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I pointed this out a few years ago UCLA replaced the incompetent Lavin with Ben Howland and totally turned the team around. Cards replaced the lazy Green with Whiz and totally turned the team around. Then suddenly UCLA with a supposedly #1 recruiting class wasn't as good one year and then fell apart last season. And here we have the Cards appearing like we may fall apart this year.
UCLA's big problem last year was no PG after several years of NBA first round picks at the position. Cards after several years of Warner suddenly have a huge dropoff at QB, the PG of football.
The similarities go even further than that though. Even in the great Howland years when UCLA lost in the tourney it was by a big margin and in part because Howland refused to change his gameplan once it was obvious it wasn't working(2 losses to Florida one to Memphis).
We saw the exact same thing Sunday although it was Davis not Whiz who refused to double Gates or change the run defense schemes.
It looks like Howland has recognized his mistakes and is trying to correct them, changed an assistant coach, booted a couple of problem child kids off the team, and even signed a Juco PG(something UCLA never does) to address that issue. I'm hoping that Whiz is willing to make changes too.
UCLA's big problem last year was no PG after several years of NBA first round picks at the position. Cards after several years of Warner suddenly have a huge dropoff at QB, the PG of football.
The similarities go even further than that though. Even in the great Howland years when UCLA lost in the tourney it was by a big margin and in part because Howland refused to change his gameplan once it was obvious it wasn't working(2 losses to Florida one to Memphis).
We saw the exact same thing Sunday although it was Davis not Whiz who refused to double Gates or change the run defense schemes.
It looks like Howland has recognized his mistakes and is trying to correct them, changed an assistant coach, booted a couple of problem child kids off the team, and even signed a Juco PG(something UCLA never does) to address that issue. I'm hoping that Whiz is willing to make changes too.
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