I’m looking forward to how CRN handles this.

We all knew there would be losses, even bad losses, but this is probably the last thing we needed to happen.

Next week is big.

Has a torn ACL and MCL from a hit on the sideline.

Players that went out of bounds on a play and he… er… doesn’t move that well laterally.

But I have faith in this coaching staff – and they’ll get back to work on Monday to try and right the ship. As an earlier poster aptly said, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

Just for me, the tough thing will be tonight watching those SCumbags from across town putting on a show in the Coliseum tonight against Ohio St. No doubt they’re already giddy from what happened to us today. But if they roll it up on the Buckeyes tonight it may be all too much for us to take.

and this was stomach-turning. Yeah, I know this is a rebuilding year, blah blah blah, but this kind of hit would be hard to stomach if it had been delivered by Pom poms thugs. I work with a bunch of “Y” fans and I’m dreading Monday. And, no, I didn’t talk trash all week, either. Didn’t see any of the dirty stuff that occurred last season at the RB, either, Just a thumping in every respect. ARRGHH. As the late John McKay reputedly said, after the 51-0 loss to Notre Dame, “those of you who need showers, take them.”

 It will be crucial to see what/how CRN responds to this. I’m expecting well, and constructively.

On the bright side, fellow new-coached Michigan has a team hungry enough to just want to hit something, no matter how mushy, overrated, or overpaid it might be. It’s a good sign for our guys!

re: today’s performance, I have never cheered for a football team before UCLA and I never will cheer for another. Today’s performance was unacceptable against any team in the nation. I hope our guys practice and compete with a huge chip on their shoulder for the duration of the season. I don’t know if I can ever be truly relentlessly optimistic, but I’ll be watching the next game for sure. go bruins.

under the don’t get too caught up in wins and losses category.

Tennessee showed us that even with our weakenesses, we can compete against teams that aren’t particularly well coached or disciplined.

However, a disciplined team will take our weakenesses and exploit them, which BYU did.

I could comment on the way we lost, how big it was, etc, but it doesn’t really matter. We got our asses handed to us today, and if we played well we probably still would have lost handily because BYU was not going to be stupid like Tennessee was.

The Key now is to get the troops rallied, play with pride the next 10 games, hope for a .500 season, and one more thing::

ITS ALL ABOUT RECRUITING… CRN MUST HAVE STELLAR RECRUITING THE NEXT TWO SEASONS

Then we will be in a position to be excellent in 2010.

Purdue FG wide right in 2nd OT

Let me start of by saying that my brother and I saw the whole game. There were times when we just wanted to turn off the T.V. and call it quits, but my brother would not let me and I would not let him, and for that I am proud and anyone who did the same good for you. Now I knew this was going to happen, not because of all the reasons Nestor said but because I Had a Dream. Now most of the time I see my dreams as just well… dreams but when I have a UCLA dream it’s a little different. Just for history, I dreamt the UCLA/ USC game the last two years and I was right. I even predicted that we were going to win by an interception late in the game. Anyhow back to my latest dream, it was an away game and I know this because I had a white jersey and the funny thing about this dream was that for some reason I was late to this game as if I didn’t "show up." I had no clue what it meant until today’s game vs. BYU. The good news I dreamt about USC and in my dream we beat USC. So here is hoping that my dreams come true. And if we do win remember me.
Go Bruins

As a BYU fan, I think I’m almost as shocked as many of you by the way that this one turned out. I thought that your D-line would be able to get much more pressure on Hall, and that Craft would be able to exploit our suspect secondary. I really didn’t see it turning out into a rout like this.

There will be some rocky spots for you guys this year, considering the injuries and the new coaching, but in the long term I think you’ll be fine. I wish you the best of luck in regrouping, and may you find a miraculous way to beat down that team across town.

I’ve lurked on this site from time to time ever since our game last September, and I want to congratulate you on the classiness of the site and its commenters, and the passion and pride that you have for your team. Most sports message boards turn into juvenile drivel, but you keep it focused where it should be, and I am extremely impressed.

(And I sure don’t want to burn any bridges by trolling, just in case we meet YET AGAIN in the Vegas Bowl! :) )

What was that?! No, Tennessee was not a fluke, but I hope today was. The back breaker was the turnover after Austin’s first long return, you could sense it. Yes, we knew it would be tough at times, but I never in my darkest dreams would I have seen that coming. CRN has a lot of work to do to overcome the game-to-game inconsistency that still seems to be haunting us from the Dorrell disaster. I just couldn’t watch after the 2nd quarter, way too painful, but will be watching next week to how our guys handle this.

Hey guys. 98% of the BYU fans (or most opposing fans for that matter) taking the time to come on here and posting comments are most likely not all there in the head. As a BYU fan I remember a number of games where the ball bounced the other way. It seemed like BYU could do no wrong today and the Bruins could do ONLY wrong. Anyway—I’m embarresed by over-zealous and slightly retarded fans making stupid comments.

