For scaring the living daylights out of me.  It's highly probable that 2 conference losses this year will ensure at least a tie for 1st place in the conference.  8-4 could mean conference co-champions no matter how bad the four losses were.  This doesn't mean we're guaranteed the tiebreaker to get the BCS game but even so I don't see any way that DG fires Dorrell even if we don't go to the BCS as long as we tie for the conference championship. You're right all the good teams have yet to play each other except Cal, Oregon and three of the big four already have one loss. I am getting scared.  

But then again I just remembered Dorrell is coaching us. My panic attack just ceased, it's relieving to know you have a coach who can find every possible way to lose a game at a time when you really need to lose some games.  I never thought I'd be so happy to have Dorrell.  It's really reassuring.  

that would be impressive, actually.  KD would not be going anywhere (possibly rightfully) in that scenario.  But, he would also (i think) more than double his CAREER wins against ranked opponents (those that finish the year ranked, not ranked when you play).  

Sleep easy because IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.  

CAL, USC, ASU and OREGON are all simply better, faster, and much better coached.  (and USC isn't coming off a brutal four game stretch like last year, so don't get your hopes up).  The most likely scenario is we lose all four of those games and one of the other two.  That's 5-7.  See you later, loser.  Even if the Bruins win one of the 4 and both of the other two, that's 7-5, and a loss in a pathetic mid-november bowl is 7-6 for the FOURTH YEAR IN FIVE>>>  See you later, loser.

Why anyone thinks we'll beat Cal is beyond understanding.  I don't care what happened when they played anyone else...  this is KD!

... UCLA and Michigan facing each other in the 2008 Rose Bowl.

STILL MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE.

If this cosmic anomaly occurs, then here's hoping the curses of Versus and Big Ten Network combine in a mind-blowing display of "WTF WAS THAT?!?!?!?"

M

...having watched this team play football, do you really feel that there is any chance that UCLA will beat Cal, Oregon, u$c, and ASU?  I doubt that they can even pull off a win in Pullman.

This is what the rational part of my brain is saying.  I never cheer for UCLA to lose, but just being very impartial about things, the best record I see at the end of the season is 6-6.

This is not due to the passion of players, but the incredibly poor preparation that the coaching staff has given them.  The confusion and ineptitude shown by CTS and crew is blatant for all to see.

There are all sorts of hypothetical situations, and sometimes the improbable does come to pass (see UCLA vs u$c in 2006), but the inertia of the past 5 years has finally caught up to CTS, and the team he is fielding is showing for all to see that he just doesn't have the right stuff to be a coach at the major college level.

We are a bad team with a lousy coach.  This has been proven repeatedly on the field.  There's no way we beat Cal, Oregon, ASU or USC.  Arizona will be tough for us, and we can probably beat WSU but who knows.

6-6 tops, 5-7 most likely.  Winning the Pac10 and going to BCS bowl?  Ain't never gonna happen, and yes I know that's a double-negative but I am feeling doubly negative towards KD, who I hope doesn't let the door hit him on the ass on his way out in December.

Fear not, fellow Bruins, the Dorrell era is coming to an end.

KD hasn't even gone on his four game 'season within a season of three seasons' losing skid yet.  And is the Rose Bowl that big an advantage against Cal and SC?  They'll have plenty of fans and are very familiar with the place.  KD will do what KD does... stink up the place.  

KD's survival capability.  It is bigger than any of us.

Losing to the worst team in football is just not okay.  Doing it twice is a couple weeks is reason to have your office empty when you get back to it after you walk home from Utah.

But that battle is impossible to win at UCLA even if we go 9-3 and to an okay bowl.  If we win the Pac 10 forget it... part of the reason I think the focus on removing KD should really be on why UCLA's football expectations are so low.  

10-2 and playing in the Rose Bowl will make 99.9% of the fans ecstatic... even when we lose by 40.  That we should be competing for national championships in football doesn't show up on most people's radar, even most of us here in this looney bin.

Your article concerns me!

You said:

"And let's face it Bruins Nation: if Dorrell wins the Pac 10 and goes to a BCS bowl game, the chances he gets fired are, well, fairly hopeless."

And you start it with: Go Bears?

Question: What is more important, KD loosing his job or UCLA winning the Pac-10 and a BCS birth?

If you are implying that we shouldn't win any more games.. I have a serious problem with that.

Question to you guys:

What would you rather have:

1. Loose a bunch of pathetic games and KD looses his job
   
2. KD wins the PAC-10 by running the table and goes to a BCS bowl and keeps his job?

(The inevitable is that we win a few more and KD is gone but I'm really curious about your response to such a dilemma)

Ugh....when I think about this, I want to barf.

Yes, this is "Possible" but I don't think it is "Probable".

Cal, @Wazzu, @Zona, ASU, Oregon & @USC.  

If I put my Kool Aid glasses on, the best I see is 3-3 and that is being optimistic.  I wouldn't be surprised at all if we lost all 6.  Cal, ASU, Oregon & USC are all better teams even with the injuries and for sure, better coached.  Historically, we have had problems in Pullman and the last time we went to Tucson, we got smoked.  

If I have to root for our opponents in order to get KD out of here, I'm prepared to at this point.  I'll never forgive KD for making me feel this way.  NEVER.  

I am not sure another discussion of the pros and cons of rooting against the Bruins to ensure Dorrell is fired is productive toward achieving this goal.  This is a classic example of situational ethics.  Under what circumstances is it appropriate that I hope my team loses?  I imagine the reason this dilemma keeps appearing in various threads is the pent up frustration over the current state of the program.

For those of you struggling for an answer let me provide a little therapeutic help.  Stop worrying about it, just show you support and cheer for the Bruins.  Wish them to do as well as possible and forget about the consequences on Dorrell's future.  I wanted the Bruins to beat Utah, it didn't happen. I wanted the Bruins to beat Notre Dame, it didn't happen.  Dorrell has a track record that indicates he can not make it through this season without more loses.  That will hopefully seal his fate.  All we can do is keep pointing out his failings, whether they occur in victory or defeat.  After that, as the song goes, "Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be"