UCLA’s Jim Mora making sure the bed bugs don’t bite his players

Nothing like having the head coach tuck you in at night.

UCLA Coach Jim Mora excels at micromanaging, right down to doing bed checks himself at the team hotel the night before the game.

Players were surprised to find their coach doing the chore usually left to subordinates.

“He comes into the room, says, ‘What’s up,’ just to make sure our minds are right,” quarterback Brett Hundley said.

Hundley and Kevin Prince, his roommate, decided to play a trick on their coach the night prior to the Nebraska game.

“I hid behind KP’s bed, like I wasn’t in the room,” Hundley said. “But I left my shoes right next to my bed. We had the right plan, we just didn’t execute it. We executed a lot better in the game the next day.”

UCLA beat Nebraska, 36-30.

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