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Any funny Ben Howland stories?
Plenty. (Here is one from UCLA's delayed flight home after Oregon). I asked him a simple question because we were on the plane for like four hours before we got home. I was like, 'Coach, what's wrong with the plane?' You know how he gets so detailed on everything. He was like, 'We'll they've got to get the snow off.' But he said, 'The biggest thing is we're 2-0. You could have a knee injury, Josh Shipp's hip could be hurting.' He went on and on and gave me a Pac-10 preview about everything, and talked about all the other teams, and it was for about 10 minutes. It got to the point where I just went on my phone and started looking around.

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Thanks for the post. Just can’’t get enough of these. I can picture that whole scenario and it just makes me smile. Let’s go get them tonight and keep our other home record perfect. We need to keep the pressure on from the very tip and not let up! No injuries and stay composed, Remember the ball in face that Aboya took in Washington? If he can take that he can take anything that Southern Cal will throw at us. He is one tough SOB!

Go BRUINS!

DBalter

by westwood12003 on Jan 11, 2009 11:43 AM PST reply actions  

Good CBH Story....

My son will kill me, but here goes…..

As some of you know, my son attends Indiana University and coaches at the UCLA Basketball camps in the summer. One day a couple of years ago my son made the mistake of wearing an Indiana Basketball tee shirt to camp and CBH said, “Get that F#@*ing Indiana shirt off my court!” I told my son I wanted CBH to notice him, just not that way!! :)

I may work with the Waves, but I'm still a Bruin!

by BlueWave on Jan 11, 2009 12:46 PM PST reply actions  

HA HA!

Sounds like Howland! That’s awesome. :)

by uclafan11 on Jan 11, 2009 2:09 PM PST up reply actions  

Hmm

Would your son be Matt?

by lil eg not cs on Jan 11, 2009 3:19 PM PST up reply actions  

Yep...

Do you know him?

I may work with the Waves, but I'm still a Bruin!

by BlueWave on Jan 11, 2009 5:07 PM PST up reply actions  

Yep

I have worked with him the last 2 years. Great kid.

Remember that day. Howland was cracking down on all of the non-UCLA shirts.

Ask Matt what happened when he shot the ball over the fence during moneyball; his confused look was hilarious.

by lil eg not cs on Jan 11, 2009 6:54 PM PST up reply actions  

Too funny!

The best part about the shirt thing is I got the UCLA shirt the AA found for him that day :)

I’ll have to ask him about that shot. I hope CBN wasn’t watching.

Drop me an email (mine is in my profile) at work and I’ll send you Matt’s email info, if you want.

I may work with the Waves, but I'm still a Bruin!

by BlueWave on Jan 11, 2009 9:58 PM PST up reply actions  

Wearing an Indiana shirt

at a UCLA camp? What was your son thinking! Ha! Someone! Anyone! Keep these Howland stories going! Say, by AA do you mean Aron or Alfred! Either way thats a cool memento to carry around with you (but I imagine if it were from Alfred it might be worth more later when he becomes President of Cameroon)!

by bruin8uclap on Jan 26, 2009 5:39 AM PST reply actions  

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