Neuheisel's post-game speeches
are a thing of the past, according to Rick Neuheisel, who is no longer doing those post-game victory/loss speeches at the microphone following games at the Rose Bowl. He didn't do one Saturday. He said he thought they had become a ''distraction'' and all about him and not about the team. He said he went to administrators, talked about it and they came to the same conclusion.
Who is this guy and what has he done with Rick Neuheisel?
who cares, he will only have a job for 10 more games
I guess it was a statistical decision...when your past record is t 4-8, there is 66.6% chance that your speech is going to be not that uplifting and it kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a "pep talk" ...
thank goodness...those "pep talks" were really getting old. talk is cheap, get the guys to play better...so tired of being mediocre!
Does it seem like Coach Neuheisel and the Administration (i.e., Guerrero) are just holed up in a bunker mentality hoping that everything will turn out okay and they won't get axed?
thanks, this is good stuff. was wondering about it. CRN et al came to the right conclusion.
Hard to give a speech when nobody is around to hear it.
The half-empty crowds at Pauley have been bad enough in recent years, but now the Rose Bowl too? Everyone's piling on Rick but Guerrero needs to start taking some heat. He's ultimately responsible for the on-field product, and this era of mediocrity is unacceptable.
And to the students, where were you? UCLA might have the most pathetic student turn out in the nation. There couldn't have been more than 500 students at the game on Saturday. I don't want to hear how school hasn't started. Do all the students live outside of So Cal? There are nearly 40,000 enrollees at UCLA, subtract the incoming freshmen and transfers and there's still at least 25,000. It's fair to say less than 5% of the student body attended Saturday's game. Embarrassing.
@Reasonable...
About students and the empty stadium... I think it does not help when Rose Bowl is so far from Westwood... I remembered that it was a pain in the buttock to drive all the way to Pasadena and comeback late at the night when you are half drunk, sleepy and hungry...
Besides if we were winning, the drive would be less painful for sure....
The student population at games is ALWAYS like this until school starts. This is nothing new...
@PV: I've made the trek from the Westside to the Rose Bowl for all but 2 games since I became a season ticket holder 14 years ago. All those things you say are true - it's a schlep to say the least. And as our group has grown it now takes 3 cars to get all our gear out to Pasadena. I'll probably be up before 6am on Saturday getting the car loaded up for the 8am trip. In places where college football matters, people drive for hours to watch their team play. 24 miles shouldn't be too much to ask.
@Bruintx: True, but Saturday was easily the smallest turnout of all time. Even at the SC game last year there were rows and rows of empty seats in the student section. I'm not on campus much these days, but sadly it seems UCLA football is an afterthought in Westwood.
Student attendance is ALWAYS poor for games in early September. Plus add to that fact that we were playing SJSU. I can't speak for the $c game last year, as I really didn't notice. Winning always takes care of attendance issues though. What gets me the most is when alumni with season tickets sell theirs to the opposing team's fans. That should be forbidden in the alumni section.
Build it, and they will come
Or, in other words, win, and they will come
SC football attendance is down the last couple of years because, oh yeah, because they are not winning like they used to.
And ucla basketball is not like it once was, and guess what, attendance there is down also.
L.A. is a tough town for the entertainment dollar.
Go back to the 1960s and try to convert Drake Stadium into a real football/track stadium. That's another solution to the student apathy, schlep-to-Pasadena problem. I've always felt that UCLA lacked that on-campus stadium experience. (I know, I know, it'd take an impossible, Herculean policial/financial/administrative miracle to get it done in this day and age, still an alum can dream....)
Rick has given up. Just look up how many times he has played golf recently at Bel Air CC instead of watching tapes or recruiting.
You guys are making me laugh, most y'all are right.
However, why don't more students go to basketball games, that far too?
I have season tickets, and don't tell me what do with my tickets, or when to cheer. I have been writing checks for yrs, most times cannot give my tickets away.
We were playing San Jose State, for crying out loud. Of course not many people are going to come out to see that. Not to mention, the tickets are super overpriced.
Assigned seating tickets for the Texas game START at $60. Add $20 for parking, $$ for food/drinks, and taking the family out to a UCLA game can run upwards of $300-400. Not gonna get many "casual fans" to show up with that kind of price tag.
BE REAL, that's the first reasonable thing you have said.
Jill painter sucks bring back gold!!! We hate jill!!! Boo!!!! Fire jill tressy and nueheisal they are treasonous!
Jon,
have you or any other of the reporters asked CRN or Mike Johnson about the lack of rotation at WR? During fall camp Johnson talked about he trusted 6 guys to go out their and get the job done possibly 7. And specifically, where is Randall Carroll. Even though Marvray and Smith haven't been getting a ton of run I have still seeing them take some snaps. Carroll has been no where to be seen. I could be wrong, but I didn't see him get in for even one play against SJSU. How deep in the doghouse is he?
@Reasonable Bruin
"And to the students, where were you?"
In their defense, school doesn't start until the 22nd, and a lot of the students are probably out of state students, out on vacation, or some legit reason why The Den wasn't full. I'm sure we can expect to see a lot of students come September 22nd...
It was really sad to see a post-game press conference where so many questions asked by reporters had nothing to do with game-related topics, but things like post-game speeches, "Monopoly Ends Here" ad (from three years ago)and other unrelated topics which have been answered on numerous occasions in the past. I wish some of our local sports writers will stop regurgitating and talk about the topics at hand for a change. It's almost like they didn't even watch the game.
Not a great atmosphere at the Rose Bowl when there are 45,000. I asked a recruit at the SJSU game: this or 100,000 at Tennessee, Michigan or Ohio State, or the college atmosphere at Oregon, Washington, Colorado etc. ?? No brainer, he said. Only thing UCLA has is it's close to home.
I will tell you one place where you can find UCLA fans in attendance -- Scott Wolf's blog. I am begging you all: if you have any influence with a certain UCLA fan posting as "BruinRob", please ask him to stop posting on Wolf's blog, and we would especially appreciate it if you could get him to stop using letters and punctuation marks to draw penises and butts in his posts.
Whatever you all may think of BE REAL's posts, he is Thomas Jefferson in Paris over here compared with BruinRob's vulgar behavior over at Wolf's blog.
Amen Brother Dupree.. You Bruin folks would be mortified with his language and references. thanks.
I wish Gold would just re-post something instead of giving us Jill Painter.