Embree looking good
One of my sources said it is looking very good for former UCLA and NFL assistant Jon Embree joining the Bruins staff as a graduate assistant. Embree still must be admitted to graduate school, but it looks like it is going to happen.
Embree, who was the tight ends coach with the Kansas City Chiefs, will continue to get paid by the Chiefs, which is one of the reasons he can coach at UCLA without getting paid.
His son, Taylor, will be a sophomore receiver for the Bruins in 2009.
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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.
cool! good news....
and i always thought his name was tyler... hmmm, i wonder where that came from
Yes, that is good news.
In all honesty, the typo police have got to get a life. Taylor/Tyler. It is the STORY that counts! Geez. Now I know for you purists that Tyler to Taylor is not a 'typo' from the standpoint of hitting the wrong key (e.g. Trler instead of Tyler). But, please gimme a break, Anon.
I hate typo n@zis because they clog the blog with nonsense just to say "I got ya!"
must be great to be able to watch his son play day-in and day-out and be a part of the team.
As a huge UCLA football fan, while I am excited about Jon Embree joining the staff and think it is great for Jon and his son, I have to admit that I'm not thrilled about what this says about UCLA academics.
We get upset that basketball players come to UCLA as one-and-done players, thereby trivializing the academic aspects of being a UCLA student, and yet nobody has mentioned that this is effectively exactly what is happening with Jon Embree?
Doesn't this cheapen the UCLA graduate programs just as much as a "student" athlete coming to UCLA to play "minor-league basketball" for a year?
I just hate the thought of some guy getting a rejection letter to Anderson because his spot was filled by someone whose priority is not a UCLA post-graduate degree.
Just my $0.02...
Hey UB calm down there buddy, it was not even a typo. His name actually is Taylor as Dohn wrote, the first Anonymous was stating that he had incorrectly thought his name was Tyler.
thank you Anon @ 1:00pm... you are correct that I was not trying to point out a type, but that I had thought his name was Tyler.
and for UB, thank you for wasting your time correcting the "typo police".
I hate people who think they have to police this blog then end up making something out of nothing.
Looking good.
I hate when the blog gets clogged with lame lectures from those who mis-read comments.
I doubt Jon Embree is being admitted into a competitive graduate program like ucla's business school without being academically qualified...
What's the advantage of being a graduate assissant as opposed to just volunteering his time? Are there NCAA rules precluding the later?
Steve
LOL
UB is calm -- irritated, but calm. It's OK for Anon to 'clog' the blog with his ponderance of why he had Taylor/Tyler confusion, but not OK to discuss Anon's non sequitor? You must be dems -- your 'tolerance' is always a one-way street.
My point -- whether evolved from a typo or from Anon's ignorance of the younger Embree's first name -- is that the STORY is the elder Embree's addition to the staff as a GA -- not the Christian name of his issue.
your son VB clogs the boards even more
well UB, I agree with you that "the STORY is the elder Embree's addition to the staff as a GA -- not the Christian name of his issue." So you should email Dohn and ask him not to put information in his posts that has nothing to do with the STORY, such as the name of the elder Embree's son.