Last of press conference tidbits

UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel on:

On making his rounds across the locker room and offering words of encouragement:
“If you’re not careful, you can leave a locker room feeling like the coaches feel it’s all the players’ fault. I think it’s important to realize we’re in this together and that we’re a team and that we share in victory just as we share in defeat. The key going forward was to continue was to believe in one another and get the focus on the task at hand. Which meant taking today as a player and getting rid of the sting of last night.”

On why he tunes out negativity:
“It’s more than a belief, its knowledge. It happens all the time. You have to be relentlessly positive, and you’ll get back to where you need to. Hope is not a strategy. This is a conviction of optimism, and we are going to rise again.”

On the postseason:
“We have a right to go to a bowl game, we finished season at 6-6 and that qualifies you for a bowl game. If we’re unsuccessful, then we have right to play in postseason like everybody else with 6-6 record.”