Wow. Neuheisel is a smooooooth talker. That is confidence, swagger, and…that something else that might get UCLA to a Rose Bowl sometime in the next 20 years.

“They rank UCLA #3 in the country? Show me two better ones.”

“I’m telling you, it’s special. If you can’t feel it yet, then I don’t know what’s wrong with you…I’m telling you this is going to be the place. This is going to be the place…we are going to turn this program around…and I want you to help us do it.”

What a pimp.

The best part? At around 5:45 Neuheisel says to the recruits “You guys can’t sit on the sideline according to the NCAA rules and I’m not going to mess with them anymore.”

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6 Responses to “*video* Rick Neuheisel Gives Speech to Spring Game Recruits”

1. EDSBS » Archive » CURIOUS INDEX, 5/13/08 Says:
   May 13th, 2008 at 5:23 am

   [...] Rick Neuheisel explains it all. He, like, owns the freaking Rose Bowl if you listen to him talk about it. [...]

2. Mark Says:
   May 13th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

   Ask Arthur Ashe?

3. blackjack Says:
   May 13th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

   @Mark:

   from

   Tired of having to travel great distances to play caucasian youths in segregated Richmond, Virginia, Ashe accepted an offer from a Saint Louis, Missouri tennis official to move there and attend Sumner High School.[1] Young Ashe was recognized by Sports Illustrated for his playing.[2]

   Ashe was awarded a tennis scholarship to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1963. That same year, Ashe became the first African American ever selected to the United States Davis Cup team.

   In 1965, Ashe won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) singles title and contributed to UCLA’s winning the team NCAA tennis championship. While at UCLA, Ashe was initiated as a member of the Upsilon chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

   In 1968, Ashe won the United States Amateur Championships and the inaugural U.S. Open and aided the U.S Davis Cup team to victory. He is the only player to have won both of these amateur and open national championships in the same year.[3] Concerned that tennis professionals were not receiving winnings commensurate with the sport’s growing popularity, Ashe supported formation of the Association of Tennis Professionals. That year would prove even more momentous for Ashe when he was denied a visa by the South African government, thereby keeping him out of the South African Open. Ashe used this denial to publicize South Africa’s apartheid policies. In the media, Ashe called for South Africa to be expelled from the professional tennis circuit.

   In 1969, Ashe turned professional. In 1970, Ashe won his second Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open.

   In 1975, Ashe won Wimbledon, unexpectedly defeating Jimmy Connors in the final. He played for several more years, but after being slowed by heart surgery in 1979, Ashe retired in 1980.

   Ashe remains the only African American player ever to win the men’s singles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, or Australian Open. He is one of only two men of black African ancestry to win a Grand Slam singles title (the other being France’s Yannick Noah, who won the French Open in 1983).

   I first heard of Arthur Ashe before Kareem Abdul Jabaar or Jackie Robinson in 4th grade during black history month. Yeah, I remember all sorts of weird stuff.

4. molson Says:
   May 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

   Joakim Noah is still ugly and cost himself a lot by not declaring after 06. Oh yeah his dad is French and Arthur Ashe is a Bruin, I think I made myself clear.

5. blackjack Says:
   May 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

   @molson:

   AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

   You are so hammered. Admit it.

6. molson Says:
   May 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am

   You saying I need liquid courage to attack the French? Pistols at dawn sir!

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