UCLA Football Facebook Post: Bruins Skewered After Utah Loss
The team's social media manager may need to read the room.
If it wasn’t bad enough that UCLA football and quarterback Nico Iamaleava were getting trolled by Tennessee fans all over social media following the team’s crushing loss to the Utah Utes over the weekend, Bruin fans and others are now jumping in on the team’s latest Facebook post from yesterday.
Anyone who watched Saturday’s game will probably tell you that this year’s team looked soft, lost and generally unprepared to play football on Saturday. Heck, just read this week’s Eye Test and you’ll see that!
In light of all that, the UCLA Athletic Department may just want to re-think their approach to social media, especially in light of the reaction to one of the team’s latest Facebook posts.
The text of the post was simple:
Toughness. #DRE #DoMore
Needless to say, the reactions have been priceless.
You know things are bad when fans with Facebook’s Top Fan designation start in on you. Take Chase Ohm’s reaction:
Y’all don’t even know how to spell toughness.
Then, there’s Paul Brown’s comment:
I saw ZERO toughness from the defense!!!!!
As if that reaction wasn’t bad enough, the team X account posted the same thing, albeit with less photos. The reaction there was equally brutal. The only real difference is that fans from other teams like Utah, Tennessee and even UC Berkeley chimed in. But the best response on the platform formerly known as Twitter probably came from @BalanceBeamStan who wrote:
But, what can you expect when, after watching the game film of a 43-10 loss, the team’s head coach says, “We were close.”
Here’s hoping that Chancellor Frenk can read the room. It seems like no one in the Athletic Department can.
Go Bruins.
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Never mind the social media manager. I need the head coach (and the AD) to read the room, or the stat sheet, or the game film, or the scoreboard.
Understanding the post-Utah checklist is a dreadful tome - missed tackles, poor blocking, missed tackles, lack of game plan, missed tackles - through it all, I thought the most glaring, inexcusable error in coaching judgment - unless he got nicked early - came in the shape of 4.3 burner Jaivian Thomas getting 7 - SEVEN - touches!
And in case anyone hasn't happened to notice, UNLV is sitting just outside the Top 25, with several reputable college football commentators articulating that it shouldn't come as a "surprise" should the Rebels make the playoff....
Hold onto your lugnuts....