Dump Dorrell

Not a whole lot going on today in UCLA football given the bye week.  But we at DD are preparing for next week.  Some of our readers have given us great notes on next steps once the ads start publishing in the Daily Bruin on Monday. We have had a couple of additional contributors to the ad in the last many days.  That will go some ways towards the minor deficit we have since 5 contributors decided to get a refund, which we gave … no worries.  

Despite the bye week, there are some news bits to report:  (more…)

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First up, we have the 4-Finger Foam Fingers! If you want to buy one so that you can pick it up at the game do so by tonight because tomorrow morning we will have someone at the Rose Bowl with the fingers and white DumpDorrell tshirts. We will do it like last year, once make the purchase Paypal gives us your email and we will contact you with contact details to pick up the stuff. More details here.

Some great Bruin graphics artist started a hilarious Cal thread over at BruinReportOnline. Making light of Cal’s lack of championship banners, AndersonMBA2007 went to Cal’s campus and found that hyper-sensitive affirmation starved Bear fans had many things to hang banners for. Here are a few: (more…)

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There has been a lot of discussion on the billboard here on DD and on Bruinsnation here and here. Lots of great ideas. The best ones are short and simple. It is a billboard and people have to get the message in the seconds they are driving by. Too many words or numbers are a unreadable to the vast majority of drivers. Plus, such an ad would most likely not get any media attention. We will put up ideas for a vote this coming week and a paypal donation button after the Cal game.

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We’ve done some checking around, and the costs for a “We’re #4!” billboard around the Westside, which is where we’d want it, are pretty high. We would have to get an average $10 from everyone who comes to our site in a day (on average), or about $11,000 (including artwork), to get a 12′ x 24′ billboard for a month in West LA (example left). We can try it … but we’d like to get some opinions on this. Many people have said it’s a great idea but there would have to be a LOT of people who get behind it to make it happen.

A month is the minimum rental period for the billboard industry. It would be a great length of time and we like the idea. Is it doable though, is the question. We could set up a donation button through paypal and keep a running tally so people could see it. We could put a timetable on it as well. If we hit the mark we do it. If we don’t hit the mark, we refund all the money back. But it wouldn’t look so hot if we top out at $400. If there are any large donors out there that want to talk about this contact us directly. Fire away with your thoughts …

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Update:  Our editor will be on at 5:20 …

One of our editors will be on ESPN Radio's The Big Show with Mason & Ireland today at 5 pm.   The Big Show is on AM 710 locally.  Show up in numbers, call in, and make your views known!!  Or tune in or listen to the live streaming broadcast online.  Hear DumpDorrell.com talk about the new "We're #4!" Dump Dorrell campaign.  John Ireland is a UCLA alum and wants Dorrell fired. Should be fun.

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The response to our new "We're #4!" campaign has been amazing.  We have been contacted by reporters and radio show producers.  They say the 4-finger foam fingers at the Rose Bowl against Cal will get attention.  We will have those for you later this week.  Many of you want to do the billboard … we will get back to you on that soon as well.   Students have told us they want to organize something on campus and sought our help … if you are a student, contact us for details on how you can help out.   Our site traffic has shot through the roof, with over 3,200 visitors yesterday.  If you are a new DD reader you can subscribe to our posts via daily spam free email up at the top right corner of the page (be sure to complete the process and validate your email).  Also, you can subscribe to our RSS feed here. 

We might be on ESPN Radio again this afternoon with The Big Show with Mason & Ireland to talk about the new campaign.  We've been on the show before and John Ireland is a UCLA alum and wants Dorrell dumped.  Should be a good time so look for confirmation here later today.  Keep spreading the news about the campaign and keep getting the voice heard by emailing Dan Guerrero et al.  YOU want a new head coach, YOU have to make it happen!!

We are still having problems with the code for selling T-shirts through Paypal on our site, but we will find a way sometime later today. So all of you looking for the classic Dump Dorrell tshirt you will get it in time for the Cal game.  But there are only limited numbers left so check back. 

More later, but for now on to the news:  (more…)

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Editor's note:  We are keeping this post at the top, bumping it above newer posts. For newer DD content please read posts that follow this one. Also, it looks like we might be on ESPN Radio tomorrow with Steve Mason & John Ireland's The Big Show.  They want to talk about the "We're #4!" campaign.  We'll give you details tomorrow. 

It's time to make some noise and demand a coaching change!!  It's time to reach the mass average Bruin fan that knows they want a coaching change but doesn't know how to make it happen.  We decided that the best way to do that is to give everyone something easy to get behind and to remember.  What better choice than to put Karl Dorrell's record of achievement out there front and center in a comical way ….  We're #4!!  (more…)

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