#NoMoraDan: Mora "Hire" Leak Looks Extremely Shady
by gbruin on Dec 10, 2011 9:04 AM PST
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PrintDan Guerrero is an idiot.
He has no trust from the fan base or from big time donors. The criticism of all aspects of his performance can be read here, on BRO, on Facebook, via twitter, and in traditional outlets like major newspapers including the LAT, and on national television. He has failed miserably in his two previous coaching hires.
And he still has the gall and short-mindedness to make this hire.
Never mind that Jim Mora is an awful choice. the whole manner of this coaching search and now in the way it was announced reeks of cowardice.
The fact that this item was leaked late Friday night shows Dan trying to hide his actions, to somehow sneak this decision in at a time when people aren't watching the news, to lessen the immediate outcry against what is another completely incompetent and terrible decision. After what U.C.L.A. has been dragged down to under Chiant Guerrero, he has just selected a coach with even fewer qualifications that our last two, who failed badly at the job. The unprofessional way that Chianti conducted this search and apparent hire is a disgrace to the legacy of U.C.L.A. and should be an outright embarrassment to anyone who care about the four letters. Our rivals and opponents won't know whether to laugh at us in mockery or just shake their heads at our continued path.
Major universities are proud of their football hires and highlight them in major announcement and press conferences designed to stir up enthusiasm. Dan Guerrero just leaked his on a late Friday evening when he figured no one was around to care or question him.
UCLA is expected to make a formal announcement on Saturday, and he is to be introduced next week at a news conference.
Mora and Athletic Director Dan Guerrero were not available for comment.
Unprofessional. Cowardly. Incompetent. Shady. Corrupt. Embarrassing.
If Dan is myopic and ignorant enough to think that slipping this in on the weekend is going to lessen the blow on Monday, he is absolutely wrong. And if the people answering the phones at the Chancellor's office think it was bad before, wait until they get a load of us now. 1-310-825-2151. Start calling now Bruins, just for practice. Someone will be answering Monday morning.
There is only one message: Fire Dan Guerrero Now!
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We should let Chancellor Block know ...if this Mora garbage is true ...
Not only we are not going to donate a single penny to UCLA athletics, no more support for rest of the school. I will certainly withdraw decent chunk we donate to UCLA fund every year. I can think of better and more competent charitable cause for those resources.
Wow this is strange,,,,
this is the second hire in a row that UW fans will follow with interest, There were a lot of husky fans that wanted Mora, and a lot that didn’t,,,, husky nation was pretty divided on him. HIs admirers thought he would bring a national title to Seattle.
Only postitive I can think of is how ticked off trojan nation was when Petey got hired. They wanted Garret’s head.
They were suffering under Willingham at the time.
They would have taken a burnt piece of toast as their head coach and said he would be a national championship contender, considering their basis for comparison.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
Cheatey Petey is one freaking talking point Chianti Dan and his clowns have ....
While data overwhelmingly shows NFL coaches turn out to be epic fails in college.
Pete Carroll was a great success going from NFL reject to CFB BCS champion*
while racking up numerous violations and running out of town before the NCAA brought sanctions.
You're right on Nestor!!!
June Jones was used as an example of someone who succeeded, hasn’t done much since he left Hawaii
Frankly, he didn't do much at hawaii
besides rack up wins against tiny conference teams, and beat a mediocre Arizona State team.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
by OswegoBruin on Dec 10, 2011 10:00 AM PST up reply actions
Do you guys even follow college football?
June Jones has been a great success at both SMU and Hawaii. You have to know context to appreciate how he helped turn these programs around. Please don’t talk about things you know nothing about.
You're right, Biglar. None of us here know anything about college football.
We’re just stupid guys who show up on a blog on December 10 and proceed to tell the rest of us that we’re stupid without explaining why or showing the facts to prove that point.
So Biglar, allow me to suggest that you not allow your brain to be corrupted by the know-nothings here, and GTFO. Please.
Fox, you know nothing.
