Lullaby for the Lamb

Bumped from the diaries. GO BRUINS. -N

With the potential dawning of Osaar Rasshan, some in the MSM are pondering whether the kid can save Karl Dorrell's job. Anyone taking a serious look at the virtually non-competitive state of UCLA Football, however, knows that the Seventh Seal has already been opened...

Well here's something CTS can print out and curl up with tonight. The Daily News Paul Oberjuerge offers some -- ahem -- hope to Dorrell and his two or three remaining supporters...

"The kid who couldn't escape the lower reaches of the depth chart at either of two positions ...needs to help UCLA engineer an upset of the ninth-ranked Sun Devils to keep Karl Dorrell & Co. from edging even closer to joblessness."

Sorry Paul, I know getting paid to write for a "major" paper doesn't afford you the latitude to write about the REAL truth behind modern social issues but, so as long as you don't mind a hack Bruin blogger walking a mile in those soggy brown loafers of yours, ALLOW ME:

See, this article should have been about how -- whether or not Osaar Rasshan is able to lead UCLA to victory (or a complete turnaround) during the balance of the season, it shouldn't be enough to save his stubborn and ultimately unqualified head coach from his own dogmatic pattern of self-destruction.

This way, fans who are desperately in favor of salvaging some dignity for UCLA Football this season have a way to FULLY support their team (the athletes) and look forward to the End of the Karl Dorrell era. Hell, Oberjuerge, if you could just manage to give us ONE of those things, we might even find a way to take your lousy Sports section on Sundays!

"And here he is. Starting. At quarterback. In a game that could determine his coach's job status - as well as keep alive the Bruins' chances at a Pac-10 championship and Rose Bowl berth."

Come on, Paul... please be nice. Don't tease the animals.  We are a desperate, hungry lot by now and we do tend to BITE.

Dorrell said the offense will be simplified for Rasshan, who has had just two practices as the No. 1 quarterback. "It shrinks down," Dorrell said of the playbook. "You can't give him as much information as if you had an experienced player there."

Now... what's the chance that three guys like Dennis Erickson, Mike Belotti and Pete Carrol are gonna let themselves finish behind a dude who just realized the desperate need to throw his worthless, 100-lb play book overboard? Alas, UCLA and a January Rose Bowl date are about as distant as the galaxies. Your fuzzy-math is just not appreciated.

Anyway, let's get to it:

The First Directive for any football head coach (especially one paid $1M+/year from the State Treasury) is - at the VERY least - to get the Right People on the field at the Right Positions at the Right Time. These things come even before play calling, which we'll get to later.

This article should have helped elucidate the issue that, 3-wins or not, the gross negligence and misuse of Osaar Rashaan's many talents and the public scholarship monies that brought them to UCLA in the first place, should spell an even surer demise for Karl Dorrell.

Bottom line is if Rasshan DOES deliver, it will only underscore Coach Dorrell's incompetence. In the event affairs do turn north for UCLA, supporters should ask ONLY why Rasshan wasn't the automatic #2 behind Ben Olsen vs. Notre Dame last month and WHY he wasn't THE definite #3 behind Cowan before that.

Well in case you missed it, he wasn't... and going into that fateful game, Rasshan didn't take a single f***ing SNAP in practice the week leading up to the Weiss visit. So, injury-prone Olsen goes into one of the highest profile games of the DECADE for UCLA with no one backing him up save a shivering, 4th string, walk-on law student.

But it didn't end there.

Nooooo! Karl Dorrell worked HARD on this loss. On top of throwing in a kid who just got fitted for his uniform, Dorr-Vell (the namesake of the tragically inept offensive duo of Karl Dorrell & Jay Norvell) compounded what was already a total cluster-f*ck by putting in more pass plays than had been called for both the UCLA starter and back up QB's COMBINED... All while Rasshan languished and an entire corps of running backs looked on in disgust.

No, I'm afraid the last thing Osaar Rasshan can do at this point is "save Karl Dorrell". In all respects, that should be an impossibility.

All Rasshan can do is HURT Dorrell by showing what an incomprehensibly immense waste of Time, Talent and Resources he has been for UCLA as a whole. Which may be the true reason why Rasshan's been buried like a State Secret for nearly three seasons.