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Start Richard Brehaut at QB, tell Nelson Rosario to catch the ball or take up residence on the bench, and instruct the defense to wrap up opposing runners or run wind sprints every day in practice.

1.) Bench Kevin Craft
2.) Bench Sheldon Price
3.) Fire Chuck Bullough
4.) Tell Rosario to get his act together or he sits.
5.) Bench Christian Ramirez
6.) Tell the UCLA admissions dept to f' off
7.) Give Presley and Carroll more PT over Embree/Austin
8.) Start Franklin and have Knox as his backup
9.) More screen passes and play action on first down.
10.) Bring in Theriot to block instead of Moline

I only need 3 steps.

1. Make the defense run tackling drills until they puke.

2. Make the wide receivers run crisp routes at full speed and catch a ball until they puke.

3. Make the offensive line push sleds until they puke.

agree with Sid... no puke, no gain

1. RB depth chart: Franklin, Knox, Thigpen (Ramirez is a special teams player if he is healthy)
2. Bring pressure on defense, zone blitzes, dog blitzes, however you have to we need more pressure on the QB.
3. If a receiver drops the ball bring in the next guy.
4. Let Brehaut and Prince battle it out for QB in practice and the game this week.
5. Start having fun, our team looks like they are having their wisdom teeth removed every Saturday!

1.) Play Knox behind Franklin
2.) Let Brehaut start a game
3.) Let Moutra, Johnson & Marvray have a shot
4.) Run more routes down the field - not turn & stop
5.) Thigpen on punts and maybe KO (or Carroll)
6.) Quit throwing to Pressley in the flat - run him across the middle against linebackers
7.) Give Crissman a shot if Brehaut can't get it done (he is still on the team, you know)
8.) Give Viney a shot over Sheldon Price
9.) Blitz early & often (what - the rsulets could be worse??)
10.) Learn how to get 1yd on 3rd or 4th down.

child please....

1) Take two weeks off

2) Quit

1) Fire Dan Guerrero.

2) Start Brehaut.

3) Have Norm Chow open up the offense.

4) Get rid of each and every one of our running backs and wide receivers and pray that we will get some REAL play-makers next season. I'm sick of these stupid, untalented schlubs! Genuine losers on our team.

5) Kick that idiot Randall Carroll off the team. If he wants to be a disrespectful moron, tell him to go to USC.

6) Lower the freaking admission standards so we can get some REAL players on our team to compete with the Pac10. If we can't even compete with Arizona, there is a SERIOUS SERIOUS SERIOUS PROBLEM.

7) Force each and every UCLA fan to snort cocaine on their way in to the Rose Bowl so they can get off their old, fat @sses at the game and cheer on our team like REAL fans. I'm sick to death of hearing these stupid UCLA fans complaining about our team, but then I go to every home game and I feel like I'm at a golf tournament. We are one step above the comatose Stanford fans. In fact, i think Stanford has better fans than we do.

8) Stop printing and selling shirts at the UCLA store that read "It's never too early to tailgate," and then proceed to tell us we can't park in Lot H unless it is 10 hours before gametime. Who was the brilliant marketing director who thought of that?

9) Never play Terrence Austin or Taylor Embree EVER again.

10) Give Neuheisel a severance package and pay the money to bring in a true winner like Urban Meyer or Pete Carroll. YES I SAID IT! Pete Carroll. The guy has built a MONSTER at USC that is good EVERY.... SINGLE.... FREAKING.... YEAR... I'm sick to death of seeing USC win game after game after game and go to Rose Bowl after Rose Bowl after Rose Bowl. I dont' care if he is a scumbag. At least his teams wins the BIG GAMES. I can handle the once in a while fluke losses, but I can't handle getting kicked in the nuts EVERY FREAKING WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! !!!

1. Tackling Drills, starting Monday the first 30 minutes of every practice for the defense will be purely tackling drills, no gameplan, no plays, fundamentals are essential for performance on the field.

