[Updated] Chianti Dan’s UCLA Starving Our Players During ("Fight Hunger") Bowl Prep Week?
by Nestor on Dec 11, 2011 6:50 PM PST
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PrintRandall Carroll tweeted a little while ago:
Well Carroll is being overly dramatic about NCAA violations. I doubt there is any NCAA violation here. However, the situation is not pretty. Carroll's complaint's were immediately amplified by Aramaide Olaniyan in these subsequent tweets:
In addition to Aramide there was this from Tevin McDonald (via Anthony Barr):
RT @SEVENs__UP i love my team, we out here still grindin when everybody just chillin.. we deserve better than what we gettin..
And Kai Maiava (also via Barr):
RT @WAI_51DE No check, no food, no hot water, NO LOVE!! What the hell is going on around here?!
Yikes, I guess that's Chianti Dan's department idea of getting our players ready for the Kraft "Fight Hunger" Bowl?
Now not everyone felt this way. We follow lot of players through our Twitter account @BruinNation and found that Derrick Coleman brushed off those complaints by noting on his (protected) account that if those guys had done everything they were "suppose to do the right away and in a timely manner," they would not have had these "problems."
This is also consistent with what we have heard about this football program being divided as some guys getting it while the other guys being not all that into it. Either way, the whole situation looks like a total mess and emblematic of an athletic program that has no organization and leadership from the very top (the guy who is suppose to be leading the department instead of hanging out at Chianti trips in Italy).
Perhaps Jim Mora can come in and bring some measure of discipline in this program. They haven't had any leadership from their head coaches for more than a decade, because the head coaches themselves haven't been held regularly accountable by an out of touch and incompetent leadership, that haven't cared about getting the football program in order for years.
This latest incident is just a microcosm oh what an embarrassment Chianti Dan's athletic program has become and why he needs to get booted out of Westwood asap.
GO BRUINS.
UPDATE (N): Jon Gold just tweeted that he has been told that the UCLA football players who hadn't received their bowl checks, have now gotten them. If we had competent leadership that paid attention to details, we wouldn't have to find out this way. It's unclear though whether they have hot water and other basic amenities in the dorms. Hopefully that situation is getting addressed asap. Again, the school shouldn't have had to be embarrassed this way. It indications lack of leadership from the very top. GO BRUINS.
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Derrick Coleman brushed off those complaints by noting on his (protected) account that if those guys had done everything they were “suppose to do the right away and in a timely manner,” they would have “problems.”
Er, I’m a bit confused. He brushed it off by saying that if they DID everything right, they would have problems?
Wait.
They are actually not allowed to use hot water or eat food? How could they stop them from eating?
by uclakid123 on Dec 11, 2011 7:00 PM PST via iPhone app reply actions
Per some of their tweets
They haven’t had the money to pay for food. And I am assuming by not having hot water they are suggesting the hot water may have been turned off in the dorms after Friday of finals week (without being cognizant that few of the football players were going to be around).
Ok thanks.
But I did bot previously know they received money for food. And how could they turn off hot water for the dorms? Aren’t there any non-football player in the dorms?
by uclakid123 on Dec 11, 2011 7:05 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
They forgot about the football team!?!?!
If true, sigh. We are becoming a joke. What makes it even worse is I don’t even think we’ve hit bottom yet.
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
by bruin8uclap on Dec 11, 2011 7:15 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Should the word "not" in the Update be "now"?
“UPDATE (N): Jon Gold just tweeted that he has been told that the UCLA football players who hadn’t received their bowl checks, have not gotten them. "
by BrendonBruin on Dec 11, 2011 7:31 PM PST up reply actions
Yikes
I was making jokes about the upcoming bowl by telling my friends that we’d been invited to the Capital Hunger Games Bowl. Now, it sounds like UCLA is actually playing in a Hunger Games Bowl.
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
"All that negativity over there on Bruins Nation hurts recruiting"
Yeah I’m sure events like this have no impact.
Poor Poor Sevor
the football team got Sevor’d
by beanandcheeseburrito on Dec 11, 2011 7:30 PM PST reply actions
BN not the only one that's sees DG is ruining UCLA
by Trojanswearskirts on Dec 11, 2011 7:47 PM PST reply actions
I want to Print this out...
…and staple it to Blockhead’s forehead.
I Am So Pissed!!!
"Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time"
~ John Wooden
checks withheld from wrong group
oh sorry fat dan only looks like a group. I am glad my kid is no longer there waiting for his check as DG would get my foot right in his ass before I threw him off the roof of Ackerman. Will somebody please get rid of this piece of shit
Dorms over winter
Just to clarify a few things for those who may not know, and give some context:
Very few students stay in on-campus housing over Winter break. Mostly just some student staff (housing staff, resident assistants, CSOs), athletes, and international students who may not be returning home. Dining halls are indeed closed.
