When was the last time UCLA played a basketball game that mattered nationally in terms of top ten rankings and protected seed implications?
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Funny thing about that video
Even if those two were not ranked like they are, that game and shot would have mattered on many levels. 22,000 screaming fans wearing some shade of blue and a bus ride home for the winner that will last all of 15 minutes. If there is a better rivalry in sports I have never heard of it.
Eh
When the ‘Heels were struggling under Doherty, the game wasn’t all that. But the difference between Heels and incompetent UCLA athletic department and a chunk of our sedated fan base is … some bruins are okay with mediocrity. Heels didn’t waste any time booting Doherty. I doubt they’d care for someone like Howland if he had produced a stretch of last 4 years with no national title on his resume.
What I mean
is that even during those Doherty years I assure you the arenas at both venues were sold out and the fans were into the game. Compare that to the current editions of the U.C.L.A. Southern Cal games. If Duke and UNC were both unranked the game may not matter for seeds or national rankings but it matters deeply to their respective fanbases.
bad example; Southern Cal has never been a decent foil.
I would say Arizona is our biggest in-conference rival when it comes to hoops. At least, they want it. UCLA/Guerror act as if owning the Pac 12 crown is unimportant.
Stanford, when Montegomery roamed the sidelines was my favorite basketball rival. They played smart and tough, with a touch of class. Cough Cough Romar Cough Cough.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ~ Vince Lombardi
With all due respect MexiBruin , I never said "hoops". I said "games"
Please see original post where I used the term “sports”. That is meant to imply any sport. I am simply saying that in my opinion, the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry has no equal in any sport. Professional, or college. Football, basketball or any sport. My opinion. Based on history of success, proximity of campuses and passion of the fanbase for that particular sport. I agree that probably our biggest rival in hoops is ‘the standard’ [sic]. But with that said our football program has reached such lows that Southern Cal probably wouldn’t consider us their main Pac rival.
by 84 on Feb 9, 2012 11:53 AM PST up reply actions
I think a lot of football rivalries
would disagree with you. But you are right in implying that the UCLA-U$C football game should always be that intense.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
One year, Mexi
They were 24-2 (both losses to us) and only one team went to the playoffs from each conference. They were good that year, better than when they lucked out and beat us in Pauley. But tough luck, trogans – only one team went to the conference.
And Fox please tell..
Was Pauley full and loud during those years? Good God, even the Sports Arena was probably rocking.
by 84 on Feb 9, 2012 3:53 PM PST up reply actions
That's the perfect example, Ty
This was a game in which I was disinterested. I generally want the home team to lose, but it didn’t matter this time. Lots of noise and excitement in the gym. But hearing the announcers made it impossible for me to keep listening. If there were any game that it should have been possible to listen to it would have been this one, but I just can’t do it. Dickie V and his progeny are just so abysmally awful that it physically hurts me to listen.
I still saw the same shot with the sound off. I did not need the announcers to let me know what I was watching on the infinite number of replays. And with the sound off, I was spared Dickie V, bayyyy beeee. (If I never hear that alleged word again it will be too soon.)
You missed out on a Diaper Dandy reference
Opening a video to a surprise Dickie V aural assault is an occupational hazard. We must be careful not to assume that all games and crucial moments will be made worse by announcers, lest we risk missing out on RAIVIO! LAST CHANCE TO DANCE! MBAH A MOUTE! OH WHAT A GAME! WHAT. A. GAME.
UCLA HAS CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN
HEART BREAK CITY
Dump Dan!
by bruinclassof10 on Feb 9, 2012 8:25 PM PST up reply actions
When was the last time
UCLA had a PG like Austin Rivers? Sigh…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Rivers
would have eaten up both of our guards.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Quinn Cook, who plays behind Rivers chose Durham over Westwood last year.
Would CBH have given Cook a chance had he chosen U.C.L.A.? Cook would likely eat up both of our guards as well.
by 84 on Feb 9, 2012 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
LOL "Howland's world of fantasy
picturing Howland at a desk, staring off into space, with visions of real point guards in a bubble over his head.
by 84 on Feb 9, 2012 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
Yes -- it has guys like Ray McCallum in that bubble
Someone who was never going to come to UCLA but Howland kept believing his dreams till the bitter end.
I'm not one of them.
I’ve hated Duke since they beat us in Pauley in ’91 (or was it ’92). Hated those late 80s, early 90s teams (Hurley, Laettner [especially Laettner], Parks, Hill, etc.)
OTOH, one of my best friends and law partners is from UNC and I had to eat lunch with him today. Not happy, Bob, not happy (an “Incredibles” reference).
It kinda reminded me of UCLA collapse against UW a few weeks ago . . .
It was worse
They were at home, up 10, with two and a half minutes remaining…signature Roy Williams choke.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
I wish we had "Roy Williams problems"
Life must be really hard for the Heels sitting on those two NCs and wondering about a tough loss in a rivalry game in what is shaping up to be another top-10 season etc etc.
by Nestor on Feb 9, 2012 3:13 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I was going to write a fanpost on this.
I wanted to note the rankings of these 2 teams and how they have lived up to their expectations. I wanted to point out the 22K fans all in Carolina Blue going crazy through the entire game. I was going to talk about making a talented freshman the centerpiece of a top-10 team.
Meanwhile, Syracuse won a tough as nails game against its biggest rival in front of 28 thousand fans in orange.
And I wanted to contrast all those things with the recent travails of our program and our game tonight. The gulf between those programs and ours is pretty obvious. And if you don’t get it already, you aren’t going to
How does U.C.L.A. Basketball get back to where is could and should be?
greg in denver, U.C.L.A. guy for life - BruinsNation.com
I forgot what a great college basketball game looked like
Atmosphere, good players, and good coaching. Wow!!
What's wrong with irrelevance?
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I tweeted my followers to ask which I should take
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Feb 9, 2012 12:22 PM PST reply actions
We have something neither of those teams do
We have an athletic director that straps it on every single day. Take that Duke and North Carolina!
By the way
look how close the fans are to the court, especially behind the baseline…after Pauley’s renovation, we still won’t have that. We’ll have comatose big pocketed donors who probably won’t show up or will sit there with their golf clap.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
Frustrating
I cant wrap my head around this stupidity. You are rebuilding what should be the cathedral of college basketball so why dont you make it the best venue in the land? Why dont you follow the “best practices” of the best venues and put students right on top of the opposition like Duke, Kentucky, etc., around the court? Why waste time and money building mediocrity? How can Dan Guerrero or any of the clowns at Morgan Center be proud of what they are doing? I can just see their stupid mugs showing off pictures of their mediocrity at an NCAA convention. The Pauley Renovation will be the physical embodiment of Dan Guerrero’s reign. So much money, so little to show for it, so much wasted … and we all have to live with it for a long time.
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Pauley is so symbolic
of Guerrero’s reign of error.
All the effort and money spent on changing the facade, nothing done inside (except for plumbing…and really, if you need to change the plumbing in a stadium, shouldn’t you just get rid of it?)
Sound familiar? What did he do with football? New jerseys that looked horrible and were brought out at the worst time possible, instead of focusing on improving the program.
The renovation should have started the year after the last Final Four, when all the good will and excitement around the program was there. Instead Chianti Dan was busy trying to get his thumb out of his ass so he could finish writing his stupid feasibility study. In fact, it shouldn’t have been a renovation at all.
I’m just astonished. People will get to Pauley and the outside will look very different, then they will walk in and ask themselves what was actually done inside. Putting chairs behind the basket? Really?
Losers, the lot of them.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
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