BN Gameday Roundup: Preparing For Oregon’s Total Annihilation of UCLA on National TV

..that Brent Mushmouth isn’t going to be broadcasting the game. I can live through a slaughter but not Brent.

MAN it’d be great to beat them.

Nestor & Co, I think your doomsday posts are getting out of hand. We are here to support UCLA and talk about UCLA, not to demoralize UCLA. If I was a UCLA football player or a highschool football recruit and somebody told me to check Bruinsnation because they have this great online fanbase there and the first thing you see is “Preparing For Oregon’s Total Annihilation of UCLA on National TV”, I’d be extremely turned off. Yeah, yeah, this is only a blog. But if we at Bruinsnation want to be “the” UCLA blog that we can go to for information and to support our team, a headline like this is NOT the way to do it.

We all know we are probably not going to win tonight, but we have to support our team. The kids are young and need support. It doesn’t encourage or fire them up to hear that UCLA fans are turning their backs on the team because we got blown out by Cal.

The “everything that’s going to go wrong” threads were kinda funny but this to me sounds more like disloyalty and betrayal.

I appreciate most of what goes on here but this just doesn’t sit well. The opposing team should be the one’s providing bulletin board material, not us.

I know you are a diehard Nestor, I just don’t think it helps us in any way to sound like we don’t support our team. On paper, there is no way we can win tonight – there’s no reason to try that route. Re-reading your post, it’s mostly the title that urks me. The rest of the post is semi hopeful. I never said you were intentially betraying UCLA and being disloya. From an outside perspective, it just sounds that way.

I love this site and appreciate the insight. I know these posts come out because you are a diehard and want us to win that much more. It just sounds bad. My 2 cents.

And can’t. Yeah, not all that optimistic about our chances tonight.

Couldn’t help but smile about about the reference to the game back in ’90 vs UDub. I remember that game vividly, too, as I got to watch a good chunk of it after getting back from watching Ohio State upset Iowa at Kinnick Stadium that day. It made that day much, much better.

Someone DID solve the duckies offense last year – Ohio State. If Rick knows anything about coaching, he watched the film of that game. OSU’s defense completely shut the duckies down.

for stirring up some of the always-positive Bruin goofs like me, who really don’t care who it is or where it is or when it is we’re playing, because we always think the Bruins have a chance. We already have the Texas win, so maybe it is too much to ask for a Bruin-induced Duck demise at Autzen, but I think I see the shadowy outlines of an unexpectedly fine UCLA performance taking shape in the foggy Oregon landscape. There’s just something about having nothing to lose, especially on Weasel-stomping day. I do agree with the thought that we have to play a strong second half, but I admit to having a little trouble figuring out how, as short-handed as we are, we are going to do it. That does give me pause, as they say. But, having paused, I move on, because we just have to find a way. So count me among the at least partially delusional, and let’s play the game, without fear.

I woke up in a good mood, but man this is depressing. I come to BN everyday to read up on the Bruins. I think BN has the best insight around, but today it got me totally bummed. I for one think we have a fighters chance, and believe, and expect that we are going to put up a hell of a fight, and could not watch the game if I expected different. I just hope recuits, and other fans don’t read this, and get as depressed as I got. Maybe if I felt the way alot of you do it would ease the pain, but I wouldn’t be looking forward to the game the way I was before I read this post this morning. I am going to go back to my delusional world, and come back tomorrow. I hope there is some reason to be optimistic about the future.

GO BRUINS!

I have to say that I just don’t know the answer. Suppose that the worst happens, and that we don’t even do as well as WSU. Oregon tramples us into turf, scores, let’s say, 60 points, and we suffer a couple more injuries to important players. That is awful to contemplate, and, in my view, is not going to happen. But, even if it does, the thing that counts is how we play the game. If our heads are still up and we are giving what we have to give, we can go on. This is not some sort of dreamy-eyed nonsense. Of course, there is no substitute for victory. Of course, we couldn’t be happy. I don’t sense a lot of happiness around here, so foolish optimism is not the issue. But picking up the pieces and going forward is all there is.

…stick with the motto.