Harvey Unga graduated from high school in Provo only 2 years ago so no everyone is “older”

Go COUGS!!

yahoo front page…“The Bruins Get Humiliated”…we knew we’d take our shots this year, but hopefully this dismal effort will not be repeated.

We are a team plagued by injuries too numerous to be accounted for, young and inexperienced. We fought hard. I am proud of the Bruins.

BYU is a great team and played well. They deserve praise. It is justifiably their day in the sun.

It makes me angry at the Admisnistration for watching the UCLA Football program sink into oblivion and sit on thier hands. Sorry. DG was lucky to have CRN come along and NC and DW ( to stay.) We appreciate them as guys who love the sport of football and gentlemen.

We have had our victories. And today was our loss. That is what makes football great.

I say good going to our players that fought hard.

Go Bruins !!

If you don’t fall in life, you’ll never know how to get up. Yes, we got our butts handed to us but we all knew the problems our team was facing. Tenn was an unexpected surprise. Some Bruin fans out there (outside of BN) got a bit overzealous about our prospects for the season. Just like 1 win does not make a season, so does a single loss. We all know it is going to take time to build depth and add talent. This ain’t gonna be the last time this happens. This staff has my 100% support. It’ll make it that much more special when we regain our spot as a national power. BELIEVE THAT!

Let’s not overreact. That was a really, really tough loss (worse since 1929 I hear) but it is only 1 loss and we are still 1-1. Hats off to BYU for playing an excellent game. The combination of all of the injuries to key players on this team and the bad luck/momentum shift from the 3 consecutive turnovers in the first half put us in a really bad spot to be competitive in this game. Despite this terrible loss, I really feel we should not jump all over the coaches or the players over this loss and we need to continue to fully support our Bruins. I think we have to give Neuheisel & company at least 2-3 seasons to turn around Bruins football into the perennial PAC-10 title contender/nationally ranked team that we should be at (just like what Howland did for UCLA basketball). I’m just looking forward to seeing what kind of progress UCLA football can make over the entire season at this point and still hoping for 6 wins and a bowl game.

Wish they could have put it in the house but they did get 3 out of it.

Give CRN some more time to develop his team. Yes, that was an embarassing loss and we’ll be in all of the highlight tonight for the wrong reason, but this is not the end. Its only the second game of a long season, and the next week’s game against the ’Cat is going to be very crucial. As we trust in Howland ( even during his first year), so we shall trust in Coach Rick.

Add to that all the injuries, and it makes it even tougher. The injury bug is contagious. I hope they find a cure soon.

Bad reffing? lol

I agree with the rules Nestor has suggested. Stick by the team and that includes the coaching staff, through thick and thin. There has been too much childish behavior from fan bases in general and I am hoping for better from the team, the coach and the fans. Go Bruins!

Nestor, your point is well taken!

and we had an extra week to prepare. I expected more from our coaching staff.

All that good mojo we got from the Tennessee game was more than wiped out today. I had to turn off my phone to avoid the “UCLA sucks!!” calls from my friends. The good thing is that this is only game 2 of the Neu era and we can wipe out this whooping with a W next week against Arizona.

I didn’t watch the game today.

Yep, me. I didn’t watch the game AT ALL.

I had promised tot ake my family to a water aprk today.

And at about 3:20 today, my 7-year-old son, who has an autism-spectrum disorder, went missing.

We had told him we were going home after he went on a little slide in the kiddie play area one last time, and he took a different slide than the one he had gone on before.

He didn’t come out the side where I was waiting for him.

My wife went back up the steps, and she couldn’t find him either.

We circled the fake submarine witht he sldies twice, and couldn’t find him.

We told the lifeguards, and they said to go to Guest Services, 200 yards away from the area.

TWO HUNDRED YARDS.

We get mad when a DB loses a 6’4" receiver on an a flat, emtpoy field of grass.

Try finding a 4’0" boy — surrounded by about 500 other people of different shapes and sizes… one who has a disorder that blocks his attention and ability to listen… over various hills, walkways, landscaping and fences.

Not one of the four lifeguards I told left the area to get onto a walkie-talkie or a phone. I sprinted, without my eyeglasses, to the front gate where guest services was.

I was 20 feet from the turnstiles, screaming my son’s name…

My son was another 20 feet behind me.

FORTY FEET from the exit to the park. SIXTY FEET from the parking lot. Half a mile from a freeway.

I nearly tackled him, while checking him to see if anyone had tried to take him, or undo his wet suit, or had bruised his arm. No such sgins.

He had thought we were going to go when he got off the slide, so he took a different exit from the gate where we had entered the kiddie area.

He went over a different bridge that we had gone on three hours before.

He was missing for 10 minutes.

The longest f***ing 10 minutes of my life.

He didn’t even know he was lost.

He was more scared when I screamed his name.

But I found him, safe and sound. I carried him to my wife, who was giving a description to a lifeguard who had finally showed up with a walkie-talkie in hand.

