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Last Week: 7 8) UCLA Bruins, 4-5- How many points could the Bruins have scored had Kevin Prince understood when it's time to slide? ... Pac-10 power rankings: Week 11ESPN Ranking the PacSeattle Times Pac-10 football notebook: USC still needs help to win another title, but 'it ...OregonLive.com

By jtthirtyfour Bumped. GO BRUINS. -N Play Yards YPC Direct 4 16 4 Draw 1 2 2 9 36 4 Toss 1 8 8 Option 1 2 2 6 17 2.8 Power 14 61 4.4 Reverse 2 24 12 15 53 3.5 6 26 4.3 Power Here is another diagram against a front that Cal might see from UCLA (it was one that we used against Stanford when they lined up in a similar formation).

By ryebreadraz One goal games did the #2 Bruins in at the UCI Invitational. After beating Redlands, 14-4, in the tournament opener and #8 Long Beach St., 16-6, UCLA suffered a pair of one goal losses. In the semifinals, the Bruins were dropped by #3 USC, 9-8, then in the third place match, the score was 5-4 as #1...

By ryebreadraz 5) California Golden Bears, 3-2- After a disasterous two games, Cal got a week off to regroup. We'll find out on Saturday how much good it did the Bears when they visit UCLA. The winner will be in good shape to qualify for a bowl game, while the loser will have a lot of work left to do. For the Bears, w...

By Nestor Well that is encouraging. I like hearing that the players care about these games and hurting after losses. That's different than what I have been used to reading and hearing about the mindset of UCLA players after dispirting losses during previous regime(s). I still have the stories of Rick...

By muircoach Bumped. Wanted to make sure this big news from the weekend didn't get buried. Getting a 4 star OL recruit such as Ward is a huge deal.It was especially significant given the commitment followed Malcolm Jones from earlier last week as UCLA nabbed two blue chippers from regal programs such as OC...

By Class of 66 Then, on the road, and without our starting QB, we played a Stanford team that was probably a pre-season push, but until last weekend looked good -- and lost.  When it is restored, when it looks like the classic Bus that was once UCLA football, if we maintain it, it will run forever.

By Nestor Once again let's remind everyone here what were the pre-season expectations around the UCLA football program before coming into this season. Basically a consensus had emerged during off season pegging this year's football team somewhere around a 5-7 win squad: GO BRUINS.

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By jtthirtyfour Here's a good article that ran in the New York Times awhile back that discusses applications of statistical analysis to football and how the Patriots have capitalized. There are plenty of variables to consider in real-life situations but I still think that the main points hold water. 

By ucla13_usc9 I don't think I have ever been so frustrated coming out of the Rose Bowl. Today, the Bruins delayed the inevitable, but kept on challenging their limits, but showed weakness, but showed strengths, but, but, but... Passing: 172 (vs. UCLA: 56) PPG: 34.2 (vs. UCLA: 3) GO BRUINS 

By Telemachus James "Cap" Haralson (1920's Track & Field, football, basketball and baseball) Daiva Tomkus Fuerst (volleyball 1986-89, 1st team All-American 87-88-89, two NCAA Final Fours) Walt Torrence (guard, basketball 1957-58-59) represented by wife and son.

By Nestor about : Oregon linebacker Kenny Rowe, left, and linebacker Josh Kaddu celebrate after stopping UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince on the 1-yard line ending the drive during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Pasadena, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

By Nestor The Bruins have their own demons to get rid of as they try to right their ship after a disappointing loss at Stanford last Saturday. After that game, they sat throughout their locker room at Stanford Stadium looking like a team that wasn't sure what had just happened. GO BRUINS.

By jtthirtyfour Bumped. GO BRUINS. -N Zone Bubble Curl/Flat Since I have that Cal game already and they are off this week before playing at the Rose Bowl, I'll try to get ahold of the Cal-USC game from last week and take a look at both tapes this weekend for a breakdown on Cal.

