Here is the the essence of the article from the LA Times. The rest of the article talks about the candidates and their records.
Take Mike Leach...PLEASE! I'm tired of the Pirate. Let another conference deal with him for a while... :lol:
Looks... <t>Like UCLA will have the Black Coaches Assoc on its front door soon as a result of this. Sets Tireco up for another whine fest as well.<br/> <br/> Also looks like UCLA will have to pony up on $$$$$ to get a new coach.</t>
I don't think Tirico and Saunders will make much out of this, Dorrell had the full 5 years didn't he? I think if Willingham had gotten the full 5 years they would have let it be with ND firing him.
BTW there is a theory that Tennessee provided Herbie with the misinformation about Les Miles leaving LSU as a ploy to gain an advantage in the SEC championship game. Proof you say?
ha <t>I see the PC police that currently control UCLA have already ruled out Slick Rick from the job.<br/> <br/> arseholes</t>
I just don't see what Mike Leach has to offer, jr high offense with jr high wr's/rbs, rubber armed QB and a big OL oh yeah and no defense.
Reading the UCLA AD's statement on Karls firing reminds me a lot of Kevin Whites where he said Tyrone was great Sunday through Friday.... Corey which activist group gets to pick the next coach? The Gay/Lesbian Alliance or the Cross Dressers?
Micheal Crabtree = jr high wr?????? :shock: Could we borrow him for a few hours in early January?????
If Willingham had recruited the full three years he'd been there, we'd have gotten to suffer through another 2 yrs. of Bill Dietrich duller than dull offenses. But the good news is, we no longer have to "give" a coach 5 yrs. (We always had to pay them for 5 even if they were let go.)
You know who is going to be kicking themselves in the butt for jumping at a bad job if Mike Leach ends up leaving Texas Tech for UCLA or any other job. Art Briles!! He would have been a shoe in at TT if Leach leaves, instead he's stuck in Waco.
Terry, I've heard speculation that Sonny Dykes is in line to get the Tech job, and that's why Briles went ahead with the BU job. Seems like a dead end, but Cougar High ain't no picnic either! 8)
Corey, Do you believe this article that UCLA academic standards for athletes are higher than anybody other than Stanford? Don't they take guys from Crenshaw and Poly as well as JUCO's??? UCLA Academics for athletes I know for a fact that Maurice Jones-Drew couldn't get into ND and that was why he went to UCLA. Terry
Terry <t>Yes and no.<br/> <br/> Like all public universities, they have a program or two in which you can stash athletes. UCLA is a top-flight public institution, but well.. they have some issues.<br/> <br/> They like to 'pin-the-tail on the athlete' for academic troubles, but they never really consider those students who were admitted through affirmative action programs that have struggled as well. For some reason, the campus do-gooders don't want to take an introspective look there. Athletics is a more visible target for their agenda.<br/> <br/> IMHO, if the coaches did a better job of targeting who is really interested in UCLA from the pool of kids who can get in.. They will spend less time chasing those who cannot.<br/> <br/> Honestly, the whole thing makes me sick. They narrow the pool in which the coaches can draw from, but then they laud the success that Kaptain Karl had in retaining the kids on campus... Well no sh*t! You raised the bar to a level where you eliminated the 'risk' kids. I think the real question is why they lost 7 of those 80 kids?<br/> <br/> IMHO, if UCLA gets out on the prospects when they are young (juniors and top sophs), and reach out to the kid/staff at the HS and let them know what the kid must do it can be turned into a positive. College is suppose to be a time of learning. A time to become a man. Its a time to hone the character your parents have given you as a foundation and to become something the entire family can become proud of in the long run. If a kid is too lazy to pass Algebra-1, or to take an extra language arts class, what kind of effort can be expected of him on the field or in the weight room?<br/> <br/> This is a situation that can be turned around if the staff takes an earnest approach to to it instead of looking for scapegoats. The Admin isn't going anywhere, nor is the academic expectations. I have several friends who are UCLA alums, that are clearly dumber than a bag of hammers. They worked at it though. While I think the approach by the Admin is hypocritical and one-sided, I do not believe it is the reason why Kaptain Karl failed at UCLA.<br/> <br/> The key for Southern California recruiting is:<br/> <br/> 1. The Catholic schools<br/> 2. Long Beach<br/> 3. Los Angeles<br/> 4. The Inland Valleys<br/> <br/> UCLA has had coaches who simply want to pick the juiciest fruit from the top of the vine without having to bend over to actually harvest what may well be the best of the crop lying just underneath, or to possibly nourish that top end of the vine so that it is easy pickings when its time to harvest.</t>