I want to follow up Menelaus’ post from yesterday with some more data points wrt to our expectations for next season (at this point of time). And again, just like Menelaus did, I will start this by briefly recapping this expectations related discussion on BN. So last weeek, we put up not one, but four posts (see here , here , here , and here ) discussing and setting our expectations for the next season. From my vantage point, I am expecting UCLA to win somewhere around 6 games in Rick Neuheisel’s first season at UCLA. Following my first post , BruinsRule - someone who I have enormous respect for -questioned whether I was setting the expectations in a way to make it easy for RN to meet our expectations. I responded to his concern with my reasons on how I calibrated my expectations. From our subsequent exchange in the comment thread and BR’s clarification , it seems like we are all on the same page. But that explanation (provided based on facts and statistics) and Achilles’s subsequent well thought out post , didn’t seem to stop some people (as noted in Menelaus’s post from yesterday) from charging that we are low balling the expectations game to give Neuehisel some kind of break compared to his fired predecessor. To make that case, people are citing to the expectations we set for Karl Dorrell for his fourth and fifth seasons at UCLA, assuming somehow we had set the same expectations for Karl Dorrell in his first year at UCLA ...
Anytime
