Dwayne….don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out!

Dwayne….Good luck in Seattle.

Given Dohn’s non stop shilling and his crusade to get Walker hired at UCLA, I’ll take this report with a large box of salt. It appears to be an attempt to up the ante and show how desirable and wanted Walker is by saying he’s going to wait to see how the head coaching search shakes out at UCLA. In other words, Dohn’s message is that if Guerrero doesn’t hire Walker as the head coach, there’s another Pac-10 team just champing at the bit to hire him. And what’s more, that other Pac-10 team wants him so badly that they’re going to give him a two-year deal when all other assistant coaches only get one-year deals. It’s the same thing as before when Dohn reported that Washington State really wanted to hire him as their head coach and we find out that he was never even interviewed. When that news broke, Dohn went into damage and spin control by reporting that Walker was a “second tier” candidate. Sure. My sources at WSU said Walker was never even considered for a moment. Considering Tyrone’s hot-seat situation at UW, the two-year-deal claim for Walker makes absolutely no sense. The UW administrators aren’t that stupid that they’re going to be on the hook for two years with a new DC that Tyrone wants to bring in. Dohn and his “sources” have zero credibility.

Walker is a good dc. i’d prefer to keep him. But if he wants to leave he will see neu’s offense shred u-dub next year. Good job DG on handling walker right and we will hire nue.

PEACE OUT, DWAYNE!! You gotta do, what you gotta do.

By the way, all of those dozens of recruits who allegedly won’t play unless they play for you, can start booking their airfare to Seattle. Remember, the sooner you book, the less you pay.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury…latest “news flash”, courtesy of Big Joe McDonnell, who called into the “Loose Cannons” show on AM 570 radio. You may take this information with a grain of salt, however, I’ve listed to Big Joe for years, and he really knows his stuff…and when he says he has sources, I do believe him. He announced that he heard this afternoon that DeWayne Walker has been informed by UCLA (I’m not sure if it’s by Dan G…or some one else)that he is not being offered the HC position at UCLA. While Walker was upset with the decision, he told officials that his first choice would then be to stay on as DC under the new coach…whomever is hired. UCLA has made another big push for Mike Leach…except for two big problems: (1) Leach wants a minimum $2.5 million per year (more than we’ll ever pay!); (2) Leach wants to evaluate every coordinator and assistant, and make his own moves (UCLA wants the new HC to keep Walker as DC). Leach is out! It really is down to Rick…and he wants to be here like yesterday to get started working. Enough time spent…let’s move forward with Rick!

DG is trying everything he can not to hire Neuheisel, what a shame. It would be kind of funny if Neuheisel told DG to get flogged. That would not be good for UCLA football,
but it would leave a lot of egg on DG’s face. *ucking hire Neuheisel already!!!

Dude, you’ve GOTTA be kidding me that Leach wants 2.5 Million!! that’s Ridiculous. @ 2.5 Million, Leach would be in the top-10 for salaries. That’s ridiculous. We MIGHT pay 2.5 Million, but we certainly won’t do it for LEACH! If it was Spurrior, I’d say 2.5 is a bargain, but not for LEACH! That’s ridiculous. I don’t blame him for wanting to evaluate each of the assistants, though. Any coach with self-respect would that.

Think about it fans…..If RN was SO desirable why isn’t his phone ringing off the hook? If UCLA REALLY wanted RN don’t you think he’d be signed by now? Come on guys. Please. Rick N. is the fat chick sitting at the bar at 2 AM praying for some dude to take her home. UCLA is the guy looking to score with a better candidate, but all the hot chicks either have a boyfriend, aren’t attracted, or just flat out aren’t interested. I really hope UCLA doesn’t settle for the “fat chick” no one wants. Come back another night and you might score with a better prospect. Let’s not lower our standards and hire slime ball to run our program. Puhlease…

