06-06-2019, 10:18 PM
Maybe it's because I live and work in the Santa Barbara area, but I always liked Ben Howland. He's not the next John Wooden--UCLA fired him after he won the conference (but flamed out in the first round of the NCAA tournament)--but he knows how to turn around a program.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