2. Completely (and true) open competition for QB, I don't care if it is Lanis, Crissman, Brehaut, Prince, Craft or a player off the street, someone needs to step up immediately. Coaches need to take an objective approach and determine who truly gives the team a chance to win. Personally I would like to see Brehaut but I don't watch practice daily.

3. Bench Randall Carroll and Nelson Rosario for next game. Zero plays, Carroll for his comments to the public, directed at a recruit no less and Rosario for his constant drops in clutch situations. Give Johnson and Moutra a chance to show what they have.

4. Damien Thigpen as a returner and slot reciever. While I don't know what his hands are like, I'm sure he can catch a five yard slant or a quick screen, we need to get his speed in open space.

5. Bench Christian Ramirez. His starts have done nothing but take momentum away from Jonathan Franklin, who is the type of back we have missed the past few years. When he needs some air play Knox. I would hate to see a player of his talent wasted, there was a reason he was #2 before his was suspended, let him show it.

6. Be more agressive on defense. If you are going to make mistakes make them big but at least put pressure on the quarterback and force him to make the throws to beat you, I am sick of seeing our defensive backs expected to cover wide receivers for more than 4 seconds, after that it is incredibly difficult.

7. ESTABLISH THE RUN. Not the way we have been but really come out and run the ball. We haven't been running at all in the redzone and our quarterbacks have shown they cannot be trusted to make completions. 224 passes to 167 rushes (minus QB sneaks/sacks/rushes) by my count is just wrong. We need to have more balance on offense, Franklin is averaging 5 yards per carry as is Coleman, use them.

8. Throw a fade route in the redzone. Paulson, Rosario, Harkey, Pressley are all 6'4"+. Embree is pushing 6'3" and Moutra isn't exactly short either, we have guys that can get up and get the ball, let them be athletes.

9. Throw intermediate routes. I'm not expecting a 50 yard bomb down the field to stretch the field on every possession, we simply don't have a quarterback to get it there or a reciever with the hands to reliably bring it in. Passes of 10-15 yards will work and at this level a quarterback should be able to be consistently accurate. Eventually these plays WILL break open for a large gain.

10. Play with heart, guys that don't come out ready to play get benched, simple as that. There is a fire and intensity needed to play football at a high level, alot of our players aren't keeping their head up and coming out ready to play, this needs to change immediately, if you don't have that fire and desire to blow up the player across from you you do not deserve to be on the field. I would rather see a smaller, potentially less athletic team of guys who want to be on the field than athletes who don't use their abilities because they are complacent.

1. Bench Price: My JV LB Nephew is more physical than Him
2. Start Kevin Craft
3. Start Theriot
4. Replace Austin on PR with Thigpen
5. Bench Korey Bosworth, I have never seen such a lack of a pass rush
6. Get Knox in space
7. Dont ever let Ramirez see the field
8. Let Franklin get into a groove
9. Stick some glue on Rosario's Gloves
10. Give Viney a shot: IS CRN trying to run him out

1. Start R. Brehaut
2. Stick to the run with Franklin
3. More plays for Embree and Thigpen
4. Blitz first two downs
5. Switch Tony Dye to C.B
6. Austin sharing special team duties with Thigpen
7. Play A. Moutra and J.Johnson to see what they can do
8. Start Theriot
9. Allow Chow to open the playbook
10. Sit S. Price

FIRE THE HEAD COACH. most of the suggestions are changes the COACH can make. Rick is terrible

Simple

Make tackles
Throw the ball to Bruins
Catch passes
Dont fumble when you are simply touched
Make tackles
Run some mis-direction
Catch Passes
Dont fumble at the first sight of contact

THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP........

It's easy, all you need is one step...

FIRE RN!

The team is regressing! A good coach would help a team progress, not the opposite. It's really embarrassing.

Get rid of the offense and have the defense play both ways. Put Rahim Moore and A. Verner at receiver spots with Brian "Refrigerator" Price at tailback.

