And Bruins Needed More of Everything

Bruin heaven ’89 lasted less than a week, from about Jeff George’s last pass to the end of the third quarter of that 6-24 Tennessee nightmare on Linda Vista.

Unless the opener was a complete aberration, the Bruins are in a lot more trouble than the Trojans, who were basically beaten because of a fluke tipped ball.

UCLA was run over, flattened, humiliated, and not by Oklahoma or Nebraska, but by what is very probably a middling SEC team with not much of a passer. How could it happen?

My suspicion is that Terry Donahue used a straight-up defensive approach, and when Bret Johnson and the offense started having trouble with the Vols’ defensive pressure, the game was gone.

In other words, the Bruins asked for it. This might have been one of those rare times Terry didn’t worry enough.

CHARLES CHICCOA, Los Angeles