By Achilles One key to a Bruins victory is cutting down on the penalties. We've just had too many flags in too many key situations -- even in games we've won. True or False, UCLA will have 60 or more yards in penalties this Saturday.Name a Bruin who runs for a touchdown on SaturdayWho will lead the Bruins in ta...

By Nestor Down in Westwood CRN had the following thoughts: Lastly, how about those Dodgers and Halos! Not a bad way at all to get the sports weekend going this weekend in El Laaay. Hopefully the trend of Southern California homecook continues tomorrow at the Rose Bowl. GO BRUINS.

By ryebreadraz 18 days ago: UCLA's Terrence Austin, center, runs down the sideline for a touch down against Kansas State during the second half of a NCAA college football game in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009. UCLA won 23-9. (AP Photo/Francis Specker) Browse more photos »

By Nestor UPDATE II (R): The running back had narrowed his choices down to UCLA and Stanford a little bit back so you know education was important to him and that he is smart kid. There had been talk about whether he would play running back or linebacker at the next level, but I'm hearing that Jones was as...

By Nestor Bruins preparing both for Masoli (8) and Costa. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) Prediction: Oregon 30 – UCLA 24 Prediction: Oregon 27 – UCLA 23 Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Oregon 28, UCLA 24 Making a statement right out of the gate this Saturday will certainly help. GO BRUINS.

By bruinponcho Rivals.com has been doing a countdown of college basketball teams. Today they got to number 30. And the 30th best team according to them is our very own UCLA Bruins. The projection: That should put him back in action at roughly the same time the Bruins play their season opener against Cal State F...

By Nestor Yup. On the other hand considering we are coming off a 4-8 season and got manhandled on defense for about three quarters against Stanford, I can see why folks up in Eugene are so comfortable heading into the Rose Bowl this weekend. I sure hope the UCLA defense gets that message. GO BRUINS.

By ryebreadraz It's our second podcast and there's plenty to talk about. We'll recap last week's Stanford game and bring in jtlight from SBNation's excellent Oregon Ducks website, Addicted to Quack to answer some questions on this week's opponent. Have any comments or questions? Let us know here.

By Nestor It will be up to our defense not only match the intensity of what could possibly be the best team in the Pac-10, but also come out and atone for the slow start (defensively) against the Cardinal this past Saturday. We are looking right at you Coach Bullough, Reggie Carter and rest of UCLA defen...

By bk bruin Bumped. GO BRUINS. -N This Friday (Oct 9th) at 7pm in Pauley Pavilion, our #16 UCLA Bruins Women’s Volleyball squad is taking on our cross town and league rival, #13 U$C toOJans.  This is our "golDEN Game" for the UCLA Women’s Volleyball team.

By Nestor While we are all anxious about Prince's return, this will be a huge game for Chuck Bullough and our Bruin defense who left Palo Alto with lot more to prove rest of this season. I think CRN set the table with the right words and message yesterday. Let's hope his coaches and players respond in kind...

By Nestor In case any one wants a reminder here are couple of plays from this past Saturday: GO BRUINS. I am guessing Kaiser might not be ready for Saturday. However, it sounds like Weems and Cody are already part of their regular rotation. GO BRUINS.

By ryebreadraz 5) UCLA Bruins, 3-1- It wasn't a great game by any means, but could some of the criticisms being heaped upon this UCLA squad be because of unfairly high expectations? The Bruins entered last weekend 3-0, but hadn't beaten a great team yet or done much very convincingly. 3-1 is a solid start to...

By ryebreadraz Another split for the #16 Bruins as they returned home and lost their opener, before salvaging the week with a win. #11 Stanford did the Bruins in to begin their week, disposing of the Bruins in four sets. It was four sets again in UCLA's next match, but this time it went in their favor as they def...

By Nestor 1st and 10 at UCLA 43    UCLA penalty 6 yard false start accepted.           1st and 16 at UCLA 37    UCLA penalty 10 yard holding accepted.           1st and 26 at UCLA 27    Kevin Craft pass complete to Derrick Coleman for 3 yards to the UCLA 30.          

