Slick Rick is trying to stir the pot again

This was always the risk of hiring Kiffin – that the various shenanigans in Tennessee and his prior tenure at USC would embolden other conference programs to start whispering campaigns and use innuendo to work on recruits.

And yet, only Neuheisel keeps banging on about it in the press. Either he knows something – which I doubt – or he’s being loud to try and distract from what’s going on with his program. At least someone’s drilled Kiffin to stay on message so he doesn’t start arguing with a five year old.

I’ll agree with this much – there is no reason that UCLA couldn’t, in theory, accelerate their results, if you look at their recruiting base. They’ve been getting some decent players over the last few years. But I think that the issue is on the sideline. Neuheisel’s good fortune is that Kiffin is an unknown quantity in terms of results.

Rick Neuheisel or Norm Chow.

Norm has often not towed the company line in the press last year, which at the very least means his ideas are passed over or overruled entirely. I seriously doubt that Norm thinks the Pistol is a good idea.

What Rick is doing is exactly what Kiffin was doing at Tennessee. It just might come back in the form of another blowout score without mercy if he keeps it up. Take note ucla fans. This is why USC throws a bomb with less than a minute to go. This is the reason….. Rick’s mouth.

On another note. The SEC came down on Kiffin for his statements about Urban Meyer. Maybe Kiffin should call for a retraction.

“Until you do it on the field,” Neuheisel said, “it’s just talk.”

I guess Rick is a winner in the talking game. Maybe we can get him a trophy for “Best Blowhard.”

With several major areas of apparent deficiency on his squad, a tough schedule, a losing record, and two double digit blowout losses to USC, Rick is on the hot seat. What happens when his team regresses this season and even the most diehard Bruin fans accept his inferior 3 yr record vs Dorrell’s?

No bowl game in 2010, another blowout loss to USC, a losing record, a 3 year record worse than Dorrell’s? Skippy, you are fast becoming a major embarrassment to your university. The heat is on, Legal Weasel.

but as a Bruin i see improvement, i definitly don’t see everything you just said but your entitled to you opinion, and until i see your coach do something i’ll question the hire as well. Admit it SC fans are a little nervous about having Kiffen as your coach, especailly with a losing record. I mean if i’m to believe Rick is on the hot seat then there’s some definite nervousness out there.

i disagree with you on Neu coaching ability, i’ve been at practicesand he has all the right people in place to be a competitive program (much like kiff, and his dad) Chow and Bullough are great pieces to the puzzle. But yes you are right its different in year 1 than year 3.

Well, two things stood out for me in all this:

1.

Tradition in the distant past does not help your recruiting. Because of what’s happened in the last nine years at USC, it’s refreshing to concentrate on coaching and recruiting and not have to gather outside attention

2.

I don’t think there is a program in the country that can go from a major school to an elite school faster than UCLA because of all the things we have

but how is Sammy Knight doing as a coach? I went to the same Highschool as him and Darryl and Ryan. I hope he turns out to be a good one for ya, he’s a great player and even better person.

But it is nice to see Smart Bomb, and Keary Colbert out there on the sidelines. Sammy Knight was a great player.