Simers Clowns Dorrell

by bluestreet on Oct 18, 2006 2:15 PM PDT Comment 5 comments

TJ lets it lose on Karl on this ND game being just another football game:

I worry, though, this trip will be no different for UCLA than the last one, especially knowing now that Dorrell has never been to Notre Dame for a game.

"It's just another football game and a 100-yard field," he said the other day, but wait until he looks up, wonders what just hit him and finds himself staring into the eyes of Touchdown Jesus.

If we were getting along better these days, I'd take him to the pep rally Friday night, although he'd probably stick out -- the only guy in the building who doesn't look excited. Yet, I wish he could feel what's coming.

"We're going to approach this just like another Pac-10 game," Dorrell said, and that ought to really fire up the Bruins, who have already lost to Pac-10 teams Oregon and Washington. Do you think playing a game at Stanford or Arizona is like playing a game at Notre Dame?

and KD being some kind "offensive expert": I WORRY the Irish might demolish the Bruins, at a time when we should be talking about the possibility of Dorrell's scoring a huge win for the program and his own resume.

You see, I really like Dorrell, although he said this week he finds that hard to believe. But I really do. He has worked hard to do a job that was too much for him when hired, and while he's still in over his head at times -- check out the Oregon game -- he has some grand plans.

Instead of grand plans, though, I'd feel a lot better if he was going to Notre Dame with a game plan that called for him calling all the offensive shots.

Dorrell came to UCLA as an offensive expert, and yet when questioned about the team's inept offense, he has reminded everyone he does not call the plays.

Earlier this season he thought the team should be throwing the ball more, but it appeared to be news to his assistants. In the first quarter against Oregon -- UCLA down, 13-0 -- the Bruins ran the ball on third and three, lost yardage and settled for a field goal. Dorrell said it wasn't a call he would've made, noting the critical situation and how important it was to score a touchdown.

"Don't you have a button on your headset that allows you to take control?"

"If I did that," he said, "I'd be doing it all the time."

Amen, as they used to say back at the seminary, it's time for Dorrell to control his own destiny, all right, and what better time to do it than just another football game at ND?

Here is the whole article.

Again it is easy to get upset about TJ's snark. But he is just satirizing a hapless, incompetent, cowardly head coach.

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He is saying a lot of what we all have been saying

I think the fact that Dorrell doesn't think T.J. Simers likes him is the essence of the problem with him as head coach. He doesn't have that killer instinct, toughness to him. Who cares if T.J. Simers likes you. And Dorrell does need to take over at times; take over the whole game for goodness sakes. Fire these guys up. The fact that one of the posters a few days ago, who was at the Oregon game, said that there was no emotion visably on the sidelines is ridiculous. Sack up or get out of there.

by bruin95 on Oct 18, 2006 2:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

unfriggin real

why are we giving this guy a paycheck even??

I truly hope for a great season, but if we dont have one we must dumpdorrell.com

by DumpDorrell on Oct 18, 2006 2:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

simers finally writes the article i expected

it wasn't like him to back off dorrell yesterday.

who are those 9 percent who strongly approve of the job KD's doing? trojan fans? dan guerrero voting over and over again in an attempt to discredit the sane people on this site? more so, who are the ones who aren't sure about the job he is doing? how have you not formed an opinion yet on karl dorrell? everything about him is almost indescribable. you have to see it to believe it.

during the press conference when dorrell tried to describe cowan's unusual injury, he laughed. it seems to me that due to the oddity of the injury, dorrell tried to come across as personable by pretending to be as confused in talking about it as he thought we would be when hearing it. therefore he laughed at the situation when describing it. that's all fine if you're okay with your head coach fabricating public emotions in order manipulate us into the makeup of his personality, but his laugh was this weird, two-minute, laugh that would abruptly stop and start up again. the laugh of a man who looked like he has never laughed before. he looked so unsure of himself; it looked like he wasn't sure whether he should laugh at all. his decision to laugh was like a microcosm of his gameday decisions. his whole personality oozes unsure loser.

all that i got out of it was further confirmation that dullard has no personality, and the sense of humor he sometimes pretends to have to quiet criticism of his lifeless behavior, is nonexistent. i mean he pretends he has a sense of humor at the worst possible time (cowan's injury) and that entire part of the inteview was uncomfortable to even watch. was i the only one who thought his, "i'm trying to show i'm a down-to-earth, funny guy laugh," when describing the injury was weird? it looked like dorrell has never laughed in his life. it looked like he was in over his head in trying relate to us by laughing. it looked like he couldn't make up his mind on whether to laugh at the situation when describing it or not. it went on for two minutes, stopping and starting up again for no apparent reason. how can players relate to this guy? how can anyone relate to this guy? who would follow this guy into battle?

by babyblue98 on Oct 18, 2006 5:23 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The laugh....

reminded me of George W. Bush. It seemed out of place, like there was more to the story.

GWB does this all the time. Last week during a press conference at the White House, Bush was supposed to address North Korea's nuclear testing but somehow he went off on a tangent about who had the best suit in the press corps.

by alcor805 on Oct 18, 2006 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He doesn't call the plays?

"Dorrell came to UCLA as an offensive expert, and yet when questioned about the team's inept offense, he has reminded everyone he does not call the plays."

He answers questions about our offense by saying that he doesn't call the plays. Then what do you do, coach? If he isn't calling the plays, then what exactly is he doing on the sidelines? Cheerleading? When exactly is he the coach? In practice? Before and after games? Does he have any responsibility for our team's performance at all? What purpose does Dorrell serve?

by Bruin Roar on Oct 18, 2006 11:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs