UCLA suspends Reeves Nelson from basketball team
UCLA forward Reeves Nelson has been suspended indefinitely for conduct unbecoming a member of the Bruins’ basketball team.
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Did you see what they called their team after they lost to LMU?
We saw Howland’s overweight, slow, lazy, entitled squad came out flat and uninspired against a vastly inferior (in terms of talent) Loyola Marymount squad
I’m sorry, but that’s deplorable. I understand they’re not happy with the state of their athletic programs in their two biggest revenue sports, but never under any circumstances would I essentially call college players for my team fat, lazy snobs.
Add in this Nelson fiasco and I’m surprised they haven’t started self-banning their own fans who even suggest that they should take one game at a time. I’d be ashamed to be associated with those guys admonishing Bruin Athletics the way they are right now over at BN.
by RedOscar on Nov 15, 2011 9:20 AM PST up reply actions 6 recs
I mostly agree, with the only disagreement being it’s acceptable to call Josh Smith fat. He just is, it’s a fact.
by Missing Barry on Nov 15, 2011 9:25 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I’m surprised they haven’t started self-banning their own fans who even suggest that they should take one game at a time.
You’re obviously not very familiar with the calm people over at bn. They do ban their own fans who urge restraint, caution, or a less reactionary tone. All the time. In fact, routinely they ban people who offer opinion counter to the prevailing “bn mini-truth” talking points.
That place is really something.
Being an Old Blue means embracing the "meh".
Careful they’ll ban you and try to get RoT evicted from SBNation for any dig against them.
In other words, Go Bears!
If they haven’t managed to get CGB evicted by now, I don’t think RoT is in much danger!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
A couple of years ago they banned people who dared to criticize Neuheisel. Now they ban people who support him. You would think they would be embarrassed, but they never are.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
They went to ucla. Aren’t they immune to embarrassment?
Old Toothwrangler
by Kodiak on Nov 15, 2011 1:23 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Wow. This is HUGE
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We'll see how Nelson responds
Nelson has always been erratic. This could just be another week of him struggling to adjust to his situation and teammates. He could always come back and dedicate himself to the team.
If he doesn’t? Cal probably becomes the team in the conference with the target on its back.
by Avinash Kunnath on Nov 15, 2011 8:06 AM PST reply actions
What the hell is happening at the southern extension? Their two revenue sports programs are a complete and utter mess! Particularly surprising in the basketball team. Howland seemed to be one of the more steady and respected (by players) coaches in the conference, but the past few years have seen a lot of players with serious attitude ailments, and more than a few guys who have just made a mad dash out of there, almost as if they were trying to escape from East Germany (kids, check your history books).
Personally, I think that shade of blue they use has an unintended effect of rendering the folks there completely batshit crazy in one way or another. Sort of like in a horrible Stephen King story.
The good thing is we all know the good, reasonable folks at BN are approaching this with their usual level-headed aplomb.
Being an Old Blue means embracing the "meh".
by SoCal Oski on Nov 15, 2011 8:28 AM PST reply actions 2 recs
WE NEED A TOTAL REGIME CHANGE!!!
Fire Neuheisel, fire Guerrero, fire Chancellor Block, fire the entire state government, fire the entire federal government! Burn everything to the ground!!!
(Oh, and fire Tedford)
by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Nov 15, 2011 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
It is crazy what is going on down there. It used to seem like you could always count on the UCLA basketball program to be solid year in and year out, with the tradition of winning national championships, John Wooden, etc. and now it just seems like a complete mess. I don’t know whether to feel sorry for them or to lulz.
Definitely lulz.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Yeah, I don’t see how this is even a question.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Nov 15, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
If he chooses to transfer....
…….I would like to hear Monty’s answer when inevitably asked if he would like to have RN on his team. It would definitely be some form of “no,” but Monty has a way with words so I’d still like to hear it.
Thanks for the LULZ, UCLA.
Keep up the good work!
by paleodan on Nov 15, 2011 12:42 PM PST via mobile reply actions
holy shit. my eyes.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Nov 15, 2011 1:14 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I would start quoting to illustrate how utterly ridiculous BN is right now...
…but I really don’t want to dumb down CGB. They’re like a lot of the political trolls we have floating around the internet who categorically deny everything the opposition says in the most provocative and condescending way possible. They don’t bother looking at more than one tiny sliver of the debate and anyone who even puts a toe off the company line is mercilessly murdered. It’s not even “our way or the highway” but more like “our way or BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY WHILE LISTENING JUSTIN BIEBER TRACKS AND STARING AT THE FURD BAND 24/7!”
by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Nov 15, 2011 1:27 PM PST up reply actions
Leave the Leland Stanford Jr. University Marching Band out of this!
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by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Nov 15, 2011 1:52 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
+1
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr
This is TERRIBLE for the conference
Not only did they already lose to LMU, but this will definitely hurt UCLA in games to come. With the conference already relatively weak at the top, this is going to hurt every pac-12 team’s SOS and RPI
Yeah, I don’t really care. I’d rather just beat UCLA and worry about things like possible NCAA tourney seeds later.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Nov 15, 2011 5:28 PM PST up reply actions
whatever. as long as our boys keep on winning their games, they’ll be fine. worry about the conference later.
You guys are a weird bunch
I can’t tell if I’m more detached from these rivalries because I didn’t actually attend a D-I school, or what. To me, getting a high seed in the NCAA tournament and making a deep run in it is pretty much the point of the season. Yes, winning the conference is nice, but if it’s a pathetic shell of a conference, what’s to brag about?
How many regular season conference titles does Oral Roberts have? (Correct answer: “Who cares?”)
In the long run, facing stronger competition benefits Cal in a wide variety of ways.
"We don't want our people to be preoccupied with seminude, crazy men jumping up and down who are chasing an inflated object," said Sheik Mohamed Osman Arus, head of operations for the Hizbul Islam insurgent group.
No, I think its more of a mindset that if Cal takes care of itself and wins as many games as it can, it won’t matter that much that the Pac-12 faceplants. I mean – we’re not a national championship contender – but we are a top 25 school for now – so that puts us in the seeds between 3-6. If we end up Pac-12 champ or runner up or 3rd place, we should fall in that range – regardless if UCLA continues to freefall into unimportance.
You're welcome to believe whatever fantasies you want, but this is clearly ludicrous
Two years ago Cal won the league and got the most difficult at-large-team draw in the entire tournament.
The committee doesn’t care jack shit about the polls. Top 10 teams with horrible schedules have been given bad seeds many times in the past— best example that comes to mind is when a #8-ranked George Washington got an 8 seed. The committee cares a LOT about strength of schedule. Pretending that the quality of conference competition does not influence where (and indeed whether) Cal will end up in the tournament is willful ignorance.
"We don't want our people to be preoccupied with seminude, crazy men jumping up and down who are chasing an inflated object," said Sheik Mohamed Osman Arus, head of operations for the Hizbul Islam insurgent group.
Nice to see you have lost none of your charm!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
BN now comparing their football team to the 49ers
So much talent… just a coach away from being amazing!
by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Nov 15, 2011 6:58 PM PST reply actions
Are you fucking kidding me?
Two words… Alex Smith. Pringling so hard at the Baby Bruins’ comparison right now. Clearly Mr. Smith’s talents were held back by the many, many different coaches and it just took Jiminie Hairball to unlock his inner beauty.
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr
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