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Dear Chancellor Block: Please Make It - Dan Guerrero's "Blogging" Embarrassments - Stop

Dear Chancellor Block: Make it Stop

We are sure many here were holding their breath to read the latest "blog" from Dan - "what's wrong with Spaulding" - Guerrero. The staff at UCLA athletics continues to pump out the lame newsletters on a weekly basis, which only keeps adding the embarrassment that has become Chianti Dan. Take the latest "word from Westwood" example in which Dan "blogs" about Ben Howland's dumpster fire program:

With just six regular season games remaining on the schedule and tight Pac-12 standings at this point, the men's basketball game against USC tomorrow night at the LA Sports Arena will mean much more than just a battle for city supremacy. Our Bruins are jostling for the best-possible seed in the Pac-12 Tournament and need much of the same boisterous support you have shown them in recent weeks as they look to defend their home court, especially in such close proximity to our rival's territory. I look forward to seeing you at the Sports Arena with your blue and gold on tomorrow night.

Then, the very next morning, Ben Howland and his charges will head to New York for their matchup against St. John's on Saturday. A cross-country trip followed by an early tipoff (10 am PT on CBS) will be a challenge, but playing in as iconic a venue as Madison Square Garden presents a unique opportunity for our Bruins to shine on the national stage.

You feel the excitement everyone?! Guerrero is fired up for the Bruins to position themselves to finish in fourth place in arguably the worst Pac-10 conference in last 30+ years.

I have no idea what he means by "Ben Howland and his charges": [Screenshotted here in addition to being excerpted above]:

Bruinchargers
What does he mean by charges? People Howland is in "charge" of? Did he mean to write about Howland and his minions? More on Dan's "blogging" after the jump.

Star-divide

The question Dan handpicked this "blog" was also hilarious:

Q: Dan, after hearing all about the great football recruiting class, I'm really excited to see Jim Mora and his team on the field, when will Spring Practice begin? Is there a date yet for the Spring Game? Where will it be played?

Wow, wait to step up and answer the tough ones Dan. Note there was no follow-up from last week's "blog" during which Guerrero specifically admitted that under him the football program became totally irrelevant and also offered up pathetic reasons for shamelessly overcharging Bruin fans for big home games next season. Somehow Guerrero couldn't find a way to explain those issues or have the courage to add "comment" section in his blog so that he and his staff could directly answer those concerns.

Dan is going to be in NYC this weekend. If there are BN readers who will actually spend time to interact with him any alumni events, you ought to ask him why hasn't he shut down this joke "blog"? Ask the traveling UCLA officials why anyone at Morgan Center has not told him to stop sending out this tonedeaf missives that are only making things worse.

Since Dan will be coming from the game against the Trojans, may also want to ask since he spent the entire preseason touting the buses to the Sports Arena, if he was cool and engaged enough to ride with the fan on one of those buses. I guess you just can't beat the level of engagement he gets from his weekly "blog" questions.

GO BRUINS.

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Why does strap on need to interact with the fans?

Isn’t that what his blog is for? I mean it’s not as if strap is accountable to the fans for anything? Right?

by jwher on Feb 15, 2012 12:52 PM PST reply actions  

Nice handpicked question, Dan

I saw a similar question on Kim Jong Un’s blog:

Dear Leader: could you be any more awesome?

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Feb 15, 2012 12:56 PM PST reply actions  

I really hope

Someone asks him about “Ben Howland and his charges.”

WTH does this mean?!

by Nestor on Feb 15, 2012 1:47 PM PST up reply actions  

per dictionary.com

it can mean “an impetuous onset or attack, as of soldiers”. It still wouldn’t mean his players.

He probably meant cohorts. Then again he’s a dumb ass.

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Feb 15, 2012 1:55 PM PST up reply actions  

Don't give him even that much credit

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Feb 15, 2012 2:06 PM PST up reply actions  

Good point

Seriously though – these guys can’t afford a copy editor? I mean it’s one thing to run a volunteer blog, where folks are posting for fun. But to peddle something as an official “blog” and then not bothering to do copyedits? This is from a department that reportedly had a budget around $70 million.

by Nestor on Feb 15, 2012 2:09 PM PST up reply actions  

For $700K

I wouldn’t make a jackass of myself week in and week out. Then again, I wouldnn’t strap it on either.

