Documenting A Dynasty

by Nestor on Mar 7, 2007 5:33 AM PST in Basketball

Heading into the Pac-10 tournament AA paid homage to Coach Wooden for creating "something spectacular" around Westwood. Well HBO is going to try do their best to give us a little taste of that "something spectacular," in an upcoming series called "The UCLA Dynasty." Unfortunately we don’t have HBO. So I will try to get a hold of a recording of that show or catch one of the reruns. But given the kind of high quality work product HBO churns out, I am betting this is a must see. So get your recorders ready.

The show is set to air during the heat of March Madness on March 26th (10 pm EST/PST). More on the show from HBO's website. Here is the screenshot, clicking on which will take you to HBO's special page, set up for this much anticipated program:

What really struck me was the first para. of that preview:

While the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement and political scandal were consuming the nation, a basketball legacy grew in southern California. Led by coach John Wooden, the UCLA Bruins amassed an unprecedented ten NCAA titles in the 12 seasons from 1964-1975, setting a standard of excellence and consistency in a volatile country.

Talk about history having a surreal way of repeating itself. UCLA basketball reached its unimaginable heights during the era of Richard Nixon and to throw a bone to my Bruin friends from the other side we won our 11th during the era of an impeached President. And now we are going through a true renaissance of UCLA hoops during the era of … you know what I mean. Kind of interesting.

Anyways, I imagine the documentary will probably make a reference to all the unsupported, undocumented baseless stories around Sam Gilbert coming from known UCLA haters, which have been eviscerated and rebutted over and over again here on BN. You can read them by going here, here, and here. That is fine with me. To get a complete picture of UCLA hoops, it’s only fair we get to hear the rants from jealous, envious, and bitter losers like Digger Phelps, Jerry Tarkenian, and their various toadies like Dan Wetzel roaming around the internets.

Anyways all this should be very interesting. We will bump this post up when the show airs on March 26th, so those of you are watching it, can post your instant reactions here.

UPDATE:If you are current student you can get a free sneak preview of this show from 8 pm to 12 am on Monday, March 12 at the AGB (HT to jtthirtyfour).

GO BRUINS.

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free showing

if you're a current ucla student they are showing this as a free sneak in ackerman grand ballroom on monday march 12.......get your passes online at myucla, under "event reservations"

http://www.calendar.ucla.edu/event_detail.cfm?MeetingID=129161

by jtthirtyfour on Mar 7, 2007 8:45 AM PST reply actions

Other coaches

I was on a flight from San Diego to LAX during the early 70's. I was sitting and watching the boarding passengers. Here comes Bob Boyd, long face, looking very tired, and literally dragging a suit carry on behind him on the floor. He looked like he had been beaten in more ways than on the BB floor by Wooden. Remember this was the guy who had, if I remember correctly, two 24-2 teams that lost only to UCLA. And then he beat the Bruins in Pauley with a four corner stall game. The score had to be 35-32. It was awful.
Go Bruins this weekend.
Bill

BillSouthBay

by Mensgym on Mar 7, 2007 9:52 AM PST reply actions

why isnt this on netflix?

usually you can save something that hasn't been released yet; unfortunately, i cant find this on there. if any of you have, please let me know

big dog

by Sc is full of scumbags on Mar 7, 2007 10:01 AM PST reply actions

whadya mean "Netflix?"

Given the second rate way that Bruin Basketball gets covered by the electronic media (bare, patronizing mentions by inveterate moron Dicky V and company over at the Disney Zone, relegated for the majority of its TV games to a sub-regional TV Network barely available outside of LA and Orange County), we're lucky that the video isn't premiering on the A(laskan)N(ational)W(ildlife)R(eserve) channel. Thank you HBO, how would y'all like to sign Howland's crew up to an exclusive TV deal, like NBC gave to the leprechauns?

The Mad Bruin

by lostnacfgop on Mar 7, 2007 12:14 PM PST up reply actions