Bruin recruits all over Times’ list of top players

If a lot of the players on the pre-season All-Southland football team in The Times looked familiar, it’s no mistake. The selections have a blue and gold tinge to them.

An astonishing eight of the 23 players on the list (35%) are committed to UCLA, the most on any such team in memory:

>> Milton Knox, RB (Birmingham)

>> Kermonte Bateman, WR (Crenshaw)

>> Damien Holmes, DE (Colton)

>> Datone Jones, DE (Compton)

>> Uona Kaveinga, LB (Leuzinger)

>> Rahim Moore, DB (Dorsey)

>> E.J. Woods, DB (Crespi)

>> Aaron Hester, DB (Dominguez)

USC also didn’t do badly, with eight of the 23 on the list.