Neuheisel's Pitch to UCLA Recruits

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UCLA coach still has talking points he believes can form a winning sales pitch to potential recruits.

The goods, courtesy of the O.C. Register:
Given the consistent second-tier status, Coach Rick Neuheisel was asked during his Monday news conference how he sold progress to recruits. "Well, I think there is certainly a story to be told, but it's not one that needs to be out there in the public," Neuheisel said. "It's one that needs to be told in homes about where this program is and how we're going to get there."

Then Neuheisel went into elements of that pitch. "We certainly talk about the virtues of this great university. We certainly talk about where we were once and how we're going get back there," he said.

Neuheisel's reference point is his UCLA career, which he began as a walk-on quarterback in 1979 for a team that went 5-6 and ended with his MVP performance in the 1984 Rose Bowl against Illinois, the second of three Rose Bowl victories in a four-year stretch for the Bruins under Coach Terry Donahue.