Bear Down Wildcats

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Oddly UCLA seems to care that they’ve not won a PAC 12 title under Alford.

ByJoveByJingle wrote:Oddly UCLA seems to care that they’ve not won a PAC 12 title under Alford.

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.

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

Beachcat97 wrote:https://www.bruinsnation.com/ucla_baske ... EuZwFrpOTU

Who is Cactus Dave? Rise and Fire?

24 TOs on their home court in loss to Liberty.

Too fucking funny.

Kevin Keats for half my kingdom

What are the chances Alford is coaching UCLA on 1/26/19 when Arizona visits Pauley

MrBug708 wrote:Kevin Keats for half my kingdom

You can get Kevin Keats for $38 and half of a 96 Honda Civic?

PHXCATS wrote:What are the chances Alford is coaching UCLA on 1/26/19 when Arizona visits Pauley

Don't know if Alford will still be there but UCLA could have their worst season ever and still manage to beat us.

Alford is done.

Alford's buyout is the same today as it is on May 1st:



https://www.bruinsnation.com/fire-alfor ... ord-buyout

Looking forward to the coaching search. Should be nice and amusing.

Fwiw, I'm hearing UCLA loves Thad Matta.

I like Thad.

Gregg Marshall would kill it there.

Just need Wesrbrook to do us a favor

MrBug708 wrote:Just need Wesrbrook to do us a favor

what would that be? I don't follow the NBA so I don't see the connection.

CalStateTempe wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:Just need Wesrbrook to do us a favor

what would that be? I don't follow the NBA so I don't see the connection.

Billy Donovan?

That was quick. Peace out Steve

DrWildcat wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:Just need Wesrbrook to do us a favor

what would that be? I don't follow the NBA so I don't see the connection.

Billy Donovan?

Yes. Wont happen bur I can dream

I’d love to see Billy Donovan in the Pac, wherever it may be. This league needs better coaches, clearly.

Good times

Musselman, Earl Watson, Hoiberg, Jamie Dixon. Whoever it is will need to be paid considerably more than $2.6 million that Alford was paid

84Cat 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

Mussleman has too much baggage, Watson has no shot, Hoiberg is probably a panic hire, and Dixon is probably comfortable at his Alma Mater

MrBug708 wrote:

84Cat 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

Mussleman has too much baggage, Watson has no shot, Hoiberg is probably a panic hire, and Dixon is probably comfortable at his Alma Mater

So who you got bug?

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

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

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?

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

Jamie Dixon was Ben Howland's top assistant at NAU & Pitt. Would he go down that rabbit hole? I don't think so.

midnightx wrote:

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

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?

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 idea

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.

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.

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.

Nate Oats, come on down...

Shay Binion?

I’m amazed at the number of UCLA fans who like Bobby Hurley.

And when they are living in fantasy land, Bennett over Wright.

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

Tandem team: Kareem Abdul Jabbar and William Theodore Walton III.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

MrBug708 wrote:

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.

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.

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.

I only browse Bruinzone . . . and then only when UCLA fires a coach or travels to China or something like that.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... ve-alford/" target="_blank

Please, please, Twitterverse roast this hypocritical, dementia-inflicted fool.

Dick Vitale's Tweets make you long for the quiet dignity of Donald Trump.

catgrad97 wrote:Dick Vitale's Tweets make you long for the quiet dignity of Donald Trump.

Let’s not get crazy. The latter makes the former look like John freaking Wooden.

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.

catgrad97 wrote:Dick Vitale's Tweets make you long for the quiet dignity of Donald Trump.

This deserves a copyright. Well done.

DA is roasting Vitale this morning on his CBS radio show.

Hey Dick. Quick question....

By exactly what method would Pitino have them top 10 instantly?

Thanks you crazy old coot.