Hey all. As the title of this fanpost suggests I'm a 'howler,' and I'm making no attempts to hide this. Furthermore, I'll come out and say that I only began following UCLA sports when I arrived at UCLA in 2006. The first Final Four had already gone down, and I was lucky enough to bear witness to the following two (and watch RW develop from the 06-07 season to beast mode in 07-08, KL, AA, watching DC run the point, blow away people off the dribble, and so many other awesome memories) So you can take what I have to say from these admissions. Now, as an alum, I just wanted to write a few thoughts down about calling for Howland's resignation as this juncture. I'm still not convinced that we should pull the plug on Ben Howland.

I live in South Korea, and one of the things that links me back to America is UCLA and UCLA sports. Because of my work schedule I don't often get to watch UCLA games in any sport. South Korea has really fun internet censorship that I have to sidestep around, which makes getting a quality stream of a game all the more difficult. So when I tuned in at work Friday afternoon and saw the score 65-55 UCLA, I was beyond stoked. I honestly wasn't expecting for us to win this one, and it looked like we were about to pull off a quality road win. Like all of you, I was devastated when we pissed away this lead.

Howland is not without his misgivings. His stubbornness about sticking to M2M has cost us games. His insistence on relying on people like Nikola Dragovic (who by the way, while still on campus punched out a friend of mine over some nonsense) is ludicrous. The things I wanted to address are his alleged meltdown over the past several seasons (which yes, have been painful) and his recruiting/interactions with players.

More after the jump.

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