UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Moderators: UAdevil, JMarkJohns
-
- Posts: 8591
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:20 pm
- Reputation: 470
- Location: San Diego, CA
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
https://www.bruinsnation.com/ucla_baske ... EuZwFrpOTU" target="_blank
- ByJoveByJingle
- Posts: 1963
- Joined: Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:52 pm
- Reputation: 54
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Oddly UCLA seems to care that they’ve not won a PAC 12 title under Alford.
-
- Posts: 8591
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:20 pm
- Reputation: 470
- Location: San Diego, CA
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
It's stupid. When you're winning league titles, you're pissed that you're not reaching the FF. When you're not winning league titles, you complain that your coach sucks.ByJoveByJingle wrote:Oddly UCLA seems to care that they’ve not won a PAC 12 title under Alford.
Let this be a lesson to AZ fans: UCLA wants to be where we are. They obviously want to be *beyond* where we are, but at the moment, they'd be happy with a measly Pac title.
#pactitlesmatter
- CalStateTempe
- Posts: 16613
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:46 pm
- Reputation: 569
- Location: The Right to Self-Determination: FREEDOM!!!!
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Who is Cactus Dave? Rise and Fire?Beachcat97 wrote:https://www.bruinsnation.com/ucla_baske ... EuZwFrpOTU
- dovecanyoncat
- Posts: 16746
- Joined: Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:16 pm
- Reputation: 2143
- Location: Old Farts and Golf Carts
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
24 TOs on their home court in loss to Liberty.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
~ Wilhoit's Law
~ Wilhoit's Law
- EastCoastCat
- Posts: 6525
- Joined: Fri Jun 06, 2014 11:25 am
- Reputation: 1949
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Too fucking funny.
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
What are the chances Alford is coaching UCLA on 1/26/19 when Arizona visits Pauley
2018 Bear Down Wildcats Conference Championship Challenge Champion
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
You can get Kevin Keats for $38 and half of a 96 Honda Civic?MrBug708 wrote:Kevin Keats for half my kingdom
-
- Posts: 762
- Joined: Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:37 pm
- Reputation: -148
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Don't know if Alford will still be there but UCLA could have their worst season ever and still manage to beat us.PHXCATS wrote:What are the chances Alford is coaching UCLA on 1/26/19 when Arizona visits Pauley
- Longhorned
- Posts: 14758
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:04 pm
- Reputation: 975
- Location: In a guayabera at The Sands Club, Arizona Stadium
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Alford is done.
-
- Posts: 30181
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 5:41 pm
- Reputation: 1841
- Location: Mohave Dorm Room 417 Buzz 2
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Alford's buyout is the same today as it is on May 1st:
https://www.bruinsnation.com/fire-alfor ... ord-buyout
https://www.bruinsnation.com/fire-alfor ... ord-buyout
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Looking forward to the coaching search. Should be nice and amusing.
“The reality is that the hardest games to win are over teams on their home court. Teams that don’t play those games can spin it however they want, but what they’re saying is, ‘We don’t want to lose in our non conference season.’" - Sean Miller
-
- Posts: 8591
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:20 pm
- Reputation: 470
- Location: San Diego, CA
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Fwiw, I'm hearing UCLA loves Thad Matta.
- U.P. Zona Fan
- Posts: 2649
- Joined: Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:57 pm
- Reputation: 408
- Location: Big bay, MI
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
I like Thad.
Arizona State might have the most surprisingly anemic history in men's basketball of any program that you might think is better than it is.
-Norlander.
-Norlander.
- CalStateTempe
- Posts: 16613
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:46 pm
- Reputation: 569
- Location: The Right to Self-Determination: FREEDOM!!!!
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Gregg Marshall would kill it there.
- CalStateTempe
- Posts: 16613
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:46 pm
- Reputation: 569
- Location: The Right to Self-Determination: FREEDOM!!!!
