UCLA Coaching Hot Stove: NY Times Highlights BruinsNation's All Out Pressure on Chianti Dan

Thanks to all the moderators here. National attention now, let’s get this going!!!!

…but at least they said that an offer wasn’t on the table. That’s a positive, if true, I can get behind…but strike the “yet” part…

Our Athletic Disaster continues to amaze by his level of incompetence and lack of comprehension. He is, and always will be, unprepared.

At this point it would be better to let our OC coach the bowl game and next year, while we see what “good” coaches become available after another lost season.

There are no worthy candidates to consider, unless and NFL team fires a good coach in the next few weeks with solid college ties….

Fucking DG, “no stone unturned”, “extensive search”, “proud to call our own”. This guy is spinning the truth and reality. Who does he think he is fooling? This guy is completely over his head on this job. Fire this guy now! Don’t let him hire the next football coach.

Briles and Mullen are great options! I did vote yes for Tressel in spite of the ignominious ending at OSU. He is a proven winner and I believe in second opportunities. Hopefully it was a lesson learned.

We are seriously awesome, you guys.

I heard DG is targeting Mike Dunleavy and Bruce Pearl.

My family and friends have been long time Bruin fans. We don’t have the insight or inside information that the BN bloggers have. We just plainly love all things UCLA. In my world there is always someone that takes the lead. We don’t wait with our thumbs up our arse and wait for someone to step up.

What is going on with the Football and Basketball teams? Am I missing something or does it seem like there are no leaders on those teams? Those of you who played sports know that on a successful team there is always one or two players that demand accountability and the rest of the team follows. Anyone that is in it for themselves is gone, or on the bench, as dictated by the team consensus.

Now combine the lack of team leaders with inept coaches and executive managers, and we are hopelessy relegated to the irrevelent.

At this time UCLA needs Professional coaches who will stand up to the DGs and Blocks of the world. The HCs need the self assurance that allows the team to discipline itself both during the season and off season.

CRN and Howland call them kids. I don’t buy it. We have 18 year old soldiers fighting overseas for our freedom. Grow up Nelson and Smith or ship out!

And just bombard him with pleas to come coach here. Take the reigns from Dan and do the work ourselves. From that NYT quote up top, it looks like it’s already happening anyway.

A bit random and off topic, but this is from a PAC 12 chat with Ted Miller:

The NCAA sanctions against USC are the greatest injustice in NCAA history and EVERYBODY with a brain agrees. But there’s nothing outside of a lawsuit that USC or anyone else can do now.

First, I am pretty sure that we are going to hire Mora, Jr. Where their is smoke there is fire, and I believe this is gonna happen. After listening to the radio all day, the name that keeps coming up from each and every “supposed” expert is Mora, Jr. DUMBASS DAN has been quiet, and so I am sure that Mora, Jr. is our guy. The hire does not inspire the masses, and it surely does not inspire me. I am like a beaten dog who is just so down on the whole process and those making the decisions that I don’t even give a crap anymore. I am a beaten man. Heck, hire Tressel, Donahue……hell, hire Paul Hackett right now. I am so down on our program and for us not interviewing guys like Mullen and Leach that I am just beaten down. Hopefully you guys will pick me up in the future, but as of now I am close to checking out.

They will hire Mora, and I will try to support him but find it hard. I hope they don’t force Tressel on him. If they want Tressel, which I don’t think is a bad thing (yeah I know that which catch some heat….but so be it) they should just hire him for the head gig or no gig at all.

I am also resigned to the fact that Leach is gonna be a monster at WSU, and that Mullen will get a head job somewhere other than MSU in the future and we will regret the day we did not get one of them. I have touted Leach since day 1, and Mullen has been my choice since Leach was gone. So be it. DUMBASS DAN is an idiot and won’t even look their way.

Good Luck Coach Mora…………you will need it because obviously nothing has changed in our athletic department except for the amount of money they are going to pay a coach. I am a beaten man in regards to all this……..somebody please tell me why I should have hope with DUMBASS DAN in charge?

regarding Tressel. Mora on the other hand…..

apparently the boosters are against Mora and are standing up to Voldemort!

And it’s embarrassing. I don’t go around telling everyone I attended UCLA, but if I simply insinuated I was rooting for UCLA, people respond incredulously. By that I don’t mean the “No way, U$C is better, why aren’t you an $C fan?” kind of way, but rather the, “Why? UCLA hasn’t given you any reason to like them,” kind of way. The sad thing is that when it comes to football in the last decade, it’s true. (I don’t want to discuss basketball right now, football is enough, but you have to admit that things look really bad right now).

I really don’t like UCLA getting national exposure this way or constantly bashing my own university but the incompetence of Guerreror and our athletic “administration” leaves us Bruins with no choice. We have no option but to speak out and take matters into our own hands as much as we can because of the bumbling fools that are driving our athletics programs and school pride into the ground. Hopefully this can all end soon.

As Miles Brand had shielded them until he died and then the so-called investigation did not go deep enough or cover other unsavory and illegal activities under NCAA rules. They got what they deserved but if NCAAwants real reform take away any dollars a team would get from the conference bowl dollars, require thumb prints on SAT or ACT tests, and follow-up on arrests and why no charges were filed or civil cases pursued.

All Hail BruinsNation