Simers is an idiot. I’m sure this site is getting a lot more traffic because of what he’s writing. He makes it sound like Dorrell was a great coach and the only reason he lost his job was because of dumpdorrell.com. In fact, Dorrell was not a good coach and that’s why he got fired.

Just like Simers and Streeter aren’t good writers and should be fired.

I think the reason the writers at The Daily Trojan, oops, I mean LA Times are so in love with Dorrell is because they love USC and don’t want UCLA to have any success. Streeter’s argument was that UCLA has always been mediocre at football, so what’s wrong with a mediocre coach? Simers seems to be saying the same thing. According to him, about the best we can expect is a presentable head coach, not too much scandal, and 6-6 seasons. Expect anything more, and we’re raving lunatics and fanatics, people with no lives who only live to persecute poor ole Karl.

That’s why Simers is an idiot.

Simers is a little bitch,who I doubt even played a down of football in his little bitch life! don’t trip on that fool D.D. that’s exactly what he wants! haven’t u read hus columns over the years!? he lives for getting a reaction! so they best way to battle him is not to give him one! anyways on to better things! just announced Dorrell will not coach Ucla in bowl game. Walker will be interim coach vs. BYU

Simers is a fool. He’s the idiot that started calling him Dullard, which implies Dorrell is mentally deficient, he misuses the word to imply that Dorrell is boring, but now Simers is starting to feel guilty. If Simers is calling you out then the Times’s circulation must really be plumetting. Look at their writers, Simers, a hack who couldn’t hang on to an AM radio gig, Bill Dwyre a Notre Dame old fogie and Jerry Crowe, Captain Obvious.

In phone conversations with my well-placed source at the LA Times, she informed me that executives at Tribune, the owner of The Times, very much dislike T.J. Simers and his column and want to give him the boot. They see him as a one of the primary causes of subscription decline. This, coupled with the loss of his radio show that he had with his daughter (great radio!), has T.J. running scared. She said that as a result, T.J. dropped the “Karl Dullard” schtick, and decided to become “more positive and supportive” in his columns, particularly with Dorrell. She said Simers couldn’t care less about Dorrell and has repeatedly stated over the years he thinks he’s an awful coach. However, now Simers has taken up Dorrell’s mantle hoping to save his own job.

I say we should send tylers comment to Simers email box!!!

Well, this article by Simer is in line with all of his other articles, and the articles written by those that wanted to retain Dorrell.

Yes, Dorrell is gracious, no one ever debated that; but at what point will these writers realize that their 100th column discussing how nice KD is only serving to avoid the real issue?

This is how all of these artciles go. Kurt Streeter, Dohn, Simers; they all sound like a broken record, but more important, not a single one of them deals with the record. KD is even uttering it himself: It’s about Results. DG uttered it: It’s about Results.

Simers, STreeter, Dohn et. al, none of them are able to really do anything about Dorrell’s pedestrain record. They would rather discuss ancillary issues than the concrete issue of why KD was fired. In Simer’s case, he squawks about that 10-2 record as if this was KD’s second year and he had gone 10-2 last year. Streeter elects to make a suggestion of race and dismisses UCLA as a pretender school, rather than call into question Dorrell’s results and Dohn elects to continue to underscore that “recruiting” and/or the upstanding citizens issue.

Not a single one of these columnist have concrete arguments against firing dorrell based on his performance. When the Discussion shifts to overall record, Simers blurts out 10-2 (MAN!! imagine what the record really WOULD be if that wasn’t a 10-2 year?), Streeter says, well, UCLA has always been a .600 team, so this rally to fire dorrell must be about race and Dohn says, yeah, but KD is a nice cool guy.

that’s it!! that’s all these guys write. The more they write, the more attention they’re taking to their severely incomplete work, and their severely diluted thinking.

IT all makes sense, though. At the L.A. times, Simers is a distant second to Plashcke. I’ll take Plashcke over Simers any day. His column is known around town as a parody for a reason. Plash is the one that’s regarded as legitimate. Streeter is the new guy that just came over to the L.A. times relative to the others. Furtheremore, Kurt Streeter is a social guy; he’s not a sports guy. His work is extensive when it comes to social issues, not sports. While sports can serve as a microcosm of society, that doesn’t mean that societal issues apply to sports EVERY TIME! In other words, STreeter has even less credibility (read legitimate readership) in this city. The best way for him to fight his way in is to use the shock factor. When trying to resolve social issues, the SHOCK factor is big. Shock the readers so that social reform can be enacted. Well, Kurt, that’s not the way to approach the firing of a barely above .500 coach.

Dohn is a beat-writer. Enough said. In the ladder of priority, beat-writers are in the lower echelon.

