by Chris Worley - Membership Director
June 4, 2009 18:27
Coach Rick Neuheisel, along with 6 fellow college football coaches, returns to the United States today after traveling in the Middle East to meet with U.S. troops and their families for Coaches Tour 2009.
While staying in Iraq, coaches Rick Neuheisel (UCLA), Jim Tressel (Ohio State), Mack Brown (Texas), Jim Grobe (Wake Forest), Troy Calhoun (Air Force), Houston Nutt (Ole Miss) and Tommy Tuberville (previously with Auburn) departed their airplane in full Kevlar body armor and spent their nights in a palace formerly belonging to Saddam Saddam Hussein... in the same room... in bunk beds. Nice.
UCLA football office intern David Raih is also on tour with the coaches and wrote about getting ready for the trip and provided a mid-trip update.
This is something we will definitely have to ask Coach about when he is in town for Campus Connection on June 20.