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On the hot seat: UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel counting on bounce-back year for Bruins

Three years after he returned to his alma mater, coach Rick Neuheisel realizes he might be down to his last chance to fix UCLA.He acknowledged it shortly after he sat down at Pac-12 media day last month, calling himself the "coach on the proverbial hot seat" before anybody had even asked a question.Yet Neuheisel didn't get where he is today without an unflagging belief in his ability to fix any football problem."I'm as excited as I've ever been," Neuheisel said this week before UCLA opened fall practices. "I'm looking forward to getting UCLA football back closer to the top and over the hump. It's been a while that we've been kind of wallowing in a valley, and it's time to figure out a way out of it."Not much has gone according to Neuheisel's plan in the past three seasons, which have included just 15 wins, one bowl appearance, numerous key injuries and a few changes in philosophy. Neuheisel has good reason to be worried about his job: The Bruins won 23 games and made three straight bow...

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