Making terrible programs bowl eligible is a great success! UCLA is similar in that when your expectations are lower than Hades, you always succeed. Great success! I like!
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
by OswegoBruin on Dec 10, 2011 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
Mr. Chancellor
Dan is a total joke. He is not qualified for the AD job at Banning High School let alone a National Treasure like UCLA. He is making you look like a joke. Fire Dan now and stop the Jim Mora Jr. “hire” while you can.
YOUR REPUTATION IS ON THE LINE. IF YOU DON’T HAVE THE GUTS, PLEASE RESIGN AND GO BACK TO OREGON OR STANFORD AND DESTROY THOSE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTS INSTEAD.
Disgusted UCLA fan and once proud 2002 graduate.
Called - no answer
It’s time for a total, absolute Moratorium on any transfer of any economic resources to anything associated with UCLA. Not a farthing. My endowment is being changed – it wasn’t much, but it was something.
A complete Moratorium until this horrible athletic director is fired and the coaching decision rescinded.
I tried callin that number but no one answered..
by Big Bully on Dec 10, 2011 9:10 AM PST via mobile reply actions
This is so unreal
This nightmare never ends what the hell is he thinking wow we need to step up big this is to much
I was shocker to see the update late last night when I came home....
Mora, hired like that, really?
With Chianti at the helm,
NOTHING surprises me any more.
by Bruined 4 Life on Dec 10, 2011 9:24 AM PST up reply actions
Real, honest question.
When we call the Chancellor’s office asking for Dan’s head,
is it appropriate to also mention that hiring Terry Donahue as his replacement is beyond unacceptable?
Absolutely
Include that in there. Typhoid Terry is one of the core reasons of the cultural rot that has destroyed this athletic program.
"We had a bad run"
Chicago Tribune: Who’s the best person for the job?
Terry Donahue: “I’ve heard [Houston’s Kevin] Sumlin, [former Oregon coach] Mike Bellotti, [Miami’s] Al Golden and a number of others. They’ll get a good man. UCLA can win in football. We’ve done it before and we’ll win again. No question in my mind at all. We had a bad run — some of it was luck, some our own decisions and circumstances. Again, it starts with an emphasis on quarterback. Once we get that and develop that kid right, all of the problems will go away.”
I used to like Terry, even met him once, but that whole statement is full of cr*p.
Been a Bruin since birth
by LongtimeBru on Dec 10, 2011 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
One of the benefits of having been a 49ers fan long before being a Bruin
Knowing that Donahue’s ideas of how to put a football team together are utter crap, and not having to overcome the nostalgia from his time in Westwood to realize it.
formerly bruinhoo
Sounds like "we had a bad run" at the craps table.
Not like we have control over our athletic department or anything.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
by OswegoBruin on Dec 10, 2011 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
That's funny.
“… it starts with…. (a) quarterback. Once we get that… all the problems go away.”
Ah, even a good QB is wasted when the coaching staff is inept.
by ConfofChamps on Dec 10, 2011 5:12 PM PST up reply actions
Does BN think that DG
made this HC decision? He is walking point but it was the higher ups who made this decision. That alone is reason enough to fire DG. I like the Idea to withhold financial support but to give Mora space to put together a winning team and measure his recruiting efforts based upon the a BN Recruiting Eye Test. The eye test has been a big strength of BN and it is fair and objective.
I Smell Donahue in this Hire
And his entrenchment may be the hardest to overcome.
by snorkeldorf on Dec 10, 2011 11:05 AM PST up reply actions
Word is Donors had no say in this hire.
Why else would we hire someone in the dark of a friday night, with an announcement Saturday? That makes less than sense. DG is desperate and grasping at straws.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
Why, with all the choices out there not looked into, would he settle on someone NO ONE wanted?
Piss off the alums, donors, and BN? Unless he just plans to leave for the NCAA. and say F__k off to us.
