Rumor (Updated): UCLA Contacted Mariucci Before Southern Cal Game

by Nestor on Dec 5, 2006 4:38 PM PST

UPDATED: DG denies Wolfie's report via Dohn:

UCLA is ticked off about an entry on the Daily News blog about the school contacting Steve Mariucci prior to the Bruins win against USC. Bruins athletic director Dan Guerrero issued this statement: "I categorically deny the inaccurate report on the Daily News USC blog.'' Again I wouldn't get too caught up w/ this back and forth. As I mentioned if we blow the game against FSU, KD will be in trouble again. Still entertaining to see Dohn letting DH busting his colleague's DN blog on his own. -N

Keep in mind this is coming from Southern Cal, a Southern Cal alum, who is pretty much your standard Trojan bootlicker you can find in LA's traditional media. From his blog on Daily News: UCLA Fallout

If USC defeated UCLA on Saturday, the Bruins already made contact with former San Francisco 49ers coach Steve Mariucci regarding the head-coaching position. But the 13-9 upset rendered such discussions irrelevant. It's interesting. I am weary given the source of this rumor is Scott Wolf.

However, I do believe the notion that Dorrell was going to come back no matter what happened in the Southern Cal game was just absurd and baseless without any express word of confidence from DG on Karl Dorrell.

I will go one step further and say if UCLA blows the game against Florida State, Dorrell's seat is going to get extremely warm ... again. Dorrell still needs to follow up on Saturday's magic and blow out a weak Florida State team in the Emerald Bowl.

Back to enjoying the euphoria from Saturday.

GO BRUINS.

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If this did happen

Then it should dispell the idea that UCLA is not willing to pay for a coach with a recognizable name.

At the very least, we should be more comfortable knowing that fact.

by BruinFan1 on Dec 5, 2006 4:57 PM PST 0 recs

You all know what SHOULD be done.

Karl has done some good for our program. Karl ended the streak. He brought in some good kids. But he will not help us win a national title. I'm not sure if he can even win a Pac 10 title. This is as good as it is going to get with Dorrell leading this program.

If our goal is to really be competitive national title contenders in all sports, and this story is indeed true, then Mariucci should still be offered the head coaching job at UCLA. Keep Dewayne Walker as the defensive coordinator and let Mariucci control the offense.

We will probably get some negative press for the move and some of our own will definitely question it, but we all know we can do better than this. Do we really want to be elite in this sport or are we just happy to beat sc after seven straight losses? I know I want more. How about Dan Guerrero? Does he want more?

by Bruin Roar on Dec 5, 2006 5:32 PM PST 0 recs

Sadly,

Nope. I don't think anyone else does. For them, this season was great because we beat SC. And next year we probably will have a fairly good team that will win 9 games or so and probably a Holiday Bowl, and that will be enough to keep Dorrell as well. It's going to be like Terry Donahue all over again. This was the year that Dorrell could have possibly been fired and with that win over USC, he saved his job. That win on Saturday was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, but we could really put an exclamation point on this season by firing Dorrell, which I'm almost positive will not happen.

by BruinFanatic1988 on Dec 5, 2006 5:40 PM PST 0 recs

excellent point

so true. if this has an ounce of truth to it, it is very comforting for the reason you state. money is there! unfortunately the source is suspect. I will say this .. if anyone heard DG immediately after the game being interviewed on the radio, he did not seem all that happy. I reported this somewhere, I think on our site. Dont want to make a big deal of it at all. Just another data point.

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

by DumpDorrell on Dec 5, 2006 6:49 PM PST 0 recs

this was in reply to bruinfan1

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

by DumpDorrell on Dec 5, 2006 6:49 PM PST up 0 recs

I think it was the Adande article

check the DG quotes in that article. Pretty interesting stuff.

by Nestor on Dec 5, 2006 6:54 PM PST up 0 recs

Hey DumpDorrell

Do you know where (or if at all) I can hear Dan Guerrero's post game interview that you are talking about?

by BruinFan1 on Dec 5, 2006 6:54 PM PST 0 recs

AM 570

it must have been AM 570. If we can hear immediate, or near immediate, post game interviews it would be from AM 570. Seriously, I am not making this up, he sounds almost cold and uninterested. We were outrageously happy and DG was cold. It was off. If anyone can find the audio we need to get it.

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

by DumpDorrell on Dec 5, 2006 7:17 PM PST up 0 recs

listening to it now

he does sound rather calm, considering it was within a cuple minutes of the end of the game. Don't know how much we can really read into this.

Downloaded from bruingold, I believe. I can try emailing you the mp3 file if you wish.

by bruinhoo on Dec 5, 2006 8:56 PM PST up 0 recs

please do

email it to dumpdorrell at gmail.

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

by DumpDorrell on Dec 5, 2006 9:26 PM PST up 0 recs

sent

by bruinhoo on Dec 5, 2006 9:56 PM PST up 0 recs

just listened to it

thanks for getting that. It was the interview I heard as we drove home home from the bar we were watching the game at. It's hard to take anything from that interview. We were so pumped at the time that DG sounded just uninterested. He certainly isn't as pumped as everyone else, and Im sure anyone else who hears it and remembers the state of euphoria they were in at the time, but you just cant draw any conclusions. Still, he seemed to be spouting lines from a script. I will say this, its doesn't entirely jive, for whatever thats worth. But Im not going to push it.

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

by DumpDorrell on Dec 5, 2006 10:24 PM PST up 0 recs

Dohn says

Dohn says:

December 05, 2006
Guerrero statement

by ranelar on Dec 5, 2006 7:41 PM PST 0 recs

I love

that Dohn and Wolf can't play nice. I know this isn't the story, but its kinda fun in a subtle way that these guys don't seem to like/respect one another. (Standing with "Team Dohn" t-shirt)

by Menelaus on Dec 5, 2006 7:45 PM PST up 0 recs