Sporting News: UCLA #10, Dorrell Future NFL Coach

Hope you weren't taking a swig of your cold one while reading that headline. Bruce Pascoe of the Sporting News believes that UCLA is the #10 team in the country and that Dorrell is a future NFL coach.  That has been our evil plan for a long time now.  To get there Dorrell, as we have said, has to win at least 10 games … safer if he wins 11, which would have the added benefit of making everyone happy.  Now that Bruce Pascoe is making Dorrell's NFL leap a done deal our evil genius plan may end up accounting for some good in the world after all.  Pascoe:

The Showdown: vs. California This is a matchup between what figures to be two future NFL head coaches. Win here, and the Bruins will reclaim their throne as one of the top two teams in the Pac-10.

Lost in that hard to swallow bit of analysis is one big ugly fact … we haven't been close to being one of the top two teams in the Pac-10 under Dorrell.  It's hard to get Pascoe's reasoning here that Dorrell is at once an obvious future NFL coach AND he hasn't returned UCLA to our "throne."   But he does note that if Dorrell doesn't get it done this year his job is not secure:

But that doesn't mean his seat won't warm up if the Bruins sputter.

One other point in Pascoe's report to note is the now solidly entrenched talking point in the media regarding Dorrell - coaching turnover.  Dorrell's management instability and inability to hire good talent is now widely known and reported:

Continuity has been an annual concern for Karl Dorrell, who replaced three assistants in the offseason. Only secondary coach Gary DeLoach remains from Dorrell's original UCLA staff in 2003.

No scapegoating this year.  No excuses. Go Bruins!!

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