the bracelets...

now.  THe players could do just as well themselves coming up with their own plays the next two weeks.

This is the third game this season where the offense hasn't scored a touchdown.

But KD loves his offense

What a classy group on KD's classy team.  Every time they make a tackle it's flexing and strutting, nodding and shaking a finger... wonder what they'd do if they ever won a game.  

This team just doesn't get it.  Please make it end.    We need a coach that knows how to win and can teach that to his players.

This game was winnable, if KD had not decided to nurse a 13 point lead in the first half. KD is uber conservative until he falls behind, then opens up the playbook.

The offense was much better in the second half, but it still didn't score a td. I think if we had opened it up earlier, something would have worked.

But KD coached fearfully again, trying to minimize mistakes instead of maximize opportunities.

They just never get it done.  The offense didn't even come close to scoring a TD.  I'm not sure about this, but I think you need to score to win games.  ASU made a lot of mistakes which kept the game close -- but ultimately, I'm not sure UCLA believes it can win this kind of game.  That's why they drop passes and commit penalties and throw bad interceptions when it's on the line.  

SC's hoops team just lost their opener - at home - against Mercer, whoever the hell that is.  

my turkey's done early.  It's dry, tasteless and boring, too.  Kinda like Mr. Excitement's offense.  C'mon Guerrero, we need the early Xmas present.  sh*tcan him now.

The MSM continues to point out our injuries, as if THAT's the only reason we've had some "unfortunate" losses this year. They want so much to twang the old sympathy violin for CTS.

From SI.com a few minutes ago: "The injury-riddled Bruins (5-5, 4-3) lost for the fourth time in five games."

The games are close enough to show that a good coach can win them.

just for having kept OR on the bench for the last 2 years.  Think we might have beat Notre Dame with OR?  Only two more losses to go until we start the healing process.

Notre Dame has only won 1 game with 9 losses.

Do you remember who Notre Dame beat this season?

If that isn't a good enough reason to get rid of Dorrell, then I don't know what is.

And if Guerrero needs this much evidence ('07 season) to show how bad the coaching is for the Bruins Football Team, he is either blind or a puppet.

I don't know which is worse, being blind or being someone's fetch it boy?

Yeah, I'm bitter now.

So despite being destined to win the Pac 10 and finish with a top 5 ranking (not unreasonable expectations considering we had 20 returning starters), despite some of the most horrific, unbearable, crushing losses in memory, and despite being officially out of anything other than the Charmin Snot Bowl...

Soon-to-be #2 Oregon comes to town in two weeks, and yes, it's another Classic Karl Dorrell "CHANCE TO PLAY THE SPOILER" role! Can I get a Hoo-rah!? Maybe we can storm the field and tear down the goal posts and cheer like it's New Year's Day like all those third-rate schools do when they produce a big upset.

Upsetting indeed. How could it come to this?????

UCLA came out and was soft, sloppy, unfocused, and error-prone. How many games have there been in Karl Dorrell's tenure where they have not come out soft, sloppy, unfocused, and error-prone?

Exactly one.

So, excuse me if I cannot muster any outrage or anger. We all went in expecting this team to have the ability to win the Pac-10 and IMO they certainly do. But it's another mediocre season of UCLA football, and I am just ready for it to all be over. There's no point to getting angry or frustrated or riled up over these games at this point.  

but he dropped the platter.

ASU looked like a very ordinary and beatable team.

in how to act after a game. Not that it will have any effect, but I quote Eric Wedge, manager of the Colorado Rockies.

"I've probably learned more from these guys (players) than they have from me, and I think that's the way it should be as a manager. When things are going rough, you should get out front and take the hit. And, when they're going good, you should stay the hell out of the way. It's all about the players. These are the guys that are doing it."

Somehow, though, I expect to hear about failures to execute, inexperienced QBs, injuries, ...

Just trying to help.

I dont know what everyone is so upset about ... we are playing .500 ball!  We can go to a bowl game! Get behind your coach and your team.

= Terry Donahue

all those injuries.  I mean look, we have to have a wide receiver as a QB and use a 3rd string tailback.  That's why we are so bad on offense!  Oh I forgot the Utah game when we had all our starters and we still go killed.  Or about how we have an offensive line that serves our Quarterbacks and Tailbacks up as smorgasbord.  And what about that great Bruin defense, that seems to play well every other half or every other game!

that much of the blame can be squarely placed at BD's feet. If he hadn't had that personal foul at the end of the first half, the game would have been one point, not four for the entire 4th quarter. Having to score a TD at the end as opposed to a FG would have (well, should have) changed the playcalling. Such as attempting a 53 yard field goal.

it's over. You know the fat lady has sung when the final play of a team that 9 weeks ago had a shot at the national championship is one of sheer desperation,a sad attempt to mimic the final play of a JC team from a week ago.....pathetic....that picture of Tevaga throwing the ball over his head succicently captures exactly how low this team has sunk under the guidance of the "Thinker". That last play was down right embarassing, I would rather have OR throw the ball into the endzone for a desperation grab than that. Rest well tonight, Karl, after what you've done to our beloved Bruins over the last 5 years, you've certainly earned the right to sleep in tomorrow.

