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The Morning After, Part 13: Oregon
If you had told me at the beginning of the season we'd be playing Oregon for the Pac-12 Title and a trip to the Rose Bowl, I'd have been thrilled. I guess the path is as important as the destination, though, because this morning feels like relief, and resignation. Mike Johnson will assume the...
UCLA's "Sports Code" Moment(s): Carnesale, Bleymaier, Guerrero, Dorrell & Riley
Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski recently wrote a column called "The Sports Code." It was a take off on a Jake Gyllenhaal movie called "Source Code" in which Gyllenhaal has to travel back in time eight minutes before a bomb is going to go off, find the bomb and dismantle it. I didn't see the...
Dan Guerrero’s Incompetent Leadership: UCLA Men Headed Towards Another Title-Less Season
The UCLA men's athletics program has won only 1 national championship for 5 years. Think about that for a minute. Our most recent national championship from men's side came courtesy of the golf program in 2008. The volleyball team won in 2006. Other than Dan Guerrero has nothing to show for on the...
#SFatPauley -Dan Guerrero Returns Home to his Burning House
I hope Dan Guerrero had a nice weekend. I hear he got to spend some time in Houston, where the Men's Basketball Championship was being played. No, U.C.L.A. wasn't in it, but he took the time to make the trip anyway. He probably got to rub elbows with some of his favorite bigwigs from the NCAA. ...
Do they miss him yet?
HT: Frak
National News and Notes, Week 1
Cherry picking some scores and stats from outside the SEC for your consideration. BOISE STATE 33, VIRGINIA TECH 30 A combined 18 penalties. Three turnovers. Three missed field goals (one negated by penalty) and a missed extra point. Blown coverages. Suspect kick off coverage on both sides....
College Football's Biggest Under- and Overachievers of the Last Decade
One of my favorite stats is Pythagorean expectation. It looks at a team's points for and points allowed, and then estimates what we should expect that team's winning percentage to be. If you then look at the difference between how a team did versus its expectation, you can get a sense as to whether...
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Pro-Style Offense.
At this stage in the season, it's pretty well time for fans of teams who don't have a shot at a national championship to begin wondering who they'd most like to see actually win the thing. Sometimes it's a matter of not watching a rival win it. Sometimes it's just hoping the SEC doesn't win one...
Spaulding Roundup: Football News & Notes
Chris Dufresne in the LAT leads his weekly football column by channeling fanshots from BN: USC canned UCLA in the annual spring game, 11-0. The Trojans scored on three first-round NFL picks, two seconds, a third, two fourths, a fifth and two sixths.Makes you wonder what Karl Dorrell was doing...
Bringing About A Culture Change
So as mentioned in the round up below Dohn and the Daily News staff recently spent a day with Mike Linn and the UCLA football program. The result is a through and detailed report on UCLA's off season conditioning program that started in January and some telling description re. the efforts of our...
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