September 19, 2007
TJ Simers: Shocking Dorrell Has Lasted This Long
TJ Simers has written a solid piece about Karl Dorrell this morning. The thrust of it is this:
Dorrell's margin of error this season has now been reduced to almost nothing.
We agree. Now, Dorrell can still technically go undefeated in conference play, win the championship and go to a BCS bowl .. the Rose Bowl.
Now it's on Dorrell to rally the troops, all right, all that on-the-job training coming into play, a successful season still very much within reach.
It can happen, so that is why we are waiting on our campaign. But we don't expect sudden and sustained greatness from Dorrell. After all, this is a guy who STILL will not admit, maybe he doesn't even understand(!), that he failed to put our talented players in a position to win - with a solid game plan and adjustments. He fails to admit he was out-coached, out-schemed, out-planned and out-adjusted. He still pins the loss on the players:
"It wasn't anything about preparation," Dorrell said when we got together Tuesday. "I told our players this team was going to be dangerous and desperate. What's disappointing, our players got caught up with the fact 'we're UCLA and we're ranked No. 11.' "
Bull shit. That is a load of crap. They weren't in the POSITION to win. Look at the tape Karl, it's obvious.
"I sleep well at night," Dorrell said. "I did everything I could."
We believe you did Karl, and that's not enough. It's just that Dorrell is in over his head. This is not a job he should have been given .. period. Read the entire article … we will quickly throw up some other key quotes that basically need no explanation:
He still gets the benefit of the doubt here, but hiring a former criminal of sorts to recruit better athletes and coach the team's receivers — the guy's rap sheet catching Guerrero by surprise — is bothersome. A loss to Utah then becomes troublesome.
UCLA hired a guy in over his head to coach the football team; give me a cup of coffee if I'm going to hope to stay awake to hear what this upstart has to say … I watched his team roll over and play dead in bowl games against Fresno State and Wyoming.
The Bruins are now consistent, all right, in their inconsistency under Dorrell.
Matched against Carroll, the Trojans' unparalleled success in this new BCS era and an age of impatience, it's shocking Dorrell has lasted this long.
7 Comments on TJ Simers: Shocking Dorrell Has Lasted This Long
September 19, 2007
Steve @ 9:53 am:
Can DD answer this for me? Why oh why with all the Div I and II coaches who would have killed to have this job did DG hire this loser? and then keep listening to his whining excuses, only once winning more than 7 games, and with Toledo’s guys.
Bob must be having a lot of satisfaction right about now. Can you imagine a coach making us want him back?!! Amazing.
DumpDorrell @ 10:11 am:
The answer may be that Dorrell really wasn’t Guerrero’s hire. DG was new to the job and had not yet consolidated power. Donahue was still a force with his old pal Bob Field still calling the shots. We had a Chancellor in Carnesale who didn’t care one iota about football but liked the idea of hiring … well Dorrell. There were politics that DG could not get around. Now, DG owns Morgan Center, Donahue’s lackeys are mostly gone and he is on the outside looking in. What DG does now in terms of football will define his career to a large extent. Its all on DG now.
Steve @ 11:02 am:
I knew Donahue had a hand in that KD loser, just like he did with that tub Toledo. TD was long mediocrity as well. Good, but not great like SC. He beat SC when they had a bunch losers like KD. Let DG do what he need to and leave his FB legacy to sink or swim.
Steve @ 12:27 pm:
Makes perfect sense to me. TD sacrificing the UCLA FB program to help some former player’s career. Unbelievable.
DumpDorrell @ 12:35 pm:
TD was thinking of his own legacy in pushing Toledo and Dorrell … not UCLA’s. How many of Donahue’s “protoges” made it big as coaches?? Donahue’s coaching tree wouldn’t feed a fly.
Steve @ 1:11 pm:
History: TD slipped in very late in the hiring season when all coaches were committed to to other schools. Lucky break because Vermeil got hired late by, I believe, Atlanta. He had a very long learning curve like the latest loser. Never a great winner anyway, but a terrific ass kisser of AD JD Morgan. Same with Walsh at SF now. TD now a big wig, not a coach. Smart Terry. Then TD turns down Neuheisal’s request to be OC after he was an UNPAID assistant. “We are going in a different direction”.????Yes South! CU hires him and he wins and wins. UW hires him: wins and wins. UCLA? We got TD protege Fat Bob. On the eve of playing Tenn for the Title and bringing in all the recruits to us, he blows a 30+ lead and loses to Miami in the 4th qtr!!! Only he could do that.
Now we are still suffering with another TD idiot. Thank God it is almost over. I would traded the SC win last year for his firing any day. Not happening this year in their house. Trust me. “Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” Santanya
September 21, 2007
Corn Radington @ 10:13 am:
Carl “Deer in the headlights” Dorrell has got to go! He has got to hear the footsteps of Rick Neuheisel (sp?) pulling up fast. Rick’s our answer to that across town school’s Pete Whatshisname. Until we get a real winner at the helm, we will subjected to the hell of under performing top level players who will never reach their full potential. I think UCLA Med Center has a Parkinson’s wing. That’s where Carl needs to go to treat that frozen panic stricken mug of his. It has nothing to do with race… it has everything to do with ability. Carl would make the perfect cover picture for the next edition of “The Peter Principle”.
Later, all. Corn