UCLA fires Rick Neuheisel

<a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORSPT000000294" title="UCLA Bruins" href="/topic/sports/college-sports/ucla-bruins-ORSPT000000294.topic">UCLA</a> football coach <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/11/ucla-fires-rick-neuheisel.html">Rick Neuheisel was fired Nov. 28</a> after a four-year run in which the Bruins had a 21-28 record. The day before the firing, the Bruins had just come off a 50-0 loss to USC, the worst conference loss in school history.<br> <br> Neuheisel, a former UCLA quarterback, was greeted with much fanfare when he replaced Karl Dorrell in 2007, but managed to get the Bruins to a bowl game only once in the three previous seasons.
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( Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times )

UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel was fired Nov. 28 after a four-year run in which the Bruins had a 21-28 record. The day before the firing, the Bruins had just come off a 50-0 loss to USC, the worst conference loss in school history.

Neuheisel, a former UCLA quarterback, was greeted with much fanfare when he replaced Karl Dorrell in 2007, but managed to get the Bruins to a bowl game only once in the three previous seasons.

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