What Steve Alford Hiring Says About State of UCLA Basketball

Posted by C.J. Moore on March-30-2013 Add Comments

UCLA is the homecoming queen now in her late 20s wondering why the guys don't line up at her door anymore. She's still pretty, still luring some decent fellas, but she can no longer have whatever she wants. Eventually, she realizes she has to settle.

UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero had to settle on Saturday when he hired Steve Alford. When the Bruins fired Ben Howland last week, Alford is not what they had in mind.

The first two names on the list were VCU's Shaka Smart and Butler's Brad Stevens, and those should have been the first two names on the list. Those are the c...

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