By John Nestor

Rick Neuheisel is out as UCLA's football coach after guiding the program to a 21-28 record over four years in L.A.

The Bruins suffered routs at the hands of rival Southern Cal and Arizona this season and are just 6-6, 5-4 in Pac-12 play. They also had an embarrassing bench-clearing brawl vs. the 'Cats."

"Rick was a great representative for our school, and I'll always be grateful for that," AD Dan Guerrero said. "I believe the sign of a good program is consistency. We just weren't there. We certainly had some losses that were of epic proportions ... in the second half of the season, and that simply wasn't good enough."

Neuheisel said he was disappointed in the results of his tenure.

"I thanked Dan for the opportunity," Neuheisel said on the Pac-12's promotional teleconference for the title game, just after his firing was announced. "I don't need reasons and all that kind of stuff. Certainly when you're the UCLA coach, you'd like to play better against USC. I know that. We had our chances, but when you lose in the fashion we did, that's a difficult pill to swallow."

 

 

UCLA Dismisses Football Coach Neuheisel