UCLA Alums, you like that Slick Neu-Weasel now?

Yeah Walker is tearing them up at NMS. Dorrell left nothing behind. How many Bruins were drafted last year by the NFL? ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Tells me all I need to know. We won't win for at least another year. Sit back and chill

1. Stop Bullsh--ing everyone about the previous recruiting classes and how bad they were. It is insulting to your players and their families. Rivals rankings indicate they were not that bad.
2. Support existing players make sure good player do not transfer.
3. All the Coaches should look in the mirror and coach better.
4. Get mad and get in the players a--.
5. Open up competition at all positions.
6. Put players on the bench when they are messing up.
7. Practice live contact until you are in danger of not fielding a team.
8. Blitz
9. Design a Defense that the LBs make tackles.
10. Design some trick plays if we don't win we should at least be fun to watch.

Karl Dorell & Dwight Walker said:
UCLA Alums, you like that Slick Neu-Weasel now?

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Who is "Dwight" Walker? If you're going to try to flame, at least get the name right. How embarrassing for you.

Anyway, my list:

1.) Meet with each player individually for a couple of minutes and see where their heads are at. Most of the problems we've been having this season are mental, not physical.

2.) Give some of the younger players a chance to prove themselves by giving them reps with the 1st team ahead of anyone who made serious mistakes during the game (Rosario and his inability to hold onto the ball, Franklin and his ability to hold onto the ball, anyone who ran an incorrect route, etc.) Let it be known that making those mistakes will not be tolerated.

3.) Put Thigpen in for kick and/or punt returns.

4.) Roll the QB out a bit more. Most of our big plays seem to happen when we do this.

5.) More misdirection plays.

6.) Spend some time with the team as a whole to make sure that there is no divide or negativity between teammates and/or coaching staff. Let the players vent a bit (in an apporpriate forum) and discuss what "they" think the problems are.

7.) Give Knox some PT. He looked impressive in the Tennessee game & scrimmage.

8.) Use more of the simple but hard to defend plays (like when Craft does the 2 min offense, short passes to reliable receivers and TEs...such as they are).

9.) Play a bit more agressively on Defense, like they did in the game against Tennessee.

10.) Tackling and Route running drills till they puke.

A lot of people are blaming the coaches, but they put us in a position to win. I don't know how you can blame them for dropped balls, overthrown passes and fumbles.

GO TO THE SPREAD

Alright, alright, 10 things.

1) Coach Rick, sit down with Chuck Bullough and ask him how much he knows about gameplanning BEFORE the game. We look unprepared in the first half, and halfway decent in the second half. If we can start figuring out what they will do before they've burned us for 3 TD's, we might be closer in games.

2) Keep playing Kevin Prince. The man hadn't played in two years, and yes he looks less than spectacular but Craft is not a capable starter, and Brehaut is not our savior. Yet.

3) Gameplan around the seniors. We need to step up and make plays, and if we are to rely on anyone it should be the seniors.

4) Stick to the run more. Rely on the QB as little as possible, and play clock-eating offense. The less time opposing offenses have to score, the more effective our D will be, the more likely we are to win.

5) With that said, simplify the passing game. Go to low risk passes, roll outs with room to run, play action passes, if you want, some trick plays.

6) Blitz! Every time we get pressure on the QB, good things happen. Unfortunately, rushing four isn't getting in done. Send Ayers on the blitz! Or the corners! Do some stunts, delayed blitzes, get creative and get pressure.

7) Get Aaron Hester back in there ASAP. Price projects well in the future, after some more development, but Hester is built to play now. He won the job for a reason, and we need him in there at the very least for run support.

8) Go for it on Fourth-and-short. I love Forbath, and he is a great thing to have on any team, but we can't settle for field goals the entire game. Trading 3 points to the opponents 7 just doesn't cut it.

9) Like everyone else has mentioned, tackling drills. We have a really hard time tackling, which makes our schematic deficiencies really stand out.

