UCLA Football Is Not There Yet ...

I cannot count how many times I have thought about the advantages the Academic side of u$c* gained from their successful athletics. I was astonished to witness the fashion in which they were able to parlay on-the-field success into professorships and institute grants. Yet every time I did so, I quickly realized that it was only a matter of time before the cards would come crashing down. High to fly, far to fall (Danish proverb there for you).

And when your house is built on lies and PR stunts, it is a matter of years, not decades, before it all comes tumbling down. We are lucky to have a head coach who is personally invested in our program. CRN shares a feeling of ownership that only comes with a BA or BS from the greatest University in the world. This is his alma mater as much as it is ours, and as a consequence I do not fear that he will choose the shortest route or way of least resistance. He knows that UCLA football will persist even when he is gone, and his interest and passion for the program will not end once the pay checks stop coming. That is the tremendous upside that we have with CRN. He truly is one of us.

Blogster Research – UCLA 1st, just$c* not ranked. Good job by Chicago Bruin.

I don’t spend any appreciable time at just$c* sites, but we all see them here from time to time. The only lists like this that they bring to the table is “well, you can’t believe him because he’s a felon and because he’s got a book deal, but you should overlook the fact that he’s a felon when you ask us why was he given unfettered access to the locker rooms, and I’ll keep going with this sort of argument forever, and will never address whether the message brought by the messenger is indeed true, blah, blah, blah.”

And speaking of lists, isn’t it about time for the annual update of the just$c* rap sheet?

I must admit that I wasn’t in the States during the ’90’s and thus my perspective of the Trojie ‘upswing’ is limited to the 2000’s. I apologize for the error.

What strikes me, however, as incredibly amusing is that the Trojie propaganda department actually manages to convince their students of their academic superiority. While speaking with a group of USC alums at dinner I actually had to blackberry the USNWR MBA rankings in order to convince them that Anderson School was ranked higher than their Marshall program.
Not that it really matters since the USNWR’s are, in my opinion, entirely useless when attempting to judge the quality of an education. But the point still stands – I find it appalling that a school would try to market itself to its own students in a way that is outright false.

able to find a USNWR ranking for film schools. However, when combining data points from various fora it seems that the list goes NYU, usc, and UCLA as the top-3. This is congruent with the overall opinion I had of the programs while living in LA.
In case it has any interest, Wikipedia added the following:
“directors Francis Ford Coppola (UCLA Film School, MFA film directing), Martin Scorsese (NYU Film School, MFA film directing) and George Lucas (USC Film School, BA film directing) graduated from prestigious film schools.”