The ocean needs water.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
by OswegoBruin on Dec 10, 2011 10:09 AM PST up reply actions
One thing to note:
He only made a “promise” to improve facilities and assistant coach salaries to Petersen, reportedly. Anyone thinking he’s going to carry that promise over to Jim “Lucky to Be Here” Mora, Jr. is kidding themselves.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
Is this whats its like to have PTSD?
Long time reader and follower of BruinsNation and I’ve seen some great highs and terrible lows since 1992. Graduating in 96 I saw what a force we were in college athletics but this hire and how it played out was so bush league, so ill conceived, its almost as if CD (Chianti Dan) knew he was on his way out and this was his last “FU” to the school, students, and alumni.
Not a single dollar until he’s gone.
We're F@cked
It’s the culture through and through…between Block’s lack of caring and Donut’s lack of a spine (and the Terry Donahue ’old boy network) we are so seriously screwed.
I’ll be watching Leach at Wazzu next season, that’s all the comparison we’ll need.
"Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time"
~ John Wooden
If Mora has any success I bet he bolts to NFL any chance he gets
another reason this seems like a bad hire.
Block's Dilemma
I think Block’s in the same dilemma with DG as DG was in with RN. Not wanting to admit he f’d up so instead of doing the right thing and firing DG, he left him in there for one more chance to get it right. Obviously, he screwed up again. This is essentially Block’s Arizona and much like DG, Block’s ego got in the way of what is best for the not just the football team but the university as a whole.
by Traz2000 on Dec 10, 2011 9:41 AM PST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
This implies Block gives two sh#@s about football, or athletics.
This is not the case. Block is OK with Guerrero because DG keeps the budget balanced, doesn’t ask for academic exceptions that might make UCLA look bad (ironic, because the purse-stealing three did that pretty well on their own), and not rocking the boat with hires that might get penalties and NCAA scrutiny.
Block is content to attend fine banquets, tout the medical center, and ignore athletics entirely. As long as DG doesn’t do anything out of place in his eyes and just is the good bureaucrat he needs him to be, Block is silent on the matter. And will likely be the reason DG will stay.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
like i said before, dan should never have been allowed to make the decision
It’s all or nothing, and when RN was fired as the sacrificial lamb, some people let up the effort. They thought, we’ve gotten 80% of the job done, now for DG to get fired. Wrong. 80% is a moral victory, it’s 100% or nothing at all, and there we see is the damage done by not getting rid of DG when it was appropriate. Now it’s time to get rid of Block. It’s the only way these bureaucrats will listen. To turn off the heat, they’ll sacrifice the person below them in the totem pole. That’s what DG did with RN, and it’s what Block will do with DG.
Dan Guerrero is cancer for UCLA
You have to cut it out completely and kill every living bit of it to survive. We didn’t do that when RN was fired. So now we see the results of Dan Guerrero metastasizing.
I understand the frustration
But I have to admit I don’t follow the “corrupt” part of it.
The info was given to the press at 11:00 p.m. on a Friday night
How is that not corrupt? It’s like leaking the info to the Norfolk Nebraska Pioneer Gazette, and saying, “Sure, we announced it to the press.” How about a press conference with actual press present.
This is classless and cowardly in addition to being shady and corrupt. It is the typical move of in incompetent who wants to avoid having to answer for his decisions.
If Chianti Dan did not deserve to be fired for all the other classic, industrial strength screw-ups, he deserves to be fired fot this.
I've never seen so many people pissed off...
This is just another slap in the face by Donut Dan. If we weren’t the laughing stock of the NCAA football world before, we sure the hell are now! I’m just wondering what the other ADs around the NCAA are thinking. They got to be shaking their heads and asking themselves is DG this big of an idiot, and I would answer them hell yes and he’s a disgrace to the school called UCLA!
by Trojanswearskirts on Dec 10, 2011 9:58 AM PST reply actions
Hmmm...looks like Sumlin is officially in at A&M
Not that I wanted Sumlin, but it smells to me that after CP, DG had only Sumlin and Mora on his radar, once it looked like Sumlin solidified A&M he grabbed Mora. I really doubt he even put feelers out to anyone else.