Here is more information on June Jones coaching history in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons as well as the history of Jerry Glanville who coached both the Falcons & Oilers using the run n shoot: June Jones record with Atlanta 19-30-0,from 1994-1996. Jerry Glanvilles record with Atlanta prior to JJ 28-38 this is from 1990-1993 and his record with the Houston Oilers is 35-35 from 1985-1989. This DG is why you shouldnt hire JJ. I got this info from www.nflteamhistory.com

June Jones… why are we not going after him? That drives me crazy. We all recognize that DG is embarrassing himself with avoiding Neuheisel without a strong list of other possibilities. I don’t want Neuheisel at all. At this point my first choice is June Jones–who we could easily afford ($800K at Hawaii). My second choice is the risky possible rip-off deal that is Mike Leach. My third desperate choice is Neuheisel.

My point is, a lot of us in the anti-Neuheisel camp even recognize that we better get June Jones or Leach or someone pretty big for sure–or just hire Neuheisel today. DG is embarrassing himself, and in turn, UCLA.

alx324, solid research no doubt. I respect that. Jones had a mediocre record in the NFL though–not college. Pete Caroll was an above average coach–at best–in the NFL. So many solid coaches couldn’t hack it in the NFL–do we really need to rattle them off? Saban, Petrino, Spurrier, you know the list goes on and on…

June Jones has a great college record and that is what matters. Hawaii was a joke before he got there.

Big Dave, if not RN, who ? Ry, same question for you.

Bluebruin, you seem amiable enough… but I just named Leach and June Jones

Neuheisel is the “fat chick”? Seriously? UCLA could be a national power with a coach like Neuheisel. Leach, Jones? What has Texas Tech ever done? Who has Hawaii played? Hawaii nearly lost to Washington on their home field. Sorry, and with much respect, but those of you who don’t think Neuheisel is the right man for the UCLA job are wrong. UCLA is not a national power in football because it hasn’t taken football seriously. That, in a nutshell is why teams like Oregon, Oregon State, Cal and USC are doing better than UCLA year after year. This is a not a difficult decision, Neuheisel will bring UCLA instant credibility.

There is nothing wrong with Neuheisel. His “negative” past history is a bunch of BA-loney and his record is legit. Anyone who gets recruiting violations gets them out of desire for success.

He’ll be cutthroat in recruiting and will actually give his own blood to this program, which he played for and loves so dearly.

Jones and Leach probably would be solid choices as well (considering the lot), but don’t make Neuheisel out to be some sort of monkey.

My thing is this, if it were Neu, he would have been hired already, right? The Ravens aren’t in a playoff push… I doubt they’re asking for things to be kept quiet.

I suspect that DG has other things in mind and is keeping them very quiet.

YEs, sorry about that Ry. I saw it after I posted to you. They are both good candidates who I considered, but personally dismissed because of the unconventional dimensions to their offenses. I think that Bruin fans are actively pushing for offensive minded coaches. The greater the offense, the more interesting of a choice they become to UCLA fans in this current environment. This is AN IRONIC, and somewhat bizzare, TWIST from the status quo. Traditionally, UCLA has never had offensive problems. How ironic is it that a former offensive player (wide receiver no less) would coach the Bruins straight into offensive futility. To such a level of futility, in fact, that the collective of Bruin fans would be clamoring for an increase in offense. That is simply an incredible twist.

This is the current reality in which we find ourselves. The WCO that KD ran pushed us into seeking, whether through the work of our conscious or our sub-conscious, offensive-minded coaches. This is how a name like Mike Leach and Junes Jones suddenly gain favor with UCLA fans.

The current problem we have is actually making JJ and ML seem more desirable than they really are, Frankly.

As it was noted before, JJ has been in Hawaii for several years, but he hasn’t been heavily approached by big name schools. Mike leach is in a similar situation at TTech, where he lights up the scoreboard against low competition, but quickly discovers his gimmicks won’t work against elite level athletes.

We need an all around coach that will address the all around opportunity that UCLA offers.

