Those UCLA fans, they take their football seriously.  Very seriously.  SEC fan seriously.  They are totally for serial about their football and, as you might know by now, they are NOT happy.  They feel as if they have the talent to go at least 11-1, were it not for the one main limiting factor.

Karl Dorrell.  This man:

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They are like goats to his Chupacabra.   He sucks the life out of them and…well…I fear to continue with this analogy.  It’d only get more and more PG-13.  And this can only anger the newest internet video sensations, Ken Crawford and/or Jason Snell.  Tedford help us when Ken Crawford gets angry.  He once killed a man with a trident!  Man, how *that* escalated.

Anyway, to get away from Ken Crawford’s bloody, bloody past, thanks to the introwebs, UCLA football fans are not taking it anymore!  This time, it’s personal!  And I’m all out of bubblegum!  I present……….Simba!  Random movie cliche statement that only vaguely relates to UCLA football!

As this story notes over at BruinsNation, the webizens there are actually going to try to get an anti-Dorrell billboard erected.  They feel that an anti-Dorrell billboard near the UCLA campus will bring a lot of negative publicity to the program and perhaps get Dorrell fired.  As compared to the play of the team on the field…….which brings a lot of negative publicity to the program and most likely will get Dorrell fired. 

This story at the same blog shows that they already have a mock idea up of how it’s gonna go: 

How UCLA AD Dan Guerrero can ignore that, I do not know.

What this means is that all Cal fans (and really non-UCLA fans) need a call to arms!  Karl Dorrell might get fired.  UCLA might be able to fully utilize its bountiful recruiting area to field competative and elite football teams.  We have to stop this!  We have to get a pro-Dorrell billboard erected as soon as humanly possible!  Now, they mention at BN, that it costs about 11g to get a billboard up.  I don’t have that kind of money, I’m married to a princess (not really, but she sure acts like it).  Ok, so does anybody have $11,000.00 they can give to me?  Just make the check out to CASH.  Then, I’ll get a pro-Dorrell billboard up and we’ll keep him there.  Or buy 22,000 Marshawn jerseys and have the most kick ass Civil War re-enactment EVER.  Marshawn fighting Marshawn!  Fighting Marshawn!  Fighting Ken Crawford!  Foolish Ken Crawford, your trident can’t stop Marshawn

Anyway, to get away from Ken Crawford’s bloody, bloody past (again!), HydroTech has been kind enough to get a mockup going for us:

See!  Dorrell is Bear Bryant in the making.  Just give him time.  Just give him some more time!  Please UCLA AD Dan Guerrero.  On behalf of all Cal fans everywhere, give him more time.  At least like 15 more years.  Maybe 20.  But at least 15.

Any other pro-Dorrell billboard ideas out there?  We can do this!  We just need at least 11k.  

P.S.  This seemed a lot funnier BEFORE the OSU game.  Nonetheless………….. 

Before I get to the roundup, I wanted to make a few points, since I think I’m the only one here who hasn’t written a detailed recap of my thoughts on last Saturday’s debacle:

• To start, yes, it was a debacle.
• DeSean is overrated.  Hey, it pains me to write it too, but four catches for five yards isn’t my idea of a Heisman candidate.  It shouldn’t be that easy to rub out a team’s no. 1 wide receiver (ESPECIALLY in college) but he’s been a relative non-factor in four of six games.  And you can make all the arguments you want about the attention he gets from opposing defenses - but just look at the Patriots and Cowboys.  You don’t see Donte Stallworth and Patrick Crayton getting more publicity than Randy Moss and TO because of the attention they get.  If DeSean really is better than Hawk, he should be putting up better numbers than Hawk.  I’m not so sure he is anymore.
• Believe me, I’ll be more than happy to eat my words.  Is this bitterness?  Yes.
• I thought the defense played well enough to win.  Why?  Because we almost did win.  31 points is a lot, but the offense could have (and probably should have) put up more.  So was the defense good?  No.  Did the defense lose us the game?  Like many others have said, there’s plenty of blame to go around, but…
• Riley lost us the game.  I think he played a good game for the most part; he finished with respectable numbers, and if not for the last play of the game, he would have been hailed for putting the team in a position to win, even if Kay had missed the field goal.  But man.  I don’t see how it’s possible to not believe that Riley single-handedly cost the team at least the chance to tie the game.  Yes, the defense gave up 31 points.  Yes, DeSean didn’t show up for the game at all.  But all that had to happen was for Riley to throw away the ball.  It was his decision, and his decision alone.  I will not argue about this.
• And he might not have to transfer, but I guarantee he hasn’t had a pleasant week.

We now return to our regularly scheduled Opponent Roundup.

• Our friends at Bruins Nation are in high Dorrell watch mode!  They’re hoping for the axe to come any day now, and really, it’s past due, don’t you think?
• Patrick Cowan is scheduled to make his triumphant return this weekend against our Bears.  Or not.  His return, at least.  I’m sure we all hope it isn’t triumphant.
• Holy shit, did you know UCLA is no. 2 in Scout.com’s recruiting rankings for next year?  Hmmm.  I wonder how many of those guys are questionable recruits?