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Maisel: Neuheisel's road to redemption points toward home
Maisel: Neuheisel's road to redemption points toward home
Exile forced Rick Neuheisel to reflect about the kind of coach he had been. His return home to UCLA offers an opportunity for redemption. >
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Coming Home
Bruins Nation — Today is apparently WWL’s Pac-10 preview day (at least in the online section of their college football page). And the headliner happens to be none other than CRN. You can already see WWL's Ivan Maisel's sit down with CRN below.  In addition to that interview Maisel has written up (yet another) profile piece on CRN with the angle of the prodigal son of Westwood looking for "redemption": Maisel’s piece is extensive and hits on lot of familiar themes we have been reading in Neuheisel ...

Rick Neuheisel on Outside the Lines
SportsHubLA — UCLA head football coach Rick Neuheisel appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines today, and acquitted himself pretty well. He didn’t dig deep into the controversies that ran him out of coaching for a while, but did admit to getting caught up in the celebrity of being a very young, very high profile head celebricoach. He also shares his favorite moments about returning to campus (should you have forgotten, Neuheisel once quarterbacked the Bruins). Additionally, Ivan Maisel writes a feature on Neuheisel’s return to Westwood ...

Rick Neuheisel: "Nothing Has Changed, Muhahaha!"
The Play In California — Muahahaha suckers, you’ve all fell right into my plan! Back in the 90’s I was pretty much the epitome of sleazy college coaching. My players ran loose in Washington, and I never gave a shit. Look at Jeremy Stevens. But now, after so many years and returning to LA, I got all you mainstream media assholes thinking that Slick Rick has changed. All I have to say about that is this, suck it losers, you all fell right into my hands. People think that I’m a new man, that I’ve matured, that I’m ready to teach these kids some manners. Ha! The only thing that has matured is my hunger for some partayyyyying. That’s why they brought in that Norm Chow fella, ...

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