11-24-2012, 03:51 PM
...to put 100% of effort into the game against Stanford today.
There's been a lot of bravado, mostly by UCLA fans, about beating the best to be the best, but watching Oregon take apart OSU (a team UCLA lost to be 7 pts) should serve as a reminder to UCLA fans of last year's shellacking in Eugene. They should want no part of that again.
You don't play to lose, of course, and I would not suspect the coaches of doing anything to reduce their chances of winning. Mora has the luxury of not having seen Oregon up close and personal. But the UCLA players remember. As they look at the scoreboard during warm ups and see a 10 pt half time lead turn into a 41-17 lead in the 4th, they'll start to think about who they really want to play next week.
There's been a lot of bravado, mostly by UCLA fans, about beating the best to be the best, but watching Oregon take apart OSU (a team UCLA lost to be 7 pts) should serve as a reminder to UCLA fans of last year's shellacking in Eugene. They should want no part of that again.
You don't play to lose, of course, and I would not suspect the coaches of doing anything to reduce their chances of winning. Mora has the luxury of not having seen Oregon up close and personal. But the UCLA players remember. As they look at the scoreboard during warm ups and see a 10 pt half time lead turn into a 41-17 lead in the 4th, they'll start to think about who they really want to play next week.
