Hopefully you guys will have some shirts ready for Cal…I think we are going to need them…BAD.

DUH-rell has GOT TO GO. They should have fired his a$$ over the PA system after that performance. Game still tied, 4th and 1, DUH-rell decides to go for it. He’s got Shane “The Train” Moline, he’s got Kahlil Bell - he decides to go with a pass from Bethel-Thompson. Of course, it doesn’t work. DUH

Notre Dame, same situation, 4th and 1, they hurry up to the line, run a quick QB sneak and get the first down. They have a good coach. We don’t.

BO getting injured is not an excuse for losing. They were losing before he got injured. First trip to the red zone - delay of game, illegal formation, settle for long field goal. The penalties are because of the stupid-a$$ WCO and bad coaching.

The defense played great - DUH-rell mostly concentrates on screwing up the offense.

If DUH-rell had any integrity, he’d return all the money UCLA has paid him, publicly apologize, and never show his face in Southern California again.

Dear Christ that was horrible. I wasn’t really on the Dump Dorrell bandwagon before, even after the Utah game, but after tonight I don’t see how anyone can still be supporting him.

If the team you’re playing against is ranked near-last in run defense … and you have a third-string, walk on quarterback with no experience …

THROW THROW THROW THROW THROW!!!

You are right on with your assessment. When we talked to the Notre Dame bloggers this week, they told us that the Irish were unable to stop the run all year long. Utah was also #113rd at stopping the run when we played them. Karl was unwilling to cram it down their throat. If Karl listened to The Bruin Show, he’d be 6-0 right now!

DD are you sure you want to wait until the first Pac-10 loss to start the campaign? First, Notre Dame is a national program and this loss is going to bring attention to the cause from the national media, which might help. Second, there were 90,000+ at the Rose Bowl tonight who watched one of the worst WCO performances of all-time and may never come back to another Bruin game this season. Dan Guerrero may be more motivated to replace Dorrell with an interim coach if he thinks that revenues for the 3 remaining Pac-10 home games can be salvaged.

Marco … definitely its a tough call, but there are a number of reasons as to why we are waiting. One reason will be obvious once we get the campaign going.

Morgan Center did the smart thing and sold ND tickets preseason in packages and and with season tickets. So we have great sales already for the remaining home games. Will some people not use the tickets they bought? Sure, but we are set there so we don’t think DG is too worried about attendance.

The point that 90K saw this fiasco is a great one. But the fans that only go to a ND game then bail on the team are not the important fans. We need to reach the fans that are there every week .. the alums who are VIP givers to the program. And we will reach them but we have to do this right this year … seriously. Last year we greased the wheels, and it worked. Some in the media bought in and that has helped. But Dorrell’s supporters are powerful within the football program and community. We need to be smart about how we strike - it needs to be at the right time with the right message.

Today, is not the right time because supporters can easily squash any campaign by saying Dorrell is undefeated in conference play and can still get this team to the Rose Bowl. Its hardly likely he will but we cant afford to allow supporters any obvious objection. Our campaign is so obvious and factual that NO ONE can argue against it!! It is hilarious too, at least we think so, and hopefully the media will pick up on that … that is our intention.

Bob … no doubt Weiss listened to the Bruin Show. Either that or he watched Utah stop our offense and basically copied their scheme. Utah stuffed the box, blitzed and dared us to beat them in the air. Notre Dame basically did the same thing knowing that Dorrell wouldn’t, couldn’t, call their bluff.

DD, apparently the Dorrell save-my-job playbook is as obvious as his pathetic WCO knock-off. I could not believe my eyes when I read this post-game quote from Dorrell in the LA Times: “We’re in pretty good shape in conference,” Dorrell said.

One of the things that does not show up in the five year Dorrell box score, but I abhor is the constant excuse making and self-denial that are apparent in the post-game quotes.

I agree with DD. Dorrell won’t resign because the excuse will be Olson got hurt and he had to go with a redshirt freshman. Oh, woe is me. But let me tell you something: I am more pissed than I’ve ever been now.

1. Bethel-Thompson had no business being thrown under the bus like that. He’s a completely inexperienced quarterback — leaving aside for the moment that a Pac-10 program would have only a walk-on redshirt freshman as its lone option — playing the nation’s WORST rushing defense and he’s asked … to pass?! No, no, no. Everyone in the stadium, especially those wearing Notre Dame uniforms, knows you just pound the ball down Notre Dame’s throat. Inexcusable play calling. INEXCUSABLE!

