Dual Q&A Preview

Here's one of the questions from the dual question-and-answer session with UCLA's two new coordinators, Mike Johnson and Joe Tresey:

1) Introduce yourself to UCLA fans. Who is Mike Johnson/Joe Tresey?

Mike Johnson: "Mike Johnson? I am a football coach. I am a fundamentalist. I believe in teaching football, not just going out and doing Xs and Os. I believe in teaching football the same way school teachers teach math. I was taught to teach football using the Bloom's Taxonomy method of teaching. Taking everything from a knowledge standpoint to a synthesis level. Analyzing things, breaking things down.

I believe in teaching a four-step process: I believe in putting the topic on the board and I believe players take notes. I believe in step two being guided practice, where I ask them a series of questions to find out what they've learned. If they don't give me right answer, I can't go to step three, which is the quiz. So I have to reteach it again. If they get the answers right, we go to the quiz which is practice. From the quiz, we have step four, a test, game on Saturday.
That is who I am as a football coach. I believe that I am a leader. I want to be a leader, and not just a coach. I want to be a person that is the example of what we want to be."

Joe Tresey: "I'm very hands-on. I tend to be involved with the entire defense. We meet a lot as an entire defense. We meet probably more as an entire defense than my individual coaches get to meet with their players, just because I think it's very important that we're on the same page. In order to do that, you eliminate confusion, and people know where they're headed. The way to do that, to eliminate confusion, is to keep them together all the time.