Total Unity In The Bruin Blogosphere
Here is another silver lining to Saturday's debacle at the Rose Bowl. For first time I can remember, there is total unity in the greater Bruin blogosphere wrt to the failed regime of Karl Dorrell.
I mean, I am sure all of you guys know by now where DumpDorrell.com and BruinsNation stand when it comes to Karl Dorrell. :-) But now we have total unity across the spectrum. Here are reactions from the rest of our peers in the Bruin blogosphere (who are not associated with any traditional media outlets) to the Saturday night's massacre at the Rose Bowl.
Let's lead off with Gilbert at Obscure Sports Quarterly, who calls out Dorrell's joke of a program as `the worst 4-2 team in the country:
If UCLA's not the worst 4-2 team in the country, I don't know who is. What's scary is the tough games on the schedule are still remaining (Cal, Oregon, Arizona State, USC).
Notre Dame is now 1-5. While most of the country has been laughing at them for being a laughingstock, they will now laugh at UCLA for losing to Notre Dame.
Pathetic.
If this post sounded incoherent, it's because these embarrassing losses still hurt, even when you get used to them and expect them to happen.
I am sick and tired of hearing about how we're going to 'learn from this loss'. It's readily apparent, five years into this experiment, that we have learned absolutely jack shit.
Now the big question is whether the athletic department, which supposedly loves Karl, has the stones to pull the trigger (and if you want to encourage them, AD Dan Guerrero’s email is dguerrero@athletics.ucla.edu). It may cost them this stellar recruiting class that Dorrell is bringing in, and it will cost a lot of money to buyout some contracts. But you know what, if someone doesn’t know how to drive a car, it’s not going to matter whether he has a Ferrari or he has a Kia. The car is still not going to go anywhere. It’s time to find someone that’s got his drivers license, even if his car his only a Camry.
It would be a convenient excuse for Karl Dorrell to highlight the fact that he was playing the majority of the Notre Dame game with his 3rd string QB, a walk-on freshman with little experience (or discernible talent). Unfortunately for Captain Karl, Stanford managed to beat #2 USC in the LA Coliseum with a sophomore QB, Tavita Pritchard. Pritchard had only thrown three collegiate passes entering the game, and yet Jim Harbaugh was able to coach him up to the extent that he pulled off the greatest upset in college football history (at least in terms of point spreads). For any UCLA fans reading this blog, "coaching" is a term used in sports to describe the development of skills under the tutelage of a team leader or coach. I know it's been a foreign concept around this time of year in Westwood, but believe it or not, other programs actually perform this miracle with regularity.
Just imagine next season. We are going to be enjoying a new football season, hopefully under a brand new competent coach, who will slowly rebuild our program, while we get to watch the clowns from South Central stuck in a quagmire with a glorified substitute teacher, who they will not be able to fire because of the "success" he built upon a pile of scandals. It is going to be fun to watch those cowardly losers devoid of any morals go through their slow, painful fall.
Better days are ahead of us. Meanwhile, it is comforting now for the first time the entire Bruin Nation is unified, together in demand for a total change at the top of our football program.
GO BRUINS.
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by BruinAl on Oct 9, 2007 4:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
He Has to Go No Matter What
You cannot lose to Utah and ND and keep your job. If you can win the hard games, you must win the easy games.
If you can go undefeated in the Pac 10, you should be undefeated in all games -- especially Utah and ND.
Our goal was to have a CONSISTENTLY excellent team. We do not have that.
Please, don't concede he keeps his job if we win the Pac 10.
And, don't forget we may win it with 4 overall losses. It's possible that the Pac 10 champ will have 2 L's.
Mantra over.
by Class of 66 on Oct 9, 2007 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No way no how
However, by some freakish Lavinian chance that he does manage to back into a PAC 10 championship, Dorrell's used up all of his cahnces and good will.
A change needs to be made regardless of what happens this season.
by Ajax on Oct 9, 2007 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Too Late
by bruin8uclap on Oct 9, 2007 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dec. 3rd, 2007
by TheStick on Oct 9, 2007 5:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
How about the Wednesday following today?
What benefit accrues to anyone - CTS himself, the team, the other coaches, the fans, the alumni - if he remains as head coach for one more minute?
How is the team any better with CTS remaining as head coach for one more minute?
Is there any other context in the world in which this sort of performance would not long since have resulted in job termination?
When those questions can be answered, then I'll maybe be able to understand why we should wait until the end of the season to fire this man. (Don't tell me about recruits - that thesis will not fly. Don't tell me "you can't do that." I believe the Blogosphere made it clear that Columbus would sail over the edge of the world.)
by Fox 71 on Oct 9, 2007 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think he should've been fired a loooong time ago
by TheStick on Oct 10, 2007 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It would be consistent
by bruinhoo on Oct 9, 2007 6:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why the delay
by Mensgym on Oct 9, 2007 5:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Consensus
It's just too bad that it took 4+ years and humiliating losses to Fresno State, Wyoming, Arizona, USC, Utah and Notre Dame (among others) to get there.
by Menelaus on Oct 9, 2007 5:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Nice ... Bruin Nation Civil War Over??
