UCLA Reportedly Hires Jim Mora To Be Next Bruins Head Coach
by Avinash Kunnath on Dec 10, 2011 5:32 AM PST
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PrintLA Times reports that the younger Mora is on his way to Westwood.
UCLA has reached an agreement to hire former Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks coach Jim L. Mora, according to a person familiar with the situation who is not authorized to speak on the subject.
UCLA is expected to make a formal announcement on Saturday, and he is to be introduced next week at a news conference.
Quizzical move. I'm guessing UCLA is trying to replicate the Pete Carroll to SC formula and see if a pro head coach can succeed in LA with all the recruiting talent available to him. Mora has never really been a college coach as the LA Times article mentioned, so I wonder if this'll work out the way Bruins fans are hoping it'll work out.
UCLA will be one of many interesting teams to follow in the conference next season, but I'd have to say after the exciting Mike Leach and Rich Rodriguez appointments, this hire leaves me a little puzzled. What say you?
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Initial reaction from BN
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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but honestly
there are very very few coaches they could’ve hired that BN would be excited about
by ucsdgoldenbear on Dec 10, 2011 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
According to BN multiple established coaches would love to come to ucla
Those guys are delusional.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 11:33 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
They want Moos and Leach to come down from Pullman
Attractive, Intelligent, Smart A**
by Neil Vincent Roberts on Dec 10, 2011 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
I was hoping for Mora the Elder...
PLAYOFFS!?!
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by secret ASian man on Dec 10, 2011 7:23 AM PST reply actions
He won't have to worry about playoffs...
This is college football.
Perfect hire!
"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.
UCLA fans loved the Neuheisel hire
And he failed. They hate the More hire, so he’ll probably succeed. Dang!
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by norcalnick on Dec 10, 2011 7:41 AM PST via mobile reply actions
USC hated the Pete Carroll hire when it happened, too.
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Yeah, I sort of feel like there’s no way to know if this is a good hire now, just as there was no way to tell that Pete Carroll would be any good. I respect Mora Jr. as a coach, but College Football is all about recruiting, and there’s just no way to tell if he’ll be any good at what is really the most important part. The X’s and O’s, I’m sure he can handle that.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I really do not respect Mora as a HC
It will be interesting to see who Mora hires as his OC. If Mora brings Knapp with him as his OC I will LMAO.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 10:11 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Jim Mora III not available?
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Given the looseness with which they applied the "Jr." honorific
anybody can be Jim Mora III.
Hopefully whoever they hire as the next UCLA coach will have to take on that name. It’ll be kinda like the papacy, except that there’s a lot more zealotry at BN.
From what I understand, the mods over at bn have begun the process of dipping long sticks of wood into pitch, and fashioning rudimentary pitchforks, hoes, and other medieval agricultural implements in advance of their march to Westwood.
Their rational, considerate, and moderate behavior throughout this entire process should be condoned. Those folks really did show the rest of us what class truly is.
Being an Old Blue means embracing the "meh".
I got banned from Bruins Nation
for 2 comments. One, there was a guy who was posting that there was a media conspiracy to keep Ucla from hiring a good coach. I made fun of that idea. Two, someone posted that the reason people like to mock Ucla is because they’re a “sleeping giant.” I said that no, we mock you because you suck. They’re pretty sensitive over there. Oh well, at least I had fun on my way out.
I made one (1!) comment -- and that was enough
I made a slight crack about “little brother” but was, and here’s the emphasis, completely and totally sympathetic to a Mora hire being terrible for the program. I was publicly stating that I felt bad for their fanbase. And I got reamed in return! For agreeing!
The Bruins deserve everything they’re getting.
"The Bear will not quit, the Bear will not die." -Joe Kapp
Me? Worried
Seems like the same exact reaction SC fans had when PC was hired.
He is perfect L.A.
Charismatic—NFL bloodlines—Likely a great recruiter.
Ucla has nowhere to go but UP…and that has to hurt us.
Hahahahaha, all of that could have applied to Neuheezy.
If that was intentional, it was truly a master troll.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I, too, wonder how CJMJ will do at UCLA. I hope it is poorly.
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by TwistNHook on Dec 10, 2011 8:34 AM PST up reply actions 4 recs
Givens BNs current reaction to this hire, I doubt he earns
That C in front of his name.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 10:20 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Didn't they say that after Dorrell?
