Answers, Part I

Who do you think is better at QB, Aaron Corp (USC's 3rd string QB) or this Cowan guy?
I have no idea. I haven’t seen Corp practice, and I see Cowan every day. There is no way for me to make that determination.

With all the catching up Coach Neuheisel had to do to keep the last recruiting class and hustle to design a playbook, etc. how bad does it hurt his next recruiting class?
I think that remains to be seen. The staff is going to be out and about, in a big-time way, when it comes to recruiting in May. I know a priority is to go get some athletic offensive linemen, but it remains to be seen whether UCLA can catch up to some of the other schools when it comes to relationships with coaches. One thing in UCLA’s favor is the personalities on the coaching staff, from Rick Neuheisel on down.

much has been made of this 'bruins over the wall' thing; however, I think that it is not that big of a deal, they were having fun and living out the tradition. That being said what was your reaction to the whole thing, and what was the initial reaction of the coaching staff when the players began running off the field(any laughter)?
My thoughts was it was ill-timed and ill-advised, and speaks more of the culture of UCLA football over the years than the anything about this specific team. The Bruins lost 6.7 percent of their spring practice time for it, and I thought a team coming off two straight mediocre seasons, with a new offense to learn, would understand the importance of practice. I don’t read about any other teams in the nation doing it, and the seniors at UCLA are the ones who plotted this. The coaches, believe me, were not happy. Laughter was the furthest thing from their reaction. Anger and disbelief are the words I would choose to describe the coaching staff.

So where DID Eric Scott end up?
He is still job hunting. I heard he is looking at either the junior college route, or going back to coach at the high school level. That said, someone of his talents and personality deserves another shot at coaching Division I football. I feel he is being black-balled by athletic directors afraid to give him another chance.

I remain fixated on basketball and wonder if you had any thoughts on the rumor that Renardo Sidney's buddy Lance Stephenson from Brooklyn want to go to a school with Renardo on the west coast and that the school of choice is UCLA. Assuming that Coach Howland is interested in Sidney, can he get by the academic thresholds at the school?
Not many thoughts at this point since UCLA hasn’t offered either of them, and from what I understand, there are issues beyond talent in this process. Package deals are nice to talk about, but rarely do they come to fruition. As far as the academics are concerned, I don’t think anyone knows right now.

Can you find out if any other Pac 10 schools lose a whole day of their Spring practice due to a ditch day tradition? Did Dorell manage to accomodate the team going over the wall and yet still get the team to have a full practice?
From talking to friends and colleagues around the Pac-10, I couldn’t find another school with the ditch day tradition. As far as the way Dorrell handled it, it was much, much different. He usually got together with some of the seniors and organized it on a low work, low impact day, usually when the team was only in helmets and certainly not prior to a big scrimmage later in the week. He also made sure high school coaches and recruits were notified not to show up that day.