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Lessons in Incompetence: UCLA's Dan Guerrero Gets Big Money for Mediocre Results
How would you feel if you got paid handsomely in exchange for mediocre performance at work? Wouldn't that be awesome? What if you could be like Peter Gibbons in Office Space and advance by phoning it in? No accountability, no fear of consequences, no need to perform, but sit back, collect a...
UCLA's Diseased Culture of Mediocrity Under Gene Block, Dan Guerrero, Rick Neuheisel, and Donahue Sycophants
That was flat-out embarrassing. I could live with losing to Texas, even though they aren't that good (and despite the fact that with the talent and experience on our roster, we should have won, easily). The way we lost was inexcusable. It makes me wonder why Dan Guerrero continues to sign...
The Financial Primacy Of College Football Over Basketball
Last week, Bellerophon talked about the recent fall in both ticket sales and overall athletic revenue, as well as the general stagnation in revenue as compared to leading NCAA athletic programs. Using the recently updated USA Today college financial database and the accompanying article on athletic...
Revenue and Ticket Sales Fall at UCLA: Dan Guerrero's Continuing Reign of Error
I'm going to start this with two statistics that present a stark reality: UCLA's Athletic Department's operating revenue has dropped $4,302,335. Ticket sales have dropped $5,667,385. USA Today has compiled a handy college athletics finance database that compiles the revenue colleges bring in due to...
Finding The Next Urban Meyer: Does UCLA Have The Athletic Director to Find Him?
Not surprisingly the post on UCLA having enough resources to hire someone like Urban Meyer generated a bit of reaction online. I will reiterate a point I made in that post. I didn't write it to dream that Urban Meyer will become the next UCLA football coach. Writing that headline was fun but that...
[Update] Pac-12 Getting Ready to Announce $3 Billion Deal With ESPN & Fox
Ryan set the table up late last night. In this early morning in West Coast the details are coming. Pac-12 is about to sign a blockbuster TV deal with ESPN and Fox worth more than $2.7B over 12 years. The deal reportedly averages out to more than $225M per year, and includes football, basketball and...
UCLA Struck It Rich With Pac-10 Deal, But What Will Money Be Spent On?
Lost in all the chatter about the Pauley Pavilion renovation and seating fiasco is the continued developments in one of the most important moments the Pac-10, soon to be Pac-12, has ever gone through. No, not the expansion from 10 to 12 teams because that is already in the books, but the new TV...
UCLA Athletics Non-Revenue Roundup
With March Madness well in the rear-view mirror, and Football still beyond the horizon, this is the time for the non-revenue sports to gain the attention of Bruins Nation. Some of our Spring season sports have concluded, while others are getting ready for their own postseasons. While Ryan is...
ESPN: Rick Neuheisel Was Forced [By Dan Guerrero?] To Retain DeWayne Walker
ESPN's Ted Miller writes about the Neuheisel being on the "hot seat". That is not news any more. What is news though is first public confirmation of a really disturbing speculation we have heard in the background for a while: When Neuheisel was hired before the 2008 season, part of the deal was...
UCLA Unveils New Official Athletics Website
Last week, UCLA and the Morgan Center puled the wrapping off of their new baby- a completely redesigned UCLABruins.com, which is the official athletics website of the university. It was time for UCLA to upgrade their athletics website as their old one was incapable of handling the new technologies...
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