Ucla has nowhere to go but UP…and that has to hurt us.
I have nothing to worry about unless he starts winning consistently. As for the Pete Carroll comparisons, there are dozens of flops for every Carroll hired.
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Mike Sherman and Al Groh come to mind
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 9:38 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Charlie Weis just flashed his four rings.
Then lost to GERG at home.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I almost included him but he was never a HC in the NFL
However I would include as a PC type hire as well.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 9:45 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
/Chan Gailey goes 7-5
/Chan Gailey goes 7-5
/Chan Gailey goes 7-5
/Chan Gailey goes 7-5
/Chan Gailey goes 7-5
/repeat ad infinitum
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
If you reverse that you have his current record with th Bills!
Talk about a perfect example of failing up.
Another great example.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 10:01 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
UCLA played in the Pac-12 championship and is going to a bowl game
They could still go further down
by Oski4Heisman on Dec 11, 2011 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
If nothing else...
adds to the roster of interesting new coaches in the Pac 12….Overall, strong group which can only help in our march to supplant the SEC as the top conference, with Cal playing another Pac 12 team for the national championship..I told you guys about that plan, right?
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 10, 2011 8:24 AM PST reply actions
...and I'm not alone
…from ESPN Insider
The SEC is poised to see one of its members win a sixth consecutive Allstate BCS National Championship for a number of reasons. For starters, the league has the most talented players (more SEC alumni fill NFL rosters than any other conference) and the most accomplished coaches (four of the 12 current head coaches have national championship rings).
The tradition, the facilities, the fan bases and the game’s popularity in the South further distance the conference from many of its peers.
However, as dominant as the conference has been in recent seasons, another league is poised to end the SEC’s reign as the best in America: the Pac-12.
"It's on the ROOF, oh yeah, one hundred PROOF, oh yeah....."
by TKE Prytanis 79 on Dec 10, 2011 9:01 AM PST up reply actions
I'm just enjoying the complete meltdown at BN
I’m not impressed with Mora but I also wasnt impressed when SC hired PC and that turned out okay for SC.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 9:18 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Just Desserts
It would be just pure poetic justice if, after the overwhelmingly RAGE reaction of Ucla fans to this hire, Mora becomes an amazing coach, then ditches Ucla after one or two years for the first opening offered him.
Being an Old Blue means embracing the "meh".
Three, it would take three years – and he’d go back to the NFL
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
but we know that.
We know he’d bolt for the NFL or UW if he gets an offer.
Talk about two completely opposite reactions
UW Dawg Pound is praising the hire, while BN is in a complete hate rage.
Obviously UW fans are going to defend Mora but I’m a little surprised at the lengths they are going. IMO Mora was a complete disaster with the Seahawks but UW fans seem to think he will succeed in college.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 9:35 AM PST via mobile reply actions
from the Dawg Pound thread:
He doesn’t have any experience recruiting and he has said in the past that it would be more of a necessary evil for him rather than something he actually enjoyed doing.
Because that worked out just gangbusters for Ty Willingham.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Yeah I read that comment, that was the only negative thing
That poster said in the whole comment.
All the devious points that poster typed he compared Mora to PC.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 10:04 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Then downthread the author claims that because Mora is within six degrees of separation from Jim Tressel,
Sweatervest is going to be Mora’s assistant.
Credibility: This argument lacks it.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I totally forgot about the Tressel connection!
That was the icing on the cake in that post.
What was the connection? Tressel is cousins with the wife of Don James?!?!?
LOLOLOLOL
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 11:22 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Really just gives the impression that the author regards Don James the way the UCLA AD regards Terry Donahue
which is to say with unquestioning reverence that extends to even the most obscure branches of his coaching tree.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Good hire for UCLA
Mora Jr. will prove to be a better coach than RN.
Whether or not he has what it takes to get UCLA into the top 2 in their division is unknown. But UCLA with RN was not going to stay in that position.
When your program is down, it’s all about getting into position to claim the powerhouse rankings within your conference. Championships occur when the program steadily improves. If Mora Jr can show steady progress in UCLA’s program, then he will have been an excellent hire.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
It could be a good hire but I wouldn't be excited to have
My school hire Mora as their next HC.
