1. From 2005 to 2007, Neuheisel was an assistant coach with the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, as quarterbacks coach for two seasons and offensive coordinator for one.
39 Facts About Rick Neuheisel
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Rick Neuheisel formerly served as head coach for the Arizona Hotshots of the Alliance of American Football before the collapse of the league.
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Dick is an attorney and Rick Neuheisel grew up in Tempe, Arizona, and graduated from McClintock High School in 1979.
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Rick Neuheisel lettered in three sports and was named its outstanding athlete during his senior year.
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Rick Neuheisel played his college football at UCLA, beginning his career as a walk-on and holding placekicks for John Lee.
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Rick Neuheisel was the starting quarterback in his senior year in the 1983 season.
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Rick Neuheisel was benched after the Nebraska loss in favor of Steve Bono.
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Bono was injured during the Stanford game, and Rick Neuheisel came back to finish the season.
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Rick Neuheisel set an NCAA record that year for single game pass completion percentage by completing 25 of 27 passes in a Pac-10 win over Washington.
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In 1998, Rick Neuheisel was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.
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Rick Neuheisel still holds the UCLA single season record for completion percentage, completing 185 of 267 passes for 2,245 yards in the 1983 season.
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Rick Neuheisel was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity while a student.
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Rick Neuheisel bypassed the 1984 NFL draft and joined the San Antonio Gunslingers of the USFL, where he played the 1984 and 1985 seasons as the Gunslingers' starter.
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Rick Neuheisel spent the last two weeks of that season as a backup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, not playing in either game.
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Rick Neuheisel later became a full-time assistant coach in 1988, and stayed at UCLA through the 1993 season as the quarterback coach.
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In 1994, Rick Neuheisel moved to Colorado as an assistant to Bill McCartney.
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Rick Neuheisel stayed for four seasons in Boulder as the Buffs coach.
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Rick Neuheisel's only losing season at Colorado was 1997; the Buffs were expected to be national title contenders, but never recovered from a blowout loss to Michigan on national television.
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Rick Neuheisel was welcomed into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame before the 1999 Rose Bowl.
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Rick Neuheisel fired coach Jim Lambright and named Neuheisel as his replacement.
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Rick Neuheisel left for Seattle in January 1999 to coach at the University of Washington for four seasons.
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Rick Neuheisel's starting salary was $1,000,000 annually, at the time one of the five highest in the nation.
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Rick Neuheisel became the first former Rose Bowl MVP to coach a winning Rose Bowl team.
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When Stevens later crashed his truck into a retirement home, Rick Neuheisel suspended him for half a game.
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However, a few days later, a Seattle newspaper reporter wrote that he'd eavesdropped on a private conversation of Rick Neuheisel discussing the 49ers job on his cell phone while the two were waiting for a flight at San Francisco International Airport.
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Rick Neuheisel first denied the accusation to investigators before admitting to it after consultation with school officials.
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That fall, the NCAA infractions committee found Rick Neuheisel violated NCAA rules against gambling but didn't sanction him, citing the memo by Washington's then compliance officer, Dana Richardson, that mistakenly identified this type of action as a permissible exception to NCAA gambling sanctions.
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Rick Neuheisel sued both the NCAA and the University of Washington concerning the termination of his employment contract.
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Rick Neuheisel served as a volunteer coach for Rainier Beach High School in Seattle for two seasons.
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Rick Neuheisel became an assistant coach with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens in January 2005.
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Rick Neuheisel was invited to two interviews regarding the head coaching position at his alma mater UCLA, following the firing of his former UCLA teammate, Karl Dorrell.
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Ravens head coach Brian Billick assured that he would allow Rick Neuheisel to leave the team before the completion of the 2007 NFL season.
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On December 29,2007, Rick Neuheisel was introduced as the head coach of the UCLA Bruins in a five-year contract that paid him $1.25 million per season and included incentives that could add $500,000 a year.
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Rick Neuheisel immediately began to consolidate his coaching staff by retaining DeWayne Walker, Karl Dorrell's defensive coordinator and interim coach for the Bruins 2007 bowl game.
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Rick Neuheisel made a major move by hiring Norm Chow, offensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans and previously the offensive coordinator of crosstown rival USC's 2003 and 2004 national championship seasons.
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Rick Neuheisel was fired as head coach of UCLA on November 28,2011.
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In May 2018, Rick Neuheisel was announced as head coach for the Arizona Hotshots, a Phoenix-based team for the planned Alliance of American Football.
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In December 2011, Rick Neuheisel joined the CBS Sports Network as a guest analyst for their "Inside College Football" show.
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In March 2015, Rick Neuheisel was hired by CBS Sports to be an analyst on College Football Today, the pre-game show for the SEC on CBS.