Cowherd on UCLA

by Paragon SC on Jun 7, 2007 5:54 PM PDT in USC Football

If you missed Cowherd's show today he had a nifty take on ucla. If you have ESPN Insider you can listen to today's show. His rant is in his "Honestly Speaking" segment about half way through. I did find a transcript of it on WeAreSC.com.

Here it is.

"Phil Steele's got UCLA third in the Pac-10...but they're a bunch of daisy picking soft baby blue weenies.

You just know they'll somehow end up finishing about ninth. It's too bad too because I like UCLA's coaches. I like their school, campus, & SID. But they are just the Virginia of the West.

It is daiquiris, baby blue uniforms, and daisy pickers. Lot 's of Anderson Cooper watchers. Great campus though, unbelievable campus, great medical center...it is just great.

But you know they will lose to one of the worst teams on their schedule. They are just Virginia of the West. USC is more like Virginia Tech. Just tougher. They got tougher kids than UCLA.

UCLA gets the suburb kids. A bunch of nice kids with nice parents. They drove the kids to school in the minivan. They just have a bunch of wussies. I like USC...they got street cred to me. The only street UCLA has cred on is the one with the Gap on it. No I'm serious! I'm not trying to be rude.

This is the honesty segment. Honestly UCLA and all those kids were dressed at the Gap. That is an Abercrombie and Fitch campus. You can't win a national championship in football when you have got more male cheerleaders than you should.

It's just not big boy football. There is just no street cred there...USC kids would beat them up."

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That's freakin' awesome

Sounds more like something you would hear on EDSBS live than on ESPN. Hilarious stuff.

I just read through the Pac-10 section of Steele's yearly almanac and I can see why he would rank UCLA third. Technically speaking, if they win all the games that they're "supposed" to win then an 11-1 season seems reasonable to me; but you have to figure that they will drop an easy game or two.

-Class of 2007

by Class of 2007 on Jun 7, 2007 6:58 PM PDT reply actions

Schrutebag

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schrutebag

I'm sure you can find less despicable people to support your cause.

http://www.insomniacslounge.com

by insomniacslounge on Jun 7, 2007 7:33 PM PDT reply actions

Should we continue to apologize

each time a Bruin's sensibility is offended?

At least he's your side, he thinks we're thugs too!

-Class of 2007

by Class of 2007 on Jun 8, 2007 2:34 AM PDT reply actions

puh-leeze

Since nobody tendered an apology, and nobody asked for an apology, and no Bruin has claimed that his sensibility is offended, your comment is meaningless.

Cowherd is a tool. There isn't one thing in his entire inane comment that makes any sense. We are all dumber for having read it, and may God have mercy on his soul.

by ucladj89 on Jun 8, 2007 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Props for the Billy Madison quote

Good film transcends rivalries.

Fight on!!! Beat the Vandals!!!

by USCLink on Jun 8, 2007 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions

ucla is not going to be a pushover

Sure their coach is terrible, they even agree with that. But their defense is going to be top notch. Of that I have no doubt. 11-1 is a stretch. I think 8 or 9 games is totally within their grasp.

ucla should thank cowherd for the locker-room material.

The only reason is see them finishing low this year is if Dorrell pulls out his "play not to lose" manual like he did in the ND game.

by frak on Jun 8, 2007 2:43 AM PDT reply actions

Cowherd

everybody should miss Cowhead's show everyday. Unless you're doing to listen to his show to see what he steals from your website.

he's an idiot aside from that, too.

I'm a little disappointed, Paragon: it was bad enough that you linked to an article by that mental incompetent Plaschke...

by soundchaser on Jun 8, 2007 8:37 AM PDT reply actions

First of all, it was a Joke

and secondly, what you said is totally non sequitur. You don't need any of those requirements to prove that someone was offended. It seems pretty clear that "insomniacslounge" was expressing some disdain, and now so are you (puh-leeze?).

So, sorry for offending your powder blue sensibilities as well.

But in all seriousness, excellent Billy Madison reference.

"Okay, a simple "wrong" would've done just fine..."

-Class of 2007

by Class of 2007 on Jun 8, 2007 1:34 PM PDT reply actions

Just to clarify...

Any disdain being expressed was directed solely towards Colin Cowherd. It really has little to do with his anti-UCLA rants either, as I have no doubts that if ESPN radio was on AM 570 instead of AM 710, his sniveling, sycophantic rants would be anti-Trojan instead. I just find him to be utterly loathsome.

Also, by no means was I seeking any sort of apology. I was just questioning why anyone would want to align themselves with a guy like Cowherd, regardless of the sentiment of his message.

http://www.insomniacslounge.com

by insomniacslounge on Jun 8, 2007 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Give him credit where credit is due...this is 1 of 2.

If I find the other, I'll let you know.

Fight on!!! Beat the Vandals!!!

by USCLink on Jun 8, 2007 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions

give him time

the guy has a lot of air-time to fill, and speaking slowly only accounts for a portion of that. It won't take much for SC to be in the line of fire.

Frankly his description sounds a bit more like Stanford, but that's just me.

by DC Trojan on Jun 8, 2007 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions

Cold Blooded...

Pretty funny stuff. Cowherd is a tool though.

I hope UCLA finishes 3rd in the conference. Anything that keeps Dorrell at the helm is fine by me ;).

by AO on Jun 8, 2007 6:21 PM PDT reply actions

Come on Guys...

Regardless of weather or not you like Cowherd there is certain amount of entertainment in his show. I despised what he did to The M Zone with the Wonderlic thing and while I'm not a fan of the Big Lead, his taking them off-line was real bad act.

I listen to be entertained and nothing more every so often there is something accurate in his rants but I it take it for what is...entertainment. I don't necessarily agree with his assessment about ucla and the text version of the rant doesn't do how it actually sounded any justice. I also would not characterize my posting his comments as aligning myself with Cowherd but I also don't find him loathsome. I just found it funny that's all, different strokes etc.

As for Plaschke, well he is no different than any other print guy, they are all opportunists. Sometimes they get it right sometimes they don't, if I don't like I'll stop reading it.

by Paragon SC on Jun 9, 2007 4:12 AM PDT reply actions

Accuracy

He thinks UCLA will finish 9th, but he likes the coaches? He just sounds like a moron. The funniest thing about this is that it contradicts everything BostonTrojan over at WeAreSC has ever said about UCLA. UCLA parents drove the kids to school in the minivan, and USC has street-cred! Hilarious only in its extreme stupidity.

by SuperBruinMan on Jun 9, 2007 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions

by Cola @ Conquest Chronicles on Jun 10, 2007 1:02 AM PDT reply actions

Cola

No offense, but I clicked on your link and the color scheme of your blog basically destroyed my retinas. You might want to look at Kuler or something similar .

http://kuler.adobe.com/

-Class of 2007

by Class of 2007 on Jun 10, 2007 2:06 AM PDT reply actions