Remembering Those Images For Next 370 Days
by Nestor on Nov 29, 2009 10:38 AM PST
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PrintI am throwing this up because I want to have this image and the caption underneath seared into everyone's brain for next 370 days. Again I realize people can raise genuine questions on about some aspects of our coaches' scheme from the offensive side last night (for instance, I am still trying to figure how can someone confused Chane "Train" with a "Cheetah" lol). Yet at the same time, I also believe our coaches game plan was sufficient enough for us to win the game. Watching JetSki fumble in one of his three carries hit home the point why coaches were going with Chane Moline most of the night.
If not for Prince's ill advised throw the score would have been tied at 0-0 at half time (at least 3-0 in our favor if the referees weren't persuaded by the Pom Pom's lobbying and the homer announcers egging it on television). Then in the second half it was Logan Paulsen's brain cramp that forced Prince to scramble in a second long situation leading to the shoulder injury that caused the second pick. Yet despite all that we were in the game closing within 7. If anyone doesn't think this program hasn't taken a step forward from last season and specifically from last year's game against these classless thugs, then he or she has some other agenda.
Is there reason for frustration? Of course there is. Not only were we in the game, but it was there for us to take it. We had multiple opporunities to seize the momentum and just blew it. That makes it hurt even more this am. However, is everything lost? Hardly. What Chetey and his classless thugs did yesterday was send a clear cut signal about how worried they are about the work Rick Neuheisel and his staff have done in Westwood. They are worried enough that they felt compelled to throw that unnecessary bomb and then proceeded on to jump around like animals, raising their collective middle finger not just to the entire Bruin Nation, but to the world of college athletics.
While folks here have every right to be angry and disgusted with those scumbags from cross town, I'd advise to adopt the frame proposed by BlueMe this am:
Now, the focus should be getting better. It starts with a possible bowl game and ending the season on a positive note. Then it continues in the living rooms of recruits, pitching this program and university like never before. Then it goes to the weight room. Then to Spring Ball. Then on to next season, culminating finally in the Rose Bowl next year.
EVERY WAKING MOMENT between now and kickoff at the Rose Bowl 365 days from now, the focus needs to be KICKING SCs ASS!
Well we have 370 days more to go but everyone here should get the point.
We will find out about our bowl outlook very soon. I am not all that anxious to figure it out. If someone wants to do it, go for it. If we get into one, I hope our guys can do everything they can to take advantage of those two weeks of practices and send of kids like ATV, Carter and Brian Price (after all the heartbreaks he has been through in his life he more than anyone deserves a great life thanks to the financial security in the NFL) off to a great note.
Rest of the Bruin athletes, students, alums and fans, we all need to ready for next season. We have 370 days. We need to make sure those images like the one above in closing mins is burnt into our collective Bruin conscious for rest of our lives.
GO BRUINS.
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Something has changed
I see that picture, and while they’re just a bunch of classless assholes just like their coach, that’s not what stands out to me. What stands out that THIS is what gap closing looks like. The jumping and taunting and all of that; they’re getting their shots in now because they know and we know that the time that they can look in their rearview mirror and see us is short, and the proof was the game itself.
Yep
What they did last night felt different than what they did during 66-19. After 66-19 there was no semblance of hope. But after last night I am getting sense of a different vibe around here.
Difference
66-19 was a statement about how far apart our programs were and now this game is a statement of how close they are(skill not integrity, they will never close that gap).
Logan Paulsen alone might have cost us the game
And I just can’t get over it. That unbelievable penalty, his 934th unbelievable penalty of the year, not only killed a drive at midfield but ended up costing us Kevin Prince for the game, the interception and 7 points that followed, and thus any real chance at a comeback. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Logan.
We’ve had a tough time surviving our “senior leadership” on offense this year. I look forward to not having to deal with it anymore.
Very unfortunate
And I can’t explain it given from what I have heard he is a nice kid and great student (guess not a smart football player).