... in the past TWO seasons when we've lost a game where we had the lead at halftime.

SIXTH.

M

makes me want to vomit.

that's all I have today
that's all I have to say

and knowing that makes the rest of the season a little easier to swallow.  for what it's worth, the 2nd half especially wasn't the usual torture it is to watch. the D was game, and they finally let the kid at quarterback make some plays.  Breazzell's throw back was sick... until it was dropped.  and then there were some other stupid mistakes. but this coaching staff has made their fucking bed, so they can lay in it. i'm not pissed about a close loss to a #9 opponent (even though the game was ours for the taking), but it's the pathetic, unfathonable decisions and losses up til now that have shown Dorrell the way out.  I'm not expecting much the rest of the way... and i don't care anymore... but at least i'll be able to cheer knowing that dorrell's end is near...

It's time for a DORRELLECTOMY - get rid of DOOFUS and his whole staff, burn everything they ever touched, put asterisks next to the last 5 seasons with a note that our program was being held hostage by a completely IMCOMPETENT CLOWN (I suspect he must have compromising pictures of Guerrero or the chancellor to have kept his job this long - there's no other rational explanation.)

Let Coach K and his magic towel coach the last 2 games.  He is undefeated as an interim coach, and he can't do any worse than what we have now.

Is a F*cking MORON and a classless football player

Granted Davis' blunder cost 3 points, but who was it wo went for 1 instead of 2 after the kickoff return.  A 2 point conversion makes it a 3 point game and a field goal away from a tie and overtime.  Even if the 2 point conversion fails, the team still is within a TD winning.  This would have made the circus laterals at the end a moot point.  Again, the answer to who lost the game is the Vampire, Count Dorrell (the vampire who sucked the life out of Bruin football...)....

Unlike Count Dorrell, it is not so easy to sleep after another loss...

There is not 1 good reason to hire this guy other than "He is a Bruin"  which is why we ended up with Dorrell. He took a great Colorado program loaded with McCartny's players and had his best seasons 10-2  10-2 and left the program a complete disaster that they have still not recovered from. Then on to Washington, did average there and left the program a total disaster and they still have not recovered. I cant believe that after the Dorrell mess that there are actually  people that call themselves Bruin fans who want this guy leading us back from the Dorrell experience! Please remove his name from your list if you love the Bruins!

For this loss. Just stating facts.
He is a classless moron who talks a better game than he plays. If Dorrell weeded out the Jerkoffs
when he got here why is this guy here. By the way Mr. Shut-down corner (Trey Brown) is another classless blowhard who talks a better game as well. Glad to see these A-Holes will be leaving with Dorrell!!!

Fox71,

I need you inscrutable mind to discern the coaching logic today. At a critical juncture of the game, Breazell makes a great pass to a wide open WALK-ON, who I personally had not heard his name before and the announcers as well commented. Why would any coach put a walk-on in that situation where the game was on the line? Is there no scholarship football player on the bench or elsewhere who could have been in that field location to catch the ball and run in for a TD, perhaps? It appeared to me as if someone said, "Let's give so-and-so a chance to learn and grow", so put him into the game and maybe, one in a hundred, be able to make the play. Of course, since he hasn't been playing, he may be so wide open he may have hands of steel and his head may be looking way up field as the ball comes his way, but what the hell, let's give him the chance. After the play, the shot of him standing on the sidelines looking mortified says it all. Tell us all Fox71, what is behind the coaching minds at work here?

RE: Bruce Davis and the penalty just before half time. He is a force to be reckoned with as we all know. However, if I am the opposing coaching staff, the word would be that he does have a short fuse, so double and triple team him and eventually, he will get through and the chances of him roughing the passer are good. It couldn't have worked out better for ASU yesterday as the half was over with UCLA in control, and that one play changed the momentum going into the locker room, put ASU up by 4, so instead of the obligatory Dorrell led FG strategy to win the game at the end, they had to get a TD, etc.
Bill

His response to the late hit call in the paper today:

"I was pretty shocked," he said. "He throws the ball. I take a step and hit him.... The side judge had been on me from the get-go. Who knowss...whatever... they made their call."

Well, A) from every TV angle, it looked like a late hit, and B) why take such a shot on a Hail Mary pass, especially on a guy who's alone in front of the ref on the last play of the half?

I don't know where to begin on that one. Lack of contextual decision making from a guy who should know better. And yes, it was a momentum shifter.

The latest examples of player mismanagement...

1. Why did Markey play in the second half? If he wasn't healthy enough to start, how is he suddenly healthy enough to go in the second half?
2. Ramirez played on special teams (KO coverage) so I presume he was healthy but didn't get any plays at RB. Even after Sheppard was injured and Markey was proven to be completely ineffective.
3. Meadows... I really hate to pick on a walk-on.  But why on earth is a walk-on cornerback even being given looks on offense when he's dropping the ball in practice?  Turner and Graves are equally unknown/unused (thus being good decoys) but are at least supposedly getting reps in practice at WR.