Hypothetically speaking, if for some reason Cal went 2-10 this season and got rid of Tedford and replaced him with Mora I would have been pissed.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 10:07 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Point taken
But it’s not exactly a prerequisite to building an improving football program or even a championship football program. Just ask our Trojan friends how many of them were excited about Pete Carroll’s hire in 2001. He was, at best, third choice behind Mike Reilly and Mike Bellotti.
Hey, exciting hires have been less than stellar as well. Ask Notre Dame fans just how excited they were that Charlie Weis was hired. I’d say they were excited to be getting the OC of the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots as their new head coach.
It still comes down to this question, “Can this candidate show measurable improvement over the previous head coach?”
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
And there's very little reason to believe Mora can do that unless you're willing to take a few particular leaps of faith.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
I don’t need leaps of faith to know that RN had used up whatever oxygen he had as UCLA HC and that if head stayed for 2012, he would have had a disastrous season. It’s not a stretch to me to think that had RN stayed at UCLA in 2012 it would have been comparable to Cal in 2001.
No, I’m not saying that Mora will be comparable to Tedford in 2002. Only that Mora in 2012 would be better than Neuheisel would have been in 2012.
I’m not sure that Mora will be anything more than a placeholder for UCLA; that is, keeping the seat warm for the next contestant. But then again, that describes most college football HCs.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
Oh, I see. In that case we're sympatico.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
But what defines measurable improvement?
UCLA has 6 and maybe 7 wins this season. That’s not bad, but they’ve generally been REALLY bad these past several years. Is it about getting to 8 wins? 9 wins?
Is it about winning the Pac-12 South? Rose Bowl?
UCLA fans seem to be set on winning the Pac-12 South. Technically, they did this year, but not really, yknow. I don’t see UCLA doing it in the next few years. I think Arizona will be much improved under RichRod. I think Utah will get back on its feet after a rough first year in the Pac-12.
And I’ll believe that USC will stumble when I see it. They seem as good as ever!
Is CJMJ the guy to take UCLA to 6-8 wins? Perhaps. Is that sufficient improvement to make the fanbase happy? I don’t believe so.
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BN already believes that UCLA should win the P12S next season
Anything less than that and the season is a failure. Mora is already in a no win situation and BN is already setting him up to fail.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 11:27 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Gotta love EDSBS
Flawless. Victory.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
ROSE BOWL?
Don’t talk about Rose Bowl. You kidding me, Rose Bowl? I just hope we can win some games
by Jigglz on Dec 10, 2011 10:10 AM PST reply actions 2 recs
I just love how they want to fire Chancellor Block
because of their failing revenue sports. Chancellors are supposed to be more responsible for the academic and fiscal aspects of the campus and it shows how skewed BN’s priorities are (not that the UC chancellors are doing a stellar job there either).
by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Dec 10, 2011 10:37 AM PST reply actions
BN is having a full scale Mad Max post apocalyptic meltdown
And I’m loving every crazy post right now!
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 10:50 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
I’m not sure how much we can laugh given that we…yknow, lost to them!
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FIRE TEDFORD AND HIRE MIKE SINGELTARY!!!!
by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Dec 10, 2011 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
Fire Tedford and hire the ManGenius!!!
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 11:24 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
You know what?
Let’s just replace all of our coaches and athletes with clones of JaMarcus Russell
by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Dec 10, 2011 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
The football team lost
CGB >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BN
So we actually won and continue to win!
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 11:26 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
BN is full of a bunch of ignorant assholes
The names they call their AD makes me sick. The absolute lack of respect for DG disgust me.
Perhaps DG needs to be replaced but to resort to such name calling is childish of BN and their posters.
by SDBear on Dec 10, 2011 11:30 AM PST via mobile reply actions
A guy on one of their threads brought that up about people trashing Mora
Yes, Mora had a losing record in the NFL as head coach. That is perfectly legitimate to bring up. However, quotes on BruinNation in the last 24 hours have included:
"Loser talk for a loser coach"
"Mora garbage"
"failure"
Discussing a coaching record is one thing. Referring to someone with names like "loser," "garbage," and "failure" is another thing.
The response?
