DORRELL OUT...

Anyone else notice that if UCLA hires Walker, Orson won’t have to update his picture file for “UCLA coach?”

I’m really going to miss those sideline looks from Dorrell, where it appeared he wasn’t even fully aware he was supposed to be awake and coaching.

I for one am sad to see the man go. I can’t believe that UCLA could fire him with at least 50% of the city supporting him.

Dorrell even had the support of fellow coaches:

“I think it’s been a horrible challenge for him. The talk radio, the fans, the stuff on the Internet, and all of that,” Pete Carroll told reporters. "It can’t get any harder to live like that, down to his fourth quarterback.

“Give him a friggin’ break. How are you supposed to play football when you’re down to your walk-on kid? They did the best they (could).”

The only good sports-related thing to come out of UCLA this weekend.

The only candidate that would frighten me is Norm Chow. Luckily, there’s no way in heck UCLA would hire him.

Herbstreit told me that Tuberville has accepted the UCLA job.

From one UCLA (Upper Corner of Lower Alabama) to the other, or so it seems.

The official release:

http://uclabruins.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/120307aaa.html

Tuberville to UCLA??? How is that even possible? Doesn’t Tuberville get paid decent money at Auburn?

Those UCLA cheapskates didn’t even pay $1 mill a year in salary (I’m not counting bonuses) to Dorrell.

That’s the most interesting rumor I’ve heard all day. I thought Tuberville was a real Southern guy. I wonder how he would fit in here in LA. On the other hand, maybe Tuberville is excited that a coach can go .500 year after year and it still takes 5 years to get fired.

8: sarcasm (aimed at Herbie’s premature spurt of Miles to UM) did I see?

and can anyone honestly say that Dorrell was worth $1million (other than to USC boosters)?

Nestor today = Red Sox Nation October 28, 2004.

Now what to obsess about?

The Pac-10 needs a dose of extra eccentricity. The Dread Pirate Leach at Westwood would be amusing.

1. - NFL fans recognized Dorrell’s in-game expression as part of the Art Shell-as-gargoyle-school of coaching.

fucking racists

1. - Carroll was trying to save Dorrell’s job because he knew how easy he had it with him there.

Underhanded sarcasm – kinda like comment #6 which was blatant sarcasm.

You don’t get sarcasm much do you?

Nestor’s not long for this world, I fear. (See: Brooks in Shawshank.) He’s an institution man. And that institution is hateration.

Callahan to UCLA, let’s make it happen Bruins

-Trojan in sheep’s clothing

Please get Nestor on EDSBS Live tonight. And once a month from here on in. And anyone else from that blog. It’s endless comedy.

1. - until DeWayne Walker is safely excised from the possibiility of being the next coach, Nestor and the rest of Bruins Nation will still have him to gripe about.

The buttlock is still in place for now because Walker will be the interim coach for the bowl game.

Please, more coaching rumors! The less credible the better.

Tommy Bowden to Arkansas is floating around here right now. That’s craptastic.

No Choice Dept:

Dorrell was a nice man and did ok for a newbie coach.

But, Dorrell was stuck in the Big City with “The Man”.

That is like being an Angelina Jolie girlfriend. Automatic invisibility guaranteed everytime both are out together.

leach would have been skewered and roasted over a scorching hot flame in bama. the question is…would he have noticed??

I despise the type of commentary that goes on at Bruins Nation. Dorrell is not a great coach but I agree with anyone who genuinely states he didn’t deserve the horrendous treatment lobbed at him by various “fans” of the program. And of course, BN is virulently hideous towards just about everyone. My favorite BN moment was last year when one of their main posts expressed the wish that everyone associated with USC fall into the Santa Monica pier and die, followed soon after by a post in which Nestor mentioned he was a churchgoer. That’s Bruins Nation for you (i.e., reeks of hypocrisy , laughable lack of self-control and all-around fail).

Oh, and speaking of crazy coaching business (scroll down a bit): http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-happened.html

Brian at Mgoblog. Coach Machiavelli-Tressel. Duped Herbstreit. False leak. EVIL BUCKEYE CONSPIRACY.