I have a question about Terry Donahue. I don’t know as much about football as all of you. I did contribute to the ad to try and do something about the coaching situation. But my question is why Donohue is generally regarded negatively. The only thing I knew about him was that he was 10-9-1 against USC which sounds pretty good. But I looked him up in Wikipedia and geeze… He was 144-81-88. Isn’t that pretty good? He started out terrible. His first few years looked awful but from 1982 to 1988 he won the Rose, Rose, Fiesta, Rose, Fiesta, Aloha, Cotton. I didn’t know he had done all that. So what was it that he did that made him feel the way you do about him? Thanks.

its a crying shame that Spurrier hasn’t even been interviewed or contacted by D.G.!!!!! not even an interview!!!!!????????

READ THE LA TIMES PIECE ON DG. IT RIPS HIM UP FOR TAKING SO LONG. NEW SITE: GETRIDOFDANGUERRO.COM. HE HAS DRAGGED US THRU THE MUD.

Again–if RN was SO desirable why haven’t other programs contacted him in the last 3 years or so. Ok- Duke has, but they really aren’t a football power. Look at RN’s record at CO and WA… he’s all over the place. We don’t need another coach who goes 10-2 one year and then 6-5 the next. In addition, RN was a terrible clock manager and committed 51 NCAA violations at CO. You don’t think the NCAA wants payback for shelling out that $4.5 M he won from his termination at WA? What ever happened to Terry Bowden..I guess I would go after JJ regardless of his NFL record. I’m just pissed we can’t get a better up and comer.. Peterson would’ve been perfect…

NEU IS THE MAN. BEST AND HE WILL STAY.

Big Dave, you obviously have very little or no experience with women… fat chick rock, FO SHO! What team do you play for, bro?

And a proven winner with the sack to push the envelope is a site to behold. Wake up and sniff the… uh, never mind.

It’s Rick for President!

Rad

Big Moe, I am a Big Joe fan too but for many years he was anti-UCLA and he is not always right. Didn’t he say a week ago Walker was going to get the job?

June Jones is getting long in the tooth. Leach or Bowden are not the answer. When has Leach been in anything but a minor bowl game? How long has it been since Bowden coached - 10 years? So I’ll ask the same question somebody else did about RN - if Bowden’s so great why hasn’t he been snatched up by some lucky school by now?

Big Dave, after Rick was fired from Washington, he was persona non grata nation wide. At the time, it was understandable. His law suit against Wash and the NCAA took some time, but he ultimately won, rather effortlessly,too. As a stipulation to the award, he agreed to stay out of coaching the NCAA for I believe 4 years. This is his fourth year. He was going to return to the college game no matter what. It just so happens that the UCLA job opened.

Neu was offered jobs at Duke, SMU, and West V. called him as a plausible candidate, but at that point he had already been contacted by UCLA.

big name schools aren’t going to jump at him right away. He knew he would have to start small once he returned, but again, UCLA opened its job, and he’s an alumnus. If you poll natioanl coaches, they’ll tell you he’s a good coach, but even better for UCLA.

Keep this in mind, SMU was given the Death Penalty in the late 80s. They’ve had the WORST of it from the NCAA, and they offered Rick their position as head coach. That school, to this day, is still heavily policed. They had no problem offering the job to Rick.

HEre are the facts:

Rick is still young (in his early forties)

Rick runs a pro-style, college savvy offense

Rick is a hardcore recruiter

Rick has mountains of charisma and charm. Some may call him slick, or devilish, sure, but it’s Bill Clinton like charisma and charm. That stuff GETS recruits here and will be a perfect opposition to CArroll who’s the same at USC. IN fact, I would argue that Rick would win more people over due to his superior intelligence. He has his law degree, a Masters and an Undergrad for UCLA. If you hear him speak, he’s highly articulate. Carroll has a speech impediment with that stutter of his, but Rick is very good at using words with his personality. This will SELL kids of any neighborhood.

Rick is contrite about his past transgressions. A person can’t be judged by their past always. It’s not as if he was doctoring grades or classes or anything like Jim Harrick did at Georgia. All of his infractions were MINOR in nature.

