After 3 games, UCLA has seen enough
Brent Pry out at Virginia Tech per Thamel
Nothing worse than small time programs thinking they’re something else…..
Maybe so but both of these coaches earned it
Both VT and UCLA are programs past their peak but there’s no reason they should be getting blown out at home by Old Dominion and New Mexico.
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Based on what though? UCLA’s notoriety comes from a basketball coach that last coached almost half a century ago. VT….they have a sweet intro song….
They had 12 ranked finishes and 7 solo/shared conference championships in the 80s/90s. Maybe Terry Donahue was able to conceal deeper issues with the program, but that’s still a history that suggests that they should be way better than where they are now.
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That’s still 30 years ago
8 of ucla last 9 coaches have had a winning overall record. This guy was 5-7 last year (his first year) and is 0-3 (heading to at best 2-10) this year
Jim Mora JR was a good coach there and they ran him out of town. He did great at UConn last year. Also nothing was more fun to me as a fan then when we beat VA tech in like 1997 or 1998. They were highly ranked and this total blowhard VA tech fan kept telling me they drop 40 or more on us. Every couple of years I pretend I’m out of the sports world and troll him and say “has your school ever played any MAC schools” and force him to remind me they lost to Miami. And I say “oh I don’t remember that at all. What happened in the game.”
It’s rich, just rich.
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Compared to other B10 teams UCLA has much less NIL money. Truth is they haven’t been good since Terry Donahue retired. This is a better job on paper than reality.
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I was in an elevator in Baltimore with a group of VPI fans the weekend before we played them. They had just beaten somebody to run their record home win streak out another game. I asked them if they thought the Hokies would beat Miami next Saturday. They looked at me in disbelief and said “We don’t play Miami until November and we’ll destroy the Hurricanes. The rest is history!
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UCLA football was last relevant when they went to the Orange Bowl and lost to an unranked Miami Hurricanes team (in a game pushed back to conference championship weekend due to a hurricane). That loss knocked them out of the BCS title game and sent them spiraling (and started the Hurricanes’ return to national prominence).
Virginia Tech hasn’t been nationally relevant since Tyrod Taylor played there.
Basically, these are two programs that haven’t been top teams for many, many graduating classes.
Even lower-level power conference teams deserve better than what UCLA has had on the field the past season and change under Foster. Like, it wouldn’t be acceptable at Wake Forest or Maryland or whatever either.