Something Brewin In The OC

by Nestor on Jun 18, 2007 4:41 AM PDT in Events

Orange County Bruins are an active bunch these days. BruinEd03 is putting together a Bruin gathering around the Angels game on June 23rd which sounds like lot of fun.

Also on the same day the UCLA Athletics Club of Orange County is putting together a very cool event at Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach. Got this via an email:

UCLA Athletics Club of Orange County
Inaugural Celebration Dinner

A limited number of tickets remain for the UCLA Athletics Club of Orange County Inaugural Celebration Dinner:

Saturday, June 23, 6:00pm
Balboa Bay Club (1221 West Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA)

Come enjoy an evening with Bruin supporters from across Orange County and learn about this exciting initiative that is taking place in your own backyard.

The evening will kick off with a hosted, full-service bar highlighted by a specialty Ketel One Martini bar. Following the cocktail reception, the evening will progress into a lavish dinner and exciting program featuring MC Lynn Shackelford, Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero, a "Conversation with Coach and the Quarterbacks" featuring Terry Donahue and quarterbacks Wayne Cook, Tom Ramsey and Cade McNown. The discussion will be led by former Bruin defensive back James Washington.

Tickets for the event are $250 (50% tax-deductible) and can be purchased by contacting Scott Nelson (snelson@athletics.ucla.edu or310-206-3302).

The time is now to get involved with UCLA Athletics in Orange County. If you are currently a supporter of UCLA Athletics, your involvement is sincerely appreciated. Our goal is to create a firm establishment in Orange County and benefit from the greatness that it entails.

If you live in or around Orange County and want to get more involved in UCLA athletics given what you read here on a daily basis, I strongly encourage you to go to these events. Because when it all comes down to it, while we articulate our reservations or concerns about our programs or celebrate their success here online, it is always important to engage the UCLA brass in a professional manner offline. This is the kind of program that presents a opportunity to tell Mr. Guerrero in a frank and respectful manner exactly what we are expecting from the football program next season. I’d encourage all of you who live around the area to take advantage of it.

Plus it is always cool to see this guy:

I miss those days.

GO BRUINS.

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Cade The Great

That is a great clip of McNown, especially when he jumps up right after the hit to celebrate. It reminds me of one of the first games he started (against BYU I believe) in which he leveled a BYU linebacker on a reverse play. It was after that play that I knew we had something special in Cade.

by SactoBruin on Jun 18, 2007 10:35 AM PDT 0 recs

Say what you will about Toledo

but he had some very imaginative offensive playcalling with McNown as his QB. His philosophy seemed to be, score 50 points a game and everything else would work itself out.

by bluegold on Jun 18, 2007 10:45 AM PDT up 0 recs

I hope he does well

at Tulane. I know he had shortcomings when it came to discipline, but it was nothing like Cheat Carroll's thug crew. And I think he really connected with the players with his fun, happy-go-lucky attitude. Well that worked for the offense, not so much the defense! If we could have kept him and Rocky Long, we probably would have at least a couple of Rose Bowl wins, if not a NC by now...

by tasser10 on Jun 18, 2007 11:10 AM PDT up 0 recs

What DG should have done was

keep Toledo as headcoach, bring in KD as assistant to clean up the discipline problems, since it is obvious each of them cannot do the other job.

by bluegold on Jun 18, 2007 11:25 AM PDT up 0 recs

BT and RL

I felt at the time and do now that BT and RL together were an unbeatable combination. I agree that KD cleaning up the "back office" could have been good too, and that would have given KD experience with a major program without the ridiculous task of having to be a HC way too early, if at all.
Bill

BillSouthBay

by BillSouthBay on Jun 18, 2007 1:40 PM PDT 0 recs