Neuheisel after practice (audio)
UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel addressed the media after Monday's practice, and begin by talking about a wrist injury to receiver Terrence Austin.
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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.
Worst audio I have ever heard in my life. Not what Neuheisel says the actual audio quality is very bad.
Interesting that Prince and Crissman are gaining up or passing Forcier.
Why schedule a perennial power such as Tennessee as your first game of the year? Most of the powers play a "cupcake" as its warm-up game, sometimes two before embarking on the "real" schedule.
The kids come out of a month of hard, hard workouts, and now are filled with youthful optimism and excitement about the season. To have that crushed right off the bat can set the stage for a severe mental letdown that can affect future performance.
Oh well, ucla voluntarily scheduled the Volunteers to open its 2008 year, so now play the hand you were dealt bruins.
Point taken, OTT, but it's not like RN chose this game. I'm sure he'd love to play Cupcake U as first coached game at UCLA, but he's playing the hand HE was dealt.
The one positive I see from this is that if we somehow win, the confidence boost that will give the kids (and the coaching staff) will be enormous. Even if we keep the game honest but lose, the coaches can build off of that.
Now, if we get embarrassed, that probably doesn't bode well for player confidence.
The Tennessee game was originally supposed to be Sept 6th but was moved to Labor Day to accomodate ESPN. The Fresno St game on Sept 27 was originally scheduled to be this Saturday.
A national primetime showcase to open the season and the "fans" are already finding something to complain about.