Sumlin is Mike Ditka
compared to Mora.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
by OswegoBruin on Dec 10, 2011 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
If Mora comes...There we go!!
We will become the WSU of the South Division. And they have a better outlook with Leach.
4 seats in section 17L
Are now available. Anybody want em? I will definitely miss the bacon wrapped hot dogs outside of the rose bowl though.
by 0725brui on Dec 10, 2011 10:01 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs recipe:
Wrap hot dogs with a single slice of bacon. You might want to push toothpicks through the ends to keep ’em on there nice and tight.
The secret is to cook them on a griddle. If you cook them over open flame the bacon will burn while the hot dog is still uncooked.
While your dogs are cooking, on a seperate flame, stir fry some chopped onions and bell peppers for topping.
Alternative topping is good old fashioned chopped tomato and onions which are not cooked. You can spice it up by adding cilantro to make it ‘pico de gallo’
A little bit of mayo on the bun, and you will have a perfect ‘Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog.’
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi
getting this recipe...
may be the only positive to come from this tragic comedy
Here's my recipe:
Press the magazine release on the side of your firearm.
Insert round into the magazine.
Replace magazine into the firearm.
Pull the slide until the round is in place in the chamber. Release the slide.
Turn the safety from the “on” position to the “off” position.
Aim at desired personal body part. (Note: aiming at head will have significant health ramifications)
Pull trigger.
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
by OswegoBruin on Dec 10, 2011 12:07 PM PST up reply actions
wikipedia already has him listed as UCLA head coach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_L._Mora
did DG have his staff do this?
Hey my Twitter account actually amounted to something
#NoMoraDan
Can’t wait to hear what Mora’s proposed salary is going to be.
Is DG a Trogan plant?
This Friday night surprise and giving a job to I believe is the unqualified son of a family friend of Donahue smacked of corruption and cronyism.
Doofus DG is not smart enough to pull this off so he’s the perfect puppet for his “advisors” like AAD Field, Donahue and cronies. Doofus may know Chianti but he has shown he knows little of college football or the dynamics of modern day college sports. DG should be gone, as well as his advisors.
DG is now in the same spot as Ken Norton Jr in my ex-Bruin scale.
This is so depressing. But like Nestor, I will take comfort that my future withheld donations will go to more deserving charitable causes.
It's hard not to come up with conspiracy theories, isn't it?
Here’s mine:
This ‘hire’ is so bad I have to wonder if they are intentionally trying to kill UCLA Football. It sounds crazy, I know, but look at the last two hires. Now this? I can imagine after another year or two of this, when attendance has really hit rock bottom; we will hear that they are shutting down the Football Program ‘due to a lack of fan support.’
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi
I put mine in another thread
Here it is in summary
Block knows that our new guy can’t coach, but that he will be held up to the standard of the last NFL retread to come to town, namely, Cheatie Petie. Our new guy knows that he’s supposed to emulate Cheatie’s success, and will do it the same way Cheatie did it, but cheating. Of course, he won’t be able to do it undetected and unprotected like Cheatie did, and voila, in a year, we’ll be sanctioned. Then Block can say that he’s shutting down UCLA football because it’s just causing too much harm and blah, blah, blah.
I think it’s Block. I think he wants to end athletics, which have no place at a university in the first place. If we actually need physical education, we can take classes in jumping jacks.
If Mora comes...There we go!!
Let’s make sure that this DG’s last hire.
He's already here.
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"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
by OswegoBruin on Dec 10, 2011 12:08 PM PST up reply actions
Wow
They couldn’t even spend the time to Photoshop him with UCLA gear on…
They really want to push the “NFL Experience” on him…
"Win Forever" - Pete Carroll
"These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess." - K. Bryant
by USCTrojans4Ever on Dec 10, 2011 12:52 PM PST up reply actions
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