I have collected a list of contacts to send complaints to in regards to the assault on AA2. Included in the list are relevant Pac-10 officials and the President, AD and coaching staff of the UW.

And just so we know what values Morris was not living up to with his assault on AA2 and what standards of conduct McCable is not enforcing, I have included the Pac-10 Conference's Mission Statement (copied straight from their very own website).

If you have any more names of who else we can pressure on this travesty, please add them to this diary.


Pac-10

Commissioner
Tom Hansen
thansen@pac-10.org
(925) 932-4411

Asst. Commissioner, Men's Basketball
David Hirsch
work    dhirsch@pac-10.org   
work    (925) 932-4411
mobile (415) 370-7112

Coordinator of Men's Basketball Officiating
Bill McCable
bmccabe@pac-10.org

Pac-10 Conference Mission Statement

The mission of the Pacific-10 Conference shall be:

1. To maintain a position of national leadership in the conduct of intercollegiate athletics in a manner consistent with the Conference's values.
2. To value adherence to the highest standards of higher education, academic achievement, ethical conduct, sportsmanship, and a continuing commitment to gender equity and ethnic diversity.
3. To sustain the Conference's unparalleled record of athletics excellence.
4. To emphasize the welfare of the student-athlete throughout the enterprise and provide opportunity and encouragement for each participant in a Pac-10 program to acquire a baccalaureate degree and the skills necessary to function as a productive member of society.
5. To assure each member institution's commitment to the Conference's values, and, in so doing, to foster collegial relationships among members and to manage the tensions that frequently surface in a competitive environment.
6. To frequently reassess the scope and quality of the Conference's programs and policies and progressively evaluate new technologies and opportunities to enhance programs.

University of Washington contacts

Acting Athletic Director
Scott Woodward
huskyad@u.washington.edu
PH: 206/543-2212
FAX:206/616-4334

Exec. Assoc. Athletic Director
Jeff Compher
jcompher@u.washington.edu
PH: 206/543-2317
FAX:206/616-2459

Head Coach
Lorenzo Romar
jamee@u.washington.edu
206/543-5260

Asst. Coach
Cameron Dollar
dollarc@u.washington.edu
206/543-5260

Asst. Coach
Jim Shaw
jimshaw@u.washington.edu
206/543-2282

Asst. Coach
Paul Fortier
pfortier@u.washington.edu
206/543-5260

Director of Basketball Operations
Lance LaVetter
lancelv@u.washington.edu
206/685-9570

If you want to send one email to them all (many times):
huskyad@u.washington.edu
jcompher@u.washington.edu
jamee@u.washington.edu
dollarc@u.washington.edu
jimshaw@u.washington.edu
pfortier@u.washington.edu
lancelv@u.washington.edu

''Our goal was to be in a position for this opportunity. I can't tell you I thought we'd be 6-5 with this opportunity,'' Bruins coach Karl Dorrell said. ''But it is what it is.

I propose we now call it the "It is what it is Season."

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If of course it is being utilized by the opposing coach.

Jeff Tedford's play calling today looked like it was coming from KD's back pocket. I just don't understand what he was thinking and how he thought that type of conservative offense would win this game. Well maybe he thought since his opponent was Karl Dorrell that he could win today's game from his kitchen table. I don't know.

I never played football (too busy being a cheerleader and not enough body mass) so before I jump to criticize a coach's play calling I try to consider the idea that there may be some complexities or nuances to football that I don't recognize. But still some of these coaching decisions just don't make sense.

For example, I will never understand why Karl Dorrell even considers punting the ball away while in his opponent's territory. I will also never understand why last year in South Bend Karl Dorrell, in the final possession, ran the ball up the middle to no avail but then this year against Notre Dame decided to throw the ball against a team with a horrible rush defense. Again to no avail. Last week I couldn't understand why Tedford, rather than go for a tying field goal, left his first-time-off-the-bench freshman QB on the field to try and pull out a win in a high pressure situation where there was a strong possibility that he would choke (which he did). And today, I did not understand why Jeff Tedford, looked like a graduate of the Karl Dorrell School of How to Coach Conservatively and Lose Everytime.

If KD can just get a few more copies of his playbook to the remaining conference coaches, then the PAC 10 title may very well be his. It will be a great going away gift to take with his office belongings at the end of the season.

In the past two years I have been amazed with the time and energy put into BN; which is more than evident in the content on the site. However, it is not until I look around at other schools' blogs that I truly get an appreciation for what you guys continue to create here for all of us to enjoy.

I just spent much of the past hour looking at the Cal blogs for links that I could send to my uncle. What I found looked like junior high projects compared to what is happening on BN. One blog hadn't even been updated since Saturday morning. BN would have had at least four new posts since the moment the last second tick down on the game clock.

