Show Me, Show Me, Show Me ...

by Nestor on Jul 17, 2007 5:05 AM PDT in Football Comment 13 comments

Aaah. That’s time of the year. We will be hearing lot of sweet talks about how players in Karl Dorrell's football program are getting bigger, stronger, and faster.

How the team chemistry is better than ever and how everyone believes in each other!

It’s also that time of the year we get read sweet, syrupy posts about how our players are looking great in flag football drills. A poster named "Deacon Blue" on Bruin Gold shares same good news:

It's always tough to tell too much from any one practice, let alone an informal short & T shirt 7 on 7 type dealio vs a local JC squad, albeit vx one of my alma maters WLACC. But FWIW, (to this longtime practice regular), it is obvious that UCLA's overall talent level is picking up considrably. As is the confidence level & focus of the team.

These Bruins clearly have A BLAST hanging out together, talk a ton of smack & get along famously. But on the business side of the deal, there is no shortage of fire in the belly. It's AWESOME to see Trey Brown, Chris Horton, Moochie, Rodney Van, Alteran Verner & other elders schooling talented youngsters like Courtney Viney, who is smallish, but stout & VERY MUCH a cling on type DB & PLAYA. Generally the team elders were all taking the cubs under their wings & dispensing high caliber Div 1 wisdom. As for any proverbial corners turned, I'm perfectly comfortable to let the upcoming Pac 10 season determine that.

Uhmm. If folks (read Dorrell apologists) are so "perfectly comfortable" with how the team is looking this off season during these drills, then I am sure they would all right with expectations of Dorrell’s "PLAYAS" delivering a Pac-10 championship this upcoming season.

Again. Dorrell needs to show me, show me, show me … this season.

If Dorrell can do that trick (winning Pac-10 championship and beating Southern Cal), then it will finally feel just like heaven.

I don’t care how much of these sweet talking, syrupy, soothing (to Dorrell apologists) posts we read this summer, they are not going to matter if Dorrell fails to deliver again.

GO BRUINS.

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We've been subjected to these

feel-good pre-season stories before. I refuse to be Charlie Brown anymore and have Lucy pull that football away again.

by bluegold on Jul 17, 2007 7:06 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's not just the sugar coating

Isn't "playa" Spanish for "beach?" In my opinion (albeit from an earlier generation), if you write things in the hip "gangsta" way, it just labels you as a late-teen or early twenty high school drop-out or someone who wants to pretend to be one. Just like the Bill and Ted adventure with their cute "C U L8R" labeled them as younger teens.

I know - I'm way past the crucial 19-49 demographic. Unfortunately, I write for a living, and this sort of thing makes me cringe. Who is coming along to carry the torch when sjh, Bill and the other elder statesmen are gone? You know - "elder statemen" is a euphemism for "writing in complete sentences" without gangster jargon.

by Fox 71 on Jul 17, 2007 7:15 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

"Deac"

(he also goes by "Deja") is also way outside the crucial 19-49 demographic. So it's not a youth thing.

He is, however, probably the biggest sunshine pimp you'll ever come across. You know how some posters have absolutely nothing good to say about the program, coaches, and players?

Deac is the yin to their yang.

by McCloskey on Jul 17, 2007 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ok, crucify me

but "Deacon Blue" is very knowledgeable about UCLA football. I've read his posts on Bruin Gold (gag) for a number of years. He is no young one. Based on his posts and other chat, he played for UCLA back in the 1980's as what he calls a "big ugly" (lineman). He has offered some great narratives on game prep and some former coaches he played for. Also, he attends both spring and summer practices and shares some factual reports on a day by day basis. I have respect for this true Bruin.

by hawk on Jul 17, 2007 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nice theory

this is too funny:

Based on his posts and other chat, he played for UCLA back in the 1980's as what he calls a "big ugly" (lineman).

I have been around BRO and Bruin Gold long enough to know that this guy (who goes by Deja Blue on BRO) didn't go to UCLA. If you think he did then you are just simply smoking crack. This guy didn't go to UCLA.

by bluestreet on Jul 17, 2007 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There is a poster there called Big Ugly...

...who claims to have played line for UCLA under Donahue. I think that is who the poster is referring to.

by Free the 16 on Jul 18, 2007 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tune in tomorrow

Seniors drop some heavy Div 1 knowledge on freshmen in PlayStation 3:

"Ya know playa, that's da way we do it 'round the 'wood, bra!"

Ummmm, ok

"..you've got to abide by the rules sometimes" -Reggie Bush

by godblesstyus95 on Jul 17, 2007 11:58 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I have come to realize

that I will never be allowed into the critical 19-49 demographic, even on a guest visa. I have come to this conclusion because I have only a vague idea what you're talking about.

Nonetheless, I still think I am a viable candidate for the head coaching position at UCLA, provided that I have an interpreter with me.

by Fox 71 on Jul 17, 2007 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fox71 and coaching

Fox71,
Please, be careful what you wish for. With diversity all the rage now, there may be an "age neutral" play at UCLA and you could end up on the sideline being schooled by half the coaches in the PAC-10, just as our current HC is.
Bill

BillSouthBay

by BillSouthBay on Jul 17, 2007 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And if I couldn't do better than 29-21

in four years, I would pull my clipboard out of my pants and resign. (Frankly, I am pretty confident that I could do better than 58%.

And my first action as head coach would be to banish all writers from the fishwrap. My second action would be to make it clear that I didn't want anyone reading BN, because I know you guys would beat me to a pulp if I ever ran the ball two times in a row.

by Fox 71 on Jul 17, 2007 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And one other thing

Your new tag line from bu$h so clearly epitomizes everything that is justsc that one wonders whether it will be translated into Latin and used as the new school motto.

by Fox 71 on Jul 17, 2007 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs