UCLA Head Coach Rick Neuheisel's Last Hurrah: The 2011 "Beat USC Bonfire and Rally"

Less than seven days after this celebratory event, Rick Neusheisel was fired as the head coach of the UCLA football team.

His speech at the rally before the bonfire, at least, sounded good.

Prior to USC's drubbing of UCLA at the Coliseum, 50 to nothing, this was my video's description...

"While UCLA students in Westwood are usually very welcoming and friendly, one thing makes them extremely territorial: the color red. Around here it's well-known that UCLA students bleed blue and gold, and anyone walking through Westwood wearing a USC shirt is likely to get an earful of choice words. "Blue and Gold Week" at UCLA consists of various rallies and a huge "Beat SC" bonfire in the week leading up to the UCLA-USC foorball game. The rivalry is a fierce and the competition is intense. It began as soon as the university was built, when it was referred to as "The Southern Branch of the University of California." USC students would taunt UCLA students by calling them "twigs." The two universities started competing in football in 1929 and in 1941, USC students stole UCLA's victory bell after a game. Students at UCLA retaliated by covering USC's Trojan statue with blue paint and lighting the USC Homecoming fire early. When USC's student president recieved kidnapping threats, the two schools agreed to cease fire, but with one condition: the bell would become an annual trophy to be held year-long by whichever school won the previous year's football game. The tradition has stuck ever since, but the pranks have continued."

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• UCLA
• Westwood
• Beat
• USC
• Bonfire
• Rally
• 2011
• Rick
• Neuheisel

[LakerKev]

Hey Neuheisel, you're team just got beat 50-0. I think you're gonna need a bigger fire.

[Gamarama8]

3:04-3:09 proves that people who attend UCLA are retarded.

[josephzero]

the bRuins did close the gap... I just learnt that USC wanted to put 100 points on the scoreboard. And the bRuins cut half. haha. Fight On!!!

[troypwr]

They are the mighty bRuins.  Geez what would the score have been if they weren't so mighty? ay ay ay

[jojopo93]

yep thats the team that is representing the pac12 south..... sigh

[CBRYDR]

Hey, Ricky New, tell me how my arse tastes now!!

[btbam06]

How did that work out for ya? Fight on!

[ThePORTILLOJOE1]

UCLA SUCKS GOT BLOWN OUT 50-0 GO USC FIGHT ON

[pakraduni10]

can you do this again next week and get beat 75 to 0

[302zman]

READ THE SCORE BOARD: 50 

[averyr18]

Yep, the GAP has been closed Rick, the valley has been opened.