Your Eyes
by Nestor on Sep 29, 2007 7:27 PM PDT
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PrintAs we expected Bruins score a comfortable win over a lower tier Pac-10 team led by one of the worst coaches in the Pac-10. Like I pointed out earlier this week UCLA owns Mikey Riley and can beat this clown even if it was being coached by a caveman.
Speaking of the clown, it was another classic Dorrellian game for our Sleeping Beauty.
Earlier in the week the Sleeping Beauty said:
Bruins can thank a joke team from Corvallis that basically gave us a win in one of the most stunning/embarrassing displays of special teams I have ever seen in my two decades of watching college football.
Bruins blow out the Beavers in a ugly display of college football by a score of 40-14. Our D had a decent game but I am not all that impressed given they were playing a Riley coached football team:
Photo Credit: AP Photo/Ryan Gardner (via ESPN)
But as poorly as we looked until the Beavers started to implode (again just GIVING the game away) in fourth quarter, we have to give credit to couple of players.
Ben Olson despite being shackled with a shoddy and undisciplined OL and atrocious play calling, comes through with a gut check performance, teaming up with Brandon Breazell who is emerging as one of the clutch receivers in Bruin history. Good for them.
Anyways again like I said the whole week - we own Oregon State.
Yet your eyes, my eyes, all eyes on Bruins Nation know we saw a UCLA football team winning a game despite playing an ugly, undisciplined, poorly coached football game. So before thinking about the big picture just remember you're your eyes saw tonight. Always trust your eyes instead of the garbage you hear from pundits in the MSM. Trust your eyes.
I will let you take it from here in our post game thread.
GO BRUINS.
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i almost ripped my hair out
I know they say
I have that creepy, Lavin feeling again. Like this kind of frustration and mediocre play could just go on and on and on... ugh.
by Fedup on Sep 29, 2007 7:43 PM PDT reply actions
Compare the UCLA-OSU game
That is INSPIRED
by Fedup on Sep 29, 2007 7:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Is THAT on Amazon???
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OMG!
I am going to steal that.
by bbuclabruins on Sep 29, 2007 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Always always...
I'm gonna wait until our next loss though.
Try to front page that soon...
by bbuclabruins on Sep 29, 2007 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Needs to add a cover blurb...
MIM
The Pain
Lavin rides again....
UDub
by Fedup on Sep 29, 2007 8:21 PM PDT reply actions
Locker...
by McNown to Farmer on Sep 29, 2007 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't worry...
by Fedup on Sep 29, 2007 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Let's Go Huskies!
Sometimes I hate Instant replay
by Fedup on Sep 29, 2007 8:30 PM PDT reply actions
2005, redux
The "smoke and mirror" victories. Games on a silver platter. The "just how the hell did they do that" types of wins.
That was one of the ugliest games I can remember. The sad thing is is that people who didn't watch that game will read the final score 40-14 and be impressed. Without OSU giving the ball away a million times in the 4th qtr, our offense couldn't score on an SUC cheerleader.
Dorrell's Magic Number: 4. That's 8 wins and he probably keeps his job.
Oh well, at Least....
by Fedup on Sep 29, 2007 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Agree....
by Fedup on Sep 29, 2007 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I just watched the Washington game
That just tells me that their talent won the game for them, because there is no way a normal team wins that game. If they play like that against Cal, Oregon, or us, its going to be 13-9 all over again. I think we will see bad $c again this year, but probably only 1 more time.
by joeb @ Bruins Nation on Sep 30, 2007 2:05 AM PDT up reply actions
They were more like non-comments
The Game
I did miss how OSU scored their second touchdown but the "D" did what they should have done to a team that is that "offensively challenged". OSU is a turnover looking for a place to happen
Special teams did pretty well also.
left early in the 4th qrt
There's no way we beat Cal, Oregon or USC. Figure there's at least 1 loss between at WSU, at Arizona and vs ASU, maybe 2.
That's 4-5 more losses in our future. I can't see us doing any better than 7-5 with 6-6 likely.
KD gotta be a goner at 7-5, right?
by RealisticBruinFan on Sep 29, 2007 11:12 PM PDT reply actions
I'm going to stick with my preseason prediction
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Sep 29, 2007 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Oregon St.
It is simply no fun
Dorrell is the Teflon coach. The score of this game is completely deceiving.
The true elephant in the room is that UCLA needs to lose a few games (preferably blowouts) to get Dorrell out of here.
We could easily be ranked next week
To east coast writers, we won 40-14.
Already heard on ESPN:
Nothing about this game implied cruising.
You all make me embarassed
On BruinsNation, all I see is "Bruin fan" after "Bruin fan" critisizing our coaching staff and our players. It doesn't seem to matter to any of you whether we win or lose. Is it more fun to complain about the coach and to pray that we lose than to get behind our team and support the players?
