Chow on the offense
The sentiment from UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel after Friday's scrimmage was the passing game needed to improve, but offensive coordinator Norm Chow added that the running game also must get better.
"We just have to keep improving,'' Chow said. "The problem with these scrimmages is we don't allow them to be game planned. We try to do some different things. We're just trying to get our stuff in, so sometimes we're not going to look good.
"Does the pass game need more precision? Yeah, but the run game needs more work as well. Everywhere needs work. It's spring. It's 10 days. It's a whole new deal, a whole new cadence, the whole deal. We put the 40 second clock up and did ok with that."
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This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
Let us recall that Rome was not built in a day. And when at SC it took Chow a while to re-mold Carson Palmer, an eventual Heisman Trophy winner. ucla is, and will remain, a work in progress, perhaps taking as many as 3 or 4 years. And the quarterbacks he has inherited might not be of the quality he has had in the past.
Just sayin'.