I’m tired of being misrepresented. I love our team and coaching staff…and I wouldn’t trade them for anyone.

I’ve never “cottoned” well to others thinking they can speak for me, regardless, and I certainly wouldn’t pick any of those mouth-breathing morons to do so.

My trust in CBH is absolute—he is the finest of caretakers for Coach John Wooden’s program; there are countless examples—both on-court an off— of the upstanding, accountable, sportsmanlike attitude we expect from our student atheletes and our coaches.

What I “expect” is a team I can be proud of, win or lose. I expect that because it’s UCLA. Coach Ben Howland has never disappointed me.

As far as my comment re. fanbase who were around during Coach’s run, I will take your word over my speculation. Thanks for helping push back on this bs.

Thank you 66 and glassbruin for making very good points that I also personally believe. The players and coach they learn from make me so proud to be a bruin. And like said before true UCLA fan’s know how special our coach really is. Here is a quick story.

 I was at a local golf course one day about 5 years ago or so, on my way to the driving range to work on my slice. While walking out of the clubhouse I looked up and a man said to me: “Nice hat” (we were both wearing our UCLA hat’s) I said thank you, you too! I then said you look very familiar.. I go to a lot of UCLA events and I’m sure I have seen you before…. He smiled and said “Basketball”.

BUT… (I just posted something similar to this on Nestor’s previous post)

I think we need to consider whether there is any real harm from the crap that the MSM puts out in its efforts to make something out of nothing.

I don’t fall for Dwyre’s misrepresentations. 66 is too smart (well, for everything, really) to believe anything Marcia Smith writes. We know what Fox thinks of Doh! and every announcer on TV. Nestor calls out members of the MSM on at least a weekly basis. BN knows that we are blessed to have CBH and we support this young developing team.

But as 66 wrote, that’s what the Real Fan Base knows. But what about those outside the RFB? Does it matter what the uneducated LAT readers think? What about East Coast WWL viewers who aren’t close enough to our program to know better? How about a recruit, or his/her parents, who are torn between UCLA and some competitor who is lauded in the MSM?

While Nestor and the managers and sages like 66 bring reason and intelligence and fairness to BN, not everyone reads here. And so I think it’s responsible to consider whether there are ramifications of what is presented in the MSM. And if there are real issues (beyond our disgust with their nonsense), then I think there is an opportunity and obligation for all of us to become a voice on behalf of the unheard vast majority of Bruin fans.

While I would fully support ignoring the BS voiced by the MSM, I also think how Europe ignored, then placated, a certain German chancellor in the mid and late 30’s, thinking he would never really amount to a serious threat. Because if these media morons are hurting our program in any real tangible way, we owe it to CBH, CRN, and every other coach, athlete, student, and alum to shut them the hell up.

(there – now this is a legit internet post with the obligatory Hitler reference)

Thanks for saying this so emphatically and so well.

You make many points, and each one is a bullseye.

I’m tired of being spoken for.

Me, too. Me, too. Again and again.

On Saturday, before I had a chance to hit the Mute button, it started with the Lizard’s pre-game reference to the UCLA coach’s chair as “a hot seat,” as though we fans were so shallow as to demand nothing but Ws. As though we fans absorbed nothing of Coach’s wisdom. As though we fans couldn’t possibly understand, let alone embrace, the belief that “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” Notice, no mention of winning in that quotation.

Of course, I recognized the Lizard’s self-serving portrayal instantly, but it struck me right in the bone marrow nonetheless. One hundred percent mischaracterizing, one hundred percent wrong. Knowing that he was continuing in this vein while the sound was off only added to my discomfort. I was annoyed even when he was not onscreen. Just knowing that he was there, mischaracterizing his UCLA experience as a bout with impatient, coach-seat-heating, spoiled, intolerant, effete snobs just rankles me down to my toenails. Even giving the myth-spewers the benefit of the doubt that they’re being lazy, rather than malevolent, doesn’t quell my outrage.

Same thing when I come across articles such as cited by Nestor. As you and N., I am sick and goddam tired of being spoken for.

But, your post is an exception. On these points, you speak for me most articulately. Thanks.

It is simply ridiculous and irresponsible to report that “UCLA’s fanbase” is anything other than 100% supportive and trusting of Coach Ben Howland. He has taken this team back out of the careless mediocrity into which it had fallen under Steve Lavin, and built it back into the consistent, dominant force it deserves to be. Three back-to-back Final Fours, and this year, a freshman class about which other Division I schools may only dream. We have multiple players now making headlines for their NBA teams, including three rookies this year. Coach Howland is not only the very best there is, anywhere, he is the perfect caretaker for what is, and will always be, Coach John Wooden’s program.

I am so sick of the idiots yelling the loudest and having the last word….I couldn’t help it.