By Nestor Fullback Jayson Allmond remembers playing against Stanford running back Toby Gerhart when the two were in high school. Allmond starred at Bloomington High while Gerhart did the same at Norco. The 6-0, 266-pound Allmond is playing the role of Gerhart (6-1, 235) at practice this week, in an...

By ryebreadraz The NorCal Tournament always boasts a strong field as this year was no exception as the nation's top ten teams were in the Stanford pool. The #4 Bruins opened the tournament with a pair of wins on Saturday, the first over #10 Concordia and the second over #5 Loyola Marymount. This set up a semif...

By Nestor Consider some factors in play before UCLA took on KSU: We have to fix that," UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel said. "(Saturday), just in the urgency to try to keep things going we were lining up wrong, guys were trying to make plays and blocking below the waist. GO BRUINS.

By Nestor GO BRUINS. UPDATE (N): Rye has insta analysis in terms of potential roster moves. He thinks at least one freshman will have to burn his redshirt season: UPDATE II (N): To no one's surprise The Trojan Times is on breathless rapid posting mode on this story. Like Pavlov's dog. GO BRUINS.

By ryebreadraz BN: You brought in two new coaches prior to last season, Rick Vanderhook and Steve Pearse. What do you think are the biggest things they brought to the program last season and what things do you think they’ll bring to the table going forward?

By Nestor We have some football related news and notes that have piled up from last few days. So let's get right to them. Looks like there is now a major obstacle to Brandon Warner to UCLA scenario. From Brian Dohn: Inside was $55. Yet another Bruin who has made his mark both on and off the field. GO BRUINS.

By Nestor We will start our Tuesday roundup with some tough news from the football program. It appears that Osaar Rasshan's football career might be over: If all of UCLA's incoming recruits qualify academically, the Bruins would be still two over the maximum 85 allowed by the NCAA. GO BRUINS.

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By ryebreadraz Any way you slice it, 2009 was a disappointing season for UCLA baseball. The Bruins entered the season ranked anywhere from #12 (Baseball America) to #25 (NCBWA) and yet their season ended with a loss. The problem is, the loss wasn't a Regional or Super Regional loss to Fullerton like the pas...

By ryebreadraz Head coach John Savage's UCLA Bruins missed the postseason for the first time in four years, via media.dailybruin.com Ramirez tormented the Bruins one more time with a two-out single that brought home was proved to be the winning run.

By Nestor UCLA played Long Beach State their first game, a team the Bruins had lost to earlier in the season. In that first game, which is always the toughest, it was tied up in the third and remained tied until the sixth when the Bruins scored to take the lead. GO BRUINS.

By Nestor The Bruins, as any one of their coaches will tell you, severely lack depth, much less the talent needed to win two-thirds of their games. That’s without even looking at the schedule. In fact, there’s only seven games UCLA can win — San Diego State, Kansas State, at Stanford, at Arizona, Washi...

By Nestor If I were CRN and other UCLA coaches and officials right now, I'd be on extra alert.  The Trojans are going to be in an all out hunt to look for any missteps from UCLA coaches and players.  We saw this happen in 2001.  UCLA was in the hunt for big season (we were the program to beat at that time coming o...

By ryebreadraz UCLA is seeded #11 in the NCAA Tournament and earned the right to host the first and second round of that tournament. The Bruins will play Boston University in the first round on Saturday, then either Arizona St. or UNLV in the next round on Sunday, should they advance.

By Nestor Menlo School senior football standout Jerry Rice Jr. may be running up and down the field in Stanford Stadium one of these seasons, but he won't be wearing the Cardinal's colors. Instead, it could be UCLA's blue and gold. Rice made it official last week that he's committed to attend UCLA this f...