You can't deny it - from this short post-game thread alone I see:
"UCLA needs to lose a few games (preferably blowouts) to get Dorrell out of here" - Barnes2JJ
"There's no way we beat Cal, Oregon or USC" - RealisticBruinFan
"The sad thing is that people who didn't watch the game will read the final score 40-14 and be impressed." -godblesstyus95
As a true Bruin fan, these comments make me sick to my stomach.
How could a real Bruin fan WISH for us to lose games - want to see us blown out?
How can a real Bruin fan have no faith in our team to pull out the win against teams like Cal, Oregon, or SC? Didn't you all see our wins against them in the recent past years?
People SHOULD be impressed by our score of 40-14, whether we scored those points as an even 10 points each quarter or, as it actually happened, that we came alive in the 4th quarter. People SHOULD be impressed by the way our players faught through the entire game, never giving up despite being down, despite the flags.
One of these so-called fans even spouted off that our team played tonight without emotion. Our players are some of the most emotionally driven players I've ever watched. Not only are they emotional and passionate about the game and about earning pride for our school, they are then able to channel that emotion and passion in clean and positive ways. The most inspiring moment in my 4 years at UCLA was this past year when we beat SC. How can you watch our players and say that they ever play without emotion?
Then, of course, there is the Dorrell bashing. If you don't like our coach, that's fine - but please don't pray that our team loses to achieve your vendetta to get him fired.
We don't win every game. We should, and of course we are all disappointed when we lose, but it seems that BruinsNation has become so jaded that even with a win (like tonight) they can't celebrate. They don't smile. They leave at half time to go out to dinner.
Our players are some of the most respectable and well-rounded athletes playing college football. We've won games that no one on BruinsNation ever had faith that we could. Hearing the players speak about the team and about the games is inspiring.
Perhaps the most inspiring thing is that, even with all of the negativity of BruinsNation, they are able to keep their heads high and stay positive. I pray that the website does not accurately represent the real base of Bruins fans that I have faith exist. It's just too bad that these negative Nancies have taken over a domain name posing as fans.
by Chellabelly on Sep 30, 2007 1:43 AM PDT reply actions
You embarrass yourself
I also found this particularly hilarious:
It is the bar lowering KD fans (read: NOT UCLA fans) who believe that we cannot win games. The lowering of the bar implies a lack of faith in the team and in the abilities of the coach. If you'll recall, the shining jewel in KD's crown (13-9) was predicted most loudly by Nestor on this very site, while the Dorrelistas like yourself were busy with your contingency plans and excuse weaving. If people believe that we cannot beat Cal, Oregon, or SUC, it is because they don't think that those teams will gift wrap redzone opportunities for us. They don't think that those teams will allow us to even be in the game having scored a pathetic 12 points through 3+ quarters.
Why SHOULD people be impressed by a team that continues to commit stupid penalties and by a coach (and I use that term loosely) who requires his opponent to commit an atrocious amount of unforced turnovers to finally achieve a "blowout"? The answer is: They Should NOT.
So-called fans like Chellabellyacher here are an embarrassment to the real UCLA fans out there who aren't enablers of mediocrity. So Chellabellyacher, take your self righteous bullshit back to the Romper Room where you can talk about how everything is peaches and cream (until Cal comes to town and the roof caves in and you're not heard from again). In fact, let me call you a "cab"...
It's here now:
Pray all you want
What I said is true--it will take a couple more losses (preferably blowouts) to get the Clown Price of College Football out of here. Whether this is "rooting" for us to lose, or just stating a plain fact, does not matter. My statements and thoughts have no impact on the game.
I guess you have crowned yourself the arbiter of who is a UCLA fan and who is not. I hope that smug attitude makes you feel warm inside. Frankly, I don't give a crap if you don't consider me a "fan." In my own mind, on my diploma, and as I sit in my season seats at the Rose Bowl, I am more than satisfied with my credentials as a "fan."
Let's face it: Some of us have higher expectations for our team than you do. Some people are satisfied with mediocrity. I am not.
I am also thrilled to know that you have your finger on the pulse of our team's emotions. Did you read the reports that our team was sullen and unemotional from Play One of the Utah debacle? From my vantage point, I saw no emotion by UCLA whatsoever until well into the fourth quarter yesterday. This includes Dorrell, who argued one penalty call, but who otherwise appeared to have taken a heavy dose of Valium.
Please take your low expectations for this team and go away. If you are going to deliberately distort what people say, you really shouldn't be spraying Kool-Aid through your nose here.
Your only excuse you have is
Stop your celebratory dancing over this pathetic win and all the other pathetic wins this season, go get yourself some Lasik surgery to cure your myopia and see the big picture. This is a sorrowful-looking football team run by a group of inept morons calling themelves coaches. Do you actually see this program heading toward a BCS championship any time before the next ice age?
Or, are you just peachy fine and dandy with wins over doormat teams? On second thought, do you even know where the BCS championship game is played in January? Probably not, because you know we're not going anyway. And I'm sure KD has not made advanced flight/hotel reservation to go there either.