Impossible is Nothing.

To those who are bothered by Nestor’s headline, I don’t want to suggest what you have or have not read on this site, but the narrative about the 2010 season has been fair, consistent and balanced by all of the BN frontpagers and the other contributors. You can’t have not read what’s here and/or watched the games either on TV or in person and not have a sense of “yuck” going into tonight’s game. The Cal game really did me in as all of the things that we know are still weaknesses showed up in a cacophony of chaos.

This team is very much a work-in-process. We who read BN know what works and what doesn’t and the stuff that doesn’t work yet stands out as the things that a great team like Oregon can exploit.

But, as a former athlete and as a coach of youth athletes, I never go into a game against an opponent without thinking that my team has a shot at winning. We focus on fixing our weaknesses and we head into the game with a mindset of “no retreat, no surrender.” I don’t feel that overall BN has either shortchanged a non-delusional look at our team or failed to recognize that anything’s possible. And I expect that CRN and his guys are going in ready to battle.

“Commander, I think you’re going to have prepare yourself for the fact that we’re going to lose. And we’re going to lose huge.”

It should be noted that Daniel Caffey won the case and secured his set of steak knives so we might have a chance after all……

I bring this up because the Pirates had little to no chance in that series. At least in mind as a second grader. But, I learned a lesson that would repeat my senior year of high school. You see, a good friend of mine, a rabid Yankee fan, pretty much convinced me that NY was going to win that game 7. I gave up any hope for the win. Then, the unlikely home run by the unlikely Mazeroski.

Fast forward to high school football. My senior year, the team was 0-8-1 going into the last game of the year against the cross town rival. In those years, we played the rival twice, the first game as well as the last. Needless to say, they beat us that first game, and soundly, too.

They were gong on to playoffs and we were the doormats of the league, going nowhere. We ran right at their best line defender, and this was an unlikely strategy since our line, on average, only outweighed our running backs by about 10 pounds. Well, we scored 4 touchdowns before they crossed the goal line and that was only with less than 2 minutes remaining in the game.

So, yeah, I’m giving UCLA a shot to win, absolutely.

By the way, we actually did go somewhere after that last game…parties!

I just came across an interesting number This is from espnla

Oregon hasn’t started 7-0 since 1933, when Prink Callison was their coach and they were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. In fact, the last three times the Ducks were 6-0 with a chance to go 7-0, they lost their seventh game.

And let’s not forget we have the new “slick rick” jerseys. We’re going to be unstoppable today!

SIGH!

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

The best would be another upset of a top ten team.

The worst, of course is T.J. Simers.

So if we upset Oregon, he will say we aren’t that good and if we lose, he will say we suck.
Now, either way, you don’t need to read his column.

If you are tempted to do so, here is some information that may help you understand his attitude. T.J. is charged with covering UCLA who, as we all know, leads the world in National Championships and was recently ranked number 13 academically in the world.

This is not a good assignment for TJ.

According to his employer, TJ “attended” Northern Illinois University. Funny they say “attended” The Times does mention the journalism degrees held by some of their other writers so I assume TJ didn’t get his.

If that is the case he is what many would call a “Dropout”.

Even if he did,NIU might not even be the 13th ranked academic institution in Illinois.

Now let’s take a moment to remember some of the great athletes coming out of NIU. Anybody? Class? Beuhler? Anybody? Didn’t think so.
  
Are you beginning to see why Mr. S has kind of an attitude?

It doesn’t get better for TJ.

Part of his job is to interview the UCLA coach after each game.

So what you have is an overweight dropout from a nothing school trying his best to anger and embarass a UCLA graduate with a law degree who also happens to be a Rose Bowl MVP.

That’s the kind of assignment that could turn a man into a real ass.

By the way, TJ, no one seems to know what TJ stands for.

Is it OK if we college graduates call you Dick?

so I can stop singing “return of the quack”. It is pissing me off, I cant get it out of my head. On my way home from work I am popping in a CD and listening to our fight song

My advice to fellow Bruin fans:

Drink heavily.
Respect no other team.
Take the points
Don’t go to work tomorrow.