If you don’t like it, leave.
by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Dec 10, 2011 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
It's officially official
UCLA Names Jim L. Mora Head Football Coach
UCLA has named former Seattle Seahawks and Atlanta Falcons head coach Jim L. Mora its Head Football Coach, replacing the departed Rick Neuheisel, it was announced today by UCLA Director of Athletics Dan Guerrero.
Mora will be formally introduced to the Los Angeles media at a press conference early next week.
“I am proud to announce today that Jim Mora has accepted the position of head football coach at UCLA,” said Guerrero. “He has been a head coach at the game’s highest level and has clearly demonstrated to me that he is hungry and eager to return to the sidelines.”
Reeves Nelson...
So how did I miss this?
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-reeves-nelson-ucla-20111210,0,6600779.story
No, but I his mom seemed pretty harsh...
“Reeves behaved poorly,” Sheila Nelson said later in the day during a telephone conversation. “He admits to that and he’s taking full responsibility for his actions. He still wants to be on the team. But quite frankly, I love my son, but he just turned 20 and he’s been a boy in a man’s body since he was 14 and there are things he needs to work on, and he will work on them.”
by Bears916 on Dec 10, 2011 11:59 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
It’s really refreshing for the parent of a big-shot athlete to acknowledge that her son is responsible for what has happened to him, instead of blaming coaches or others.
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Wow, that was honest. I wonder what he did
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So I'm not sure if Mora is for sure a bad hire
But on the other hand, I think I’d rank him last amongst current Pac-12 head coaches. Maybe ahead of Embree, but the jury is still out on him because he got handed a tire fire for his first year as head coach.
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Mora emerged as a candidate late last week after Boise State’s Chris Petersen, UCLA’s first choice, turned down a five-year deal worth more than $3-million annually.
Guerrero interviewed Houston coach Kevin Sumlin in Texas last Saturday. Sumlin, however,chose to pursue the Texas A&M post and potentially other coaching options after meeting with Guerrero over the weekend. UCLA also contacted Miami coach Al Golden late last week. Golden has since informed UCLA officials he is not interested in the Bruin job. Cincinnati coach Butch Jones, high on UCLA’s original list, said on Tuesday he plans to stay at the Big East school.
UCLA representatives also contacted Washington coach and former USC offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian early in the search. Sarkisian was not interested in leaving the Huskies.
http://ucla.ocregister.com/2011/12/10/reports-ucla-to-hire-mora/60304/
What should be worrying to UCLA fans is that Mora has had his eyes on the Husky job. If the Huskies ever tired of Sark and Mora was even half-successful at UCLA, he might turn his eyes up to the Northwest. Don’t believe me? He stated publicly he’d drop his coaching gig with Atlanta and become head coach of the Huskies he was with coaching Vick and the Falcons (you know, as a ‘joke’). Everyman says those things if he’s drunk; Jim Mora says these things sober.
http://www.pacifictakes.com/2011/12/10/2625506/ucla-bruins-football-jim-mora
by GoldenBear8933 on Dec 10, 2011 12:27 PM PST reply actions
From Ted Miller
Further, it’s worth noting that a massively negative reaction would serve no useful purpose for the program. In fact, 11 other Pac-12 programs are likely poised to print out such reactions and use them against the Bruins in recruiting.
I thought about posting this on BN – but one second thought, I won’t
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Eh, it's not fair to label the entire fanbase as being full of crazies.
Most of the rational ones fled when they realized they didn’t want to adhere to BN’s ridiculous groupthink mentality.
Fled or were banned. BN doesn’t allow any deviation from its message of the moment, and bans reasonable UCLA fans who express different opinions.
"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
Guys...
We’d be irrational too if we stole our mascot, colors, and fight song and then screwed them up, or if we had a crosstown rival who views us as a de facto nonconference matchup. Have some sensitivity for the BNers, epecially considering the state of their basketball team (2-5).
And they won’t even have those endless St. John Wooden commercials to fall back on this year.
"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 posters be CRAAZY!"
Because I need to remind myself that UCLA Fans != BN posters, a handy guide to some recent hyperbole.
Here is the site to contact regents individually and en mass……
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/contact.html
Call, email, be courteous and direct.
Together we can be a force….especially those that are California taxpayers.