And the same props goes for the readers. On any given day over at cc, you can find many lengthly posts with 0-3 comments. it has to be an awful feeling when you spend so much time creating content for readers who don't seem  to exist (or at least don't care enough to make a comment).

Anyway, on this bye week let me just take the time to say I really appreciate what you guys do here at BN. It really does add to the enjoyment of my day/week/life.

Bumped from the diaries. GO BRUINS. -N

My coffee was hot, my toast was well buttered and I was on page two of the LA Times sports page when I read Karl's comment in reference to his latest coaching embarrassment:

"It is what it is." To me, that is the most annoying five-word phrase in the the English language. It is what it is? What in the hell does that mean anyway? Any time I hear an athlete spew that self-absolving cliche,  I cringe; this time I got angry. It is like a bad algebra equation:  x=x.

Guess what Karl, you have to define x with something other than x or else it doesn't mean anything. What is "it"? We sure as hell can't tell what your "it" is, but we know what you are and we know your algebraic equation:

 KD = a+w+f+u+l

No more fuzzy math. No more horrible football. No more stupid ass cliches. No more Karl Dorrell.

Has there ever been any thought put into having end of the season awards for BN? Not only for Favorite Bruin Athlete or Football MVP, but also Favorite Post, Funniest Comment of the Year, etc.?

Some of the comments are so funny that I think they should get some sort of recognition.

Just a suggestion.

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Bumped. This is all kinds of AWESOME. GO BRUINS- N

I finally got to hoist my UCLA flag.

I've always wanted a flag pole and finally installed one over the summer so I could:

1. fly my American flag and
   
2. fly my UCLA flag on game day (fb, hoops and baseball)

I was out of town for the  first two games so the Utah game was my first official hoist. It will now go up on every game day, all day. Win, lose or blown out of the water.

Go Bruins! How's that for positivity?

Bumped. Guess this is what happens when you lose to Karl Dorrell with a National Championship on the line. GO BRUINS. -N



Earlier this evening, at the request of a friend who did not want to go alone, I attended a service at the Agape Spirtual Center in Los Angeles. For those of you who have not heard of it, Agape is a non-demoninational place of worship (housed in a large section of a business park in Culver City) that is run by man who is an Oprah regular and is profiled in the new age book du jour The Secret. Although I wasn't excited about going, I was slightly curious to see what this place was all about and boy was I glad I went.

An important point to make before I go in is that the only thing I noticed while walking through the parking lot was a large, shiny black Range Rover with a usc license plate frame. My first thought was "I never would have expected to see that here" This was more of a place for the Berkeley crowd and industry folks who are trying to find a deeper meaning of life that goes beyond a new BMW, weekly yoga classes or guilt-free Pinkberry.

Let me give you some names of real and fictional people who might attend Agape:   Diane (Cheers), Drama and Lloyd (Entourage), Kramer (Seinfeld), Amanda (The Bad News Bears), Denise (The Cosby Show), Vic the Brick Jacobs and Britney Spears.

Here's the WTF? part.

Ten minutes into his welcome address the reverend asks for members of the audience to share what they have learned from coming to Agape. The first person to testify was a woman who said "now I really feel alive." The next, was a man who now knew that he "had the power" to be what he wanted to be. And then the reverend asked the following question:

"Pete, where are you? Pete?"

Pete stood waved from the shadows in the back.

"Oh, there you are," said the reverend. "Pete is a football coach.'

I had a funny feeling in my stomach as I sat up and looked across to the other side of the room. I said to myself "It can't be." And then I remembered the Range Rover and, my god, it was. Pom Pom was in the audience. His face was televised on the jumbo screen. He was wearing a t-shirt, but Agape is very casual so that wasn't inappropriate (still, it seemed strange). He looked just like any random guy who dropped in for some fellowship after a walk on the beach and the reverend made the appearance seem so matter of fact like "Pete" was such a down-to-earth and deeply in tune guy. If you ask me, the whole thing is a calculated move on Pom Pom's part to give him the appearance of a spiritual man doing his best to guide the lives of the young men on his team. And what better place to do that then at the church of a guy who is praised by Oprah? Maybe the reverend will introduce the two of them and then he can go on her show and explain to the country how he understands the importance of being spiritually awake. Now I have no problem with spiritual enlightenment but Pom Pom sure as hell is not the Dalai Lama of South Central.

I will end this story by sharing with you a small portion of what Pom Pom said to the reverend (and the audience) about his attendance at Agape:

"It's great to be in this place, to be among all these angels." And by angels he was referring to the audience. I swear this is true. I probably let out a sigh of disgust that was not in alignment with the spiritual vibe of the place but can you blame me? I am still rolling my eyes just thinking about it.