I don’t recall the hot water being turned off, as a rule, though I do believe they do maintenance stuff during this time and do turn it off (hot water, or even all water) for periods of time. Usually midday. That, however, is a Housing department thing, and is NOT something the Athletic Department has control over.
Staying on the hill during Winter is actually a pretty shitty experience all-around, athlete or not. None of this absolves the Athletic Department of not getting kids their checks, of course. I just wanted to throw in some context of Winter break dorm living, since I experienced it more than once as an RA.
This is OT for this thread..
..and I am sorry because I know this will have been posted elsewhere..
I was thinking about the Mora hire (finally got over my gloom to comment on it) and can’t you see UCLA in the middle of the season next year with this clown at 2-4 or something like that and the pathetic athletic department using the “rebuilding year” excuse?
With all of the so-called talent that XCRN left here (and there’s no disputing that) I’d love to see how that Bravo Sierra goes over.
Crap like the treatment of the athletes above, fellow Bruins, is indicative of how this athletic program is becoming the fetid, overflowing, putrid septic tank of the PAC-12.
(Pains me to say this.)
This is horrible
Would this happen at Oregon? DG should be embarrassed he owes all of them an apology. SMH this dude still has a job, how?
Just emailed Gene (he doesn't deserve the Chancellor title atm) informing him
that the recent turn of events has led me to withhold any and all donations to my alma mater indefinitely and that I will strike U.C.L.A. from my CV when presenting papers at Academic conferences. A bit over the top? Surely, but sometimes you have to speak to the devil in a language he understands. All there is left for me to do now is wait for the time zones to align so I can call him personally.
Speaking of time zones, at least I don’t have to sacrifice sleep to stay up for our 3AM GMT kick-offs. I now feel so dumb looking back at all of the times I did. To be sure, it is with a heavy hand that I write that it is going to be a LONG time before this Bruin comes back to the playing table.
B.F.
I've essentially done the same thing for a few years...
I’ve worked very hard in my life to create my professional brand.
I’ve gone to the very best schools. I’ve worked at some of the best companies. I wear the uniforms of success. I married an amazing woman.
I’ve done everything in my power to create a winning brand.
I’ve eliminated UCLA gear from my life. There is nothing in my office that is UCLA. I don’t wear UCLA gear to the gym. I went to a couple of viewing parties and didn’t even wear gear to them.
I don’t need people associating a losing brand, like UCLA, with me. I don’t need people using my alma mater’s last beat down as an ice breaker. I don’t need people looking at me and seeing “UCLA” because, as of now, the UCLA brand is one of losing and getting blown out.
by beanandcheeseburrito on Dec 12, 2011 7:55 AM PST up reply actions
I think
People who do not live in Los Angeles or greater Southern California, may not realize how much damage that has been inflicted on the UCLA brand in recent years. Moreover, “fans” of this program often don’t seem to be concerned about the brand associated with school as alums. Some “fans” are just content to go down to the Rose Bowl and have their barbecues. They are not concerned how UCLA’s brand as a blue chip athletics/academic school has taken a beating over the years. They just want to get behind a new coach with no question asked. That is why we have seen some really hostile and childish attacks on alums in this community from few places.
I am on the east coast and it has been brutalized...
because the average person doesn’t know anything about UCLA other than (1) it is a public school and (2) what they see on sportscenter.
Unlike the west coast, the east coast has very few elite public schools (UVa and UNC are it) so the “public school” tag already has a negative connotation. They don’t know about our chancellor’s pride, the medical center. They really don’t know much about us… other than we suck at football.
However, I am sure that the west coast is just unbearable right now…
by beanandcheeseburrito on Dec 12, 2011 9:13 AM PST up reply actions
This Just Keeps Getting Worse
Just when you thinki we’ve hit the absolute rock bottom, Chianti Dan finds a way to take us to brand new lows. Just incredible.
Los Angeles Rams and the UCLA Bruins!!!!!
by Minnesota Bruinfan on Dec 12, 2011 4:28 AM PST reply actions
Players and twitter accounts
Would like to hear what everyone has to say about this. Should players have them? Do they do more harm than good? Just curious.
by 0725brui on Dec 12, 2011 1:12 PM PST via mobile reply actions
There's another side to that story though
How else would we have found out that Markeith Ambles is going to be a Trogan!!!
Dump Dan!
by bruinclassof10 on Dec 12, 2011 1:37 PM PST up reply actions
Yes they should have them
and they should learn how to use it wisely. It’s part of growing up.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
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