December 15, 2007
Duke Hires … David Cutcliffe
Oh well. It was too good to be true for UCLA football. The prospect of Dorrell getting hired again so immediately, saving UCLA football $2 million that would have gone to his buyout, was a dream scenario for Dorrell, Dorrellistas, and UCLA football fans. Alas, not even Duke football hired the our former coach. Instead, Duke went with David Cutcliffe, Tennessee offensive coordinator and former head coach of Mississippi, ESPN is reporting. It was expected. After all, Brian Dohn, Dorrellista in charge of public relations, reported that Dorrell's visit all the way to Duke wasn't a "pure interview."
So … let's recap. Dorrellistas, Donahue, Dohn, Simers, Streeter, et al, would have you believe we lost a future great coach. The "we told you so" chirping on the net started almost immediately when powerhouse Duke called on Dorrell for an interview. Then apparently there really wasn't a "pure interview," just a visit. In the end, not even Duke wanted Dorrell. Now the Dorrellistas have changed their tune, or added a new one, and have been turning the volume knob on Walker. Moreso than they did for Dorrell. "If we don't hire him someone else will" became the new song, and it contained the familiar refrains of "we will lose the recruits," "no one else wants the job," and our favorite "he loves being at UCLA." Strangely, the new song hasn't caught on. Not even the trumped up interest Washington State supposedly had in Walker, played in great sync by Dohn and the Walker camp, could generate a simple token interview for Walker. And name after name is showing interest in the job "no one wants."
We are not where we want to be yet. The job is not finished. Hopefully, DG will do the right thing and the days of the Dorrellistas, the Walkeristas, the commitment to mediocrity will be long gone. It will be a great day when they go back into the closet for good. Go Bruins!
5 Comments on Duke Hires … David Cutcliffe
December 15, 2007
Diego (Aka Bluebruin) @ 12:41 pm:
The great thing about Duke hiring Sutclife is that Dorrellistas like Dohn lose steam about the importance of head coaching experience. NOT EVEN DUKE!!! A shit program, is hiring someone without head coachign experience. Does anyone want to know why? Well, Duke, apparently, has made a strong committment to football. After this season, the Duke Administration gathered with boosters, Coach K of bball and anyone related to the athletic department and they all agreed theywere going to make a conscious effort to boost Duke Football. They started by first firing teh coach and then beginning a search for the prime replacement. Boosters have come out to give money, Coach K is going to endorse the push for football, etc.
So, when your school says it wants to get serious about football, it doesn’t hire someone like Dorrell, or Walker.
We need to follow this kind of example. If DG really means that he wants to be serious about football, then don’t fook around with people like DW. Get them the fook off the list, and let’s choose wisely. No Chances, no speculations, no dark horses.
Diego (Aka Bluebruin) @ 12:42 pm:
Ahhh… correction, I meant to write Cutcliffe, but Sutclife came out. I apologize.
DumpDorrell @ 12:44 pm:
Actually, Diego, Cutcliffe was head coach of Ole Miss. Still, Duke is making a commitment to football and Dorrell does not fit their plans for excellence … if they will ever be able to reach it.
Diego (Aka Bluebruin) @ 2:43 pm:
oooppps. I miswrote that, too. It contradcits what I’m trying to say. I wanted to say is that EVEN DUKE is hiring someone with head coaching experience. That’s my bad. I wish there was a way I could edit.
December 16, 2007
whp '68 @ 9:59 am:
I am no fan of Dorrell and, while it is instructive that even lowly Duke puts great stock in previous head coaching experience, one must give him credit for picking himself up off the mat, dusting himself off, and getting back in the fight. He could have gone home, shut the door, and pouted in the gloom waiting for his big, fat checks to arrive from the California taxpayer. Or worse, he could have become some asinine football color man — a position in which his buyout would have continued undiminished. Such was the situation with Lavin who, after the teat dried up, turned his hand to such endeavors, inanely prattling over significant live basketball action and crying the blues about his firing.
I mean, Duke is about as far as one can get from UCLA geographically and philosophically. From what I understand, an unsuccessful coach of Dorrell’s racial ethnicity would face greater revulsion from the populace in the Southeast; well, they are certainly no more tolerant than UCLA fans.
My admiration for him will be fully revived when I hear that he has accepted a job (that curtails the buyout) with a small college as a head coach and makes a serious effort to learn the trade at which he received five years’ apprenticeship at his alma mater.
As a Bruin, I will root for his success.