Just days before taking his talents to Los Angeles, Bob Chesney entered James Madison’s locker room with a grand message: finish the job. UCLA might have secured a new playoff-proven head coach, but Chesney wasn’t ready to leave loose ends behind. Naturally, the Bruins felt the first ripple of that decision.

“I thank everybody for being here,” Bob Chesney said in his introductory press conference. “Thank you for this opportunity, and just know that we’re gonna get after it pretty quickly here.”

Chesney’s coming over from James Madison (JMU), where he did a killer job for two years. He racked up 21 wins and just five losses during his Dukes tenure.

Before that, he was crushing it at Holy Cross, too. His overall record as a head coach is pretty sweet: 132 wins and just 51 losses. Plus, he

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