UCLA NOTEBOOK: CAL'S JACKSON STILL WONDERS ABOUT UCLA.Byline: BRIAN DOHN Staff Writer DeSean Jackson DeSean Jackson (born December 1 1986 in Long Beach, California) is a college football wide receiver and punt return specialist for the California Golden Bears. As of 2007-09-13, he has scored touchdowns on 20 percent of his career punt returns for California (6 of 29). is being touted as a Heisman Trophy Heisman Trophy Annual award given to the outstanding college gridiron football player in the U.S. The trophy was instituted in 1935 by New York City's Downtown Athletic Club and was officially named the following year for the club's first athletic director, the player-coach hopeful and could be the best receiver in the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members , but the California junior said he could have wound up at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . However, when it came time to make a decision, one thing missing from Jackson's portfolio was a scholarship offer from the Bruins. "They were supposed to offer me when I went to their junior day, but they just didn't offer me," Jackson said during Thursday's Pac-10 media day. "I definitely was considering them, and when I was younger I was definitely a UCLA fan and I always used to go to their practices, and all that. The Rose Bowl was the spot to be." Jackson led the Bears in receiving with 59 catches for 1,060 yards and nine touchdowns, and torched the Bruins last season with a 72-yard punt return In American and Canadian football a punt return is one of the punt receiving team's options to respond to a punt. A player (usually a second or third string wide receiver or running back) positioned many yards from the line of scrimmage will attempt to catch or pick up the ball for a touchdown. It has long been a point of contention among the die-hard recruit-niks whether or not UCLA bungled bun·gle v. bun·gled, bun·gling, bun·gles v.intr. To work or act ineptly or inefficiently. v.tr. To handle badly; botch. See Synonyms at botch. n. Jackson's recruitment. Jackson said he scored a 1280 on his SATs, but sources said he was denied admission to UCLA because his grade point average was "very low" when it came to the courses required in the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). system, and the standards UCLA uses. The sources added Jackson, a Long Beach Poly product, was admitted to Cal because its standards for the core UC system classes are different than at UCLA. "I definitely would have given UCLA a good shot," Jackson said. "Stanford and UCLA were the only two Pac-10 teams that didn't offer me. Stanford, that's a different thing, but UCLA, it's right here. It's like, 'Yo, what's up?' I wasn't really worried about it. I wanted them to offer, but once they didn't I had to go somewhere else." Moya to red-shirt?: Bruins coach Karl Dorrell said junior tight end Ryan Moya is still having trouble with his left ankle and could red-shirt, the remnants of a broken leg suffered in October at Oregon. "It's not as strong, and not able to support all the movement," Dorrell said. "If he can't do camp we're still discussing (a possible redshirt)." Embree to L.A.: Former Newhall Hart High receiver Taylor Embree will enroll at UCLA in January, and be on scholarship. Embree, the son of former Bruins assistant coach Jon, who is now a coach with the Kansas City Chiefs Embree, who is 6-foot-4, 180 pounds, signed scholarship papers, which binds UCLA to him, but Embree allows Embree to change his mind and attend another school. brian.dohn@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: UCLA coach Karl Dorrell speaks during the Pac-10 football media day Thursday. Kevork Djansezian/Associated Press |
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