Bumped. - BN

Anger…denial…or still just too stunned to put it all together coherently?

Needless to say the season did not work out as we had all expected/hoped/prayed…something. I’m pretty sure that this wasn’t how CRN had it all penciled out in his mind. The injury bug, the failure to focus, gel as a team, the jekyl and hyde personality of the whole season. I watched the post game presser several times and really found myself fascinated at first by his failure to explain what happened to Franklin. Once past that I really became cognizant of his tone of voice, his in-ability to maintain eye contact, his posture and body language.

Here was a guy who was totally beat down and waiting for the shoe to drop. Although he got his vote of confidence from DG earlier this year…what did that conversation entail? Based on the body language one could suppose it was nothing good when taken in the context of letting a poorly coached $c team push you around and make your own “product” look even more weakly coached.

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Bumped. GO BRUINS. -N

As Bruin fans we have high expectations. We're winners. And we evaluate the schools athletic department success on the basis of National Championships. So, it's really very easy to feel and sense and speak out with the enormous sense of frustration we all have with the Football program.

I started following the Bruins in 1966...applied and was accepted to UCLA in 1977...became a season ticket holder in 1982. My frustration with the current team is real, my long standing anger at CTS is still palatable even today (and I may never let that go.) I was witness to that day in 1992 when Donahue chose to kick the field goal to preserve our scoring streak...and read with dread the story in the paper about how we scheduled that make-up game with Miami.

Winning begins and ends at the top but losing may not always begin there and I wish I could offer some definitive data points for what I am about to write.

Winning organizations have a sense of purpose, a sense of confidence and a history of success. The Head Coach is the roots of that tree. Ultimately he is responsible for every recruit a team pursues and why we are pursuing that player, and he makes every critical personnel decision. CRN has shown himself to be an acceptable judge of player talent and a very good recruiter. He has not, however shown himself to be an adequate recruiter of coaching talent.

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