I’m happy to hear Lane Kiffin has shown interest in the job. Let’s see what he has to say.

Herm Edwards? No. He is a notoriously conservative head coach….even more so than Terry Donohue was. In the NFL he is known as a coach who is content to use his ground game between the 20’s and use clock. More often than not he settles for field goals because he stays conservative. Then, he tries to sit on leads. We’ve had enough coaches who play not to lose. We need a guy who plays to win.

Why are we happy about Lane Kiffin? The only head coaching experience he has is with the raiders, and it’s not going so well. Otherwise, he’s got about as much experience as DW.

Kiffin is just another guy showing interest. It shows the job has some value. I didn’t mean to sound as if I like him for the job.

Kiffin not going well with the Raiders?

They’re helluva lot better than last year. Plus, he’s got to work with Al Davis’ corpse

for the last week it really did seem like there wasn’t strong interest in this position! This is REALLY exciting! GO BRUINS

How could the Football job be bad besides the bad teams??? You got the rose bowl which has a good max capacity. You got a great academic school for recruits (unless they r not qualified). The rose bowl is a tailgating paradise for fans. The school has the most national titles which means the best athletic department. They know how to win. Most importantly…. we have the old guy leading the cheers!!!!

The only thing that has ever been bad the UCLA football job is that it does not pay enough for big time coaches. Otherwise UCLA is pretty ideal. We need to pay our good assistants a little better too. A well-paid head coach will get frustrated if his underpaid assitants keep fleeing.

On a totally different note, I love this website. As long as we don’t hire Walker (ABW!), I’ll be happy. But as soon as we do hire someone, I will have to resort to less entertaining internet at work. This hiring process is highly entertaining. Plenty of good coaches remain, and I’m none too anxious for my entertainment to disappear.

Shifting geras again. What is with this Neuheisel obsession? He coached one 11-1 sesaon and two 10-2 sesaons and then just piles mediocrity on the rest of his record. That and NCAA infractions. Dennis Erickson he is not. Bob Toledo had a couple great years. Dorrell had one really good year. I don’t want either one of them as our coach. The nostalgia for Neuheisel is insufferable. Let go, for the love of God. Neuheisel is marginally better than Dorrell. I don’t have nostalgia clouding my vison. I simply Googled Neuheisels’ W-L, and a miracle worker he is not.

Facts are Facts! Toledo was a good coach and although people said he messed up the reutation of our program,he did not! what!? a couple players got handicap plackards and parked in handicap parking. then Deshaun Foster got screwed by an Usc alumn. Toledo gave us a 20 game win streak,and an almost National Championship! Ucla is a dream job and why wouldn’t anyone want to coach here!? the only thing I worry about is fan base! I mean C’mon.only 74,000 this year a game and we set and attendance record???? even in 1998 when we made our national title run,we averaged only a little over 70,000. we should be averaging 90,000 a game like USC. as far as coaches go,i think Chow or Bowden would be monumental!!!!!!

Ry, I agree with you that Slick Rick is not a miracle worker. He’s certainly better than the possibilities of Walker or Chow. Many Bruin loyalists, myself included don’t have any faith that the Morgan Center will pull off a big-time hire, ie. Leach, June Jones, Peterson. It’s part of the UCLA culture. We just know that the Slickster is a safe bet (sorry for the analogy). The guy bleeds blue and gold, needs to desparately reestablish his career and reputation which was unfairly impugned at Colorado and Washington, and he will come cheap–something that excites the bean counters at Morgan Center. Yes, I would like a big hire, but the Slickster will be able to go head to head against Pete Carroll in coaching and recruiting. Something that Walker and Chow won’t be able to do.

Rick is not getting the job.
I know from my sources. My sources are better then anyone’s here AND in the entire media. As a matter of fact, my source is THE best source possible

Well, no offense intended here guys, but to call Leach, Jones or Peterson a “big time hire” compared to Neuheisel is a bit much, isn’t it?

Neuheisel has won the Rose Bowl and Cotton Bowl as well as the Holiday Bowl and Aloha Bowl as a coach. Leach? Well, he has won the Tangerine Bowl, Houston Bowl and Holiday Bowl. However, he lost the Cotton Bowl and dropped a heartbreaker in the “prestigious” Gallery Furniture.com Bowl, whatever the hell that is.

