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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 3016735, member: 1452"]
Had the World Wide Web existed, and been as widely diffused as it Is today, this lacrosse board in 2019 is likely what a UCLA hoops board would have looked like in 1986.

13 Final Fours in 15 years between 1962 and 1976.
1 Final Four in 1980
0 championships in that 10 year span

The good news is that the UCLA administration of the late 70s and early 80s agrees with the approach of this board.  UCLA has had 13 (14 if you include Cronin) coaches in its history.  It cycled through 5 of them in the 12 years after Wooden retired.

It then cycled through 4 more over the next 30 years as UCLA finally conceded that the hoops landscape had changed and that an annual final four appearance and a championship every couple years was no longer a UCLA birthright.

In retrospect, were they rational in their approach to their coaches as television began to level the playing field (rise of the Big East anyone?) or were they delusional in their inability to recognize that the playing field was changing, inexorably and irrevocably?
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