Fire UCLA Men's Basketball Coach--Now!

Steve Alford should be fired NOW!

He's hired to coach basketball and he's robbing UCLA. What I just saw on the court in Westwood is not a team that has a competent coach. It was ridiculous. It was embarrassing.

UCLA just lost--at home no less--to a team from Liberty University. Yes, that's Liberty University. I have never heard of that school. I had to go to Google to find out where it is. By the way, it turns out the school is in Lynchburg, Va.  UCLA doesn't lose to schools nobody has ever heard of.

The game wasn't even close. The score was 73-58. The Bruins, now 7-6 and on a four-game losing streak, committed 24 turnovers, their highest total of the season. They are getting worse.

They have twice as much talent as Liberty but the Bruins players looked comatose. They weren't playing hard. They looked like they wanted to be anywhere but on that court.

Alford has clearly lost that team. They are not playing for him.

What needs to happen is that the boosters need to pool their cash and buy out this loser coach. The boosters can afford it. To some of those guys the money it would take to rid us of Alford is chump change.

I won't be watching any more UCLA games, not until AD Guerrero rids the program of this cancer

named Steve Alford.

 

How Cal Will Eke Out a Win In the Cheeze-It Bowl

Cal (7-5)  v  TCU (6-6)

Cheez-It Bowl in Arizona


  A buddy of mine joked that this game might end in 0-0 tie. Yes, it's a snarky joke but, there's some truth to it. Both teams owe their success to defense. Cal's is really good, ranked No.16 nationally. TCU's is a notch below, at No. 26.  But both have crappy offenses that will be overwhelmed by these elite defenses. If you've watched these two defenses handcuff top-flight offenses all season you can't help wondering how either of these puny offenses will ever cross the goal line. A 0-0 tie? Not so far-fetched.

Scoring on Cal will be tough. Only one team, pass-happy Washington State, passed for over 300 yards against that super secondary. In five out of the last six games, the Bear D kept opponents under 100 yards rushing. TCU doesn't have the skill players to make a dent in the Cal defense. The TCU defense, while outstanding, has some holes that Cal will be able to exploit.

TCU, which had a bad stretch mainly due to injuries, lost five out of six games and didn't seem like bowl material. But a solid 3-1 record made them bowl eligible. TCU is just happy to be in a bowl game. Cal, which hasn't been in a bowl game since 2015, feels the same way.

The odds-makers have this one as a pick-em, Agreed. This should be a close, low-scoring game. Because Cal has a slight edge on defense, look for the Bears to eke out a victory.