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
what would that be? I don't follow the NBA so I don't see the connection.MrBug708 wrote:Just need Wesrbrook to do us a favor
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Billy Donovan?CalStateTempe wrote:what would that be? I don't follow the NBA so I don't see the connection.MrBug708 wrote:Just need Wesrbrook to do us a favor
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
That was quick. Peace out Steve
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
DrWildcat wrote:Billy Donovan?CalStateTempe wrote:what would that be? I don't follow the NBA so I don't see the connection.MrBug708 wrote:Just need Wesrbrook to do us a favor
Yes. Wont happen bur I can dream
-
- Posts: 8591
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:20 pm
- Reputation: 470
- Location: San Diego, CA
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
I’d love to see Billy Donovan in the Pac, wherever it may be. This league needs better coaches, clearly.
-
- Posts: 30181
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 5:41 pm
- Reputation: 1841
- Location: Mohave Dorm Room 417 Buzz 2
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Good times
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Musselman, Earl Watson, Hoiberg, Jamie Dixon. Whoever it is will need to be paid considerably more than $2.6 million that Alford was paid
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Mussleman has too much baggage, Watson has no shot, Hoiberg is probably a panic hire, and Dixon is probably comfortable at his Alma Mater84Cat wrote:Musselman, Earl Watson, Hoiberg, Jamie Dixon. Whoever it is will need to be paid considerably more than $2.6 million than Alford was paid
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
So who you got bug?MrBug708 wrote:Mussleman has too much baggage, Watson has no shot, Hoiberg is probably a panic hire, and Dixon is probably comfortable at his Alma Mater84Cat wrote:Musselman, Earl Watson, Hoiberg, Jamie Dixon. Whoever it is will need to be paid considerably more than $2.6 million than Alford was paid
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
No idea. Hoiberg is the guy we would get if it were up to DG. Bob Myers is on the search committee so that is a positive move. I'd back the truck up to Dee, bur he wont leave. Maybe Keatts or Beard and hope they are the rising stars for the next 2 decades but they are in good situations. Maybe Tony Bennett wants a challenge so.ewhere outside of the ACC
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Bennett is not leaving VA for the UCLA job. UCLA has unrealistic expectations and coaches know it — what elite coach wound take that job knowing the school jettisoned Holland shortly after making 3stesight final fours?MrBug708 wrote:No idea. Hoiberg is the guy we would get if it were up to DG. Bob Myers is on the search committee so that is a positive move. I'd back the truck up to Dee, bur he wont leave. Maybe Keatts or Beard and hope they are the rising stars for the next 2 decades but they are in good situations. Maybe Tony Bennett wants a challenge so.ewhere outside of the ACC
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Jamie Dixon was Ben Howland's top assistant at NAU & Pitt. Would he go down that rabbit hole? I don't think so.84Cat wrote:Musselman, Earl Watson, Hoiberg, Jamie Dixon. Whoever it is will need to be paid considerably more than $2.6 million that Alford was paid
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Lazy take. Ucla holds into coaches way to long, not jettisons them quickly. Lavin and Alford were held onto too long. You are about 25 years too late with this ideamidnightx wrote:Bennett is not leaving VA for the UCLA job. UCLA has unrealistic expectations and coaches know it — what elite coach wound take that job knowing the school jettisoned Holland shortly after making 3stesight final fours?MrBug708 wrote:No idea. Hoiberg is the guy we would get if it were up to DG. Bob Myers is on the search committee so that is a positive move. I'd back the truck up to Dee, bur he wont leave. Maybe Keatts or Beard and hope they are the rising stars for the next 2 decades but they are in good situations. Maybe Tony Bennett wants a challenge so.ewhere outside of the ACC
- ByJoveByJingle
- Posts: 1963
- Joined: Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:52 pm
- Reputation: 54
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
The problem for UCLA (and would be for us if we were stupid enough to be in the coach hiring business anytime soon) is that the only “sure thing” hires aren’t leaving their current gigs—despite what we may think of our respective programs, these would be lateral moves at best. Why would an Izzo, Self, Roy, K, Calipari, Wright leave their current institutions? Obviously they won’t. That leaves a bunch of coaches who are cross your fingers and pray hires. Maybe they get lucky, maybe they don’t. But anything is better than Alford, as I said from the moment he was hired. Talk about hiring a mediocre wannabe with no measurable success (beyond shielding his players from rape charges). So UCLA will presumably be better off unless they manage to screw this hire up just as thoroughly.
