[Redrum]

Apparently, beating Stanford has taken on mythic benchmark significance in addition to the need for the number in the Win column.  Basically,  the Scout Bruin Report Online  head writer asserts that despite all the success Mora has had changing the UCLA program,  this year was the logical time for the Bruins to break through vs. 6-5 Stanford.  And it failed for reasons he outlines.  Some of it is inside-Bruin-baseball kind of stuff,  but he notes that Stanford's offensive line personnel are still better when our offense faces off with their defense.  And, when Stanford choked down on the Bruin offense,  it was the Bruin staff's inability to adjust  to  exploit  opportunities.    Almost any opponent post-mortem will always focus on how and why their team failed to win the winnable game.  Pierson's gives Stanford its props and  is pretty blunt about how the Bruins players and coaches got beaten.

http://ucla.scout.com/story/1486245-stan...in-the-way

[Redrum]

Apparently, beating Stanford has taken on mythic benchmark significance in addition to the need for the number in the Win column.  Basically,  the Scout Bruin Report Online  head writer asserts that despite all the success Mora has had changing the UCLA program,  this year was the logical time for the Bruins to break through vs. 6-5 Stanford.  And it failed for reasons he outlines.  Some of it is inside-Bruin-baseball kind of stuff,  but he notes that Stanford's offensive line personnel are still better when our offense faces off with their defense.  And, when Stanford choked down on the Bruin offense,  it was the Bruin staff's inability to adjust  to  exploit  opportunities.    Almost any opponent post-mortem will always focus on how and why their team failed to win the winnable game.  Pierson's gives Stanford its props and  is pretty blunt about how the Bruins players and coaches got beaten.

http://ucla.scout.com/story/1486245-stan...in-the-way