This is interesting to me. Dan Guerrero (DG) gets a pretty key appointment IMO - becoming a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee. Here are his duties as a committee member:
-Oversee administration of the championship.
-Serve as primary NCAA committee contact with CBS, NABC and other interested parties to the championship.
-Evaluate teams throughout the season.
-Participate on regional and national conference calls.
-Assist other committee members with the selection of teams and creation of the bracket.
-Assign officials to work during the championship.
-Staff selected championship sites
(emphasis mine)-Serve as primary NCAA committee contact with CBS, NABC and other interested parties to the championship.
-Evaluate teams throughout the season.
-Participate on regional and national conference calls.
-Assist other committee members with the selection of teams and creation of the bracket.
-Assign officials to work during the championship.
-Staff selected championship sites
Okay so I am assuming we are getting automatic invites every year next 5 years, and Pauley (or Staples) will be hosting lots of NCAA regionals. (j/k). Seriously though, this is good IMO -not just for UCLA, but also good for the Pac-10.
I have not given up on DG yet, even though I am very weary about how he is going to handle the Duhrell situation if he fails to win 9 games this season. Nonetheless, I still want to have faith in DG considering he after all got us Ben Howland, and I think he is going to be lot more aggressive than Peter Dalis and Tom Hansen, the old school stale Pac-10 officials, when it comes to advocating on behalf of UCLA and west coast hoops at the national level. This makes it interesting - well at least to me.
GO BRUINS.