He has experience at both the pro and college levels. In college, he has a .680 win average… that’s Damn good. Those that don’t think that’s good, especially playing in two BCS conference, need to realize that they’re wrong.

His work ethic is second-to-none!

Mike Leach and June Jones are not the answer. Rick Neuheisel did better at Colorado than Leach coaching in the same conference. June Jones coaches in a conference that doesn’t have the same number of high quality athletes as the Pac 10. Look how his Hawaii team really struggled against Washington who was last in the Pac 10. Both these coaches have quality but unorthodox offenses but are weak on defense. Neuheisel’s teams were much better balanced with both credible offense and defense. Rick Neuheisel is not someone to settle for but is by far the best person for the UCLA job. I can think of only one coach who might be a better choice, Urban Meyer, and he’s not available. I just don’t understand this resistance some people have to Neuheisel. This argument about how his teams got worse after a couple years makes little sense to me. Wasn’t he 8-4 in his last year at Washington and remember that’s in the Pac 10? How many coaches go 10-2 every year in a major conference? To me this argument has little merit and is just something to hang a preexisting prejudice on.

If Eddie Sutton can get a 2nd chance in basketball after a DUI, why can’t people get past it and give Rick his 2nd chance.

BRING BACK RICK!!!!

What the heck is this about?? I just saw this on the Daily News. I cut and clipped it.

Philadelphia Eagles defensive backs coach John Harbaugh, the brother of Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, was scheduled to meet with UCLA chancellor Gene Block about the Bruins’ open coaching position either tonight, sources said. Philadelphia Eagles defensive backs coach John Harbaugh, the brother of Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, was scheduled to meet with UCLA chancellor Gene Block about the Bruins’ open coaching position either today or Saturday, sources said.

Tell me that DG won’t get this guy. It is time to get RN, and sign him now. Unless there is a secret candidate I don’t know about…….like a Tedford (and I am not talking about the crappy Herm Edwards), then they should sign up Rick right now. Someone explain the logic of Harbaugh to me…..please?

Bluebruin, I couldn’t have said it better myself. I have faith in RN. While I would love to see our candidate pool be bigger, I can’t help but put Rick in the top of our candidates. The guy will live and breathe Bruin football. All I can say is watch out $UC.

If Rick stays put in the NFL he would be two maybe three years away from a head NFL job. And that was a quote from Madden early in the season. Rick has been straddled with Boler this year after McNair’s injury. The Raven’s problem is not their offensive game plan, it’s player personel. Remember this last season Billick fired his OC Jim Fassel mid season and did it himself. If he tought Rick was the problem he would have done the same.

As far as Leach is concerned, he competes against the big guys by playing run and gun. His atheletes are not better and his offense really does not provide that much of a curveball from what they normally do, it’s just that he has so conditioned his players to play the full 60 minutes and more that they just wear the opponents down. That is a credit to his coaching style I agree. But they have not had any reall running game in years and if you bottle up the passing game on them, their running won’t help them win. They are entertaining but one dimenional.

Look at last season:

Sep 03 @ Southern Methodist Won (49 - 9)
Sep 08 Texas-El Paso Won (45 - 31)
Sep 15 @ Rice Won (59 - 24)
Sep 22 @ Oklahoma State Lost (45 - 49)
Sep 29 Northwestern St. Won (75 - 7)
Oct 06 Iowa State Won (42 - 17)
Oct 13 Texas A&M Won (35 - 7)
Oct 20 @ (13)Missouri Lost (10 - 41)
Oct 27 Colorado Lost (26 - 31)
Nov 03 @ Baylor Won (38 - 7)
Nov 10 @ (12)Texas Lost (43 - 59)
Nov 17 (10)Oklahoma Won (34 - 27)
Week 13 BYE
Week 14 BYE
Jan 01 @ (21)Virginia 1:00 PM

Leach plays very competively against good teams, especially if they are down a QB like the game with the Sooners. The Texas game is a great example of what I stated before, Texas finally figured out their pass coverage problems late in the game and shut Tech down in the fourth quarter. The Oklahoma State game had people wondring if Tech had any defensive players at all and the loss to Colorado showed that Tech was vulnerable at home and was a good match of two well conditioned football teams, Colorado being a bit more conditioned. Don’t get me wrong, Leach is a good coach and is in the right place for his style of coaching, but he realizes he needs to improve “HIS” running game and recruit defense.

