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University of California, Los Angeles: Fire Dan Guerrero
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- University of California, Los Angeles (Chancellor Gene Block)
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To everyone who bleeds powder keg blue (a term coined by HOF coach Red Sanders) the health and welfare of our university is of primary concern. The front porch of any university is it's football team. For a decade we have watched the Athletic Department erode the foundations established by HOF coaches like Red Sanders, Tommy Pothro, and Terry Donahue. We have seen a team that regularly won Pac 10 Championships become a team that regularly loses to smaller teams from smaller schools with nowhere near the recruiting base as our own backyard, Los Angeles County. We have seen top notch SoCal talent leave the state entirely to play at schools across the country rather than play here.
While the Football Coaches shoulder some of that blame, it is important to focus on the guy that hired the last two coaches, Dan Guerrero. Not only has he been directly responsible for the two worst (UCLA) coaching hires in the modern era of college football; it was under his 'leadership' that the actions of the Athletic Department pushed the envelope with criminality and fraud. (http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/audit-finds-ucla-wrongfully-designated-23m-student-fees-11813)
Please help us petition Chancellor Gene Block to remove Dan Guerrero from office immediately.
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Fire Dan Guerrero
Greetings,
I just signed the following petition addressed to: Chancellor Gene Block; University of California, Los Angeles.
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Fire Dan Guerrero
Dear Chancellor Gene Block,
We the students, alumni, fans and supporters of UCLA Athletics have become overwhelmingly embarrassed, disillusioned, and disenfranchised by the performance of our football team.
We rightfully take great pride in the ‘First to 100’ campaign extolling the over 100 NCAA Championships, and yet it has been over 12 years since UCLA Football has won a Pac 10/12 championship and 57 years since our last National Championship. A casual observer of sports news can tell you we have fallen from a perennial conference power and force on the national stage to an irrelevant program of former glories.
For these reasons and so many others, we hereby petition you to take the following corrective action.
Release Dan Guerrero immediately; do not allow him to hire another football coach.
• For hiring the worst football coach in the modern era then replacing him with the worst football coach in the modern era. (Dorrell and Neuheisel)
• For his duplicitous and malevolent handling of the student-seating debacle resulting in student, alumni, and fan outrage, an online petition and a student referendum.
• For his wrongful misuse of $23 Million in student fees discovered during a state audit released August 2011 (http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/audit-finds-ucla-wrongfully-designated-23m-student-fees-11813)
• For allowing Women’s Basketball Coach Nikki Caldwell escape without an aggressive effort to retain the highly regarded coach.
• For a complete lack of business acumen when renegotiating the Adidas sporting apparel contract; including allowing Adidas to diminish the historic ‘UCLA stripe’ established by legendary Coach Red Sanders.
• For a complete lack of marketing ability; over seeing the recent and alarming drop in attendance at UCLA Men’s Basketball and UCLA Football games; the two revenue generating programs that in turn finance all other UCLA Athletic programs.
Until these changes are made, we the Students, Alumni, Fans and Supporters of UCLA Athletics pledge to stop all donations, ticket purchases, and apparel purchases which directly and indirectly support UCLA sports and academic programs.
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