Typhoid Terry Is Whining About Blogs
Typhoid Terry is whining about the interwebs:
"With the Internet, blogs, chat rooms, talk radio, all that stuff, as a coach you are just going to get it if you're not near perfect," Donahue said. "When I was coaching, the world wasn't as complicated. Now, anybody could put up a website and there you go. Coaches are certainly susceptible to being hammered." […]
Donahue left Dorrell a message on his cellphone Saturday after UCLA defeated California at the Rose Bowl, 30-21.
That was a good one for the Bruins, but there have been a couple of clinkers too. As for UCLA's loss to Notre Dame, Donahue said that's easy to explain.
"When you're down to your third quarterback, not many teams are going to look good," he said.
By the way, Dorrell is 3-2 against Cal. Donahue was 15-5 against Cal and won 14 straight from 1976 to 1989.
As a UCLA football fan who also happens to be a huge Niner fan I always thought of Donahue as a big joke. Donahue played a huge part in the total destruction of my Niners.
But I always thought he was a mediocre football coach at best in Westwood who never got the best out of blue chip talents the UCLA football program stockpiled during the 80s. He was able to stick around Westwood for so long back in the 80s and 90s, because back then we Bruin fans did not have avenues to express the latent frustrations we were experiencing from constant chokes and let downs of the Donahue coached football teams.
Sure we had multiple Rose Bowl wins in the early 80s. However, under his watch the football program slummed away in the gutter of mediocrity following the departure of Aikman, and never came out of it until Number 18 and Toledo showed us the true potential of UCLA football in the late 90s.
Sure Donahue took the Bruins to the Rose Bowl in 94, and ended with a 5 game winning streaking against SCumbags from cross town, people still seem to forget he was responsible for the incredible letdown of hugely favored Bruin football team experience against the Badgers at our home turn back in 94. Not only that, Donahue was an insecure head coach who was never confident in his abilities. So much so he did not have the balls to promote Neuhisel from wide-receivers coach to OC, when Homer Smith left the OC position for the second time in 1994, right after the Rose Bowl. Instead of promoting Neuhisel, Donahue decided to hire Bob Toledo, a loser OC from R.C. Slocum's Texas A&M program, who was never going to be a threat to TD, unlike Neuhisel.
Anyways, I said I was not going to write a long post about this. I don’t need to rehash Dorrell’s record to show how Donahue sounds like a total clown.
It’s not surprising to me that he can make such ignorant comments making Dorrell look like some kind of "victim" (who is getting paid almost a million dollars year as one of the worst coaches in college football). He has no idea about accountability. He never had to face the expectations of alums and students during the pre internet era in Westwood, as a result of which he never was held accountable for all those underachieving years in Westwood. His ways didn’t work in San Francisco, after he effectively drove one of the gold franchises in the NFL off the cliff. Niner fans despised Donhue so much that he was chased out of the Bay Area with the title of "Typhoid Terry."
And now here he is desperately trying to save his legacy by speaking up on behalf f his protégée, who has turned out to be a bumbling, stumbling less than mediocre clown, whose pathetic record makes an average coach like him (a poor man’s version of Lloyd Carr) look good.
Thank God for the internets. It’s obvious our voices are being heard and these clowns are now whining about the prospect of being held accountable. It's the idea of accountability that is making the world of losers like Donahue "complicated."
GO BRUINS.
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I think he meant to say
Why did you have to destroy my beloved 49ers, you jackass??
I'm a Bruins-49er as well
As GM, ugh, what a disatster...I totally agree that he killed the niners.
by RealisticBruinFan on Oct 25, 2007 9:16 AM PDT reply actions
Yeah, Donahue was way too conservative, and I
Except for ending his career with starting the win streak against the Toejams, his last few seasons were not as remarkble as they could have been.
Adn at this point, CTS makes Donahue look like a coaching genius.
Me 3
There's always been a long, proud line running up I-5 from Westwood to SF -- just as there's also been a long, nasty connection between South Central and Oakland -- both organizations have the same leadership, rep and ownership.
That goes to show you, you can teach anything in a classroom except class.
by theREAL_LOGAN5 on Oct 25, 2007 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
TD thinks as long as you play it safe
by silverlakebruin on Oct 25, 2007 9:44 AM PDT reply actions
Exactly!
The Homer Smith years
Except for a highlight here and there by virtue of the athletic talent of a player, KD football is basically unwatchable.
And KD's post-game demeanor is plain disgusting. After horrific losses: "I sleep well"..."It is what it is." After ugly wins: "I answered the bell"
Homer Smith
I always thought Donahue was a loser. I still remember how in 1992 with something like a min left and UCLA way behind (against Arizona) Donahue decided to kick FG to keep a record scoring streak alive. And then the following week we got shut out.
Donahue was a loser/perennial underachiever. And just like KD he never took responsibility for his shortcomings.
TD was always content to make a run at the PAC-10
Also, again IIRC in the eighties, the Bruins, ranked #2 and playing a difficult game at Arizona, had just learned at half time that #1 Alabama had just been upset.
With the Bruins poised to be #1, As the story goes, Donahue told the team before starting the 2nd Half something like "Don't go out there and lose", which is exactly what the Bruins did.
That evidently was Donahue's typical pep talk to motivate his teams. How inspirational!
