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UCLA punts its football coach
Posted by Fired Fred on December 4, 2007 4:45 PM
Karl Dorrell didn't want to try and beat BYU again by coaching in the Las Vegas Bowl, I guess. He had the chance to coach his team one last time, but since he'd been fired, Karl said screw that.
Ok, not really. Sort of. He said the bowl game should be about the kids...
"While I would love to take the field with these young men one last time, I felt that my situation would take the focus away from our players and their efforts and that's the last thing I would want to do."In other words, screw that. Who would want to be on TV for three hours while the talking heads in the booth spend most of the game wondering who's going to hire a coach with 27 losses in five seasons?
I'm not weeping too much for Karl, since he's getting over $2 million to go home, watch some daytime TV, fantasize about the AD being killed by toilet ice falling out of a jet approaching LAX, stuff like that.
Karl did say one thing that some people may have missed - that UCLA might have to change its philosophy when it comes to academic admissions. Does that mean the Bruins need to lower their standards and bring in guys who lean a lot more toward the athlete side of student-athlete.
Math is hard and reading is inconvenient, I guess. Go Bruins?