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Gen2Bruin1987's avatar

I don't mind Kelly running the same play until the other team stops it. I have a problem with Kelly running a play several times unsuccessful and keeps running it.

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kingjim1954's avatar

Thanks again, Dmitri! Agree, Williams is quite slippery, so many times I thought we were gonna get him but we dint.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Another year almost in the books! Thanks for a great season Joe and Dimitri! I'm so sad about the demise of the PAC 12. How did it finally come to this...

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kingjim1954's avatar

$$, Runfastandwin. Just like the demise of the bowl game traditions.

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WarPlanner's avatar

Not directed at you at all but, in fairness, throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, all I heard from college football fans was their pissing and moaning about how specious it was to award the national championship to a team on the basis of votes of a bunch of boozed-out, Sterno bum sportswriters and pissed off wannabe passed over coaches.

You can please some of the people some of the time. The rest sit around and grumble, "shut up and deal!"

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kingjim1954's avatar

The big complaint was how much bucks the big bowls raked in. Only the Big10 and PAC could split the massive take of the Rose Bowl

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WarPlanner's avatar

"Even Williams, who has had to put up with absolute garbage from his teammates all year, looked like he was over it during the second half. And those wonderful towel wavers, the symbol of Trojan arrogance and unseriousness, went from being exaggerated and boisterous at the start to a stunned silence in the 4th quarter."

..excellent reveal on Williams' walkoff snit after the Toe Jams' last offensive* series. I guess if I were the Prince of Figueroa and had to display my wares on a campus adjacent to one of the noisiest, smog-emitting freeways in Los Angeles, surrounded by crack houses, meth labs, and the homeless camping on the overpasses.

..exit codger observation: back when we were going to the U, you whippersnappers, we used to joke about band size. This was, of course, before the hallowed Leland Stanford JUNIOR UNIVERSITY marching band would put on such extravaganzas honoring office supplies and other irreverent themes. The UCLA marching band was great but the Toe Jams used to brag about how they had 100 members on the field. We'd tell them that the ones carrying around the portable victrolas did not count.

Fuzz-faced UClans not knowing what a victrola can email me for an explanation.

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