It happens
Sports intelligence and academic intelligence are so often unrelated. That’s why GPAs don’t correlate to football wins.
slept on it
and Petey’s still a douchebag. Yeah, it was dumb for Neuheisel to burn 3 time outs down 2 TDs with under a minute to play. The game was over. The players knew it – on both sides really. It is up to coaches to curb, not kindle that dickishly (Id-toned) impulse to kick someone on the ground, or punch a beaten fighter in the groin, or throw at a batter with a 10 run lead in the bottom of the 9th. But Cheatey made the choice.
Without those yards on the bomb pass – $C would have been a loser in every statistical category save for the score – in short, it would have felt like a loss. Don’t believe it? Subtract 48 yards from the stat totals and take a look. The Bruins would have outgained, out possessed and tied the trOJans in First downs. The mustard is (R.I.P. Chickj Hearn) off the hot dog, and Cheatey knows it. This one, despite the score, felt like a loss, and that made the temptation to pour it on in a way which it had been incapable of doing at any time in the preceding 58 minutes, simply too great for the scrupes-challenged sideliners to resist.
I’d prefer to look at it as the last desperate act of an aging streetwalker or other similarly situated “entertainer,” knowing that the lustre is gone, the wrinkles, warts and age spots are popping up, and seeking – desperately to prove that she still has “got it.” Earth to Cheatey, the Times ad from two Augusts back may have been a little premature, but the football monopoly in LA is officially over.
The Mad Bruin
No, CRN wasn't wrong
You have three timeouts. Neither heaven nor hell will let you bring them in. Call the TOs, give yourself a chance to score somehow and let anything happen. If you force them to run a play, make it a turnover for a score and an onside kick. The problem was letting them convert that play, not forcing them to run something.
The issue of shit-eating Mardi Gras celebration is another one entirely.
People who are criticising CRN for taking TOs
Don’t know much about the game or haven’t seen much of the game over the years. Does anyone remember the Giants-Eagles game from 20 something years ago when I believe it was the Giants fumbled on a kneel down. Weird stuff happens. If you are on the losing end you take a time out, just to keep it honest.
Still that TD pass wouldn’t have been as big of a deal if not for the “celebration” afterwards. That set the frame and backdrop for last night and for this rivalry from hereon out.
+1
While the touchdown was classy, it was the classy celebration afterwards that got me.
Can’t wait till next year. As one of my friends recently posted when asked about “The Monopoly is over” ad – Monopoly is a long game. This year we put up some hotels on Baltic – next year, Broadway. 370 days left. Can we get a timer? :)
Go Bruins!
Well said
The final score is very deceiving.
No one on BN talks about moral victories and I’m not talking about one now.
But the stats are what they are. Without a few bad TOs, without a few bad penalties, we were right there set to win this game.
I’ve said it before. In our losses this year, we were very, very close to winning those games except for a few critical mistakes. You mature, you gain experience, you fix those mistakes, and suddenly a 6-6 team is a 10-2 team.
You’ll see.
Agreed,
absolutely. Well, that was the intent of my point, as well. This team was not far off at all this season – in every single loss – possibly excepting the Cal game, and that one remains a puzzler to me.
As for N’s point about botched kneel downs – respectfully disagree. At the 59:16 mark, down by 14 points, you don’t need a miracle, you need about a dozen Novenas, six miracles, and a gallon of Lourdes Water – all at once, and that was not gonna happen. And as crass and rotten as the celebration was , the pass itself was chicken-s*** and that starts with the coach. Perhaps I’ve not seen enough football in my fifty years of watching (and a few years of playing and coaching) this stuff to comment about this, tho?
The Mad Bruin
by lostnacfgop on Nov 29, 2009 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
oops,
And I know CRN didn’t burn all 3 – but that appears to have been where this was headed, but for the skank-bomb at the end
The Mad Bruin
A troubling sidenote to the bomb
Anyone that is even remotely familiar with Pete Carroll should have known that Carroll would react to Neuheisel’s timeout by throwing deep. As soon as Neuheisel called the timeout, everyone at my viewing party agreed that a bomb was coming next- and most of us were drunk. In fact, the only way I could really rationalize the timeout was that I thought Neuheisel was goading Carroll into trying something brash and reckless, and hoping he could force a turnover on the play.
