UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel learns he can come home again
Talk about your homecoming parades.
Rick Neuheisel led one through the center of the college football world Monday night, clanging and thumping and twirling.
It was ear-splitting. It was jaw-dropping. It was big footprints of fresh powder blue, pounding a startling path through our most distant of memories.
Yes, UCLA football has a head coach again.
Yes, UCLA football has a chance again.
What began as a stumble ended in a stomp, the outmanned Bruins twice taking a late lead against 18th-ranked Tennessee before stealing a 27-24 overtime victory in the first stop on Neuheisel’s long road home.
“It’s good to be back at UCLA, baby,” he shouted afterward.
He shouted, because there was no other way he could be heard, his players running in circles and screaming, the Rose Bowl crowd stomping and roaring.
latimes.com
9/2/08