By ryebreadraz Just like the Bruins have struggled, USC has as well. While they did not come into the season with as high of expectations as UCLA, the Trojans were picked by many to make a regional for the first time since 2005. Now in his third year at USC, head coach Chad Kreuter is on the hot seat and is clearly...

By ryebreadraz lt;p>The struggles continue for UCLA after being swept by #16 Oklahoma and seeing their losing streak hit 10. The Bruins lost the first two games of the series by one run, dropping their record in one run games this year to 0-6. Now 2-10 on the season, the Bruins face a steep uphill climb to m...

By ryebreadraz 19 UCLA began their spring season with a fifth place finish in the USC Invitational. The Bruins finished 28 shots behind the tournament winners, #5 Stanford. The season will continue this weekend as UCLA competes in the General Hackler Championship at TPC Myrtle Beach in S. Carolina.

By Nestor The Bruins are about to embark on their annual excursion across the border to the east, playing at Arizona State Thursday night and at Arizona Saturday morning. The Sun Devils already won at Pauley Pavilion and the Wildcats have won four in a row. It's quite possible that the Bruins could go 1...

By Nestor It was a typical day for UCLA basketball and a really good one for UCLA football. Hopefully they can keep this trend going when taking on a solid Irish team this Saturday morning. Here is to more "typical day for UCLA basketball" rest of the season.

By ucla7477 When game time finally did arrive, Traveler--the football horse--was in the Sports Arena. They never made another basket, Wooden players simply outscoring them 14-1 down the stretch.  UCLA went back to #1 in the nation and would stay there through an NCAA record 88-game winning streak.

By Nestor Apparently the Trojan beat writer in the LA Times have been pathetically trying to denigrate Oregon State’s win this week ignoring the real story about how the Trojans didn’t learn their from the football team this season. GO BRUINS.

By ryebreadraz Women's Volleyball vs. Pepprdine, 7:00 pm- Pauley Pavilion Women's Basketball at Cal Poly, 7:00 pm- San Luis Obispo, CA Women's Volleyball vs. USC, 3:00 pm- Pauley Pavilion, TV- FSN Prime Ticket Saturday, November 29 Women's Basketball vs. Cal St. Northridge, 2:00 pm- Pauley Pavilion

By Achilles Why do Cal fans hate UCLA so much? Even more than that, I always felt their was a kinship between UCLA and Cal -- a kinship that ran a little deeper than the fact that they are both part of the same University of California. So, why do Cal fans hate UCLA so much?

By ryebreadraz Each year the NorCal Tournament brings out the nation's best collegiate water polo teams and this year was no exception as the nation's top 11 teams participated in the 16 team tournament, including the #4 Bruins. UCLA began the tournament with a 11-6 victory over #14 Pacific in the first...

By Nestor I don’t know what’s in CBH’s head or heart, whether it’s the NBA, another school, a bigger paycheck, or if it is leading UCLA Basketball for the next 20+ years. Of course, I hope it is the latter. And so far, everything he has said and done since coming to Westwood appears to support the latter, a...

By Nestor Either way give the shape we are in, UCLA has the luxury to be patient. If Daniels think Wait is up to UCLA standard, and he is interested in coming in, then we are all for it. If not we will move on to the next plan under Coach Howland ...

By Nestor Overall, the sixth-ranked Bruins' (21-3, 9-2) field-goal percentage defensive average is 42.1%, which ranks UCLA 102nd in the country. In Pacific 10 Conference games, the field-goal percentage defensive average is 45.1%, which puts UCLA fifth in the conference behind Stanford, USC, A...

By Nestor At UCLA, Chow will not have that same type of talent to work with initially. The Bruins and Washington are the only teams in the Pac-10 without a all-conference position player returning next season, though Olson, running backs Kahlil Bell and Raymond Carter and split end Marcus Everett w...

By Guest Blogger Two years ago, before the Final Fours, and after a loss to Washington, which ignited a lot of debate about Howland's coaching, I expressed my opinions about Howland.  My belief, then as now, is that he is one of the very best coaches in college basketball, probably the best defensive coach o...

