Steve Alford

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when the heat started to, when, when, like, um, Steve Alford and Fran McCaffrey, when they started to feel some of the heat of, you know, you're not much above mediocrity, they would work in all the time that they won a Big Ten championship.

Well, you won a Big Ten tournament championship.

That, you can have a, you have a good weekend.

I don't know if it was Ken Pomeroy himself or someone quoting him, but it was just very like, you know, it was a thing of like the preseason rankings are so damn hard.

And I remember when we did the early coverage of Nevada basketball last year in November, asking Steve Alford, like, Hey, like, Nevada is this ranking.

They are this based on preseason stuff.

How do you feel about that? He looked at me.

Or '88.

What is it? They won in '87? '87 is the, the, the smart shot, and Steve Alford and all those guys.

They won it in '87.

Louisville, '86.

But, yeah, New Mexico now with the former UC San Diego head coach, Eric Olin, they are they are the team to beat, I think, at least on paper.

You have Nevada and they are going to be there's going to be an interesting year for them because you have Steve Alford, who has announced that he is going to retire tomorrow.

at the end of the year.

And so there is that element to it.

What do you think about this story that came out? Oregon head coach Dana Altman, that's a fine.

Oregon head coach Dana Altman announcing that he is stepping down as head coach and doing so incorrectly.

Here this week, as we are now in the run-up for college basketball season, as opposed to what Steve Alford announced a little bit earlier in the summertime where this is going to be his last year, Dana Altman, who's been at Oregon for a minute, he's been there for a little while now, for him to now be saying, hey, look, right now I'm out.

And they've named an interim head coach, and Dana Altman, who, you know, had them, had Oregon playing at a really high level and being a very relevant top contending team in the Pac-12.

New Mexico has been good here.

Nevada, their head coach is going to be retiring after the year, Steve Alford.

UNLV, who is predicted fourth, they have been good recently.

Butts like they've been good, but they just can't win a game in the conference tournament But you know they recruit well and Josh Pastner's here making the rounds in fact He's to my right talking to the GCU folks and then Wyoming I think Sundance Wicks has done a fantastic job at Wyoming and he's brought in a bunch of new players this year so There's a lot of that and because of that unknown, but because of also with those five programs they've all been here last year and The conference has been a multi-bid league.

UCLA has somewhat either gone for the big splash, overthought it, or been looked down upon, right? Think some of the big decisions we've made lately in terms of coaching hires, men basketball and football.

The Bruins got rid of Ben Halland, and then they went to Steve Alford.

Didn't work.

And then nobody really wanted the job until they settled on McCronin, who's now heading into his eighth year.