Among the changes to the gameday recruiting visit experience under first-year UCLA head coach DeShaun Foster was the pregame lounge.

Israel Briggs, a 2026 four-star tight end at Visalia (Calif.) Mount Whitney ranked 219th overall in the class, emerged from that lounge impressed and with an offer from Bruins tight ends coach Jerry Neuheisel prior to Saturday’s kickoff against Fresno State.

Briggs told Bruin Blitz in a message Sunday afternoon that the visit was “amazing” and that the reception in the lounge was among the highlights of the experience.