Not much different than
"If you forget what the hell you are doing out there, just look at your pretty rubber bracelets!"
Somebody wake me when we get a real coach.
Abolutely , I hope you're emulating CTS and
Only one thing to add to these comments
Bruinhawk hit the nail on the head. TD wants CTS to stay, because only CTS could make TD look good.
It could be the fires
That's not to say that bad practices are something we haven't seen before.
Nevermind
"We really took our time through practice," said coach Karl Dorrell, noting that the team "took a lot more water breaks, because the air quality is not really good right now."
Good to hear it. The air is really nasty out here. Here's some perspective - I live in Hermosa Beach, maybe 3/4 of a mile from the beach. I can see the ocean from my apartment. I haven't been able to see it for 3 days. There's just this nasty brown, grayish haze over everything.
"When your down to your third quarterback
Good point TD. This is especially true if you decide not to run the ball against one of the worst run defenses in the country, and instead think it is smarter to let a guy who has never thrown a pass in a game try to carry the team.
by silverlakebruin on Oct 25, 2007 2:14 PM PDT reply actions
Boggles
Perhaps TD forgot about 1993
well, almost remembered
'92 was a pair of three game win-streaks sandwiching a 5 game losing streak - all of which was made possible by losing Wayne-o Cook to a knee inj in game 3, and trying to use Jim Bonds at QB - perhaps the only modern UCLA QB slower out of the pocket than BO)
I think that game was a case of TD trying to
Had it been up to TD those calls would have been runs and we probably would have lost by two TDs to 'SC.
And, unlike MBT starting against ND, Barnes was a senior and had had prior experience to temper his start against USC. In an earler game in '93 he threw a key interception and TD was quick to pull him and not use him for servaral games after that.
TD usually loathed gambling in a game and didn't want his team exposed to a QB who made bad decisions, and thus reflect on his coaching.
With CTS, he wouldn't hesitate to use an ill-prepared and inexperienced freshman QB (while ignoring a player who already has been a QB in the system for two years), allow him to be used in ill-advised play calling, and then throw him under the bus when the inevitable bad things happen, so as not to reflect on HIS coaching.
As a Mets fan...
HOWEVER. The fact of the matter is that if Dorrell's teams came in prepared, played tough, smart football, played most games like they did against USC, Dorrell's job would be safe and UCLA would in all likelihood be in the top 5 BCS right now. There is no reason why this team should not be 6-0 right now.
After the USC game people really did give Dorrell his props, even on hostile blogs like this one, and many of us may have thought it was a turning point. There weren't really many people calling for his head after that game. Then they played Florida State.
The point is, if Dorrell was doing his job, people wouldn't be calling for his departure.
TD and the scoring streak
Accountability
There would be no organized heat on KD IF the dissemination of ideas was controlled by the MSM.
We have exposed that cozy relationship and forced people like Dohn to show who they really are and where their thumbs are on the scale.
Some will say it is bad or unfair to put this extra pressure on a coach. Their argument is that anyone with a computer can claim instant "expertise" or "inside information" and fire away.
The answer to that is twofold. First, being paid by the MSM is not necessarily a guaranty of expertise; all reporters can take a press release and spout the party line or refuse to ask hard questions because they fear being pulled away from athletic department trough that feeds them. And, second, I think there is more rigorous debate and questoining on the good blogs -- the sifting and winnowing that leads to the truth -- than their is in the MSM; blog posters face more heat, challenge and questioning than faced by the MSM reporters
In the end, it depends on the blog. I don't visit many others. On the occcaisions where I've gone to some of the UCLA places, I've not seen the kind of fact based reporting or careful editorial work I see here. In that sense, they are more like the MSM than they will admit being.
But, TD, if we are making the UCLA sports world more accountable -- that's good, not bad.
sjh
PS. The truth is that we are not always in this "investigative", editorial hard driving mode. Things are really different here when FB season is over and BB season starts. Give us a BH in football, and this will be a great place -- full of positive posts the use of statistics and analysis to argue why we should be ranked No. 1 and worshipped.
"Run, Run, Pass" From TD to KD...
Thanks, guys.
by class1984 on Oct 25, 2007 4:10 PM PDT reply actions
KD must have learned from TD to love
It was even worse...
The few times TD ran a sweep, he inevitably went to the short side of the field.
I don't know where to put this
Greg Vanney, a former Bruin now playing for DC United of MLS opened up the MLS Cup Playoffs tonight on ESPN2 and to introduce the starting lineup, each player said their name and where they're from. When it was Vanney's turn he said, "Greg Vanney, UCLA Bruins, 100 National Championships." I thought it was pretty cool that he said UCLA and not where he's from then added in the 100 national titles. Love the Bruin pride.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Oct 25, 2007 6:06 PM PDT reply actions
OT- Kind of
Because of the punt, Boston College started on its own 8 yard line. It took BC two plays to make up for the 21 yard punt, and six plays to reach the Virginia Tech 16. After a few plays they scored a TD and now trail by three.
After recovering the onside kick, BC has gone 40 yards in three plays and is definitely within range of a FG with a chance at the go-ahead TD.
By trying to play field position the Virginia Tech coach may have thrown away the game.
Touchdown Boston College
by SuperBruinMan on Oct 25, 2007 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions

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