Alright, you know what. I am still f***ing PISSED at this loss!! UCLA football is a JOKE. Where is the Ben Howland of UCLA football?? What that guy did for UCLA Basketball is AMAZING and he only needed 3 years to do it!! Dorrell is still making excuses after 5 years!! I am sick of it!! Why is he still being given a chance??

Top football schools would can his ass after 1-2 poor performing seasons and it seems like at UCLA that is acceptable!! I am tired of being 2nd rate to USC. I am tired of not being considered a powerhouse football school. I WANT to be a powerhouse football school!! Where is the Pete Carroll of UCLA football?

I am wondering why year after year we end up with MEDIOCRE at best football coaches?? What we need is to find an EXPERIENCED coach that wants to bring an era of football dominance to the UCLA football program that has never been brought before. We also need some BIG DONORS with plenty of money stepping up and offering money to pay to replace Dorrell. Where are our Donor’s?? You know, the big boys who don’t mess around, the Phil Night of UCLA football??

USC may cost $40k a year to attend school there, but if that means they can afford to properly pay their football coach and get a GOOD COACH like Pete Carroll who has turned $C’s football program around, then it is worth every penny. We may be a state school but why can’t we pay what every other powerhouse football school pays? There are lots of public universities that pay WAY MORE than UCLA does, so why does our football program keep getting assed out by the UCLA athletic funding department? If they have the money to build top of the line locker rooms and practice facilities why don’t they fork out the money to pay for a coach that will actually take advantage of our state of the art training facilities instead of giving us poor performances year after year. What good is a top of the line training facility when we don’t use it on the field? What good is renovating the Rose Bowl when nobody’s coming to the games because our team sucks ass and can’t consistently win games with 25 returning starters, 20 seniors, and top recruiting classes?

Football should be a TOP PRIORITY for UCLA Athletics!! It can bring in the most money from season tickets holders, BCS Bowl games and the better UCLA is the more season ticket holders there are going to be. People say Southern California fans are fair weather fans but I say who the hell wants to support a school year in and year out who doesn’t play like they give a squat about our support!! Who the hell wants to be a UCLA season ticket holder when at like every other game I end up with a heart attack!!

There is NO CONSISTENCY with UCLA football, except KD’s job and I am sick of it! I LOVE UCLA but it is embarrassing to go to the games and watch UCLA either bring it or leave it at home! I am sick of watching unpassioned players play a joke of a football game against mediocre schools and get their ass kicked.

I think KD is a nice guy, but football coaches NEED passion! They also need someone to kick them in the ass when they don’t perform! I don’t see KD doing that at all, I see him making excuses or saying things like “Well after I saw the video I didn’t think we played that bad, we just made a few mistakes”. GIMME A BREAK! That is what KD said after the BYU game which I thought was gonna be the worst game of our season (until I watched the Utah game)! Other coaches, when their team sucks, straight up say, ” We were abominable, we couldn’t play football today.” You don’t ever see Dorrell keeping it real like that. He always sugar coats everything and always “stays positive” for his players. But the problem with that is that sometimes they need a good kick in the ass like after the BYU and Utah game and they don’t get that from KD! He is not passioned enough to give it to them the way they need it to get their heads out of their asses! He is too nice, too PC, too mellow. We need a coach who will rip the team a new asshole if they don’t perform or play with mediocrity. We need to see a coach who is screaming at his players on the sideline to get them fired up if they are lagging in performance during the game. KD is always quiet on the sideline. The only game I have ever seen him express emotion over was the UCLA-USC game we barely won last year. We need a coach who takes passion and exuberance to the NEXT LEVEL! We need a coach who demands only excellence ALL THE TIME, is in the players faces when they dont play good, who puts in the best players at all times, no matter whos feelings or egos get hurt, because it should be all about doing what is right for UCLA football not about giving certain players playing time because they are seniors, etc etc. It is not KD’s job to prepare his players for the NFL or whatever, it is his job to WIN UCLA FOOTBALL GAMES and he is way too PC when it comes to playing his players. I don’t care if guys want to whine and complain that they aren’t in, perform and your in, don’t perform and you get canned. (Ben Olson should have been replaced with Cowan after the BYU game). It is as simple as that and other football programs do JUST THAT. They make the adjustments week after week to make sure the best players are always playing and KD does NOT do that. The coach is not in his football players faces when it comes to his expectations, performing, game antics. That is the problem with KD! A football coach needs passion ALL THE TIME! He needs to make every game seem like the season is on the line. He needs to be tough every game, in practices, ALL THE TIME. KD is not tough enough to handle a college football team. Those kids all have big egos and their heads up their asses because they think they are bigtime playing for UCLA football and they need a coach who will put them in line and KD is not the man for that because he doesn’t have the passion, toughness, or energy to be able to put them in their places. Of course UCLA sucked against Utah, you never saw any re-grouping on the sideline, you never saw Dorrell getting in their face about how they were playing. You never saw KD take a timeout and get his players empassioned in the middle of the mess that was the Utah game. What you saw was the players sulking on the sidelines and KD quiet watching and hoping that somehow without guidance or passion that the team would somehow mysteriously start playing up to its potential, and that never happened and never will happen.

I think what we need is a football coach who takes football way too seriously, makes football his life, is full of passion, a bit of an asshole, who always does what is in the best interest of the team, and who keeps his players on their toes because he will be damned if they make a fool out of him or the UCLA football program. KD is not this man. He never will be. KD is a nice guy, nothing against him personally I am sure he is a good husband and father, but I will be damned if he is ever a good football coach for UCLA Football. Hell will freeze over and pigs will fly before that happens.

Hall of fame rant there SD Bruin Rita!

I’ll gladly trade KD to Michigan for Lloyd Carr and throw in a hundred draft picks to be named later.

Please U have to be kidding me…Carr???? This is indicative of what Bruin Fans will settle for…second best…cast offs…Let’s get someone that the players, the alumni, the community and most importantly recruits will get excited about at UCLA!!!

Since AD Guerrero can’t seem to fire Dorrell, it’s time for Guerrero to get canned and let the next Athletic Director clean up the mess. And by the way, how soon can we get Olsen out from under the center! He’s not the whole problem, but he’s not performing or leading the team either.

If SD Rita wants a coach with passion and a bit of an asshole, and that can recruit. Then UCLA a should go after Ken Norton. If there is a bigger asshole with more passion than him, then let me know.

I agree. If there’s anyone that will bite your head off for messing up during the game it’s Ken Norton. Although, I don’t know if he could pull off being a head coach.

In retrospect, Bob Toledo wasn’t so bad now, was he.

Let’s add Norm Chow to the KD possible replacement list.
How many $$$$ will it take to get him back from the pros??
We are the second largest sports market in the US with no pro team to dilute th football interest.
A winning program will bring in the BUCKS.
Forget the sportsmanship/character crap, this is a multi-million $$$$ bsiness.
Bob Levin

Norm Chow! It would be a brilliant move.

Norm Chow is the SLEEPING GIANT OF COLLEGE FB. DO IT. He is the best off. mind since Bill Walsh.

Chow is a QB coach, maybe the best ever,
but he’s not what we need.
We need an HC.
Just get Rick, don’t confuse the issue.

We can’t afford him anyway. QB coaches make great Hd Coaches.
We would be lucky to get him. He made SC’s QB great.