June Jones? Well, he did win the Aloha Bowl and the Hawaii Bowl. Gotta come to the mainland once in a while though to be “Big time” don’t ya? Let’s see how he does against Georgia this year in New Orleans.

Peterson? Well, he won the Fiesta Bowl last year by upsetting Oklahoma.

So, who is big time and who isn’t? The Cotton Bowl and Rose Bowl are BCS bowls. The Tangerine Bowl? The Hawaii Bowl? Hardly “big time” bowls are they?

Remember, the whole country got excited when Boise St. beat Oklahoma….and it WAS very exciting. Why? Because little Boise St. beat a “big time” school. Well, Neuheisel, while at Colorado, was in the same league as Oklahoma. And, while at Washington, he beat SC, Michigan and Miami (Fla), three pretty “big time” football programs.

To Dismiss Neuheisel because he “only” had one 11-1 year and two 10-2 years is kinda funny without considering who he beat during those years. I mean, c’mon, there were no Florida Internationals or San Jose States on his schedule.

OUTSTANDING unearthing of this information. This greatly pleases me. I don’t particularly feel that the candidates mentioned are any good, but I am delighted that the UCLA job is being looked at by a great many people. This does pay credence to my contention that DG is going for it this time. He’s doing it the right way, is what we have to acknwolged.

It is increasingly becoming clear to me that this is his hire after all.

what also excites me about having Kiffin and Herm mentioned, and if they are in fact serious candidates, this creates a greater buffer between UCLA and hiring DW. A few days ago, when I’d heard no further names mentioned, I placed DW’s chances of being hired at 35%, thereby placing a 35% chance of my retirement being a reality. At this point, with all of these names, that probability of DW being hired has dropped precipitously! I feel safer.

I hope that these names are legit and that they’re being properly and sincerely considered. I don’t want this to be tokenism, or I’ll be upset.

Or maybe this is just the consequence of a search firm. AFter all, why hire a search firm when only 4 names are being considered. What’sa a search firm supposed to do, but dig up names of people that have as little as a tangential interest.

Don’t get too excited about Kiffin. Remember, SUC was happy to see him leave. And his hiring by the Raiders was a pure mistake. Al Davis was so senile that he thought Kiffin was Pete Carroll when he interviewed him.

We don’t need a lousy NFL coach to lead the Bruins. This is starting to make me sick! We have a few great possibilities, what the F*** are we waiting for? DG needs to grow a set and make a good decision, like most other schools already have. This is the prime recruiting season, and we are still adding new names to our list to consider? All I want for Christmas is Rick Neuheisel…

Bring Back Rick!!! Bring Back Rick!!!Bring Back Rick!!! Bring Back Rick!!!Bring Back Rick!!! Bring Back Rick!!!Bring Back Rick!!! Bring Back Rick!!!Bring Back Rick!!! Bring Back Rick!!!Bring Back Rick!!! Bring Back Rick!!!

Touching on the non-athletic side of things, It’s gotta be Rick. He’s through and through a bruin and knows first hand the academic demands of UCLA to get his players to and through UCLA, recruiting will not be an issue for him.

BRING BACK RICK.BRING BACK RICK. BRING BACK RICK.

Joe…I don’t know who your source is, but I’d bet you’re right. Rick won’t get the job.

However, I just can’t resist taking a jab at some of the disinformation out there. For instance, some guys have said, “Neuheisel is no Erickson. Rick has only had one 11-1 seson a couple 10-2 seasons. Other than those years, he is mediocre.”

First of all, to think or expect ANY coach that comes to UCLA to go 10-2 every year, without a few 7-5 or 6-6 years thrown in, is ridiculous. What Carroll has done at SC is extraordinary. His success is amazing, and it indicates that strong recruiting in the LA area can lead to dominancy. However, remember, Carroll went 6-6 his first year at SC…ya gotta have the horses.

But, back to Neuheisel vs Erickson. Yes, Neuheisel did have a 7-5 year and a 7-6 year mixed in with his 11-1 and two 10-2 years. Erickson? He has gone 6-5, 6-6, 3-7, 7-5, 5-6 and 4-8 at points in his career. Yes, he had the great Miami teams that dominated college football for five years. But, we all know they were the “police blotter” years when his teams were known as much for arrests as wins.