-
- Posts: 8591
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:20 pm
- Reputation: 470
- Location: San Diego, CA
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Of the coaches being bandied about as realistic successors, I haven't seen one yet that would clearly -- and relatively quickly -- put UCLA back on the national radar. Hoiberg? Dixon? Keatts? Earl freaking Watson? I suppose there are always new good coaches waiting to emerge (Eric Musselman), but I can't imagine UCLA alums are going to be pumped up at a Hoiberg news conference, unless they're just ecstatic to put the Alford era to rest.
There's talk of Billy Donovan, but does that make sense to anyone? He's not a west coast guy and could never make as much at UCLA as he can in OKC.
Matta's name is coming up a lot today too. I like Matta. Had a very nice run at OSU.
There's talk of Billy Donovan, but does that make sense to anyone? He's not a west coast guy and could never make as much at UCLA as he can in OKC.
Matta's name is coming up a lot today too. I like Matta. Had a very nice run at OSU.
- U.P. Zona Fan
- Posts: 2649
- Joined: Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:57 pm
- Reputation: 408
- Location: Big bay, MI
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Does ucla have any money? I heard they fly coach on southwest airlines to most of their away games.
What the heck is that nonsense?
Is this U C Little sisters of the Abjectly impoverished?
God knows they probably pay their concessions and t shirt people more than they can make by selling 257 tickets at a basketball game.
If Larry Scott loves his LA schools so much he should work out a tv deal to get the schools enough money to pay a decent coach and charter some flights.
What the heck is that nonsense?
Is this U C Little sisters of the Abjectly impoverished?
God knows they probably pay their concessions and t shirt people more than they can make by selling 257 tickets at a basketball game.
If Larry Scott loves his LA schools so much he should work out a tv deal to get the schools enough money to pay a decent coach and charter some flights.
Arizona State might have the most surprisingly anemic history in men's basketball of any program that you might think is better than it is.
-Norlander.
-Norlander.
- Chicat
- Posts: 46565
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:19 pm
- Reputation: 3935
- Location: Your mother's basement
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Nate Oats, come on down...
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?
-
- Posts: 30181
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 5:41 pm
- Reputation: 1841
- Location: Mohave Dorm Room 417 Buzz 2
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Shay Binion?
- ByJoveByJingle
- Posts: 1963
- Joined: Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:52 pm
- Reputation: 54
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
I’m amazed at the number of UCLA fans who like Bobby Hurley.
And when they are living in fantasy land, Bennett over Wright.
And when they are living in fantasy land, Bennett over Wright.
-
- Posts: 2439
- Joined: Sat Aug 09, 2014 8:43 am
- Reputation: 1
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Zero chance billy Donovan leaves to go to UCLA. He has seen the light for how much better then NBA is then college...it’s all basketball without a lot of the bs
https://youtu.be/jeHPiOhLIJo" target="_blank
I have no clue who they hire
https://youtu.be/jeHPiOhLIJo" target="_blank
I have no clue who they hire
2004 First Team All American Football Poster as voted on by GOAZCATS
- RichardCranium
- Posts: 3575
- Joined: Thu Jun 05, 2014 5:53 pm
- Reputation: 179
- Location: The Wonderful Land Of Oz
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Tandem team: Kareem Abdul Jabbar and William Theodore Walton III.
Any sufficiently advanced troll is indistinguishable from a genuine kook.
