Quotables: Chuck Bullough
On Stanford's offense:
"They have a good offensive line and a good back, and that's a tandem that's hard to go against. We practiced against the plays they showed us. We just haeve to go back and make sure were tackling and doing things correctly."
On penalties:
"Penalties hurt us bad...again. We were off the field and then we got a penalty. The guys were in position to make plays, they just have to make them."
Way to go Bullough - you make excuses exactly like Karl "we just have to execute better" Dorrell and you coach like Larry "sit back and react" Kerr.
Yikes!!
What a bunch of crapola that Bullough just said. Damn, we heard that for five years while KD and staff were there.
I think we need a entire purge in Westwood. Get rid of everyone and start over. Don't hire anyone that knows anybody. It was clear that the team again didn't come prepared to play. There was no intensity and the pursuit was pathetic.
Gerhart gained over 100yrds against SC last year at Stanford. And the Cardinal was still in the game until the 4th quarter. To think UCLA was going to fair any better was wishful thinking.
With the type of O UCLA has, the defense had to play perfectly for UCLA to win. I wouldn't be so hard on Bullough for coachspeak.
if the first two commenters watched the game then they would know about how many missed tackles in key situations we missed. which could categorized as not executing...
if the first two commenters watched the game then they would know about how many missed tackles in key situations we missed. which could categorized as not executing...
Sorry Coach Bullough, but the Stanfurd offense is fairly one-dimensional and, for some reason, after 2 weeks of preparation, you could not stop them!
Plus, you let a frosh QB burn us on extremely long plays he had no business completing.
You guys talking shyt after this game are bad for our program. This kind of contrarian, "the sky is falling" crap after one game is ALSO a lot like the kind of snowball effect, negative energy that would take form in the Dorell years late in the season. Before you criticize the coaching staff, why don't you do your part in our inadequate fan base and support our world class coaching staff after only ONE conference game.
The bottom line is, we weren't going undefeated this season, and the fact that we lost to a good Stanford football team without our starting quarterback is not that discouraging in the big picture. The Pac 10 is wide open this year, and we still have a chance to have the kind of outlandish season that you people are holding Neuheisel to as a standard. Go Bruins.
well put andrew
MY OPINION,
Norm Chow is not that great! A great coach leads average players and makes them great.Norm has had sucsess beacause of the talent he has had.The D did not come to play! Last year we were hungry this year?If Craft cant throw then give Bre. a chance to do something! We have athletes on this team so when your QB is out run the freaken wild cat. Do whatever it takes to win! Norm only likes QBs that stay in the pocket but WE do not have that kind of line yet!He will not change his train of thought even if it costs us a win.Thats why he didnt mesh well in Tennesse because the future was VY a running and maybe wild cat style system!Norm use your head make things happen!
MY OPINION,
Norm Chow is not that great! A great coach leads average players and makes them great.Norm has had sucsess beacause of the talent he has had.The D did not come to play! Last year we were hungry this year?If Craft cant throw then give Bre. a chance to do something! We have athletes on this team so when your QB is out run the freaken wild cat. Do whatever it takes to win! Norm only likes QBs that stay in the pocket but WE do not have that kind of line yet!He will not change his train of thought even if it costs us a win.Thats why he didnt mesh well in Tennesse because the future was VY a running and maybe wild cat style system!Norm use your head make things happen!
First off, I am not going to be too upset about the decision to limit Kevin Craft--he's not a good quarterback, so there's not much he can do well except make those dinky quick passes. However, if that is the basis of the offensive game plan, then why not rotate the running backs--not just one, Franklin, but the others as well--throughout the game, not just towards the end. That is what puzzled me durng the game--they were talking up how deep their RB corps is; well, where were they?
As for the defense, they have come out four straight games and laid an egg during initial possessions--they don't seem to be focused, and Moore's PF call exemplifies this. Regarding Moore, he didn't seem too broken up about what his penalty did to the Bruins D on that drive, judging from his comments in another newspaper--which concerns me, because you'd think he'd show some kind of contrition for making an idiotic mistake which helped cost his team 7 points.