There is no doubt this loss hurts more than almost any other game under the Jim Mora era.
However, my view is that UCLA will steamroll all of our remaining opponents and then defeat Stanford in a rematch in the Pac12 Champsionship game. This is not emotion -- this is based on fact.
UCLA played toe-to-toe with a Texas A&M team ranked in the Top 10. Absolutely the same with Stanford. The look on the Stanford players' faces (on T.V.) during timeouts and on the sidelines was "we are in a smash mouth game, fighting for our lives." We spent the entire offseason pointing for this game -- and to hear national announcers (Herbstreet and Fowley) talking about how UCLA's manhood was questioned by Coach Mora after last season's trucking by Stanford, SUC, and Nebraska -- and our bowed-up UCLA players responding -- makes me more proud to be a Bruin and UCLA football fan than at any time in the past 20 years.
We Bruins fans are all disapponted, and this was a game we should have won. But nobody on this board beter blame any one UCLA player. Marcus Rios is a miracle story, just being alive and then playing his heart out. Close play at the end. Aggressive play, trying to keep lighting in a bottle McCaffrey under check. Unfortunate, no doubt. But I suggest that those on this board who are true UCLA fans, will remain in full support of our program, coaches and team. David Shaw said it all after the game on National T.V. (when he said "I'm saying this on National TV") -- that "Coach Mora doesn't get the credit he deserves for how far this UCLA program has come."
The progress and trajectory of our team is fantastic. I see a 10-2 regular season finish, with a very concerned Stanford worrying about playing a UCLA team that gave them all that they could handle, peaking after running off 8 straight wins to get into the Pac12 'ship game.
Go BRUINS...let's steamroll everybody else on our schedule, defeat Stanford in the 'ship game, and crush whichever Big-10 pretender shows up in Pasadena after the new year...
However, my view is that UCLA will steamroll all of our remaining opponents and then defeat Stanford in a rematch in the Pac12 Champsionship game. This is not emotion -- this is based on fact.
UCLA played toe-to-toe with a Texas A&M team ranked in the Top 10. Absolutely the same with Stanford. The look on the Stanford players' faces (on T.V.) during timeouts and on the sidelines was "we are in a smash mouth game, fighting for our lives." We spent the entire offseason pointing for this game -- and to hear national announcers (Herbstreet and Fowley) talking about how UCLA's manhood was questioned by Coach Mora after last season's trucking by Stanford, SUC, and Nebraska -- and our bowed-up UCLA players responding -- makes me more proud to be a Bruin and UCLA football fan than at any time in the past 20 years.
We Bruins fans are all disapponted, and this was a game we should have won. But nobody on this board beter blame any one UCLA player. Marcus Rios is a miracle story, just being alive and then playing his heart out. Close play at the end. Aggressive play, trying to keep lighting in a bottle McCaffrey under check. Unfortunate, no doubt. But I suggest that those on this board who are true UCLA fans, will remain in full support of our program, coaches and team. David Shaw said it all after the game on National T.V. (when he said "I'm saying this on National TV") -- that "Coach Mora doesn't get the credit he deserves for how far this UCLA program has come."
The progress and trajectory of our team is fantastic. I see a 10-2 regular season finish, with a very concerned Stanford worrying about playing a UCLA team that gave them all that they could handle, peaking after running off 8 straight wins to get into the Pac12 'ship game.
Go BRUINS...let's steamroll everybody else on our schedule, defeat Stanford in the 'ship game, and crush whichever Big-10 pretender shows up in Pasadena after the new year...
