Coaching Choices Come Under Scrutiny

It should have been music to every UCLA football fan’s ears: “After a superb season as offensive coordinator, Rick Neuheisel was named head coach, replacing a retiring coach, who after several years at the helm finally decided to step down.” Unfortunately it happened at Colorado, not UCLA. Oh well, you can’t blame a fan for dreaming.

LEONARD B. LEVINE, Los Angeles

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What is going on at USC?

One must ask how a school that prides itself on family, honor, loyalty and dignity can fire someone the stature of Don Lindsey, not let him say goodby or explain it to his players and erroneously report to the newspaper that he quit before the season was completed and gave up on the situation at hand?

Good luck in the Cotton Bowl, Trojans. You’ll need it without Don Lindsey.

TOM, SUSIE, BILL FERGUSON, Malibu

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I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that Jesse Jackson had condemned the University of Colorado for hiring Rick Neuheisel and urged a boycott of Colorado. Jackson’s urging seems out of touch with reality, considering that Rashaan Salaam, Colorado’s Heisman Trophy hopeful, said that the hiring of Neuheisel would help him decide to stay at Colorado for his senior year and Kordell Stewart said that Neuheisel had been the difference in his becoming a top quarterback. If they do not feel that the hiring of Neuheisel was a racist decision, why does he protest?

JAMES O’FALLON, Long Beach