Foolball recruitments - UCLA games

You go to a game of football for fun, thats understandable, but how about your going there gets you selected into a football team and changes your career around. thats fantastic isntit ? Thats exactly what happened to Rick Neuheiselas he has a career in football right now


UCLA's football season opener Monday at the Rose Bowl against Tennessee has brought out lots of high school players.

Quarterback commit Richard Brehaut of Los Osos is here, along with Upland quarterback Josh Nunes, who has committed to Tennessee.

Two USC commits, Byron Moore of Narbonne and Morrell Presley of Carson, are supposed to attend the game.

The Bruins' sideline is swarming with potential recruits and their parents before the game.

Making a good first impression would be helpful for Coach Rick Neuheisel.

And this is what our columns have to say about this budding star.



Chris Foster writes in today's LA Times:

Rick Neuheisel makes his UCLA coaching debut tonight. Since World War II, Bruins coaches are 2-7-1 in their first games. The only ones to come away with a victory were Red Sanders, who beat Oregon State in 1949, and Terry Donahue, who beat third-ranked Arizona State in 1976.

Coach Donahue had a pretty good night on that Saturday in September. As described by Bob Oates in the Los Angeles Times after the game:

Under their 32-year-old new coach, Terry Donahue, UCLA's Bruins picked up where they left off in the Rose Bowl last year, surprising and overpowering the favored Arizona State Sun Devils, 28-10, in the nationally televised season's opener here Thursday night ...
A capacity crowd of 50,876 saw this happen to the Sun Devils adter a 12-0 season in which they had finished second in the Associated Press' national poll.
Ranked third (AP) and seventh (UPI) this summer in the preseason charts, they were an 8-point favorite over UCLA, which had been lightly regarded in the same preseason polls, making 14th in AP and 17th in the other.
This infuriated the Bruins and upset Donahue. They decided to do something about it if they could, and it turned out that they could.

From another LA Times scribe:

UCLA, the Rose Bowl champion, won rather easily, 28-10, and made a prophet of USC coach John Robinson, who had said that UCLA should not be an underdog (ASU was favored by 7 points) to anyone until it loses.
"Perhaps people will recognize that we're a good team," [Manu] Tuiasosopo said. "I don't know why we're not highly regarded. Maybe it's because we're in the same town as USC."