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Illinois's Bruce Weber Showing Howland a Graceful Exit from UCLA
In his post on Valentine's Day, gbruin showed how an AD is supposed to set the tone for his department. Illinois has had success in football and basketball, but nowhere near what UCLA has achieved. Yet here was Illinois AD Mike Thomas, responding to fans and calling for high standards, while...
Devastating Podcast Discussion on ESPN U: Ben Howland Has Totally Lost UCLA Fans
Click here and start up the ESPNU college basketball podcast. Set the play button around 11:20 mark and just listen. Eamonn Brennan and Dana O'Neil had follow-up discussions on putting Ben Howland in ESPN's "Bottom 10." The discussion was a devastating one for those who still think Howland is long...
Who Will Be Next To Flee Ben Howland’s Miserable & Irrelevant UCLA Program?
Well so much for the argument that UCLA playing in a garbage tournament like the NIT could be helpful for the Bruin program because it will give young players a chance to get meaningful minutes. As noted by DC Bruins, last night playing against the worst JustSC team in decades, Howland once again...
UCLA Basketball Thoughts: In the Abyss of Irrelevance
Last week we were talking about Ben Howland team making a season-saving run in our remaining regular season games to somehow get into the Big Dance. The closing stretch on paper at least was set up favorably for UCLA. Bruins theoretically could finish up the regular season with a 7-1 or 8-0...
Food for Thought: Should Howland Already Have a Title in Hand?
There's a vein of thought running through the wider Bruin Nation about the viability of Coach Ben Howland, which BN reader Strathmore&Gayley summed up fairly well in the comment thread on this morning's post-Cal game breakdown: Losing to Cal has become a UCLA tradition. I’m sorry...
The Ben Howland All-Transfer Team
I will begin with a defense of Howland. Today there is a story about the "castaways", five players kicked off from various Pac-12 teams this year that could make a good enough team to beat many other Pac-12 teams this year. Howland is not alone in facing transfers and dismissals. And it would be...
Planning a Transition Out of Howland Era at UCLA (After Removal of Dan Guerrero)
At the current pathetic state of UCLA basketball program it doesn't seem all that worthwhile to go over every micro details around a specific game. I know we collectively can't help it since we are are addicted. For now though to start this week I think everyone is thinking about the big pictures...
Is Ben Howland Cooking Up Another Toxic UCLA Basketball Season FAIL?
The 0-3 Bruins (we don't really care for a "win" over a D-2 program) are going to take on Michigan Wolverines for the consolation, third place game this evening in Hawaii (4:30 pm PST). Normally I'd get really excited about this matchup against my all around second favorite college program. I'd...
Trust, Ben Howland & UCLA Basketball
Let's start this hoops posts with three quick notes: As I am blogging this post, UCLA basketball was running up the Google trends. Suffice to say we weren't trending for good news around UCLA basketball. UCLA is currently ranked 166th in the Sagarain ratings 3 spots below IUPUI. As noted by...
Bamboozlement from Westwood: Dan Guerrero’s Delusional "Blog" (Episode 4)
While a school from Middle of Tennessee was mutilating Coach John Wooden's basketball program at a garbage dump in downtown Los Angeles, Dan Guerrero's staff emailed out yet another LOLz "blog" post to the Bruin online community. I was actually looking forward to reading Dan's "blog" this week...
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