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Are there really any Hurley fans? I havent seen a single mention on BRO and in twitterverse, he's mentioned with Watson, so it's not great company to be in. Wright was always considered a colossal underachiever until he wasn't. Winning two titles can do that for a person.ByJoveByJingle wrote:I’m amazed at the number of UCLA fans who like Bobby Hurley.
And when they are living in fantasy land, Bennett over Wright.
Unless they move on Watson or Hoiberg, which there really isn't much of a rush to, this is going to be at least 2 and a half months of idle speculation.
Last edited by MrBug708 on Tue Jan 01, 2019 12:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
You dont buy the firing happening 2 days before Donovan shows up in LA for the Lakers-Thunder as merely coincidence?Newportcat wrote:Zero chance billy Donovan leaves to go to UCLA. He has seen the light for how much better then NBA is then college...it’s all basketball without a lot of the bs
https://youtu.be/jeHPiOhLIJo" target="_blank
I have no clue who they hire
- Merkin
- Posts: 43301
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:31 am
- Reputation: 1565
- Location: UA basketball smells like....victory
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Newportcat wrote:Zero chance billy Donovan leaves to go to UCLA. He has seen the light for how much better then NBA is then college...it’s all basketball without a lot of the bs
https://youtu.be/jeHPiOhLIJo" target="_blank
I have no clue who they hire
Didn't watch the video, but Steve Kerr has said he will never coach college due to all the NCAA rules, along with the grind of recruiting.
- ByJoveByJingle
- Posts: 1963
- Joined: Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:52 pm
- Reputation: 54
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
I only browse Bruinzone . . . and then only when UCLA fires a coach or travels to China or something like that.MrBug708 wrote:Are there really any Hurley fans? I havent seen a single mention on BRO and in twitterverse, he's mentioned with Watson, so it's not great company to be in. Wright was always considered a colossal underachiever until he wasn't. Winning two titles can do that for a person.ByJoveByJingle wrote:I’m amazed at the number of UCLA fans who like Bobby Hurley.
And when they are living in fantasy land, Bennett over Wright.
Unless they move on Watson or Hoiberg, which there really isn't much of a rush to, this is going to be at least 2 and a half months of idle speculation.
-
- Posts: 8591
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:20 pm
- Reputation: 470
- Location: San Diego, CA
- ByJoveByJingle
- Posts: 1963
- Joined: Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:52 pm
- Reputation: 54
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Please, please, Twitterverse roast this hypocritical, dementia-inflicted fool.
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Dick Vitale's Tweets make you long for the quiet dignity of Donald Trump.
-
- Posts: 8591
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:20 pm
- Reputation: 470
- Location: San Diego, CA
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Let’s not get crazy. The latter makes the former look like John freaking Wooden.catgrad97 wrote:Dick Vitale's Tweets make you long for the quiet dignity of Donald Trump.
That list of possible UCLA hires seems pretty legit, but really, who knows what the coaching carousel could look like this spring? There could be some names out there by April no one’s even thinking of.
- dovecanyoncat
- Posts: 16746
- Joined: Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:16 pm
- Reputation: 2143
- Location: Old Farts and Golf Carts
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
This deserves a copyright. Well done.catgrad97 wrote:Dick Vitale's Tweets make you long for the quiet dignity of Donald Trump.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
~ Wilhoit's Law
~ Wilhoit's Law
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
DA is roasting Vitale this morning on his CBS radio show.
Love the 've! Stop with the: Would of - Could of - Should of - Must of - Might of
- Chicat
- Posts: 46565
- Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:19 pm
- Reputation: 3935
- Location: Your mother's basement
Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Hey Dick. Quick question....
By exactly what method would Pitino have them top 10 instantly?
Thanks you crazy old coot.
By exactly what method would Pitino have them top 10 instantly?
Thanks you crazy old coot.
Of the 12 coaches, Rush picked the one whose fans have the deepest passion, the longest memories, the greatest lung capacity and … did I mention deep passion?