Students are starting to get motivated!! Today, DumpDorrell.com is the #4 popular item on Facebook’s UCLA front page (HT to bruinhoo at BruinsNation). Keep it up there!!! Make it #1!! We have no idea how to do that but if you do let us know and get viral with it to make it #1. We need to continue to get the word out. It is up to YOU!! Here is the screenshot: read more
Word is already getting out. We are starting to get responses to our email to the media. First up, surprisingly, Matt Hayes of the Sporting News - one of Karl Dorrell's biggest supporters. He told us in an email that he thought the loss was "very disturbing to say the least" and he said he was writing something about it now. Look for his next piece here. Do your part and get the word out! Send just 1 email to the email list we provide and let everyone know, politely, that what happened Saturday was unacceptable and that you want a new head coach.
We hear you … we are reading your emails. We are getting active here at DD and we know you want to get active too. Here is where we at DD think all Bruin fans should start (if you have any other ideas let us know):
We are probably in the same boat as most of you are. We are a bit shell-shocked by the loss, something we did not expect. We had already resigned ourselves to another year of KD. We even developed this what now seems like a contrived plan that would have us competing for a championship next year. Now that we lost we are kind of figuring out what we can do. It’s difficult given the win over USC to expect Dan Guerrero to pull the plug on Dorrell. But if we think about what would be best for UCLA Football, wouldn’t firing Karl Dorrell still be the best thing for our program??
We think it is. We think we have a shot at something special next year but need a real head coach to make it happen. What better way to bring a new coach on then to offer him next season as his starting point. Politically, as we have said many times, it will be easier to fire a 7-6 KD than a 9-4 KD next year.
So with that in mind, we want to turn attention to the petition again. We will be updating it shortly to reflect the current record. Let’s get to 1,000 signatures and send it to Dan Guerrero. Pass the petition around, make sure those who you know who aren’t aware of it or haven’t signed it do!! Get the word out to UCLA administrators, Morgan Center staff and journos.
The petition to Dump Dorrell is getting national attention thanks the more than 430 people who have signed it in the first 5 days. Sports Illsutrated On Campus has alerted their readers to Bruinsnation.com, their “favorite college football blogger,” and their efforts to get rid of Karl Dorrell. Correction, Sports Illustrated On Campus now has DumpDorrell.com as the Blog Of The Week, and they note and link to the Petition! This is great exposure for our cause to change the direction of our football program. This will help us and Dan Guerrero.
DG has to get rid of KD this year because it will be much harder later on and we will be stuck in mediocrity for years to come. We can help DG. It starts with all of you, loyal UCLA fans that want the best for our football program and university. Once the first mention nationally hits, other exposure follows. Let’s keep the pressure on so that we can give DG the political backing he needs to do the right thing. Get the word out!
It used to be enough for Karl Dorrell to say after losses or pathetic peformances that the team was “learning” or “growing.” We all know that is Steve Lavin’s, er, Karl Dorrell’s lexicon. His post game press conference stump speech was written a couple of years ago. After yet another horrendous season, and 4 straight losses, Karl has added a new twist. The team is getting better! Exciting News! The caveat …. our team is just not getting as better as much other teams are getting better.
The beat reporters are doing their best to make light of a bad situation, to give KD and the team some credit. After all, they did score more than 1 touchdown en route to 24 points and over 500+ yards of offense. There is a huge problem with the glowing analysis. Cal’s defense is ranked #92 in the nation. That’s worse than Utah and Arizona, whom we beat. Cal’s pass defense is even worse, ranked near dead last at #106, more pathetic than even Stanford or Rice. So this improvement on offense is a mirage, a hoax. If anything, we have gotten worse on offense. Against better defenses we scored more points.
Karl Dorrell’s best team yet has not gotten better. His spin from day 1 was suspect, when he boasted on Media Day that “this team is going to shock people” and of course his now infamous “best team yet” comment. Now that his best team yet has gotten off to the worst start of any KD coached team (in this his 4th year!), KD is trying to make the case that the team is getting better!! Better than even his the ‘best yet’ tag he already gave them?! Wow.
For anyone who feels sorry for KD and the heat he is taking, the whole “firing” of a nice guy thing and the whole “he is a Bruin” thing, take a second to think about the implications of keeping him on board. First, KD is getting a nice base salary as a public official at $850K per year. Plus he has clauses in his contract to get paid even if he get’s fired. Don’t worry about KD. Second, he is costing the university much more money than his salary(!) - money that would go to erstwhile important programs that we all care about and affect so many, because revenues from football, boosters, and donations are down due to his inept coaching. That is the crux of the issue.Â
UCLA, our community, is more important than any one individual! So sign the petition to Dump Dorrell.  Get the word out!
For those who don’t yet know, the petition to Dump Dorrell that will be sent to Dan Guerrero and other decision makers is available here for your signature. Read it, sign it, viral the heck out of it by emailing the link to friends, putting it on your Facebook, Friendster, Myspace, or other website pages. Get the word out!
The new tshirts will be available online Sunday morning (we are working on the website coding), check back here then. New Dump Dorrell tshirts have been designed and voted on by Bruinsnation and DumpDorrell readers. Due to the demand for two styles, we are making both available in limited edition (500 qty). We want to get them out to your door by Saturday, November 11, for the Oregon State game at home.  More details later.
The petition to Dump Dorrell is now available online. Read it, sign it, leave a comment, and send it to your friends. Get viral with it by using the viral bookmarks at the bottom of this post, by sending this post to your friends, or using the links on the petition to send to your friends. You can also link directly to the petition on your Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, or other website pages. Now is the time to start building momentum to change the direction of the football program.
Once we reach a large amount of signatures we will send it to Dan Guerrero and all the appropriate people in Morgan Center and Murphy Hal. So get the word out!!
*pdf version will be available soon
Per the request of many Bruins on this and other sites, new Dump Dorrell tshirt designs are ready! Please vote here for the design you prefer. There will be a limited edition of 500 that will go out asap so that you have them for the OSU game on November 11.
We will have an online petition available later this evening for everyone to sign and add comments. We will be sending this petition to Dan Guerrero and other staff at Morgan Center and Murphy Hall to let them know we want change. Your efforts to get the word out are paying off as 2,000 people visited this site Monday! With the petition we think we can start with a very achievable goal of 10,000 signatures. Check back in the evening for the petition. In the meantime, get viral with the email and bookmark links below!
Here are the three design mockups. They will be available later in the week once we see what you all vote on. They will come in the three colors you see below in 100% cotton and will be priced at around $16 to your door. We will be issuing a limited edition of 500 so that we can get them to your door before the OSU game next Saturday, Nov 11. They are designed and manufactured by Bruins.
Vote on which you prefer here!
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