Guerrero on recruiting
There is much talk about whether UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel will get help from admissions when it comes to recruiting players. I asked Bruins athletic director Dan Guerrero that question a while back, and came across it on my recorder. Here is what he said:
"As always, it's a day-to-day proposition with recruiting,'' Guerrero said. "If you get a verbal, you have to hold onto it because other schools continue to talk (to him). We're in on some great kids. We're in on some kids that can certainly make the grade here at UCLA, which is of critical importance.
"We'll see how it unfolds as we continue to move forward."
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This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
TRANSLATION: "Get real, Dohn. We are never going to let up on our admission standards. We've got VB enrolling next Fall, and that's already one special admit down the drain."
Hmm. Nice answer Dan. Things are much clearer now. ????
One would usually have to speak to a politician to get an answer like that.
Sorry Dohn but this could be the most useless post I have ever read from you. Must be a slow day.
Of course it's a slow day. Didn't you read what Dohn said? He was playing with his tape recorder (probably recording himself burp) and came across this Guerrero quote.
Objection! Nonresponsive!
UCLA will continue to have strict entrance requirements. Kids decommit or drop us because of it. That is a fact that UCLA will have to deal with and when they have had a reason for it, Southern California kids have chosen us. We lose a lot of kids that end up at a minimum qualifer school like ASU, OSU, WSU, or $C. That is the way it is supposed to be.
Tustin Dave said:
UCLA will continue to have strict entrance requirements. Kids decommit or drop us because of it. That is a fact that UCLA will have to deal with and when they have had a reason for it, Southern California kids have chosen us. We lose a lot of kids that end up at a minimum qualifer school like ASU, OSU, WSU, or $C. That is the way it is supposed to be.
With that being said I guess there is no reason for ANYONE to complain about not being a BCS program since admissions is holding us back. End of story, next.
The UCLA athletic department, Guerrero included, are cowards as far as I see it. They do whatever that can to make this football program a losing program by having significantly higher academic standards then our rival schools(stanford the exception).
How many 4-8 seasons will it take Dan? We're looking for real student athletes huh? The 2005 10-2 season was led by a guy who left after his junior year and could care less about getting his UCLA degree(Maurice Jones-Drew). This is the reality of college football in 2009.
ucla admin or whoever has their collective heads up their high falootin' @.
Question: If CAL can drop their standards for athletes why can't UCLA.
If it's all about academic integrity, that's baloney. Last I saw CAL was still a top10 university and I don't see their integrity being hurt.
MOREOVER, it's NOT who you let in but how many you GRADUATE that counts. No one looks at who UCLA is admitting, and saying "wow, UCLA is as good as dook and furd". BUT EVERYONE DOES LOOK AT GRAD RATES,,,and last I saw UCLA was somewhere in the middle of the pack with a lot of other shmucky schools. So who's fooling who. In the meantime, yeah we do lose a lot of players. Admin is only fooling themselves.
i may be in the minority here...but i dont want my beloved UCLA to change anything about its admission requirements. why UCLA is beloved to me has nothing to do with football. u knuckleheads crying about admission standards make me sick.
go bruins.
BRUINzor,,,are you suggesting that UCLA is "beloved" exactly because of their stricter standards? That's the first I've heard of that reason for loving our school.
If not, if it has nothing to do with athletics, then what difference does it make. Their policy extends to ALL athletic programs, not just fball.
miltk:
no its not "exactly because of their stricter standards" that i love UCLA. thats lawyer-speak.
its part of one of many reason. its the concept that UCLA will not lower its admission standards for any athlete (mostly), even amidst intense pressure from the football and basketball circles. its the PRINCIPLE...one big reason that im a bruin is because of UCLA's commitment to academic excellence and integrity, the pursuit of knowledge for the betterment of society...its what a university should be all about in my opinion, and ... why am i writing this all out??? im stopping lol.
go bruins.
see, the beautiful thing is that no trojan will understand what i was starting to explain in the above post, but a bruin would. lol