2. Defense played great but … Knock off the trash-talking and swagger if you can’t back it up against a program that clearly isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. I’m seeing hallmarks of Toledo’s teams and it’s making me angry.

3. Fundamentally flawed. We have an experienced, senior-heavy team and we can’t play fundamental football? At home?! False starts, illegal formations, 12 men on the field, clock mismanagement, a full 25 seconds to get a play off, goofy timeouts. Criminy, this is one of the most poorly disciplined teams I’ve seen.

4. Fawning all over the Irish. Old Guy cheerleader is going on and on about how we have so much respect for Notre Dame fans and their team’s tradition. Excuse me?!?!?!? What do I care about Notre Dame? It’s like Dorrell thanking them for letting us play them last year. Notre Dame fans are repeatedly allowed to chant “Let’s go Irish” without any answer from our fans or the Solid Gold Sound of the UCLA Marching Band three sections over? What’s up with that? This is OUR house. And I seem to recall the Irish had something to do with ending UCLA’s consecutive winning streak in another sport. Anybody remember that? I don’t give a rat’s rear end about Notre Dame and its fans except for one day a year. And they’re so pathetic, they’ve not been able to win THAT game for what seems like a friggin’ lifetime. That was just flat-out weird tonight.

5. SC SUCKS! SC SUCKS! The entire stadium erupts in electrifying cheers and chants after Stanford wins and yet we continue to play without any kind of energy. That was weird, too. Do our players think they’re already working in the NFL?

6. Officiating sucked. Again. We shot ourselves in the foot as often as we could but those officials were stumbling around with their eyes closed.

I’ve been back up here in Santa Barbara for an hour and I’m still fuming. Dorrell can’t be gone fast enough. He SHOULD have been fired over the PA system as TommyBruin suggested. Thanks to Notre Dame’s vaunted freeway alumni, the entire country now knows Dorrell’s a poser and a loser. And so are we for having him lead our program.

I’m just disgusted.

I was against the Dorrell hire from the moment we hired him (what had he done before to qualify him???). Obviously I hoped I was wrong……I wasn’t. I said before the game that if we lost at least there would be a silver lining….that being that Dorrell would have to be fired. Still, I HATE ND and did not want to lose. How pathetic was that??? I’m livid. LIVID. I can’t sleep. We just lost by 14, AT HOME…IN THE ROSE BOWL….to the worst team in college football.

Yeah, we had a walk on at QB. I have no doubt we could have run the ball every single play and still have won. By a wide margin? No. But win, yes.

Thank god for Ben Howland.

At least Stanford beat SC. I’m still pissed though.

Seriously, this is harder to take than our last 2 defeats to Florida in the final four. Those Florida teams were the better team. I can live with that. But losing to the worst team in college football. At home. By 2 scores. I may have to break some things.

The thing I’m even more interested in finding out is
whether or not Karl Dorrell will make it through the
season. At the rate he is going, he should be gone by
early November. I dont understand how you come into a
football game with a gimpy injury-prone #1 option,
your nuber 2 is out recovering from surgery for 3
weeks and your back up is a freshman walk-on! How is
your second string QB a freshman walk on. He threw an
int and a fumble that cost them the game. Our defense
gives up 3 points and we still lose. Ridiculous. We
had a Redshirt JR QB in July by the name of Osaar
Rashaan but for some reason, he is moved to WR because
he might get more playing time there (does he have a reception on the year?), meanwhile our QB reserves are
depleted. I hope the UCLA admin is shopping for a
replacement. How about tedford, huh.

I knew when the Bruins were posted as prohibitive favorites that they were in trouble. Great points by posters about sticking to the running game against a defense with more holes than swiss cheese. Is the off coordinator to blame, Dorrell, or both? And how do you not give the third string QB reps in practice, throwing the ball, when you know that BO could go down? B-A-D coaching. JD Morgan must be spinning in his grave. I was pissed that the game wasn’t shown here in NYC (ABC showed OSU and Purdue), but am now glad it wasn’t. Sorry for the rest of you who had to witness that disgrace.

First, I have been for dumping Dorall for the whole time he has been a UCLA. He can’t coach, he can’t motivate, he can’t organize. The penalties, the lack of disipline, and the inept play calling are proof that he is a total failure as a coach.
Second, can we dump Ben Olsen too? He may have been a whiz in high school, but he has shown nothing in his years at UCLA. He is not mobile, he doesn’t watch the play clock, he doesn’t know when he has too many men in the backfield, and I think he is a wimp. Please send him on another mission. Third, to put that walk on kid in the position he was put in was disgraceful. The play calling when he was in the game was insane. Fourth and 1 and they call a pass?? WTF? we can only hope that Cowan is ready to play against Cal. Fourth, please keep the team off of national tv. Every time they are on national tv they get beat and look inept. Dump Dorall, dump Olsen, and get us a first rate, quality head coach who can motivate, inspire, and lead our team.