It’s is just too good.

I think some folks’ sarcasm detector is as broken as their sounding like an ignorant jackass when making arguments-preventer.

#18, I think the Clemson fans started that one.

Nick Saban is not interested in the UCLA job.

18

I was joking about Bowden on another thread here, but many of the Clempson faithful would be ecstatic at the possibility of Danny Ford returning from the dead.

On second, thought, it might not be a bad idea.

As a Texas fan I’d miss having Mike Leach in the Big 12 if he heads to UCLA but I won’t miss playing his teams. No matter how mediocre they are with their offense they always managed to put a scare into the Horns.

I’m not sure how well he’d do at UCLA. He would recruit better but I think his defenses would be just as porous as they were in Lubbock. He puts all his recruiting effort into the offense and all his best talent on that side of the ball, that’s not going to change just because he moves to LA.

#21

Don’t forget the part where after the USC/UCLA game last year when some UCLA fan gouged out a USC fan’s EYE WITH A BROKEN BOTTLE, Nestor wrote an entire post about how he didn’t think UCLA fans or the blog should say that was a bad thing to do.

Supposedly Neuheisel’s candidacy for the GT job is flagging — not because he didn’t knock the interview out of the part (supposedly, he did) but because some of the stuffier and more sanctimonious elements of the alumni’s old guard just can’t get with the idea of a repeat NCAA offender leading the Ramblin’ Wreck.

If GT were still in the SEC, of course, Neu would’ve been hired before Gailey was even finished clearing his stuff out of his office.

1. - Tommy Bowden to Arkansas is good, but I just heard Joe Schad on tWWL float the name of Gus Mahlzahn as a candidate to replace Nutt.

I know it’s improbable as hell, but imagine the inter-coach hate if that actually came to pass.

We didn’t land on Westwood, Westwood landed on us!

WTH is up with the page selection? I want to see all in order, not page breaks with reverse chronological order…

Somewhere in Opelika, AL, there’s a happy drug-sniffing dog.

Hey Holly, it’s good to run into you. I could use one or twenty of those Ainge for Heisman shirts. Thanks in advance. You’re a pal.

Re #26: All the same things could be (and were) said of Spurrier’s tenure at Duke. Once he got to Florida where (a) he could actually recruit enough talent for both sides of the ball and (b) pay somebody else good money to take care of the defense, great things became possible. I think Leach would be positioned to do something similar.

I am the happiest UConn fan on the planet…Coach Edsall loves me! And by me, I mean a big raise, more than $1 million a year and absolutely no pressure.

27. I think the point was more that the broken bottle guy was an extremely fishy story that can not reasonably be taken at face value; not that folks should not feel bad that the guy did lose use of an eye (as no one deserves that), but that the facts don’t fit together unless one thinks that 2+2=15.

Rick Neuheisel’s only a candidate if AD Dan Guererro swings that way. Nobody’s apparently better on the casting couch that Slick Rick.

Well you can add me to the list of people who will miss Dorrell. Not everyone can remain presentable while perpetrating doomed game planning and gracefully throwing his players under a bus afterwards.

Mind you, you don’t fare much better if you win – the guy who killed off USC’s attempted scoring drive last year is out of scholarship and driving a forklift to pay tuition. You’d think they could do better for someone who effectively broke a 7 year losing streak to a rival.

1. / Bruinhoo: the Sicilian soccer fans who killed a policeman earlier this year would like to retain you as their PR person.

S2N

Its a good thing Malzahn will have VHTs he’s familiar with to run his offense.

As an A&M fan, I would like to be the first to offer to help Leach in moving. Please leave, and stop tormenting our swiss cheese secondary with your pass-tacular offense and (insert QB here)‘s record breaking stats. Somehow we manage to be the only team on the planet that can’t score on your ass-tacular defense. I hear the Lubbock School for the Blind put up 21 points on you, mostly because they weren’t distracted by your glimmering bass boat helmets.

