14, not 15
UCLA will check with the NCAA Wednesday to see if Tuesday's ditch day counts against the 15 spring practices allowed, but since the Bruins went through some individual work before stretching, it is believed it does count against the number.
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This is Brian Dohn's sixth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
Will Neu be giving odds?
Ditch Day?!?!? really. Ditch Day.. what are these guys, 12 years old?
Maybe it would have been cool if they "ditched" but everyone ran stairs at Drake or something, but I doubt they did that.
if anyone remembers the disney version of miracle on ice, when Kurt Russell played Herb Brooks and just had them skate back and forth saying "again," until they dropped from exhaustion, that's what CRN should do.
Forget installing the offense for a second in however precious few there are. THIS is stand for this year, next year, the year after and the one after that. Or even better, remember when Billy Donavan (i think it was him) this season banned his players from wearing Florida gear because of their poor play and practice? CRN just needs to make these guys pay.
Please tell me Bruce Davis didn't allow ditch day when he was the leader. Whose brilliant idea was it to keep this "tradition" alive for this year? Thanks.
how about this Bruin fans?
Fan Ditch Day.
start of the second quarter of the Pac-10 home opener, let's all just leave the Rose Bowl. Or let's just pick a day when there's a good game on TV going on at the same time. We can all go back to watch the SEC battle of the week, or even some team like Penn State or Nebraska, where even if they're not on top, they still care, a lot. We can always catch up with how our team did on the sportscast.
when CRN calls me and all the other alumns again, will he mention this?
Look, in a lot of ways I think these kids are forced to grow up fast, and at 18,19,20, I wasn't making smart decisions all the time and glad it wasn't news, like it is for a Div.1 athlete. still, of all the UCLA football "traditions" I hate, this has now easily surpassed "is that the football" and the alumni band.
Look, I understand why this has riled a few people up, but I actually take it in a different light. It seems to me that the football players are having fun for the first time in years. Obviously it was a poor decision, but if it increases team solidarity AND lets these kids relax and just play the game, I think it's worth missing a day of practice.
...now if we're 0-3 going into the PAC-10 season, I may say otherwise...
There are a lot of ways to have fun and do something that increases team solidarity when they don't have obligations to fulfill in a limited time span.
Winning takes hard work, this isn't a movie where the underdogs win in the end. If the Bruins ever want to be anything but cross-town punching bags for USC they have to man up. It's things like this that keep the Trojans on top and the Bruins the Clippers of college football in Los Angeles.