10 minutes.

TEN. MINUTES.

A month ago, a lot of us thought we’d be lucky if we went 6-6 on the season.

Luck is a relative concept.

I’ll cheer the Bruins next week.

I’ve got more important things on my mind today than a blowout loss.

I have my son.

M

I think we’ll be fine. This may be a blessing in disuguise to really help the young guys mature and grow a lil faster cause we’ll need them to do so as we progress through the season. Defense was flat and offense was awful, but that’s all part of the growing pain. Good thing is there’s been so much hype over the OSU/$C game that a loss of this magnitude for us, kinda goes under the radar in comparison to the OSU loss! Next week should be very interesting. Go Bruins!

…but let me know when the moratorium gets lifted on Blast-a-Coach, because Dewayne Wlaker has some explaining to do.

I have very little faith in Walker. This is exactly the kind of performance his defenses turned in last year, and the year before that. Turnovers and field position be damned. He could not stop anything BYU wanted to do. He could get NO pressure whatever on BYU’s QB, and with the tackle tandem of Harwell and Price, who whould be destroying lines of scrimmage, Walker’s plan was useless.

I have faith in Neuheisel and Chow, and know they’re playing with very limited resources, which got much thinner with the loss of Paulsen, Bell, and Everett. But while Walker has a thin secondary, at least in terms of experience, the Bruins’ defense has a fairly good talent pool. And the injury plague that has wrecked the Bruins’ offense has left the defense fairly intact.

59-0: The ZERO I get . . . the FIFTY-NINE I can’t reconcile. These are his guys playing in a Walker “system” that has been in place for a few years now.

Dewayne, you do not get a free pass on this debacle.

 none of which tell us much about the remaining season, sort of cancel out, throw out the best and worse games, and start anew. We all know more loses and wins are in store for us, but not like the first and second games

3-6 with UNLV and Ariz St going to OT
0-3 against the Mountain West with the above game still to finish

I don’t care if it’s football, basketball, baseball, or tiddlywinks, I will be wishing all of my positive energy towards anyone taking on BYU.

Pride cometh before a fall.

Not much to be happy about today. Another Trojay gets busted while the NCAA still does nothing about their scandalous team. When are those that play by the rules to be rewarded? When are those who take pleasure in simple spirited competition to have victory? Too much beer, too many margaritas, and too many times pounding my fists on the table. I can only pray:

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

I’m done for today.

Wow! That was somewhat unexpected. It’s going to be a long season. I confess that I was not prepared for that kind of beating. I don’t think I have ever seen a UCLA team with so few playmakers. The cupboard is empty. The upside is a lot of young kids are going to get a baptism of fire making us a lot better next year. That being said, the offense is way below below average and the defense is going to be counted on to keep scores manageable. I know that CRN will get us there, we just need to keep supporting the kids. Congrats to the Cougars, they were spectacular.

First off, I’ll admit that I was rooting for BYU and that I live about 4 miles from Cougar Stadium.

That being siad, I want to say that I thought that the UCLA players and even the fans were classy. I know a defeat, of any kind is hard to take, but I also think that your offense and defense consitently showed glimmers of quality that speak as a testament to the fact that your team never gave up. Kudo’s to them for that! To often when the going gets a little tough people just give up and throw in the towel. I never saw that happen with the Bruins yesterday. It shows great character that it never happened.

Good luck with the rest of your season, after watching how your team played today, I’m sure you will end up with a winning record. I truly mean that, you didn’t quit and that means that just like the UT game, you always will have a chance to win. Craft will only continue to improve.

I was just readng the rest of your post-game thread and saw M’s post about his son. As a father of four children, I completely understand the terror that can cause. I coudn’t be happier that your son was found safe after what was likely the longest ten minutes of your life.

As I watching the closing minutes of the game, I saw Rahim Moore make a nice tackle. He popped up, clapped his hands, and ran back to the huddle.

It’s a small gesture, but I think it goes a long way towards showing that some of the kids didn’t necessarily give up yesterday. We’re going to need a lot more kids like Moore who don’t have quit in them over the next couple of years to truly get over the hump. You can tell there are some players who clearly don’t buy in to the whole coaching mantra this year. That’s fine – and to be expected.

Yesterday was still extraordinarily disheartening – I’ve always said I hoped to see improvement from week-to-week, and we really saw nothing that improved last week. We ran the ball for 11 yards. Our running backs looked miserable, the offensive line played terribly, receivers dropped balls, and most worringly, we had absolutely no pass rush to speak of. BYU simply smoked us off the line of scrimmage. As soon as I saw that Hall had all day to throw, I knew we were going to be in for a long day.

This was a really bad game for UCLA fans to watch, but have faith in Neuheisel. He’s a good recruiter and a good coach he’ll turn things around for you all.

These turnarounds take time and a lot of patience (I’m a Bama fan, so I’ve been learning that for 10+ years). Best of luck in the future, and please, please find a way to beat USC this year