UCLA Coaches “Feeling the Heat”

From the LA Times through SI:

“After eight games last season, UCLA was undefeated and ranked No. 5 in the BCS standings. This year, the Bruins are 4-4 and heading south with a three-game losing streak. Karl Dorrell, co-coach of the year in the Pacific 10 Conference last season, and his staff have been feeling the heat because of UCLA’s recent struggles.”

You don’t say?

An ALUM of the University?

With a 26-19 overall record that includes three bowl appearances in his first three seasons?

Receiving heat with a 4-4 record in only his fourth season?

One season after being named the conference Coach of the Year in a season that the school won 10 games for only the seventh time in history and won the Sun Bowl to finish with a 10-2 record and a #13 national ranking?

But…yet…there is no criticism of the fans/administrators applying the ‘heat’?

And…no argumentative public statements by the school’s Athletics Director criticizing the UCLA fans?

One of the best fan blogs on the internet is UCLA’s BruinsNation. If you are interested in this kind of stuff you need to click over to BrunsNation and surf for a bit.

It is always interesting to us how every other school in the country’s fans are allowed to be normal fans without constant criticism from the media and their own Athletics Director.

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18 Responses to UCLA Coaches “Feeling the Heat”

  1. DRW 10/30/2006 at 5:25 PM #

    But, you forget. We’re bad fans and shouldn’t expect anymore than being mediocre.

  2. Woof Wolf 10/30/2006 at 5:28 PM #

    Gotta be the lunatic fringe.

  3. Cardiff Giant 10/30/2006 at 5:35 PM #

    I like the UCLA Coach. He seems dignified (witness his response to the horrible, gut-wrenching loss to Notre Dame) and his teams play with discipline.

    Perhaps we could get him to come here?

  4. class of 74 10/30/2006 at 5:40 PM #

    How many examples does it take for the lame leadership we have to see what goes on in the rest of the world?

  5. Cardiff Giant 10/30/2006 at 5:45 PM #

    ^ Precisely. We have absolutely one of the worst athletic directors in America in terms of producing consistently successful programs. Fowler just doesn’t, by all appearances, care about wins and losses. He cares about whether the department makes money, and that he makes money. That’s it. There are too many examples of this to mention and most of us know them already.

  6. packbackr04 10/30/2006 at 5:55 PM #

    cardiff^^ he isnt even that good at making money… we were barely in the black last year were we not?? correct if wrong.

    if this guy had my job, he wouldnt last a week, because you know what drives my job, and how my performance is judged? RESULTS.
    plain and simple, and if i am not cutting it any more then they will find someone younger and better looking than me to fill my position for less money than i was doing it for. WHy this same logic doesnt apply to our athletic dept is beyond me.

  7. richdail 10/30/2006 at 5:58 PM #

    Fact is, everybody wants a successful team, and almost everyone gets frustrated and impatient if their team’s progress levels off or goes backward.

    Any fan is justified in wondering what is wrong when the program begins a backward slide. If it’s a rebuilding year—as the UCLA situation might be— then that’s one thing. But we’ve been sliding, err . . .”rebuilding”, for some time now.

  8. redfred2 10/30/2006 at 6:10 PM #

    ^04,

    My understanding is that it’s not in the black now, and wasn’t last year. That’s from a source in Raleigh and I don’t know what reason he would have to lie to ME about that. I know he doesn’t like Fowler though, and that was the reason for his comment on the financial condition, but he knows he doesn’t need to sway my opinion by fabricating about any of that.

  9. redfred2 10/30/2006 at 7:26 PM #

    Loosely quoting here, ‘everyone is focusing on revenues and the enthusiam in Raleigh in comparison to the other schools, but no one is getting a true picture of NCSU’s recent expenditures.”

    I don’t know if that is true, it’s just what I was told in a casual conversation one Sunday morning, by someone who should know. He was admittedly steamed about football at the time, but he had nothing to gain and it wouldn’t justify a false statement like that.

  10. highstick 10/30/2006 at 7:43 PM #

    Ain’t that the truth! If all you had to do was to produce revenues, managing a business would be easy.

  11. old13 10/30/2006 at 8:00 PM #

    Mediocrity will reign in Raleigh until Foulup is gone and a REAL AD is in place. Oblinger needs to get on the stick!

  12. Wolfpack4ever 10/30/2006 at 10:02 PM #

    From BruinNation “We don’t need to wait for KD to match Toledo by losing his fourth straight game to Southern Cal before making a change.”

    Southern Cal was National Champion a couple of those years. And I thought “Beat the Holes or Else” was radical. I suppose any school that had Dick Vermiel as its coach has a right to expect to beat the National Champion every year or so.

  13. newswolf 10/30/2006 at 10:41 PM #

    UCLA has more national championships than any other school in the nation. They don’t play for second.

  14. Nestor 10/31/2006 at 9:48 AM #

    Thanks for the link guys.

    To answer Cardiff … trust me … you don’t want Karl Dorrell as your head. No need to go through for another four years what you are going through now.

    Hang in there fellas. Trust we feel you on what you are experiencing at NC State. Love this blog.

    http://www.bruinsnation.com

  15. partialqualifier 10/31/2006 at 11:00 AM #

    Love the Link!! I agree with all that has been said. No question… the AD should be leading the fans, not criticizing them. Good ones seem to be able to understand that. Like I heard Mike Ditka say a few weeks back when asked about head coaches having to defend themselves in the NFL…”if you’re always having to defend yourself, there must be something to defend.” In Ditka-speak that means that if you are having to defend yourself/your program/your team/ all of the time then maybe there is something to the criticism. Fowler is way to conceited or inept to understand that.

    I would like to throw out there to all of you something I was thinking about as I read this. We are all out here ripping Fowler a “new one”, but honestly folks over the last 15 years have we had a competent AD? Turner, Robinson, Fowler? And the last couple of years when V was AD were kinda questionable as well. You could make a real good case that NC State has not had a competent Mid to High Level Division I AD in 20 years…certainly 15. Is it any wonder we are scratching our heads? I think maybe we are missing the boat going after Fowler…altho he certainly has to go. Let me break it down this way:

    1-Amato cant hire quality assistants…we blame Amato
    2-Fowler cant hire quality coaches or run our athletic department with any kind of competence…..we blame Fowler.

    But what about the people that hired Fowler…and Robinson….and Turner. I am starting to wonder if anybody at NC State wants a decent athletic department. Seriously. One reason I am “iffy” about getting rid of Amato is that I honestly dont believe for one second that Fowler would find a better coach. So we would fire Amato….give a new guy 4,5,6 years and guess what…nothing…cause in football we dont have an Alumn who could come in at the last minute bail out the AD and take us back to the “good ‘ol days.” So that takes me back to those who hire Fowler. What makes any of us believe that after Turner, Robinson, & Fowler anybody at NC State would have a clue about hiring a real AD? Seriously folks. We have some real problems at NC State. Our problems begin with the AD…and I aint sure we have enough people that love State athletics enough to go out and find us an AD that can move NC State forward…and as a fan that scares that hell out of me!

  16. RAWFS 10/31/2006 at 11:21 AM #

    Can we expect an open letter from LF soon?

  17. class of 74 10/31/2006 at 2:06 PM #

    ^If so I hope it’s a letter of resignation.

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