Rough Week for Neuheisel? Seattle Paper Chronicles Woes
UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel has seen the light, and he's all about doing things right. That's the corporate line out of Westwood.
UCLA and its new football coach must be hoping nobody down here sees the series the Seattle Times newspaper is running on Neuheisel's "great" Washington team, the 2000 team that won the Rose Bowl and finished ranked No. 3 in the country.
Seems as if those Huskies weren't choir boys. Well, football teams rarely are. But this one seems a bit sketchier than usual.
Sort of like Neuheisel himself.
It looks as if this is going to be a four-part series.
The overview of the series can be seen here. It appears to offer a link to the first expanded story of the series, on Washington tight end Jerramy Stevens. And there is a link to another story, on a Washington safety who was arrested EVERY year he was at the school yet continued to play.
We're guessing Neuheisel isn't going to look good in any of this.
He certainly doesn't in the overview and the Stevens story.
But this is the New Improved Rick. No longer Slick Rick. The upright, law-abiding one.
We'll see how that works out for UCLA.
We also will see his the Seattle Times series unfolds.