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UCLA's Karl Dorrell: Missing in L.A.

Aug 29, 2006 – 5:50 PM
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Scott Olin Schmidt

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Those poor UCLA Bruins. After five years in the shadows of cross-town rivals USC, the Sons of Westwood are barely an afterthought in Los Angeles' college football world. Just today, the Los Angeles Daily News declared the Bruins to be the "Middle of the Pac" noting that, "you'd have thought some idiot would have made them No. 25 just because they went 10-2 last year." Not even the idiot who casts that paper's AP ballot voted for the Bruins--and he put West Virginia at #1!

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times' irreverent TJ Simers tried to get UCLA Coach Karl Dorrell to give his reaction to the AP snub and gets an unapologetic, "Next question." When Simers got the Dorrell treatment from Dodgers' General Manager Grady Little, the following exchange took place:
"Have you been hanging around with Karl Dorrell?" I ask.

"Who?" Little says, and there you go.

"It's no wonder UCLA doesn't get a single vote in the AP poll," I tell Little.

"Here you are, the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, working in this city and you don't even know who the coach of the UCLA football team is these days."

"I know who the USC coach is," says Little with a grin.
Well, since the all-star break, the Dodgers have been on a winning streak worthy of accolades usually reserved in this town for Pete Carroll.
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