Monday Roundup

We have a game this week against a top 10 team, and by the looks of it no one cares. As with the Notre Dame game, interest is muted. Not many in college football are paying attention to our football team. As someone pointed out on one of the boards, had we simply beat patsies Utah and Notre Dame we would be headed for a top 10 showdown with Cal at the Rose Bowl that would most surely be College Gameday’s Game of the Week. The interest that would have generated would have brought millions to UCLA in additional revenues in game receipts and an increase in emblematic merchandise sales, as we should expect. Thanks to Karl Dorrell UCLA our athletic programs, our fans, and our student athletes lose out again. Mediocrity doesn’t pay!

Morgan Center all year told us that the Notre Dame game was sold out … we called their bluff and sure enough only 75,000 people showed. Lets see, 20,000 fewer people at $100 per total receipts … that’s $2 million. Now we are hearing on some of the boards that the Cal game is sold out. We don’t believe it, despite the huge number of Cal grads in the area. It will probably be another 75,000. Had we won the easy games we were supposed to win, instead of getting crushed, we would have most likely sold out the Rose Bowl for Cal or come very close to it. That’s another $2 million. Add the 2 games and you are looking at a loss of roughly $4 million (and that’s if all those attendees at Notre Dame actually paid … we know that Morgan Center gives out hoards of free tickets to kids and veterans to boost attendance figures). Someone explain to us why we can’t afford a good coach?! Again, this Commitment to Mediocrity doesn’t pay!

We will get to our own notes on Cal later this week. We are busy getting info on the billboard, getting the graphics for the new DumpDorrell tshirt finalized, and in keeping the message out there in the media. We are mailing the classic Save Football Dump Dorrell tshirts tonight so if you want yours by the Cal game you have to get your order in today!! We are not making any more of these classic tshirts so get them before we run out. Next up, tonight we are going to be on a taped radio program, CFB Weekly on the Porcupine Radio Network (an online radio show), talking about getting a new coach. Look for the podcast of the interview on their site later in the week. Finally, The Bruin Show will be back on Wednesday at 6 pm. We probably will have Cal bloggers on this week to join us. Get your smack on and put it on your calendar to listen and call in. One more thing … there is no line yet on the game as it appears the decision on whether Cal QB Nate Longshore will play comes tomorrow and apparently Heismann candidate WR DeSean Jackson is questionable.

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