What about looking at the Neuheisel vs Erickson record when their teams played one another. Well, they faced each other four times. The record? Neuheisel 3 wins, 1 loss. Yes, the great Erickson is only 1-3 against Neuheisel. Further, when Neuheisel’s team had to forfeit all of their games in 1997 it was due to having an ineligible player. Was it Rick’s fault? No. The Colorado registrar’s office made a clerical error allowing a player to have a fifth year of eligibility. If you ignore that year, Neuheisel’s college record is 61-24 or a .717 win percentage. This winning percentage rivals Paterno or any other college football coaching legend you can name, including Erickson who has a winning percentage of .702.

So, I guess the statement that “Neuheisel is no Erickson” is actually correct.

Lombardi’s regular season record 96-34-6… Rick’s including CU forfeit season 94-49… not saying Rick is a Lombardi but no coach wins 9-10 games year after year.

Yes, the Raiders are a little better this year, but it’s hard to be worse than 2-14 unless you happen to be in Miami.

If Raiders fans are happy with him, they can keep him, I don’t want him coaching my bruins.

Lads and Laddies - a huge Moment has happened _ a Moment that one day, will be acknowledged, as the Moment that ” We the Bruins ” , have taken back OUR university, from the administration-type, who think U.C.L.A. belongs to them ___ it has gotten to the point , that us, on the internet . . count __ I am sure the danny-boy will never respect us, but we are the reason, dud-rell got dumped _ the Alumni and Big boosters, would have never gotten rid of dud-rell , short of going 0 -11 _ they are too passive ___ they are like the media, feeling sorry for dud-rell , because he is a minority, and political correctness(stupidity) is their stage of evolution ___ The Alum and Big Boosters, think that one person is more important, than a hundred kids and the University ___ they still do, but a big shift has happened __ NEVER . . again will the Alum and Big Boosters feel sorry for a coach _____ REAL pressure now exists , because Now there are REAL expectations __ Thanks to all us little people, who sacrifice our thoughts emotions energy and time pecking away , as if we court . . as if our opinions and perspectives are EQUAL . . to the gurus (sports writers)___ This must be a horrifying nightmare for those self-declaring einsteins, that we don’t listen to the sport pages , we don’t need them anymore _ the internet, is making their propaganda obsolete ___ That we know what they write, is not truth , and never objective __ It is just there psycho-CRAP . . just a extremely bias and agenda-ized propagada ___ just some shmuck, who can’t get a real job ___ danny-boy is really feeling the pressure, for the natives are now, Really paying attention and Focused , with the Alums and Big Boosters, tired of incompetence, and are now evolving into us web site warriors __ the Alums and Big Boosters , now realize, we can no longer, “just leave it” to the administration-types , anymore than we can leave our state to politicians ___ They must be involved, always exerting pressure ___ If one is so stupid to want a job (A.D.) with this much responsibility, then Buster, you had better have ” your shit together ” (which danny-boy, never will) ___ danny-boy , now knows the spot-light is really on . . on him ___ This choice, of a coach, had better be good, because danny-boy knows, if he makes a inferior choice . . . again, this time, the blame will be on him, instead of the coach __ carry on those of us, who properly care, knowing while we won’t get respect, we are being heeded and are converting the the passive-involved

Diego (Aka Bluebruin), you are definately one of my favorite contributors here at DD! Excellent post as usual.

As a long time UCLA bruin fan and Kansas City Chief fan, Herm Edwards is not a wise choice for the job. He is extremely conservative and as you can see from the numbers this year the Chiefs have thrown up, he is not a great coach. He is a lot like Dorrell, great guy, terrible coach. I have beenwatching the Chiefs suffer week after week with scoring 1 TD a game and I am just fed up with it. I would also like to see him ousted from the head position with Kansas City. As for Lane Kiffin, UCLA needs a big time name and Lane Kiffin is not it. Yes, he has done a fantastic job turning around the Raiders this year, but he is not the answer. He can stay in Oakland.(and hopefully does a terrible job for the Chiefs sake!)

I would love to see Norm Chow or Rick!!! They will turn this program around that already has tremendous amounts of talent! Norm is ready for that head coaching job… GO BRUINS!