Assistant coach Eric Scott arrested

If you woke up to the morning news program on KCBS-2, you heard that UCLA wide receivers coach Eric Scott was arrested, along with two other men on a charge of burglary.

CBS2 reported that L.A. County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call to a residence on the 1100 block of Pioneer Boulevard in Norwalk yesterday and found Scott and two other men engaged in burglarizing a house. All three were arrested. Scott was released on $50,000 bail.

Brian Dohn, reporting in the Los Angeles Daily News, noted that Scott was booked at 1:07 p.m., posted bond and was released at 9:25 p.m. The other two men with Scott were identified as Jesus DeAlba and Timothy Williams.

Scott, 32, was set to start his first season as wide receivers coach and has already had a large hand in helping Bruin recruiting in the South Los Angeles area.

Comments

[Phil]

Time to Dump Dorrell NOW!

[kirk]

Gee, maybe UCLA should pay their coaches as much as the MIGHTY TROJANS.......

[kidmag]

Wow - this is really a bummer for the University. Not I'm all broken up being a Trojan fan and alum, but I do feel badly for the Bruins that one guy could reflect so poorly on the school. Nice hire Dorrell. Anyone know if Eric played for UCLA at one time?

[Rick]

This is really a sad for the whole football program. I would not expect a 32 year old coach at UCLA to be involved in a burglary. His credibility is shot, how is he going to face that team. It is not Coach Dorrell fault, the guys a grown man and for whatever reason did this.

[DumpDorrell]

Obviously, it is early and there could be a strange misunderstanding here, or a case of wrong place wrong time. Nevertheless, this calls into question Dorrell's hiring process, how Scott was able to have such recruiting success so early in his tenure at UCLA (without having spent a minute on the sidelines), what will happen with all the recruits Scott got credited for bringing in, etc. etc. Too many questions. Clearly, this will have an affect on the team, the WR and offense, and will marr Dorrell's Media Day appearance tomorrow. Dorrell should give Scott paid leave immediately and ask him to not step foot on campus or speak with any of the players. This is terrible and just way off.

[gp]

guys don't just out-of-the-blue decide to burglarize a home. this guy may have had priors -- wondering if dorrell and company checked his background before offering the position. while i'm at it, hey dan g, is this what you call putting together a team with integrity and character? makes the handicap-parking fiasco of the late 90's mild in comparison... oh let's see, handicap-parking vs home burglary...

[calbears]

Although I am a Cal Bears alumni and fan my condolences go out to the UCLA family on this one. But I think this should just be thought of as an Eric Scott problem (and innocent until proven guilty) rather than get pinned to coach Dorrell or anything/anyone else at UCLA. Sad, sad, sad.

[bruined]

I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding... maybe they were scouting a foreclosed home to house one/some of the recruits...?

[intotheblue]

It could be something as innocent as going back to a girlfriend's house to get his stuff and she angrily calls police--you don't know. Anyway. nothing anyone does at UCLA could ever match the rap sheets of usc athletes...and we have no double murderers....sc people are the last ones to talk about anything criminal. Their entire program is tainted...

[Old Man UCLA Cheerleader]

This is not as bad as it seems. It was his old girlfriend's house, and he was just trying to retrieve some stuff that she would not return to him, making this more of a property rights issue, especially because he is a UCLA coach and makes lots of money. She should be the one arrested for not returning the gifts that he had given her after they broke up.

[westlabruin]

I can not believe everyone is jumping to conclusions like this. Eric Scott was charged, that does not mean he actually committed the crime. It is very sad that we assume guilty just because someone is charged with a crime. Many people have been at the wrong place at the wrong time and this may very well be the case. Please everyone, allow the facts to come out before you condemn this man. College football coach and burglary, this just does not seem like a logical combination to me.

[westlabruin]

I can not believe everyone is jumping to conclusions like this. Eric Scott was charged, that does not mean he actually committed the crime. It is very sad that we assume guilty just because someone is charged with a crime. Many people have been at the wrong place at the wrong time and this may very well be the case. Please everyone, allow the facts to come out before you condemn this man. College football coach and burglary, this just does not seem like a logical combination to me.

[pedro K-town]

Even when BOB TOLEDO was Coach,one of his assistant coaches were QUESTIONABLE!!! (not going to BLOW HIS NAME) This falls on the Athletic Director! I am not surprised that UCLA is Associated with this!!

[Albert]

Eric Scott was a UCLA wide receiver for three years in the 1990s.

The 32-year-old Scott worked as an intern in the school's football office last year, helping with administrative duties and breaking down video of UCLA opponents. He was an assistant coach at Crenshaw High in Los Angeles the previous seven years.

If the ex girlfriend story is true, what a bitch!

[checksix]

How soon UCLA fans forget about Billy Don Jackson.

[ed]

Maybe it was a recruiting "Home Visit"???

yeah, he was just retrieving his stuff...that's why he took 2 guys with him??

[huh?]

jack (off),

UCLA sacred?? that's funny

UCLA is many things (overcrowded, 70% chinese, owned by SC, etc) but sacred is not one of them.

[Bruin for Life]

Let's wait to get more details on this case before making ANY judgement calls. It just doesn't make any sense.....what would motivate an Assistant Coach from such a high-profile university to burglarize a house??

[checksix]

Absolutely nothing is sacred. Look at the pedophile catholic priests. The children that were molested should be sacred. To all you idiots that hold sports in such high regard. . . GET A REAL LIFE!

[ed]

University of Coaches Looting Apartments

[Joe Shea]

I sure hope there are extenuating circumstances, such as the grilfriend's house someone mentioned. The sports world is looking bad as it is, between NASCAR and Duke Lacrosse, Bonds, Donaghy and Elbert Dukes - it didn't need this.

I wonder if the vast wave of commercialization that has hit most of the major sports in recent decades has also propelled a line of reasoning that says, "All of this stuff is a fraud - the games are fixed, the fights are fixed, and for all we know even golf is fixed. What really matters is that I get mine." That seems to be the tenor of the day.

[Peter]

Thank you for that little touch of racism Mr SC Fan.

[A]

We can go back and forth all day with UCLA v USC athletes/affiliates that screwed up. I do love how the "sacred" UCLA basketball program under Wooden (a great human being) is always held with such regard without the mention of Sam Gilbert. Don't know who he is? UCLA fans probably don't either.

[matthew]

yo, huh?, seriously - enough with the racist banter dude.

that said, this is a wonderful day. University of Coaches Looting Apartments is just too perfect. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of dudes than ever-indignant guys at Bruins Nation. It's your COACH - not some player, not some kid just growing up and making stupid mistakes a lot of kids make. Nope, you paid this guy! He was a face of the organization. Ha! Too awesome.

[David Brown]

Another football brother bites the dust. Bet this dude has a bad history: no daddy; cain't read ner write; outawedlock (natch) childrun. A role model he wasn't -- wanna bet?