R i wrote:The guy who wrote the article said the reason he started writing the article was to find out why UCLA has been so bad lately... He also said it was almost march madness and he needed a story.
I dont think its fair to UCLA when there are a large ammount of schools operating the same way.
Nelson seems like Dweeb.
UCLA deserves/earned the criticism
1) Ben Howland, very unjustified in hindsight obviously, had a reputation as a disciplinarian when he was hired. Even without this article, it was pretty clear his reputation was not the least bit deserved.
2) Howland compromised the integrity of the program with the way he handled Reeves, even before this article came out.
3) The on-court and off-court issues were fairly wide known in Pac 10 country from what I have been reading, it was only a matter of time before all this crap was uncovered nationally.
4) When you bring in top notch players who transfer out and become top contributors for some pretty good college teams, you're asking for criticism.
5) It's UCLA, a blue blood program, when you run the program in to the ground, you deserve the criticism. Just like Matt Doherty at UNC, Billy Gillespie and Eddie Sutton at Kentucky, Kelvin Sampson at Indiana, etc.