By Nestor Photo Credit/Source: UCLA Bruins Official Website That's Coach Rick Neuheisel, Rose Bowl Champion & MVP, and now officially the 16th head football coach of our football program. We have gotten ourselves a football coach to go along with Coach Ben Howland. GO BRUINS.

By Guest Blogger My greatest fear all along was that what is wrong with UCLA is endemic and deeply ingrained, and can't be fixed anytime soon. This same process and these same attitudes have gone on for so long that it becomes hard to imagine us ever proceeding in a different way--the way that Michigan or even...

By Nestor Lastly, we will call out Dan Guerrero as big fat, lying scumbag, if he ends up shoveling the crap of Walker or CHOKER at the end of this coaching "search." We will do what we can to demand from Chancellor Block that he doesn't get a 3rd chance to atone for yet another mistake with our football pro...

By Guest Blogger We were all thrilled with your hiring of Ben Howland, a homerun hire if there ever was one.  Of course, Howland did help a good deal with his great interest in UCLA and his apparent willingness to accept less money than his old school, Pittsburgh, was offering.  And although I don't follow col...

By Nestor After playing sparingly last season as a backup point guard, Westbrook spent much of the offseason in the weight room, adding much-needed bulk to his spindly frame. The hard work has translated into increased playing time as Westbrook started at point guard in November, then slid over to...

By Nestor I’ve been told that the Dorrell hire was out of Guerrero’s hands — that former chancellor Al Carnesale made the call. The Bruins would be wise to stand back and let Guerrero, who hired Ben Howland, do his job this time.) Here’s one (a personal one): UCLA faculty rep Don Morrison is a sharp, stan...

By BruinCore Pretty heady title.  So what do we mean?  Firing Karl Dorrell is not only the right thing for UCLA and UCLA football, but firing Dorrell will achieve 2 other significant results: 1) UCLA will have proven once again that we continue to live up to and add to our great legacy of diversity, and 2) C...

By Nestor Anderson said he enjoyed watching Farmar and Collison develop a wide view of the game as point guards. "Coach Howland puts a lot of trust in his point guard and I really think I will learn the best way to play the game," he said.Some day we will hear similar comments from future UCLA football rec...

By Barnes2JJ Bumped from the diaries. GO BRUINS. -N The forecast called for rain in the morning, but no one I know felt a drop.  It was another perfect day for football at the Rose Bowl.  You do have it lucky and every opposing fan I've spoken to this year agrees.

By Guest Blogger Here are some more examples.  Brian Ellerbe was hired as interim coach in the middle of the season by Michigan, when Steve Fisher was exposed for recruiting violations and other irregularities.  Michigan got hot, finished the Big 10 in third place, and went on to win the conference tournam...

By Guest Blogger It has been said countless times of course; but it still must be repeated:  Karl Dorrell was completely unqualified to have been hired as UCLA football coach; and once hired, has achieved nothing which should warrant him still being around.  We all know that he wouldn't be around were this...

By Nestor Couple of other numbers related to BYU football program we should all note:Everyone knows by now BYU is 1-6 against UCLA with their last victory coming in 1983 at the Rose Bowl. UCLA should destroy the Cougars this Saturday. GO BRUINS.

By Nestor After watching the game tape, Dorrell said Sunday that the revamped offensive line, which featured Joseph (a former guard), guard Noah Sutherland (a former tackle) and first-time starter Micah Kia at left tackle, performed well. GO BRUINS.

By Nestor Chris is a lethal weapon in the backfield. And I am sure his name is going to be on the radar of all the RBs and receivers who are getting ready to take on the Bruin defense this coming season. Chris is a warrior who is going to “bring it” every freaking play, targeting opposing players with the bal...

He might not be playing point guard for the Bruins anymore but he has a versatile role - being able to play three positions - and he played well in the team's exhibition game against Carleton University on Friday. This is a great kid who deserves to leave Westwood on a great note. Let's hope he tu...