was about to leave the house to hit my dreaded commute to UCLA, but this trio of videos was worth being late. this guy is amazingly sincere.

in the beginning, he apologizes for Norm Chow not being around since he’s supportive of the club, being that he’s an Asian-American from Hawai’i, though that he’ll interact with them soon … he then explained how him and Norm Chow linked up, mentioning that while they were both in their stints in the NFL (Norm with the Titans and CRN with my Baltimore Ravens—yay), there would be large congregations of NFL coaches, and guys like Norm Chow and CRN would talk about their passion of college football. a funny moment was when he mentioned that his big pitch to Norm Chow to come back out to LA is that he’d be able to “sleep with his wife again” as opposed to living in a hotel in Tennessee … then he began speaking at length about the football team, and he quickly mentioned that we’re going at USC head-on, in both on the field and off (recruiting). he brought up the popular observation of “UCLA is a basketball school, and USC is a football school.” he then really went at USC when he was talking about records. he specifically said, if you’re ever talking to a Trojan fan, don’t let them make you think that UCLA has never hung as a football program, and he gave statistics of the head-to-head match ups from 1950-2000 between the two programs. i believe the record is UCLA 25, USC 22, 3 ties … in terms of recruiting, he said the quote we read in an earlier post about UCLA being sandwiched between Bel-Air and Beverly Hills (he even said the fresh prince lived across from campus) and that we’re five miles away from the beach. if a player takes the walk up Janss Steps and looks across to where he’ll live, to where all the athletic fields are, and the campus in general and doesn’t “feel it,” he doesn’t belong at UCLA … he then fielded some questions. one was about the quarterback situation, where he mentioned that he feels really bad for PC for missing his senior season after all he’s done. he said he’s optimistic though since we have Norm Chow, and that he himself has a little bit of experience with quarterbacks himself (sarcasm leads to laughs). he then got asked a question about the dreaded O-line issue, but I had to leave here cause i had to go to UCLA myself. hope that helps.

Championships, not Dalmations. That was the best line.