One more note: If anyone continues to cite recruiting standards as an issue, I will MELT DOWN!

Look at Karl Dorrell himself. It’s amazing the duality involved in what he’s saying. HE’s sayhing that it’s hard to make UCLA a power, because of the academic standards. HE’s saying this at the very time that he’s at teh cusp of landing the #4 recruiting class in the country. The manner in which JAmes Washington from Fox, Kurt Streeter from the L.A. times (and I actually spoke to him on the phone about this point) and all other Dorrellistas are citing the acamdemic standards, you’d think we were an Ivy League school or STanford. We’re not! How ironic that KD, and others, say that it’s impossible to establish long-term recruiting or success because of academic standards during the very moment KD has recruited the #4 class. If it’s impossible, then WHY DO you have such a good class coming next year? BECAUSE IT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE!! BEcause it is hard, but not next to impossible. BECAUSE IT IS possible.

If KD, with an unenthusiastic demeanor and record at a school that isn’t serious about football, can recruit the #4 class in the nation, then HOW IS IT that a BIG NAME coach can’t at the VERY worst replicate this feat???

Players go to a school because they’re going to learn from a great coach, they’re going to play for a great university, they’re going to have a chance to play often and earlier and because the schoooooool WINS and is known for winning! Once the right man is in place, it makes all of the difference.

Notre Dame has been complaining about its academic standards for years, but now that they have an NFL guy that’s a good coach, despite his horrible year this year, players want to play there, because they know they will be part of the national discussion. AT UCLA, the same thing can happen, if you ahve the right guy in place.

Sorry, Karl, but you were only partially the right guy. You handled the part about integrity and class, but those weren’t the only requirements for the job. Like your record at UCLA, you only did half the job.

Only Suc Cal fans really wanted to keep Dorrell. Any self respecting Bruin fan knew Dorrell was way over his head. Writer who think otherwise should be writing fortune cookies.

tyler lyon–Thanks for the scoop on Simers and the Times. That sounds about right. The LA Times calls me pretty much every week trying to get me to renew my subscription. I keep telling them the paper is horrible and leave me alone, but they keep calling.

I have a laundry list of things the Times would need to do get me to even consider subscribing again, and canning Simers is at the top of the list.

Hey TJ–What goes around comes around! You’ve had a lot of fun ridiculing “Dullard”, ripping UCLA, Nebraska, etc. etc pretty much anything except your precious USC Trojans. Looks like the party is winding down.

I’ve been reading some out-of-town sports pages for non-AP takes on the Dorrell firing. One of interest claimed that Dorrell was the savior of UCLA football. They state he cleaned up a scandal ridden program and cited the infamous handicapped parking pass incident as an example. They claim KD improved the character and citizenship of UCLA players and was then unceremoniously dumped by the guy who charged him with that responsibility, DG.
Man, where was all this clamour for citizen football players when Todd Marinovich was smoking dope in front of Tommy Trojan and Reggie Bush drove his 70K SUV up and down Figueroa? Geez, sc has drunk players falling off cliffs and Carroll’s program comes up smelling like a rose.
Too much, man.

TJ is doing all of this for show. He’s the one who kept calling him Dullard, ridicules his son-in-law’s profession (Grocery Store Bagger) and routinely would be flat out hostile to his wife in his column (He’s stated she’s fat at least once and makes repeated reference to how much she eats). He’s kind of like Bill Simmons, picking fights, taking screwy positions to annoy people. Only he isn’t the least bit charming like Bill Simmons can be.

http://digg.com/football/Dorrell_s_Record_As_UCLA_Football_Coach

I’m not even a UCLA fan, but Simmers is senseless. He’s basically accusing this site of being horrible because you are advocating firing a man whose done a mediocre job because it MIGHT HURT HIS SELF-ESTEEM. Holy shit. “self-esteem”? Are you kidding me?

I agree with all of the above when it comes to TJ Simers. He is well past his prime and should have been fired long ago.

Instead of canning Simers they “reassigned” one of their best writers, Larry Stewart and no one has seen him since.

I say bring back Larry Stewart to Sports and send TJ Simers packing, preferably to somewhere in the middle of Nebraska. I’m sure that they will just lap up all of his schtick…

this just in Peterson in L.A.for a few days for recruiting and supposedly is not interested in the coaching position at Ucla

Coach Pete wants no part of the UCLA job!

This KD idiot still doesn’t get it. WIN, stupid! TJ is a moron also. We don’t care if he is nice GEEEZ! Won a few more than he lost. not in this town. Read the LAT article on “a coach with swagger”. Way over his head. HE STILL THOUGHT DG WOULD KEEP HIM. oh my God!!!!!!!!!

Steve