2008 UCLA Bruins Preview: Can Neuheisel get UCLA headed in the right direction?
On New Year’s Day 1984, UCLA rolled over Illinois in the Rose Bowl, with QB Rick Nueheisel throwing for 298 yards and four touchdowns, two to Karl Dorrell.
Two decades later, it was Dorrell doing the passing, as the reins of the UCLA program were handed over to Neuheisel last December. Things haven’t [...]
Bruins just can’t keep their QBs healthy
Pity new UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel, as he can’t seem to keep his starting quarterbacks healthy. On one afternoon this spring, both of Neuheisel’s top two QBs went down, with Patrick Cowan lost for the season.
Ben Olson also was hurt that day, breaking his foot, but he had returned and was in line to start [...]
Bruins get their starting QB back
Clearly no college football team had the misfortune that UCLA did one day this spring, as on consecutive plays the Bruins lost their two senior quarterbacks. Patrick Cowan sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, prematurely ending his 2008 season. Then Ben Olson suffered a broken bone in his foot.
Cowan’s injury gave [...]
