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September 25, 2006
Monday quickies
Karl Dorrell addressed the play-calling issue Monday, and the basic take was he thinks UCLA needs to throw the ball more. I would think it will be addressed in this week's game-planning and it should be noticeable this week against Stanford. I wrote about it for tomorrow's paper, so look for it, please.
Here's a few other tid-bits:
Shot-gun plugged?: UCLA didn’t utilize the shotgun at Washington, but it will likely remain in the arsenal.
“There’s a number of things we can do, but we’ll see what happens in the next few days,’’ Dorrell said. “That’s not going to be the savior for whether we’re going to be able to throw the ball all of a sudden. We just have to put the attention to what we’re doing, and it will be better. I’m very confident our offense will be better.’’ ...
Dorrell said Justin Medlock needs to “get (his) kickoffs deeper. That’s the one thing I saw in our special teams.’’ Four of Medlock’s kicks did not go inside the 15-yard line, and another went out of bounds. …
UCLA’s Oct. 7 home game against Arizona will kickoff at 4 p.m. and be broadcast by FSN Prime Ticket.
Posted by Brian Dohn at September 25, 2006 08:33 PM
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I can't help saying this - we faced the worst statistical pass D in the Pac-10, and we're talking about passing more against 'Furd, who actually has a statistically decent pass D.
Encouraging to hear, but painfully stupid 20-20 hindsight.
Posted by: ReelBruin at September 25, 2006 08:50 PM
Brian - Great article. I still question CKD's pinning it on "Svoboda's learning curve" so to speak because CKD is still the HC, and therefore ultimately it IS still his responsibility to correct mid-course if the OC isn't doing it.
Posted by: ReelBruin at September 26, 2006 12:10 AM
Some coaches are great at in-game adjustments, some are great at halftime adjustments. UCLA coaches prefer the postgame adjustment. Yay for us.
Posted by: beekor at September 26, 2006 05:27 PM
Brian, you wrote that of UCLA's 24 first down plays, 19 of them were runs. By chance do you know what that ratio was in the Utah game?
Posted by: MD at September 26, 2006 07:34 PM