Same 'ol Bruins?
UCLA's road losing streak to ranked teams reached 14 games with the loss to BYU, but the bigger issue is whether or not the Bruins were mentally set to play in the game. Most of the players I talked to said they thought they were ready, and practiced well late last week.
Now, the are trying to shake off the 59-0 loss and get ready for Arizona on Saturday.
"It is pretty surreal,'' UCLA center Micah Reed said. "We have to let this one go and worry about Arizona and the Pac-10.
"I thought we were ready for this game. We seemed ready. It just didn't go right for us."
Bruins linebacker Reggie Carter also embraced the looking forward approach.
"I guess it happened again,'' Carter said. "I guess they can say we haven't beaten a ranked team since 2001, so we lost and we have to let it go and move onto the next week."
pfff... You said it all in the title of this post, Dohn. Same Ole' Bruins.
You can take the players away from Dorrell, but you can't take the Dorrell out of the players. No heart. Absolutely NO HEART.
I still love VB's earlier post.
"Systematic annual holocaust of the remaining Dorrell players."
What lovely imagery.
Personally, I think it was just a matter of the players being overmatched, not one of "heart."
But if you really want to question the players desire and mindset, I don't think that should be blamed on Dorrell. It's not his job to motivate and/or mentally prepare them anymore.
Hey genius, 59-0 is not merely a matter of players being overmatched. It is a matter of players not wanting to win. 35-10 is merely being overmatched. 28-7 is merely being overmatched. 59-0 is laying an egg. 59-0 is something Stanford and Florida International fall victim to. Not teams like UCLA.
And Dorrell is certainly not to blame for this loss. However, 90% of the players on this team are players he coached last year, and most of them show the same gutless effort that they showed last year.
A year after Neuheisel's Huskies went 11-1 and won the Rose Bowl, they went to Miami and lost 65-7.
I guess the players wanted to win the year before but not the next. Or better to blame the previous coach.
I am not very smart
this loss lies squarely on slick new weasel's shoulders