Just Coaching

Nice victory for westwood, I was even pulling for the kid quarterback to make it happen. Funny, though, how Neuheisel almost blew it with an intentional squib kick to give the Vols a short field to set up for the typing field goal. So before we canonize ol' baldy, pehaps we should cannibalize him a bit. But Norm, I still love Norm Chow, was a sight at the end as even he could not withhold his glee.

But what is this stupid, as usual, bruin talk about the "monopoly" ending? Excuse me, but SC has basically creamed westwood for a decade now so does the monopoly end because they say it will, or because it will actually become reality?

westwooders, if they were not so ugly, one could almost feel sorry for them.

You have to ask yourself, has time passed ole Phil Fulmer (that's not "Rocky Top" that they are singing in Knoxville this morning). FUCLA did play a pretty good game (their "D" looked solid). However, you bring that type of game against the Trojans, and a smack-back to westwood will be delivered. Fight On!

yeah, sometimes a team wins a game and sometimes a team loses a game. UT definitely lost that one and ucla hung around and waited for the present to be delivered. ucla was blitzing almost constantly and yet the UT OC coldn't seem to find the screen pass in his playbook.

Exciting game and had no problem rooting for the bRuins. Anytime you can shut up the SEC is fine with me. Unfortunately the bloom will be off the rose(s) when they taste defeat vs BYU.

Scott, you also forgot to mention one of their top receiver's, Marcus Everett, was also lost.

Does it suprise any one that the tight end was so heavily involved considering Chow's offensive schemes? I'm shocked the fullback didn't get more touches. Chow was not going to let Craft throw deep. He basically made it "simple" for Craft to throw short passes, and over the middle.

Tennessee lost that game with the poor offensive play calling. Hate to bring it up but, it reminded me of when UCLA beat SC on 2006, they refused to roll Booty out.

I'll be curious to see how UCLA does against a quality quarterback. UCLA's next game is at BYU; Chow returning to a school that passed over him for a head coaching job when he was there for 20 something years. I think this will be an interesting game.

With BYU, Arizona, and Fresno State in the next three weeks, FUCLA could very well be 1-3.

I don't know how any SC fan could root for FUCLA in this one though. Even though it was nice to see the SEC eat some crow, this game might have bigger implications for USC. If FUCLA can finally get its head out of its rectum (and it looks like they might have), they could make LA recruiting much more challenging, which would then take away from some of the national recruiting that we do.

I'm not saying "the monopoly is over" because I believe in the SC version that "the monopoly is over here", but I want FUCLA to languish in mediocrity for as long as possible.

It is worth noting that both Dwayne Walker and Norm Chow will probably be elsewhere after this season, and if not, almost definitely after next season, so as long as their recruiting isn't too succesful, this uptick will be little more than a blip on the FUCLA radar.

Fight on!

You'd think Pete Carroll never heard of a non-compete agreement.

First of all, that was not a SQUIB kick before the end of regulatation, but rather a POOCH kick. The squib would have netted a better result.
Don't anyone crown UCLA quite yet. The entire nation saw how bad one of the top teams in the SEC is at playing offense. Yes, Walker had his boys playing well, but how tough could it have been. Run to the same spot everytime, the QB will be there when you get there. Also, the Bruins got gashed against the run. I too question the intelligence of the Tennessee coaching staff. I think a few more runs would have put that game away alot earlier.
It wasn't rooting for the Bruins, but rather laughing as one of the bottom dwellers of the Pac 10 can knock off an SEC division champ from last year. It wasn't like the place was full (can't sell out a game vs. a ranked SEC team? Really?) and the crowd propelled UCLA.
Anyone else get flashbacks as Chow counter punched his way to disecting a bigger faster more athletic defense? I just hope Sark was watching.

I always root for the Pac 10 in an intersectional matchup, and especially one on national tv! It helps the strength of schedule rankings and the overall credibility of the Pac 10. Watching the b's hang one of the Vols was simply beautiful to me.

I have to echo the comments about Tennessee loosing that one. UCLA brought 5 -6 guys every down, and Crompton folded under the pressure. . . couldn't even hit the hot reads (over or under thrown). This raises the question: does UCLA need to blitz to bring the pressure, or did they stick with it because it was working? UCLA's secondary and entire offense was unimpressive, if not down-right dismal. Tennessee's receivers were wide-open all night, and UCLA couldn't move the ball with the exception of one drive.

People above don't get it. Sports is 75% coaching. Same coaches win everywhere. UCLA just proved it. Chow was brilliant. Once they get their players the domination ends.

Tennessee sure wasn't more athletic. What they are is bigger and I don't think their athletic trainer has heard of speed training. That is the old SEC m.o. that LSU changed and Florida is working towards changing. LSU (the midget Halliday aside) is starting to waver because some of the kids they got left them high and dry to pursue running. They also went back to big linemen at LSU which is great since they didn't wind up with that mobile QB they were expecting. A lot of our PAC Ten teams live off of fast athletes- was the reason Tennessee got spanked by Cal last year too.