska too! lol! GO BRUINS!!!

after viewing your photos. I’m gonna have to upgrade you from uclafan11 to uclafan99. Maximum ursa-tude. Total Bruinity. You do UCLA proud.

you had pretty good seats for the goal-line stand.

Sorry I never got the chance to meet up with you 11. Technology was not my friend this weekend so I couldn’t get internet on my phone Friday, then I didn’t get your text on Saturday until I was back at the hotel.

Having the team at your house like that is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Talk about an experience you’ll never forget.

And lucky! Talk about the opportunity of a lifetime, and thanks for being such a great host to the team!

If you look on my face it says jealous

GO BRUINS!!!

Just amazing. I’m speechless. Uclafan11, you and your family were truly part of the team this past weekend.

Epic post.

Amazing! I’m Jealous! You are incredibly generous! I’m proud to be a Bruin and hear about this event. You make me proud, in so many ways and on so many levels.

That picture of Brehaut reading that old rag the Times about 13-9 was especially poignant. I used to save old newspapers from big like that one. Eventually I threw them all out during a move. But I currently have sports pages from the Knoxville Sentinel and the LA Times reporting on the game.

You have inspired me to put up my own fanshot about the game.

reason to be a Bruin. It was so cool for the team to make the visit. 11, thanks for opening your home and heart to the team.

I’m glad you and the other BNers had a chance to make it to Knoxville. I might need to go to Austin,TX to watch the Bruins play the Longhorns.

Go Bruins!

thanks so much for sharing with us and the team!

I just wanted so say that your home, along with just about all the other houses I saw, is absolutely beautiful. Knoxville is such a wonderful area and definitely now one of my favorite college towns. I can also second everything you said about the kindness and humility of the Tennessee fans. This weekend was an absolute pleasure for me, and I’m not the one that had the freaking football team over for dinner. Congratulations!

We really are the Bruin Family!

This post, along with Hector’s Adventure post show the world what it is like to be part of the Bruin family.

In just a few weeks of this new season, from so many angles, we are seeing what great kids we have and how our great kids turn into great alums — like you, 11.

11, you and your family really channeled all that is Bruin. And, I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed the tape of the last seconds of the game. You guys were screaming just like most of us who were not there were screaming. Once voice, one Bruin voice, nationwide.

Thank you for this incredible post.

This is simply phenomenal. What a great family!

Something truly stands out to me (and brings back lots of memories for me). You look at these pictures and realize that, as big as these players are…they are still just kids! Or I should say, young men. It reminds me of when we travelled with our rowing team and were hosted by our teammates’ parents…sleeping on the floor. These guys have it better, but it really should make people think twice when they attack players on their own team or other teams. Crompton has taken a beating from his own fans, ruthless comments are thrown at him. You don’t do that to guys who represent your school. That is why I love it when Nestor takes people to task for attacking any of our players on this site.

Bruins Nation is awesome, and being a Bruin is awesome. Thanks 11.

You young whipper snappers have no idea about what “getting old” is.

But, then again, you don’t know Geezer Power either.