MVB and Baseball-Why UCI not UCLA

whittier71 — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:39:53 -0000

In today's LA Times, there was an article about the #1 UCI in both volleyball and baseball. Volleyball is coached by a former Bruin and baseball by the fired SC coach (after Savage left). NCAA volleyball is UCLA and we need to get back to the top, so maybe it's time to move on. As for baseball, it was said that UCI doesn't have a player projected at the top of the draft, while we have plenty. Now why is it with all of our stars, we may not even make the playoffs.

What is it fans? How can a second tier athletic school like UCI climb to the top in sports that we should excel? It's not academics, so what is it? Can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts.

European Basketball-Take another look

whittier71 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:09:16 -0000

Weeks ago there was a discussion about Jennings going to Europe instead of Arizona. Now there's talk of Josh Childress jumping. This could turn into a NBA versus ABA war and at the front of it could be the high school seniors. What brought the ABA to prominence was the signing of Dr. J, Malone and others because of shortcomings in the NBA rules. Moses was a high schooler who could not play in the NBA. There's a lot of money in Europe and a lot of fan support. I am not talking about mass exodus, but rather 10 to 15 significant players. Think of the possible impact.

I am not a big fan of one and done. If a player has a choice of team play or a multi-million dollar contract, what's his choice? Think about Bayless at Arizona and why O'Neill and his patient offense and strong defense didn't work. We were lucky with K-Love, now look at Sidney, Stephenson and the 2009 class and what they think. BH going after Lane who is not one and done material shows that you've got to think ahead. Schools that want one and dones like SC could lose Gibson and DeRozen next year and not pick up a one and done kid, so what happens? Everything falls apart.

The ability to choose where you want to play is good and it takes away total control from Stern and the NBA. Bring back solid rules for college basketball, which use to be the only pure form of basketball being played. We'll always be strong and will get stronger under BH's structure.

Go Bruins!!!

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MVB and Baseball-Why UCI not UCLA

European Basketball-Take another look