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Article from tWWL about Lavin coming back to Westwood... hopefully, he'll get the proper welcome from the alums, even if the students don't remember him...

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Why We Hate Steve Lavin

DCBruins Feb 4 2011, 11:25a

Five reasons that the feelings of UCLA basketball fans feel toward former head Coach Steve Lavin are not irrational and moreover it is important that they are not forgotten

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No Margin For Error - The Most Crucial Week Of Ben Howland's Career At UCLA

Patroclus Jan 31 2011, 5:02a

Ben Howland is facing more than just 'must win' situations in the next two games against USC and St. Johns. There is no margin for error for his program in Westwood.

Steve Lavin Thinks He Is The Phil Jackson Of College Basketball

Nestor Nov 12 2010, 2:50p

After all these years Steve Lavin still behaves like an ignorant, clueless, out of touch fraud posing as a coach.

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ESPN catches Lavin recycling his cliches

posted by Nestor, Apr 01, 2010

Link go.com

Hilarious read courtesy of Diamond Leung from tWWL, who also happens to be a Bruin and a former writer for the DB. GO BRUINS.

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Dear St. John's: Enjoy Steve Lavin. Love, UCLA.

posted by tommybruin, Apr 01, 2010

Link huffingtonpost.com

Steve Lavin is not a good basketball coach. No seriously, he sucks. And since St. John's recently hired "Coach" Lavin to lead their men's basketball team after every other viable candidate (hey, is Lane Kiffin available?) turned them down, I feel the need to set the record straight. There are currently two interpretations of Steve Lavin's career: Lavin's interpretation and the truth. Lavin's interpretation was adopted by just about every media outlet in the country after Lavin was fired in 2003, and it appears that St. John's has bought into the hype as well. Meanwhile, those of us who actually suffered through the Lavin era at UCLA are left clinging to the truth. Rest posted on the Huffington Post linked above.

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Uhm, Arizona & Cal "Approached" Lavin For Their Headcoach Positions?

posted by Nestor, Apr 01, 2010

Link nypost.com

Well that is what was posted (presumably floated either by Lav himself or his agent) in the New York Post today (emphasis added): Lavin, 44, has been approached by Arizona, California, DePaul, Memphis and South Florida and turned down N.C. State since being fired by UCLA after the 2002-03 season, his only losing campaign. He went to ESPN, where he became college coaching's most eligible bachelor. St. John's pulled off the successful courtship. Uh. Okay. The whole article is a hilarious read with grafs like this: Lavin -- looking resplendent in his sailor-navy suit, Mr. Clean-white dress shirt, "True Blood"-red tie, Pearl Drops-white smile and just a hint of salt in his gelled dark hair -- is the epitome of today's new era coach. Oh this is going to be fun. GO BRUINS.

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Senior-led St. John's has proved capable of beating anyone, but like Steve Lavin's UCLA teams,...

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Burrell laughed and said, "He doesn’t really coach." [The he is Steve Lavin.]

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Anything less than a Final Four or a national title at UCLA is a failure and I understand that.

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Steve Lavin Thinks He Is The Phil Jackson Of College Basketball

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ESPN catches Lavin recycling his cliches

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Dear St. John's: Enjoy Steve Lavin. Love, UCLA.

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Uhm, Arizona & Cal "Approached" Lavin For Their Headcoach Positions?

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