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Bruin Bites: Howland's Toast and Chianti Dan Must Go Edition
It's Sunday evening, which sadly means a return to work tomorrow, which be exacerbated by the Niners' heart-breaking loss to Eli Manning's Giants in OT (BTW, thanks for blowing it Kyle Williams). Fortunately, the return to work also means we're as far away from Ben Howland's dumpster fire brand of...
Bruin Bites: XSF's Return, Hoffman's Draft Position Rising, Alzheimer's Breakthrough at UCLA
It's Wednesday, so we're halfway to the weekend, which, with college football finally over for the year, will only feature Ben Howland's squad facing off against hated U$C at the Costco Galen Center on Sunday. Ironically, in his latest "blog" Chianti Dan laments the "13-mile trek across town" to...
Spaulding Roundup: Bruins Fought Hunger, Prepare For Mora
The Bruins have finished up their finals, and now can start working toward their New Year's Eve date to San Francisco with a collectively clear mind. The team did practice yesterday afternoon, and while specific news on the session has been slow to come out, Jon Gold is reporting that with the...
Bruin Bites: No Rest Until Chianti Dan is Fired Edition
Jim Mora is our coach. I'm not sure what more I can say that hasn't been said: that Mora is woefully unqualified, a man with a losing record in the NFL, and zero experience coaching college football, a game which while the same in name, is worlds apart from the professional game. He's a coach who...
Spaulding Roundup: Rushing Into Mediocrity With Mora?
I suppose the headline is a bit misleading, as anyone that has followed the UCLA Football program over the past decade or more can tell you that under the directorship and coaching hires of Chianti Dan Guerrero, mediocre is the right way to describe the program's present status. After failing in...
Spaulding Roundup: 'Focused Bruins' And Brehaut Cleared To Practice
The Bruins finished up the on-field practice portion of their ASU week preparation Thursday on Spaulding Field. With a win on Saturday putting UCLA in a tie with the Sun Devils for the Pac-12 South lead with 3 weeks remaining in the regular season, and the coaches possibly thinking - and Bruins...
UCLA Can Get A Big Name Coach: Part 2 - Admissions
The issue of admissions and academics in college football is at one end contentious - but also very difficult to find much hard evidence to determine. On the first part, I'll admit to having had at least 1 spirited holiday dinner-table debate on the subject with Cal-alumni relatives on the...
Attention Dan Guerrero's Replacement: Fix UCLA's Football Facilities (Part 5)
This is what a Stadium the size of Stanford or UNC Stadiums would look like at Drake Stadium. In Part 1 of this series, we argued that a program of UCLA's historical stature deserves first-class facilities, especially for the football team, given the primacy of football for an athletic...
Attention Dan Guerrero's Replacement: Fix UCLA's Football Facilities (Part 4-The Pac-12)
In Part 1 of this series, we argued that a program of UCLA's historical stature deserves first-class facilities, especially for the football team, given the primacy of football for an athletic department's bottom line. In Part 2, we demonstrated that investing money in the football program...
Attention Dan Guerrero's Replacement: Fix UCLA's Football Facilities (Part 2-You've Got to Spend Money to Make Money)
In Part 1 of this series, we argued that a program of UCLA's historical stature deserves first-class facilities, especially for the football team, given the primacy of football for an athletic department's bottom line. In this post, we will explore the concept of investing in football programs...
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