June Jones is much the same, a bust as a pro coach, but very effective and entertaining as a college coach. He is the second highest God on Oahu, Pele the volcano god being number 1 of course. Joes runing game was actually not that bad at times, but look who he played and compare how he did against Washngton as how he would do against other Pac 10 teams.

Look at Hawaii’s record:

Sep 02 N. Colorado Won (63 - 6)
Sep 08 @ Louisiana Tech Won (45 - 44)
Sep 15 @ UNLV Won (49 - 14)
Sep 23 Charleston Southern Won (66 - 10)
Sep 29 @ Idaho Won (48 - 20)
Oct 07 Utah State Won (52 - 37)
Oct 12 @ San Jose State Won (42 - 35)
Week 8 BYE
Oct 28 New Mexico State Won (50 - 13)
Week 10 BYE
Nov 10 Fresno State Won (37 - 30)
Nov 16 @ Nevada Won (28 - 26)
Nov 23 (24)Boise State Won (39 - 27)
Dec 01 Washington Won (35 - 28)
Jan 01 @ (4)Georgia 8:30 PM

They blasted the weak teams like any good team should do. Northern Colorado their opener lost to the University of San Diego a non-scholarship program. Charleston Southern is like a junior varsity team and they squeaked by any other team that had any type of talent. Their win over Boise is impressive, but this isn’t the same Boise as last year; good, but not great. Don’t get me wrong Jones is a good coach, but he is where he should be, entertaining the late night TV viewers so they don’t fall asleep in front of their TV sets.

Niether would be able to do it in the Pac 10 on any regular basis. But they would sell tickets and be entertaining. And having DW as their DC wouldn’t do it either. DW still hasn’t figured out what happened versus Utah and Notre Dame. And this crap about how well the defense played against BYU, shutting them out in the second half for a moral victory. That is simply baloney, Mendenhall’s boners kept the Brins in the game. “Hello there” the Bruins are Pac 10, BYU is Mountain West. If anything it shows that DW could not coach as well as Dorrell since Dorrell won the first game with them.
Don’t give me the QB injury excuse here, DW knew that Olson and Cowan were shaky at best to play. If he would have worked with MBT more in the weeks before the game he would have produced better. The proof is in the pudding, San Diego State put up 27 on the board in the pevious game against BYU. And what could DW manage one TD and three FG’s. Well you can give Norvell some credit for that, Papa Callahan isn’t here to give him guidance, but I heard he is on Norvell’s FAV5 on his cell phone.

Rick has been there and done that, in college football. So what with the integrity issues, he dosen’t deny them and he is contrite and appears to have learned his lesson. No coach is perfect in those matters.

And finally look at the MONEY, this is a minimum wage job for a major college coach. Unless the athletic department antes up, any coach other than Rick would likely have to live in the dorms himself. June’s leis would look cool at Sproul Hall, but I don’t think he cherishes the thought of moving out of the temple on Oahu that he lives in now. And Leach will be hard pressed to find a place like Knott’s Landing to sproul out at off Wilshire.

Get real DG and give the press that release you wrote and saved on your desktop about naming Rick as the head coach.

As far as Dw and Washingto goes, I like Tye Willingham alot, I respect him and I think he got screwed over at Notre Dame. I would hate to think that he is depending on DW to save his job up there. DW needs to get some experience at some place like Chareston Southern where he can get a name for himself.

Big Moe, you created a bit of a stir with your report, its getting around the boards and forcing reporters to look into it.

the 2-year deal is an indication that UW is a bad situation…and that Tyrone is trying to save his job.