This all comes down to the head coach. We all know that the players are responsible for executing. I will give Dorrell that. But, the head coach is responsible for having his team FOCUSED, DISIPLINED and ready to play.
Penalties are killing this team. This is all on Dorrell. The best answer he can come up with is, “We have to play better.”
As horrible as we played, we still caould have beaten ND if it wasnt for the fact that we beat ourselves.

Inspiring…Dorrell is not!! Exciting…Dorrell is not!! Winning craploads of football games…Dorrell is not!! So WTF is he coaching UCLA? Oh…because we’re not willing to PAY for a top-level coach. So wheres the hundreds of dollars for those season tickets going!?!?!

The ND game was the latest example of his and his staff’s ineptitude. I was astonished that not once, not twice, but at least THREE times on a 3rd or 4th and 1, he had our completely inexperienced walk-on QB THROWING THE BALL…when we were able to run it down the throats of a much better Washington a few weeks in EXACTLT THE SAME SITUATION!! And why are we STILL approaching 100 yeards/game in penalties!?!?!?! We look like the god damned Raiders for crminy!! NO NISCIPLINE!!! What a waste of my time AND my money to go to the ND game!!!! I’m not going to another game until we have a NEW coach!!!!

Is it True?

Moses’ first words after wandering with his people for forty years in the desert were

“You mean that’s the best coach Dan Guerrero can hire at UCLA?”

And so ends the Da-Rell era at UCLA. Maybe now we can start the search for a football coach, preferably one with a pernounced southern drawl….

FWIW - Stanford lost its starter (T.C. Ostrander) earlier in the week due to an illness, and so The Tree ended up starting Tavita Pritchard at QB - a sophomore with a grand total of three passes in his NCAA career.

And won. At the Mausoleum, against vaunted 40-point favorite U$C. And he did it by throwing the ball all over the damn place and having a stout defense to back him up. Up until this point in the season, The Tree had been primarily a ground attack, but with Ostrander going down and Pritchard coming in, things changed a bit.

The folks in Morgan Center have to be able to ask themselves this question: What is Jim Harbaugh able to do in five games that The Thinker has not been able to do in five years? The answer: Match your team’s abilities and skills to your opponent’s weaknesses.

Just one request for our Bruin brothers - when you do can Karl Dorrell, please don’t try to grab Dick Tomey from us. He’s pretty much the only thing keeping SJSU football from utter and total oblivion.

Hang tough, guys. Beat Kal, and beat U$C - again.

This was stupid coaching, plain and simple. Stanford and Hawaii both lose their quarterbacks, and another steps in and brings in the win. Why not at UCLA? Why, with Cowan already out, wasn’t there a second quarterback prepared to play? Why pass so much, all of a sudden, now, against a poor running defense? Why aren’t you preparing your frosh QB on scholarship to get in and do something? Why are you worrying about “burning a redshirt year” when the #5 high school quarterback in the US is already a verbal commit? Why aren’t you preparing your backup from the previous two years who moved to another position but hasn’t caught a pass? Total embarassment. These guys just aren’t thinking. Too slow upstairs.

Karl Dorrell was unprepared and uninspired. What more does it take for him to be unemployed. We, the Bruin faithful deserve more than his efforts.

Very well said. Why is Osaar Rasshan buried on the bench as a 4th string wide receiver? This kid ran all over the place in the spring game in 2006. He was a stud QB in high school, and ran the WCO. The kid is an athlete and can run out of trouble. Surely, he would be a better choice than a stand in the pocket QB. Also, why not utilize Christian Ramirez more at running back. Don’t waste your athletes Karl!!

Just wondering - did anyone see if there were any comments from the A.D. (DG) via any form of media, i.e. Cable, T.V., Press, Student, Freelance, etc…
Does anyone know if DG made any comments after the game in regards to the loss to Notre Dame, even a “no comment”?

Is DG’s standard procedure not to make any comments regarding the play of the team or the coaching staff (positive of negative) during the season?

BruinOC … DG has many times in the past simply not commented after losses. He has no standard practice that we know of however.