Those of us who have much higher standards for UCLA want this joke of a coach out of here ASAP to have a REAL football program, to compete with LSU, SC, Cal (yes, Cal, who has zoomed past us in stature under the leadership of a real genuine coach). What do YOU want? Merely to be able to celebrate these absolutely meaningless wins over absolutely horrid teams?
Seriously, what do you want for UCLA and how do you see achieving it?
Classic Dorrell Cultist Post
We have never left nor have we EVER wavered in our desire to want the best for UCLA football (not the best for Karl Dorrell, like your kind want). You waver in your public support for Karl Dorrell. We have said that if Karl Dorrell wins the conference he should keep his job, because after all that is what he was hired to do, and that is what he is paid $1 million per year to do. You want Karl Dorrell to stay regardless of what happens. Who is the real UCLA fan????
5 years a guy gets paid to do a job, paid $1 million per year, and he doesn't do it ... and you want to SAVE him from those of us who basically just want him to do his job. We are the bad guys??? You are the problem. You are the disgrace. When Dorrell is finally gone you will disappear too, just like the Lavin cultists ... never again to be seen. A real coach will force you to go into the closet forever right next to the Lavin cultists. And just like the Lavin cultists you will never admit that YOU were part of the problem ... not even when it's so plainly obvious with how Ben Howland has our basketball program going.
You are the reason why UCLA football is an afterthought and will never again become a force. Until people like you are silenced with the firing of Dorrell and the hiring of a real coach, you actually are the problem.
We're Anti-Bruin?
Kevin Brown: "You can't win every game."
How inspirational.
by SuperBruinMan on Sep 30, 2007 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Chellabelly
by joeb @ Bruins Nation on Sep 30, 2007 2:10 AM PDT reply actions
Chellabelly -- you are not alone
Why don't we talk some UCLA football?
Most of us feeling that UCLA football has suffered enough under the inept "leadership" of KD, and we want him gone. We do not feel he is capable of taking us to the elite level.
What do you want for UCLA football?
where were you after Utah
You stay away
Please leave your son out of this. This is not about him. I have two cute cats myself and they have as much to do with our pathetic coaching as your son. Nothing.
The very simple point which the Dorrellista Brigade does not understand, and refuses to believe, is that it is BECAUSE we love UCLA football so much that we want Dorrell out of there so that the team has the opportunity to reach the highest goals possible. Those goals will never be reached with our sorry coaching staff. Get these loser coaches out of the way and maybe, just maybe, we can really let our guys taste the thrill of being a National Champion or at least a contender for the NC.
Do you guys get it now? We want the best for our team and want to remove those barriers which prevent our guys from performing to their fullest.
Does that sound like a bunch of "haters" or "non-fans" to you?
We are the ones who want to give them that opportunity. The Dorrellistas don't mind seeing them stuck in mediocrity, losing more often than they should, and suffering humiliating defeats.
So who really wants the best for the team after all?
Not alone on the WHAAMBULANCE
It should be clear by now that what is not welcome here are whiny touchy feely posts which have nothing to do with football or KD's capabilities as a football coach. If you are incapable of objectively assessing KD because your son is on the team, that's your problem. I guess you don't want your son to be on a successful football team. That's a shame.
I never miss a minute at the Rose Bowl and...
by meow meow on Sep 30, 2007 8:40 AM PDT reply actions
Who Loves Your Son More -- Us or KD?
No one here forgets they are on the bench, burns their red shirt seasons, fails to make sure their admission paperwork is properly completed, moves them from position to position without reason, or forces them into offensive and defensive schemes that highlight his limited vision rather than their talents.
Can you say the same thing about KD?
Has he blamed your son for a loss yet, forgotten he is on the team, had him play out of position?
No one here is anti Bruin -- to the contrary we are deeply commited to UCLA, our teams, our players and the coaches who bring out the best in them.
And, more importantly
Has your son's career been endangered or shortened because of a callous coaching decision?
Don't tell us we don't care.
Is your son Ossar Rashaan or Christian Ramirez -- extremely talented recruits who can't seem to get on the field? Dominique Johnson whose redshirt season was blown because of stupid coaching? Brian Price who lost a big chunk of the fall practice and this season"?
Does your son feel we played up to our potential for 5/6ths of the OSU game?
Does he feel our coaches put us in a position to win it?
Or, does he recognize that the total meltdown of the OSU special teams gave us the win -- that we won in spite of our "offensive" scheme.
Don't tell us we don't care about UCLA. Most of us went to school here. We bleed Blue and Gold.
This is a community that has one simple goal, a football program that plays to the standard of excellence set by this great university and achieved by most of its athletic teams.
We won't settle for mediocrity -- for ourselves or for your son. We deserve more. So does he.
by Class of 66 on Sep 30, 2007 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
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