Walker can either walk to UW..where he’ll be coach for a year and hope that the new UW AD has a DG moment and offers him the head job if Tyrone is canned.

Or Walker keeps a year salary while jettisoned by the Huskies when a whole new staff led by (Jim Mora Jr.?) comes in.

Walker is position his move from UCLA very well and to his credit.

If a new coach keeps him now, we can assume either
a) he thinks Walker can keep the recruiting class together or

b) Walker is as good as a DC as he wants us to believe.

(or both)

Bruin Buddy.

How did Tyrone Willingham get screwed at Notre Dame if he is 11-24 in three years at UW?? .

It seems to me that leaving Stanford was his biggest mistake. He had it going there..where a 6-5 record average can make alums happy.

That doesn’t work at South Bend or in Seattle.

He is a 500 coach at best…as his career record indicates.

If Walker goes there…he’s only doing that because he thinks TW will be canned and he might get the head job.

Willingham wasn’t allowed to see it through with his first recruiting class who I believe the next year went 9-3 under Weiss. Their talent was a testament to his abilities. His recruits gave Weiss something to work with thos first two years.

Doug D- About your Donahue question. I guess you had to be there to experience it, or at least hear about it. Donahue had GREAT teams with great talent, but he was always just content with a conference title or going to a major bowl. He had two teams that were REALLY good and should’ve won National titles, the best of which was the 1988 team, but they never did thanks to Donahue. If it was fourth and one on the opponent 39 yd line, Terry would punt. If there were 1:03 seconds left on the clock before the half and UCLA got the ball, Terry would take a knee. Everything was designed around not losing and winning. He was the EPITOME of Mediocrity. It was always about doing just enough. Some of those Rose Bowl wins were with two conference losses teams where UCLA benefitted from tie breakers or other teams tanking. If he could tie the game, Terry would. If the call was go for two or tie the game, he would tie the game. That’s how he always was.

Bluebruin….You nailed Terry Donohue on the head. His tendency to play “not to lose” was always irritating. He was always getting the team in position for a field goal instead of thinking TD.

I went to the Aloha Bowl the year we played Florida and Emmitt Smith. UCLA was clearly the superior team, and we did win. But, Terry Donohue did everything in his power to keep Florida in the game. Florida had a chance to win it at the gun, but a Kerwin Bell pass fell incomplete in the endzone.

Doug D- Go to this page, which will show you all of the Bruin seasons archived with game-by-game results. You’ll see Donahue’s 20 years and how often he had us in position to contend for the National title, but suffered bad losses, to bad teams to whom we never should’ve lost and how his conservative nature undermined us. Notice also his inability to beat USC. USC owned Donahue. His mark improved with the last 5 seasons where he beat USC every game; however, when it mattered, he couldn’t beat USC. The seasons when USC was good and UCLA was good, Donahue couldn’t beat USC.

http://uclabruins.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/ucla/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2003-history3

I’m sorry you had to suffer through that ATP.

One thing I remember about Donahue was his constant insecurity during his pre-game interviews, always deferring a win, never confidant his players’ ability to achieve. A lot of “Well, I don’t know…”

Recheck Terry Donahue’s record vs. USC. His Bruin teams beat the Trojans several times when USC was ranked.

151 total Pac-10 victories and 7 consecutive bowl victories from the ‘82-’88 seasons.

Donahue’s teams opened up their offense when Homer Smith became the Offensive Coordinator in the early 80 teams.

Did UCLA really hire a search firm to help out in finding a coach for 2008? Having been in the Recruiting field for over 21 years, it’s embarassing not to get back to these candidates(i.e. Chow & Golden)and let them know their status. “No” is ok vs. hearing these candidates are “withdrawing” their names from the UCLA HC position.

What are they paying this search firm to do????

The process with Mike Leach is much closer than most know. He is relaxing the 2.25 million into an incentive based five year package. We should have word in forty eight hours.
TL