Looking ahead
With the focus on who is leaving, UCLA coach Ben Howland still must deal with the future. With not knowing who will remain in the draft, and decisions on that not due until June 16, Howland said he has no idea what to make of what his roster will look like next season.
“We just have to do the best we can,’’ Howland said. “It depends on who comes back and who doesn’t and how that impacts our depth, and what level (that depth) is affected.’’
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This is Brian Dohn's fifth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
I feel for BH, all the work that it takes to recruit and only here for ONE YEAR....this WHOLE thing in a couple of years will ruin the interest in Collge Basketball,how can fans be loyal and have the team change more that any other sport in just one year.....something needs to be done to change the atmosphere or it lights out.
I have a friend who is only a marginal college basketball fan. But he said he became hooked during the NCAA Basketball Tournament. He told me it was incredible the energy, the speed, and the desire those college kids displayed. So college basketball is here to stay.
The one year and out is not as bad as professional free agency where a Jeff Kent goes from hated San Fran to the Dodgers. That would be like a ucla kid transferring to SC (or vice versa).
I agree, keep taking the one-and-out guys and it'll drag the program down.