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Arizona State Followups
I don't want to dwell on last night's loss too much. Predictably there is a lot meltdown going on over at message boards where posters still can't deal with the dose of reality of a team playing with a third string quarterback behind a decimated and patchwork offensive line. The 4-7 record at this...
Impact
So it looks like the local concern trolling panic that swept through LA’s traditional media following Ben Olson’s injury has gone national. Yesterday Ted Miller from WWL pointed to Ben Olson’s latest injury as the "biggest impact item of Pac-10 preseason camp": At the start of...
Spaulding Roundup: We Are Going To Be Allright
So on the second day after Ben Olson went down at Spaulding the Bruins had a sluggish day on offense (or a dominating one on defense from another pov). The sloppy offensive performance (to start the Monday of second week of Fall practice) led to Neuheisel making a comment about being...
The Reasons Behind A "Dire Situation"At OL
Kevin Pearson from the Press Enterprise doesn't mince words while explaining why UCLA finds itself in a "dire situation" at OL: UCLA is in this situation in part because of former coach Karl Dorrell and his staff. For several years, Dorrell decided not to redshirt some of his top...
A Matter Of Perspective (Over Uninformed Perception)
So there has been some discussion in reaction to Ted Miller’s observations on WWL that if the Bruins lose to Fresno State and to BYU this season, “most folks will view a UCLA loss to either as an embarrassment.” Miller wrote a stand alone post yesterday explaining where he came...
Roundup From BN Walk: Football News & Notes
Let’s start our walk with where we left off in our last post: our non conference opponent(s) for this upcoming season. It all begins with Tennessee of course, but Ted Miller from WWL reminds us that the Volunteers are not the only difficult non conference opponent dotting our schedule this...
Signs Of Life ...
Let’s start this Saturday by catching up on other football news and notes that might have slipped through our radar from the media day. One of the biggest complaints against Rick Neuheisel during his first two jobs was how as a young, brash head coach he quickly antagonized his colleagues...
Daily Bruin Urges Caution, Too
The Daily Bruin -- which in the summer publishes weekly -- joins the chorus of those urging caution for next season. Kendall Salter has this in his column today (titled Football Hopes Need Caution: Hold up. Time for a little dish of perspective. In 2008, UCLA will assuredly make some serious...
About That "Dumbing Down Expectations To Protect CRN" Theory ...
norcald503 is already on this. Achilles also frontpaged the key quote. I also want to join in by adding a little more with a quick reset on the whole topic of expectations, to kick off our weekend. So first it was Rivals.com who channeled BN’s dose of reality. Then it was Pat Forde from...
2008 Offensive Line Outlook: Coping w Disaster
With less than a month left till opening of the fall camp, we thought this would be a good time to go through our team’s tentative depth chart, the coaches set following spring football. In the past years we went through this exercise at least a week after the beginning of fall camp. However,...
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