Poli-Dixon Has Tutors on Hand

Brian Poli-Dixon has a group of tutors and spent much of Wednesday’s practice at UCLA with Eric Scott whispering in his ear.

The subject is pass routes, and Poli-Dixon, a freshman, understands they are a bit more complicated than the ones he ran in high school in Arizona.

“We had some of the same names for routes, but they were different routes,” Poli-Dixon said. “I’m having to learn the new ones.”

And concentrate on catching the ball, something that bedeviled Bruin receivers a year ago when they were learning a new offense. Catching the ball, ordinarily old hat, tended to be secondary in their minds, resulting in dropped balls.

Scott, a senior, along with other veteran receivers more or less have the routes down, making it easier to concentrate on catching the ball.

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Coach Bob Toledo, on the possibility of UCLA’s game Saturday at Washington State being a shootout: “I don’t know. Every time I expect a shootout, it’s a defensive game. But I’m a fan. I like shootouts. I just want us to have the 48 points and Washington State to have the 46.”

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Backup quarterback Drew Bennett, a redshirt freshman, has been removed from walk-on status, receiving a scholarship on his 19th birthday, Tuesday. . . . Receiver Danny Farmer experienced some swelling in his knee but is expected to be sound for Saturday’s game.

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NEXT FOR UCLA

WHO: Washington State

WHERE: at Pullman, Wash.

TIME: 12;30 p.m., Saturday

TV: Channel 7

RADIO: XTRA (1150)