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It's official: Karl Dorrell is out of a job, and after this weekend's 24-7 loss to USC, it's not a moment too soon.
Dorrell met with UCLA's Athletic Director, Dan Guerrero, this morning, after a weekend during which most UCLA watchers had predicted that Dorrell would be getting the axe very very soon. With a disappointing 6-6 record this season, and a 35-27 record overall for his five-year tenure, most Bruin fans will not be sad to see him go.
The LA Times is reporting on some of the candidates being considered for the position:
Boise State Coach Chris Petersen is said to be the first choice of Athletic Director Dan Guerrero, with Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach and former NFL coach Steve Mariucci considered among the other top candidates. Representatives on behalf of the UCLA athletic department have contacted all three, multiple sources said.
There will be a news conference at UCLA later on this afternoon. Dorrell's contract wasn't set to expire until 2011, but a buyout clause will pay him around $2 million over a two-year period. Dorrell said in a statement this morning:
"I am proud of what the program accomplished during my five years, especially in the areas of academics, citizenship and recruiting. I think a great foundation has been laid and I will be pulling for the young men I recruited into the program to be successful in the future."I want to thank all of the players, coaches and staff for their efforts in building our program. They always worked hard, both on and off the field, no matter what adversity we faced, and I want them to know how much I appreciate them."
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Carrie, I just love how we get two UCLA posts over the weekend, with the ubiquitous USC bashing that defines so many UCLA grads (nothing says "secure in yourself" like the need to incessantly harp on others), no post on 1) USC again creaming UCLA or 2) UCLA's #1 ranked basketball team losing at home. Where's the "weekend sports" wrap? Can't wait to hear how your UCLA "better-at-EVERY-sport" Bruins fared.
??? Where did I USC bash here???
Dude, if you want to write me an article about USC "creaming" UCLA this weekend, complete with pictures, go ahead and send it over, you can find my email addy on the staff page, and I will gladly post it up.
"(nothing says "secure in yourself" like the need to incessantly harp on others)" ===>> ha ha ha irony! you are funny!
"nothing says "secure in yourself" like the need to incessantly harp on others".
indeed baruza, indeed.
"nothing says "secure in yourself" like the need to incessantly harp on others".
indeed baruza, indeed.
I do see an imbalance on a topic I can give a flying fuck. Blue and gold are the colors I see most often when on this site. I could really care less though which makes me such a great ombudsman.
You USC bashed over the weekend, not here, and I didn’t imply otherwise. Bit sensitive, eh?
I just thought a little crow-eating was in order after the UCLA greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread business. If you want to trash talk, shouldn’t you be able to take it?
funny stuff, given that there are far more trojans writing for laist than bruins, including the one who writes the "weekend sports" wrap you are calling out.
this is an open community here, trash talk is certainly welcomed, and usc fans have earned the right to crow about stomping ucla again. but like carrie said, put up or shut up.
but since we're so pro-ucla here anyway, i think i'll get another post queued up on karl dorrell just for effect.
^ does that chip on your shoulder have to pay rent or do you let it just squat there? geez.
Yup, Dorrell definitely had to go. His .580 winning percentage is completely unacceptable, given the Bruins' all-time winning percentage of .594. What a bum.
previous comment from me directed towards baruza, not Ryan.
i will say, however, having been at at the UCLA-Texas game last night, it was pretty sucky and has been a pretty craptastic Bruin weekend.
damn, i want him to stay forever so we can beat ucla every year (last year was an exception)
Please put the swords away. My initial post should just have said, "Carrie, a little crow in order?" and left it at that. My apologies.
I like the sports coverage here, don't care about any imbalance if one even exists, and just figured that the big interschool rivalry game would be featured here as an LA event, not mentioned briefly as the backstory behind Karl Dorrell's firing, particulary after the level of trash talk. You could have just said, "Still better looking, smarter, and less racist--worse at football."
i'm a huge trojan fan and not at all a fan of ucla but....
who really cares if there is more coverage about ucla on this site. i don't even know if that's true, but even if it is, look at pretty much every other media outlet in southern ca and you'll see that it's heavily biased towards usc. sometimes it's nice to see a change of pace.
UCLA and USC really do take their rivalry pretty seriously, huh
As far as coverage on laist, there is a substantial UCLA slant... even a little snobbery.
Eh, who cares.
Exactly. We win. That's all that matters.
Eventually, we'll be better at Basketball too.
Well my brother
thinks Dorrell getting dumped is a great idea. In fact, he's a bit pissed that you clowns haven't updated this story and posted on the Neu era in Bruins football!!