So the question is: why wasn’t the defense prepared for a pass play? I’m not really looking for an answer to that one. It’s more of a rhetorical question, I suppose. I’m just bothered that UCLA’s coaching staff wasn’t able to anticipate that playcall.
by insomniacslounge on Nov 29, 2009 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Really, knowing Petey's love of pouring it on needlessly,
the coaches should have been prepared to avoid the possible and likely rubbing the Bruins face in their defeat. What irks me more is that Petey even bothered with the PAT just as an insulting exclamation point .
Attention Trojan Jackholes posting in this thread
Read the byline of this blog (if you can read):
“Blog Of The Bruins, By The Bruins, For The Bruins”
So get lost. We don’t want you here in the coming days.
Actually..
..Nestor, it might be a good idea to entertain their visits here. They can only serve to rile people up and exacerbate the situation by rubbing salt in the wounds. Were I a Trojan, I would come over there to commiserate with the fans, saying something like, “Yeah, we know it was a classless act, but what can you expect from Pete Carrol?” Last thing I would want would be to have the natives restless.
In fact — and I am by no means defending Carroll’s move — but if the Bruins were going to throw down by calling the time out (and that was entirely appropriate) then they should have been prepared to defend against anything. Also, it was to OUR advantage that USC put the ball up for grabs instead of taking a knee a couple of times.
However, the finer points were probably lost on SC. I am sure Carroll just wanted to get in Neuheisel’s face with the bomb, but he may have opened up a bigger can of worms in doing so.
You KNOW — in ancient times like UCLA’s drubbing at the hands of Houston in roundball in 1969 — this will be locker room material for the entire next season. They will be pointing towards the rematch in the Rose Bowl beginning in August (if not Spring Ball) .
If you believe in the Bruins and Neuheisel (as was stated in a related post) then you know this program is on its way up and, when it reaches parity with USC’s and starts drawing its fair share of USC’s potential recruits, then Carroll’s success will wane and the litany of NCAA offenses will catch up to him. Like Timmeh, he will seek some post-coaching role elsewhere and it will be their turn to wander in the football wilderness like they did in the 90s.
Persevere.
Bill, “WHP ’68”
God, it's great to be a Bruin!
I am so excited
for next years game at the Rose Bowl. I am going to make sure I get tickets to that game.
I think we will beat $C next year. It has the same feeling as the Florida-Georgia games in 2007 & 2008. Georgia had that on the field celebration in ’07 and won fairly easily but then the next year Florida won BIG and called timeouts and made big plays in the 4th quarter.
Hopefully we do that to $C next year.
UCLA fans in seats
As I sat yesterday at the masoleum I couldn’t help but see the lack of UCLA fans in the stadium. It seems when we play $C at the Rose Bowl there are a large number of $C fans that come out. Lets make sure that we make it a true home field advantage for our boys next year. I am still upset about how things ended last night. The walk back to the car was a tough one especially becuase I had to hear all the $C fans talk about how much they loved their coach. And one more thing…Lets not forget Matt Barkely. He was leading the march when it came to their taunting on the sidelines! (besides pom pom that is)
I'm not sure how much playing in our house wil help
The team has some things to iron out for sure, but we, as fans, need to take monumental strides. Let’s go Bruins. It’s time to step it up so the stadium is full of blue ALL of next year and for the SC game. The fewer season tickets we sell, the more SC fans can buy them for the game.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Nov 29, 2009 3:41 PM PST reply actions
Agreed.
I can’t wait to renew my season tickets. Hopefully Bruins fans will realize the promise that this team is showing, making them want to buy season seats for next season. We needs as few trOJans fans as possible in there next year. Letting 30,000+ SCumbag fans into the Rose Bowl next year will be unacceptable.
by BruinFanBaby on Nov 29, 2009 5:02 PM PST up reply actions
Countdown
370 days and counting, I’ve definetly started my countdown. I was there last night dressed in my full “true blue and gold” gear in a sea of Cardinal and Gold among the $C scholarship section belive it or not ( my sister’s kids go to $C ). I was ready to accept a well fought 21-7 defeat, but after Sneaky Pete’s B.S. bomb I left the stadium. Anyone who thinks that was O.K. knows nothing about True sportmanship including Bill Splashme from the L.A. Times. We’ll be ready the gang bangers at our house next year. Go Bruins!
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