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Rick Neuheisel named new UCLA head coach

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Maybe it is true now....

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Report: Chow on way to Utah

A big, big day of news at UCLA -- hell, just go ahead and call it UCLA Saturday -- has only gotten bigger as Norm Chow's departure to Utah is now all but official. A source within the UCLA athletic department has told the Los Angeles Times that after being replaced by Mike Johnson as the Bruins' offensive coordinator, Chow could be announced in the same position at Utah before the end of the day.

All that apparently stands in Chow's way is a negotiation over the amount of Chow's buyout from UCLA. With this move rumored now for weeks, it's only now a matter if when Chow heads to Salt Lake City, not if.

The move completes one of the most disappointing assistant coaching tenures in recent college football memory. Chow came to Westwood three years ago with one of the most glittering resumes in the college game, and his reputation provoked a bidding war last offseason between the Bruins and USC that resulted in Chow boasting of the highest assistant coaching salaries in the country.

But after the Bruins' disastrous move towards a pistol offense this season (parts of which the Bruins will apparently keep ) left them dead last in the Pac-10 in total offense and 11th in scoring, that salary only made Chow arguably the most overpaid coach in the nation.

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This reeks of Neuheisel trying to keep his job. There aren't any other good reasons for parting ways with a guy who you gave a fat raise to just a year ago.

I watch a shitload of college football, and I can't name a single player on UCLA's offense. Chow is a good coach (even if a bit overrated), but he's not a miracle worker. There has been a talent deficit at UCLA for years now, and as time passes the blame for that shifts more and more to Neuheisel's shoulders. Getting out-recruited in their own backyard by the likes of USC is one thing - having less talent from CA on the field than the likes of Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Boise State, etc... that's a big problem and it goes much deeper than Norm Chow.
 
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jlb - I and daveeb were talking 'bout this just this morning.

My position was that Chow had done more than enough in every setting but one in the college game to establish his credibility. That one adverse situation? The one from which he now departs. This places far larger question marks against ricky than it does against Chow.
 
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According to this, UCLA canned their new DC because he posted that on Facebook.

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Seto out as UCLA defensive coordinator

Last week UCLA hired Rocky Seto to be its new defensive coordinator. Seto, who used to be an assistant at USC under Pete Carroll, was pretty excited about the new job. In fact, he was so excited about it, that he even announced that he'd gotten the job on his Facebook page so all of his friends could click "Like" and leave comments saying "Congrats! xoxo"

Well, UCLA did not click like. In fact, if there had been a button that said "Fire," they'd have clicked that. Since there isn't a "Fire" button, the Bruins did the only other thing they could do. They just fired Seto.

Yes, it seems that UCLA took umbrage to Seto announcing that he was the school's new defensive coordinator on Facebook, as I guess UCLA still considers itself a MySpace stalwart. Apparently this caused a lot of fan backlash amongst the faithful who had been hoping that Randy Shannon or somebody else would get the job over the inexperienced Seto.

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Unlike their crosstown rivals, it looks like UCLA is committed to amateurism - so much so that it goes all the way up the football administration.

I hear they were also disappointed to find out he was 25 lbs. fatter in real life than he looked in that profile picture that he took of himself at a severe downward angle.
 
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Neuheisel has pretty much been put on notice:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...02/21/ucla-neuheisel/index.html#ixzz1EhbOQk73

"Rick knows there is maybe one shot to straighten this thing out,'' Guerrero told the Los Angeles Times last month. Citing that quote, the Bruins Nation guys wrote: "We are willing to give him 'one shot' for 2011. If Rick doesn't get the job done by the end of next season [which should be somewhere around the range of 8-9 regular season wins and a victory against Southern Cal], UCLA will need to look in another direction."

I asked Neuheisel, ever the recruiter, to make his "pitch" for why anyone should still believe UCLA is on the right track.

"It's just like when you drive by a house under construction and it looks like nothing's happened -- that's because they're spending all their time on the foundation of the home," he said. "Once they start to frame the home, that's when things start to take shape. That's what happened here. We've built a terrific base of guys with the talent to play at this level. We had a coaching staff that had to be rid of some of the dysfunction that was going on both sides of the ball. I think I've got that solved. It's a new era for Pac-12 football, and there's no reason to think UCLA won't start out of the blocks quickly."

Considering the glacial pace of Neuheisel's coaching search, his upcoming make-or-break season can't start quickly enough.
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The article is a pretty comprehensive rundown of everything that Neuheisel has fucked up or come up short on in the last three years. The Seto debacle was addressed as well, and the article makes it appear as if there was a genuine job offer that was taken off the table due to a combination of fan backlash, indecisivenesss and/or a failure to fully investigate the candidate up front.

8-9 wins is going to be a tall, tall order for this team:
Sept. 3 at Houston
Sept. 10 SAN JOSE STATE
Sept. 17 TEXAS
Sept. 24 at Oregon State
Oct. 1 at Stanford
Oct. 8 WASHINGTON STATE
Oct. 20 at Arizona (Thurs.)
Oct. 29 CALIFORNIA
Nov. 5 ARIZONA STATE
Nov. 12 at Utah
Nov. 19 COLORADO
Nov. 26 at USC
Dec. 3 Pac-12 Championship
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Let's look past the presumptuousness of putting the CCG on the schedule in their official press release. They have the good fortune of missing Oregon, but they're a surefire underdog in every road game except Houston. Hell, they'll probably be a home 'dog in half of their home games too (Texas, Cal, Arizona State).​

With DickRod out at M*ch*g*n, I think any college football death pool has to have Neuheisel's name at the top.
 
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Neuheisel's sequel to Johhny Football (below) is Born In The SEC.



This is real, and it’s spectacular: Rick Neuheisel sings ‘Born in the SEC’

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Well, here’s an unexpected Thursday treat: Not only is it Rick Neuheisel singing (again), but it’s him singing “Born in the SEC.”

It’s flawless, too. Neuheisel — who’s an analyst for the Pac-12 Network — brought his guitar to the Dan Patrick Show on Thursday and delivered stanzas like this:

“I grew up loving the Crimson Tide / Shed a tear the day Bear died / Sure am loving coach Nicky’s ride / I like my football southern fried / Born in the SEC / Born in the SEC / Mike Slive’s like God to me / I was born in the SEC”

Go to to see/hear BORN IN THE SEC:



http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...tacular-rick-neuheisel-sings-born-in-the-sec/
 
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