Dump Dan!

by bruinclassof10 on Feb 15, 2012 2:12 PM PST up reply actions  

Charges ...

n. “That or those entrusted to ones care or management” in this case, his Basketball players (or the UCLA Basketball program). It is a slightly obscure meaning, but perfectly valid.

by snorkeldorf on Feb 15, 2012 4:19 PM PST up reply actions  

still can't find that definition

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Feb 15, 2012 4:37 PM PST up reply actions  

On Dictionary.com

Hit the “+ Expand” button under definition #30. It expands into several more definitions – #32-34 apply. Like I said, it’s a somewhat obscure reference, but not invalid. Even in my old hard-copy vintage 1960 Websters Collegiate, it’s about the 30th definition.

by snorkeldorf on Feb 15, 2012 4:49 PM PST up reply actions  

I've heard it as well.

My thought when reading it was not ‘wtf does that mean?’ but ‘wtf would he use such an uncommon and stupid-sounding phrase?’

Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.

by KSBruin on Feb 15, 2012 6:45 PM PST up reply actions  

Correct

It’s a real expression, circa 1840.

greg in denver, U.C.L.A. guy for life - BruinsNation.com

by gbruin on Feb 15, 2012 8:03 PM PST up reply actions  

lol

greg in denver, U.C.L.A. guy for life - BruinsNation.com

by gbruin on Feb 15, 2012 8:04 PM PST up reply actions  

The danger in getting rid of Guerrero

is, once again, fear of his successor. Do we trust the powers that be to hire the right AD for UCLA? Clearly it does not seem as though anyone over there has a clue about what is going on in the world of college athletics, so that part of it worries me as well.

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Feb 15, 2012 1:34 PM PST reply actions  

You are correct

I have no confidence in Block either

Dump Dan!

by bruinclassof10 on Feb 15, 2012 2:02 PM PST up reply actions  

Kiki is available

I think he has got to be a top candidate.

by silverlakebruin on Feb 15, 2012 3:20 PM PST up reply actions  

We can identify the candidates

but getting them to be considered / hired is the challenge…

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Feb 15, 2012 3:26 PM PST up reply actions  

This is why a committee of...

Troy Aikman, Randy Cross, Bill Walton, Casey Wasserman, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Valerie Kondos, Eric Byrnes, Kiki Vandeweghe, Lisa Fernandez, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Al Scates, Fox71, and Class of 66 should conduct the search and hiring. Block’s job is then to just say yes. Anyone else from the current admin would best stay away.

greg in denver, U.C.L.A. guy for life - BruinsNation.com

by gbruin on Feb 15, 2012 8:09 PM PST up reply actions  

Establish a committee

I am sure that you could get a blue ribbon panel together to seek out, re4view, interview and recommend a QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED, and INTELLIGENT person that UCLA can be proud of-not some unfit baseball player.

by john4justice on Feb 15, 2012 2:28 PM PST reply actions  

Committees are terrible

The best such decisions are made quickly and decisively by one person. Introducing more people just introduces more opinions and gridlock. Sadly, we do not have that one person with the right vision to make that decision.

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Feb 15, 2012 2:37 PM PST up reply actions  

Re; " ... introducing more people just introduces more opinions and gridlock. "

Too many cooks spoil the broth !

Look what happen with that god damn Super Committee in United States Congress late last year. What they did, or trying to so something that was actually nothing literally got everyone fuming.

I can just see how it would transpire with what we need at Westwood too.

by Htse005 on Feb 15, 2012 3:07 PM PST reply actions  

Each person in that committee had his/her own agenda

We can easily find a panel of accomplished and qualified Bruins who have a singular goal.

greg in denver, U.C.L.A. guy for life - BruinsNation.com

by gbruin on Feb 15, 2012 8:11 PM PST up reply actions  

"Defend their home court .... "

Fucking pathetic, Strap On, fucking pathetic.

Do you really think you gave this team any sort of home court this year? A dump adjoining sc’s campus is not , in any way, a home court.

Their were much better alternatives but you are such a loser that you didn’t have a plan and defaulted, as you do with most of your decisions, to the lowest wormy fruit on the tree.

Please, Strap On, stfu. You are embarassng us.

sjh

by Class of 66 on Feb 15, 2012 6:29 PM PST reply actions  

+1

Now that’s what I’m talking about!!

by WestlakeVillage Bruin on Feb 16, 2012 7:07 AM PST up reply actions  

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