When is UCLA going to fire Lavin? UPDATE: UCLA crushed by Arizona: 87-52!!

[HamSupLo]

Steve Lavin's been head basketball coach at UCLA for 7 years. Since he's taken over for Harrick, the program has achieved new lows. With Lavin, the Bruins have gotten worse progressively. UCLA has lost to a bunch of jobber teams like Cal Northridge and Northern Arizona. The best players don't come to UCLA anymore; the only player from UCLA that has done well in the NBA has been Baron Davis...someone that Lavin didn't even recruit. Lavin can't develop players...look at Kapono, he's still a one dimensional outside shooter. I'm fed up with Lavin...he needs to go already, he's done enough damage to UCLA. visit www.loselavin.com.

UPDATE: If you thought the program couldn't sink any lower, UCLA suffers its worst lost at Pauley Pavillion EVER....you can add this accolade to Steve Lavin's track record! :disgust:

 

[SlowSS]

My SWAG (silly wild ass guess) is within next 7 days. I agree with you that he needs to go.
They already lost 5 times in Pauley Pavilion and I don't even see them making it to the NIT.

 

[Stark]

end of season.

They're not going to the NCAA tourney with him or without him, so let him stick around until the season is over and try to get Pitino. The AD gets to axe the football and bball coach in his first year... i think that's a record.

PS I hate Jason Kopono and his stupid headband.

 

[djs1w]

I'm not to familiar with the whole UCLA situation, but I do know that Lavin's one of the only two coaches, the other being Duke's coach, to take his team to the sweet 16 five out of the last six years. I think it's just that UCLA fans are spoiled from their success in the 70's. I don't know what more you would want from a coach, can't win it all every year.

 

[masterxfob]

ucla needs pat riley

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Dan Guerrero said that he wont fire him until the end of the year, and Lavin said he wont resign, so we're stuck with him until then. I thiink it is counter productive to fire a coach in the middle of the year.

I defended Lavin to friends and family up through last year. I told people that if we stuck with him, he would succeed eventually, but this year is a new low and UCLA needs and deserves an established head coach, not someone who has been learning on the job.

I haven't watched a single UCLA basketball game this year. The team quit on him, just like the football team quit on Toledo. I don't like his substitution patterns, and his allegiance to the older guys, instead of the younger guys that are definitely playing better, Dijon Thompson deserves to start, not just "starter" minutes and looks. He's not a very good in game coach. I still think that Lavin could be a good head coach some day, but I'm fed up with the experiment, and UCLA needs a new coach. I do think that he'll get out of coaching and become like Vitale, who wasn't a good coach, but by some people's standards is a successful broadcaster (I think he's annoying as all hell, and needs to die, but that is a different story, not his likeability but success and prominance as a broadcaster)


UCLA is the type of school that should be contending for a National Championship every year. Duke doesn't win it every year, but they get to the final 4 pretty often. UCLA hasn't been to the FF since '95. Arizona won it in '97, but has been to the final 4 and the NC game since then. That is what is expected of UCLA basketball. Sure the sweet 16's were nice, the one Elite 8 appearance, but UCLA should have at least one Final 4 appearance in these last 8 years. UCLA has recruited top flight players and guys that have been under the radar and done well, but it's the coaching that has been lacking in leading this team past the sweet 16.

 

[Storm]

Didnt Lavin reach the Sweet 16 5 out of 6 years? Thats pretty good, but its sad they are pushing him out because they are obsessed with national championships and will not stand for anything less. Yea sure this year is going down the drains but theres too much pressure to win in UCLA it will destroy most coaches. The pressure of Wooden being alive is unbelieveable. How can you live up to that?

 

[HamSupLo]

I think they should rid of him now. It seems like the players have given up on him. Basically he's a lameduck coach so he's not going to do anything for this team this year. I'm afraid the new guys won't develop at all since no one respects Lavin anymore.

What's sick is that Lavin's already making inquiries at Purdue and other schools. Looks like he's ready to bail and keeping him around will not only jack up this already sorry season this year, but next year as well. How the hell are we going to recruit anybody good?

 

[HamSupLo]

Originally posted by: Storm
Didnt Lavin reach the Sweet 16 5 out of 6 years? Thats pretty good, but its sad they are pushing him out because they are obsessed with national championships and will not stand for anything less. Yea sure this year is going down the drains but theres too much pressure to win in UCLA it will destroy most coaches. The pressure of Wooden being alive is unbelieveable. How can you live up to that?

It's not all about victories. Since Lavin has take over:

- UCLA has lost to jobber schools like Northridge, Northern Arizona, etc....
- UCLA has failed to develop players; only player with any success has been Baron Davis.
- Worst finish ever in the Pac 10.
- Recorded some of the most lopsided losses in UCLA history.
- Lost to USC at Pauley for the first time in 10 years.

:|

Even Bill Walton, whose a UCLA legend, would rather send his son, Luke Walton to Arizona cuz he knows wat a sorry ass coach Lavin is.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Originally posted by: Storm
Didnt Lavin reach the Sweet 16 5 out of 6 years? Thats pretty good, but its sad they are pushing him out because they are obsessed with national championships and will not stand for anything less. Yea sure this year is going down the drains but theres too much pressure to win in UCLA it will destroy most coaches. The pressure of Wooden being alive is unbelieveable. How can you live up to that?

yes he has made it to the sweet 16 5 of the last 6 years. I applaud him for that, but look at my post above. UCLA should be an elite program like Duke, Arizona and North Carolina (not last year) They expect to get to the Final Four or the NC every year, not just the sweet 16.

What the realistic fans on the UCLA boards want is National Title Contention, not 10 titles in 12 years because no one will do that again, EVER. What fans want is to get to a point where you might win one. What that means is getting to the final 4 on a semi-regular basis, like Duke and Arizona have done. They expect to get far in the tourney every year, not just the sweet 16. Ask a Duke fan if they are satisfied with a loss in the sweet 16, and more than likely they will tell you no.

UCLA fans expect excellence, not mediocrity. Excellence isn't always winning a title, but it means well executed basketball, running plays that work, not playground basketball with no direction, and horrible losses.Lavin cannot coach well. Lavin is responsible for 2 of the worst losses in UCLA history, by 47 to North Carolina and by 40+ to Stanford, aka the Maples Massacre.