10) And lastly, again, as everyone else has said, pass catching. Run the passing tree for an hour after practice, whatever it takes, work on catching the ball in all situations. We can't drop big plays.

All that said, I agree with most of what Rick Neuheisel is doing. I am almost entirely willing to sacrifice this season for the future. The development we can get out of these games will be crucial in the future. We truly don't have the talent to compete right now, and the talent we do have is very young, inexperienced, and raw. I might agree that Brehaut should be seeing more of the field, but only because I think he has more upside than Prince. I give Neuheisel a pass until next year, but then I just expect a winning record and a decent bowl. Even then, though, he gets until year 4, no matter what. He deserves at least one recruiting cycle before we really judge him. If he had come into a program with talent, this would be a different story.

Every game comes down to a handful of plays that determine the outcome of the game. Right now Ucla is not making those plays to swing the game their way. It's really that simple... You can talk about this and you can talk about that, but Ucla is in evey game. They just aren't there yet. I do know that when Kevin Prince went out with the jaw injury for two games, it really set the offense back.

The drastic changes that need to be made to make the school a winner can't be done immediately. But off field issues can be taken care of, such as:

Show Randall Carroll the door, give his scholarship to someone who respects the school and will represent it properly.

Speaking of representing the school properly, get Rick Neuheisel to stop acting like a clown with his helicopter stunts and newspaper ads. Leave that to Lane Kiffin.

Think of what you would all say if USC tailback Joe McKnight made the comments that Randall Carroll did or if Pete Carroll did the helicopter nonsense and newspaper ads taunting the school across town from him a la Neuhiesel.

Well, that what the rest of the country (the ones that still pay attention) are saying about us.

Bring back Brian Dohn.

Today, huh? I think we aren't very far away...as many have stated, there are really a very small handful of plays that seem to tilt the game one way or another and we just aren't making them. I'll give you my top 1, though.

1. Go to the hurry-up offense. It seems like we play some of our best offense in 2 minute drills. I know if we go 3 and out that means more time on the field for the defense, but I think the best thing we could do for the defense would be to score points so they don't have so much pressure on them. You don't even have to snap the ball right away - just get up on the line and have their defense scurrying around trying to make sure they are in the right place. Be more proactive!

1. Teach offensive line to hold their blocks .25 a second longer.
2. Teach QB's how to read blitzes and change plays.
3. Stop throwing screens to slow guys like Embree, Moya and Paulson.
4. Throw slants to Carroll and run screens for Jetski and Thigpen, let their speed takeover.
5. Have Thigpen and Carroll return punts and kicks.
6. Someone tell Akeem to stop running himself out of position. The offenses just wait for him to run out of position and always run the play where he was supposed to be.
7. Start Hester for Price and get Price in the weight room.
8. Start Love over Dye.
9. Bench Ekbatani.
10.Hope Manti T'eo goes on his mission and signs with UCLA when it's done.

It is all about coaching and instilling a confidence that leads to a winning attitude.Right now the current staff falls back on not enough talent, as an alibi but there our programs winning with less.What you want to see is progress and right it's regress, the offense knows there is no confidence
in them and they play like it.You have to build belief first and the rest will follow.
stop telling the team they arent talented enough and start coachling them up.

1.Start Richard Brehaut
2.Start Derrick Coleman at Fb and lets run the ball 65% of the time to protect Brehaut.Franklin,Knox,Coleman and Thigpen in that order
3.Suspend Randall Carroll 3 games for conduct detrimental to the TEAM,and make him earn a spot back
4.Run short yardage Jumbo I sets with Price and David Carter at FB and Coleman at HB.We have got to get creative with our roster and maximize talent.
5.Use Thigpen as a Wildcat Qb
6.Give Marvray a shot to replace Carroll
7.Move Rahim Moore to CB,start Aaron Ware at S
8.Take a look at Nick Abele
9.Play Presley at the slot
10.Run more 4 WR sets with Presley and Austin in the slot and Embree and Rosario out wide

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