Brian

is there a civil war going on at the DN? Can we get an editor to settle this ... I mean can't someone get this story straight?! Also, whats up with the lack of source info for Scott's bombshell news? It's very suspect coming from an SC alum. I know it's not your report but do you get to throw all journalistic ethics out the window now that you can put a report in a blog? Cmon you guys knew we'd take the bait ... tighten the ship a little.

All I can do is speak for myself and my philosophy. I treat my blog like an extension of a newspaper story. I do not run items without multiple sources confirming the story. I never did, and never will, deal with rumor in a newspaper story I write, or a blog entry I make. I will get beaten on a story before I will write something I did not confirm to be accurate. That is my approach. It always has been, and always will be.

I posted on Scott's blog that basically he was just bored and starting his own rumor to see how far it went.

Brian

Thank you for that note. Speaking for myself, it is helpful to see that.

I think that is the best approach Brian. Keep up the good work on this blog. Could you give us any recruiting insight?

This is a message for Dumpdorrell. Go away. You've been shut up so for the good of the Bruin family please go away.

Mike:

So, we should have kept Lavin because he beat #1 teams a few teams in his career? Even though the rest of the time his players were unprepared for even the weakest of competition? Lavin's record is better than Dorrell's by comparison. At least Lavin made it to what would be the equivalent of BCS games, yet we dumped him anyway and it was a GREAT decision. Also, just like Lavin we find our rivals writing about how they hope we keep Dorrell for years to come, because they've enjoyed kicking our butts.

I loved the win against sc this weekend, it was epic, I'm a fifth year senior and I have no shame in saying that I cried on the field on Saturday. But winning one game does not excuse 4 years of mediocrity (yes, even 10-2 was mediocre, given the way the games were won -- on talented players DESPITE Dorrell's bad preparation, just like Lavin). Dorrell bought himself another year on Saturday, not with me, but with Dan Guerrero, and with the talent coming back and an a good schedule, you could put Coach K in as Head Coach and we'd have a good record. Thus it looks like our rivals are getting their wish, we are stuck with Dorrell for at least another 2 years.

I would love it if he proved me wrong and exploded with coaching prowess next year, but I don't see it happening.

Lets get it straight, Guerrero interviewed Norm Chow and Mariucci before the SC game.

Unlike Brian, I don't need or have journalistic integerity it's a blog for goodness sakes.

If Guerrero has to make a statement to the public about what someone wrote in a blog maybe he has something to hide. It's a rumor isn't Dan?

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C 'mon Brian you know you got a chuckle from it, why not give it a post?? Oh yea, that damn high standards thing again. Cant we throw that out when refering to Wolf?

The problem is that Wolf states the contact as fact. I don't know what it means when he says the "Bruins contacted Mariucci." Exactly who is that? Guerrero? Some out of control booster? Some crazed fan who came across Mariucci's email address? Is it even someone who actually speaks for UCLA?

His wording is so vague that it has the ability to elicit a big response while having no tangible meaning. If that was his intent, it was crafty but also unworthy of a major newspaper and clearly manipulative of its readers.

My suspicion is that what really happened is that Wolf was fed a whopper from the Mariucci camp and he fell for it. We know Mariucci is actively looking for work, and we know that unemployed coaches often leak false information about programs contacting them to "soft" reporters. Mariucci may have found an overzealous dupe in Wolf.

As an SC fan that is subjected to Wolf's blog for the occassional kernel of information he actually does get, all I can say Wolf tosses out more rumor as fact than the National Enquirer. And never with a confirmed source.