39. I could very well be wrong. I’m just saying that the reports I recall after the incident stated that:

• was hit in the eye w/bottle, without warning or provocation at the rose bowl.
• was driven to a hospital IN TORRANCE! There are better ways to get treated for a serious injury than to have a friend drive you down the 134-2-Harbor freeway for near 40 miles, such as finding a cop/rent a cop/emt in site.
• not a single person at the Rose Bowl, be it Bruin or Trojan reported seeing anything occur (At least to authorities)

Again, I could be wrong on any or all of these points. This is simply from the media reports that I recall. If I am incorrect, the man has my apologies (and has my sympathies no matter how the injury occurred).

#25,
  Go talk to Penn State. They’re the experts on that.

41 / Bruinhoo : you’re not playing the game by being so polite. Now I feel bad. (This is why the SEC doesn’t think we’re a real conference, I think.)

oh god! the comment shuffling is fucking me up!

#23,#42…hut hut…damn this shuffling….

Poster 13, you idiot. Obviously I knew Pete Carroll was pumping up Dorrell cuz he’s a moron of a coach. That’s why I said 50% of the city wanted him to stay. I was talking about the USC fanbase not the UCLA fanbase. Everyone bleeding Cardinal and Gold starting from the top wants him to stay. Clearly you didn’t even understand that much. People in glass houses……..

@38
You guys still play UW every year right?

OK, I think I’ve got this comment shuffling thing figured out. If you click on “All”, it reorders every thing from the beginning and on one page like we’re all used to.

1. and others confused by the new numbering. Just click on “show all” to get the comments the “old way”.

I ain’t clickin’ shit. I refuse to adapt! Loud noises!

Neuheisel’s opening line in the interview:

“I’ll bet you I can turn this program around.”

Long story short, Tech’s AD might be out some money…

Apparently Tech has hired Chris Hatcher from GSU. Although they’ve also apparently hired Muschamp and God knows who else.

Joshua,

If anyone had ever mounted an Ainge for Heisman campaign, that’d be one thing. Sadly, that’s not the case—he’s just our QB1, nothing stellar, but he’s ours, and I don’t ever remember claiming he was Peyton Redux. That said—thanks for displaying the kind of class I’ve come to expect from LSU fans and that Livia encountered this weekend in Atlanta. I hope you represent our conference better than that at the title game, asshole.

My God I got chills watching that shit. I remember yelling drunkly at the press box for the BCs game. I remember….. what’s this? Buttons on the comment section? Genius.

44/DC. Damn, you’re right.Finals seem to really have me off my game. Insert obligatory humanitarian/housegate/$c reference here.

And not one FOA request on Dorrell’s cell phone records? we really did not do our homework in this whole getting rid of Dorrell thing.

Holly,

RRRRRRRRRRRRROOOooowwwrrrrrrr. Put away the claws girl, I was just kidding around. I’m referring to the black Ainge for Heisman shirts I have seen around, apparently produced by Vols in support of him.

Ainge did fine for yall this season. Bad Ainge came out to play at a bad time and LSU made some plays. So you might understand how that shirt might have some cachet amongst the purple and gold. You’re the clever writer with a great sense of humor, I would hope you can see the humor in that.

If not, I’m surprised you can’t take what passes for good natured ribbing that has been exhibited here all season. Hell, your boobs belong to Tebow.

Cat noises! Truly, you have a rapier wit, sir.

Me, I appreciate ribbing when it’s funny. (See: PROPERTY OF MISTER TEBOW and all attendant spectacle.)

re: injuries, Orson, Mike Bellotti is on the phone. He wants 10 minutes of your time. Don’t worry, Colleen has left the house.

Chris Petersen already turned down the job, which for him may be the right move. Knowing FUCLA, they will royally screw this up and it will be fun to watch.

America … Fuck Ya!!

It does not matter who UCLA hires as a coach, they are still a basketball school in the same city as one of the elite programs in the country. As the LA Times pointed out the other day, He won about 6/10 of his games and that is what most UCLA coaches have done.