Great pick up Nestor.
by BruinCore on Oct 9, 2007 6:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yep
by njbruin on Oct 9, 2007 6:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Now if we can only get beat sc.com on board
by Ajax on Oct 9, 2007 6:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Forget it
He doesn't post for days after the Utah debacle and his website completely crashes after the ND disaster. It's almost like every additional piece of evidence demonstrating Dorrell's incompetence makes the site lose more and more of its power.
He should just stick to posting pictures of cheerleaders and their underwear and otherwise shut up.
by Barnes2JJ on Oct 9, 2007 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I Stopped Reading BeatSC.Com
by BruinFan1 on Oct 9, 2007 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOL
by Tydides on Oct 9, 2007 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No kidding
by SuperBruinMan on Oct 9, 2007 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
An Equally Stupid Site..
by bruin8uclap on Oct 9, 2007 7:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That guy is a loser
Check out what he has to say about finally wanting a new coach after the most recent humiliation:
Why would you even think that we'd approve your comment for publication? Well, surprisingly, we did, but only to try to explain one more time:
EVEN IF WE DID WANT A REGIME CHANGE, we wouldn't express it so crudely on this site. Please read our other posts, and take a minute to think about it -- We have OUR PHOTOS hanging in the UCLA Football Offices, and are developing cooperative relationships with them and with the Spirit Squad. It would therefore be inappropriate, almost a betrayal, to turn around and bash the Program. What if Chris Roberts just started demanding the ax to fall, on the air, in the middle of a game?
We never claimed to be legit, or objective journalism (obviously). In fact, we always asserted that this site is SATIRE -- A PARODY of overzealous fans. If you look at it THAT way, our "support" of Dorrell could actually be seen as hilarious satire. Get it?
So ... they have THEIR photos hanging in Morgan Center ... oh. my. god. What a tool ... "bash the program?" This guy thinks Karl Dorrell IS the program. Then he tries to pass their Dorrell support as possible satire if you look at it another way. What a friggin idiot.
by BruinCore on Oct 9, 2007 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We need to do an intervention
These people need to be brought back. If you had a child who got hooked on something like that, you wouldn't write him or her off, would you? Well these Bruins are our brothers and sisters, and we need to embrace them, but with a little tough love.
There is a guy who used to post here named Patrick Meighan (sp?) of the class of '95. No matter what, he would not kick the habit. He loved his dope, no matter how poorly the dope was coaching. And this guy who does the beatsc site. I thought his fixation was just the crotches of our cheerleaders (Barnes, please join me in saying "Not that there's anything wrong with that"), but he still loves the dope for some reason.
If we could win over those two hearts and minds, we would be doing something positive.
Patrick and beatsc-guy, come back and engage in a discussion. We (or at least I) don't want to yell at you or beat on you or question your Bruin-ness. But we want you to kick the dope habit. That dope will ruin you. That dope has already ruined a season, and has ruined many potential pro careers. Kick the dope habit! Come back home. We will welcome you.
by Fox 71 on Oct 9, 2007 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This one hurt
I've gotta admit, I often thought the rhetoric here on Dorrell was a little over the top. I was very patient with him. But if the Utah debacle wasn't the last straw, Saturday certainly was. He has got to go.
I mean, Utah was one of those games where the failure was top to bottom. Not one piece of the machine was working correctly, and for that, you usually blame the head coach. But on Saturday, there were specific errors that you can point to that were directly Dorrell's fault, from not having a prepared backup QB, to horrendous play calling.
Thanks for the link, Nestor.
by LA Seitz on Oct 9, 2007 7:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
yeah beatsc.com is sad now
by True Blue and Gold on Oct 9, 2007 9:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow
by BeavertonBruin on Oct 9, 2007 10:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Beating Cal
by godblesstyus95 on Oct 9, 2007 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
First of all, it is only a very remote possibility
Third, a hundred wins over Cal would not make up for the humiliating loss to ND, and should not count as redemption for KD in any way/shape/form.
by bluegold on Oct 9, 2007 10:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Of course we're united now
I just regret that I didn't see the light sooner -- I didn't realize that Dorrell was a horrible coach and needed to go until after the Florida State game.
And Nestor, thanks for the link.
by gilbert on Oct 9, 2007 10:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Winning the Cal game
by Steven on Oct 9, 2007 11:54 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
This is weird
My lifetime record for having "absolutely certain" premonitions actually come to pass is not quite as handsome as CTS's record, so make of this what you will.
by Fox 71 on Oct 10, 2007 5:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
But why?
I personally think we are going to be killed by Cal, although I would love to see us pull off the upset. For a school that has never won anything, they are talking some pretty good smack.
by Barnes2JJ on Oct 10, 2007 5:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No science here at all.
Anyway, that's the same feeling I have about Cal. They should beat us to a fare thee well. They have a good team, we don't. They have a good coach ..., well, you get the picture.
by Fox 71 on Oct 10, 2007 6:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
My forecast
I still have those games down as losses, which leaves the team with a 6-6 record at best (we could also very well lose at WSU), and not looking particularly attractive to any bowl scouts. I doubt we get an invitation to anywhere.
Based on the pre-season statements of CTS and the AD, there is no justification for retaining CTS as the head coach.
by TuneMan7 on Oct 10, 2007 6:27 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
We're #4!!!
by Herschy on Oct 10, 2007 10:17 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
If we keep playing this way
by Class of 66 on Oct 10, 2007 7:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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