University of California, Los Angeles

So if you had front row seats for that game, you were 40 yards back from the sidelines.

This reminded me, if you're old enough to remember, UCLA played Houston in the Astrodome, and this was the first big basketball game that was played in a big arena.

It was a big event.

I just remember the fans were so far away in the Astrodome to watch that game.

Like, vividly remember heart-

My first heart, my first heartbreak was, uh, Ty Lawton to UCLA.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Um, it's not, you know, it's not, uh, Ohio State.

It's not UCLA.

It's not one of the bigger super high-profile universities in the country.

It's, it's a, it's a good school in the heart of Utah that has some great students and professors, I'm sure.

He's already visited Tennessee, Creighton, and Kansas.

He's still planning on visiting Boston College, Marquette, UCLA, and Ohio State.

So...

Well, what do you think about that? Eight teams in the mix for his services.

LSU, minus 10.5 over Clemson.

New Mexico, minus 10.5 against Central Michigan.

And then over 53.5 for UCLA against Cal.

So we are 3-2 on the season.

I'm in the hallway on Sunday afternoons.

and we're fixing to play UCLA, the number one team in the nation.

Through the double doors down the hall comes Coach Bryant.

Generally, he'll take a left, get on the elevator, and go.

Coach, sorry, was Wooden coaching at UCLA?

No, a farmer was.

Okay,

And I can tell the secretaries are answering the phone in a peculiar way because people are calling about it and it hurts in the hospital.

I'm in the hallway on Sunday afternoons.

and we're fixing to play UCLA, the number one team in the nation.

Through the double doors down the hall comes Coach Bryant.

Generally, he'll take a left, get on the elevator, and go.

Coach, sorry, was Wooden coaching at UCLA?

No, a farmer was.

Okay,

And I can tell the secretaries are answering the phone in a peculiar way because people are calling about it and it hurts in the hospital.

I'm like, what's he doing in that uniform? You know, he'd been here for a couple of years.

Seeing Sammy O, even though he looks really good in UCLA, powder blue and gold, holy smokes does he look good in that uniform.

Seeing Sammy O in a UCLA uniform is a little bit weird, right? But I wonder for Michigan people and Michigan fans, where was Cole Sullivan and their kind of idea of what he could be? And is this one of those moments where he peeved them off when he left or they get it because of all the coaching turmoil? I never really know how to handle those, and I don't really know how players truly handle them.

I don't know if it's as big of a deal to them as it is to us.

Yeah.

Like, I didn't want to think about that.

And then you're going to wonder about Cal and Syracuse if Cal can come back from getting beat up by UCLA and if they are really the team that should be the dark horse of the ACC, which right now doesn't feel like it.

If Syracuse takes them out at home against the dome that they play in, I can't remember the changes like every year.

Steve Angeli and that team, and Fran Brown's team, will put to rest everything about Cal, and maybe they become the

I'll start with the second one.

So my co-founder, Mark Shavira, got his master's at Stanford and then Ph.D. at UCLA under Yuta Pearl, one of the inventors of Bayes nets in the 80s.

And his work was really to get that breakthrough of scale.

There's a measure of complexity called tree width.