So why is one of the worst coaches in college football smiling in Westwood?
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Because UCLA happens to be easiest place to coach among high profile college football gigs in America. Here are just some of the reasons:
- One of the best universities in the country.
- Best location in America (city/weather, etc).
- In the middle of one of the best recruiting bases in America.
- Best overall sports program in America.
- You can go 7-6 with your "best team yet" in your 4th year and still not get fired.
- You can have all your own players quit on you in an embarrassing 44-6 loss to a weak MWC team and STILL keep your job.
- You know the answer to number 6 so you can still sleep well at night.
- You don't need any social skills when talking to the media.
- You can spend all off-season golfing.
- You aren't accountable for hitting the goals that both you and the administration set-up when you were hired, even when you miserably miss these goals.
- You have literally dozens of coaches and players to take the blame for you when things go wrong.
- You only have to wear your best suit once - to the interview.
- There aren't many bells on campus, and the ones that are there are rarely rung. So no one expects you to have to answer them.
- "Troy Aikman isn't going to walk through that door."
- Even after a miserable career here, you still have supporters! (not anyone on this site, but at games I have met too many!)
- UCLA has many libraries with many books, so you can always make sure that you are on the same page.
- Wilshire, Sunset, Hillgard, Westwood, you will bound to find a bus to throw someone under.
- The sports media can be counted on to forget that your predecessors beat the "invincible" SUC eight years in a row and act like UCLA has ALWAYS been LA's second-best football team.
- UCLA's English Department comes in handy when you can't adequately express yourself in all of those press conferences. Oh, wait...
- Remembering administration staff birthday's is more important than winning football games.
- No need to actually read playcharts so long as they are tucked firmly in your pants.
- The headcoach gets to wear those electric ear warmers that look just like the headsets worn by real coaches.
- Only place where you can lose and claim that you have brought the UCLA tradition back.
- There are plenty of deer in the mountains nearby ... so you can practice your deer-in-the-headlights look with the real deal.
- The headcoach gets to wear those electric ear warmers that look just like the headsets worn by real coaches.
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GO BRUINS.