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Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Rick Barnes UCLA frontrunner
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5 years 2 weeks ago #22500
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/un...all-ucla/3396332002/
Would be a great hire for UCLA, getting a coach who can both recruit and win.
Question is will it work out well for Barnes? The Bruins job is a meat grinder. Just remembering Ben Howland (admittedly an ass, but a winner) went to 3 FFs and still was fired. Since Wooden NO ONE has had a long career there, all either walking away because they were tired of the abuse or being fired because the Bruin supporters weren’t happy with them.
Would be a great hire for UCLA, getting a coach who can both recruit and win.
Question is will it work out well for Barnes? The Bruins job is a meat grinder. Just remembering Ben Howland (admittedly an ass, but a winner) went to 3 FFs and still was fired. Since Wooden NO ONE has had a long career there, all either walking away because they were tired of the abuse or being fired because the Bruin supporters weren’t happy with them.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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5 years 2 weeks ago #22501
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"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot
What happened to Jamie Dixon?
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5 years 2 weeks ago #22503
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
Dixon: TCU wouldn’t budge on his $8M buyout, so UCLA walked away.
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5 years 2 weeks ago #22505
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So Rick Barnes was not even in the 2nd tier of choices?
Or perhaps when UCLA came calling earlier, he said “thank you, but I’m BUSY right now.....coaching my team in the tournament.”
As they scream in the coliseum when the USC band plays “Tusk......”
UCLA SUCKS!
Or perhaps when UCLA came calling earlier, he said “thank you, but I’m BUSY right now.....coaching my team in the tournament.”
As they scream in the coliseum when the USC band plays “Tusk......”
UCLA SUCKS!
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5 years 2 weeks ago #22506
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"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot
Wow. Pretty awkward for Dixon. Embarrassing for UCLA.
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5 years 2 weeks ago #22508
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“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
Agree, NotO.
Barnes in LA doesn’t strike me as a good fit for him. But they’ll get a solid coach who recruits great. He would’ve been much higher than Dixon if I were their AD.
Barnes in LA doesn’t strike me as a good fit for him. But they’ll get a solid coach who recruits great. He would’ve been much higher than Dixon if I were their AD.
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5 years 2 weeks ago #22509
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I think you hit the nail on the head, Wheaty. UCLA wanted to get a new guy in ASAP given the time of year and all the recruits (e.g. Cassius Stanley) who might be looking elsewhere since UCLA was and still is in limbo.
Given your “Tusk”, here’s a little stroll down memory lane - a Paul Harvey “bumper snicker” —
Seen in Los Angeles: left side of the rear bumper - “What do you see when the smog lifts?”
Right side - “UCLA”
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
Wheatstate Gal wrote: So Rick Barnes was not even in the 2nd tier of choices?
Or perhaps when UCLA came calling earlier, he said “thank you, but I’m BUSY right now.....coaching my team in the tournament.”
As they scream in the coliseum when the USC band plays “Tusk......”
UCLA SUCKS!
I think you hit the nail on the head, Wheaty. UCLA wanted to get a new guy in ASAP given the time of year and all the recruits (e.g. Cassius Stanley) who might be looking elsewhere since UCLA was and still is in limbo.
Given your “Tusk”, here’s a little stroll down memory lane - a Paul Harvey “bumper snicker” —
Seen in Los Angeles: left side of the rear bumper - “What do you see when the smog lifts?”
Right side - “UCLA”
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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5 years 2 weeks ago #22513
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Mr Paul Harvey.......Good DAY!
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