12/31: Surprise podcast! Steve Alford was fired, so now UCLA is ringing in 2019 without a head coach
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Early Monday morning, UCLA fired Steve Alford midway through his sixth season. That called for an emergency podcast from Parrish and Norlander. The guys start on the news, then discuss the problems with the expectations of what the UCLA job is (and isn't). From there, there go deep into the candidate pool (20:40) and lay out a lot of names. Then, it's time to preview some good games this week. In order: Marquettte-St. John's (38:02), Nebraska-Maryland (40:40), Texas Tech-West Virginia (43:35), Oklahoma-Kansas (45:20) and Minnesota-Wisconsin (47:35).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Gary Parchant Monday, December 31, 2018. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome back to the ION College Basketball podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:15.4 | And I know one Sunday night podcast we told you that it would be the final podcast of 2018. |
| 0:19.8 | And that was actually the plan. |
| 0:21.1 | But since Steve Oliver got fired late Sunday, early Monday, and we decided to record again, |
| 0:26.5 | because if we waited till Wednesday to record again, the news would feel like ancient news |
| 0:31.7 | by then. |
| 0:32.7 | So here we are on New Year's Eve talking about college basketball like a couple of |
| 0:36.0 | nerds. |
| 0:37.0 | And the idea here is not to do like another hour, hour, 20 minutes because we have families |
| 0:41.7 | and they probably are in the process of hating us. |
| 0:43.9 | So let's dive right in, Norlander. |
| 0:45.8 | Let's just start with your initial thoughts on UCLA. |
| 0:48.2 | Pull the plug on Steve Oliver at 13 games into his sixth season in Westwood. |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah, this whole parish. |
| 0:54.7 | This whole thing feels out of place just not the not the firing, but this kind of podcast |
| 0:59.3 | like a coach got fired, hired, emergency. |
| 1:01.6 | This is all very March to us. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay, this is a totally weird on New Year's Eve doing this. |
| 1:07.0 | We love our listeners. |
| 1:08.0 | We do this for you because it is timely. |
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