The “Put A Horse Head in Guerrero’s Bed To Send A Message” Theorem:
By supporting this hire you are supporting the prevailing culture at Morgan Center
Many of us are also concerned with the state of the facilities etc. However, this hire reflects status quo, as in the insular, tonedeaf and arrogant culture in Morgan Center. This is the same culture that is responsible for the substandard facilities, pauley renovation fiasco, student seating "survey" etc.
So by supporting this hire, DG will think he has done okay with this coaching search. If he can’t run a coaching search befitting our U.C.L.A. (as befittingly and proudly spelled the way gbruin does), he should be gone now and not if this new hire actually work out in the forlorn future.
Jim Mora Hire = Nuclear Detonation
Game Over
Will the last one out of UCLA turn off the lights?
September 13, 1980 – December 10, 2011 RIP
I have been following the Bruins for 32 years and my father and grandfather take that tradition back to the end of WWII. I will be ending that tradition today. They couldn’t have hired a worse coach. The fans and alumni don’t want him. The recruits don’t know him and he hasn’t been on a recruiting trip in 25 years. The current players won’t respect him as he’s never won. He can’t be replaced as the administration just gave him a financially handicapping 5 year $12 mil deal when not a single other team was bidding for his services. FIVE YEARS! And, the guy is a jerk. Listen to the Doug Gotlieb interview from a couple years ago. He’s a complete tool. I challenge you to find a worse hire. When you fire a coach it’s the end of a disappointing era and an opportunity to turn everything around; to be given hope and to be energized. Are you feeling hopeful and energized? We were just promised 7 to 10 years of ineptitude. Seriously, I’m done. People say that all the time but I AM DONE until this regime is gone. There is no hope. I can see clearly now that we the fans and alumni care more about the program than those that have been entrusted its care. Watch the defections of players in droves. This might be the one hire that makes Hundley leave. Deny the contract, fire DG, or go to hell.
He doesn’t deserve anything yet
If he wins 10 games, he’ll deserve one more year after that and we’ll take it from there.
This Dude Is A LIFE TIME LOSER!!!!!!!!
Behold, The Life Time Record of Jim Mor-ASS
(This Record Cannot Be Published and Re-Published Enough To Bruins Everywhere):
ATL 2004 11 5 0 .688
ATL 2005 8 8 0 .500
ATL 2006 7 9 0 .438
ATL Total 26 22 0 .542
SEA 2009 5 11 0 .313
SEA Total 5 11 0 .313 –
Total 31 33 0 .470 1 1 .500
His entire body of work is under .500.
Sounds like a FRAT BROTHER Hire.
Lambda Chi Alpha is his frat.
Are Block and Guerrero his frat?
MorASS can be pressured to resign before he even starts:
Work phone. Employer. Emails. Letters. Total, complete harrassment.
Dude could be gone long before the bowl game.
How is UCLA going to hire anybody with a LOSING RECORD to coach our
Football team? We already know about losing. We need a winner!
"The Bear will not quit, the Bear will not die." -Joe Kapp
U.C.L.A.?
I thought it was Ucla?
Californian in Exile:
by secret ASian man on Dec 10, 2011 6:52 PM PST up reply actions
I thought it was fucla.
"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
Wait, isn’t it UCLOL?
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by atomsareenough on Dec 10, 2011 9:03 PM PST up reply actions
UC Los Angeles
We need to contact public relations to drop Berkeley from our commercials. We will never yell B-E-R-K-E-L-E-Y.
C-A-L-I-FOR-NIA
CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA
CALIFOOOORNIA!
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by Joe Bandsmen on Dec 10, 2011 11:29 PM PST up reply actions
LOL call the regents?
I think they have more pressing issues on their minds. They can’t seem to handle those issues too well either but that’s another story for another day.
by FromCtoShining(Blue)C on Dec 10, 2011 11:59 PM PST up reply actions
Bears Fans Rejoice
This is the best ever. Better than Slick Rick even. Jim Mora? Arizona got Rich Rod, Wassu got Mike Leach (which should scare everyone in the Pac 10), and the best UCLA can come up with is Mora? Chalk up a few more wins for Tedford.
Junior will soon be paraphasing his dad, “Bowl Game? Don’t talk about Bowl Games. I just hope we can win a game.”
Ya, maybe with Mora as head coach, we can win a game down in LA now!
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